The Artefacts Of The Blood Ravens - 40K Theories 

" :/ video has been removed" * Blood Ravens laugh in the distance *

It just goes to show even in 40k, the ancient rule of "dibs" still holds true

Trazyn the Infinite: *Wakes up* “ah time to marvel at my collect...*sees empty room* BLOOD RAVEEENNSSS!!”

I have seen the Blood ravens strip a rubric marine down to his nonexistent undies in broad daylight. That's some Alpha Legion levels of guerrilla stealth bullshit right there...

"this unclaimed treasury shall be taken in to Blood Raven custody!" "... This is an Ultramarine armoury" "UNCLAIMED TREASURY" "..."

When no-one was looking, the Blood Ravens took forty relics. They took 40 relics. That's as many as four tens. And that's heresy.

Blood Raven artefact: *Khorn's pants* Inquisitor: "Whatthe f..." Gabriel: "It was a gif... A TROPHY."

TRAITOR MARINE: "Champion, they're stealing our ship..." CHAOS CHAMPION: "Bloody Magpies!" RAVENS: *Laugh in dubiously-loyal Gothic*

I came here to do two things and two things only , to purge heratics and steal property and I already stole your property, so let's do this.

The blood magpies only recorded battlecry "MINE!"

13:00 Or, alternately, reports about the Blood Ravens stealing everything in sight _were_ made, but the Bloody Magpies *stole those too*

_”Knowledge is power, guard it well”_ *Translated* Take everything that isn’t nailed down, because they would have nailed it down if they didn’t want us to steal it. Maybe it will tell us about our past, but I’m completely fine with taking all of these relics if they don’t tell us a single thing, because that power sword is really cool. If they ask where their relics went just hide the relics and look like you have no clue what they’re talking about

*Reads title* Heh yeah, anything that isn't nailed down is a 'recently recovered' artefact.

"Look at all these gifts everywhere, I shall have to accept them on behalf of the chapter. You are all really too kind."

Blood Ravens: Oh boy oh boy, here I go stealing again.

"Knowledge is power, guard it well." Sadly other chapters failed to guard their knowledge well and the Blood Ravens took it. Gotta say, Blood Ravens were my first introduction into 40K with buying Dawn of War and I love how they are Cannon Immigrants into the entire fabric of 40K since they were made specifically for the game. "While the enemies of the Emperor still draw breath there can be no peace." Just..wow, hearing that as a quote just instantly told me "These guys..right here..fucking..sold on the universe." Been into 40K ever since.

Behold the most brilliant strategy of noble magpies, I mean noble space marines of Blood Ravens: "Enemy cant shoot you if you steal all of their guns."

you think that after thousands of years people would figure out that relics and artifacts going missing after the Blood Ravens came to help arnt coincidences. I mean there has to be an inquisitor or two who figured this out, right?

I’ve always wondered how did they actually acquire a guardian spear and a Custodian set of armor. Next thing they gonna steal a Custodian to go with it

>how did they get these weapons The Blood Ravens were clearly gifted these weapons by graceful Imperial organizations Lord Remliez. Any accusations of "theft" is either just chaotic propaganda or an organization losing the records of these items being gifted. There is defiantly no need to look further, especially since many inquisitors get lost among the chapters gifts, which they also contribute with their own gifts before getting lost.

You call it a quest for knowledge. Everyone else calls it a bad case of kleptomania.

Blood Raven: Hippity Hoppity where’s my property

Blood Ravens, eh? _aside_ Go lock the reliquary.

Unknown origin? Love for artifact and their study? This smells of thousand sons

“How did the blood ravens acquire these artifacts?” THEY BE THIEVING MAGPIES!!!

The Blood Ravens also have Forge Breaker, the very weapon that was forged by the Primarch of The Emperor's Children, Fulgrim. Take that with what you will. If they really are the sons of Magnus The Red then they must be able to collect Warp artifacts at a much safer way and not get tainted as much.

