This is an oft-used, lazy plot device that is commonly used by new writers in one of two ways, either to make a Chapter skip a few centuries, to avoid centuries worth of backstory and campaigns to write about, as well as to explain away why one of their Chapter's companies split from their parent Chapter, to eventually become their own separate Chapter. The Primarch of the White Scars was the mighty Jaghatai Khan. Codices follow the same edition publication history as the . It is treated as a community project and serves as both hints and guidelines. Codex: Kroot : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Codex: Kroot Usage CC0 1.0 Universal Topics Warhammer, Game Component, T'au Empire, Kroot, Playable Army, Fanmade, Unofficial, Codex, 40K, Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40K, War Games, War Gaming, TTG, Tabletop Game Collection opensource Language English Other Chapters adapt the teachings of Guiliman according to their own genetic or cultural heritage, and while they may stray from it in some areas, generally follow the teaching in the codex. He came close to figuring out how to reproduce the gene-seed of the Space Wolves without any of its inherent flaws. The construction of a Chapter's fortress-monastery may be one of the greatest undertakings of all, drawing on the genius of the Imperium's most accomplished military architects. The Chapter's Primarch was a deeply devoted warrior who fought tirelessly at the right hand of the Emperor, but even this towering exemplar had his flaws, as he himself is known to have acknowledged. What exactly is a Space Marine Chapter? Those Chapters that call a Death World their home are likely to be experts in fighting in the particular type of terrain it features. Wars of secession, fought between rival factions each believing themselves the rightful heirs to the rulership of an Imperial world, reduce entire planets to wastelands even without the actions of hostile invaders or rebellious elements. The name of a Chapter often describes it some way, linking to its Battle-Brothers' essential character or mission. Ryan Hilton. Fresh-Faced New User I've always wanted to make a pony army for Warhammer 40k since I became a brony (as I'm an avid Warhammer 40k player, and I love the blending of passions), and after watching "Ponyville Confidential" and seeing Twilight's forcefield, the final pieces of said army . Discover; . Ice-bound Fenris, the home world of the Space Wolves Chapter, is a frozen waste riddled with active volcanoes, and produces some of the hardiest Aspirants in the Imperium. The Dark Angels are considered amongst the most powerful and secretive of the Loyalist Space Marine Chapters. A Hive World, for example, may be an ash-blasted wasteland or its rearing spires might form islands of plasteel amidst an endless sea of jungle. Every Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes uses some form of Trial to ascertain whether Aspirants are worthy of beginning the often-fatal process of becoming fully-fledged Battle-Brothers. When the Chapter's genetic curse manifests in one of its Battle-Brothers, it usually progresses in three stages. Battle-Brothers, and so ultimately, units such as armoured vehicles are always deployed in support of the Brethren. A Feral World savage might be deposited in a hive city, for example, or a Hive Worlder in a predator-infested Death World jungle. The vast majority of Space Marine Chapters are descended from the Ultramarines, and as such adhere to the dictates of the Codex Astartes. In both cases, however, an Aspirant that has failed the Trial -- yet performed to the Chapter's satisfaction -- is rescued from the jaws of death by the Chapter's Apothecaries and judged worthy of progressing to the rank of Neophyte. This also goes for having a Chapter aligned with any other xenos species or empire. Chapters that follow this belief system to an extreme, adorning themselves in all manner of deathly fetishes and even partaking of gristly trophy taking. You can have your Chapter not know its gene-seed origin and hint at the idea of Traitor origins, but at no point do you want to outright say it. This is especially likely to be the case with Chapters of a later Founding, who maintain less in the way of contact with the Progenitor than older, more closely-tied Successors. Your Chapter's history can run the gamut from simply conducting raids on foul xenos to deeply connected endeavours, filled with intrigue, that interact with Inquisitors, Rogue Traders, and other servants of the Imperium. They consider that the only righteous path lies in the expenditure of their lives for these purposes and will face them with a stoic heart and a single-mindedness that can only lead to the complete annihilation of everything and everyone he faces, often eventually including himself and those that fight beside him. Many new Chapter Masters create new heraldries to avoid any possible duplication. It is comparatively rare for a Chapter to involve itself in the practical considerations of administering its home world, and even when one does so, the more prosaic