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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.^1a

Marine	Basic Data	Chapter Symbol
	- Black Dragons - Founding Chapter: Unknown Founding: 21st Founding Chapter Master: Unknown Homeworld: Unknown Fortress-Monastery: Unknown Colours: Black with white aquila and markings Specialty: Unknown Strength: Unknown Battle Cry: Unknown
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History

The Black Dragons' are chiefly known for their status as a Cursed Founding chapter, and for their uniquely peculiar gene-seed mutation; their 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 coat 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. ^1a

It is rumoured that the Black Dragon Apothecaries deliberately encourage these growths, wishing to create more of the valued Dragon Claws. This is a very dangerous practice and such gene-manipulation away from the genic template of a Space Marine is forbidden in the Imperium. When the usual 5% tithe of gene-seed is requested, the Black Dragons often resist giving it over, and sometimes have needed to be threatened with military action in order to comply with the tithe request. When they do send it in, the veracity of the gene-seed is unknown, as each passes the most stringent tests; some therefore believe that that it 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 Cursed Founding chapter.^1a

Notable battles and campaigns

• Third War for Armageddon. The Black Dragons committed 9 out of their 10 companies.^2a

Related Articles

• Loyal Space Marine Chapters (List)
• Space Marine Forces (List)

Sources

• ¹:White Dwarf 279 (UK)
  • ^1a:p.50
• ²:Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition)
  • ^2a:p.32