The violence of the cyclic volcanic activity creates and churns up minerals highly prized by the Adeptus Mechanicus, yet the planet has been occupied by Mankind since long before the Age of the Imperium. The Salamanders hail from a world wracked by constant volcanic instability, but possessing the very rarest kinds of mineral resources. The fact that the Salamanders have stood for ten thousand standard years as paragons of strength, honour and resolution is the true legacy of their primarch, and one that endures into the dark epoch of the 41 st Millennium.

How much of the so-called Promethean Opus is factually accurate is unknown, and in many ways unimportant. The story of the Salamanders and the legend of how their Primarch Vulkan was reunited with the Emperor is one of the few stories from the time of the Great Crusade told in a coherent form across many different worlds of the Imperium. 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. 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 families and the people of their homeworld after their transformation into Space Marines.įor instance, it is not uncommon for a Salamander to serve as a clan leader among the Nocturneans and live with them when Chapter business does not require him to remain at the Chapter's fortress-monastery on Nocturne's moon of Prometheus.

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. For some time before their unification with their primarch they were known as the 'Dragon Warriors.' Their homeworld is the volcanic Death World of Nocturne. They originally served as the Imperium's XVIII th Space Marine Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. The Salamanders are one of the Loyalist First Founding Chapters of the Space Marines.

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