Quick question about Space Wolves & Heresy

[Wülfen_Warlǿrd]

Has there been any recorded Space Wolf Great Company's that have fallen to Chaos? Just curious... ;)

[Locmac]

Not sure about great companies, but in the C:CSM codex there's a story about a strike cruiser being taken by Huron and some wolves go the way of the dark gods

[Bran Scalphunter]

Not sure about great companies, but in the C:CSM codex there's a story about a strike cruiser being taken by Huron and some wolves go the way of the dark gods

 

Lies, slander, and blasphemy all spread by those that would see the impeccable record of the Wolves tarnished! Those Chaos-lovers you call Wolves were obviously Alpha Legionaries in disguise. No Wolf would go to the False Gods, no matter what.

 

*sticks fingers in ears and begins to hum loudly, blocking out heretical responses*

[Wing_Knight]

Not sure about great companies, but in the C:CSM codex there's a story about a strike cruiser being taken by Huron and some wolves go the way of the dark gods

 

Yes its true that is in the C:CSM but given that the 13th company has been in the warp since the heresy and have not been corrupted many Space Wolf players have a hard time believing they can at all. To answer your question Wülfen_Warlǿrd.

[Grey Mage]

Its possible for some of our brothers to fall here and there, though we are fairly resistant to it, only partially because of the wulfen. But an entire Great Company? No. That hasnt happened, and gods willing it never will.

 

If you want that particular storyline Id like to show you the way to the Dress Wearing forum of Emo/Solitude. Just a few subforums up from the Fang. They can tell you all day long about how their brothers left and went off to the warp knows where without them.

[dragon950]

There has never been any mention of a company falling to chaos or the dark side. I heard that all the wolves on the strike cruiser were killed, but in a WD issue a chaos player modeled some chaos space marines to look like space wolves that turned to chaos after the attack on the curiser.

 

I find it hard to believe that space wolves turn to chaos but it may be that their body is being controlled by something that makes them turn to chaos.

[Vassakov]

As with any Chapter (bar the Grey Knights) there will have been, over the course of the 10,000 years since the heresy, a number of our warriors have fallen to the Dark Gods. We talk not about them, but should our paths ever cross... well, the deepest circle of hell awaits them. Courtesy of us.

[Night Runner]

Its possible for some of our brothers to fall here and there, though we are fairly resistant to it, only partially because of the wulfen. But an entire Great Company? No. That hasnt happened, and gods willing it never will.

 

If you want that particular storyline Id like to show you the way to the Dress Wearing forum of Emo/Solitude. Just a few subforums up from the Fang. They can tell you all day long about how their brothers left and went off to the warp knows where without them.

 

It is also important to note that SW are not a chapter that worships and venerates gods or 'men with the status of gods', unlike other chapters. They only respect warriors of skill and honour. Russ and the Emperor in their eyes are the greatest of the two. Also consider their heritage. They grow up in a death world fighting and hunting monstrous creatures and other clans for survival, their minds are full of sagas recounting the deeds of great warriors overcoming great odds and perils or dying gloriously in the field of battle. This fixed mental perspective makes them if not resistant, maybe uninterested in the lure of Chaos. One could argue that this did not help half the DA Chapter from falling to Chaos, but it is important to take into consideration that the peoples of Caliban were not primitive barbarians but a techno-medieval society. Overall primitive cultures have an innate fear and loathing of evil, not a superstitious one.

 

Therefore I agree with Grey Mage that some of our wayward brothers, like in all Chapters, tend to fall out and away from the Emperor's light. W.r.t the incident in the Chaos codex, consider the source - a book on Chaos for Chaos by Chaos. I'll believe it when I read it the annals of the Wolves or listen to it in a saga while sober.

[Bloodyhandedgod]

There has never been any mention of a company falling to chaos or the dark side. I heard that all the wolves on the strike cruiser were killed, but in a WD issue a chaos player modeled some chaos space marines to look like space wolves that turned to chaos after the attack on the curiser.

 

I find it hard to believe that space wolves turn to chaos but it may be that their body is being controlled by something that makes them turn to chaos.

 

 

 

na they did not turn - the red corsairs thought the space wolves were so cool the decided they wanted to be sw and so recycled their armour

[Wülfen_Warlǿrd]

Thanks for the help, I wanted to start a SW army I just didn't know the background, until last night ;). I'm taking part of the Viking aspect of SW life. "With the coming of Ragnarok & the two sons of Fenrir Skoll & Hati, that have chased the moon and the sun across the sky, will finally come to consume them." So I'm taking that part of the Viking mythology and giving it a little bit of the SW history, their ultimate rival: The Thousand Sons. I named my army The Son Eaters, (I thought it was quite clever) and they are made up of missing squads from the 13th company that have been lost in the Eye of Terror. So... whatchya think?

[Sanguinius Chosen Wing]

That isnt quite neccessary. The Space Wolf companies do not declare allegiance to the GReat Wolf so are free to up and do thier own thing IIRC Sven Ironhand was the latest who went into exile along the Eastern Fringe and Grimnar raised another company to replase them. So accordingly Wolf Lord Bob could have been badly mauled in a fight and declared vengance grabbining whats left of his company and chasing the Thousand Sons from one warp anomaly to the next

[El Scotcho]

Yeah thats sort of how I'm doing my great company. Word gets sent back to the Fang that they were completely wiped out, so Grimnar raises a new Great Company. The message was garbled and really meant to say completely victorious with minimal losses. They get back, and everyone is surprised and overjoyed that they're still all alive, but there's already a new great company. So they are still space wolves, but not one of the 12 represented on the Annulus. This will also give me a reason to include Grimnar or Blackmane occasionally, like in Apocalypse, because fluff-wise they'd have no problem calling on one of their stalwart brethrens Great Companies to help them mess some bad guys up.