Blood of Vulkan

--- The Blood of Vulkan are a loyalist non-Codex compliant Space Marine Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes created during an Unknown Founding and of dubious origins. A bellicose and ferocious Chapter, these Astartes have developed unique abilities that enables them to be nigh unstoppable in close melee combat. These abilities include pyrokinetic breath that allows them to breathe fire and the ability to call upon the inherent rage of their Primarch, making them unstoppable berserkers.

Chapter History
Extant records indicate that the Chapter has been around since the dawn of M36, descended from a classified genetic, chimera gene-stock. The timeline of the Chapter's inception combined with the fact that their gene-seed was genetically altered or mixed in some way, indicates that they could possibly have been created during the ill-fated 21st 'Cursed' Founding. This Founding was plagued with rampant mutations and ill-fortune, a result of the genetic tampering by the Magos Biologis, whose knowledge in the genetic arts were not as advanced as the Emperor's. Imperial scholars theorise that the Chapter is descended from the genetic lineage of both Primarchs Vulkan  of the  Salamanders  and  Rogal Dorn  of the  Imperial Fists, in a attempt to stabilize the gene-seed of Vulkan to lower the chance of gene-seed mutations and quirks. Though, circumstantial evidence indicates that the latter, is in fact descended from the lineage of the angelic Primarch Sanguinius. The homeworld of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter is the dead molten desert world of Loris 8XH0, located on the border of the Segmentum Solar and Ultima Segmentum.

Notable Campaigns

 * Unnamed Xenocidal Campaign (Unknown Date.M36) - The first recorded campaign is when the Chapter of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter cleansed a system of a hostile and small xenos empire. It was this campaign that gave birth to the Chapter's battle-cry.
 * Antius Campaign (Unknown Date.M36) - The Blood of Vulkan's 1st and 3rd Companies deploy in support of the defence of the forge world of Antius against an Iron Warriors  Chaos warband. The Blood of Vulkan fought alongside the forge world's Skitarii Legion to defend the forge world. Following the failed initial attack on the main foundry, the Imperial forces managed to push back the encroaching Heretic Astartes forces, making them suffer horrendous casualties due to their relentless artillery bombardment and the forge world's Titan Legion. Over the following three months, the Chaos Warband was defeated and fled into the Eye of Terror.
 * Reclamation Crusade (Unknown Date.M37) - The Blood of Vulkan, along with the Black Dragons  and the  Carcharodons  Chapters, fought back to reclaim several Imperial worlds that had joined the  T'au Empire  after rebelling against the Imperium. They intended to bring back the recalcitrant worlds back into the fold of the Imperium or wipe them out entirely. The chapter brought many worlds back into the Imperium including a fortress world with aid of the world's loyalist elements, with minimum devastation.
 * Purge of the Exodus Sector (Unknown Date.M41) - Following a massive warp storm that caused the Exodus Sector to become cut off from the rest of the galaxy and the subsequent corruption of seven Chapters sent to quell the invading Forces of Chaos, that later fell to the corrupting influence of the Ruinous Powers, the High Lords of Terra assembled a large Imperial castigation strike force to purge the Chaos-corrupted Chapters and cleanse the fallen sector. These Chapter included the bellicose Blood of Vulkan Chapter, the zealous Black Templars, savage  Carcharodons  and unforgiving  Minotaurs  Chapters. During the forty-year long campaign, most of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter defended and help evacuate several Imperial worlds, while Chapter Master Nenker and the Veteran 1st and 2nd Companies assaulted the Traitor forces. During the Battle of Sigis 3, the Blood of Vulkan Chapter fought against a Renegade Chapter, known as the Blood Bearers, who were dedicated to the Blood God  Khorne . With most of the world devoid of life from orbital bombardment and the remaining forces mainly located within the fortress-monastery, the Blood of Vulkan launch an all-out assault against the Renegade Chapter's citadel. A vicious battle ensues, but in the end, the Blood Beaers are utterly wiped out by the merciless Blood of Vulkan.
 * The defense of Intrire ( 546 M 38) : The entirety of the chapters 2nd company was sent to defend the world of Intrire a standard agri world used by another chapter as a recruiting world from a massive dark eldar cabal and was assisted by members of Terra's roaches, when reinforcements from the Blood of Vulkan's first company and the entirety of the Terra's roaches chapter arrived it was to late the 2nd company suffered a heavy losses with 60 astarties killed, 5 wounded and 15 captured and taken to the city of  Commorragh when the 15 battle brothers chased the dark eldar into a webway portal in a attempt to recuse the 400,000 imperial citizens that were taken.

