Blades of Korenaga

Blades of Korenaga Iconography

A Blades of Korenaga of the 4th Company

The **Blades of Korenaga** are a *Codex*-compliant Loyalist Space Marine Chapter, proud successors of the noble Blood Angels and, in every sense of the word, the watchers on the wall. Formed during the 15th Founding at an unspecified year in the 35th Millennium, the Blades of Korenaga have spent the past few thousand years safeguarding the Imperium from the primary enemies that they face in the north - namely Chaos, Aeldarii and the Orks. The Aeldari in particular have historically been an enemy of the chapter, but with incursions from the Tyranids and Chaos warbands appearing everywhere because of the formation of the Great Rift, the two factions have set aside their quarrels to deal with the bigger threats.

## Chapter History

The Blades of Korenaga were formed during the Fifteenth Founding on a year now lost to time by Fiske Qualbo, a chaplain of the Blood Angels. A distinguished member of his chapter, from what can be gathered of existing records Qualbo was approached with the offer of becoming the chapter master of a "new generation" of Astartes. He accepted and took command of the first batch of the chapter. At the time the chapter were called the Darkfangs and were a fleet-based chapter that were assigned with safeguarding planets in the galatic north from whatever enemy that may have existed. Qualbo led his chapter around for ten years before stumbling across the planet of Korenaga. An ocean world, the local population all located on their little islands were constantly going to war with each other for resources and territory. The Darkfangs took this planet as their homeworld, establishing their fortress-monastary on the largest and most developed island-nation. This establishment was what caught the ire of the Aeldari, for Korenaga was a Maiden World that humanity had touched first.

The Darkfangs started a massive recruitment drive on Korenaga to get their numbers up to combat strength. There was no shortage of initiates, and five years later the chapter had reached the mandated number of a thousand Astartes. Their first few battles were against the Orks and the traitor Death Guard. The Orks were easy to drive off, but the Death Guard gave the Darkfangs some pause, stalling the first six companies of the chapter into a five-month long stalemate before the First Fall happened. Qualbo, present in the fight against Mortarion's chosen, was aware that some of his men would fall to the curse of the Black Rage, but he wasn't expecting it to happen so soon and to such a large extent. The *entire* 4th Company went to madness in the blink of an eye. However, it was this fall that turned the battle in favour of the Darkfangs. The Death Guard were neither expecting nor prepared for an en-masse suicide charge and even with their durability gifted by their Chaos God they didn't stand a chance against both this advance and the rest of the chapter pushing in. The battle had been won, but now Qualbo had to deal with the 60 or so insane Astartes on his hands. His High Chaplain suggested executing all of them to put them out of their misery, but Qualbo, the Chief Librarian and the captains all disagreed with this motion. The Astartes inflicted with the Black Rage were put into stasis, and the chapter returned to Korenaga to meditate.

When the Darkfangs returned to Korenaga, they would soon be hit by the first out of many attacks on the planet by the Aeldari. The Darkfang Death Company marines were released for the second time to unleash their unbridled rage against the xenos invaders. They went even better against fleshy targets than they had against the Death Guard, and by the end of this short but violent battle 40 Death Company marines were still alive. They were returned to stasis once more and a council was held between all of the chapter's officers. The first major decision was to determine the fate of the chapter's Death Company. This topic was not a difficult decision; of the 15 officers that were present at the convention, 13 of them wanted to keep their brothers alive. The second major point was brought up by Lieutenant Chujiro Liima, acting captain of the 7th Company after his captain was killed fighting the Orks. Much to the surprise of the remainder of the council, Chujiro suggested a change of culture in the chapter to reflect the planet they had inherited. Many of the other captains dismissed Chujiro, but Qualbo was interested and encouraged Chujiro to expand on his change. The discussion was short, but Qualbo approved of the changes that Chujiro suggested. After this council, the chapter became known as the Blades of Korenaga.

The chapter first fought as the Blades of Korenaga at the Skirmish on Kage where Chujiro (now a captain) led the 7th Company against a major Nurglite chaos cult. With him were the chapter's first formal Death Company squads. Elsewhere in the segmentum, the 1st and 2nd Companies stormed and cleaned out a Space Hulk that had appeared close to a Mechanicus forgeworld. The Blades of Korenaga started to make a name for themselves. Fifty years passed. The chapter was about to undergo the Second Fall. On Korenaga, a small Black Legion Traitor Legion appeared from the warp and landed planetside expecting an easy raid. They were met by the 3rd, 4th and 7th Companies. The appearance of the damned sons of Horus however triggered something in the Blades of Korenaga and for the second time, the 4th Company fell to madness. This time, not everyone in the company went insane; Chujiro (now the 4th's captain), his command team and a Tactical Squad were left untouched by the Black Rage.

