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The '''Relictors''' are a [[Space Marine]] [[Chapter]], although when they were first founded, they were known as the Fire Claws. Then, they generally fought in the area around the [[Eye of Terror]] with the [[Cadian Shock Troopers]]. The [[Emperor]]'s Tarrot showed a badly damaged [[Space Hulk]] emerging from the [[warp]] near the [[Forge World]] of [[Stygies]] in [[Segmentum Obscurus]], the Fire Claws were mobilised to investigate. The hulk was codified as the [[Captor of Sin]] and contained a [[Chaos]] Warband led by a [[Tzeentch]]ian Champion known as the [[Excoriator]]. The Fire Claws used their [[Strike Cruiser]]s to cripple the hulk and then sent [[Terminator Squad|Terminator Assault Squads]] to investigate it, led by [[Librarian]] Decario and the shadowy [[Inquisitor]] De Marche. The renegades realised they were doomed and made their final stand in the vast engine room, where Decario and De Marche both fought the Excoriator.
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The '''Relictors''' are a [[Renegade Space Marine]] [[Chapter]], originally known as the '''Fire Claws'''.{{Fn|1}} They are believed to have been created from [[Ultramarines]] and [[Dark Angels]] [[gene-seed]] and were one of the [[Astartes Praeses]] Chapters{{Fn|9}} which, according to the ancient tome known as the [[Mythos Angelica Mortis]],{{Fn|1b}} were created to guard the [[Eye of Terror]].{{Fn|5}}
  
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The champion carried a [[Daemon Sword]], forged in the heart of the Eye of Terror that had the essence of a [[Greater Daemon]] bound within it. De Marche quickly found himself out of his league as his [[Power Weapon|Power Axe]] had no effect. His armour was cut open and had been grievously wounded. Decario's [[Force Sword]] was shattered and his [[Terminator Armour]] was cut open in one fowl swoop. Fortunatly, Decario used his [[Power Fist]] to rip the Excoriator's sword arm from its socket. Even though it was wounded, the Champion fought on, smashing down the Librarian and killing four more terminators before Decario grabbed the nearest weapon and, with a prayer to the Emperor, took off the head of the Excoriator.
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==History==
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===The Epiphany and Renaming===
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The Fire Claws generally fought in the area around the [[Eye of Terror]] alongside [[Cadian Shock Troopers]].{{Fn|11}} When the [[Emperor's Tarot]] showed a badly damaged [[Space Hulk|space hulk]] emerging from the [[Warp]] in the [[Stygies System]] in [[Segmentum Obscurus]], the Fire Claws were mobilised to investigate. The hulk was codified as the ''[[Captor of Sin]]'' and contained a [[Chaos]] Warband led by a [[Champion of Tzeentch]] known as [[Excoriator (Chaos Champion)|the Excoriator]]. The Fire Claws used their [[Strike Cruiser]]s to cripple the hulk and then sent [[Terminator Assault Squads]] to investigate it, led by [[Epistolary]] [[Decario]]{{Fn|6i}} and the shadowy [[Inquisitor]] [[de Marche]]. The renegades realised they were doomed and made their final stand in the vast engine room, where Decario and de Marche both fought the Excoriator.{{Fn|6d}}{{Fn|11}}
  
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Decario then noticed that the weapon he had was the Daemon Sword. Instantly he felt that this weapon could be used to defeat Chaos. De Marche warned the Librarian that only he was trained to handle such weapons. Decario handed over the weapon and they returned to their ships. Once back on their ships, De Marche explained that this weapon could be used against Chaos and should not be destroyed. With the aid of Decario, they convinced the [[Chapter Master]] of the Fire Hawks and, under the eyes of the Inquisitor, they explored the worlds around the Eye of Terror for more artifacts. Over the decades that followed they slowly collected more relics and became known as the Relictors.
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The champion carried a [[daemon sword]] forged in the heart of the Eye of Terror that had the essence of a [[Greater Daemon]] bound within it. De Marche quickly found himself out of his league as his [[power axe]] had no effect. His armour was cut open and he had been grievously wounded. Decario's [[force sword]] was shattered and his [[Terminator Armour]] was cut open in one fell swoop. Fortunately, Decario used his [[Power Fist]] to rip the Excoriator's sword arm from its socket. Even though it was wounded, the Champion fought on, smashing down the Librarian and killing four more Terminators before Decario grabbed the nearest weapon and, with a prayer to the Emperor, took off the head of the Excoriator.{{Fn|6d}}{{Fn|11}}
  