Chapter Homeworld
The desolate and unforgiving desert world of Lorix 8XH0 serves as the unforgiving Chapter homeworld of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter. Due to the planet's active volcanoes erupting every year forming lava rivers and lakes of metal rich lava that have forges built around them to produce the chapters armor, weapons and technology for the chapter and the imperium at large. The truly habitable parts of the planet are the desert sized continents and are known as the great dunes and on the sea of glass plateau is the fortress monastery of the Blood of Vulkan chapter which doubles as a city from which the chapter derives it recruits, a regiment known as the angelic flame regimen act as the local planet defense force along with the fortress monastery defenses includes Icarus pattern lascannons, a planetary defense laser, void shield generators to ensure extremely and near unbreakable durable defense.

Fortress-Monastery
Known to the Imperium as the Forge this city fortress monastery houses 200,000 imperial citizens, workers, and regiments that help make up the planets defense force and where the chapter derives its recruits, underneath the city lies a systems of bunkers, munitions storage and vast tunnels emergency evacuation routes

Command Ranks
chapter master

chief apothecary

chief librarian

company captain

company sergeant

Line Ranks
battle brother

scout

Specialist Formations
the blood drake company

Chapter Culture
Due to their strict adherence to the teaching of their gene father members act kind, gentle feel to their subjects when their not in combat and when they do they become brutal and unforgiving warriors even when saving a child they'll have an un-human roar as they breath out their roaring fire while still showing humanity to those around them to the point where they treat a citizen of the Imperium as a battle brother rom their chapter

Chapter Beliefs
The Blood of Vulkan chapter strictly follows the teachings of Vulkan to value life over pride and are willing to aid the citizens of the Imperium in any way possible, even those from other Chapters, and like their brothers in the Salamanders Chapter. the Blood of Vulkan Chapter believes that their genesire lives and that one day they will meet their gene-father. During the final Rites of Passage, Neophytes are sent off into the vast desert with supplies with only enough to last them eight months to survive the desert's intense heat and deadly predators that comes out during the night. During these eight months, each Neophyte must collect a fang and the hide of the deadly dune hound that only comes out of the ground during the night to hunt. When the surviving Neophytes returns, they are recognized as full-fledged Astartes and inducted into one of the battle companies' scout units. These newly inducted Scout Marines wear the hide and necklace made from their slain dune hound's fangs, and in time are inducted as full-fledged battle-brothers. As the scout becomes a battle brother the individual astaries will gather the liquid ore from the planets lava rivers and forges his own weapon either be a custom bolter or a modified version on a chainsword with a custom appearance each unique to the individual battle brother.

Chapter Gene-Seed
Whatever the truth to the origins of the Chapter's gene-seed, due to the nature of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter's chimeric lineage, the Chapter has developed two unique genetic idiosyncrasies, including the pyrokinetic ability to exhale from their powerful lungs, immense flames that burn as hot as promethean. To compensate for the use of this ability in battle, the Chapter's artificers have modified their helmets so that the mouth grill can be opened on command, in order to use this ability. The other ability that the Chapter has acquired, is their innate ability to call upon the inherent rage of both Primarchs, enabling a battle-brother to become insane berserkers full of vengeful fury. This primarily happens under extreme amounts of stress and anger, allowing an Astartes to obtain a portion of their Primarchs' strength and endurance. These battle-brothers are organised into companies of insane, vengeful berserkers called the Blood Drake companies and are used as siege breakers. The other noticeable geen-seed quirk is that there has been rare instances that a few Astartes of the Chapter have developed sanguine features and have taken on a beauty that echoes that of their angelic forebear.