Blood Ravens! *hides all powergear*

To reflect their collection, Blood Ravens should get a special rule in a future Index Astartes, similar to how the Crimson Fists have just gotten some special rules of their own. Something along the lines of: "Gifts" of "Loyalty" Strategem Blood Ravens are renowned for their collection of artifacts "gifted" to them from other organizations. 1 CP - A Blood Raven character may take a relic normally restricted to another Imperial faction. 2 CP - A Blood Raven character may take a relic normally restricted to a Xenos or Chaos faction. Use this strategem before the first battle round. May only be used once per battle.

Dude they even stole their name from the Raven Guard and Blood Angels and just duct taped them together.

Brother-Captain, our space marine reinforcemebts are docking. Thank you, brother Tactillus. Tell me , which chapter do they hail from? Blood Ravens, Sir. Ah, Blood Angels - A legendary chapter indeed... No, Brother-Captain. I said Blood Ravens... ............................ Brother-Captain...? BOLT. DOWN. EVERYTHING. ( Look for pic in web its look 10 time cooler in picture..:P)

Legend has it that mentioning the Blood Ravens amongst a penal legion will evoke a sense of great anger and shame from the legionaries, as they cannot help but feel inadequate, knowing full well that they will never be able to steal as many items as the Blood Ravens, try as they might.

Going by the theory that the Blood Ravens are descended from the Corvidae Cult, the Golden Armor of the Custodes could have been gifted to the Corvidae by order of the Emperor before his internment on the Golden Throne as a formal apology for his mistreatment of their Gene Sire. Also, assuming that the Blood Ravens are indeed descended from Magnus, they may have inherited their Primarch's love of knowledge and as such place an extremely high value on historical artifacts. As such, maybe the reason that they refuse to return recovered artifacts to their rightful owners is out of a belief that by losing the artifacts, the original owners have proven that they cannot be trusted with them.

Space marine of another chapter visiting a Blood Raven barge: By the Emperor, you are really devout. You even have an exact replica of the Golden Throne in your shrine! Blood Raven Librarian: Yeah, its really an impressive, uh... replica.

Blood Raven: "This will make a fine addition to my collection"

"The codex astartes calls this maneuver steal rain."

what you talking about all the artifacts belong to the Blood Ravens they just haven't been retrieved from those who've they've been lent to

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Very interesting Black Templar angle to explain a couple of those relics.

while I wouldnt put it past the Ravens to poking around other factions for info outright stealing from brother marines for no reason other then its a cool item seems a bit much(taking from a corpse on a battlefield and taking a item from a Chapters Base from under there nose is to different things), going with the theory of the Blood Ravens being in truth Thousand Sons Marines it could be said the Custodian Armor was recovered after the battle of Terra by Sons who weren't warped with there Primarch, and hoped that returning such a armor would show there loyalty in a time when everything was in question. However the purging of there records occurred and in all the chaos with the aftermath left in storage until its reason for being there in the first place forgotten and it becoming another item of awe in there armory. As for the other notable gear like the hammer it could be a number of reasons, my thought is that since its a hammer made by Dorn himself giving the Loyalist Sons the hammer as a means to show support from the Sons of Dorn which would be why over the long period of time the Sons of Dorn never went for the hammer, they knew Dorn gave it to them but much like the Ravens own history the reasons why were erased. I love the idea Blood Ravens are Thousand Sons and hope one day to see how that actually plays out with them and Magnus.

*artifacts of the blood ravens* Wait lemme grab popcorn. This is a late Emperor's Day gift I don't wanna miss.

"How could you lose your lasgun trooper! We are the lucky few to ever fight alongside a chapter of space marines, as esteemed as the Blood Ravens no less! Look out there at how the emperor's angels keep THEIR lasguns in clean and functioning condition!"

One possibility for the custodes armor could be to have recovered it from old battlefields from the heresy era. With their focus on knowledge, it's also possible that the initial reason for the Blood Ravens was essentially to have them recover such things off battlefields and actively seeking out such places to recover things of importance and bring them back.

It's simple Remliez. Other chapters/Custodes "gift" their artefacts/relics to the chapter. They just provide these other "gifts" without knowing it. And who else wants to bet the Blood Raven 'gifted' themselves a couple pairs of sororitas underwear as a prank after receiving their master-crafted power-armor?

If they do steal artifacts, perhaps they left no survivors to write the reports. Additionally, it's possible that chaos forces had stolen the artifacts and the blood ravens stole them back, and then didn't return them to the original owner.

