Death Company - Notable Death Company Members: Death Company Chaplain Lemartes - Lemartes is a Chaplain and the warden of the Blood Angels' infamous Death Company. Under his guidance, the Death Company has reached a new level of potency and lethality. Though Lemartes himself is afflicted by the curse of the Black Rage, his formidable willpower has allowed him to remain in control of his actions, leaving him free to lead the Death Company in glorious charges that eclipse all the deeds of legend. Lemartes is also known as the "Guardian of the Lost." His stern voice can cut through even the battle frenzy induced by the Black Rage.Death Company Chaplain Arophan - Among a company of madmen, the Chaplain Arophan was a beacon of sanity. It fell to Arophan to guide the Death Company of Strike Force Mortalis during the Cryptus Campaign, his litanies and prayers the thin thread that would direct the doomed warriors toward their foes. As befits his rank, Arophan carries the Crozius Arcanum and wears the skull mask common to the Chaplains of the Adeptus Astartes. The only aspect of Arophan's armour that shows his allegiance to his Chapter is his shoulder plate, his sombre black armour fitting for his role as the final guide for his lost brothers. Equipped with a Jump Pack, Arophan keeps pace with his Battle-Brothers, his crozius held high above his head. Everything about Arophan speaks of his duty to his Chapter, and even though his brothers are doomed to die, it falls to Arophan to help them find absolution and an end in the carnage of battle.Death Company Chaplain Daenor - Chaplain Daenor has battled his way through some of the most horrific battles in the Blood Angels' history. Never once has his composure failed him. Never once has he succumbed to the Flaw, and this alone is enough to have seen him elevated to the rank of Death Company Chaplain. No matter how dire the circumstances or dread the foe, Daenor's icy composure never cracks. Moreover, his deep spirituality and natural leadership qualities do much to steady the warriors around him. He is a light in the darkness, a beacon of hope and fortitude amongst the smoke-wreathed hell of the battlefield, and even the most lost of his brothers follow his lead without question.High Chaplain Carnarvon - Carnarvon was the High Chaplain (Master of Sanctity) of the Flesh Tearers Chapter of Space Marines. He served as the warden of that Chapter's infamous Death Company. He was called the "Watcher of the Lost," for he was the lone Flesh Tearer entrusted with the sacred duty of commemorating every member of the Chapter who died in combat or ultimately succumbed to the debilitating psychosis known as the Black Rage. He alone bore the terrible responsibility to watch over the remaining 400 Battle-Brothers of the Flesh Tearers Chapter for the onset of the Black Rage. He had occupied the position for nearly 250 standard years and it was whispered by many that the strain of watching so many of his friends and comrades descend into this dreaded affliction had started to take its toll on his sanity. Carnarvon had the final word as to who was to be inducted into the Flesh Tearers' Death Company and who amongst these afflicted brethren must be permanently incarcerated in the Tower of the Lost because they had fallen so far into madness that even he could no longer control them. During the Devastation of Baal, Carnarvon ultimately succumbed to the Red Thirst and was inducted into the Death Company where he perished in battle with the forces of Hive Fleet Leviathan.Captain Erasmus Tycho - Erasmus Tycho was the legendary Captain of the Blood Angels' 3rd Company, and was once Lord Commander Dante's chosen successor to become the next Chapter Master of the Blood Angels. Half his face was destroyed by an Ork Weirdboy during the Second War for Armageddon. This mutilation affected his psyche, and made him wear a mask over the injury. He constantly thirsted for revenge against the Orks who wounded him. His ire was such that he was almost uncontrollable away from the battlefield. Unfortunately, he eventually succumbed to the Black Rage and was inducted into the Death Company. He finally attained the Emperor's Peace when he died seeing action during the Third War for Armageddon.Sanguinary Priest Aerati Lamentarios - A sacred guardian of the Chapter's gene-seed, like Arophan, he has a part to play in the redemption of the Death Company, and when they fall -- for fall they must -- he will be on hand to recover the gene-seed using his Narthecium, allowing the Chapter to recoup a measure of its strength from those taken by the Black Rage. Brother