The Angel of Sacrifice

During the Great Crusade, and the Heresy that followed, many thousands of Imperial Fists fought for Mankind. In those days, every company's banner bore a golden crest, forged at the Emperor's decree and presented by Dorn himself. When the Imperial Fists Legion was dissolved, Dorn forbade that the crests be carried into battle until the Emperor himself returned to lead the reconquest of the stars. Since that day, the crests have lain within Phalanx's stasis vaults, waiting for a day that may never come. The one exception was the Angel of Sacrifice. During the infiltrator Macellanos' attempt to assassinate the Emperor during the Siege of Terra, Gams Hargrim took up his company's splintered banner and slew the traitor. Hargrim perished even as he struck Macellanos down, but Dorn ordered the golden crest be reforged as a crozius to honour the warrior's memory. The Angel of Sacrifice has been wielded by favoured Chaplains ever since, a weighty burden and an honour both.