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The Black Dragons are a Chapter of Space Marines. This chapter was founded in the cursed 21st Founding, just prior to the Age of Apostasy.
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| Name: |
Black Dragons |
| Founding chapter: |
Unknown, suspected to be Salamanders |
| Founding: |
21st Founding |
| Chapter Master: |
Unknown |
| Homeworld: |
Unknown |
| Fortress-Monastery: |
Unknown |
| Main colours: |
Black with white aquila and markings |
| Specialty: |
Unknown |
| Battle Cry: |
Unknown |
| Estimated strength: |
Unknown |
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Background
History
The Black Dragons' Ossmodula zygote has mutated, producing bony crests on their heads and blades from the forearm and elbow. In a similar way to the Death Company, those with these abnormalities join a separate unit, known as the Dragon Claws. In this unit, they sharpen their protrusions to a killing edge and arm them with adamantium to turn them into horrible Close Combat Weapons. There are many in the Inquisition who doubt their loyalty and several other chapters refuse to fight alongside them, including the Dark Angels and Marines Malevolent.
It is rumoured that the Black Dragon Apothecaries deliberately encourage these growths, although this is very dangerous and is forbidden in the Imperium. When the usual 5% tithe of gene-seed is requested, they often resist giving it over, and sometimes have to be threatened with military action. When they do send it in, the veracity of the gene-seed is unknown, as each passes the most stringent tests, and some believe that this is not even the gene-seed of the Black Dragons. How this is procured is a mystery, although the Adeptus Mechanicus is eager to investigate the medical practices of the Black Dragons.
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