Order of the Bloody Rose - Order History: The Matriarch of the Order of the Bloody Rose is Saint Mina, who was as renowned for her dark, brooding nature as she was for her deadly skill in battle. What few records survived through the Reign of Blood suggest that she served as Alicia Dominica's champion, and that when the reformer Sebastian Thor's armies descended upon Terra she slew some of the mightiest invading warriors in hand-to-hand combat.One account -- albeit riddled with inconsistencies -- suggests that she duelled with the leader of the Custodians who entered the Ecclesiarchal Palace during the siege, and that the two fought to a standstill before words of an alliance were finally spoken.Whether true or not, the sisters of the Bloody Rose revere Mina as the epitome of the martial virtues laid out by the Daughters of the Emperor, and dedicate themselves to emulating her violent prowess.The Order of the Bloody Rose was not formally created until two and a half Terran millennia after the founding of the Adepta Sororitas, and by this time, its patron saint, Mina, was long dead.Mina had been one of the five companions of Alicia Dominica, the founder and patron of the Adepta Sororitas. Mina was known as a dark and brooding sister, quick to anger and deadly in combat.In the late 36th Millennium, Mina was martyred at the hands of a sanguinary Chaos Cult, the agents of which are said to have ambushed her at prayer in a small shrine on Hydraphur.None of her sisters were present, but it is said that when they came upon her body the entire shrine was covered in the blood of her assailants, a score of at least twenty, which lay dead around her own blood-drained form.The Order of the Bloody Rose first existed as a small group of sisters who provided a bodyguard for the Abbess of the Adepta Sororitas, and it was from this group that the new major Order Militant was formed.From their first War of Faith, the sisters of the Bloody Rose made a name for themselves as brutal executioners. They were despatched to the Nephilim Sector to put down the Slaaneshi pain cults that had transformed many Imperial Shrine Worlds into planet-spanning torture chambers.Hospitallers of the Order of Serenity and Dialogi of the Order of the Quill followed in the wake of the Sisters of Battle, where they were to tend to bodies and souls of the faithful after the afflicted worlds had been liberated by the Bloody Rose.But when the non-militant orders arrived in the war zone, they found only death. The Militant Sisters had moved from planet to planet, mercilessly butchering the cultists they encountered without stopping to free the imprisoned. Many Adeptus Ministorum Adepts, as well as several captured sisters of the Bloody Rose, had been left to languish in the cults' hellish dungeons while the order hunted down the Heretics.When the last of the Slaanesh-worshippers had been eradicated, the Canoness Superior of the Bloody Rose -- who upon her death would become canonised as Saint Mari -- penned the Thorn Treatise, using the blood of those sisters who had fallen to record the teachings of this war.In the treatise, Mari outlined that the path of least evil lies always with the swift extirpation of those who oppose the faith, and therefore mercy in any form must come after the meting out of righteous anger.