The influence of the Order also gave them a more knightly culture where Lion conversed with ordinary Astartes as 'little brothers' instead of sons. Moreover, they were also given a much more important arsenal of archaeotech weaponry. These allowed the Dark Angels to become Jack-of-All-Trades who can wage many different kinds of war at an excellent level. They eventually developed six hosts (or 'wings') known as the Hexagrammaton, each specialized in one style of warfare. Lion El'Jonson is currently setting course for Terra.Īs the first force of Astartes, the Dark Angels had to develop the basics of waging war as a Legion. Meanwhile, the Horus Heresy was raging in the galaxy, tying up Lion El'Jonson's forces into battles against the Night Lords with his Dark Angels being trapped in Guilliman's Imperium Secundus for a time. More, Luther and his Space Marines eventually turned to Chaos. On Caliban, Luther turned his recruits into secessionists who were loyal only to Caliban.

However, when El'Jonson sent his second-in-command Luther back to Caliban to build up more strength yet never came back, a schism occured. In Lion El'Jonson the Dark Angels found a great military commander who would lead them to even more glorious victories. There they found their Primarch Lion El'Jonson and an Arthurian knight culture which they were quick to adopted. For this reason, they struggled for a while to figure out their identity until the Emperor sent them to the far-flung world of Caliban. Present since the earliest days of the Great Crusade, the Dark Angels had to build all the battle doctrines of the Space Marines from scratch, growing to be excellent in all aspects of warfare because of their 'wings', each specialized in one style of warfare. At that time, they were known as the Emperor's 'Angels of Death'. The Dark Angel were the first of the Space Marines to be created and deployed, before the idea of Legion was even relevant.

The very first Legion, the Dark Angels are the most ancient and one of the most revered of Space Marine Legions although they also are one of the most aloof.

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