Absolvers - Chapter Recruitment: Since they first swore oaths in its defence, much of the Absolvers' recruitment has taken place within the Gilead System, though aspirants from further afield are gathered frequently. From the scions of high-born noble houses, to the most brutal underhive gangers, to the most reclusive of Nethreus' nomads, all have offered up their offspring to Gilead's mightiest defenders. The Absolvers have ever drawn aspirants from unusual backgrounds, and with the coming of the Great Rift and the desperate need for new Space Marines to replace those lost in battle, this practice has continued to serve them well.All new recruits undergo the gruelling regimen of surgical and genetic alterations required to elevate a mere mortal into a transhuman Astartes warrior. Unique to the Absolvers, their training includes each prospective warrior swearing a personal vow that must be dutifully upheld until they become a full-fledged battle-brother. Set by the brothers who train them, these vows range from simple tasks, such as only wielding a weapon in their left hand, to more complex challenges or dedications. Despite being sworn by uninitiated novices, these vows are treated as a solemn oath by the Chapter's instructors. Each vow is designed to help strengthen the aspirants' skills where they are lacking. The practice serves to establish the importance of upholding one's vows, and any who break such an oath rarely survive their already harrowing induction.As the aspirants join the Scout Company, each one must serve a period leading a strike team composed of mortal Humans, a rite known as the Dux Mortalium. This tradition, initiated millennia ago by Chapter Master Anthon Emascus, helps to make the Absolvers aware of their solemn duty to the mortals of Gilead and to solidify the first vow of the first Chapter Master Tygranas Dalir to protect the people of the system further. An aspirant can only be fully inducted into the ranks of the Absolvers once this task is completed, so they approach this duty with reverence.The final act of each neophyte's biological transformation is the implantation of the Black Carapace, the bio-augmetic subdermal implant that allows a Space Marine to neurologically interface with their power armour as if it were a second skin. This process is a uniquely excruciating experience, yet for the aspirants of the Absolvers, who have sworn solemn vows, trained relentlessly, and mentally steeled themselves in preparation for this moment of ascension, it carries even greater risk -- the potential to trigger their genetic flaw.The invasive and agonising surgeries employed in the implantation triggers horrific prophetic visions in some individuals, suffering a series of vivid images of what may come to pass, usually blood-soaked and tainted by death. For those who foresee an honourable end, this moment is often a comfort, the reassuring knowledge that their death shall not find them wanting for courage or meaning. For others, it is maddening, as visions of a shameful fate is burned into their souls.Some claim these visions are the result of the aspirant inheriting some sliver of their progenitor Sanguinius' well-documented prescient powers, while others suggest the visions are the result of the incredible pain and metabolic stress created by the augmentation process, and any apparent truth to be found in them is little more than a self-fulfilling prophecy.Occasionally an aspirant may be afflicted by a particularly haunting prophecy, a terrible fate that pertains to the Chapter's future and the role that they may play in it. This vision might foretell of a great shame they may bring upon the Absolvers, vows they may come to break, or battle-brothers they may fail. It remains the solemn duty of each serving Chaplain of the Absolvers to judge whether such events may be allowed to come to pass. If not, it falls to them to sever that thread of fate in that moment. Why this same mercy is not extended to those who later fall to the Black Rage is known only to the Chaplains of the Absolvers, and is never discussed.