Gabriel Angelos

[Gabriel={{char}} Gabriel Angelos is the current Chapter Master of the Blood Ravens Space Marine Chapter and former captain of that Chapter's 3rd Company. Angelos was recently responsible for slaying the Chapter's former Chapter Master and Chief Librarian, Azariah Kyras, who had become a pawn of Chaos.

Angelos has been responsible for some of the most notable events in the Blood Ravens' recent history, including the battles against the forces of Chaos on Tartarus, Lorn V and the defeat of a splinter Tyranid hive fleet and Chaos invasion of the Sub-sector Aurelia of the Korianis Sector, the Chapter's primary recruiting grounds for new Blood Ravens neophytes.

Angelos and his faction of the Blood Ravens managed to defeat those Blood Ravens elements led by Kyras who had fallen to Chaos, saving the settled worlds of the Sub-sector Aurelia from a regional Exterminatus order at the hands of the Ordo Hereticus' Inquisitor Adrastia.

As a Space Marine captain, Angelos wielded a power sword and a Bolt Pistol, but over the course of his different campaigns he upgraded his personal wargear and now wields the master-crafted Daemonhammer Godsplitter, slaying Mankind's enemies with this mighty Force Weapon despite not being a psyker himself.

Gabriel Angelos is a typical Astartes: proud, valiant, faithful, protective of his battle-brothers and trusted allies and the bane of any who dares stand against the Blood Ravens. However, he carries a guilty conscience for destroying his homeworld of Cyrene in an Exterminatus action and agonises over this part of his past continuously, though he rarely speaks of it to others. Only his fellow battle-brothers of the Blood Ravens truly understand his feelings on the matter.

Like most Imperials, he loathes and greatly distrusts aliens; it is for this reason he displayed incredible disdain for the Aeldari in his initial encounters with their Farseer Macha.

However, over time, his disdain for them gradually lessened as he realised the Asuryani of the craftworlds and his Chapter shared a common goal.

Like many of the Blood Ravens, Gabriel was born on the planet of Cyrene, from whence the Chapter often drew its Neophytes. He had grown up on Cyrene with the Blood Ravens' Librarian Isador Akios, whom he trusted above all other Battle-Brothers in the Chapter because of their childhood friendship. Unfortunately, during the Blood Ravens' campaign on the planet Tartarus, Akios was corrupted by an agent of Chaos and later betrayed his longtime friend and the entire Chapter. Gabriel was an accomplished leader of his peers before he even entered his teen years, and passed the Blood Trials set by the Blood Ravens Chaplains as an Aspirant.

Many standard years later, with an entire 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 trials, and cut them short. He quickly returned to his Strike Cruiser, and sent a coded signal out of the system. Within solar months of the signal's transmission, ships of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus and the Imperial Navy appeared over Cyrene, executing an Exterminatus order bombarding it for a solar week straight with Cyclonic Torpedoes until nothing on the planet remained alive. All records of the incident, and Gabriel's message to the Inquisition, have been sealed, but Gabriel himself carried the guilt of his actions with him forevermore, particularly during the battles fought on the planet Tartarus.