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Unfortunaly it didnt take long for the rest of the Imperium to discover their use of Chaos weaponry in warfare. A cell of Inquisitors, four [[Chapter Master]]s and an Emperor Class [[Battleship]] descended on the Relictors [[Fortress Monastery]] and they were forced to hand over all relics and De Marche and take on a century long penance crusade. De Marche was executed as a heretic and as part of their crusade, the entire chapter is deployed to [[Armageddon]] in the Equatorial Jungles, especially around Angron's monolith.
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Decario then noticed that the weapon he had was the Daemon Sword. Instantly he felt that this weapon could be used to defeat Chaos. De Marche warned the Librarian that only he was trained to handle such weapons. Decario handed over the weapon and they returned to their ships. Once back on their ships, de Marche explained that this weapon could be used against Chaos and should not be destroyed. With the aid of Decario, they convinced the [[Chapter Master]] of the Fire Claws and, under the eyes of the Inquisitor, they explored the worlds around the Eye of Terror for more such artefacts. Over the decades that followed they slowly collected more relics and became known as the '''Relictors'''.{{Fn|6d}}{{Fn|6f}}{{Fn|11}}
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===Judgment and Crusade===
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It did not take long for the rest of the [[Imperium]] to discover their use of Chaos weaponry in warfare. A cell of Inquisitors, four Chapter Masters and an [[Emperor Class Battleship]] descended on the Relictors' [[Fortress Monastery]] and they were forced to hand over all relics and de Marche and take on a century-long penance crusade. De Marche was executed as a [[heretic]] and, as part of their crusade, the entire Chapter (all 10 companies) were deployed to [[Armageddon]]{{Fn|8}} in the Equatorial Jungles.{{Fn|11}} In spite of requests for urgent assistance, the Relictors largely pursued their own goals in the campaign.{{Fn|6d}} Notably, under the guise of eliminating [[Feral Ork]]s in the jungles that could reinforce the main [[Ork]] forces besieging several [[Hive]]s, the Relictors scoured the area in search of a monument of Chaos known as [[Angron's Monolith]] with the assistance of the [[Radical]] [[Xanthite]] Inquisitor [[Halstron]].{{Fn|6e}}{{Fn|6i}}
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On finding the Monolith, Decario, now [[Chief Librarian]] of the Chapter, tried to enact a ritual to remove a shard of a [[Daemon Weapon]] from it - a fragment from an axe that was once wielded by the [[Daemon Primarch]] [[Angron]], left on Armageddon during the [[First War for Armageddon|first war for the planet]].{{Fn|6k}} As he tried to pull the shard from the monolith, it emitted a warp-scream which called the Feral Orks of the jungles to the Relictors' position. Fighting against the Orks, a Battle-Brother named [[Nico Tarryn]] duplicated Decario's feat aboard the ''Captor of Sin'', pulling the shard from its prison and using the tool of Chaos to defend himself against the enemies of [[Human|mankind]].{{Fn|6l}} Entering a battle-rage, Tarryn used the shard to cut his way through the attacking Orks, pursuing them through the jungle before finally falling unconscious. The shard was claimed and placed with the two others that the Chapter had collected.{{Fn|6m}}{{Fn|6n}}
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===Vision and Quest===
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Following the recovery of the shard, the Relictors would leave Armageddon after the Chapter's [[Librarian]]s had a vision of a lidless eye weeping blood; the entire Chapter left the planet in their spaceborne [[Ramilles Class Star-fort]]{{Fn|6m}} for the Eye of Terror.{{Fn|6m}}
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Arriving at the start of the [[13th Black Crusade]], the Relictors elected to operate independently of other Imperial forces, even clashing with [[Logan Grimnar]] on multiple occasions before the [[Great Wolf]] refused to communicate with them. During this time, the Relictors are known to have fought against the [[Word Bearers]] on [[Subiaco Diablo]] and the [[Night Lords]] on [[Exeltra Minor]]. Their operations were not limited to sorties against the forces of Chaos, however; they also participated in a purge of [[Eldar]] raiders on [[Xersia]].{{Fn|10a}}
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Returning to the vicinity of [[Cadia]], the Chapter once again refused to fight alongside the rest of the Imperial defenders, instead making way to an [[Agri World]] called [[Fremas]]. Conflict with the other forces in the area increased as the Relictors descended deeper into the Eye of Terror in their search for tools of Chaos to turn against their owners. This conflict eventually culminated with a Relictors raid on the remote [[Diamedes Archive]], where the Space Marines repulsed a Chaos attack, before destroying an [[Inquisition]] force that was guarding a Chaos artefact of great power and claiming it for their own.{{Fn|10b}}