details are often left to Chapter Serfs or leaders from the population. Some Exposure Trials test the Aspirant's fortitude in a specific environment. Codices designed for a prior edition of Warhammer 40,000 are still valid in the current edition, unless a later version has replaced it. The members of the Death Company are then sent out to perform the most dangerous assaults, hoping for a quick and honourable death in combat. What started out as just an idea of a simple handful of units from the Adeptus Mechanicus and Chaos Space Marine lists quickly grew in ambition and scope until it turned into a full 120 page homemade codex, borrowing and/or modifying some units, but also creating a bunch of fresh ones. Thunderhawk Transporters carry armoured vehicles - either two Rhinos or a single Land Raiderslung beneath their bellies. Sometimes they hold the exclusive rights to recruit at particular worlds, although the populations of those worlds may know nothing of any such arrangement. Codex Supplements have their parent faction noted in brackets. Warhammer 40,000 Homebrew Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Some Dead Worlds serve as Space Marine home worlds, either due to their strategic location, relative isolation or because the Chapter is tasked with guarding against the return of the ancient threat that brought about the world's fate in the first place. Many planets classed as Hive worlds feature a predominance of polluted wastes, the result of millennia of mining and industrial processing. In occupying a Death World, a Chapter will be forced to defend itself constantly against the world itself, a fact that tests the Battle-Brothers continuously even when they are not fighting the enemies of the Imperium. Every Chapter has its own traditions, histories and battle-honours, but the Ultramarines are the standard by which many others, especially those of their genetic lineage, judge themselves and their peers, whether they acknowledge it or not. Each Space Marine Chapter is limited to a strength of approximately 1,000 Astartes by ancient tradition, so that no one man can ever again command enough power to start another successful rebellion against the Emperor. Effects partial memory transfer from consumed flesh/genetic material. During the Daemon Primarch's rampage in The Fang's fleshchambers he was confronted by Wolf Priest Hraldir. Potential Aspirants fight a Blood Duel to the death. In spite of the fact that the Primarchs were separated from the Emperor of Mankind through the mysterious actions of the Ruinous Powers of Chaos and scattered through the Warp across the galaxy, He managed to keep a small sample of each Primarch's gene-seed, and used this genetic material to create the first Space Marines by further genetically enhancing His own elite, Terran-born soldiers. Many Chapters consider the Aspirant's spiritual and mental capabilities every bit as important as his physical characteristics and impose Trials not of the body, but of the mind. were already deliberately expunged from all known Imperial records and archives before the onset of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. Many Chapters have as their symbol some form of animal, either an actual creature or one from mythology. It is said that only the High Marshal has any idea of the Black Templars' full numbers, but it is rumoured in the Inquisition that they actually number close to 6,000 Space Marines. It is a rather large Chapter, and there are plenty of Brotherhoods you could choose from to write about, just as long as you don't bend the canon too much. This is not to say that you couldn't imply that your Chapter might display lupine traits within their gene-seed. 2nd Edition was released in 1993. Those who fall victims to the Darkness are left in the care of the Chapter's Reclusiarch, or senior Chaplain, offering the victims of the Darkness a spiritual treatment that either cures them or ultimately results in their deaths. However, keep in mind that this is also the exception, not the rule! Rules - Delivered in varying forms between editions. He disappeared during the massacre, and his body was never found or recovered. Many are based on a single homeworld and recruit solely from that populace, setting trials and tests for prospective candidates to weed out all but the strongest and the most faithful. The Imperial Fists stand out from other Space Marine Chapters since they possess no fixed homeworld, although they are most frequently based on Terra. Chapters that specialise in the tactic tend to maintain highly mobile forces, eschewing heavy firepower for manoeuvrability. The Imperial Fists' gene-seed is very stable and has never exhibited signs of mutation. Black Templars are filled with a righteous power and hatred for the witch and heretic, even beyond that of other Chapters. The Battle- Brothers of some Chapters are focused and relentless in close combat, while others are frenzied and nigh uncontrollable. With each Primarch the Emperor re-discovered during the Great Crusade, He gave command of the Space Marine Legion created from their genetic