ORDO XENOS / ORDO MALLEUS JOINT ARCHIVE CLASSIFICATION: RESTRICTED — INQUISITORIAL EYES ONLY FILE: ASTARTES-CH.BR-13-NOX SUBJECT: BLOOD ROSE CHAPTER DATE OF LAST REVISION: 012.M42 I. FOUNDING AND ORIGIN The Blood Rose Chapter was created during the 13th Founding, commonly referred to as the Dark Founding. Official records list their gene-seed as of unknown provenance. Minor phenotypic and behavioural traits consistent with both Blood Angels and Dark Angels successor lines have been observed, yet no definitive parentage has been confirmed. It is the considered opinion of several Magos Biologis attached to this office that the Chapter may represent one of the earliest large-scale gene-seed modification programmes undertaken by Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl. The most notable result of this alteration is a significantly elevated incidence of psychic potential among initiates. The Chapter therefore maintains a Librarius far larger than Codex norms. II. HOMEWORLD AND DEPLOYMENT The Chapter is based on the night world of Nox, located in the Halo Stars. Nox experiences near-perpetual darkness. Its dominant flora includes the blood rose, a carnivorous flowering plant whose stem and bloom have been adopted as the Chapter’s primary heraldic motif. The Blood Rose were stationed in this region with the explicit purpose of standing watch over numerous sites containing dormant, poorly understood xenos entities and archaeotech. These threats are frequently interred in tomb complexes, catacombs, subterranean hives, and other confined alien environments. The Chapter’s primary operational theatre therefore consists of close-quarters fighting in darkness and restricted spaces. III. ORGANISATION AND DOCTRINE The Chapter is largely Codex-compliant, with several deviations: • Armoured vehicle formations are rare. Doctrine and terrain favor dreadnoughts and man-portable heavy weapons. • The unusually high number of psykers permits extensive use of the Emperor’s Tarot for both divination and counter-divination against the awakening or movement of buried threats. • Librarians customarily adopt the names of ancient daemonic or mythic entities as a standing reminder of the dangers of the Warp. Chapter Master Charon has ruled from a Dreadnought sarcophagus for several millennia. This arrangement is unusual but has provided the Chapter with exceptional continuity of command. IV. HERALDRY • Primary armour colour: black, representing the endless night of Nox. • Right arm: green, representing the stem of the blood rose. • Helmets: red, representing the bloom. • Left pauldron frequently displays a painted night sky as seen from the surface of Nox. • Right pauldron bears the Chapter badge: a crimson rose. • Gold trim is employed as a reminder of fealty to the Golden Throne. V. RELATIONS WITH THE INQUISITION The Blood Rose maintain an unusually close working relationship with both the Ordo Xenos and elements of the Ordo Malleus. Circumstantial evidence suggests Inquisitorial influence in the Chapter’s original founding and subsequent assignment to the Halo Stars. The Chapter has repeatedly demonstrated willingness to operate under Inquisitorial authority when confronting entities that induce madness merely by observation. VI. ASSESSMENT The Blood Rose Chapter is considered a specialised asset rather than a general-purpose battle force. Their combination of elevated psychic strength, Dreadnought-heavy close-quarters doctrine, and long-term stationing in a region of poorly catalogued xenos threats makes them particularly suited to containment and eradication operations against ancient, sanity-threatening entities. Continued observation is recommended. The precise nature of their gene-seed modifications and the full extent of Inquisitorial involvement in their creation remain subjects of ongoing inquiry. END OF FILE

Reject modernity and embrace tradition!

When you start viewing money as a representation of a person’s time and life and that theft and looting are effectively depriving a person of that part of their life forever, lethal force begins to make a lot more sense.

You know what a reasonable retailer does when you order something that’s a preorder and don’t realize it until after the fact and you want to cancel two months before it comes out and just a couple days after ordering? They let you cancel the order. Toy Delorian on eBay is not that kind of retailer. They are price gouging asshats. Well, off to dispute a transaction! 🙄

The long quest has ended!

Here is the finished Blood Rose terminator squad in all their glory! I’m a little sad that’s the end of the new sculps, they are really excellent models. 😀

Last Blood Rose Terminator is done! Trying to decide what to paint next. More terminators, Deathwing Knights, Inner Circle Companions, or the Galatus Dreadnoughts that just arrived in the mail. 🤔

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On a roll! Second Blood Rose terminator done today! One more and the squad is done! On a sort of related note, my Galatus Dreadnoughts arrived in the mail today, as did the Deathwing companions. I’m under 30 models to complete the company, but I kinda want to play with the dreadnoughts now. So many models, so little time! 😫

Blood Rose Terminator sergeant is finished!

The Un-Fantasy. People, please, stop waiting on a company to produce something they are incapable of producing. WotC hates the old players, has a disclaimer online for almost 7 years stating that the entire era that D&D was made in was "bad" and that they are not like that, that they are morally superior, have repeatedly attacked its founders, players, designers and customers as racists, etc.. etc.; and then they dangle brand names and setting names in front of faces and everyone gets delirious, hopeful, speculative... They hate you, they look down upon you, they see you as chumps who they can treat with open contempt and then get you crawling and mewling like the swine they actually regard you as by flashing shiny objects that they own. Let them, as my friend James Ward used to say, "Die the death".

Did someone order an assault cannon to deal with all the heresy? I sure did!

I officially hate everything about this band.

This is why I don’t typically do commissions. I’d finish the models, like how they came out, and want to keep them. 😂 Good on those who have the fortitude to paint miniatures only to part with them upon completion. 🫡

New week, new squad! Finished the first of five terminators as I begin the last few squads for the Blood Rose first company.

39/40 just never got around to that last one. 😂

I want tables to look like this again!

Blood Ravens third company, bit compact in my cabinet rn

Do you have a space marine company photo? If so, let me see! Here’s my Blood Rose 8th company.

Everyone loves civilization until civilization asks them to enforce the rules that keep barbarism outside the gate. The safest people in history have developed the strangest contempt for the very mechanisms that made them safe. You cannot demand protection from evil while treating every instrument capable of stopping evil as morally suspect. The hypocrisy of the soft West is wanting consequences to exist somewhere, somehow, without ever having to look at them. Public execution after due process is righteous, moral, and has a deterring effect. We have become so soft and weak on crime that any accountability feels like fascism. All of the fittest genetics in human history have brought you here to see this post here, now. You’ve descended from dangerous men. For God’s sake, act like it.