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Color variants of the Space Marine chibi drawing passed to Procreate to represent various Chapter Astartes.

The Black Templars are a Space Marine Chapter, created during the Second Founding from the most fanatical elements of the Imperial Fists, with the blessing of Rogal Dorn. Since their creation, they have been embarked on a permanent Crusade against the enemies of Humanity.

Although only the oldest and most apocryphal annals remain to tell the tale, with the advent of the Second Founding, the Imperial Fists spawned two successor chapters. Of these, the Black Templars were by far the most divergent in doctrines and beliefs. It was a Chapter that echoed the Emperor's original Great Crusade, for they had no homeworld and sailed across the stars in tireless fleets of ships through the void, eliminating each new danger to Mankind as they encountered it. As Imperial decree forbade Space Marines from having psychic mutants as librarians, the Black Templars avoided using them. In fact, they embraced this creed to such an extreme that the Chapter remains reticent and cruel even in the use of such essential psykers as Navigators and Astropaths. The Black Templars only swore by lip service to Roboute Guilliman's acclaimed Codex Astartes, instead choosing to obey their own organizational systems and heraldic codes.

The Chapter was also jealous of its autonomy, even more so than most Space Marines. From the moment Sigismund accepted the position of Grand Marshal, Imperial institutions could ask these Crusader Knights for help if they could find or contact them. However, asking them for help did not guarantee that they would provide it, especially if they judged the petitioners to be corrupt or unworthy. The exception was the worlds ruled by the Ecclesiarchy. The Black Templars gladly fought and died defending these sacred bonds of divinity, and therein lies the key to the Chapter's divergence from the norm. Unlike the secular spiritualism and ancestor worship of most chapters, the faith of the Black Templars is absolute. They see the Emperor as a god, a literal deity to be worshiped and worshiped and to whom a sacrifice is due on the battlefield.

It is this utterly uncompromising religious fervor that characterizes what the Black Templars are and do. From the humblest neophyte to the Grand Marshal himself, the Chapter believes itself upright and above reproach. No matter how abominable their deeds may seem, no matter how violent or massacring they are, or how bloody they are or how many worlds they ravage, as long as they do these things in the name of the Emperor and in defense of his realm, they will be safe. justified.

Likewise, the Black Templars never stop trying to prove their loyalty to the Emperor. That was the first vow Sigismund made when the Chapter's ancestors departed from Holy Terra. Such is the task that divides them into crusade fleets that endlessly unify and subdivide as required, scouring the darkest fringes of Imperial space or plunging into the infernal maelstrom of the Imperium Nihilus in search of foes. The Black Templars have exterminated countless alien races, destroyed star empires, and persecuted even those citizens of the Empire whose faith they found lacking, all in the name of their endless crusade.

Description

Color variants of the Space Marine chibi drawing passed to Procreate to represent various Chapter Astartes.

The Black Templars are a Space Marine Chapter, created during the Second Founding from the most fanatical elements of the Imperial Fists, with the blessing of Rogal Dorn. Since their creation, they have been embarked on a permanent Crusade against the enemies of Humanity.

Although only the oldest and most apocryphal annals remain to tell the tale, with the advent of the Second Founding, the Imperial Fists spawned two successor chapters. Of these, the Black Templars were by far the most divergent in doctrines and beliefs. It was a Chapter that echoed the Emperor's original Great Crusade, for they had no homeworld and sailed across the stars in tireless fleets of ships through the void, eliminating each new danger to Mankind as they encountered it. As Imperial decree forbade Space Marines from having psychic mutants as librarians, the Black Templars avoided using them. In fact, they embraced this creed to such an extreme that the Chapter remains reticent and cruel even in the use of such essential psykers as Navigators and Astropaths. The Black Templars only swore by lip service to Roboute Guilliman's acclaimed Codex Astartes, instead choosing to obey their own organizational systems and heraldic codes.

The Chapter was also jealous of its autonomy, even more so than most Space Marines. From the moment Sigismund accepted the position of Grand Marshal, Imperial institutions could ask these Crusader Knights for help if they could find or contact them. However, asking them for help did not guarantee that they would provide it, especially if they judged the petitioners to be corrupt or unworthy. The exception was the worlds ruled by the Ecclesiarchy. The Black Templars gladly fought and died defending these sacred bonds of divinity, and therein lies the key to the Chapter's divergence from the norm. Unlike the secular spiritualism and ancestor worship of most chapters, the faith of the Black Templars is absolute. They see the Emperor as a god, a literal deity to be worshiped and worshiped and to whom a sacrifice is due on the battlefield.

It is this utterly uncompromising religious fervor that characterizes what the Black Templars are and do. From the humblest neophyte to the Grand Marshal himself, the Chapter believes itself upright and above reproach. No matter how abominable their deeds may seem, no matter how violent or massacring they are, or how bloody they are or how many worlds they ravage, as long as they do these things in the name of the Emperor and in defense of his realm, they will be safe. justified.

Likewise, the Black Templars never stop trying to prove their loyalty to the Emperor. That was the first vow Sigismund made when the Chapter's ancestors departed from Holy Terra. Such is the task that divides them into crusade fleets that endlessly unify and subdivide as required, scouring the darkest fringes of Imperial space or plunging into the infernal maelstrom of the Imperium Nihilus in search of foes. The Black Templars have exterminated countless alien races, destroyed star empires, and persecuted even those citizens of the Empire whose faith they found lacking, all in the name of their endless crusade.