material back to them. After the resurrection of the long dead Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilliman from his deathless slumber, the Avenging Son immediately set out on his Terran Crusade, to seek and audience with his father, the Emperor of Mankind. Some carry this notion through to a rejection of artificial augmetics, preferring death to the dishonour of concealing weakness with machine implants and totally abhor the practise of imprisoning a fallen warrior in the sarcophagus of a Dreadnought. Some Chapters concentrate their efforts in and around one region, particularly those based near the Eye of Terror. The Raven Guard's demeanour heavily reflects their combat doctrine. If he is a native of such a hellish place, the Aspirant will have some knowledge of how to survive, yet is shorn of all aid and divested of all but the most basic of survival equipment. The Space Wolves use similar methods, as do many other Chapters. The horrors that a Space Marine will witness during his service to the Emperor are sufficient to destroy a normal man's sanity and those witnessed by the Battle-Brothers who serve in the special Astartes units like the Grey Knights and the Deathwatch are more horrifying still. Warlord known only as The Beast - which laid waste to much of the known galaxy and threatened to destroy Terra itself. Red helmets, for example, are reserved for Sergeants, whilst a white helmet or laurel design denotes Veteran status. In others, mutations come about as an unanticipated side effect of an attempt to rectify another issue. Eighteen known Space Marine Legions were created from the gene-seed of the 18 known Primarchs engineered by the Emperor of Mankind from His own genetic code in His gene-laboratories in the Imperial Palace on Terra beneath the Himalazian (Himalayan) Mountains. When triggered produces hyper-cocktail of combat stimms and enhanced rapid fresh regrowth before falling dormant again. Within this specialisation there exists some variety, which is usually derived from the nature of the Chapter's gene-seed. For 10,000 years, the sons of Ferrus Manus have stoked the unquenchable fires of hatred, drawing strength from their bitterness and awaiting the day of their Primarch's return. For the newly initiated, Gue'vesa are those human who have thrown off the shackles of the Imperium of Man and willingly embraced the xenos philosphy of the Tau Empire's so-called "Greater Good" and have become their willing allies/subjects. Now that you have all the pertinent information for your new Chapter, the real fun begins! There are a myriad of other concerns too. A tiny proportion have been settled, but life there is a daily, even hourly struggle for survival where one false step spells death at the slavering maw of some hideous Death World predator. The solution to the affliction of the Darkness is to create a spiritual darkness of his own within the stasis sarcophagus. Those Chapters that do not possess a Chapter home world, but do have one or more recruiting worlds. Feral worlds are those planets colonised eons ago, long before the Age of Imperium, which subsequently regressed to atavistic barbarism due to extended periods of isolation or other, less predictable factors. Below is a chart that shows the most common figures of legend. Thus, a Chapter of the Twenty-Sixth Founding could actually have a "purer" genetic inheritance than one of the Sixth, for example, depending on which Progenitor or Successor provided the gene-stock. The Blood Angels carry with them the twin genetic curses of Sanguinius. Known as The Flaw, these genetic curses known separately as the Red Thirst and the Black Rage. The Salamanders and their people as a whole are also defined by their adherence to a variation of the Imperial Cult called the Promethean Cult. A contributor must acquire Administrator approval prior to posting their article, should they wish to have a Chapter that exceeds the usual 1,000 battle-brothers. A suppression is a punitive war, launched against a world for the security of the surrounding region. It has already been established that the only likely Successor Chapter Founded from their gene-seed (Without the Grey Knights permission of course!) Furthermore, a Titan is able to carry weapons normally only seen in planetary defence emplacements or in the turrets of the battleships of the Imperial Navy. Each Chapter serves collectively with the others of its kind as part of the Imperium of Man's Adeptus Astartes. (See 11, This Founding occurred in the mid to late-M35. The Blood Angels are an example of a Chapter that regards the drop pod assault as the most refined application of the power that is the Adeptus Astartes. However, claiming your Chapter was the pivotal force in a well documented campaign is not a good idea. The Ultramarines Legion was the largest of those bodies raised to prosecute the Great Crusade so long ago, and as a result it provided the largest number of Chapters when the Second Founding occurred in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy. Enemy positions are thoroughly reconnoitred, their status