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After tracking [[Gorgutz]]' forces to the vault containing the [[Spear of Khaine]], Angelos was caught in an [[Inquisition]] [[orbital bombardment]] that intended to destroy the device but instead opened the vault it was sealed in. However, Angelos survived and led an attack on the temple of the Spear of Khaine that overran both the [[Eldar]] and [[Ork]] forces. When they came to the "Spear" they instead found a trap that freed a [[Bloodthirster]] and its [[Daemon]]ic hordes. Desperate, Angelos had the [[Battle Barge]] ''[[The Dauntless]]'' collide with a fissure in [[Acheron]]'s surface to prevent the daemonic infestation from spreading. Angelos was able to teleport to safety before the planet was destroyed.{{Fn|7}}
===Great Rift===
At the end of the [[41st Millennium]] the Blood Ravens still reeling from the [[Acheron (World)|Acheron]] Campaign, the three [[Aurelia]]n Crusades, and the [[Kaurava]] Campaign. Chapter Master Angelos had been planning to begin a rebuilding of the Chapter and decreed that this consolidation was to be conducted alongside large-scale recruitment. Blood Trials to find aspirants were carried out on every world from
which the Blood Ravens recruited, and they were held more frequently. Production of arms, ships, and other war materiel increased. Angelos declared that, once enough of the Chapter had been rebuilt, the Blood Ravens would strike out into the galaxy anew.{{Fn|9}}
But this grand rebuilding was not to be. Scant weeks after initiating his plans, madness erupted in the sky as the [[Great Rift]] emerged and the [[Astronomican]] went out. Contact between the Blood Ravens detachments conducting Blood Trials and the ''[[Omnis Arcanum]]'' became next to impossible. Ships full of aspirants were lost to the warp. All over Sub-sector Aurelia, outbreaks of mutation and other psychic phenomena were endemic. Some Blood Ravens, psychically sensitive as many are, perished or were driven to madness by the surge in empyric energy. Those Librarians able to make some sense of the distortion reported terrible visions and nightmares, some even of the [[Great Unclean One]] [[Ulkair]] stirring in his prison in the core of old Aurelia. Entire Astropathic choirs died horrendous deaths as uncontrollable forces built up inside them to the point that their heads exploded under the expanding pressure. Worse still, many worlds under the Blood Ravens protection cried out for aid, with the entire Aurelian Sub-Sector now beset by Daemons. Ever a stubborn warrior of honor, Angelos ordered the Blood Ravens to try and intervene wherever they could and for many years the Chapter bled, isolated from the greater Imperium.{{Fn|9}}
Contact between the Imperium was reestablished when 7th Captain [[Atanaxis]] met with a [[Adeptus Custodes]] Cruiser. However he stated that Angels would initially not be informed of this or the new [[Primaris Space Marine]] technology transferred to the Chapter.{{Fn|9a}}
==Relations with the Eldar==
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III]]
*{{Endn|8}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/27/warhammer-fest-live-blog/ Warhammer Fest Live Blog] (last accessed 22/05/2019)
*{{Endn|9}}: [[White Dwarf July 2019]] - Index Astartes: Blood Ravens
**{{Endn|9a}}: Ravens' Blood
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