Blood Wolves
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The Blood Wolves are a warband of Chaos Space Marines that were once a Great Company of the mighty Space Wolves. Following their corrupted leader, Svane Vulfbad, these once-proud warriors are sworn to the service of Khorne.
Overview
The Blood Wolves were once the Great Company of Svane Vulfbad, Wolf Lord of the Space Wolves Space Marine Chapter. He became so disillusioned with the grinding workings and soul-killing bureaucracy of the Imperium that he and his Company turned to the worship of Chaos, and more particularly to the faith of the Blood God Khorne.[2][3]
History
In 913.M41 the Wolf Lord Harald Deathwolf and his Great Company were charged by the Great Wolf Logan Grimnar to track down and execute the notorious Traitor warband and their leader. Deathwolf and his company eventually located Vulfbad in the Cliedes System, tracking their elusive quarry to the storm-wracked moon of Gallimius. Deathwolf rode his ferocious Thunderwolf through the planet's ferrite dust storms at the head of a small strike force of Wolf Scouts. The visibility was so bad that Deathwolf had to track his quarry purely by scent, but he later claimed the stink of rank sweat and treachery was so strong it was child's play to follow.[2][3]
Numerous times Vulfbad and the Blood Wolves threw foes into the path of their former allies - Traitor Space Marines, warp-tainted beasts and gibbering mutants appeared howling from the storms to assail them. Each time the Space Wolves defeated them in furious combats, but often at the cost of many battle-brothers and precious hours between them and their quarry.[2]
After weeks of stalking their prey, Deathwolf's hunting party cornered the Blood Wolves atop a dust-crowned mountain just as the vile Traitor Vulfbad was completing a sorcerous summoning ritual that would have seen his traitorous forces thronged with daemon allies. The Renegade Space Wolf fought like a madman even after many of his Astartes had been slain, badly wounding Harald's great Thunderwolf in the process, but he was ultimately outmatched. As Harald brought his axe around to deliver the deathblow, however, a bolt of lightning struck them both. When the dust settled all that remained of Vulfbad and his Blood Wolves was his Frost Axe, a shard of which now juts from the cybernetic jaw of Harald's Thunderwolf. Thus, the current status of the Blood Wolves and their leader remains unknown.[2][3]
Heraldry
The Blood Wolves wear bronze Power Armour. They make use of unit markings similar to those of the Space Wolves, except coloured white and blood red. They also have no specific identifying symbol, instead incorporating the various blasphemous sigils and iconography of Chaos as their identifying marks.[Needs Citation]
Known Members
- Svane Vulfbad — Former Wolf Lord of the Space Wolves turned Chaos Lord of Khorne.
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Trivia
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The Blood Wolves initially went unnamed during their appearance in White Dwarf. The title of Svane Vulfbad's warband was later revealed by their creator, Christian Burne, who had painted models of the warband to be used in photos for White Dwarf's "Saga of Harald Deathwolf" article.
See also
Sources
- 1: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 30
- 2: Codex: Space Wolves (7th Edition), pg. 24
- 3: White Dwarf 387 (UK), pgs. 56-59 — In The Company of Wolves - Saga of Harald Deathwolf
