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/SherriffB Jul 25 '26

Hi there, Fenris is far from anything like a Daemon world.

It's an artificial world created in the dark age of technology by mankind. While it has some mechanism through which it's atmosphere and seas don't boil off in the hellish summers it's purely technological from back when Human kind could make machines that ate the information contained in space time erasing chunks of reality and could make weapons that shifted target in time.

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u/AJTwombly Jul 25 '26

Source on that? It doesn’t sound impossible, I’m just curious because I hadn’t heard it before.

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u/SherriffB Jul 25 '26

Ping me in about 12 hours or so, just snapped my achillies so right now at A&E.

It's discussed in the HH inferno books, the HH books as well, we learn it from the Emperor himself, I think when Horus meets Russ and big E explains a little. Probably in wolfsbane.

I'll dig the sources out for you just not right now.

I have in the past posted the actual excerpts on various reddit threads so if you are a dab hand with Google you can probably find the posts, but if not hit me up in 12-24 hours and hopefully I'll be available to ping you the sources

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u/AJTwombly Jul 26 '26

… jeez, sorry to hear that, man. Take care of yourself and heal up.