Crimson Fists

Ruins of the Arx Tyrannus — Rynn's World & The Daemonbane Archive

Founded after the Horus Heresy from the younger, more level-headed warriors of the Imperial Fists under Alexis Polux—the hero of the Battle of Phall who formed an unlikely brotherly bond with the Ultramarines Warsmith Barabas Dantioch—the Crimson Fists take their name from the ancient 'Ritual of the Bleeding Fist', in which Rogal Dorn and Polux cut their palms and clasped hands in blood.

For nine thousand years the Chapter served as the Ordo Xenos's premier Ork-hunters across the Loki Sector from their fortress-monastery, the Arx Tyrannus, on the agri-world of Rynn's World—until 989.M41, when an Ork Waaagh! under Warlord Snagrod triggered a catastrophic misfire in the monastery's own surface-to-orbit defence missile. The warhead looped back and detonated inside the Chapter's own subterranean magazine, vaporizing 600 Space Marines, the entire Reclusiam, and ten millennia of relics in a single heartbeat.

Sub-Factions, Secret Orders & Classified Relics

• The Crusade Company (1st Company Veterans) — Where every warrior paints BOTH gauntlets blood-crimson to signify mastery of the Chapter's trials, rebuilt from just sixteen survivors after Rynn's World.
• The Declates Crusade Brotherhood — Veterans who fought alongside the Black Templars against Orks in the Declates System and still wear the Black Templars cross over a crimson fist on their greaves.
• The Barking Toads & Rogue Trader Warrant Allies — Covert human auxiliary networks across New Rynn City who helped Pedro Kantor's survivors wage an eighteen-month guerrilla war behind Ork lines.