LORE
Emperor's Children
🟣First Founding: 30th Millennium
🟣Successors of: N/A
🛡PRIMARCH: Fulgrim
🟣Choas Lord: Lucius the Eternal
🟣Colours:
Purple and gold (Pre-Heresy)
Purple, pink and black;
various other pastels (Post-Heresy)
⏺️The Emperor's Children, also sometimes known after their fall as the Lords of Profligacy, are a Traitor Legion of Chaos Space Marines who devote themselves solely to the service of the Chaos God Slaanesh, the Prince of Pleasure, though they were originally the Imperium of Man's proud IIIrd Legion of Astartes.
Iron Warriors
⚫️First Founding: 30th Millennium
⚫️Successors of: N/A
🛡PRIMARCH: Perturabo
⚫️Choas Lord: Various Warsmiths
⚫️Colours:
Silver armour, Gold trim,
and Black shoulder pauldrons,
Black and Gold striped pattern common
⏺️The Iron Warriors are one of the nine First FoundingTraitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines that turned to the service of Chaos during the Horus Heresy and now fight to overthrow the Imperium of Man.
The Iron Warriors, who were originally the IVth Legion of Space Marines, specialised in the breaking of sieges and assaults on static fortifications, which made them great rivals of the Imperial Fists Legion, said to construct the greatest static defences in the Imperium. It was this rivalry between the Legions, and between their primarchs Perturabo and the Imperial Fists' Rogal Dorn, that helped turn the Iron Warriors to Chaos.
White Scars
🟡First Founding: 30th Millennium
🟡Successors of: Star Hunters
🛡PRIMARCH: Jaghatai Khan
🟡Chapter Master: Great Jubal Khan
🟡Colours: White and Red
⏺️The White Scars, who call themselves the "Horde of Jaghatai" and were originally called the Star Huntersduring the early Great Crusade, are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and one of the First Founding Chaptersof the Adeptus Astartes.
Known and feared throughout the Imperium of Man for their highly mobile way of war, the White Scars are considered the masters of the lightning strike and hit-and-run attack and are particularly adapted to the use of the Astartes Assault Bike as their mechanical steeds and their forces contain an unusually large number of Bike Squads compared to other Chapters.
Space Wolves
🔵First Founding: 30th Millennium
🔵Successors of: N/A
🛡PRIMARCH: Leman Russ
🔵Chapter Master: Logan Grimnar
🔵Colours: Blue Grey
⏺️The Space Wolves, known in their own dialect of Juvjkas the Vlka Fenryka or "Wolves of Fenris," are one of the original 20 First Founding Space Marine Chapters, and were once led by their famed primarch, Leman Russ. Originally the VIth Legion of Astartes raised by the Emperor at the dawn of the Great Crusade, the Space Wolves are renowned for their anti-authoritarian ways and their embrace of their homeworld Fenris' savage barbarian culture as well as their extreme deviation from the Codex Astartes in the Chapter's organisation.
After the Horus Heresy and the resultant Second Founding reforms of the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Wolves Legion was divided into two Chapters.
Imperial Fists
🟡First Founding: 30th Millennium
🟡Successors of: N/A
🛡PRIMARCH: Rogal Dorn
🟡Chapter Master: Gregor Dessian
🟡Colours: Yellow, black and red
⏺️The Imperial Fists are one of the First FoundingChapters of the Space Marines and were originally the VII Legion of the Legiones Astartes raised by the Emperor Himself from across Terra during the Unification Wars.
The Imperial Fists stand out from other Space Marine Chapters since they possess no fixed homeworld, although they are most frequently based on Terra. Instead, the Imperial Fists rely on their 10,000-year-old mobile space fortress, Phalanx, to serve as their fortress-monastery.
Night Lords
⚫️First Founding: 30th Millennium
⚫️Successors of: N/A
🛡PRIMARCH: Konrad Curze
⚫️Chaos Lord: Krieg Acerbus
⚫️Colours: Dark blue and brass
⏺️The Night Lords were originally the VIIIth Legion of Space Marines created during the First Founding. They betrayed the trust of the Emperor of Mankind during the Horus Heresy of the 31st Millennium and became one of the 9 Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines.
The Night Lords do not worship any of the four major Chaos Gods individually, but acknowledge them equally in the form of Chaos Undivided as they ruthlessly spread terror and fear amongst the galaxy's inhabitants. The Night Lords are experts in the use of terror tactics to win battles and demoralise their foes before the main combat even begins.
Blood Angels
⚫️First Founding: 30th Millennium
⚫️Successors of: N/A
🛡PRIMARCH: Sanguinius
⚫️Chapter Master: Commander Dante
⚫️Colours: Red and Black
⏺️The Blood Angels are one of the 20 First FoundingLegions of the Space Marines and were originally the IXth Legion before the Second Founding broke the Legiones Astartes up into separate Chapters of 1,000 Space Marines each.
