The Cowled Wardens are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and a genetic successor of the Dark Angels, created during an unknown Founding.
Chapter History[]
Cowled Wardens Chapter colour scheme and Chapter badge as displayed by a Primaris Space Marine.
The Cowled Wardens' base of operations lies within the Sirikoid Belt, a part of the region known as the Tears of Piruz. Rather than a single fortress-monastery, the Chapter operates out of several hollowed-out asteroids.
Nominally tasked with the purging of the savage Jehangir xenos that terrorise the region, the Chapter's secret purpose is the investigation of what the Unforgiven believe to be a large network of the Fallen in the area.
Those Fallen Angels that are captured by the Cowled Wardens are consigned as prisoners to icy catacombs they have carved within a nameless asteroid of the Sirikoid Belt.
Not long after his awakening from his ten-millennia-long sleep beneath The Rock, Primarch Lion El'Jonson is known to have visited this Chapter. The nature and purpose of this meeting is unknown, but at its end the Lion led the Cowled Wardens to a final victory over the Jehangir species.
Notable Campaigns[]
- Arks of Omen Campaign, Battle of Idolatros (Unknown Date.M42) - During the Arks of Omen Campaign, the Cowled Wardens joined with three-quarters of the known Chapters of the Unforgiven to hunt down the Greater Daemon Vashtorr during the Battle of Idolatros in the Idolatros System of the Somnium Stars.
Chapter Appearance[]
Chapter Colours[]
The Cowled Wardens primarily wear black power armour with gold as a secondary colour, whilst purple adorns their helms and the insets of their shoulder pauldrons. Their armourial trim is gold. The Aquila or Imperialis worn on the chest plate is also gold.
The gold squad tactical specialty symbol -- battleline, fire support, close support, Veteran or command -- is indicated on the right shoulder pauldron. A black High Gothic numeral is prominently displayed upon it that indicates a battle-brother's assigned squad.
The left shoulder pauldron displays the Chapter's iconography.
It is unknown how the Chapter indicates company assignment.
Chapter Badge[]
The Cowled Wardens' Chapter badge consists of a gold-hooded skull centred upon a field of purple.
Sources[]
- Arks of Omen: The Lion (9th Edition), pp. 14-17
- Codex Supplement Dark Angels (9th Edition), "Successor Chapters", pg. 27
- Codex Supplement Dark Angels (10th Edition), "Successor Chapters", pg. 29
- White Dwarf 464, "Index Hereticus: The Fallen" by James Ashbey and Duncan Waugh, pg. 48