Orders Sororitas of the Aliris Sector

The Aliris Sector having been part of the Imperium from its earliest days and furthermore an important warfront in the constant battle against the Chaos Gods is well supplied with Saints, Saints' shrines and Orders of the Adepta Sororitas.

The Abbey of the Silver Star
This Abbey on the Convent Prioris planetary fief of Domica is the primary house of the Adepta Sororitas in the Aliris Sector. As a daughter-house and fief of the Convent Prioris on Holy Terra the Abbey and the Sisterhoods it controls are completely outside of local political jurisdiction or Ecclesiarchal control - which probably causes as many problems as it solves, certainly it raises the hackles of both the Arch-Cardinals and the Sector Lord. The Abbey houses a preceptory of Sisters Militant of the Ebon Chalice and another of the Silver Shroud; a Collegium of Sisters Famulous of the Holy Seal; a Hospitallum of the Order of the Torch; and a Sanctum of the Sisters Dialogous of the Lexicon.

The present Lady Prioress is Venicia Corbulone, a Canoness Curullis of the Order Famulous of the Holy Seal. As such she is the ultimate Sororitas authority in the Sector easily the equal of Cardinals and Governors. She controls what is probably the best intelligence system in the Sector and regularly manipulates Governors, Ecclesiarchs and Adeptii to further the ends of the Divine Emperor.

Order of Our Lady Dominica
Sisters Militant derived from the Order of the Ebon Chalice, also called Dominican Sisters. Their Mother-house is on the garrison planet Themiscyra. The Dominican Sisters are a major presence on Themiscyra and have had powerful impact on the culture of the planet. Themiscyra is a matriarchy where women customarily hold the positions of power and serve almost exclusively in the regiments raised for service on the Wall. The Sisterhood controls most of the churches and church lands - to the extreme annoyance of the Sub-sector Synod - and dominates the religious life of the planet.

Order of the Daughters of the Moons
Sisters Militant derived from the Order of the Silver Shroud, also called 'Sisters of the Night'. Their Mother-house is on Menae, one of the Hundred Moons of the Umbericus system on the Hadronian Wall. This order is closely allied with the Night Walkers, whose homeworld of Morrowdim is the only planet of Umbericus. The Sisters often fight side by side with the Walkers or provide support. Some Sisters are actual blood sisters of Night Walker Battle-Brothers as they recruit from the Umberican moons as does the Chapter.

Order of the Angels of St. Sanguinius
The cult of St. Sanguinius is fervently followed many planets at the Malakand end of the Wall including Sanggraal the home of the Sons Sanguine. When Canoness of the Ebon Chalice was ordered to establish a new sisterhood to support the Wall fortresses it was natural for her to dedicate it to the Primarch of the Blood Angels. The reclusive Sons Sanguine keep their distance from the Sisters dedicated to their Progenitor but the Sisters' mother house is established in Haut Leon, the most settled and devout of the small kingdoms of Sanggraal, and the Angels are venerated - and quite properly feared - by all the inhabitants.

Order of the True Steel or Steel Sisters
An order of Sisters Militant founded by the Blessed Urracca, a former governor of Iber, and affiliated with the Order of the Argent Shroud. They are the oldest of the several orders militant in the highly pious Iber Dominate. Their mother house is on Iber itself in the city of Esclavon and includes in its precincts the Cathedral of the Steel Martyrs and an affiliated chapter of Secular Canonesses and lay sisters who desire to share the spiritual benefits of the Order, this association of cenobites and sometimes achorites with a Sororitas Order is common in the Church of Iber.

Order of the Crystal Chalice
A daughter order of the Sisters of the Ebon Chalice founded by an Iberian born Canoness of said Order, St. Jilyanna. The Sisters' mother house is Fountain Abbey on Galissia, a vassal world of the Iberian Dominate. In addition to military service on the Marches fortress worlds and the Wall the Chalican sisters are tireless evangelists of the Imperial Creed with numerous missions on colonial and feral planets.

