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==Organisation==
Notionally a [[Codex Chapter]], the Blood Ravens' most obvious deviation from strict Codex adherence is the high number of Librarians in their ranks, as well as the practice of affording Librarians dual-roles as unit commanders (for example, as Company Captains or even Chapter Master as well as their [[Librarius (Fortress-monastery)|Librarius]] rank). The actual commanders of the Blood Ravens are known as the Secret Masters, and as befits such a title, little is known of who these marines are or what positions they officially hold within the command tree. Many of these Masters are [[psykers]] who specialise in studying the ways of Chaos, so that the Blood Ravens may better fight against the heretics, and who are believed to sometimes form up battle-squads of the Chapter's Librarians to lead into battle.{{Fn|2b}}
The dangers of large numbers of psychically active members studying the ways of heresy are not unknown to the Chapter, and so the Blood Ravens attempt to self-monitor themselves strenuously against taint. Those souls who fall (for some inevitably do, either in the initiation process itself or after a lifetime of service) are kept for a time in the Librarium Sanatorium, before being ritually executed by the Master of Sanctity.{{Fn|2b}} Initiates who fail the initiation rites in other ways and that are driven insane and/or mutated by exposure to the warp are led away in pentagrammically warded chains to a chamber simply known as ''The Tower'' where they are kept to be studied by the Chapter so as to ascertain what went wrong and how the knowledge of their failure can be put to better use. There exists a rumour of daemons being summoned and placed within these failed initiates, before being banished, a rumour that, should it be discovered to be true, would surely spell the end of the Blood Ravens as an Imperial body.{{Fn|2c}}
