Corbulo

Corbulo is mightiest amongst the Sanguinary Priests of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter and serves as the Bearer of the Red Grail, the holy cup which was used to preserve the blood of their Primarch Sanguinius after he was slain by Warmaster Horus aboard his battle barge Vengeful Spirit during the closing days of the Horus Heresy. The sacred chalice is used by the Sanguinary Priests to drink the sacred blood of their Primarch as part of the Ritual of Creation for all Blood Angels. As sometimes happens with Blood Angels Battle-Brothers, Corbulo bears a a striking physical resemblance to the Chapter's lost Primarch. Brother Corbulo shares the Great Primarch's far-seeing eye and deep wisdom and leads his brethren in the ancient quest to halt the Flaw that afflicts their Chapter.

History
Brother Corbulo is the Sanguinary High Priest of the Blood Angels and the keeper of the initiation mysteries and charged with the wardenship of the Red Grail, the very chalice in which the blood of Sanguinius was preserved after the Primarch's death. This vessel is a key part of the induction mysteries of the Sanguinary Priests, but it is also a potent relic upon the field of battle, exhorting the Scions of Sanguinius to greater deeds. The physical resemblance borne by Corbulo to their lost Primarch is uncanny, whose piercing eyes and noble aspect reflect the nature of the Blood Angels at its most pure. In the centuries since his investiture, it is perhaps this perfection that his driven the Sanguinary High Priest to work ceaselessly to isolate and neutralise the Flaw in his Chapter's gene-seed. This sacred quest has taken Corbulo to the width and breadth of the galaxy, traveling to numerous Apothecarions from other Space Marine Chapters, to forgotten backwater worlds in search of forbidden archeotech from the Dark Age of Technology.

Corbulo's resemblance to the fallen Primarch is not merely physical. His deep wisdom and canny insights are legendary, and his counsel has proven invaluable time and again. More tellingly, Corbulo shares Sanguinius' gift of the far-seeing eye, and can discern the patterns and shapes of a future yet to come - a gift that has manifested only sparingly through the many generations of Blood Angels. Those scant hours not claimed by duty or in search of the Red Thirst's cure, Corbulo spends poring over the Scrolls of Sanguinius, seeking to combine knowledge from the Primarch's visions with the fleeting insights distilled from his own. Corbulo's travails in this regard have borne fruit many times. That the Blood Angels arrived so swiftly on Armageddon following Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka's initial invasion - and at Chapter strength - was due in part to Corbulo's divinations. Similarly, without Corbulo's guidance, the Blood Angel's Chapter Fleet would never have known the hour and location at which M'kar the Reborn's world-breaking Daemon-cruiser would enter the Baal System, and could thus never have ambushed and obliterated the vessel before Baal itself was laid waste. Yet these successful predictions have not been without cost. In recent years, Corbulo has grown ever more withdrawn and taciturn, and his eyes have taken on a haunted look that he cannot easily conceal. Though the exact detail of what Corbulo has learnt remains a closely-guarded secret, it cannot be doubted that the very blackest of times lie ahead for the Blood Angels - events so dire that even foreknowledge is of no protection.

Wargear & Equipment

 * Artificer Power Armour
 * Bolt Pistol
 * Frag & Krak Grenades
 * The Red Grail - This ancient and highly revered artefact is the most sacred of the Blood Angels' holy relics, said to contain the blood of their slain Primarch and used in the Ritual of Creation of all Blood Angels by the Chapter's Sanguinary Priests. On the field of battle the presence of the Red Grail is said to reinvigorate any Blood Angels within its presence, somehow enhancing the physical and psychological aspects inherited from their Primarch in some unknowable way.
 * Heaven's Teeth - This Chainsword is a treasured and irreplaceable relic from the time of Sanguinius.