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Legion or chapter "cultural" misfits


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Other than Torghun Khan (and Terran WS like him) and (I believe), Terran Raven Guard, and some Terran Night Lords, which other marines strongly resist or reject the culture of their respective legions or chapters.

 

Don't have to be Terran, and I'm talking about inability or unwillingess to assimilate into the legion's dominant culture (typically the homeworld's).

Pretty much all of the loyalists at Istvaan III. Especially Saul Tarvitz since he denied the possibility of a promotion and even went against the sanctioned word of Fulgrim himself.

 

I remember in the Slamanders trilogy, there's one member that is a complete weasel that gets on the good side of his brothers to advance his position. He even

killed his own Captain and made it look like an Ork killed him so that he could get his friend advanced to the rank of captain.

Maybe Astelan? Garro was sort of at odds with the Barbarus natives. If you count refusing to turn traitor with the rest of the legion you have a lot more. A few captains and the one Lord Commander whose name I can't remember werent totally game with the path the EC were on. Ferrus wasnt too keen on his own legions direction, but that's more just cruel irony.

 

I would like to know more about that random RG that Sevatar vouches for and keeps in the new Kyroptera.

Sergeant Tsu'gan and Brother Iagon of the Salamanders Chapter in Nick Kyme's 'Salamanders' trilogy.

 

Iagon has already been mentioned by Slan Drakkos. Truth be told, he would fit in well with the Night Lords... He is brutal, ruthless, murderous, and utterly without compassion or morals. He is about as opposite of a Salamander as an Iron Hand would be an Emperor's Child.

 

As Slan Drakes already mentioned, Iagon quite literally murders his own Battle-Captain to secure an advancement for his sergeant, Tsu'gan. Again, this is the kind of behavior you would expect to see in the Night Lords Legion, but certainly not the Salamanders...

 

On the other hand, Tsu'gan simply feels like more of a misfit to his own particular Legion. While he certainly does show compassion, particularly for defenseless mortals, he does not mesh well with his battle-brothers. He hailed from a high-born family on Nocturne, and looks down upon those he considers to be below him, such as the Ignean-born Dak'ir. While he is assertive and determined to gain the command he thinks he "deserves", his actions and desires are initially very self-centered and run contrary to the good of both his company and the Chapter as a whole.

One could maybe argue that the entirety of the Fallen fall (oh-ho-ho) into this category, and that that was the entire source of the problem that left them feeling isolated from the Imperium and the Lion. (among other heretical things) Although the Dark Angels comes across as two Legions in one, much like the Ravens, so maybe it's not as appropriate for them.

i agree that tarvitz has come to be seen as an outlier of his legion, which i’m not a fan of, since he originally represented the dichotomy of its heart

 

sol talgron of the word bearers was a similar “line soldier” salt-of-the-earth-type, out of step with the fanaticism of his legion to the point where dorn singled him out for it, saying he could have been an imperial fist

 

the destroyers as a chapter amongst the ultramarines, maybe?

Whilst Nick Kymes' Salamanders books aren't renowned for their subtlety, they do manage a fairly memorable portrayal of what it is like to be an outsider inside the Chapter.

 

This is at its finest in book two: Firedrake.

 

It's before the character, Tsu'gan, goes way over the edge in his fairly standard narrative arc, but Nick's effort to show him as 'another kind of Salamander', a masochistic, proud, glory-seeking sort comes off extremely well. (Indeed, more plausible and dimensional, I think, than his Da'kir & Ba'ken duo, who are cut from the same cloth as Ventris & Pasanius.)

 

Tsu'gan isn't a misfit wholly, but it's an interesting study of an 'edge case' where he's very out of step with many of the Chapter. (A cynic in a chapter of idealists, by Kyme's take.)

 

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I'd love to see more of this sort of thing, more factions internal to the chapters, more schisms, more 'novel characters' or cunning inversions - the Salamander obsessed with plasma, the bike-loving Imperial Fists, the White Scar whose idea of hunting is much more about elaborate traps.

 

And that's just obvious nnes!

I'm totally with Xisor.

 

Say what you want about Kyme and his Salamanders, BUT it is the only time I've read something like this in any Space Marine centered story.

 

Although they are indoctrinated with the same facts, data, chapter culture, etc. I just don't buy that everyone stays the same. By that I mean, usually we got a bunch of hero Space Marines, regardless of them being maniacs, glory seekers, zealots or whatever. They are basically the same.

 

Iagon is a great example of an ambitious Space Marine. Usually it's like: "Yeah, our captain has fallen. Wait. Me? Oh, brothers. You honor me with your decision, I'll proudly accept. FOR THE EMPEROR!"

 

You know what I mean?

 

Compared to Chaos Space Marines, regular Marines are in that specific case, the same. I would love to see some diversity like having a very ambitious Space Marine, who wants to become Chapter Master or a real feud between captains and their companies or something similar.

 

As a note: I haven't read everything BL had released so maybe I'm missing another good example.

I'm totally with Xisor.

 

Say what you want about Kyme and his Salamanders, BUT it is the only time I've read something like this in any Space Marine centered story.

 

Although they are indoctrinated with the same facts, data, chapter culture, etc. I just don't buy that everyone stays the same. By that I mean, usually we got a bunch of hero Space Marines, regardless of them being maniacs, glory seekers, zealots or whatever. They are basically the same.

 

Iagon is a great example of an ambitious Space Marine. Usually it's like: "Yeah, our captain has fallen. Wait. Me? Oh, brothers. You honor me with your decision, I'll proudly accept. FOR THE EMPEROR!"

 

You know what I mean?

 

Compared to Chaos Space Marines, regular Marines are in that specific case, the same. I would love to see some diversity like having a very ambitious Space Marine, who wants to become Chapter Master or a real feud between captains and their companies or something similar.

 

As a note: I haven't read everything BL had released so maybe I'm missing another good example.

I recomend Legion of the Dammed and Death of Antagonis. These books is what you're looking for. Plenty of bad blood and animosities amongst loyslist.

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