Salamanders
Allegiance
loyalist
Pre-Heresy Ranks
- Legionary / Veteran
- Sergeant / Veteran Sergeant
- Centurion
- Captain and First Captain
- Praetor
- Champion
- Chaplain
- Librarian
- Techmarine
- Apothecary
- Firedrake Terminator veterans
- Firedrake Master
- Pyroclast specialists
- Pyre Guard as Vulkan's honour guard
- Equerry.
Post-Heresy Ranks
- Scout
- Battle-Brother
- veteran and Firedrake
- Sergeant / Veteran Sergeant
- Lieutenant
- Captain
- Chapter Master Tu'Shan
- Ancient
- Chaplain
- Apothecary
- Librarian
- Master of the Arsenal and Master of the Watch
- Forgefather such as Vulkan He'Stan
- Pyroclast honor titles
- Pyre Warden
- Pantheon council members.
Companies & Units
- Companies as great house battle companies linked to the great houses of Nocturne
- 1st Company Firedrakes, 3rd Company The Pyroclasts
- squad level with Codex-style squads, Firedrake Terminators and Pyre Guard contingents.
Homeworld(s)
Nocturne, a volcanic Death World with seven major settlements/clans and highly unstable tectonics; the Chapter fortress lies on the moon Prometheus in the same system.
Combat Doctrine(s)
- Slow, methodical advances with heavily armoured infantry, flame and melta weapons supported by reliable armour and artillery
- emphasis on protecting civilians and maintaining a ‘human’ scale rather than pursuing maximum efficiency at any cost.
Epochs & Role
In the Great Crusade as Dragon Warriors/Salamanders they become known for hard compliance campaigns. In the Heresy they are almost destroyed at Isstvan V, Vulkan is lost and they later defend Nocturne against the Death Guard. During the Scouring they are too depleted to be heavily split in the Second Founding and instead continue as a single Chapter retaining many Legion traditions. In M41/M42 they fight in the Armageddon Wars, the Indomitus Crusade and continue the search for Vulkan’s relics.
Successor Chapters / Warbands (Overview)
- No clearly confirmed Second Founding successors
- later probable Salamanders descendants: Black Dragons (Cursed Founding), Storm Giants. Ultima Founding and later successors: Covenant of Fire, Dark Krakens, Dragonspears, Drakes Radiant, Hammers of Nocturne, Iron Drakes, Black Vipers.