Without a Death Company Chaplain on hand, Chujiro had to improvise. He led a charge right into the centre of the Black Legion's forces. To his surprise, those who had been hit with the Black Rage followed him into the fray. The clash was bloody; the 5000-year old veterans were excellent fighters and took many of the Korenagaians with them as they were swarmed. Chujiro himself was burned and badly injured by a group of Raptors, but survived due to the intervention of his company champion. Eventually the loyalists pushed the Black Legion off their planet and kicked them out of the system. This wasn't the end of their problems, for the Aeldari had been gearing up for an assault on the planet at the same time and dropped in as the Black Legion left. The battered Blades of Korenaga, many of whom were injured, sent out a distress signal and prepared for combat. As would be expected from them, the Aeldari swiftly landed on Korenaga and seeked out the base of the Space Marines that had occuipied the planet.

## Notable Campaigns

* **Battle of Myrelarky (5??.M35)** - The chapter's first battle was against the Death Guard on a hive world known as Myrelarky. Six companies faced off against 300 Plague Marines and their filthy followers. The Blades of Korenaga were going well for the first half of the battle but stalled when they reached the hive cities, their method of battle not fully suitable for close-quarters engagements. It was not until the First Fall where the 4th Company was taken by the Black Rage, that the Blades of Korenaga were able to take the hives.
* **Battle of Irax X, XI and XIf (5??.M35)** - Coinceeding with the Battle of Myrelarky, the 7th, 8th and 9th Companies were assigned the job of cleaning an Ork infestation off a number of life-sustaining planets in the Irax system for later inhabitation. Irax X and Irax XI were easy to clean out without a warboss or similar leader to organise them. However, the Orks on Iran XIf were able to organise counter-attacks. Luckily for the chapter, they had brought their Devastator company and put its squads to use with heavy bolters, plasma cannons, heavy flamers and multi-meltas, utterly nuking the Ork population.
* **Battle of Tushima (5??.M35)** - The Battle of Tushima was a short skirmish on the deep-space shipyard of Tushima when pirates attempted to raid the station unaware of the entire chapter of Space Marines on it. The Blades of Korenaga waited for the pirates to board the station before sending their battlebarges out to annhilate the ships they had brought. Tactical and Assault Squads were sent throughout the station to tear apart the pirates who wouldn't surrender. When they left, all that remained of the pirates were bloody messes of gore.
* **First Skimirsh on Korenaga (5??.M35)** - Korenaga was a Maiden World created by the Aeldari some millenia before that had suffered a malfunction in biological processes somewhere along the way and flooded the planet. Regardless, the Aeldari still considered the planet to be theirs and were not happy to find a Space Marine chapter occuping the planet. They would launch many attacks against Korenaga in the following years trying to take it back. This was the first and one of the smaller raids.
* **Skirmish on Kage (approx. 530.M35)** - This was the first battle where the chapter officially fought as the Blades of Korenaga. A cult of Nurgle had planted its roots in the populace of the knight world of Kage. When House Kage found out about this, they seeked out external assistance before engaging in combat with the enemy. Captain Chujiro and his company plus a strike force from the Sisters of Battle arrived to assist. The Kage knights formed a barrier around the area occupied by the Nurglings, while the Sisters of Battle went in with their flame weapons and the Blades of Korenaga took battle with the harder forces of the cult.
* **Battle over Maxis I (approx. 530.M35)** - The 1st and 2nd Companies boarded a Space Hulk that had appeared over the forgeworld Maxis I. On it, they found Orks fighting a group of Space Marines wearing Heresy-era Dark Angels armour. The Blades of Korenaga assisted in the fighting. After the battle was finished, the leader of the Dark Angel group, a hooded man who didn't reveal his name, thanked the Rifisians for assisting and subsquently left the Space Hulk with his marines. Unknown to the Blades of Korenaga, they had just had contact with the mysterious force known as the Fallen.
* **Second Skirmish on Korenaga (583.M35)** - Technically two separate battles, the Second Skirmish was first against a small warband from the Black Legion who had touched down on the planet not expecting the presence of a Space Marine chapter. This induced the Second Fall which once again inflicted much of the 4th Company with the Black Rage. The leader of the four companies on Korenaga, Captain Chujiro, led his Death Company into a charge against the Black Legion, which surprisingly worked although Chujiro himself was injured in the attempt. Once the Black Legion departed, Korenaga was attacked by the Aeldari. Despite his injuries, Chujiro ordered that the bulk of the companies return to the walls of the fortress-monastary while he, his chaplain and company champion, the Death Company marines on his hands and the companies' armed vehicles remained outside to face the ancient race. The Death Company hit the Aeldari's landing zones like a hammer, ripping and tearing across their entire front line while taking injuries from the Aeldari that would have killed a normal Space Marine. Chujiro sought out the leader of the Aeldari attackers, an Autarch. The two battled but the Autarch was much faster than the injured Chujiro and crippled him, all the while killing his company champion and also wounding the chaplain. He may have executed the 4th Company captain then and there if it were not for the intervention of Chapter Master Qualbo and the 5th Company via drop pod who distracted the Autarch long enough for Chujiro to recover and shoot him in the back with a bolter. Eviscerated, the last words from the Autarch were to order his forces to withdraw.
* **Battle of Parrak (585.M35)**
* **Battle on the Victoria (911.M35)**
* **Battle of Victor Numa (639.M41)**
* **First Battle of Korenaga (763.M41)**
* **Second Battle of Korenaga (999.M41)**