“My Lord the Blood Ravens are here” “Bolt everything down immediately” “I can’t sir, they already stole the bolts”

they are Magpies after all and of course "Knowledge is Power".

They stole all that SHIT and nobody could provide proof of it because they stole that too. Yes, all of it. *ALL OF IT.*

Bloodraven seeing a relic: "It's free relicstate".

in the end it was just an excuse so they could have/use wargear from other chapters in the DoW 1/2

Correction of the title: The (TOTALLY NOT STOLEN) artifacts of the Blood Ravens.

10:40 The way you said "theft" was so accusatory. I love.

As yes, the Blood Raven’s Battlefield Recovered Artifacts, Gifts and maybe genetically heralded weapons. And *that* armour.

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I came here to do two things, and two things only: purge heretics and steal property. And I've already stolen your property.

Inqusitor:So how did you get armour of a custodian. Blood Raven:ehhhh...uhhhh....mmmmmm happens man. happens

ah the sons of Magnus the red. i want to see Blood Ravens VS Tarzyn the infinite as they race to get their hands on some artefact

Happy new year 40k Theories, also great video 40k Theories

Blood Ravens?? BOLT. DOWN. EVERYTHING.

Could the blood ravens not have a primarch because they stole it?

"Gear adrift is a gift" - Every US Marine ever. I assume some Space Marines follow that ancient law.

hippity hoppity abolish private property

6:23 Gifts aren't given back.

Blood Ravens sounds so much cooler than Emperor's pickpockets, Ultraburglars, Celestial Acquisitors

Two blood ravens walk into a bar. They walk out with the bar.

Blood Marines > Crip Marines

The Blood Ravens were "gifted" Primaris Space Marine Geneseeds by Lord Guilliman Himself. This is the reason why Gabriel Angelos can do madshit at DOW3

“Artefacts of the Blood Ravens? Y-yes, these are definitely _our_ artefacts. Indeed...” *tugs Power-collar*

Another good video! Thanks!

*BROTHER I AM FORTIFYING THIS RELIQUARY*

do u think GW will bring back all the Living and missing(russ, Vulcann, Corax) Primarchs?

Even the Custodes armour could be found and salvaged on some forgotten battlefield, or in aging derelict attached to spacehulk (and its history could be determined from its memorybank). By my understanding, the blod ravens do have quite long history of raiding spacehulks and (if possible) obtaining special or more powerfull wargeer. What puzzles me more than "how they came to HAVE their stuff", is why are they not using xeno wargeer too - especially, when there is no imperial counterpart, or if the xeno wargeer is more powerfull than standard imperial version. The spacewolfs (as some of their members, not as an organization) do use xeno wargear. Lucases the Tricsters pistol sight, and so one, to a degree, that in book Prospero Burns, the Vlka Fenryka attacks some advanced xeno species wich used adaptible shields, by hand to hand and melee, than by attacking them with weapons obtained from their fallen comrades (therefore the enemies adapted their shields against energy and particle weapons) and than attacked them with bolters en-mase. BTW, Blood ravens are almost certainly descendant chapter (or splinter of original chapter - its scout company actually) of thousand sons.

they have a felinid idol. according to captain hairgel, she was gifted to them... now she sings taunime songs everyday to calm their souls after combat.

Blood Ravens real war cry : " Hippity Hoppity where the fuck is my property?"

Ork freebooters avoid the blood ravens in fear of losing their scrap

Named Object: *exists* Blood Ravens: "it's free real estate"

Roboute returns to Terra to try and repair the Golden Throne and Astronomicon... WHO STOLE THE EMPRAH!?!?

"Knowledge is power. Guard it well." Makes sense that they would keep almost anything

Blood Raven: Hey! Check out our new relic! Ultramarine: Isn't that ours? See, it's got our insignia on it! Blood Raven: Ah yes, it may seem that way to the untrained eye; however if you look at it from really far away, upside down, and through a window, it looks kinda like a Raven. Ultramarine: So you're saying if I stand over here and... Wait... Where did he go? Where's my Boltgun? The Rhino's gone too...

Hippity hoppity, time to gift some property. Blood Raven chant.

