The Flamebearers (Lunar Redemptuoria)

Named Characters

Epic heros

Chapter master: Sirius Luminare (currently a one of a kind Torchbearer Dreadnought)

Chapter champion: Canis Lyra

Company Captains:

LORE

The Torchbearers a successor chapter of an unknown legion either being a

pseudo 2nd founding chapter or a true ultima founding chapter, but neither can be
confirmed as records have either been lost or destroyed. However two theories have
been crafted. One of heretics and traitors and one that is accepted as truth.

The accepted origin of the Torchbearers is that of tragedy. They are said to
be a company of space marines of unknown origin that escaped the warp after
millennia of survival. They came across N’Kelm of the Salamanders in an engagement
with the Death Guard fighting off Typhus and his warband the Harbingers. Sirius and
his company of warriors, clad in chipped and burned off green armor the spots where
legion/chapter symbols would be positioned scratched clean to gray, jumped into
battle. Flamers and bolt rounds, sword and hammer smashing into the death guard
forces, flanking them. As N’Kelm was engaged in combat with Typhus and being
overpowered. Sirius jumped into the way of the filthy plague encrusted sythe,
becoming mortally wounded in the process. However Sirius landed a crucial blow on
Typhus causing him to stagger back and allow N’kelm to deliver a brutal blow.
Quickly a small squadron of intercessors approached and separated N’Kelm and Sirius
from Typhus and his horde of Poxwalkers. As both parties separated and the combined
loyalist forces started to retreat Sirius started to be overtaken by plague the
torchbearers chapter champion Canis Lyra asked to speak with N’Kelm in private well
Sirius is put into stasis.

During the conversation with Canis N’Kelm thanked him for his master's sacrifice
and asked his name. Canis paused and hesitantly said Sirius Luminare, leader of the
Lunar Redemptuoria and we are what is left after our…many sacrifices. And he is our
greatest one yet. N’Kelm asked why if you are loyal to the imperium why do you hide
in the warp and bleed your numbers to death. I…am not allowed to speak on this
matter as its a painful part of our past. But please, whatever it takes we must
save Sirius, he is what keeps the flame of hope alive in all of us. The hope that
the emperor who wields the sword of gold, who wears the crown of iron, and who
bears the torch of that contains the true flame of hope for humanity will forgive
us. Come Canis, your chapter will be brought in as an official chapter as you have
more than proved yourselves in the eyes of myself. With that the Luna Redemptuoria
were brought in as a true chapter and rebranded as the Flamebearers and Sirius The
Torchbearer of the Flamebearers Chapter, the 8th salamanders chapter. However they
act mostly independent of the salamanders legion.
However where the Flamebearers came from is a heretical mystery, but not to the
original company of Flamebearers. Before Horus plunged a corrupting sword of chaos
through the imperium of man, Sirius was a humble company captain for the Sons of
Horus. However when he caught wind of the plans to purge the loyalist members of
his legion, Sirius collected his most loyal men and stole samples of Horus’s
geneseed and set off into the warp. For millennia they wandered the warp fighting
through chaos demons and coming back into realspace to attack traitors and steal
weapons, ammo, and supplies. Supporting as many loyalist marines as possible before
disappearing back into the warp on their crusade of redemption. Legends of vaguely
green, gray, or white marines appearing to save captains and win fights spread but
they were just legends inquisitors and chapter masters said. Eventually the
previous event occurred and now we arrive at present day

In present day the Flamebearers don black armor with brown trim. The left shoulder
being a torch and iron crown and the right shoulder being a crest and The Aquila.
The trim around the helmets looking like the torch they represent. The helmets
themselves looking like flame. The original Flamebearers hold weapons of variable
color from their time as hit and run scavengers. The newer marines hold standard
colored weapons.

Sirius sits in a custom Leviathan Dreadnought named the Torchbearer. Housing two
heavy flamers, two cyclonic metla lances, and a giant barrel of modified Promethium
that burns nearly permanently as a blazing light on the battlefield

The Flamebearers chapter fortress is called the altar of hope. It is a half church
half armory that is used as a place of worship for the Flamebearers. Upon the walls
the emperor of mankind stands valiantly holding a torch, the flame representing the
hope of humanity, the iron crown he wears representing the stress undertaken by
those that try and save the vulnerable, his sword representing his will, and the
crest and Aquila a marking of the imperium. An altar of flame where many have
sacrificed possessions in a ceremonial practical stands in the center of the
building.

The Flamerbearers chapter is very intune with the humans in the city they inhabit.
Helping wherever they can and are encouraged to help the people of the world and
push themselves on the battlefield to save as many battle brothers and other
chapters brothers as possible. To a fault, as many Flamebears die in the line of
duty or if one’s sacrifice is great enough they become a dreadnought to continue to
fight and save those that need to be saved.