Bethany "The Blessed" Federova

## Bethany Federova

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**Sister Bethany Federova** is a member of a minor order Pronatus of the Adepta Sororitas called the Order of the Dawn. Her father, a member of the Imperial guard, saved the Canoness of an order of Adepta Sororitas. As a sign of gratitude for his bravery and faith, it was decided that she would be chosen to join the Adepta Sororitas. Her father agreed because it would mean a better life for her than he could ever give her. When she was born, she spent two days with her family and was taken to be raised by the church. She showed great promise early on and her thirst for knowledge, her devotion to the golden throne and her interest in increasing the knowledge of the church made her a perfect candidate for placement in the Order of the Dawn, a minor order Pronatus, on Aurora.

## Biography

Sister Bethany was taken before birth and sent to the Schola Progenium for rigorous training to become a Sister of Battle. She showed much promise during her training but her hopes of becoming assigned to an order militant were soon quenched as her thirst to further the Imperium's knowledge and ability to discover important information from anyone soon made her an interesting prospect for an order Pronatus.

Although she trained for combat and followed the rigorous schedule of all Sisters of Battle, she was recruited for the Order of the Dawn, on Aurora. Her expertise and knowledge made her a perfect candidate for a newly converted planet with low chaos activity, although the planet did seem to have a magnificent wealth of frozen chaos relics under thick layers of ice. Most of those relics would turn out to be from the God of Change, Tzeentch.

She was not a special talent although she was within the normal for the Order Pronatus. She enjoyed her work on the planet and was often overlooked for off world missions because, she simply was too engrossed in the work at hand for cataloging and studying relics that were found on the home world but once she started going on missions to study relics from Space Marine Chapters and sometimes question those same Marines, the Order of the Dawn realized that she was very well suited for gaining information in a very nonthreatening way. People seemed to volunteer information to her because of her genuine interest and curiosity.

She was always respectful of the Imperial Forces and their relics which made them more willing to share their information and even let her take the relics with her to study them.

## Personality

Sister Bethany Federova was a curious child and very intelligent. She grew into a strong independent Sister of Battle. She always followed the rules and her faith is always unwavering but she does not like to attraction the attention of anyone really. She always enjoyed being discreet and quiet and disliked the attention she was receiving when she thought she was a living Saint but in reality, she was a Grail Sister. She is a skilled fighter but her compassion became enhanced when she drank from the Grail which has caused her to act recklessly and bend the rules of friendship for a Sister Repentia. She became a fierce leader and a great fighter due to the Red Crusader's Holy Grail but she still prefers to not be the center of attention.

## Notable Campaigns

* **Becoming the Blessed**-Sister Bethany of the Sisters of the Dawn was sent on a sensitive mission to the planet Sanctus. She was to gain access to the Red Crusaders' vaults, and if at all possible, get copies of the original document that the Crusaders lived by. The Sisters wanted to authenticate the document and put to rest the distrust that some had of the Crusaders for rumours told that it may possibly not be the Emperor who had once walked on Sanctus and left Holy Relics. When Sister Bethany arrived, she asked for access to the vaults. After some hesitation, she was granted access up to a certain point. She accepted the conditions of the crusaders and began her descent to the vault. When she was escorted to a room, she was left alone to start studying various relics. She was fascinated by the items in the room but this was not her mission. After a cursory look at the various objects, she slipped out of the room and started down the corridor. As she came to large steel door, she realized that the script would be guarded inside so she needed to think of another way to gain access.

She started walking back to the first room until she heard heavy footsteps coming her way. She assumed it was the Red Crusaders coming to check on her. She kept walking toward the room where they had left her and caught a glimpse of the Marines advancing. They were not crusaders. She backed herself into a corner and readied her weapon. The first chaos Marine was doused in the flames of her flamethrower. There were so many, she took a deep breath and mumbled a prayer to the Emperor, knowing she would not survive another day. She fought one after the other, valiantly, the injuries multiplying as the bodies of the chaos Marines started falling. As she felt her energy drain, she prayed one last time. Her body roared back to life, holy light shining in her eyes as the Emperor sustained her and gave her the power to keep fighting. Soon she heard the sounds of battle from the other end of the corridor, she endured and slew more chaos Marines. When the Red Crusaders finally broke through the attack from the other side, she fell to the ground, all her energy leaving her as the blood pooled around her. She felt herself being carried to a nearby room and felt something wet and warm on her lips. She swallowed and lost consciousness. Later on, she would learn that a Red Crusader by the name of Mathael Drakvard had judged her worthy of drinking from the Holy Grail. Its powers would forever fill her body and she was granted strength and powers beyond normal human capacities. When she returned to Aurora, she was dubbed Sister Bethany the blessed and given the jewel of Saint Svetlana.

