Children of the Grail

The Children of the Grail are a second founding chapter descended from The Saints. They were the first chapter split from the original and were tasked with guarding Campos de Oro while the marines of the original chapter traveled back to Imperial space with their primarch. The Children of the Grail, originally called “The Homeguard”, continued the Xenos Crusades while their kin were away. During these crusades they discovered a number of powerful artifacts and eventually became specialized in the recovery, study, and deployment of xenos artifacts.

Gene Seed
The Children of the Grail have the gene seed from the 11th Primarch Frida Evangelina. Like other members of The Sanctified the chapter has rather stable and pure genetics but they retain their primarch’s ability to produce both male and female marines.

Chapter Beliefs & Disposition
Members of the chapter are quite talented researchers and scientists. They inherited their primarch’s scientific nature and academic disposition. Unfortunately they also inherited her obsessive nature and marines have been lost in the pursuit of knowledge or fallen to heresy when investigating xenos technology. The Ordo Xenos are just shy of excommunicating the chapter and declaring them heretics but the chapter frequently sends their discoveries and research to the Ordo to satiate them. The Ordo suspects the Children of the Grail are not sending them ALL of their discoveries (and they are probably correct).

Chapter Organization
Initially the Children of the Grail were entirely stationed in the far away Campos de Oro system, providing troops to defend the system and execute the Xeno Crusades. They dedicate 2 companies to the Evangelian Crusades (the 2nd and 3rd) in Imperial space and the remaining 8 (including their scout company) are stationed in Campos de Oro. Like the Saints their crusading companies stationed in Imperial space are called Cruzados Companies though they have no special name for the remainder of their companies.

The Grailwind
The greatest xenos artifact ever recovered by the chapter was the “Grailwind”. It is, essentially, a stable warp gate floating in space. It was recovered by the chapter during the war against the Vizacov, an ancient and powerful species of technologically advanced arachnid-looking xenos. After a century of study and research the Grailwind was activated to allow ships from the Campos de Oro system to jump to the edge of Imperial space.

Activating the Grailwind is a mysterious and arcane science that is more akin to astrology than navigation. Activating it requires the sacrifice of many psykers, though a powerful psyker can direct it themselves. Because of how infrequently the Grailwind is active, transportation between systems is a hectic time. The chapter’s 7th company, the Guardians of the Grail, is responsible for the safety and security of the Grailwind. They are stationed on the moon that the portal orbits. The Grailwind occasionally spits out enemies, particularly dark eldar raiders, that attempt to raid local areas.