Background Story!, Of my Dark Angels

The background story of my Dark Angels. (3 pages in word)

Angelis Tenebrae ex Vindictae

The forming.
After the Lion’s speech, a group of Dark Angels broke away to the Cadian Gate, planning to wait there for the Lion to return and to follow Him into the Eye of Terror. The journey went without problems, and they arived in fair time at the Cadian Gate and waited for the Lion to join them.

They waited for several months for the Lion’s return, and little did they know of what happened at Caliban. Grand Master [insert name] decided to send a message to Caliban asking what happened to the Lion.

After a few weeks he received word of what had happened. And, in his anger, he ordered his fleet to plunge into the Eye of Terror, to exact vengeance upon his fallen brothers.

The Eye of Terror.
As the name suggests, the Eye of Terror is a place that can drive the most hardened man insane, and yet they entered. As they appeared out of the warp, Grand Master [insert name] adressed the fleet; he told of what happened at Caliban and that vengeance was theirs. That it was their holy duty to make their fallen brothers repent, or to kill them if they didn’t.

While they were in the Eye of Terror, the other Chapters captured the Cadian Gate and constructed defences in its place. Making sure that noone could leave or enter the Eye of Terror without them knowing.
This effectively lock both the Chaos Chapters as well as Grand Master [insert name]’s fleet inside the Eye of Terror.

The Change.
They fought many battles in the Eye of Terror on various daemonworlds. It happened on an Slaaneshi daemonworld; they were struck by the vile magicks of Slaaneshi psykers, changing their very essence and mutating their geneseed. Fearing the worst, they withdrew from the planet to see what had happened to them. Their Apothecaries examined their geneseed and noticed only one small change, a change too horrible to reveal to the Imperium, or even to their own Legion Brothers outside the Eye of Terror.

In reflection of the change, they changed their Chapter structure, as well as their names. Grand Master [Insert name] announced this to the Chapter, as well as his namechange; changing his name in Grand Mistress Onisuzume. They would be Battle Brothers no more, instead they would refer to each other as Battle Sisters.

The Escape.
After their restructuring, they decreed that they would leave the Eye of Terror. Making their way to the Cadian Gate, they noticed that they would appear to be an Chaos Invasion to the defenders on Cadia, thus they decided to search for an other way to leave.

Their chance came with the Gothic War, which opened a second path into the Eye of Terror which the legions of Chaos used to launch one of their Black Crusades. Grand Mistress Onisuzume ordered her fleet to follow their Chaos brethren out, and into the Gothic sector.

The Gothic War.
With their main priority being their journey to Caliban and rejoin their Legion, they hid for the better part of the Gothic War. Only fighting to preserve their hidden existance, and leaving barely any impact on the Gothic War at all.

Homecomming.
After the Gothic War, they set course for Caliban; a journey that took only a few weeks. When they dropped out of the warp, they noticed to their horror that their once beautiful homeworld was no more. Instead of finding a large planet with lush jungles of a verdant green and wide oceans of azure, they found clouds of fine dust, flecked by the occational small astroid.

Their homecomming hadn’t gone unnoticed, however, and soon they were hailed by an Dark Angels strike cruiser. Paniced, Grand Mistress Onisuzume donned her helmet in the hope that it would warp her voice. The captain of the strike cruiser, however, was surprised to find a fleet of Space Marines wearing ancient power armour and bearing the original Dark Angels markings. Thinking them to be fallen, he issued an order to the rest of the Chapter.

The Confrontation.
As the rest of the Chapter dropping out of the warp, Grand Mistress Onisuzume hailed the flagship. Greeting the Supreme Grand Master and telling him of their crusade. The librarians examined their archives and noticed that a number of ships had been lost in the warp a few weeks after Caliban was destroyed, ships bearing the same names and markings as the ones they had encountered. Convinced that they spoke true, the Inner Circle called a meeting to decide on the fate of the returned Dark Angels.

Their Fate.
With the entire fleet knowing of the fall of the Lion, as well as the Betrayal of Luthor, it was decided that they were to be inducted into the Deathwing. They were to remain unknown to the Imperium so they could focus on hunting the Fallen, and nothing else. It was decided that they were to retain their black armour, while their Chapter Badge was to be changed with a sword broken painted red. Represeting their status as members of the Deathwing, and reminding them of their duty to hunt the Fallen.

Good background, I never really got into 40k but it sounds cool... basically your army are transsexual dark angels? or do they just called each other sister for fun?

Yup they are. (Chaos did it!)

I even got Saint Celestine to be the base for my Company "Mistress" conversion.