Now if some of you do some searching you will discover that the Sable Swords are an official chapter mentioned in the rulebooks, but there is practically nothing about them. Only a few battles here and there, the only major event being the Zeist Campaign against the Tau (blueberries...). Ardionis and I wanted to create our own chapter of marines for a pretty good while now, but we didn't want to just make up a new chapter. We wanted to take a chapter with little or no info on and make them into something. The Sable Swords was the result of that.
There has been some changes from the original history mentioned of the chapter, so most information you'll hear will be fan fiction of our creation. One nagging problem was their very young founding which we didn't like. We changed them to an ancient chapter that dates to the second founding just after Horus decided to mix things up a little with a civil war (heh, well not so little).
The Sable Swords is a chapter that mysteriously lost all history of their founding and all involved in it, even the first chapter master is completely unknown! What is known to them is their most revered relics, a collection of powerful artifacts, were lost and are only known clues to the chapter's origin and what had happened. As a result, Sable Sword marines are relentless when the possibility of such relics can be found and honor to battle-brothers is above all else besides the Emperor. Even during battle it is known that when one of their brothers have fallen, his comrades will wade through any challenge to recover their corpse and insure they are given a proper passing and never forgotten like their ancient founders have suffered.
I hope that sparked some interest in you readers and I hope you'll stay along as the tales of the Sable Swords comes into being.
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