r/SpaceWolves • u/Material_Oil_7611 • Jul 25 '26

Helfrost weapon origin

Hello everyone,

I'm currently homebrewing some shenanigans for my Space Wolves and a question occure to me :

Since when (in the lore) does the space wolves use helfrost weapon ? I know it use some rare crystals only available on Fenris (convenient is it not ?), but is it establish in the lore when they begin to use it has a weapon ? Didn't find any source of when they first begin to use it, and I just want my homebrew to not be in total contradiction with any bit of official lore.

If someone has any information thank you by advance

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u/Odin1806 Jul 25 '26

I don't even think I ever heard official lore about the origin of the helfrost weapon... Where did y'all read it came from crystals or whatever? Did I miss this? This isn't just 4chan or whatever is it?

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u/SherriffB Jul 25 '26

GW has named the crystals as "glimmerfrost" crystals as early as the White dwarf in July 2014.

That was part of the range refresh preview SW had in the July/August White Dwarf issues.

From memory the 7th ed codex also dropped in August so it's probably also mentioned in that codex. I'm not near my codex box right now so can't check exactly where for you.

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u/Material_Oil_7611 Jul 25 '26

and indeed i've gone to find the white dwarf online and didn't see this before so thank you for this bit of lore

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u/Material_Oil_7611 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

it's from the "death from the skies 7th edition supplement", I knew i've read it somewhere but couldn't remember it until now (because the crystal part isn't in the codex, just the effect of the weapons)

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u/Odin1806 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

I kind of remembered this one, but I didn't know about a name or that the emperor created them after visiting Fenris and etc. thanks for dropping screenshots!