Wheel of Fire Campaign
The Wheel of Fire Campaign was a series of battles fought during the early Great Crusade.[1]
By this point in the Crusade, only three of the primarchs - Horus, Leman Russ and Ferrus Manus - had been rediscovered by the Emperor of Mankind. The battle was waged by the Space Wolves Legion, still consisting of many Terran recruits, against billions of Orks within the Wheel of Fire Subsector. After a bloody five year campaign, the Orks were annihilated but a third of the Space Wolves were destroyed.[1] This included the former Legion Master Enoch Rathvin.[2]
In the aftermath of the campaign, Russ was given two gifts. The first was the construction of The Fang by the Chamber Castellanis and the second was the Spear of Russ, which was given to Russ by the Emperor personally.[1]
Trivia
The Wheel of Fire Campaign has its origins in the now-anachronistic Book of the Astronomican, which presents a contemporary battle by the Space Wolves for control of "Sector 4" (known as the Wheel of Fire) including planet Xit in 982.M41. The war is presented as being personally ordered by the Emperor.[3]
See also
Sources
- 1: Wolfsbane (Novel), Chapter 9
- 2: The Horus Heresy Book Seven, pg. 80
- 3: Book of the Astronomican, pg. 4