Order of the Votaresses of the Imperial Light
This daughter order of the Sacred Rose was established by a lady of the Iberian gubernatorial family, St. Margrida, on her fief-world of Canossa which is now the fief of the Order. Saint Margrida is famous for mediating a dispute between her brother the then Governor of Iber and the Arch-Cardinal of Romuleia thus preventing a private war. Unfortunately the two parties were unreasonable enough to resent her settlement and St. Margrida was forced to invite a mission of Sisters from the Sacred Rose to assure the security of her planet. The Saint had already founded a cenobitic order for noblewomen in veneration of the Imperial Light which was later joined by several of the Sacred Rose sisters who transformed it into an Order Minor Militant.

Order of Our Lady of the Marches
This Order Militant is affiliated with the Sisters of the Ebon Chalice. They were founded by the Cardinal of Andymion in the Fourth century of M.41 to deal with raiding from the Kerak sub-sector by surviving separatists. Their mother house is located on the airless and barren fortress world of Mundus Calpis, a linchpin of the Sector's rimward defenses. The Sisters are also known as Emilians after their patron saint Emilia, also known as Our Lady of the Marches, traditional protectress of the sub-sector bearing her name. The Sisters have a commandery on Avita which provides the honor guard for the Saint's shrine.

The Order of the Guardians of the Flame
This order, also called the Flaminicans, was founded in the 6th century M38 by Cardinal Richese of Gallica in the wake of the 9th Black Crusade to strengthen the defenses of his dioceses. The order is affiliated with the Sisters of the Ebon Chalice. They are noted as extremely fierce warriors and each convent contains an unfailing flame venerated by the Sisters as symbolic of the Imperial Faith and power of the Emperor. The Order has spread to other Cardinal worlds of the Rudolphin and Hadronian Wall sub-sectors whom they serve as fervent and unquestioning soldiers of the Faith.

The Order of the Crown Imperishable
Founded by a former gubernatorial Consort divorced for political reasons. The Blessed Genevra found comfort in her faith living for many years as a cenobitic Sister of the Advent. But early in the second century M39 she was caught up with many others in the Rudolphin Crusade. Inspired she gave up her contemplative life to take up arms and found an Order of Sisters Militant which she dedicated to the Emperor's imperishable crown. They are also known as the Coronal Sisterhood

The Order of the Golden Rose
This order was founded by Saint Auda, a lady of the gubernatorial house of Loegres. The Saint, finding her ambitions for the succession decisively crushed went on pilgrimage to Holy Terra. She returned many decades later a Sister Palatine of the Order of the Sacred Rose and accompanied by a small band of fellow veteran sisters who established the first convent of their new order on the moon of Canguin. They have since spread through the sub-sector and have a considerable presence on the Wall.

Order of the Emperor's Tears
Founded on Holy Terra in the 4th c. M.41 in response to the mass visions of the Emperor weeping afflicting trillions of people on millions of worlds. Very unsually the Order has both a Militant and a Hospitaller branch. Its constitutions were laid out by the Ecclesiarch Venerian VIX who approved the Order in 523.M41. Both branches of the Order are spread through all five Segmenta. The Sisters Militant are aggressive assault troops who positively seek out posts of danger

Orders Famulous
'The End justifies the Means' is the motto of the Orders Famulous thus sisters of any order do not hesitate to seduce important men to control them, to create expertly constructed espionage networks, hire death cult assassins or on occasion do the deed themselves - all in the name of peace and unity and the Emperor's Will of course!

Order of the Six Point Star
Sisters Famulous derived from the Order of the Holy Seal. They have their Mother-house on Avita in the Emilian Marches and convents on both Gallica and Iber. They constantly work for peace between the two powers, indirectly through education of noble girls, as advisors to their parents and occasionally directly by more positive if dubious means. The Sisters of the Six Point Star are quite powerful both covertly and openly in the Emilian sub-sector and so regarded with more than a little suspicion by competing powers. Lippus II of Iber is a good friend and patron of the Order as is the Mother-Dowager Dulchess of Gallica who fondly the believe the Sisters are serving her purposes while actually serving their own.

Order of the Golden Throne
Another order deriving from the Sisters of the Holy Seal. Their mother-house is on Ptolemy Prime.

