In the great war of the Horus Heresy, many deeds of infamy and valour were writ upon the bloody stars, and at the centre of this maelstrom lay the Salamanders Legion; betrayed, struck down, laid to waste and yet resolute against the foe. But still they drove on, determined not to back down. These warriors had suffered the worst. The Sanctuary Cities were established in the location of the seven original settlements of Nocturne's ancient tribal kings. Enemies are generally divided into two groups: Giant Creatures and Ravagers. But the task proved impossible, as every time Curze thought he had succeeded in killing his brother, Vulkan's body would miraculously regenerate to its former healthy state. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Although a proportion of new recruits continued to be fed into the Legion from Terra and Proximal, this was not sufficient in size to significantly ameliorate this problem, nor did Vulkan pursue the rapid-induction techniques favoured in later years by certain Space Marine Legions. Now that the Salamanders saw them, ignoring pain and injury, frothing with frenzy, they believed those stories to be true. After the battle at Antaem, Vulkan set about remaking and re-forging his Legion, keen to keep the honour, the spirit of self-sacrifice for the Imperium and bravery he found, but also determined that it should stand together and become more disciplined both in its temper and wiser in its pursuit of battle. These havens and their defences are all that stands between the people of Nocturne and their eradication by the elements. First Captain Numeon and the Pyre Guard joined him fractionally later and a dense, chaotic melee erupted. These same physical characteristics are also present in every Salamanders Space Marine. Scattered groups of traitors had spilled out as far as the dropsite but were quickly destroyed by the troops holding it. They spend several years learning the art of the smith, and the most able apprentices are then judged by the Chapter's Apothecaries and Chaplains to see if they are worthy (and capable of surviving the gene-seed organ implantation process) to become Space Marines. The Salamanders often make use of flame ornamentation on their weapons and vehicles. Salamanders Veteran Astartes; note the distinctive physical characteristics of obsidian skin and glowing red eyes. Shells pranging off his armour, the primarch took up the vanguard position, whilst his chasing Pyre Guard tried to keep pace. They’ve got a new Codex, new units, and four new powerful Codex Supplements – with more on the way. This is one of the more significant effects of Promethean doctrines upon the Chapter's collective psyche. Sergeants have a white skull centred upon their helms. Though many within the Chapter have never seen it, let alone perused its pages, they know that it is full of riddles and prophecies. Led by Vulkan himself, the XVIII Legion was joined by the Iron Hands and the Death Guard Legions, both led by their own respective Primarchs. The Emperor knew Vulkan was the perfect son to temper the XVIII Legion and forge it strong again. While the retreat of Horus' rebels was ragged and disorganised, the warriors of the XVIII and XIX Legions fell back in good order. The Imperium's Ecclesiarchy does not consider these mutations heretical as the Salamanders and the Nocturneans themselves have always been among the most staunchly loyal of the Space Marine Chapters and the Promethean Cult prevalent on the world is an accepted variant of the Imperial Cult. Many were cut down as the traitors threaded the air with enough flak to wither an armada. One of the few notable campaigns undertaken by the Salamanders Legion during the Great Crusade was the Imperial Compliance action undertaken on the world of Caldera. The tale is made all the more mysterious by the fact that Vulkan appeared to have left behind him a text, called the Tome of Fire, within which is locked the nature and location of seven artefacts the Primarch willed to his Chapter. Refectories provide repast, and in the great halls rare gatherings can be held. Every Iron Drake carries a special knife, known as the Drakes Fang, which is used for this exact purpose. These warriors swore to destroy the Necrons and cleanse Damnos forever. Supporting this tendency was the telling factor that even before the Nocturnean influence came to the fore, the technical aptitude demonstrated by the Legion's rank-and-file further served to allow them to maintain and indeed field-manufacture such advanced weapons, even while subjected to scattered deployments and uncertain supply. Likewise, the Legion's void-going warfleet was not particularly large in number, but it was just as telling to the Legion's character that each warship, be it Frigate or Battle Barge, was itself a work of bellicose art, layered with sophisticated and masterwork weapons and systems that often overmatched similar vessels of their size. Their resultant reputation is known to have won them great favour in certain circles of the Imperial Court and High Command while others, such as Lord Commander Actia of the XIII Legion (Ultramarines), bitter after the events of Manticore, is on open record as stating that the XVIII carried the seeds of their own destruction within them. It is worthy of note that this grounded bias towards recruitment on Nocturne did have the adverse effect that it slowed the pace at which the XVIII Legion's numbers were increased. Nocturne itself is too geologically and volcanically unstable a world to build a large, defensible structure upon. Each is devoted to and inhabited by the Astartes of one of the Chapter's seven companies. Rockets screaming, it came down in the midst of the charging Salamanders and broke them apart. Ash-fall from the many thousands of fires turned the sky grey. Of their initial complement, only fifteen of the Salamanders' ships and eleven Drop Pods would not make the surface intact. Please feel free to contribute by creating new articles or expanding existing ones. Against this threat Vulkan became transformed, and his legend spread across his world. Tanks following after their lord Primarch were flung barrel-rolling across the black sand with their hulls on fire. Both Vulkan and his brother Corvus Corax survived the ambush on Istvaan V. Conflicting reports by the few survivors stated that Vulkan, also gravely wounded, had to be dragged away from the fight onto a Thunderhawk gunship by three of his Pyre Guard and then managed to escape back to Nocturne. Salamanders Company Icons - Top Row (left-to-right): 1st & 2nd Companies, 3rd Company, 4th Company - Bottom Row (left-to-right): 5th Company, 6th Company, 7th Company. Ardent defenders of humanity since their inception, the Salamanders have achieved incredible things over the long and brutal millennia. Pages in category "Enemies" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 932 total. The Chapter has fought in several major crusades, including the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, where they only lost eight marines against almost thirty thousand Chaos casualties in a battle, and the T… Angron jabbed down to his brother with one of the motorised Power Axes he carried. Chapter Master Tu'Shan is said to possess so many of these honour marks that he has run out of room on his flesh and instead has to have fresh honours marked directly onto his battle-plate. T'kell had fashioned the vault under the careful auspice of the Chapter's Primarch, Vulkan, and had been amongst the first of his students upon his apotheosis to Master of the XVIII Legion. 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