communicated by ultra-secure cipher wave to the main force hidden nearby. This section describes the many and varied trials that Aspirants are expected to overcome before being accepted into the ranks of a Chapter's Neophytes. Hive cities are transformed into towering mausoleums, their corridors and domes choked with the dead and riddled with disease. One this page are listed some examples of Space Marine battle cries, which the player might like to bellow when his character is engaging a particularly fearsome enemy! The Lost Primarchs of the First Founding Space Marine Legions are the two Primarchs of the IInd and XIth Legions who, for unknown reasons, were deliberately expunged from all known Imperial records and archives before the onset of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. They make ideal Space Marine recruits, and whole gangs of city-scum are sometimes hunted down and made to undergo the Trials. While many ocean worlds are dominated by bodies of water teeming with life, many others feature seas of far more exotic and potentially dangerous substances. Then said 'magical Inquisitor' disappears as mysteriously as they appeared. Protracted siege warfare, whether fought defensively or offensively, is a form of war rarely practised by the Space Marines and generally left to the far more numerous armies of the Imperial Guard. No challenge to their status intended. There are many ways in which a new Chapter might be granted its title. No Imperial organisation shall be permanently attached. This is a site where members of the Warhammer community share their fan-made, homebrew factions with the community. Some of these Aspirants strike out on their own, even turning on their fellows when the opportunity arises. Some Chapters are afflicted by a flaw that transcends mere zygote mutation and comes to totally define them. Battle-Brothers of the Ultramarines Chapter know well their place among the Adeptus Astartes and the importance of their Chapter to both the Imperium and the Emperor. A battle-brother of the fan-made homebrew Lantern Marines Chapter. Having determined which First Founding Legion provided the basis of the new Chapter's gene-stock, then one has to determine the gene-stock's purity. Secretes a waxy substance onto the skin to seal against extreme temperatures and vacuum. Many such flaws are two-edged swords, providing unheard of benefits balanced against terrible drawbacks. but just as often it is tied to the essential nature of the Progenitor's Primarch, the stock from which they recruit or to some other, inexplicable factor. Contents 1 1st Edition 2 2nd Edition 2.1 Boxed set volumes 2.2 Codices 2.3 Campaigns and Supplements 3 3rd Edition 3.1 Revisions Taking the target alive is perhaps the hardest of Trials, for the Aspirant must keep the foe restrained on a return journey that might prove every bit as arduous as the hunt itself. were originally composed of roughly 1,000 line Legionaries, but as the Legions grew, this number began to vary substantially by Legion, and also through the vicissitudes of war and the availability of replacement recruits. That is not to say that such issues may have crept in to an Ultramarines Successor's zygotes, however, possibly due to external factors such as damage caused by exposure to mutating environments, failed genetic manipulation or even xenos influence. When the Chapter's genetic curse manifests itself in an affected battle-brother, it comes on in three stages: When the Chapter's genetic curse manifests itself in an affected Battle-Brother, it comes on in three stages: The Carcharodons are an insular and taciturn bunch, and this only becomes more pronounced when they are amongst other Space Marines. However, over time they have lost the use of two of the special organs produced by the basic Astartes genetic template: the Betcher's Gland, which allows a Space Marine to produce poisonous/acidic spittle, and the Sus-an Membrane, which allows an Astartes to enter a state of suspended animation. In truth, those Dark Angels who are aware of the existence of the Fallen are ever watchful for any sign of their activity, and will abandon whatever mission they are about should they gain any clue that one is nearby. Even the bones of the Chapter's Primarch have been engraved in this manner, preserved as the most sacred relic the Chapter possesses. If the Death Eagles are indeed descended from the Emperor's Children, it would explain why their true origins have been purposely obfuscated. Feral world tribes might use flint-tipped spears or the sharpened, serrated fangs of wild beasts. The Space Marine Apothecaries are capable of rebuilding a crippled body should the Aspirant be deemed worthy of acceptance, so most blood duels are brutal, no holds-barred affairs. Such worlds might have been reported by itinerant rogue traders, and earmarked centuries before as potential Space Marine home worlds. Horus Heresy: How to Build a Narrative Army. Such environments range from sub-zero ice wastes, impenetrable swamps and arid deserts to exotic death world jungles, methane sumps and hydrocarbon oceans.