Chaplain - Chapter Chaplain Variants: Legion or ChapterLoyaltyHonourific or TitleSummaryImageDark AngelsLoyalistInterrogator-ChaplainThe Dark Angels Chapter and their Unforgiven Successor Chapters maintain "normal," Codex Astartes-compliant Chaplains for every company, but also created non-standard Chaplains known as Interrogator-Chaplains who possess a rank that stands above the company-level of organisation and who serve as members of the secretive Inner Circle of the Chapter. Interrogator-Chaplains are all entrusted with the secret of the Fallen Angels' existence and are tasked with tracking down each of these ancient Traitor Marines and compelling them to repent their sins against the Emperor. This is a process that usually involves the use of torture and physical coercion so Interrogator-Chaplains are often hard men with the vaguely sinister mien held by their counterparts amongst the Inquisition's Ordo Hereticus. Those Fallen Angels who confess their crime and repent are given swift, painless deaths as a mercy; those who refuse are forced to undergo a horrific penance of pain leading to their execution at the hands of the Interrogator-Chaplains. 	 	<a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/2/2f/Dark_Angel_by_andreauderzo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111010232330" class="image"><img alt="Dark Angel by andreauderzo" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/2/2f/Dark_Angel_by_andreauderzo.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20111010232330" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="100" height="197" class="thumbimage" data-image-name="Dark Angel by andreauderzo.jpg" data-image-key="Dark_Angel_by_andreauderzo.jpg" data-relevant="1" data-src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/2/2f/Dark_Angel_by_andreauderzo.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20111010232330" /></a> 	 		 			 		 		 		 			Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain 		 	 ExecutionersLoyalistDeath-SpeakerA Death-Speaker is a specialist officer unique to the Executioners Chapter. They serve in a spiritual role similar to that of the Space Marine Chaplain commonly found in Codex Astartes-compliant Chapters. It is the Death-Speakers' task to recount the slaughter-tallies of the Chapter's honoured dead during holy feasts and memorial ceremonies held deep within the catacombs of their fortress-monastery, the Darkenvault. Their second but equally important task is to keep order within the ranks of this often fractious Chapter. Consequently, the Executioners maintain an unusually high number of Chaplains, with three Death-Speakers assigned to each company by tradition. They report to the overall Reclusiarch, known within the Chapter as the Lord Speaker of the Dead. As part of their duties, the Death-Speakers are responsible for maintaining precise records of the Chapter's battles, so that lessons of both victories and defeats are never lost for future warriors of the Chapter. 	 	<a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/2/23/Death_Speaker.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180223193611" class="image"><img alt="Death Speaker" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/2/23/Death_Speaker.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20180223193611" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="100" height="146" class="thumbimage" data-image-name="Death Speaker.jpg" data-image-key="Death_Speaker.jpg" data-relevant="1" data-src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/2/23/Death_Speaker.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20180223193611" /></a> 	 		 			 		 		 		 			A Death-Speaker of the Executioners Chapter 		 	 Iron HandsLoyalistIron FatherThe Iron Hands Chapter does not have Chaplains but instead a rank of specialist officers known as Iron Fathers who combine the roles of the Chaplain, Techmarine and Apothecary in Codex Astartes-compliant Chapters into one. They are trained on Mars by the Adeptus Mechanicus and believe deeply in the doctrines of the Cult of the Machine rather than the Imperial Cult. As a result of this belief that the Emperor is actually just one aspect of the Mechanicum's Omnissiah, the Ecclesiarchy refuses to provide the Iron Fathers with Rosarii, as these holy symbols are intended to be a sign of a common faith in the God-Emperor of Mankind, a faith that the Iron Fathers do not truly share in the Ecclesiarchy's view, who see these Astartes as heretical much like their allies in the Mechanicum. 	 	<a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/c/c5/Iron_Hands_Iron_Father.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120505011752" class="image"><img alt="Iron Hands Iron Father" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/c/c5/Iron_Hands_Iron_Father.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/150?cb=20120505011752" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="150" height="188" class="thumbimage" data-image-name="Iron Hands Iron Father.jpg" data-image-key="Iron_Hands_Iron_Father.jpg" data-relevant="1" data-src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/c/c5/Iron_Hands_Iron_Father.