Warhammer 40k Lore - The Black Templars, Chapter Recruitment

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In this episode on the Black Templars, we describe their recruitment process and rare method of training neophytes. Enjoy!!!
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[@inquisitorgarza312]

The Black Templar’s recruitment is extremely fast pace compared to other Space Marines Chapters. Their constant crusades all across the Galaxy means that they will always recruit everywhere’s they fight or pass by, and their neophytes will fight alongside their future brothers. There probably thousands of neophytes within the Black Templar’s ranks, and their probably many more that are always look for the prospect of joining the Black Templar’s.

[@PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven]

No Pity No Remorse No Fear

[@johnnieschatz693]

The best chapter by far !

[@anabolicfreedom6006]

I love the black Templars. Interestingly enough they are one of the few chapters that recruit over the age of 17. Sometimes drawing imperial soldiers and what not. Love that about them. Even grimaldus in hellsreach try’s to recruit one of the soldiers.

[@Daimon-X]

'THE TOWERING, CRENELLATED walls of the great grey stone keep looked like they had stood for thousands of years, as indeed they had. Everything about the ancient edifice gave the impression that it could withstand any assault, no matter how terrible, and that it could survive any siege, no matter how long. Walls a hundred metres high rose from foundations where they were sunk so deep within the craggy plateau of the hilltop that they appeared to grow up out of the bedrock of the planet itself. A thousand pennant flags fluttered in the bitterly cold wind from heavily fortified battlements that also bristled with cannon muzzles. Additional heavy gun emplacements were embedded within the lower slopes of the twenty-metre-thick walls. Their barrel-mouths opened beneath turreted buttresses, ready to unleash merciless death upon any enemy foolhardy enough to attack the gothic fortress, although not many had tried in its long and noble history. Huge doors, tall enough and wide enough to allow even the Imperator-class land-battleship colossi of the Adeptus Mechanicus comfortable entry, stood solidly closed. The vast black cross insignia of the holy order that called the great bastion home adorned them, and the prevalent memento mori skull of the Imperium that was home adorned them, and the prevalent memento mori skull of the Imperium that was reproduced in its centre stood ten metres high. In front of the doors, and bridging the crevasse before the wind-scoured cliffs to which the ancient fortress clung, was a drawbridge wide enough, for six Conqueror tanks to comfortably advance across. Chains with links the size of Land Speeders rose up from their moorings on the drawbridge to the towers of the gatehouse eighty metres up. These housed the lifting gear that could raise the drawbridge and so secure the stronghold in times of danger, should such a tiling ever be necessary. It had been a long time, even by the reckoning of the Adeptus Astartes, since that had been the case. And before the drawbridge was another fortified gatehouse, flying the banner of the Templars. It was said, by those who knew of such things, that it would take an army of titans a month to break the stronghold open and level it, and such a thing would never happen, by the will of the Emperor! From its vantage point upon the crag of the uplands, the keep looked out over a rolling heath to lush green grazing pastures and on towards the nearest of the many stone-built towns that dotted these moors. The keep was the largest man-made structure on the backwater world of Solemnus, a world forgotten for a time by the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Mankind, troubled as the sector had been by warp storms of great magnitude for many millennia. Some said that the only things larger than the chapter keep were the Lammas Mountains and from the steeply rising approach to the Templars' fortress, along the flint-laid road, even their distant glacial peaks were dwarfed by the edifice looming in the foreground. It had all been part of the founding-brothers' grand design. They had intended that the keep should appear this way, so that any penitent or petitioner making their way towards the ancient sanctuary-fortress should be mindful of the power and might of the Black Templars, and the awesome, forbidding majesty of the Emperor of Mankind whom they served, whose powerful arm and wrathful vengeance the Adeptus Astartes embodied. And yet, the keep was just one of the Black Templars' many Chapter strongholds, located on hundreds of planets. There was one for every world conquered or reclaimed for the Imperium by the Emperor's most devoted, heretic-persecuting warriors of the Adeptus Astartes, and they were each staging posts for the crusading fleets of the Chapter. Over the last ten centuries the people of Solemnus had forgotten the terrible, bloody events that originally brought the fleets of the Black Templars to their world. The events of those terrible dark times had long since passed into myth, becoming the legend of the shape-stealers, nightmarish monsters that would steal people away from their beds in the depths of the night. Their human-seeming servants appeared to be like other men and women, but they hid terrible secrets of monstrous births and unnatural devotion to their devil offspring. But the Templars remembered. The record of the purging of the genestealer cult from the world by their ancestor brothers were the first battles to be inscribed on the roll carved into the walls of the Hall of Heroes. The great keep had been raised after the eradication of the alien infiltrators, to stand watch over the evidently vulnerable feudal world. No, the Chapter never forgot, lest in its forgetting it became complacent and thereby allowed the heretic, the mutant, the enemy within, the alien, the enemy without, the daemon, or the enemy beyond, a way in to harry the Emperor's divine galaxy-spanning realm and sow the seeds of discontent, chaos, conflict and corruption. And the Chapter's memory was longer than that of the people of Solemnus, it reached back ten thousand years to its founding in the fiery furnace heat of war at the end of the Emperor's own great crusade. Ever since Lord Sigismund, the first High Marshal of the Black Templars, had assembled the first and largest of the war fleets of the Chapter, and begun the greatest crusade that the Adeptus Astartes had ever undertaken, the Space Marines of the Black Templars Chapter spurned possession of a single homeworld. They had become a fleet-based Chapter, so that they might better fulfill their duty to the Emperor in protecting his Imperium. Solemnus itself was aptly named. It was a world plagued by petulant storms. The system's yellow sun rarely showed for any length of time through the steely overcast skies and the chill yet temperate climate of the uplands benefited from steady rainfall throughout every season of the year. With the approach of the autumnal equinox the weather was seasonably cold and damp. Solemnus was a p-class world, its populace sustained by sheep-farming, forestry, the raising of livestock, basic mining and quarrying. The government was perpetrated by feudal lords and petty kings, but the true overlords of Solemnus were the Emperor's holy warriors of the Black Templars Chapter. For what Solemnus offered the rest of the Imperium was the strength of faith of several million hardy souls and neophyte recruits for the hallowed Astartes brotherhood...' 'Fergax, a feral world, innocent in spirit, some might think. The people there lived hard but simple lives, their greatest contribution to the Imperium being a supply of recruits for the Black Templars crusades. The world hosted a Chapter keep; aside from that, the Emperor and all his doings were myths to its inhabitants. ...' Fergax in the Ultima Segmentum. No Pity! No Remorse! No Fear! The Recruitment process and training of a potential Black Templar was showed on the pages of "Eternal Crusade" Comic book.