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===Excommunication===
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Continued conflict with the Inquisition during the 13th Black Crusade resulted in them being declared ''[[Excommunicate Traitoris]]'' and were all but destroyed by the [[Grey Knights]] under the command of Inquisitor [[Cyarro]]. Only a few hundred now remain, and it is suspected that these survivors have fled to the relative safety of the [[Eye of Terror]].{{Fn|14}}
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It is currently unknown whether these survivors have thrown in their lot with the forces of Chaos or continue their struggle of trying to turn the dark powers against them for the good of [[humanity]], much like another of the [[Renegade chapters]], the [[Soul Drinkers]].{{Fn|14}}
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==Notable Battles==
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*'''112.[[M33]]''': [[Feral War]] - The [[3rd Company (Relictors)|3rd Company]] is destroyed by the [[Thousand Sons]]{{Fn|3}}
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*'''748.[[M41]]''': [[Blood Star Campaign]] - The Chapter loses its [[Chapter Master]].{{Fn|4}}
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*'''777.[[M41]]''': [[Achilus Crusade]]
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*'''~848 or 849.[[M41]]'''{{Fn|Note 1}}: ''[[Captor of Sin]]''. See above.
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*'''998.[[M41]]''': [[Third War for Armageddon]] - The Relictors contributed all 10 companies to this war.{{Fn|8}}
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*'''999.[[M41]]''': [[13th Black Crusade]] - The Relictors contribued all 10 companies to fight against the forces of Chaos in this war.{{Fn|5}}
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==Organisation==
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The Relictors are mostly organised [[Codex Chapter|along Codex lines]]. The main exception to this is the existence of the Conclave, a collective of members of the Chapter that guards the Chapter 's deepest secrets.{{Fn|6i}}
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==Heraldry==
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[[File:Relictors Armageddon War.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A Relictors battle-brother, as portrayed on the Armageddon Campaign website]]
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As the Fire Claws, the chapter's colours were orange and black.{{Fn|6d}} After becoming the Relictors, the chapter changed their colours to grey and black.{{Fn|6a}}{{Fn|11}} The Chapter's symbol is a white skull in profile on a black background with dark grey borders.{{Fn|11}}
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==Fortress-Monstery==
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Following the Chapter's exile from their [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld|homeworld]] in roughly '''948.[[M41]]'''{{Fn|Note 2}}, the Relictors became a [[Fleet Based|Fleet Based Chapter]] based out of a [[Ramilles Class Star-fort]] known informally as their 'sky fortress'. Although the fortress had a name, it was not used often (with many in the chapter seeing the name as outdated) and very few even remembered it.{{Fn|6d}}
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Within the bowels of the fortress-monastery lies the Vault, the repository of artefacts that the chapter has collected. The Relictors were forced to relinquish most of their collection at the commencement of their [[Crusade|penance crusade]], but have begun to gather more.{{Fn|6f}}
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==Chapter Elements==
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===Armoury===
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|-
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|style="background:#000; color: black" colspan=4 align=center|'''Relics'''
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|-
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|style=background:#FFF8DC align=center|'''Relic Name'''
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|style=background:#FFF8DC align=center|'''Relic Type'''
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|style=background:#FFF8DC align=center|'''Notes'''
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|style=background:#FFF8DC align=center|'''Source'''
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|[[Screaming Flail|Artekus Scourge]]