Lamentarios was sent by Dante to support Arophan as a part of Strike Force Mortalis during the Cryptus Campaign. A formidable warrior in his own right, Lamentarios would follow the Death Company into the slavering maw of the xenos swarm, his white armour a beacon of light among the sea of black ceramite. And when his brothers finally fell atop the bodies of their foes -- as surely they would -- Lamentarios would be there to make sure their essence was not lost.Brother Ephalos - Ephalos had struggled for many solar decades with the Black Rage, feeling a piece of his soul being flayed away in every battle by the mayhem of war. When he lost his left eye to the Ork Warboss Ripgutz, slaying the beast even as it clawed at his face, the shadows over his mind began to darken. By the time Ephalos was called upon to defend the Cryptus System the Black Rage had taken hold of him. He now fought a different foe, born in the recesses of his mind. When Ephalos landed on Tartoros it was not the spawn of the Hive Mind he saw, but instead Traitor war engines of old.Brother Helorius - The Flesh Tearers' genetic flaw leads to a high proportion of their Battle-Brothers falling to the spiritual sickness of the Black Rage. On Lysios, during the Cryptus Campaign, dozens of brothers like Helorius would succumb when the madness of battle finally unhinged them, robbing them of their reason. When Helorius was taken by the Black Rage his armour was painted black and symbols were daubed upon his shoulder plates and weapons in an ancient and sacred ritual. This was to show Helorius' new status as one of the damned, so that others might bear witness to his sacrifice.Brother Rafarri - Brother Rafarri was a Tactical Marine of the Blood Angels 2nd Company, and though he has blackened his armour he retains the weapons and wargear of his previous life. However, dozens of details signify the hold the Black Rage has upon his mind; blood drops and crimson saltires cover his armour, while even his Bolter bears the iconography of the Death Company. Purity seals are commonly seen on Battle-Brothers fallen to the Black Rage -- even more so than on normal Space Marines -- and Brother Rafarri adorned his armour with many of these sacred honours.Helstern, Brother of Blood - A Death Company Dreadnought who fought in Strike Force Mortalis during the Cryptus Campaign against Hive Fleet Leviathan. Like his fellow Dreadnoughts, Helstern was born of a tale of madness and earth, falling in battle and preserved in adamantium, and even then fighting on through countless battles to the honour of the Chapter, only to succumb to the Black Rage. Trapped within his sacred armoured tomb, there is no peace for this warrior, only an unending and unrelenting eternity of war.Metaphaes, the Fury of Ages - A Death Company Dreadnought who fought in Strike Force Mortalis during the Cryptus Campaign against Hive Fleet Leviathan. Meaphaes fought alongside Helstern and Purgerius, turning the tide of battle on the scorched plains of Tartoros, their rage driving their massive claws and heavily armoured forms against the living war engines of Hive Fleet Leviathan in the battle for the Cryptus System.Moriar the Chosen - Moriar the Chosen is a Death Company Dreadnought of the Blood Angels Chapter. Once known as Morleo Moriar, a Blood Angels Company Captain, he fell in battle on the planet of Clamorga, yet so great were Morleo's deeds that he was stabilised by the Blood Angels' Sanguinary Priests and placed within the shell of a Furioso Dreadnought. Unfortunately, almost immediately after being awakened, he began to experience the visions of Sanguinius during the Horus Heresy and succumbed to the Black Rage. However, Moriar survived the mental brutality of the curse and now fights alongside the Blood Angels as a Death Company Dreadnought known as Moriar the Chosen. It is rumoured that in his new form, Moriar has been claimed by the Red Thirst and that the Blood Angel armourers have modified his Dreadnought chassis so that he can quench his thirst for blood. Thus, he became the Death Company's only Dreadnought -- an almost unstoppable force in battle.Purgerius the Forgotten - A Death Company Dreadnought that fought in Strike Force Mortalis during the Cryptus Campaign against Hive Fleet Leviathan. Purgerius fought alongside Helstern and Metaphaes on the scorched plains of Tartaros, helping to turn the tide of battle. It is both a terrible and glorious thing to be a Death Company Dreadnought -- always striving for a worthy death in battle, but instead only finding more battle and carnage upon a field already littered with the dead of centuries.