Primaris Brethren
When the Ultramarines   Primarch   <font color="#0066cc">Roboute Guilliman  was resurrected and introduce the  <font color="#0066cc">Primaris Space Marines  to the imperium the chapter welcomed their new brothers and as declared by Chapter Master Nenker that the Primaris Marines would be treated as the standard battle-brothers despite the initial distrust towards the Primaris Marines and Primaris Neophytes will undergo the same rites and training as the regular Neophytes. Due the Primaris Space Marines lacking the gene-seed defect of the pyrokinesis breath, their helmets are modified to house built-in flamers to mimic the ability to roar fire at their enemies and the first batch of the chapters primaris marines didn't see combat until they passed through the rites, learn of Vulcans teaching and ascended to the rank of battle brother.

Primarch's Curse: Heart of the Dragon
From the genetic stock derange from the Primarch Vulkan due to the high probabilities of mutation the chapter receives the pyrokinesis breath and some would view it as a curse but the chapter it's a gift from their father. The primarch's rage the second gene-seed defect of the Chapter and when it takes hold of one of the battle brother are filled with their gene-fathers memories and becomes insane vengeful berserkers and obtains a portion of a primarchs strength and endurance similar to the black rage suffered by the blood angels and their successors hinting at the truth of the chapter's second gene-father.

Deathwatch Service
In terms of members of the blood of Vulcan joining are very rare only few have joined the death watch and lasting a full century before returning to their chapter for reasons they keep to themselves and only tell their secrets to the chapters chaplains and guards it to there graves

Notable Members

 * Chapter Master Nenker - The honorable and power full member and current chapter master who held and proved why he has the tital for the pass 500 years who speaks in tones of wisdom and bears  scars of many battles and campaigns


 * Ancient of Rites Noxis - An ancient Astartes sealed within a formidable Leviathan Siege Dreadnought and armed with an enlarged power sphere and stormshield. Noxis has lived throughout most of the history of his chapter, since its very beginning and watched over the progress of the chapter's neophytes for the past 4 to 5 millennia. He is often sought out by many members of the chapter for his wisdom, guidance and tales of mighty and ancient battles that the chapter has fought and endured.

Chapter Fleet
4 strike cruisers

3 battle barges

2 hunter destroyers

2 nova frigates

6 Gladius frigates

Chapter Relics

 * Living Flame - A Mk 3 'Iron' pattern artificer amour that is known to the chapter as the Living Flame has a built-in bolter on the left forearm. This archaic suit of battle-plate is passed down from Chapter Master to Chapter Master since the chapters founding, each modifying it with along with a set of mk4 power armor said to be the chapter first battle honor worn by the chapters 4 champions.
 * A rhino primarius- called the endurance a ancient rhino modified for long rang combat and to double as a siege weapon much deadlier then a typical rhino tank.
 * The healing flame- A spear that the chapter claims to be crafted by Vulkan himself and what is unique about this relic that one it pears into the flesh of its target it drains the foes life force and heals its user or by the users desire to heal other back to full restoration and is currently wielded by the current chief apothecary Zelos Tarkis.
 * The ax of fury- Crafted by the chapters first chief Libarian and flame smith this ancient single sided power ax forged with a psykic flame that'll forever burn bright ant hot enough to melt cerimite.

Allies

 *  <font color="#0066cc">Terra's Cockroaches  - Terra's Cockroaches after a battle the two chapters fought in both chapters agree to aid one other in dire times and details regarding to the event remains sealed in both chapters archives.

Enemies

 * Xenos - Xeno races threats of humanity and delaying mankind's birthright.


 * Traitor Legions - The Traitor Legions and the Forces of Chaos that threatens all Mankind.

By the Blood of Vulkan
"Through the fire and blood, Vulkan lives!" "Feel the flame and fury of the primarchs!" - Blood of Vulkan Warcry

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The Blood of Vulkan are a loyalist non-Codex compliant Space Marine Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes created during an Unknown Founding and of dubious origins. A bellicose and ferocious Chapter, these Astartes have developed unique abilities that enables them to be nigh unstoppable in close melee combat. These abilities include pyrokinetic breath that allows them to breathe fire and the ability to call upon the inherent rage of their Primarch, making them unstoppable berserkers.