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|[[Daemon Weapon]]
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|Also known as the [[Screaming Flail]]. Wielded by [[Chapter Master]] [[Artekus Bardane]].
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|{{Fn|6f}}
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|}
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===Known Members===
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*[[Artekus Bardane]] - [[Chapter Master]].{{Fn|6f}}
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*[[Baeloch]] - [[4th Company (Relictors)|Fourth Company]]. Killed attempting to subdue [[Nico Tarryn|Tarryn]].{{Fn|6a}}{{Fn|6m}}
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*[[Bylar]] - [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] active during the [[Blood Star Campaign]].{{Fn|6c}}
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*[[Decario]] - [[Chief Librarian]].{{Fn|6d}}
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*[[Divolio]] - [[Space Marine Sergeant|Veteran Sergeant]] of [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Maegar|Maegar's]] [[Space Marine Command Squad|Command Squad]]. Fell to [[Feral Ork]]s on [[Armageddon]].{{Fn|6g}}{{Fn|6l}}
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*[[Excorius]] - [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]], [[3rd Company (Relictors)|Third Company]] ([[M33]]). Killed by [[Rubric Marine]]s on [[Aggaros]].{{Fn|3}}
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*[[Harkus (Relictors)|Harkus]] - [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of [[Artekus Bardane|Artekus Bardane's]] [[Space Marine Honour Guard Squad|Honour Guard]].{{Fn|6i}}
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*[[Ibraxin]] - [[Codicier]].{{Fn|6f}}
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*[[Illonus]] - [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] of [[Artekus Bardane|Artekus Bardane's]] [[Space Marine Honour Guard Squad|Honour Guard]].{{Fn|6i}}
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*[[Juster]] - [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]], Fourth Company. Killed by [[Feral Ork]]s on [[Armageddon]].{{Fn|6a}}{{Fn|6e}}{{Fn|6h}}
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*[[Kantus]] - Fourth Company. Killed by [[Feral Ork]]s on [[Armageddon]].{{Fn|6a}}{{Fn|6e}}
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*[[Kharran]] - [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]], Fourth Company.{{Fn|6b}}
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*[[Maegar]] - [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]], [[4th Company (Relictors)|Fourth Company]].{{Fn|6b}}
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*[[Nabori]] - Fourth Company. Killed by [[Feral Ork]]s on [[Armageddon]].{{Fn|6a}}{{Fn|6e}}{{Fn|6h}}
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*[[Parvhel]] - [[Veteran Squad (Space Marines)|Veteran]]. Member of [[Artekus Bardane|Artekus Bardane's]] [[Space Marine Honour Guard Squad|Honour Guard]].{{Fn|6i}}
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*[[Carcinus Quoda|Quoda, Carcinus]] - [[Librarian]]. Joined [[The Redacted]], an [[Alpha Legion]] warband, post-excommunication.{{Fn|12}}
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*[[Nico Tarryn|Tarryn, Nico]] - Fourth Company.{{Fn|6a}}
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*[[Saul Torqhuil|Torqhuil, Saul]] - [[Techmarine]]. Associate of [[Inquisitor]]s [[Raimus Klute|Klute]] and [[Czevak]].{{Fn|13}}
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==Trivia==
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{{Trivia}}
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===Notes===
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*{{Endn|Note 1}}: The battle aboard the ''[[Captor of Sin]]'' is said to have occurred roughly 150 years before the [[Third War for Armageddon]], which happened in '''998-999.[[M41]]'''.{{Fn|6d}}{{Fn|Conflicting sources}}
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*{{Endn|Note 2}}: The chapter's exile from their homeworld is said to have occurred roughly 50 years before the [[Third War for Armageddon]], which happened in '''998.[[M41]]'''.{{Fn|6d}}
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==={{Endn|Conflicting sources}}===
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*The Relictors were known as the Fire Claws until the incident on board the ''[[Captor of Sin]]'', which occurred in [[M41]].{{Fn|6d}} Despite this, at least one source refers to the chapter as the Relictors in a campaign that happened many millennia before M41.{{Fn|3}}
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==See also==
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*[[Renegade Space Marine Chapters (List)]]
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*[[Space Marine Forces (List)]]
  
