Blood Ravens are Cawl's Personal Scavengers

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> Cawl was a magpie magos, taking what he needed no matter its ancestry....

> Furthermore, [Cawl] has continued experimental implantation and monitoring of the thus-far unused gene-seed in experimental test subjects. That of the Second, Third, Fourth, Eighth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Twentieth Legions all show no sign of degradation or incidence of unwelcome tendencies within the recipients. All is well, my lord, Archmagos Belisarius Cawl reassures you. He is so satisfied that I am instructed to repeat his request that those gene-lines be put into full production and be allowed to serve the Imperium as the Emperor intended.

Cawl confirmed for creator of the Blood Ravens? Cawl has created actual marines to test the traitor gene-seeds and is a "magpie" magos, collecting anything that appears useful, regardless of source. The Blood Ravens have a "habit" of collecting everything and everything and seem to have no problem getting replacement marines and equipment. Do the Blood Ravens act as Cawl's scavengers throughout the Imperium and beyond?

Blood Ravens test case for Cawl using traitor geneseed? Cawl makes it easy to now to make loyalist chapters descended from traitor geneseed now, fluff-wise. And even though he seems like more of a plot device than an actual character, what I've read of him in the books and seen in video makes him quite interesting. He's a pragmatist who is doing what he can to try and fix an apparently unfixable situation. An admitted heretek, he knows exactly what will happen to him if Guilliman revokes his patronage.

> "Trafficking with xenos. The usage of forbidden technology. Your peers in the Cult Mechanicus will not take kindly to this."
> "I predict their response will be nothing short of furious, my lord regent..."