Chapter History
Extant records indicate that the Chapter has been around since the dawn of M36, descended from a classified genetic, chimera gene-stock. The timeline of the Chapter's inception combined with the fact that their gene-seed was genetically altered or mixed in some way, indicates that they could possibly have been created during the ill-fated <font color="#0066cc">21st 'Cursed' Founding. This Founding was plagued with rampant mutations and ill-fortune, a result of the genetic tampering by the Magos Biologis, whose knowledge in the genetic arts were not as advanced as the Emperor's. Imperial scholars theorise that the Chapter is descended from the genetic lineage of both Primarchs <font color="#0066cc">Vulkan  of the  <font color="#0066cc">Salamanders  and  <font color="#0066cc">Rogal Dorn  of the  <font color="#0066cc">Imperial Fists, in a attempt to stabilize the gene-seed of Vulkan to lower the chance of gene-seed mutations and quirks. Though, circumstantial evidence indicates that the latter, is in fact descended from the lineage of the angelic Primarch <font color="#0066cc">Sanguinius. The homeworld of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter is the dead molten desert world of Loris 8XH0, located on the border of the Segmentum Solar and Ultima Segmentum.

Notable Campaigns

 * Unnamed Xenocidal Campaign (Unknown Date.M36) - The first recorded campaign is when the Chapter of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter cleansed a system of a hostile and small xenos empire. It was this campaign that gave birth to the Chapter's battle-cry.
 * Antius Campaign (Unknown Date.M36) - The Blood of Vulkan's 1st and 3rd Companies deploy in support of the defence of the forge world of Antius against an <font color="#0066cc">Iron Warriors  Chaos warband. The Blood of Vulkan fought alongside the forge world's Skitarii Legion to defend the forge world. Following the failed initial attack on the main foundry, the Imperial forces managed to push back the encroaching Heretic Astartes forces, making them suffer horrendous casualties due to their relentless artillery bombardment and the forge world's Titan Legion. Over the following three months, the Chaos Warband was defeated and fled into the Eye of Terror.
 * Reclamation Crusade (Unknown Date.M37) - The Blood of Vulkan, along with the <font color="#0066cc">Black Dragons  and the  <font color="#0066cc">Carcharodons  Chapters, fought back to reclaim several Imperial worlds that had joined the  <font color="#0066cc">T'au Empire  after rebelling against the Imperium. They intended to bring back the recalcitrant worlds back into the fold of the Imperium or wipe them out entirely. The chapter brought many worlds back into the Imperium including a fortress world with aid of the world's loyalist elements, with minimum devastation.
 * Purge of the Exodus Sector (Unknown Date.M41) - Following a massive warp storm that caused the Exodus Sector to become cut off from the rest of the galaxy and the subsequent corruption of seven Chapters sent to quell the invading Forces of Chaos, that later fell to the corrupting influence of the Ruinous Powers, the High Lords of Terra assembled a large Imperial castigation strike force to purge the Chaos-corrupted Chapters and cleanse the fallen sector. These Chapter included the bellicose Blood of Vulkan Chapter, the zealous <font color="#0066cc">Black Templars, savage  <font color="#0066cc">Carcharodons  and unforgiving  <font color="#0066cc">Minotaurs  Chapters. During the forty-year long campaign, most of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter defended and help evacuate several Imperial worlds, while Chapter Master Nenker and the Veteran 1st and 2nd Companies assaulted the Traitor forces. During the Battle of Sigis 3, the Blood of Vulkan Chapter fought against a Renegade Chapter, known as the Blood Bearers, who were dedicated to the Blood God  <font color="#0066cc">Khorne . With most of the world devoid of life from orbital bombardment and the remaining forces mainly located within the fortress-monastery, the Blood of Vulkan launch an all-out assault against the Renegade Chapter's citadel. A vicious battle ensues, but in the end, the Blood Beaers are utterly wiped out by the merciless Blood of Vulkan.
 * The defense of Intrire ( 546 M 38) : The entirety of the chapters 2nd company was sent to defend the world of Intrire a standard agri world used by another chapter as a recruiting world from a massive dark eldar cabal and was assisted by members of Terra's roaches, when reinforcements from the Blood of Vulkan's first company and the entirety of the Terra's roaches chapter arrived it was to late the 2nd company suffered a heavy losses with 60 astarties killed, 5 wounded and 15 captured and taken to the city of  Commorragh when the 15 battle brothers chased the dark eldar into a webway portal in a attempt to recuse the 400,000 imperial citizens that were taken.