 
==Sources==
 
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[http://www.armageddon3.com/English/Campaign/Troops/relictors.html Armageddon Website] - Details of the Third War for Armageddon Worldwide Campaign
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{{Citation issues}}
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*{{Endn|1}}: [[White Dwarf 281 (UK)]], pg. 28-31 - ''[[Index Astartes]]: Know Thine Enemy''
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**{{Endn|1b}} pg. 46 - ''Eye of Terror: the Gathering Forces''
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*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]], pg. 30
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*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition)]], pg. 22
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*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition)]] pg. 18
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*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition)]], pg. 16
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*6: [[Angron's Monolith (Novella)]]
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**{{Endn|6a}}: Chapter One
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**{{Endn|6b}}: Chapter Two
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**{{Endn|6c}}: Chapter Three
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**{{Endn|6d}}: Chapter Four
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**{{Endn|6e}}: Chapter Six
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**{{Endn|6f}}: Chapter Seven
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**{{Endn|6g}}: Chapter Eight
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**{{Endn|6h}}: Chapter Nine
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**{{Endn|6i}}: Chapter Ten
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**{{Endn|6j}}: Chapter Twelve
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**{{Endn|6k}}: Chapter Thirteen
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**{{Endn|6l}}: Chapter Fourteen
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**{{Endn|6m}}: Chapter Fifteen
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**{{Endn|6n}}: Chapter Sixteen
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*{{Endn|7}}: [[How to Paint Space Marines]], pg. 88
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*{{Endn|8}}: [[Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition)]], pg. 32
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*{{Endn|9}}: [[Architect of Fate (Anthology)#Images|Eye of Terror Containment Force Dispositions]] - an insert in [[Architect of Fate (Anthology)]]
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*10: [[White Dwarf 286 (UK)]]
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**{{Endn|10a}}: pg. 69
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**{{Endn|10b}}: pg. 70
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*{{Endn|11}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20030620195631/http://www.armageddon3.com/English/Campaign/Troops/relictors.html Third War For Armageddon - Imperial Forces: Relictors] ''(archived page, last accessed via Wayback Machine 10th January 2021)''
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*{{Endn|12}}: [[Sons of the Hydra (Novel)]], Part I, Chapter 𝛿: The Viper's Nest
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*{{Endn|13}}: [[Atlas Infernal (Novel)]], Epilogue
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*{{Endn|14}}: [[White Dwarf 295 (UK)]], pgs. 70-73
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===Uncited===
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*[[Sanctus (Novella)]]
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*[[Heart of Decay (Audio Drama)]]
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*[[The Rage of Asmodai (Audio Drama)]]
  
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Relictors
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Founding Chapter: Ultramarines/Dark Angels[9]
Founding: Believed to have been during the Age of Apostasy, in M36[1]
Chapter Master: Artekus Bardane[6f]
Homeworld: Fleet Based[6d]
(formerly Neutra[2])
Fortress-Monastery: A Ramilles Class Star-fort, known informally as the 'sky fortress'[6d]
Colours: Grey with black shoulder guards[7]
Strength: Close to 200 after their excommunication
Battle Cry "Strength of Will, Courage of Will"[6j]

The Relictors are a Renegade Space Marine Chapter, originally known as the Fire Claws.[1] They are believed to have been created from Ultramarines and Dark Angels gene-seed and were one of the Astartes Praeses Chapters[9] which, according to the ancient tome known as the Mythos Angelica Mortis,[1b] were created to guard the Eye of Terror.[5]

History

The Epiphany and Renaming

The Fire Claws generally fought in the area around the Eye of Terror alongside Cadian Shock Troopers.[11] When the Emperor's Tarot showed a badly damaged space hulk emerging from the Warp in the Stygies System in Segmentum Obscurus, the Fire Claws were mobilised to investigate. The hulk was codified as the Captor of Sin and contained a Chaos Warband led by a Champion of Tzeentch known as the Excoriator. The Fire Claws used their Strike Cruisers to cripple the hulk and then sent Terminator Assault Squads to investigate it, led by Epistolary Decario[6i] and the shadowy Inquisitor de Marche. The renegades realised they were doomed and made their final stand in the vast engine room, where Decario and de Marche both fought the Excoriator.[6d][11]

The champion carried a daemon sword forged in the heart of the Eye of Terror that had the essence of a Greater Daemon bound within it. De Marche quickly found himself out of his league as his power axe had no effect. His armour was cut open and he had been grievously wounded. Decario's force sword was shattered and his Terminator Armour was cut open in one fell swoop. Fortunately, Decario used his Power Fist to rip the Excoriator's sword arm from its socket. Even though it was wounded, the Champion fought on, smashing down the Librarian and killing four more Terminators before Decario grabbed the nearest weapon and, with a prayer to the Emperor, took off the head of the Excoriator.[6d][11]

Decario then noticed that the weapon he had was the Daemon Sword. Instantly he felt that this weapon could be used to defeat Chaos. De Marche warned the Librarian that only he was trained to handle such weapons. Decario handed over the weapon and they returned to their ships. Once back on their ships, de Marche explained that this weapon could be used against Chaos and should not be destroyed. With the aid of Decario, they convinced the Chapter Master of the Fire Claws and, under the eyes of the Inquisitor, they explored the worlds around the Eye of Terror for more such artefacts. Over the decades that followed they slowly collected more relics and became known as the Relictors.[6d][6f][11]

