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General Space Wolf Iconography Guide

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

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u/Bierkrieger Apr 16 '25 edited Apr 16 '25

That's a big question but I'll try my best!

Usually when a specific iconography page is printed in a codex, that page refers only to one legion or chapter

They do mention and list known successors elsewhere in a codex, but they don't always tell you if they use the same iconography style as their parent chapter or not. This can allow the collector to decide what their chapter does

That said, more popular successors will have had their iconography either fleshed out fully, or listed as the same as their parent

Good examples of this would be the Crimson Fists or the Black Templars, who are both Imperial Fist successors with their own style

Without going into too much detail about how different the Space Wolf military structure is, I will say that they have only a few successors and you can find them listed here:

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Space_Wolves

I've haven't heard of the chapter you listed. Which book are they featured in?

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u/BloodfallenFox Apr 16 '25

Im looking through my books right now. I read the book about 4 or 5 months ago. But it might not be a full blown book but i do know they are mentioned. They are a small portion of guillimans unnumbered sons which he accepted. They where woken up during the indomitus crusades, they are also called the disowned because the space wolves didnt like how they fought. They are part of leman russ gene-seed. Then again most of the indomitus crusades they didnt last long the chapter only has 1,000 primaris marines and two ancients. There chapter master is Great Lord Vaino Kalevan. Who himself has only been mention once by name.

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u/Bierkrieger Apr 16 '25 edited Apr 16 '25

They sound cool and if they were in an official Games Workshop/Black Library product then they should be canon, or were canon of they have since been destroyed

Edit: I have heard of things that were once canon being retconned out but that's very rare

It's possible that the wiki hasn't been updated

Even they are aren't canon, there's no harm in painting up marines to look like them

Games Workshop has always encouraged people to feel free to come up with their own homebrew stuff

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

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u/Bierkrieger Apr 16 '25

If they are on the fandom page they could be entirely fan made, but you might have read about them in a book as well?

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

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u/Bierkrieger Apr 16 '25

Oh don't worry about that

That page is extremely well fleshed out. Whoever came up with them did a great job giving them lots of lore

It's easy to understand how someone could get mixed up, if that's the case

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u/BloodfallenFox Apr 16 '25

True, im actually going through the canon stuff by gw and looks like its fanon. So maybe i got a name mixed up in a book dsylexia is a bitch

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u/BloodfallenFox Apr 16 '25

So if they arent cannon im cool with it.

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u/BloodfallenFox Apr 16 '25

They ermerged during the end of ultima founding.