Chapter Homeworld
The desolate and unforgiving desert world of Lorix 8XH0 serves as the unforgiving Chapter homeworld of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter. Due to the planet's active volcanoes erupting every year forming lava rivers and lakes of metal rich lava that have forges built around them to produce the chapters armor, weapons and technology for the chapter and the imperium at large. The truly habitable parts of the planet are the desert sized continents and are known as the great dunes and on the sea of glass plateau is the fortress monastery of the Blood of Vulkan chapter which doubles as a city from which the chapter derives it recruits, a regiment known as the angelic flame regimen act as the local planet defense force along with the fortress monastery defenses includes Icarus pattern lascannons, a planetary defense laser, void shield generators to ensure extremely and near unbreakable durable defense.

Fortress-Monastery
Known to the Imperium as the Forge this city fortress monastery houses 200,000 imperial citizens, workers, and regiments that help make up the planets defense force and where the chapter derives its recruits, underneath the city lies a systems of bunkers, munitions storage and vast tunnels emergency evacuation routes

Command Ranks
chapter master

chief apothecary

chief librarian

company captain

company sergeant

Line Ranks
battle brother

scout

Specialist Formations
the blood drake company

Chapter Culture
Due to their strict adherence to the teaching of their gene father members act kind, gentle feel to their subjects when their not in combat and when they do they become brutal and unforgiving warriors even when saving a child they'll have an un-human roar as they breath out their roaring fire while still showing humanity to those around them to the point where they treat a citizen of the Imperium as a battle brother rom their chapter

Chapter Beliefs
The Blood of Vulkan chapter strictly follows the teachings of Vulkan to value life over pride and are willing to aid the citizens of the Imperium in any way possible, even those from other Chapters, and like their brothers in the Salamanders Chapter. the Blood of Vulkan Chapter believes that their genesire lives and that one day they will meet their gene-father. During the final Rites of Passage, Neophytes are sent off into the vast desert with supplies with only enough to last them eight months to survive the desert's intense heat and deadly predators that comes out during the night. During these eight months, each Neophyte must collect a fang and the hide of the deadly dune hound that only comes out of the ground during the night to hunt. When the surviving Neophytes returns, they are recognized as full-fledged Astartes and inducted into one of the battle companies' scout units. These newly inducted Scout Marines wear the hide and necklace made from their slain dune hound's fangs, and in time are inducted as full-fledged battle-brothers. As the scout becomes a battle brother the individual astaries will gather the liquid ore from the planets lava rivers and forges his own weapon either be a custom bolter or a modified version on a chainsword with a custom appearance each unique to the individual battle brother.

Chapter Gene-Seed
Whatever the truth to the origins of the Chapter's gene-seed, due to the nature of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter's chimeric lineage, the Chapter has developed two unique genetic idiosyncrasies, including the pyrokinetic ability to exhale from their powerful lungs, immense flames that burn as hot as promethean. To compensate for the use of this ability in battle, the Chapter's artificers have modified their helmets so that the mouth grill can be opened on command, in order to use this ability. The other ability that the Chapter has acquired, is their innate ability to call upon the inherent rage of both Primarchs, enabling a battle-brother to become insane berserkers full of vengeful fury. This primarily happens under extreme amounts of stress and anger, allowing an Astartes to obtain a portion of their Primarchs' strength and endurance. These battle-brothers are organised into companies of insane, vengeful berserkers called the Blood Drake companies and are used as siege breakers. The other noticeable geen-seed quirk is that there has been rare instances that a few Astartes of the Chapter have developed sanguine features and have taken on a beauty that echoes that of their angelic forebear.

