Blood Swords

This article is about the Space Marine Chapter; for the Templars of Blood vessel, see Blood Sword.

Blood Swords

Founding Chapter:	Blood Angels^[1a]^{[Conflicting sources]}
Chapter Master:	Ercon^[7c]
Homeworld:	Jaggafall^[2a]
Colours:	Crimson armour with white shoulder pad displaying the bleeding sword icon^[1a]^[6]

The Blood Swords are a Codex Chapter with the notable distinction of one of their Chapter Masters being entombed within a Dreadnought.^[1b]

History

The chapter has close ties and a shared history with the Star Dragons Chapter, as their home worlds are near each other.^[5]

Currently the Blood Swords are serving with Containment Fleet Kappa, near the Eye of Terror, as part of their Chapter’s ongoing penitence crusade.^[5]

777.M41 - The Achilus Crusade.^[4]
845.M41 - The Blood Swords Chapter conduct the purging of the Inando system. More than one hundred billion Imperial citizens are slain in the resulting Exterminatus actions.^[2b]
???.M41 - Supported the Blood Angels on Baal against Chaos and Tyranid forces during the recent conclave meeting of the Sanguinius bloodline, called by Chapter Master Dante to discuss the fate of the Founding Chapter. Assisted in the defense of the remains of the Primarch himself.^[1b]^[1c]
~M42 - The Devastation of Baal^[7c]

In the novel Red Fury by James Swallow, the Blood Swords are identified as a Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels,^[1a] and in The Devastation of Baal, they defend Baal alongside the other Blood Angel successor chapters.^[7a] However, the 5th edition Blood Angels codex states that the Blood Swords do not claim descent from the Blood Angels, despite the suggestiveness of the name.^[3]