They are well-known across the galaxy for their bloodthirsty nature in battle, and feared for the curse of flawed gene-seed they carry. The Blood Angels are amongst the longest-living of the Adeptus Astartes, with some of the Chapter's Space Marines having served the Emperor of Mankind for over a thousand standard years.
Iron Hands
⚫️First Founding: 30th Millennium
⚫️Successors of: Storm Walkers
🛡PRIMARCH: Ferrus Manus
⚫️Chapter Master: None
⚫️Colours: Black and Gray
⏺️The Iron Hands are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapterand one of the original First Founding Space Marine Legions created from the gene-seed of their martyred primarch, Ferrus Manus.
Like the other Loyalist Astartes Legions, the Iron Hands would later be divided up after the Horus Heresy into multiple different Chapters, as required by the Codex Astartes, although one Chapter of the original Legion remained known as the Iron Hands and is described below.
World Eaters
⚫️First Founding: 30th Millennium
⚫️Successors of: Storm Walkers
🛡PRIMARCH: Angron
⚫️Chaos Lord: Khârn the Betrayer
⚫️Colours: Red and brass (Current)
Blue and white (Pre-Heresy)
⏺️The World Eaters are one of the Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines who now inhabit the Warp riftknown as the Eye of Terror in the Imperium of Man's Segmentum Obscurus.
The World Eaters, originally known as the War Hounds, were also once the XIIth Legion of the twenty First Founding Space Marine Legions, and one of the first to betray the Emperor of Mankind for the service of Chaosand the Warmaster Horus.
This Legion was a collection of nearly inhuman monsters long before Horus became corrupted and monsters they would remain, only with what little remained of their restraint and their Humanity stripped away after their fall to Chaos.
Ultramarines
🔵First Founding: 30th Millennium
🔵Successors of: War-Born
🛡PRIMARCH: Roboute Guilliman
🔵Chapter Master: Marneus Calgar
🔵Colours: Lapis-blue, white and gold
⏺️The Ultramarines are considered one of the strongest and most honoured of all the Space Marine Chapters in the Imperium of Man, and were responsible for almost single-handedly holding the Imperium together after the Horus Heresy.
Highly-disciplined and courageous warriors, the Ultramarines have remained true to the teachings of Primarch Roboute Guilliman for 10,000 standard years. The Ultramarines were originally the XIIIth Space Marine Legion before the reforms that initiated the Second Founding and reshaped the Imperium after the Heresy in the Time of Rebirth on the orders of Guilliman himself as the lord commander of the Imperium and Imperial Regent.
Death Guard
🟢First Founding: 30th Millennium
🟢Successors of: Dusk Raiders
🛡PRIMARCH: Mortarion
🟢Chaos Lord: Typhus
🟢Colours: Various sickly Greens & Browns
⏺️The Death Guard are one of the Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines. They worship and devote themselves exclusively to the Chaos God Nurgle and as a result of his mutational "gifts" they have become Plague Marines; Heretic Astartes who are eternally rotting away within their power armour and infected with every known form of disease and decay but who are immune to all pain or minor injury.
When the XIVth Legion was first raised on Terra by the Emperor during the First Founding, its Astartes were known as the Dusk Raiders. After the XIVth Legion was reunited with its Primarch Mortarion on the world of Barbarus, he renamed the Legion the Death Guard.
The Death Guard are a Traitor Legion entirely steeped in the power of Nurgle, the Chaos God of death, disease and despair, their very essence the epitome of all that vile Chaos God stands for. Their bodies are hives of filth and decay, their flesh eternally rotting away even as it is renewed by the ceaseless process of death and rebirth.
Thousand Sons
🔴First Founding: 30th Millennium
🔴Successors of: N/A
🛡PRIMARCH: Magnus The Red
🔴Chaos Lord: Ahriman
🔴Colours:
Red, bronze, and white (Pre-Heresy)
Azure, yellow and gold (Post-Heresy)
⏺️The Thousand Sons are one of the Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines who are sworn solely to the service of Tzeentch, the Chaos God of change, intrigue and sorcery, though they were once the Imperium of Man's XVth Legion of Space Marines. The main feature that distinguishes the Thousand Sons from the other Traitor Legions is the sheer number of psyker mutationsthat have always existed amongst the Space Marines in this Legion. Every current member of the Legion possesses psychic abilities and they prefer to use Chaos Sorcerers and guile in combat, relying on their psychic powers and sorcerous knowledge to earn them victory. As a result of an ancient spell known as the Rubric of Ahriman that was cast soon after the Thousand Sons fell from their homeworld of Prospero during the early days of the Horus Heresy, every Thousand Sons Astartes that lacked psychic powers had his soul fused directly into his power armour. The Thousand Sons have become living embodiments of sorcery animated by the power of Chaos and the will of the Lord of Change.