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/150?cb=20120505011752" /></a> 	 		 			 		 		 		 			Iron Hands Iron Father 		 	 Blood AngelsLoyalistChaplainThe Chaplains of the Blood Angels Chapter and their Successor Chapters have a special duty: to care for those members of the Chapter who succumbed to the Flaws of Sanguinius, including the Black Rage and the Red Thirst. Only Blood Angel Chaplains are still able to communicate with those battle-brothers who are lost to the Black Rage and so they lead these unfortunates in the Blood Angels' and their Successor Chapters' feared Death Companies. They are also believed to care for those members of the Chapter who must be locked away for their own and others' safety on the Blood Angels' homeworld of Baal. 	 	<a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/1/10/Chaplain_Lemartes.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110726012924" class="image"><img alt="Chaplain Lemartes" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/1/10/Chaplain_Lemartes.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20110726012924" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="100" height="183" class="thumbimage" data-image-name="Chaplain Lemartes.jpg" data-image-key="Chaplain_Lemartes.jpg" data-relevant="1" data-src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/1/10/Chaplain_Lemartes.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20110726012924" /></a> 	 		 			 		 		 		 			Blood Angels Chaplain 		 	 Space WolvesLoyalistWolf PriestWithin the non-standard Space Wolves Chapter, the Wolf Priests take on the roles of both the Chaplains and Apothecaries found in other Chapters. Wolf Priests are intended to care for the spiritual and physical needs of their battle-brothers, but their most important duties are to oversee the recruitment, indoctrination and implantation of new Space Wolves Neophytes so that the Chapter's Great Companies can continue to flourish. As a result of these duties, several Wolf Priests can always be found traveling across the Death World of Fenris where the Chapter makes its home, going from village to village to observe the native Fenrisians and determine which of their warriors has the strength, courage and spirit required to become a new Space Wolf. 	 	<a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/e/e3/Ulrik_The_Slayer.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110306233840" class="image"><img alt="Ulrik The Slayer" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/e/e3/Ulrik_The_Slayer.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20110306233840" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="100" height="217" class="thumbimage" data-image-name="Ulrik The Slayer.jpg" data-image-key="Ulrik_The_Slayer.jpg" data-relevant="1" data-src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/e/e3/Ulrik_The_Slayer.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20110306233840" /></a> 	 		 			 		 		 		 			Space Wolves Wolf Priest Ulrik the Slayer 		 	 Word BearersTraitorDark ApostleThe Astartes of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion are the only remaining Chaos Space Marines to still make use of Chaplains as spiritual leaders, albeit in this case, priests who serve Chaos Undivided. These Chaplains, called Dark Apostles, are skilled orators and propagandists for the Forces of Chaos and also the ultimate leaders of the Word Bearers as part of that Legion's ruling Dark Council since their Daemon Primarch Lorgar has remained in seclusion from the rest of the Legion since the end of the Horus Heresy and the Word Bearers' retreat into the Eye of Terror. Dark Apostles are powerful servants of Chaos who constantly scheme and plot to unleash the Forces of Chaos upon the Imperium and possess the ability to summon legions of daemons from the Immaterium to supplement their mortal troops. A Dark Apostle always wields his Chaos-corrupted Crozius Arcanum, now called an Accursed Crozius, which serves as a weapon, a symbol of his office and an implement for calling forth the powers and entities of the Warp. 	 	<a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/6/6b/Erebus_Unit_by_andreauderzo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110321080957" class="image"><img alt="Erebus Unit by andreauderzo" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/6/6b/Erebus_Unit_by_andreauderzo.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20110321080957" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="100" height="95" class="thumbimage" data-image-name="Erebus Unit by andreauderzo.jpg" data-image-key="Erebus_Unit_by_andreauderzo.jpg" data-relevant="1" data-src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/6/6b/Erebus_Unit_by_andreauderzo.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/100?cb=20110321080957" /></a> 	 		 			 		 		 		 			Word Bearers Dark Apostle