Did the Fang exist during the Horus Heresy?

[Knight of the Raven]

I was rereading the White Dwarf covering the release of the skavens' hell pit abomination and I stumbled upon a one-page interview of Dan Abnett about the then newly released Prospero Burns. After explaining the differences between writing about 40,000 and 30,000 back then - the latter had much less pre-existing information about it due to the lack of rulesbooks and codices - he mentions he planned to borrow another author's layout for the Space Wolves' fortress of the Fang only to realize "it was a mistake since the Fang hadn't been built yet when Prospero Burns happened."

 

I can't give a better quote since I'm translating this line from a non-English White Dwarf, but I was wondering if this remained true five years after the book's release, with all the Black Library novels and Forge World lorebooks that implies.

 

For those interested in reading this interview in English, the only information I can provide is that this specific White Dwarf is the one from January 2011.

[Dantay VI]

Hmm, interesting.

 

There may not have been a Fang until the Emperor discovered Russ and set the Space Wolves up on Fenris, and it may have been constructed during the grerat crusade.

 

But if there was no Fang then what was the Aett? Considering its vastness it must have been the Fang.

 

Are you sure that it was a case that there were no designs for Dan Abnett to work from, rather than there was no Fang during the Heresy?

 

 

[Soldier of Dorn]

It's hard to think yourself out of 40K into 30K. I had to contemplate the Space Wolves and the Thousand Sons in a different way. I was comparing notes with the author of a forthcoming Space Wolves book and was intending to borrow his brilliant designs for the plan of the Fang when I realized they were no good to me: the Fang hadn't been completed at the time of Prosper Burns.

- Dan Abnett, White Dwarf 373

 

To me, it seems like he's saying that while the Fang existed, it wasn't the same layout as the one in the SW book that he's referring to (Battle for the Fang?) The VI Legion still was using it, but construction had not yet been completed.

[Kossaka]

I remember in one of the Blackmane books that the Fang was built to house the whole of the legion, and whole chunks of the fortress had never been used becuase after the heresy the space wolves were so much smaller. The Fang is probably the Aett just a change of names over the ages.

[Marshal Rohr]

It mentions specifically in Prospero Burns it's under construction. It's also pretty reasonable to suggested the second strongest fortress in the imperium (made of a mountain) took more than 200 years to complete.

[Knight of the Raven]

Thanks for the actual English quote, The Psycho. Looks like the translator took a few liberties when translating the interview.

I think I got my answer. Thanks everyone!

[Grimtooth]

It Battle of the Fang there are whole sections of the fortress that have been abandoned as the Wolves got smaller and smaller which takes place basically in 32k.

 

In Blood of Asheim, the one pack even meets in one of these old halls as their place in which they kinda prep for missions.

 

In Prospero Burns, the Aett as described by Kasper is as immense as he can barely grasp at one point that he is actually seeing a mountain while he is flying in the first time.

 

I forget the book now, bit there is reference that once Russ was united with the Emperor, that Fenris was purposely not terraformed and that all effort by the engineers from Terra were put into the construction of the Aett as the Legion's fortress which to me would reduce the previously mentioned 200yr time frame significantly.

[Marshal Rohr]

It Battle of the Fang there are whole sections of the fortress that have been abandoned as the Wolves got smaller and smaller which takes place basically in 32k.

 

In Blood of Asheim, the one pack even meets in one of these old halls as their place in which they kinda prep for missions.

 

In Prospero Burns, the Aett as described by Kasper is as immense as he can barely grasp at one point that he is actually seeing a mountain while he is flying in the first time.

 

I forget the book now, bit there is reference that once Russ was united with the Emperor, that Fenris was purposely not terraformed and that all effort by the engineers from Terra were put into the construction of the Aett as the Legion's fortress which to me would reduce the previously mentioned 200yr time frame significantly.

Not really. Not at all actually. Abnett specifically says it wasn't done yet.

[Grimtooth]

 

It Battle of the Fang there are whole sections of the fortress that have been abandoned as the Wolves got smaller and smaller which takes place basically in 32k.

 

In Blood of Asheim, the one pack even meets in one of these old halls as their place in which they kinda prep for missions.

 

In Prospero Burns, the Aett as described by Kasper is as immense as he can barely grasp at one point that he is actually seeing a mountain while he is flying in the first time.

 

I forget the book now, bit there is reference that once Russ was united with the Emperor, that Fenris was purposely not terraformed and that all effort by the engineers from Terra were put into the construction of the Aett as the Legion's fortress which to me would reduce the previously mentioned 200yr time frame significantly.

Not really. Not at all actually. Abnett specifically says it wasn't done yet.

 

Can you give me a reference on that?  I would like to read up on it.