So basically they're an entire Chapter full of kleptomaniac Magpies.

Blood Ravens: Hippedy Hoppedy this "unclaimed" relic is now my property.

Another awesome video, I love the Blood Ravens!

As you explained, the Blood Ravens likely recovered and maintained these pieces of wargear. Mindset likely going along the "better in use on the Emperors behalf, then fall into heretics grasp." An irony given the track record in Blood Raven areas. Another possibilities is going off their brief appearance in the Space Marine game, where Blood Ravens aid Ultra Marines. Indicating they earn wargear acting as a Quick-reaction force among their chapter brethren. The games text of items also says it isn't restricted to Marine Chapters, for Sisters of Battle, Inquisition and even Imperial Guard regiments likely know of the Blood Ravens.

Yes the blood ravens had very many "donations" ofer the years that they existed

"Blood Ravens? Lock the reliquary." "Already done, sir."

I deem it highly unlikely they are of Dorn's stock. Even amongst the chapters of Dorn that accept librarians into their ranks, there are only a few. Seeing as they have an unusual high amount of librarians I still suspect Magnus as their primarch. Sanguinius is out of the question as they do not suffer from the red thirst or black rage. And don't bring me that bullcrap that there are no successor loyalist chapters to traitor primarchs. Even half of the founding grey knights and inquisition were of traitor stock.. As for the custodes armor, they could have just found it you know. Back during the crusade these guys were everywhere. But then again, half the blood ravens turned traitor at some point, so maybe they stole it.

I introduced Blood Ravens as allies in an RPG. First things the players did was lock their gear down. The Blood Ravens were grateful for the party's gifts later though.

1. In the Werewolf RPG, there was a spirit gift called "Talons of the Magpie." If you had this power, and stole something, the owner would forget he owned it. Perhaps the high number of psykers in the Blood Ravens included a few with some similar ability, which explains why other factions have not gone on a roaring rampage. Hammer of Dorn?!? You bet the Fists would be knocking on their door if they knew... or remembered. 2. They are forgeries. Perhaps they were acquired through a silver-tongued Rogue Trader who could spin a tall tale. Perhaps their logistics arm were prone to creative embellishment. Perhaps the chapter master, by receiving "gifts" from other organizations, had tangible "proof" of auspicious deeds and prodigious events, which could inspire pride in the ranks.

Blood ravens huh.... lock the reliquary.

The Codex Astartes Names this Maneuver *Steal* Rain...

I think I big part of the reason they wouldn't give anything back to their rightful owners is that they have to get by without forge world support, I don't remember which game it was in, but I know somewhere in DOW 1 or 2 they mention that they have to get by without a forge world to support them and as such just take whatever they can get

BLOOD RAVENS: These artifacts are now under the possession of the Blood Ravens. MECHANICUS: But it is our you cannot take it from...... BLOOD RAVENS: Dibs MECHANICUS: Damn

The only good is knowledge. The only evil is ignorance.

They're driven by an urge to acquire more than just knowledge. Terra still had oceans before they visited the place and look at it afterwards!! One of them was given an audience with the Emperor, before then he still had a face. There's no such thing as missing Primarchs, those guys are all just locked away in the Blood Raven's armory. The poor Squats had home worlds before these guys passed through that part of the galaxy.

The reason why the blood ravens foundling is unknown, is because they stole it right after their ascension to space marines were complete. Before stealing the report of them stealing the founding, and stealing the report of that report being stolen, cont et infinitum.

its a lootrace between them, orks and Trazyn

Inquisition: Wait, how did You get all of those artifacts, Imperial, Xenos and Chaos alike? Blood Ravens: They fell out of a back of a Space Hulk, why? Trazyn: ...ANGELOS!

That's why they're called "Ravens": they steal shiny "trinkets" from other chapters and bring it to their "nest".

Not sure if you've done a video on this before but since Guilliman confirmed that all the primarchs inherited the traits of the emperor with one being dominant and one being secondary and shared with another primarch in Dark Imperium 2. In his case the best at administration but also a good tactician 2nd only to Dorn. From this we could deduce what traits of the emperor the lost primarchs inherited and maybe even get a clue as to what was the reason they were purged from history.

Lock the Reliquary!