Primaris Brethren
When the <font color="#0066cc">Ultramarines   <font color="#0066cc">Primarch   <font color="#0066cc">Roboute Guilliman  was resurrected and introduce the  <font color="#0066cc">Primaris Space Marines  to the imperium the chapter welcomed their new brothers and as declared by Chapter Master Nenker that the Primaris Marines would be treated as the standard battle-brothers despite the initial distrust towards the Primaris Marines and Primaris Neophytes will undergo the same rites and training as the regular Neophytes. Due the Primaris Space Marines lacking the gene-seed defect of the pyrokinesis breath, their helmets are modified to house built-in flamers to mimic the ability to roar fire at their enemies and the first batch of the chapters primaris marines didn't see combat until they passed through the rites, learn of Vulcans teaching and ascended to the rank of battle brother.

Primarch's Curse: Heart of the Dragon
From the genetic stock derange from the Primarch Vulkan due to the high probabilities of mutation the chapter receives the pyrokinesis breath and some would view it as a curse but the chapter it's a gift from their father. The primarch's rage the second gene-seed defect of the Chapter and when it takes hold of one of the battle brother are filled with their gene-fathers memories and becomes insane vengeful berserkers and obtains a portion of a primarchs strength and endurance similar to the black rage suffered by the blood angels and their successors hinting at the truth of the chapter's second gene-father.

Deathwatch Service
In terms of members of the blood of Vulcan joining are very rare only few have joined the death watch and lasting a full century before returning to their chapter for reasons they keep to themselves and only tell their secrets to the chapters chaplains and guards it to there graves

Notable Members

 * Chapter Master Nenker - The honorable and power full member and current chapter master who held and proved why he has the tital for the pass 500 years who speaks in tones of wisdom and bears  scars of many battles and campaigns


 * Ancient of Rites Noxis - An ancient Astartes sealed within a formidable Leviathan Siege Dreadnought and armed with an enlarged power sphere and stormshield. Noxis has lived throughout most of the history of his chapter, since its very beginning and watched over the progress of the chapter's neophytes for the past 4 to 5 millennia. He is often sought out by many members of the chapter for his wisdom, guidance and tales of mighty and ancient battles that the chapter has fought and endured.

Chapter Fleet
4 strike cruisers

3 battle barges

2 hunter destroyers

2 nova frigates

6 Gladius frigates

Chapter Relics

 * Living Flame - A Mk 3 'Iron' pattern artificer amour that is known to the chapter as the Living Flame has a built-in bolter on the left forearm. This archaic suit of battle-plate is passed down from Chapter Master to Chapter Master since the chapters founding, each modifying it with along with a set of mk4 power armor said to be the chapter first battle honor worn by the chapters 4 champions.
 * A rhino primarius- called the endurance a ancient rhino modified for long rang combat and to double as a siege weapon much deadlier then a typical rhino tank.
 * The healing flame- A spear that the chapter claims to be crafted by Vulkan himself and what is unique about this relic that one it pears into the flesh of its target it drains the foes life force and heals its user or by the users desire to heal other back to full restoration and is currently wielded by the current chief apothecary Zelos Tarkis.
 * The ax of fury- Crafted by the chapters first chief Libarian and flame smith this ancient single sided power ax forged with a psykic flame that'll forever burn bright ant hot enough to melt cerimite.

Allies

 *  <font color="#0066cc">Terra's Cockroaches  - Terra's Cockroaches after a battle the two chapters fought in both chapters agree to aid one other in dire times and details regarding to the event remains sealed in both chapters archives.

Enemies

 * Xenos - Xeno races threats of humanity and delaying mankind's birthright.


 * Traitor Legions - The Traitor Legions and the Forces of Chaos that threatens all Mankind.

By the Blood of Vulkan
"Through the fire and blood, Vulkan lives!" "Feel the flame and fury of the primarchs!" - Blood of Vulkan Warcry