Children of the Grail

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The Children of the Grail are a second founding chapter descended from The Saints. They were the first chapter split from the original and were tasked with guarding Campos de Oro while the marines of the original chapter traveled back to Imperial space with their primarch. The Children of the Grail, originally called “The Homeguard”, continued the Xenos Crusades while their kin were away. During these crusades they discovered a number of powerful artifacts and eventually became specialized in the recovery, study, and deployment of xenos artifacts.

## Gene Seed

The Children of the Grail have the gene seed from the 11th Primarch Frida Evangelina. Like other members of The Sanctified the chapter has rather stable and pure genetics but they retain their primarch’s ability to produce both male and female marines.

## Chapter Beliefs & Disposition

Members of the chapter are quite talented researchers and scientists. They inherited their primarch’s scientific nature and academic disposition. Unfortunately they also inherited her obsessive nature and marines have been lost in the pursuit of knowledge or fallen to heresy when investigating xenos technology. The Ordo Xenos are just shy of excommunicating the chapter and declaring them heretics but the chapter frequently sends their discoveries and research to the Ordo to satiate them. The Ordo suspects the Children of the Grail are not sending them ALL of their discoveries (and they are probably correct).

## Chapter Organization

Initially the Children of the Grail were entirely stationed in the far away Campos de Oro system, providing troops to defend the system and execute the Xeno Crusades. They dedicate 2 companies to the Evangelian Crusades (the 2nd and 3rd) in Imperial space and the remaining 8 (including their scout company) are stationed in Campos de Oro. Like the Saints their crusading companies stationed in Imperial space are called Cruzados Companies though they have no special name for the remainder of their companies.

## Notable Engagements

### The Sister’s War

When it was revealed that the chapter known as "Delilah’s Scions" was actually composed almost entirely of psykers and that many had been corrupted, the Children set out to purge the chapter. The campaign took 4 years to settle because the last two companies of Delilah’s Scions kept evading the Children of the Grail with their prescience visions. Tired of their persecution the captain of the 1st company of Delilah’s Scions, Capt. Rea Barbide, sought the powers of Chaos to sustain them. Pacting with Tzeentch she and a number of the chapter members turned to Chaos and eliminated the 3rd company of the Children of the Grail in a surprise attack. The 2nd company of Delilah’s Scions joined the battle on the side of the Children and drove them back with their own psychic might. After the war ended the Delilah’s Scions chapter was refounded as “Athena’s Wisdom” to show their beak with the 1st company that had fell to chaos (the survivors of which are still called “Delilah’s Scions”). The Children never forgot this and always keep a warry eye on the Athena’s Wisdom chapter...

## The Grailwind

The greatest xenos artifact ever recovered by the chapter was the “Grailwind”. It is, essentially, a stable warp gate floating in space. It was recovered by the chapter during the war against the Vizacov, an ancient and powerful species of technologically advanced arachnid-looking xenos. After a century of study and research the Grailwind was activated to allow ships from the Campos de Oro system to jump to the edge of Imperial space.

Activating the Grailwind is a mysterious and arcane science that is more akin to astrology than navigation. Activating it requires the sacrifice of many psykers, though a powerful psyker can direct it themselves. Because of how infrequently the Grailwind is active, transportation between systems is a hectic time. The chapter’s 7th company, the Guardians of the Grail, is responsible for the safety and security of the Grailwind. They are stationed on the moon that the portal orbits. The Grailwind occasionally spits out enemies, particularly dark eldar raiders, that attempt to raid local areas.

The Children of the Grain occasionally guide members of the Blue Shields through the Grailwind on their pilgrimage to Campos de Oro. They are always a little suspicious of their foreign-born cousins but none-the-less accept them.