Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170610170223

The Emperor's Angels are a strange fighting force inside the Empire they are wholly dedicated to the Emperor the Ecclestum being fanatical religious warriors trained since birth or childhood to be some of the finest warriors the Empire has.

They are referred to many as the 'Sisters' and are considered warrior nuns. These Sisters come from all over the Empire most come from hereditary worlds (Sanctuary Worlds) dedicated to producing such warriors, others are the orphaned daughters of Imperial Servants, and some are taken from childhood being deemed to valuable to not be given over to the state.

The Sisters serve in a variety of roles from healers, doctors, and explorers, but they are primarily warriors who spread the word of the Emperor distant stars and his divine retribution to heretics of all types. The Sisters are organized into organizations called 'Orders' with each being it's own army with it's own homeworld and cathedrals. The Emperor's Angels and all the Orders as a whole are lead by a Individual known as the 'Grand Arch-Cannoness' who is considered a High Lord and a High Cardinal.

As stated before the sisters are recruited by a few ways. The young children are gathered by the 'Matertera' or 'Mothers' of the order in a great hall of sorts and inducted in mass (Thousands at a time) each child is assigned the order to which they will serve first (Some Sisters transfer in between orders). After this they are trained and drilled for many years until they are deemed worthy to bear the armor and weapons of the order. Until then they are known as 'puella'.

Once training is complete the Sisters are devote, pious, and fanatical warrior servants who follow all orders with unquestioning faith and devotion. It is because of this that they are some of the most feared warriors in the Empire for even a legionary may question charging into the line of fire, but a Sister will do so with upmost haste and ferocity. In battle they are shock troops plain and simple. But this is not their only role in the Empire many serve as doctors, guards, clerks, and many other roles.

The Sisters are split into many different orders. Each Order has a homeworld (which is it's own fief) and many shrines across the worlds they have defended, founded, or liberated some orders rise above the rest and have many smaller orders under their banner. These orders are known as the 'Ordo Ultima' of which four exist, they being:

Order of the Bloodied Rose

Order of the Black Rose

Order of the Bloody Golbet

Order of the Piercing Eye

Each of the 'Ordo Ultima' are made up of many hundreds to thousands of orders each with it's own purpose serving the 'Ordo Ultima'. The 'Ordo Minoris' are classified into classes they being:

Ordo Minoris Hospitaller (Deals with healing)

Ordo Minoris Vigilistia (Deals with investigations and enforcement of the law)

Ordo Minoris Dialogous (Record keepers and clerks of the Sisters)

Ordo Minoris Militari (Combat)

Each of these 'Ordo Minoris' are also given a homeworld and shrine, but their worlds are ranked below that of the 'Ordo Ultima' homeworld.

Each Ordo is lead by a Cannoness of some sorts with the Ultima being lead by a 'Arch-Cannoness' and the Minoris being lead by a 'Preceptor-Cannoness' 