Luna Wolves (Sons of Horus)
🔵First Founding: 30th Millennium
🔵Successors of: N/A
🛡PRIMARCH: Horus Lupercal
🔵Chapter Master: N/A
🔵Colours:
White and black (Luna Wolves)
Pale green and black (Sons of Horus)
⏺️The Luna Wolves were the XVIth Space Marine Legionraised by the Emperor of Mankind on Terra at the dawn of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium. After the Emperor rediscovered the Legion's primarch Horusin 801.M30 on the world of Cthonia, and gave him command of the Luna Wolves, Horus went on to lead the XVIth Legion in earning thousands of battle honours over the span of the 200 standard years of the Great Crusade.
Few other Legions could match the Luna Wolves' achievements and of those that could, few could rival the XVIth Legion for the brightness with which their victories shone. Spread across hundreds of expeditionary fleets and on countless battlefields, the Luna Wolves broke the enemies of the newborn Imperium and pushed the Great Crusade forwards.
Word Bearers
🔴First Founding: 30th Millennium
🔴Successors of: Imperial Heralds
🛡PRIMARCH: Lorgar
🔴Choas Lords: Erebus / Kor Phaeron
🔴Colours:
Gunmetal Grey (Pre-Heresy)
Crimson and Silver (Post-Heresy)
⏺️The Word Bearers are one of the nine First FoundingSpace Marine Legions that betrayed the Emperor of Mankind during the Horus Heresy. They became Chaos Space Marines, their allegiance pledged to their Daemon Primarch Lorgar and to Chaos Undivided. The Word Bearers were also the first Space Marine Legion to be corrupted by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos many solar decades before their counterparts turned to the service of the Dark Gods.
Through their actions they corrupted the WarmasterHorus and brought on the terrible galactic civil war of the Horus Heresy in all its savagery. Today they bend all their considerable efforts towards the overthrow of the "Corpse Emperor" in the Long War and spreading the "truth" of Chaos to all Mankind.
Salamanders
🟢First Founding: 30th Millennium
🟢Successors of: Dragon Warriors
🛡PRIMARCH: Vulkan
🟢Chapter Master:
Regent of Prometheus Tu'Shan
🟢Colours: Green, black and gold
⏺️The Salamanders are one of the Loyalist First Founding Chapters of the Space Marines. They originally served as the Imperium's XVIIIth Space Marine Legionduring the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. For some time before their unification with their primarchthey were known as the "Dragon Warriors." Their homeworld is the volcanic Death World of Nocturne. The Salamanders as a Chapter are unusually concerned with civilian casualties compared to most other Space Marines and believe that one of their most important duties is to protect the lives of the Emperor of Mankind's innocent subjects whenever and wherever possible. This is an attitude that developed as a consequence of the Salamanders' own unusually close connections to the Nocturnean people, as they are one of the only Chapters of Astartes who continue to interact with their mortal families and the people of their homeworld after their transformation into Space Marines.
Raven Guard
🔵First Founding: 30th Millennium
🔵Successors of: N/A
🛡PRIMARCH: Corvus Corax
🔵Chapter Master:
Master of Shadows Kayvaan Shrike
🔵Colours:
Black and White
⏺️The Raven Guard is one of the original First FoundingChapters of the Space Marines and was originally the XIXth Space Marine Legion before the Second Foundingand the adoption of the Codex Astartes. Named for a Terran avian seen by many cultures as the herald of fate and messenger of death, the Raven Guard have served the Emperor faithfully throughout the glories of the Unification Wars, the Great Crusade and the dark days of the Horus Heresy and beyond. From its earliest days, the warriors of the XIXth Legion were known as cunning and patient hunters, adept at biding their time until the moment to strike was at hand. When the Legion was united with its primarch, Corvus Corax, the Raven Lord, the Deliverer, theirs was a form of warfare exemplifying speed, stealth and precision which was codified into their doctrine, and under the ivory-skinned, shadow-eyed and sable-haired Primarch, the XIXth Legion carved its name in the annals of the Great Crusade.
Alpha Legion
🔵First Founding: 30th Millennium
🔵Successors of: Ghost Legion
🛡PRIMARCH: Alpharius / Omegon
🔵Choas Lords: Many, often anonymous
🔵Colours: Blue, Silver and Green
⏺️The Alpha Legion is the Chaos Space Marine Traitor Legion about whom the least is known. The Alpha Legion was once the XXth Legion of Astartes created during the First Founding by the Emperor of Mankind to carry out His Great Crusade to reunite all of Humanity in a new golden age under His rule. They are experts in infiltration, covert operations, misdirection and diversion tactics, and their armies contain many Chaos Cultistsand other mortal agents in addition to regular Heretic Astartes. The Alpha Legion's primarch was named Alpharius, and was actually one of the identical twin Primarchs Alpharius Omegon, two brilliant and secretive sons of the Emperor, one of whom was believed slain at the Battle of Pluto during the Horus Heresy by Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fists and the other reportedly after the end of the Heresy by Roboute Guilliman, the primarch of the Ultramarines.