Gabriel Angelos
Gabriel Angelos is a male video game character who features in Warhammer 40,000.
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Biography
Gabriel Angelos was a male human who was born in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium where he was a citizen of the Imperium of Man with him being born on the planet Cyrene. The planet was a world within the domain of the Blood Ravens Chapter of Space Marines who drew their Neophytes from the world. One of his close friends was Isador Akios when the two were selected to become Space Marines where they trusted one another as Battle-Brothers due to their childhood ties.
Many years later, he and his entire company of Blood Ravens returned to Cyrene in order to preside over the Blood Trials that saw them find new recruits for the Chapter. During this time, he was noted to had found something deeply disturbing about the trials and cut them short. He reported his findings with this bring the attention of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus who brought with them the Imperial Navy that proceeded with an Exterminatus over the course of a entire week. This left nothing of the planet alive with all records of the incident being sealed though Angelos maintained guilt over his actions that brought about the destruction of his homeworld.
Captain Gabriel Angelos, Commander of the Watch and leader of the Blood Ravens' 3rd Company, as well as the Force Commander of a Blood Ravens task force including the battle barge Litany of Fury and the strike cruiser Ravenous Spirit, was one of the most skilled officers within his Chapter. Angelos had uncovered a deep stain of Chaos taint on his homeworld of Cyrene, one of the main recruiting planets for the Chapter. Angelos was forced to call on the aid of the Inquisition to perform a gruesome Exterminatus action on his homeworld before its corruption could spread elsewhere in the Imperium. Shortly after the destruction of Cyrene, his 3rd Company and its task force were sent to the aid of the Imperial forces on the Civilised World of Tartarus, which had been invaded by an Ork WAAAGH!. Over the course of the campaign the Blood Ravens uncovered the planet's dark history, locating numerous sites of Chaos power and relics of the Craftworld Aeldari left behind to aid future generations in continuing to battle the forces of Chaos trapped on the planet. Over the course of the fighting most of the population that was not evacuated either fell to Chaos or was slain by the Orks and very few civilians escaped from Tartarus. In truth, the Ork invasion had been only a diversion. A warband of Chaos Space Marines from the Alpha Legion, led by the Chaos Lord Bale and the Chaos Sorcerer Sindri Myr, had used the cover of the Ork WAAAGH! to make planetfall undetected on the world and begin their own operations in pursuit of an ancient and very powerful Chaos artefact present on the world known as the Maledictum. Gabriel Angelos, whose own intuition indicated that there was more to the situation on Tartarus than met the eye, disregarded the warnings of the Ordo Malleus Inquisitor Mordecai Toth and continued to hunt down the hidden forces on the planet. Finally Gabriel discovered that a force of Asuryani from the Biel-Tan Craftworld had come to reseal a powerful Daemon in the Chaos artefact known as the Maledictum that had been hidden on the planet beneath its capital city. However, the Blood Ravens broke the back of the Asuryani forces, slaying the Avatar of Khaine and killing many of the Aeldari warriors. Despite the xenos' intervention Sindri managed to steal the Maledictum and its key from underneath the noses of the Imperial and Aeldari forces. Perhaps the most regrettable event of the fighting on Tartarus was not the many battle-brothers lost, but the treachery of Librarian Isador Akios, who had been an initiate with Gabriel. He became corrupted by the power of the Maledictum, and it was he who handed it over to Sindri. Despite believing himself to be in control, he had been manipulated by the Chaos Sorcerer from the beginning. Akios' treachery could not be forgiven and the Librarian proved the weaker when he was faced in personal combat by Gabriel Angelos. At the conclusion of the campaign, Gabriel shattered the Maledictum with a Daemonhammer forged from a shard of the Wailing Doom, the blade of the Biel Tan Avatar of Khaine. This only released the Daemon from the artefect, however, due to the sheer amounts of bloodshed on the planet which served as a sacrifice that empowered the Daemon's awakening. When the Daemon was finally free it hinted at a connection between itself and Inquisitor Toth. It would appear that the Inquisitor was not as pure as he seemed to be. However Gabriel was unable to pursue the matter further, having to escape the planet with the wounded and the single recruit taken from the planet, Tempestus Scions Sergeant Ckrius. The young Storm Trooper had been taken under the wing of Terminator Sergeant Tanthius and despite being badly wounded in the fighting was taken aboard the Litany of Fury, where he began the long and painful process of becoming a Space Marine. On Tartarus the Scout Sergeant Corallis suffered grievous injuries at the hands of the Asuryani's Warp Spiders, however he survived and returned to service with the aid of numerous bionic replacements.
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Originally, Gabriel Angelos had been an ordinary human until he was transformed to be a member of the Adeptus Astartes.
He was given a relic Daemonhammer named God-Splitter that was gifted to him by Inquisitor Mordecai Toth during the Tartarus campaign. It was said to contain a recovered piece of the Wailing Doom that was the formidable weapon wielded by the Aeldari Craftworld Biel-Tan's Avatar of Khaine during its own battle against the Maledictum daemon in the 38th Millennium.
Notes
- Gabriel Angelos was created by Relic Entertainment where he featured in the setting of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War universe.
Appearances
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War:
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II:
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III:
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