Repentant Sons

The Repentant Sons are a Loyalist chapter of the Alabaster Order that remained loyal after the Declaration of Separation.

Background
The ideological differences between the Primarch Gustave Dunant, and many of his own sons, had always been a source of spirited debate within the Twentieth Legion. There were some who believed their Gene-sire was ill suited to the role he had been granted by the Emperor of mankind. Whether they were aware that their Lord shared their sentiments has never been revealed, though if they had, it is believed that more might have left the legion when the Primarch's intentions to join the Primarch Koschei Kharkovic in open succession were revealed.

When the declaration was made, a small fraction of the legion, led by the Kommandant der Ritter Joder Jäger, and the Apotheker Primus Werner Küenzlin, and made up of members of both the Medical Corps, and the Amathame Brotherhood, declared their Primarch a traitor, and an oathbreaker. To them, Gustave's decision was merely the final straw in a long history of offenses, and more than enough justification to denounce him, and break away from the legion.

Totaling just over two Corps, the detractors were fortunate to have been detached from the legion at the time, and operating relatively close to Segmentum Solar, as there were calls within the wider legion to wipe them out in retribution. Even then, it is likely that they would have been allowed to leave, as it is said that Gustave's reaction to the news of their accusations, and subsequent desertion, was one of detached disinterest.

This new force, under the duel leadership of both Joder, and Werner, would adopt the cognomen of the Repentant Sons, and would reorganize themselves to more resemble the original legion organization as laid out in the Principia Belicosa, though the the presence of mixed Neophyte/Ritter Bruder squads would persist.

Notable Members

 * Kommandant der Ritter Joder Jäger
 * Apotheker Primus Werner Küenzlin

Livery
A Maltese Cross with a red "X" in the middle as a mark of shame.

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