Space Wolves
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day and night to get this site up and running. Check back at a later date!!The character of every Space Marine Chapter is molded by the world on which it is based and by the gene-seed of its founder. The Space Wolves are a product of Fenris and their Primarch Leman Russ. The cold, deadly world of Fenris schools its people in survival and constant warfare. The Space Marines are chosen from the best warriors of a warrior race and the ablest survivors of a folk whom each day is a struggle to stay alive. They are hunters, seafarers, and fearless warriors for whom death in battle is the most fitting end to an honorable life. Whilst young they learn that loyalty to their clan and their leader is the highest virtue. They carry these qualities all their lives, and their warrior ideals become the ideals of the Space Wolves Chapter. Born on such a hostile world, few places in the universe hold any terror for the Space Wolves.
Unlike the other Space Marine Chapters
the Space Wolves do not adhere to the Codex Astartes. They are well known
for having their own organizational guidelines. Many times has the Inquisition
looked into the Space Wolves for any sign of them being influenced by the
forces of Chaos, but they never found any cause to accuse them of not being
loyal to the Emperor.
Each Great Company is lead by its Wolf Lord, a potent hero who has earned his place by dint of valiant deeds and proven wisdom. When the Chapter's leader the Great Wolf dies the entire Chapter selects his successor from amongst the twelve Wolf Lords.
Warriors of the Great Company fight in squads known as Packs. In battle Space Wolves risk their lives for their pack-brothers without a second's thought. This creates debts of honor and friendship that may take a life-time to repay. Even after pack-brothers have moved on through promotion or have been assigned to other duties, these bonds remain. Thus Great Companies are bound together by chains of honor and loyalty stronger than tempered steel.
Every Wolf Lord has a personal retinue of picked Space Marine warriors called Wolf Guard. The Wolf Guard accompanies its Wolf Lord in battle, and consists of the most mighty warriors in the Great Company. The remaining warriors in each Great Company are divided into three groups of Space Wolf Warriors: the Grey Hunters, the Blood Claws, and the Long Fangs.
As a Space Wolves warriors become
older and increasingly battle-wise his role within the Great Company changes.
At first he fights with the Blood Claws, where hand-to-hand combat is all
that is important, and where hot-blooded aggression is directed into tasks
such as seizing enemy outposts and driving foes out of forward positions.
As a Space Wolf warrior grows older his hair becomes progressively grey
and his fangs lengthen as a result of a genetic flaw in the Space Wolves'
gene-seed. Even his skin becomes more tanned and leathery, and, of course
, he aquires the scars of battle. Mature Space Wolves who are inured to
battle and at the peak of their power are called Grey Hunters. They are
experienced warriors, dour and somber, proud of their skills, and rightly
honored by their younger comrades. The oldest warriors are called Long
Fangs in recognition of their great age and experience. Their fangs are
even longer than other Space Wolves', and their grizzled hair has turned
completely ashen. Long Fangs are battlewise and cunning, they are steadfast
in adversity and it is said they are always the last to retreat from a
battle.