Order of the Lamp
Sisters Hospitaller derived from the Order of the Torch this order specializes in service to the denizens of the underhives of the heavily populated worlds in the central zones of the Sector. It is their mission to bring the light of the Emperor's love and mercy into the darknest despair. The Sisters adhere to the Homo et Divus sect which sometimes brings them into conflict with Divus Imperialis authorities. Fortunately they have the protection of Prioress Venicia, not to mention several Orders Militant.

Order of Our Lady's Veil
An order of Sisters Hospitaller dedicated to furthering Saint Emilia's works of mercy in the Marches and following the rule of the Order of the Cleansing Waters.

Order of the Furled Scroll
Sisters Dialogous deriving from the Order of the Lexicon based on Alexandretta

Order of the Vade Mecum
Sisters Dialogous derived from the Order of the Lexicon. Their Mother-house is on Gallica.

Convent Sanctorum Orders in the Alirian Sector
In addition to those orders deriving from the Convent Prioris on Holy Terra there are several establishments belonging to Orders affiliated with the Convent Sanctorum on Ophelia VII. The superiors of these houses opine that they do not come under the authority of the Prioress of the Silver Star which sometimes causes problems:

Order of the Bloody Rose
Maintains a preceptory of Sisters on Inqanok. With commanderies established at key points along the Warp currents leading to the system. The preceptory dates back to the immediate post-Apostasy era. The Sisters of the Bloody Rose were called in by the then Lord General of the Sector to eliminate the  grotesque and Chaos tainted xenos who formerly inhabited the planet. Unfortunately said xenos left behind all to many traces of their presence requiring a constant watch for heresy on the part of the present Human population.

Order of the Daughters of Guiliman
This Order affiliated with the Convent Sanctorum on Ophelia VII but  is not descended from the Daughters of the Emperor but from a militant religious order for women founded c. 40 M.34 by Valeria Crispa a noble lady of Ultramar. As one might guess from the order's title they venerate Guilliman as their founding Saint and follow his teachings religiously. The Daughters are, of course, closely linked to the Ultramarines and succesor Chapters and a house of their can be found almost everywhere you find Sons of Guilliman. In Aliris sector their main Commandery is on Cato but missions of Sisters can also be found in the garrisons of the Wall.

Order of the Promethean Sisterhood
Like the Daughters of Guiliman the Promethean Sisterhood is Astartes affiliated and predates the establishment of the Adepta Sororitas. They too are headquartered at the Convent Sanctorum. The mother house is of course on Nocturne. The Promethean Sisters are often called upon by the Adeptus Mechanicus to purge heresies in its ranks. Their presence in the Alirian Sector is due to the vile Moreavan Heresy which flourished briefly on volcanic Lucifer in the Hadronian Wall sub-sector. Lucifer is now the site of the Sisterhood's preceptory.

Order of the Adamantine Achoress
An order of Sisters Militant affiliated with the Sisters of the Valorous Heart and inspired by the St. Chimena, a Sister Oblate formerly of that Order famous for the severity of her mortifications as well as her deeds against the enemies of the Emperor. Her daughters are also known for their extreme asceticism and harsh treatment of enemies. Some have gone so far as to call them masochistic and sadistic or psychopathic.

Order of the Snow Swan
This order of Sisters Militant is lineally descended from the Order of the Valorous Heart by way of the Order of the Wounded Heart. When the latter was forced to reduce its numbers in the first century of M.38 a number of the auxillary sisters formed themselves into a new Order. The Swan Sisters were strongly influenced by the Space Wolves present on Dimmamar at the time of their founding, adopting much of their battle doctrine and some of their animistic spiritual beliefs.

Order of the Burning Rose
This Order of Sisters Militant was founded by Marcella Claudio-Julia and her cousin Drusilla Livio-Julia in the mid-9th century M41. Its rule and organization are based on those of the Order of the Blood Rose. It's Mother house is on Zode I and the Order's patron saint is Athaliah the Flame.

Order of the Holy Word
Sisters Dialogous of the Convent Sanctorum. They have a Sanctum on Inqanok.