Fallen Angels - History: The dark secret behind the Dark Angels' millennia-old shame is difficult to penetrate. To outsiders, this is an insurmountable quest, for the Dark Angels Chapter hides its secrets well, masking all activities in a shroud of ritual and clandestine operations.Indeed, even amongst their own Chapter, only the Company Masters and most distinguished Veterans -- the self-styled Inner Circle -- are privy to the truth.The origins of the Fallen began in the dying days of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium. Sar Luther was once an acclaimed knight of a monastic brotherhood of techno-medieval knights known simply as The Order, who discovered the young and wild Primarch Lion El'Jonson living in the forests upon the Death World of Caliban.Luther was a remarkable man, perhaps more so even than most people gave him credit for. He possessed phenomenal talent in a number of fields, not least as a leader, a warrior and a huntsman. With the exception of Lion El'Jonson, Luther had completed more quests against the Great Beasts than any other man in Caliban's history.In any other era, Luther would probably have been acclaimed as the greatest hero of his age. He was a tireless champion of the people of Caliban, marked out as much by his inner qualities of humour and cool thoughtfulness in times of crisis as he was by the valour of his deeds. It had been Luther's tragedy to be born in the same era as a man against whom all his endeavours would be judged and forever found wanting in comparison.From the day he had encountered Jonson in the deep forest of his world and decided to bring him to civilisation, Luther had sounded the death-knell of his own legend. From that point on, he had been condemned to live in the Lion’s shadow.To some of his brother knights, this spoke even more highly of Luther that his affection for the Lion seemed genuine and unforced. Many a man in his situation might have been tempted to succumb to jealousy and begun to resent Jonson's achievements. Not Luther, for he was not of that ilk.When Lion El'Jonson rose to become the Grand Master of The Order, he vowed to rid his world of the Great Beasts that roamed his world terrorising the populace. In the tenth and final year of Jonson's genocidal campaign against the Great Beasts, nearly all the beasts had been killed. Only a few stragglers remained in the less hospitable and more thinly populated regions of the planet.As word of The Order's victories spread throughout the planet, their ranks swelled with willing recruits. Soon other knightly orders aligned themselves with The Order, until they had become the single-most powerful monastic order on all of Caliban.There was only one exception -- the order known as the Knights of Lupus. After evidence came to light that the Knights of Lupus had actually been protecting the Great Beasts in their portion of Caliban, The Order had little choice and moved to destroy that wayward order.Luther's achievements during the ensuing battle were overshadowed by the Lion's feat of arms. Amidst the celebrations and honours bestowed, a shadow fell upon the heart of Luther as he watched the Lion revel in the honours heaped upon him for this latest victory.Although Luther did not openly begrudge Jonson these great honours, he still felt a twinge of jealousy. The first crack had appeared in Luther's psyche, a crack that would one day become a great schism that would tear the Dark Angels Legion asunder.