Angel of Sacrifice
The Angel of Sacrifice is an Imperial Fists relic in the possession of the 3rd Company. Following the Imperial Fists' reorganisation into Chapters according to the Codex Astartes, Rogal Dorn ordered that the Company Banners be stored unused until the Emperor of Mankind returned. The Banners, which were presented to each Company by Rogal Dorn himself, were locked in a fault aboard the Phalanx.[1]
The one exception was the Angel of Sacrifice – the crest belonging to the 3rd Company. During the Horus Heresy, before Dorn ordered the other banners into storage, the infiltrator Macellanos attempted to assassinate the Emperor during the Siege of Terra. However, Garos Hargrim, Chaplain of the 3rd Company, took up his company’s splintered Banner and slew the traitor. Hargrim perished even as he struck Macellanos down, but after his death Dorn ordered the golden crest be reforged as a Crozius Arcanum to honour the Chaplain’s memory. The Angel of Sacrifice has been borne by every 3rd Company Chaplain since, a weighty burden and an honour both.[1]
Sources
- 1: Sentinels of Terra - A Codex: Space Marines Supplement (6th Edition) - Relics of the 3rd Company