### Fallings

Across all Blood Angel successors, there will always be marines who fall to the Black Rage. For the Blades of Korenaga however, these fallings have come in batches that usually claim entire companies. There is often no warning for when they will occur, nor any understood circumstances that causes it for these fallings have happened under many different circumstances. One constant is that these fallings happen the most often (six out of eight times) to the 4th Company, whose nickname as a result is 'The Cursed'. As of 005.M42, there have been eight of these Fallings to date.

* **First Fall (5??.M35):** The First Fall occurred during the Battle of Myrelarky, a six-company assault on a hive world against the Death Guard. The entire 4th Company was taken by the Black Rage. However, many attribute the loyalist victory of this battle to this fall, for the 4th's suicide charge against the Death Guard was enough to break their defensive lines.
* **Second Fall (583.M35):** The Second Fall occurred during the Second Skirmish on Korenaga against the Black Legion and Aeldari and took most of the 4th Company. The notable exception was Captain Chujiro Liima (who would later become chapter master).
* **Third Fall (913.M35):** The Third Fall occurred during the Battle of Yahager against the Orks, and was one of the two instances where the company taken wasn't the 4th, instead claiming the 8th.
* **Fourth Fall (007.M36):** The Fourth Fall occurred during the Battle of Freecesa against a Nurgle chaos cult and claimed the 4th Company.
* **Fifth Fall (???.M37):** It's not exactly clear what happened during the Fifth Fall. The 5th Company and their strike cruiser *Teeth and Claw* jumped through the Warp to return to Korenaga. Sometime in between the jump and the return to Korenaga, the majority of the company bar a couple of squads, an apothecary and a chaplain had turned.
* **Sixth Fall (342.M39):** The Sixth Fall occurred during the Agusta Sector Uprising against a number of renegade Guardsmen regiments and claimed the 4th Company. This event hurt the public relations of the chapter because of the scope of the operation and what the 4th did to the renegades who were close to being talked out of hostility.
* **Seventh Fall (717.M40):** The Seventh Fall occurred during the Battle over Septa Prima against the Tau and again claimed the 4th Company.
* **Eighth Fall (999.M41):** The Eighth Fall occurred during the Second Battle of Korenaga against the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Leviathan. It claimed the 4th Company.

## Chapter Homeworld

The Blades of Korenaga reside on the Ocean World (Maiden World to the Aeldari) of Korenaga, located in the Timmon Sector, under the Segmentum Ultima. Korenaga lies 44 lightyears east-north-east of Baal. 95% of the planet is covered in water. The remaining 5 percent is in the form of islands dotted in a tight grid around the equator of the planet. Each of these islands is occupied by different tribes of the local Korenagaians who are constantly going to war with each other to claim more territory. The Blades of Korenaga have their fortress-monastary on the largest of these islands. As of M42, Korenaga has a human population of 740,000 and an Aeldari population of 4,500.

