Space Wolves

The Space Wolves were one of the original Space Marine legions founded by the Emperor.

They are headstrong and fierce and excel at close combat fighting. Their warriors are vying for glory on the field of battle and they live to fight. Death holds no fear for them.

They are proud and although their Primarch Leman Russ agreed to have his legion split up into chapters in the end, they do not adhere to the Codex Astartes.

Their homeworld is Fenris, a world of ice and fire and also home to a lot of very deadly beasts. When an initiate wants to pass the trials he is injected with the Canis Helix and has to go out into the snow storms and slay one of Fenris' beasts.

The same Canis Helix is also the reason very few chapters have been created from the Space Wolves' gene-seed. It proved to be too unstable and most founded chapters met with a horrific end.

Nevertheless nobody can dispute the devotion of the Space Wolves to the Emperor and the Imperium. Their sagas are told from one end of the galaxy to the other.