Legio Vulcanum
Colour Scheme | Legion Info | Symbol | |
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Name: | Legio Vulcanum I/Legio Vulcanum II | ||
Alternative name: | Dark Fire/Lords of Ruin[7] | ||
Affiliation: | Chaos[2] | ||
Founded: | pre-Heresy | ||
Forge World: | Eye of Terror[Needs Citation] (previously Stygies VIII[2]) | ||
Colours: | Black, Teal, & Gold (Heresy-era)[7] | ||
Strength: | 300 Titans (Pre-Heresy) |
The Legio Vulcanum are a Traitor Titan Legion of Chaos.[2]
Contents
History
Great Crusade and Horus Heresy
The Legio Vulcanum was originally founded sometime before the Horus Heresy on the Forge World of Stygies VIII, near the Eye of Terror. Stygies VIII was rare in that it hosted two Titan Legions, Legio Vulcanum I and II, often known by their respective Low Gothic names as the Dark Fire and the Lords of Ruin. The command structures of both Legio were interlinked, and their Princeps were cloned from the twin Legio's greatest heroes.[7] Most of both of the legions machine's were on Crusade with Horus when the Heresy began, immediately joining him. The two Legions launched an attack on Stygies VIII in cooperation with Chaos Cultists but on the verge of total victory were defeated by Eldar forces from Saim-Hann, which suddenly appeared to deny Chaos a new staging point. The two legions then accompanied Horus into the Eye of Terror.[3]
Later campaigns
In 444.M41, the entire Legio Vulcanum II took part in the First War for Armageddon, fighting as part of Angron's invasion force.[11] The Legio Vulcanum later fought against Imperial forces during the Siege of Vraks. It was claimed by the Collegia Titanica that the Legio Vulcanum lost fourteen Titans during this war.[5]
In 999.M41, they were among the forces of Abaddon the Despoiler in the Thirteenth Black Crusade.[1] During the battle for Cadia the Legion proved decisive in allowing for a traitor advance, but suffered heavy casualties and the loss of its senior Princeps.[6] In M42, Legio Vulcanum II took part in the War of Beasts on Vigilus[8] and Nachmund Rift War.[9]
Assets
Titans
Warlord Class
- Herald of Wrath — Destroyed in the Battle of Molech. Paired to Vengeance's Messenger.[7]
- Vengeance's Messenger — Fought in the Battle of Molech.[7]
- Vessel of Damnation — Destroyed during the 13th Black Crusade.[6]
Reaver Class
- Encroaching Fury — Fought in the Battle of Molech.[7]
- Nightmaw — Fought in the Siege of Vraks.[4]
- World Burner — Fought in the Siege of Vraks.[4]
Warhound Class
- Camophage — Fought in the Siege of Vraks.[4]
- Occulus Infernii — Possessed Warhound Titan.[10]
- Skathraus — Fought in the Siege of Vraks.[4]
- Woe of Malcus — Fought in the Siege of Vraks.[4]
Personnel
- Malas Tiron — Princeps of the Vessel of Damnation.[6]
Images
Heresy-era Legio Vulcanum Warlord Titan
See also
Sources
- 1: Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition), pg. 16
- 2: Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy, pg. 8
- 3: Codex Titanicus (1st Edition), pg. 18
- 4: Apocalypse (2013), pg. 143
- 5: Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three, pg. 161
- 6: Gathering Storm: Fall of Cadia, Chapter 1
- 7: Adeptus Titanicus: Doom of Molech, pg. 23
- 8: Imperium Nihilus: Vigilus Ablaze, pg. 73 — Forces of Chaos: Heretic Astartes
- 9: War Zone Nachmund: Rift War, pg. 33
- 10: Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen - War Machines of the Lost and the Damned, pg. 145
- 11: White Dwarf 279 (UK), The First War for Armageddon — Angron's Horde