### Fortress-Monastery: The White Temple

The Blades of Korenaga's Fortress-Monastary, the White Temple, is aptly named for its shining white diorite and plasteel exterior. Located at the centre of the Akisho island, the largest on the planet, this is where day-to-day operations happen for the chapter. It is home to everything a Space Marine chapter could need; armouries, fabrication centres, great halls, accommodation, the whole lot. Curiously, the Blades of Korenaga found massive empty catacombs underneath the area when they were constructing the monastery. It is uncertain who made these for they are not naturally formed, but they were refurbished and are used as combined holding cells and storage facilities.

## Chapter Organisation

### Ranks in the Blades of Korenaga

#### Officer Ranks

* **Chapter Master** - Leader of the chapter. Currently held by *Fuijo Marahaski*.
* **Captain** - Leader of a company of 100 marines.
* **Lieutenant** - Assistant to a captain.

#### Leadership Ranks

* **High Chaplain** - Equivalent to a Master of Sanctity, senior-most chaplain
* **Chief Librarian** - Master of the Librarius, senior-most Librarian.
* **Sanguinary High Priest** - Master of the Apothecarion, senior-most Sanguinary Priest/Apothecary.
* **Master of the Forge** - Master of the Armoury, senior-most Techmarine.
* **Chapter Ancient** - Bearer of the Chapter Standard.
* **Chapter Champion** - Bodyguard of the Chapter Master.

#### Specialist Ranks

* **High Sensei** - Chaplain rank, equivalent to a Death Company chaplain. Leader of the Senseis (Death Company Chaplains).
* **Sensei (Death Company Chaplain)** - Equivalent to a Death Company chaplain, leader of the Death Company formations.
* **Librarian**
* **Chaplain**
* **Sanguinary Priest** - Apothecary equivalent.
* **Techmarine**
* **Company Champion**
* **Company Ancient**

#### Line Ranks

* **Veteran Sergeant**
* **Sergeant**
* **Veteran**
* **Battle-Brother**
* **Scout**
* **Neophyte**
* **Aspirant**

#### Specialist Formations

* **Sanguinary Guard** - Like most Blood Angel successors, the Blades of Korenaga possess an elite formation known as the Sanguinary Guard. The Blades of Korenaga version serve the same purpose as those found in the Blood Angels (bodyguard for high-ranking officers such as the Chapter Master), but their organisation is slightly different; in the Blood Angels the Sanguinary Guard are part of Chapter Command. In the Blades of Korenaga they are part of the 1st Company, but do not contribute to the 1st Company's numbers which would make the 1st Company overstrength.
* **Death Company** - Like *all* Blood Angel successors, the Blades of Korenaga have a Death Company detachment filled with all of the Astartes that have gone insane and fallen to the Black Rage. Bearing specially painted black and silver power armour, the Death Company are led by the few officers, the *Senseis*, that can communicate through their insanity and direct them into battle. There is no hope for these fallen warriors; once one falls to the Black Rage, all that can be done for them is for them to be led into battle for one final glorious fight. That is, if they die; while they lack their sanity and their reasoning, Death Company marines are far stronger and much more resiliant than a normal Space Marine. One is easily capable of punching through ceramite with his bare hands and can take wounds that would kill a normal Space Marine.

### Order of Battle

#### Headquarters

Command Squad
**Sanguinary Priest, Chaplain, Chapter Ancient, Chapter Champion**

**Ukazi Tehran**
***Master of the Forge***
**Techmarines**
**Tech-Servitors**

**Transport voidcraft**
**Shirou Emiya**
***Master of the Librarius***
**Epistolaries**
**Codicers**
**Lexicaniums**
**Aspirants**
**Hirohiro Tohsaka**
***Master of Faith***