* **Taking back the Night**- On a mission to eliminate the threat of the Sisters of the Night, the Order of the Dawn met up with a member of the Verum Illuminate who called himself Richter. Together, they returned to Zargoth in order to, hopefully destroy this branch of the Sisters of the Night. When they arrived, they found the ship in need of repair near a mountain. Sister Superior Leah and Sister Bethany, the blessed, accompanied by a dozen of the task force Sisters infiltrated the ship as the Sisters were having a celebration of sorts. They entered the room and slew each and every one of the Sisters of the Night, including the founder of the Slaaneshi warband, Julia Sansoucy. This was a great achievement for the Sisters of the Order of the Dawn had only sent a few heretics, during every battle, back to the warp. This time, they left no survivors.

* **The End of the Daemon**- After the mission to take back the Night, the Sisters, with Richter on board their ship, were alerted to the presence of a Slaaneshi daemon. When they entered the room to attack the daemon, it swiftly took flight and escaped. The Sisters, a guardsman that was with them and the Verum Illuminate Marine scoured the entire ship in hopes of finding the daemon. When Sister Bethany, the blessed, found the daemon, it had it's wings wrapped around the Marine, killing him by injecting drugs into his system via pinpricks in its razor sharp wings. Sister Bethany grabbed the Eviscerator that had been discarded in the middle of the room and struck the daemon with all her might. The daemon was fatally wounded and disappeared, presumably into the warp as Bethany's jewel on her gauntlet glowed with power.

## Specialization and Abilities

Sister Bethany specializes in interrogation and information gathering but later in her career, after being blessed, she was assigned to a Task Force focused on finding and destroying the Slaaneshi warband called The Sisters of the Night. She is now the leader of the task force.

Being from a planet where the light barely shine, the Sisters of the Order of the Dawn have an uncanny tolerance for cold and can see quite well in the Dark.

After a mission to Sanctus, Sister Bethany gained the title "The Blessed" for the Emperor blessed her with strength to fight off chaos Marines but mortally wounded, she also was offered the Red Crusaders' Holy Grail. She is a very good fighter, thanks to the effects of the Holy Grail and can heal from various wounds which would be mortal to others.

## Short Stories

Haunted: Sister Bethany is introduced in the second story of the Roth trilogy. She begins as second in command to Sister Superior Leah. By the end of the story, she becomes a hero of sorts.

Shattered: Sister Bethany makes a very brief appearance in the third volume of the Roth trilogy, at the end of the battle.

The Guardsman: Sister Bethany arrives just in time to save the Guardsman, Benjamin Brak and disposes of a daemonette.

Relentless: Sister Bethany now understand that her blessing is not only by the Emperor but also by the Red Crusaders' Holy Grail and fights the evil underneath her home planet with Grail Knight Mathael Drakvard.

## Allies and Enemies

### Allies

* **Mathael Drakvard** - Mathael Drakvard is the Grail Knight who deemed Bethany worthy of become a Grail Sister. At the end of the Aurora campaign, they became very close, like siblings.

* **The Red Crusaders**- Having defended the Red Crusader's relics, including the Holy Grail, from chaos Space Marines, Sister Bethany has created a strong allegiance. Answering to calls for assistance on both sides, Sanctus and Aurora, their allegiance is strong.

* **Corey Richter (AKA Nathaniel Roth)**- Sister Bethany and Corey Richter met on a quest to destroy the Sisters of the Night and their goals aligned. Sister Bethany has saved Richter from the Slaaneshi daemon Luvia but arrived too late to save him during the attack on the Red Crusader's Fortress Monastery. She considered him an ally and so did he.

### Enemies

* **Sisters of the Night**- The Sisters of the Night are a Slaaneshi warband that was created by a turned Sister Repentia who originally came from the Order to the Dawn. Bethany Federova was part of the task force that had been created with the purpose of purging the Slaaneshi warband and restoring honour to the Sisters of the Order of the Dawn. She has fought and slayed many Sisters of the Night and vows to destroy them all.

## Notable Quotes

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"*Not only did she have the bravery to fight her, but Sister Bethany struck fear into the heart of the heretic. Could you have done the same?*"
—Grail Knight Mathael Drakvard of the Red Crusaders, speaking to Sister Jovia, Mistress of Repentance.