Judgment and Crusade

It did not take long for the rest of the Imperium to discover their use of Chaos weaponry in warfare. A cell of Inquisitors, four Chapter Masters and an Emperor Class Battleship descended on the Relictors' Fortress Monastery and they were forced to hand over all relics and de Marche and take on a century-long penance crusade. De Marche was executed as a heretic and, as part of their crusade, the entire Chapter (all 10 companies) were deployed to Armageddon[8] in the Equatorial Jungles.[11] In spite of requests for urgent assistance, the Relictors largely pursued their own goals in the campaign.[6d] Notably, under the guise of eliminating Feral Orks in the jungles that could reinforce the main Ork forces besieging several Hives, the Relictors scoured the area in search of a monument of Chaos known as Angron's Monolith with the assistance of the Radical Xanthite Inquisitor Halstron.[6e][6i]

On finding the Monolith, Decario, now Chief Librarian of the Chapter, tried to enact a ritual to remove a shard of a Daemon Weapon from it - a fragment from an axe that was once wielded by the Daemon Primarch Angron, left on Armageddon during the first war for the planet.[6k] As he tried to pull the shard from the monolith, it emitted a warp-scream which called the Feral Orks of the jungles to the Relictors' position. Fighting against the Orks, a Battle-Brother named Nico Tarryn duplicated Decario's feat aboard the Captor of Sin, pulling the shard from its prison and using the tool of Chaos to defend himself against the enemies of mankind.[6l] Entering a battle-rage, Tarryn used the shard to cut his way through the attacking Orks, pursuing them through the jungle before finally falling unconscious. The shard was claimed and placed with the two others that the Chapter had collected.[6m][6n]

Vision and Quest

Following the recovery of the shard, the Relictors would leave Armageddon after the Chapter's Librarians had a vision of a lidless eye weeping blood; the entire Chapter left the planet in their spaceborne Ramilles Class Star-fort[6m] for the Eye of Terror.[6m]

Arriving at the start of the 13th Black Crusade, the Relictors elected to operate independently of other Imperial forces, even clashing with Logan Grimnar on multiple occasions before the Great Wolf refused to communicate with them. During this time, the Relictors are known to have fought against the Word Bearers on Subiaco Diablo and the Night Lords on Exeltra Minor. Their operations were not limited to sorties against the forces of Chaos, however; they also participated in a purge of Eldar raiders on Xersia.[10a]

Returning to the vicinity of Cadia, the Chapter once again refused to fight alongside the rest of the Imperial defenders, instead making way to an Agri World called Fremas. Conflict with the other forces in the area increased as the Relictors descended deeper into the Eye of Terror in their search for tools of Chaos to turn against their owners. This conflict eventually culminated with a Relictors raid on the remote Diamedes Archive, where the Space Marines repulsed a Chaos attack, before destroying an Inquisition force that was guarding a Chaos artefact of great power and claiming it for their own.[10b]

Excommunication

Continued conflict with the Inquisition during the 13th Black Crusade resulted in them being declared Excommunicate Traitoris and were all but destroyed by the Grey Knights under the command of Inquisitor Cyarro. Only a few hundred now remain, and it is suspected that these survivors have fled to the relative safety of the Eye of Terror.[14]

It is currently unknown whether these survivors have thrown in their lot with the forces of Chaos or continue their struggle of trying to turn the dark powers against them for the good of humanity, much like another of the Renegade chapters, the Soul Drinkers.[14]

Notable Battles

Organisation

The Relictors are mostly organised along Codex lines. The main exception to this is the existence of the Conclave, a collective of members of the Chapter that guards the Chapter 's deepest secrets.[6i]

Heraldry

 
A Relictors battle-brother, as portrayed on the Armageddon Campaign website

As the Fire Claws, the chapter's colours were orange and black.[6d] After becoming the Relictors, the chapter changed their colours to grey and black.[6a][11] The Chapter's symbol is a white skull in profile on a black background with dark grey borders.[11]

Fortress-Monstery

Following the Chapter's exile from their homeworld in roughly 948.M41[Note 2], the Relictors became a Fleet Based Chapter based out of a Ramilles Class Star-fort known informally as their 'sky fortress'. Although the fortress had a name, it was not used often (with many in the chapter seeing the name as outdated) and very few even remembered it.[6d]

Within the bowels of the fortress-monastery lies the Vault, the repository of artefacts that the chapter has collected. The Relictors were forced to relinquish most of their collection at the commencement of their penance crusade, but have begun to gather more.[6f]

Chapter Elements

Trivia

 

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Notes

Conflicting sources

  • The Relictors were known as the Fire Claws until the incident on board the Captor of Sin, which occurred in M41.[6d] Despite this, at least one source refers to the chapter as the Relictors in a campaign that happened many millennia before M41.[3]

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