**Jotaro Iwao**
***High Sensei of the Blades of Korenaga***

**Chaplains**
**Masuru Mori**
***Sanguinary High Priest***

**Sanguinary Priests**
***Master of the Fleet***

**3 Battlebarges**
**11 Strike Cruisers**
**57 Escorts**

## Combat Doctrine

The Blades of Korenaga inherited their primary method of war from the Blood Angels, namely the preference of shock-and-awe assaults by using sudden and overwhelming force against the enemy. Jumppack-equipped Assault Squads are very common in the chapter, as are Rhinos, Razorbacks, Whirlwinds and other transports and vehicles that can get the Blades of Korenaga as close as possible to the enemy as fast as possible. Once the Blades of Korenaga are in the enemy lines, the results are not too dissimilar to an artillery strike. Armed with chainswords, boltguns and other weapons, each Blade of Korenaga is like a whirlwind of rage bursting with bloodlust (perhaps an effect of the Red Thirst), tearing enemy limb from limb. Emperor forgive anyone who comes into combat against the 1st Company. With most of its members clad in Terminator Armour, armed with a myriad of melee weapons and jump packs, or even worse the golden light of the artificer armour granted to the Sanguinary Guard, the chapter's veterans are a terrifying force that few ever survive.

## Chapter Gene-seed

All successors of the Blood Angels carry with them the twin genetic curses of Sanguinius. Known as the Flaw, these genetic curses (the Red Thirst and the Black Rage respectively) have been attributed to a combination of genetic defects in the Blood Angel Omophagea gene-seed implant, and a psychic disturbance caused by the death of Sanguinius. During the Horus Heresy, the gene-seed imprint for the Blood Angels was lost, forcing the legion and its successors to extract the gene-seed needed for a reconstruction from the body of their fallen Primarch.

### Primarch's Curse: The Twin Flaws

#### The Red Thirst

Deep within the psyche of every Blood Angel is a destructive yearning, a battle fury and blood-hunger that must be held in abeyance in every waking moment. Few Battle-Brothers can hold this Red Thirst in check unceasingly -- it is far from unknown for Blood Angels to temporarily succumb to its lure at the height of battle. The Red Thirst is the Blood Angels' darkest secret and greatest curse, but it is also their greatest salvation, for it brings with it a humility and understanding of their own failings which make them truly the most noble of the Space Marines.

#### The Black Rage

There is no such humility or hope for the Black Rage. Once it onsets, there may be a time where the marine can still think rationally, but it will *always* take effect, give it days, weeks, months or even decades. Those afflicted by the Black Rage go insane during battle and feel the rage that Sanguinius himself felt during the Battle of Terra. Rather than let them face a slow, insane death, the Blades of Korenaga form theirs into the Death Company. These marines wear specially painted black and silver power armour, and are led by the few chapter officers (the Senseis, a formation of chaplains) who can still communicate with the insane troops and who will still obey the authority of the men who represent the authority of the Emperor. The members of the Death Company are sent out to undertake the most dangerous attacks, hoping for one final glorious battle.