[@nowhere474]

Me to the RECRUITER: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T BE A LIBRARIAN?"

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

If they even suspect you, you wouldn't get to ask that question :D

[@jacthing1]

BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM

[@dr.stronk9857]

The black templars are badass, I don’t even own or play them but they’re cool

[@seanbumstead1250]

Only children are taken as a marine,bo adults

[@titanscerw]

This was Glorious! Sons of Sigismund!

[@nerothejackal9662]

chapter name: Avalon knight chapter home: Avlarak chapter moto: for the kingdom and it's people

[@Matt-md5yt]

glad you covered these guys lately. they are great.

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

More stuff on them to come.

[@jasonulysess3652]

Hello KZbin algorithm. Even loons can have a few good ideas.

[@georgesulea]

The Black Templars; WE ZEALOUSLY CRUSADE WITH ZEAL!!! ...and tons of destruction...and more zeal...and occasionally exterminatus...zealously....

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

What a zealous comment!

[@HeadHunterSix]

You forgot to zealously mention our zealous zeal, Brother!

[@georgesulea]

@@HeadHunterSix I ZEALOUSLY REPEAT OUR ZEAL IS SUCH THAT WE MAKE RELIGIOUS CONVICTION LOOK LIKE A SUNDAY PICNIC...BUT WITH CATACHAN GRANNIES!

[@ArdWulf]

👍👍

[@tyreecebaker6600]

👍

[@JZ0UK]

1st to 1st, 3rd to like, 1st to watch :/

[@SIGNOR-G]

What a glorious chapter

[@imgrimbur]

the content is solid, respect to the dude, i dont want to be rude but, how long does it take to get used to his accent?

[@Da5hau]

I put it on 2x speed and it works for me ;)

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

I think you either do or you don't after a while :D

[@HeadHunterSix]

@@GrimDarkNarrator I actually find it entertaining.