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'''Gabriel Angelos''' is the [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Blood Ravens]], and widely regarded as one of the [[Chapter]]'s greatest heroes.{{Fn|1}}

{{spoiler|source=Dawn of War (Novel Series)}}

Like many of the [[Blood Ravens]] Gabriel was born on the planet of [[Cyrene]], from whence the [[Chapter]] often drew recruits. He was an accomplished leader of his peers before he even entered his teen years, and passed the [[Blood Trials]] set by the [[Blood Ravens]]' [[Chaplain]]s through working in tandem with fellow [[Aspirant]] [[Isador Akios]].{{Fn|2a}}

[[File:Gabe.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Gabriel Angelos as [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[3rd Company (Blood Ravens)|Third Company]]{{Fn|4}}]]

Many years later, with an entire [[Space Marine Company|Company]] of [[Blood Ravens]] under his command, Gabriel returned to [[Cyrene]] to preside over the [[Blood Trials]] and recruit new members into the [[Chapter]]. But Gabriel found something very wrong during the trial and cut them short. He quickly returned to his [[Strike Cruiser]] and sent a coded signal out of the system. Within months of the signal, ships of the [[Inquisition]] and the [[Imperial Navy]] appeared over Cyrene and began the cleansing of the planet. Accompanying the [[Ordo Malleus]] was a full [[Brotherhood (Grey Knights)|Brotherhood]] of [[Grey Knights]]. With the Blood Ravens and a detachment of [[Storm Troopers]], the Grey Knights took the cleansing to the surface. What they found was not a [[Chaos]] cult per se but a world ready to embrace change. Ideas like democracy, un-registered [[Psykers]] and free trade with [[Xenos]] were now widespread. Gabriel assisted with the destruction of his world but ordered one squad of Blood Ravens, led by [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Ulray]] to remain off the grid, searching for someone.{{Fn|2a}}

That person was [[Esmond Angelos]], Gabriel's father. Gabriel refused to believe that his father, a retired [[Imperial Guard]] soldier, would have turned away from the [[Emperor]]. He fully intended to take Esmond back with him to the [[Chapter]]. But to Gabriel's horror he discovered that his father not only supported rebellion against the [[Imperium]], but was one of the major political leaders. Esmond despised the Imperium because the [[Space Marines]] had taken away his own son and cursed Gabriel for his role as an Imperial butcher and wished he had died with his mother in childbirth. Gabriel whispered one last prayer for [[Cyrene]] and executed his father.{{Fn|6}}

It was on [[Tartarus]] that Gabriel was to undergo the true tests of his abilities and his faith, as he had to both stall an unstoppable [[Ork]] invasion long enough to evacuate the planet, while simultaneously seeking out and eradicating the [[Alpha Legion]] forces on the world, led by [[Bale (Chaos Lord)|Lord Bale]] and the [[Chaos Sorcerer]] [[Sindri Myr]]. The Chaos forces were searching for a ancient artifact called the [[Maledictum]], and the sorcerer Sindri managed to corrupt [[Isador Akios]], now a [[Librarian]] of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[Chapter]], into betraying the Blood Ravens.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2a}}

After defeating [[Sindri Myr|Sindri]] however, Angelos destroyed the [[Maledictum]] with a [[Daemonhammer]] called [[God-Splitter]], thinking to eradicate the [[Chaos]] threat, but instead he released a great [[Warp]] [[Daemon]] from its prison, as foreseen by [[Eldar]] [[Farseer]] [[Macha]] who had aided in fighting the daemon. Farseer Macha had warned him not to destroy the Maledictum but he had proceeded to smash it with the [[God-Splitter]] anyway. Angelos escaped [[Tartarus]] before the ensuing [[warp storm]] trapped him there, and vowed to defeat the new Chaos threat he himself had unleashed/{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2c}}

Shortly after the [[Tartarus]] campaign Angelos traveled to the world of [[Rahe's Paradise]] to conduct the [[Blood Trials]] for a new set of [[aspirant]]s for the [[Blood Ravens]]. At first, all seemed routine (save for his premonitions of an [[Eldar]] invasion), but soon after the discovery of an ancient Eldar tablet, all hell broke loose: [[Eldar]] [[Ranger]]s conducted multiple hit-and-run attacks, focusing exclusively on the [[Psyker]]s of the [[Chapter]] and the potential psykers among the Blood Trials aspirants, and Gabriel met with [[Farseer]] [[Macha]] once more.{{Fn|11a}}

<br>Despite [[Macha]]'s warnings a space battle destroyed the [[Spirit Pool]] of the [[Dark Reaper]] aspect, and the psychic scream of the lost souls shattered [[Lsanthranil's Shield]] and awakened the [[Necrons]]. Gabriel Angelos then ordered the [[Exterminatus|destruction of the planet]] and left for the threatened planet of [[Lorn V]] with the surviving [[aspirant]]s.{{Fn|11c}}

Angelos and the ''[[Litany of Fury]]'' were in the distant [[Vorga]] system, completing a great victory over the [[Tau]], when [[Subsector]] [[Aurelia]] was invaded by the [[Tyranid]]s. They arrived in the system in time to join the [[Blood Ravens]]' [[Force Commander]] [[Aramus]] during the climactic battle on [[Typhon Primaris]], when Angelos joined Aramus and his men in defeating the [[Hive Tyrant]] leading the swarm.{{Fn|3}}

[[Image:Gabriel Angelos Broken Body.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Gabriel Angelos' broken body{{Fn|3}}]]

[[Image:Gabriel Angelos Bionics.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Gabriel Angelos' rebuilt body with [[Augmetic]]s{{Fn|3}}]]

After defeating [[Azariah Kyras]], Angelos's broken body was lifted from the debris by [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Apollo Diomedes]]. Angelos recovered, with the aid of [[augmetic]]s to replace his lost legs and eye, and was hailed as the [[Blood Ravens]]' new [[Chapter Master]].{{Fn|3}}^,{{Fn|4}}

On the world of [[Acheron (World)|Acheron]], the [[Imperium]], [[Orks]], and [[Eldar]] would all come to blows while fighting over a catastrophic weapon known as the [[Spear of Khaine]]. The [[Blood Ravens]] under Gabriel Angelos arrived, running an [[Inquisition|Inquisitorial]] blockade to aid Imperial [[Knight]] forces under Lady [[Solaria]]. During the battle on Acheron, Angelos battled both [[Biel-Tan]] Eldar and [[Gorgutz]]' Orks.{{Fn|7}}

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}}

At the end of the [[41st Millennium]] the Blood Ravens still reeling from the 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}}

Contact between the Imperium was reestablished when 7th Captain [[Atanaxis]] met with a [[Adeptus Custodes]] Cruiser. However he stated that Angelos would initially not be informed of this or the new [[Primaris Space Marine]] technology transferred to the Chapter.{{Fn|9a}}

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GabrielAngelos.jpg|Miniature of Gabriel Angelos as [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Blood Ravens]]{{Fn|8}}

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*[[List of Chapter Masters]]

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*{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War]] (video game)

**{{Endn|11c}}: Chapter 9

*[[Tempest (Novel)]]