## Notable Members

* **Chapter Master Fujio Marahaski:** Fujio Marahaski is the 59th and current Chapter Master of the Blades of Korenaga. The second-youngest to be appointed to the position (just behind Chujiro Liima), Fujio inherited the role in 871.M41 at the age of 72 after previous chapter master Arash was killed. Formerly the captain of the 3rd Company, Fuijo became the chapter's leader at a critical moment where the chapter was both understrength and flooded with Death Company marines because of the Fifth Fall. His first perogative was to launch a recruitment drive to replenish numbers, while at the same time seeking the assistance of the Adeptus Mechanicus to rebuild the chapter fleet. The chapter disappeared from the battlefield for ten Terran years to recuperate, and by the end of this the chapter was stronger than ever with just under a thousand marines and two hundred Death Company. Fuijo then led the chapter into battle against the increasing numbers of Chaos incursions, and countering the Tyranid Hive Fleets. In 943.M41 Fujio first met Aeldari Farseer Kolosh during the 32nd Skirmish on Korenaga, the leader of the Aeldari strike group that would attack Korenaga two more times. The two fought but neither could gain the upper hand on each other. Later on, Fujio was the first to seek out an alliance with Kolosh, even a tempoary one, in the face of the threat of Hive Fleet Leviathan. He explained the situation to her and said that if the two factions didn't band together to defend Korenaga, there wouldn't be a Korenaga left to fight over. Much to his surprise, Kolosh agreed and the two factions banded together for the first time in 7000 years to fight against the Tyranids. Even with the combined forces of the two factions, Korenaga was almost overrun by the Tyranids with many Aeldari warriors and Space Marines losing their lives against the bugs, Fujio himself taking near-fatal injuries. Luckily, the Snow Lions chapter arrived with their hundreds of armoured vehicles to reinforce the Blades of Korenaga. Fujio passed out after the Snow Lions arrived, and when he next awoke he felt revitalised; the Sanguinary Priests had brought him through the Rubricon to turn him into a Primaris Marine, a process that almost killed him. Fujio used a relicblade and a storm bolter as a Firstborn. As a Primaris marine, he uses the same relicblade but he has now added a relic shield and neo-volkite pistol to his armoury.
* **Chapter Master Chujiro Liima:** Chujiro Liima was the 2nd Chapter Master of the Blades of Korenaga, the first native of Korenaga to ascend to the position, the youngest in the history of the chapter to become the Chapter Master and the longest-serving Chapter Master, as well as the longest living member of the chapter overall. Taking the position at 69 after the death of Qualbo, Chujiro had to fill some big shoes to live up to the standards of the Blood Angel founder. Chujiro made a start by leading a strike force through a dangerous-to-navigate stretch of space to destroy the forces of the Chaos Lord that had taken on the Blades of Korenaga. His strike force tore apart the elite but smaller force and in one-on-one combat Chujiro killed the Chaos Lord. One of his most impressive feats came early in Chujiro's career, when he, Sanguninary Guard from the 1st Company and a Death Company attachment chased a renegade Imperial Navy cruiser into a warp anomaly, got stuck for three months and fought their way out right into the middle of a vicious engagement between the Imperial Fists and Iron Warriors. Quickly identifying each side, Chujiro ordered a rush towards the enemy's flanks, appearing from the skies like a flash of gold and cutting a swath right through the Iron Warrior ranks. Chujiro ran up a streak for being a vicious fighter for a while. However, all things come to an end and there was no exception for the Korenagaian. When one of their battlebarges, *Victoria*, was boarded by the Night Lords, Chujiro was ambushed by them without a weapon on-hand. Chujiro managed to kill all of the Night Lords who ambushed him, but he was greviously injured in the fight. When members of his own chapter found him, Chujiro was quickly put in stasis and returned to Korenaga's Apothecarion where he was healed and interred in a dreadnought chassis where he still resides to this day. Chujiro's time as chapter master was over. As a captain, Chujiro wielded a master-crafted boltgun and a power sword. When he became chapter master, he donned a jump pack, a thunder hammer and a storm shield as his primary weapons.
* **Chapter Master Fiske Qualbo:** Fiske Qualbo was the 1st Chapter Master of the Blades of Korenaga. Formerly a chaplain in the Blood Angels, Qualbo was offered the chance to lead his own chapter based on his experience as a leader and took the offer to lead what was originally known as the Darkfangs chapter. He directed his forces into battle for almost all of the chapter's starting history and chanted the litanies that he had learnt as a chaplain to inspire his men to greater deeds. He laid down the foundations for the Death Company after the First Fall, approved the chapter name change to the Blades of Korenaga and trained Chujiro to be a leader, believing (correctly) that he would be the backbone for the chapter's future. Qualbo met his end when he and the accompanying 1st and 4th Companies faced a Word Bearer warband under Chaos Lord Uzuis Pope. Qualbo got separated from his Sanguinary Guard and was goaded into a six-on-one fight against Pope and his bodyguard of Chaos Terminators. Qualbo killed three of the Terminators and came close to killing Pope were it not for the intervention of a group of Warp Talons that finished him off, ending the first chapter of the Blades of Korenaga. Qualbo was armed with his crozius arcanum and an inferno pistol, and also owned a powersword that he used on occasion.
* **Chapter Master Arash Lemnos:** Arash Lemnos was the 58th Chapter Master of the Blades of Korenaga. Formerly the captain of the 10th Company, Arash at the time was by far the most experienced member of the chapter, having been the Master of Recruits for well over 500 years. He was unanimously voted in, on 687.M41. Arash took interest in a list of reports that all pointed out some kind of robotic, undying army appearing from out of nowhere and dispatched chapter forces to these worlds to investigate. As was suspected, these worlds were Tomb Worlds occupied by the Necrons and who didn't take nicely to finding humans on their sacred soil. To counter the Necrons, Arash took a lesson from an ally in the Blood Ravens chapter and planted demolition charges around the entrances to these catacombs and blew them, sealing off the tombs. With the Necron threats dealt with, Arash then looked to the east at the new threat of the Tau Empire. Alongside the Darkfang and Shadows of Cadia Raven Guard successor Chapters, Arash was part of a massive strike force dedicated to pacifying a cluster of worlds in the far reaches of the Segmentum Ultima that the Tau had somehow managed to get to and occupy. Arash and his forces acted as bait for the Tau, reeling them into a city where the Darkfangs and Shadows of Cadia were waiting. Once the trap was sprung, even the technological advancements of the Tau couldn't save them from the claws of the Raven Guard successors. Later on, Arash led the chapter in the defence of their homeworld against a splinter from Hive Fleet Behemoth in 763.M41, losing an arm when he was ambushed by a Lictor but otherwise surviving.
* **High Chaplain Louis Inferro:** Louis Inferro was the 1st High Chaplain of the Blades of Korenaga. Originating from the Flesh Tearers chapter, Inferro brought over the common rage in battle that all Flesh Tearers possessed, which incidentally made him an excellent choice for his position. Inferro followed his chapter master wherever he went, until Qualbo was killed by a Chaos Lord. Inferro perished in the same attack, overwhelmed by Chaos Havoc marines.
* **High Chaplain Hirohiro Tohsaka:** Hirohiro Tohsaka is the 50th and current High Chaplain of the Blades of Korenaga. He was present during the Second Battle of Korenaga and dragged a severely wounded Shirou to safety along with many Aeldari warriors in the battle. The latter earnt the respect of the Aeldari, a rarity.
* **Chief Librarian Shirou Emiya:** Shirou Emiya is the 71st and current Chief Librarian of the Blades of Korenaga. He and Fujio were part of the same class of aspirants although Shirou was quickly discovered to be a latent psyker and was separated into the chapter's Librarius. He became the Chief Librarian after the previous one was killed in battle against Tyranids. Shirou was present as part of the vanguard force during the Second Battle of Korenaga and fought alongside a group of Aeldari Farseers, but the influence of the Tyranids on the warp was a constant burden on Shirou's mind, and eventually this caused enough distraction for the swarms of hormagaunts to down and savage him. Shirou was saved by the intervention of a Death Company squad and High Chaplain Tohsaka. He ultimately survived the battle but was interred to a Furioso-pattern dreadnought. He is as powerful as ever, and will continue to serve for the time being.
* **Chief Librarian Sicario Arton:** Sicario Arton was the 1st Chief Librarian of the Blades of Korenaga. Like Qualbo, Arton was a Blood Angel. He was killed when the escort he was on suffered the loss of its gellar field and every nearby daemonic force flocked to the ship.
* **Captain Daaji Close:** Daaji Close is the current captain of the 2nd Company and the Master of the Fleet.
* **Lieutenant Ken Toshiro:** Ken Toshiro is the leader of the Blades of Korenaga's Sanguinary Guard formation.
* **Librarian Genzo Redler:**

