Order of the Valorous Heart - Notable Sisters of the Valorous Heart: Saint Lucia - Lucia was the youngest of the five sisters of Alicia Dominica, the founder and patron of the Adepta Sororitas. Lucia went on to become the founder of the Order of the Valorous Heart. In the mid to late 36th Millennium, Lucia was captured by Imperial recidivists, who gouged out her eyes and forced her to endure the death screams of a thousand innocents and the murder of a number of her own sisters, who remained resolutely silent, before she met her own martyrdom. Mere days after word of her death reached the Holy Synod, Lucia was canonised as a Saint by the Ecclesiarchy.Canoness Aurea - Aurea is a canoness of the Order of the Valorous Heart, whose forces were stationed within a cathedral-fortress on Daronch. Sometime after the Great Rift's creation, however, the world was invaded by the Ork horde of Warboss Grashbakh. Though the sisters were charged with defending Daronch, they were overwhelmed when the Warboss crashed his scrap-ship into their fortress. The canoness and surviving sisters were then forced to retreat, while Grashbakh's Orks emerged to attack Daronch. The later arrival of the Black Templars' Edioch Crusade, however, gave the world's population a chance at survival. The Black Templars, led by Marshal Adelbert and the surviving sisters of the Valorous Heart led by Aurea, were then able to fight their way to the fortress, which the Warboss now ruled. While the ensuing battle cost the Imperial forces dearly, they were able to kill Grashbakh and destroy his horde's forces within the fortress. This broke the Orks' hold on Daronch. The Emperor's Champion Cenric, who had taken command of the crusade after Adelbert's death in the battle, vowed to Aurea that they would work together to fortify the world from any further attacks.Canoness Jocindyr - Jocindyr is the canoness of the Valorous Heart who aided the defence of the Vesmir System from both Heretic Astartes and awakening Necron forces.Sister Repentia Osyth (Penance) (KIA) - Osyth was a Sister Repentia of the Order of the Valorous Heart, who was among its forces stationed within a cathedral-fortress on the world of Daronch, under the command of Canoness Aurea. Before she took the Oath of Repentia, however, Osyth was a Sister Superior charged with defending Daronch's outer shrineholds, when the Ork Warboss Grashbakh invaded the world. The Orks' sheer numbers, though, led them to overwhelm the sisters under Osyth's command and they died while she survived. The xenos also desecrated the shrines and destroyed relics and thousands of years of Imperial religious history. This led Osyth to become a Sister Repentia, and claim the name Penance, as she was no longer worthy of bearing her original name. Osyth was among the sisters that survived the loss of the order's fortress when it was captured by Grashbakh, but the later arrival of the Black Templars' Edioch Crusade gave the world's population a chance at survival. The Black Templars, led by Marshal Adelbert and the surviving sisters of the Valorous Heart led by Aurea, were then able to fight their way to the fortress, which the Warboss now ruled. As they advanced into the fortress the Orks deployed an explosive attack on Osyth's position, which caused the ground to collapse. While she emerged unscathed, Osyth found herself alone within the tunnels that lay beneath the battlefield and led into the fortress itself. She soon found the crusade's Emperor's Champion Cenric who had also survived the ground's collapse. Together they fought their way to Warboss Grashbakh's sanctum within the fortress, which proved undefended. While he was outnumbered, Grashbakh still proved to be more than a match for the two warriors until Osyth rushed at the Warboss with a Krak Grenade. Though the Warboss was able to grab hold of the Sister Repentia, Osyth sacrificed herself by activating the grenade. With that act she gained the redemption she had sought and earned back her name, even as the resulting explosion killed her and heavily wounded Grashbakh. This allowed Cenric to kill the Warboss and Grashbakh's horde within the fortress was destroyed by the crusade and Osyth's remaining sisters.