Captain Gadriel

Captain Gadriel, blood angels fifth company. A fast ascension
through the ranks of the blood Angels chapter is the story of how Gadriel came to command the fifth company. After having been recruited from the blood angels homeworld of Baal, Gadriel quickly proved his mettle in battle among the scout company. After the great scouring of ultramar in 746.M41, the third, fourth, and fifth company returned to Baal woefully reduced in numbers due to the tyranid invasion.

Ideas: first blooded after promotion to third company battle brother in Lazarus tactical squad. Fought against a tau expedition that attempted to
Colonize an imperial controlled planet. Later on fought against a waaagh and was promoted to sergeant of Lazarus squad. Tycho of third company took great interest in Gadriel as he continued to rise through the ranks. Eventually Gadriel was promoted to tactical veteran status as he showed incredible capability of withstanding the urges of the red thirst. He spent a few decades as a sternguard veteran and eventually was promoted to sternguard sergeant. After tycho was promoted to third captain, he requested sergeant Gadriel join his honor guard. Gadriel spent fifteen years before the third war for armageddon in the honor guard of captain tycho and became a valued tactical mind among the leadership of the blood Angels. It's been rumored that Dante had his eye on Gadriel to join his honor guard squad. It is known however that Gadriel was notified that he had been selected for promotion to the sanguinary guard after the third war for armageddon. However, due to the nature of the battles, the percentage of battle brothers that succumbed to the black rage increased dramatically. The night before a particularly large engagement, captain tycho and his honor guard were planning a tactical advance along a river To secure checkpoints when tycho began to show symptoms of the black rage. After the novitiate in the guard fetched the chaplains, it was determined that tycho would be inducted into the death company. The next day, Gadriel and the other members of Tychos honor guard watched with an incredible sadness as the captain was overwhelmed by a tide of greenskins, tearing them limb from limb until he finally fell in battle. After the conclusion of the third war for armageddon, the losses in those companies involved were great and squads needed to be reinforced. The captain of the fifth company also fell in the third war, and it was with great sadness due to the losses sustained, but also with great pride that Commander Dante informed Gadriel that if he were to accept, his promotion to the sanguinary guard would be cancelled, and he would be promoted to captain and given command of the fifth company. Dante had hoped to one day name tycho as his successor as Lord Commander, but from the ashes of one of the greatest leaders in blood angels history rose another candidate that may have a greater control over the flaw in his gene-seed.

After his promotion to fifth captain, Gadriel has overseen the rebuilding of the fifth company. Since entire squads were destroyed in battle, Gadriel has borrowed nicknames from the stories of blood angels history for the new squads composed of only a few veterans and far too many newly promoted battle brothers. As the Status of the fifth company may imply, incidents of red thirst and black the among the fifth are rare, but most believe this to be due to the relative youth of those battle brothers in the company. Some of the chapters priests are investigating the company to determine if there are any other causes of the small percentage as compared to other companies within the chapter. Rumor has it that even brother corbulo himself is researching the status of the gene seed of those in the fifth.