## Chapter Fleet

### Battle Barges

* **Victoria (Astartes-pattern Battle Barge)**
* **Mudrot (Astartes-pattern Battle Barge)**
* **Krieg's Stigma (Astartes-pattern Battle Barge)**

### Strike Cruisers

* **Ruby Splash (Mark I-pattern Strike Cruiser)**
* **Nassir's Rage (Mark I-pattern Strike Cruiser)**
* **Horrors of Baal (Mark II-pattern Strike Cruiser)**
* **1 unnamed (Mark I-pattern strike cruiser**
* **2 unnamed (Mark II-pattern strike cruisers**
* **5 unnamed (Mark III-pattern strike cruisers**

## Chapter Appearance

### Chapter Colours

The Blades of Korenaga utilise gold for their power armour with the Imperial Aquila displayed in black across the marine's plastron (chest guard). The pauldron inset is black while the trim varies on company (list shown below). The chapter badge is displayed on the left pauldron inset while the specialty is displayed on the right pauldron inset. The squad can be determined from a gothic number on the right knee.

### Chapter Markings

* **1st Company** - White
* **2nd Company** - Gold
* **3rd Company** - Silver
* **4th Company** - Green
* **5th Company** - Blue
* **6th Company** - Red
* **7th Company** - Purple
* **8th Company** - Brown
* **9th Company** - Orange
* **10th Company** - Black, not displayed.

The Blades of Korenaga use the *Codex*-standard markings to designate a marine's speciality.

### Chapter Badge

The Blades of Korenaga's chapter badge is a pair of katanas arranged in a cross-like manner.

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