+++Lamenters+++

The Lamenters are a Successor Chapter of unknown origins. However, the Blood Angels Chapter banner depicts Sanguinius wearing a robe with a symbol like the Lamenters Chapter badge. In 698 M41 the Chapter was part of a combined Space Marine force led by Marneus Calgar, consisting of the Angels of Absolution, Marine's Errant, Silver Skulls, and the Ultramarines. During this seven year crusade the force inflicted a series of major defeats on the Ork empire of Charadon "delaying the invasion by Waaagh Argluk by some thirty years."

During the Badab War, the Lamenters had, for some strange unknown reason sided with the Tiger Claws; along with the Executioners, and the Mantis Warriors. In 908 M41 the Lamenters were caught in an ambush by the Minotaurs Chapter, and "eventually surrendered after bloody ship-to-ship fighting." In 912 M41 they were granted the Emperor's forgiveness, and sent on a one hundred year crusade along the Eastern Fringe. After the chapter had been been forgiven, the Chapter's banner was sent to the Adeptus Sororitas "to be restored and purified. Their handiwork was indeed inspired by the Emperor Deified, and it is said that they wept as they wove, contemplating the Emperor's great sacrifice for humanity. The banner became known as the Banner of Tears and was taken with the Lamentors on their penitent crusade."

In 992 M41 Tyranid Hive-fleet Kraken invaded from the Galactic East, the Lamenters and the Scythes of the Emperor Chapter were originally alone in dealing with this threat. During the fighting, Lamenters spacecraft "engaged ships of the Tyranid fleet. Boarding parties entered the immense alien craft, gathering vital information about the Tyranids and successfully destroying untold thousands of aliens." But the Marines were outnumbered literally millions to one, and approximately nine-tenths of the Chapter was destroyed in the fighting.

Their current disposition is unknown. However, it is possible to raise an entire Chapter from two Zygotes in fifty-five years. Certainly, to completely rebuild the Lamenters would take considerable less time.