Fire Adders

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## Fire Adders

Fire Adders armorial with chapter iconography.

Fire Adders Brother of the Kharanjul (3rd) Sect, 6th Battleline Choir.

## Space Marine Chapter

### **Allegiance**

Imperium of Man
(*Fidelitas Pietus*)

### **Successor of**

Salamanders (Suspected)
(Vulkan lineage.)

### Successor Chapter(s)

Unknown

"*Out of the cleansing flames, the God-Emperors beauty will shine, bathing those that are worthy in his divine majesty.*"
—Armanian Methuselah
The **Fire Adders** are a loyalist *Codex*-divergent Space Marine Chapter. Their lineage and inception date are unknown with little record in imperial archives. However their first known recorded campaign dates to the later years of M36. Whilst their exact gene stock remains lost to time, the appearance of the chapter would suggest that they are children of the Salamanders Chapter as both share the same discoloured ashen skin, this is something the chapter promotes and agrees with. The chapter operates near the Eye of Terror and specialises in the use of heavy weapons, with a particular fondness for melta and flame weaponry. Over the aeons, they have had numerous battles with the Death Guard and now actively seek out and cleanse plague gardens.

The Chapter is a naturally insular group and rarely interacts with other Astartes, which has exacerbated the lack of historical knowledge around them. it is suspected that the chapter maintains its own more detailed records but refuses to share this knowledge with the wider imperium. Due to this, they were slow to uptake the newly introduced Primaris Marines although these reinforcements have now started to drip through.

## Chapter History

There is limited known history recorded for the Fire Adders. Almost all known records indicate that they operate on the perimeter of the eye of terror and appear to target the forces of Nurgle, destroying and preventing the spread of plague Gardens.

## Notable Campaigns

* **Badrang's Pestilence (Unknown Year.M38)** - Sect Badrang had deployed in almost full force to a little known fringe system on the galactic south of the eye of terror to intercept a Death Guard warband that had invaded real space leaving a trail of destruction and decay in thier wake. Sporadic battles between the two forces ensued across multiple planets, Sect Badrang was successful in cleansing newly seeded plague gardens and after several months caught up to the main force of the warband on an imperial outpost planet. By this time the warband had lost a significant number of its force and had fortified itself into an imperial fort. Sensing victory, the Prior of Badrang deployed his full force of astartes to the planet surface and began a siege of the fort. The fortifications and barricades of the warband allowed them to withstand the siege for weeks before eventually being wiped out. Unbeknownst to the forces of Sect Badrang a small contingent of the warband had managed to escape the planets surface during the initial moments of the siege and had boarded Badrang's battle barge expecting to spread Nurgle's blessing to the reserve troops in one final stand. Instead the group found that all astartes were planet side leaving the ship manned by the parishioners of the Berus Navy. Plague and pestilence soon spread across the ship, in the end the parishioners were only too happy to accept grandfather Nurgle into their hearts so that their pain would end. As the victorious brothers of Badrang returned to thier ship they were greeted by scenes of an unholy magnitude. The air thick with the miasma of decay, the force readied itself to cleanse thier ship of infections. As they did so the corrupted navigator slid the ship into the void to deliver it into his grandfather's loving embrace. The Battle Barge and main force of Sect Badrang has not been seen since and is officially recorded as extinct in Fire Adder Records. The few remaining Brothers and Monks of Badrang that had not docked with ship as it slid out of real space were eventually recovered by the chapter and folded into the remaining sects. These troops are recognisable within the chapter as they now paint their pauldron trims jet black in honour of their lost Brothers. Following the events of the pestilence, Abbot Asmodeusss firmly believed that the Prior of Badrang had made a grave error by deploying the full force planet side and decreed that Badrang would not be reformed to serve as a lesson to the other sects that overconfidence breeds complacency.

## Berus

Departmento Cartographicae pict-file of the planet Berus

## Location

### System

Riftgard

The Fire Adders homeworld is located on the southwest edge of the Eye of Terror, straddling both the Segmentum Obscurus and Segmentum Pacificus. The home system is under constant threat as it is squeezed between the eye of terror and another warp storm on its western flank. Despite this, the Fire Adders have maintained dominion over the Squamata sub-sector for centuries.

The home system of Riftgard is a binary star system orbited by 7 planets. 2 planets orbit within the Goldilocks zone and are habitable. Berus is the 4th planet and is a barren world comprised mostly of heathland. Notably, there are no native giant flora with the largest plant life being various forms of grasses. The planet's water is locked within giant underground seas and life for the natives is brutal, revolving around nomadic searches for upwellings of water that occur after seismic events. The planet is seismically active and has no less than 30 tectonic plates which has led to the surface being pocked with volcanoes.

There are remnants of two hive cities on the planet which have long since fallen to ruin, a memory of a bygone era when the system was of higher importance and regularly supplied by imperial trade routes. Berus now has very few permanent settlements, instead the population travels in constant search of water in giant caravans made up of thousands of transport vehicles.

### Fortress-Monastery

The Giant fortress-monastery of Redwall is located atop the 'ridge of a thousand' within the Lutra mountain range of the southern hemisphere.

## Chapter Organisation

The Fire Adders do not follow the doctrine of the *Codex-Astartes*. Since its inception, they have refused to comply believing that only their Primarch or the Emperor can dictate how they organise. Being Particularly pious the chapter has adopted a distinctly monastic organisational structure and shuns the common ranks used by other chapters.

### Officer Ranks

* **Abbott** - Chapter Master
* **Prior** - Captain
* **Steward** - Lieutenant

### Specialist Ranks

* **Physician- Chief Apothecary**
* **Infirmarer** - Apothecary
* **Precentor** - Reclusiarch
* **Succentor** - Chaplain
* **Armarian** - Chief Librarian
* **Armarius** - Librarian
* **Sacrist** - Master of the Forge
* **Sub-Sacrist** - Techmarine

### Line Ranks

* **Father** - Veteran Sergeant
* **Monk** - Sergeant
* **Brother** - Battle-Brother
* **Novice** - Neophyte/Scout

### Order of Battle

#### Headquarters

Whilst the Abbott is in ultimate control of the chapter he is advised by the Ecumenical Council, which is made up of the 8 Priors of the Sects, Precentor, Armarian, Sacrist and Physician.

#### Sects

Sects replace companies and operate largely independently of each other. Each Sect will have a split of different unit types and will train their own Novices. once initiated it is very unusual for brothers to change Sects and will generally remain with the same Sect for Life. Initially, there were 9 Sects, however, the 4th Sect was wiped out in the events of Badrang's Pestilence.

#### Choirs

Originally each sect was divided into 10 choirs (squads) but with the inception of primaries marines the chapter has now adopted the 20 squad approach allowing them to field either 10 choirs of 10 Brothers or 20 choirs of 5 Brothers.

## Chapter Beliefs

The chapter fully believes in the cult imperialis and are intolerant of those that do nut accept the emperor as the one true god. Since their inception they have become increasing pious in these beliefs and have lost the compassion that is associated with the Salamanders gene seed (one of the reasons why their lineage remain suspected and not confirmed). The chapter see's all chaos forces as a stain on the emperors grace but reserve thier most zealous reviews for the Forces of Nurgle. They see the decay spread by Nurgle as an affront to the purity and grace of the god-emperor's design. Through the god-emperor all that is beautiful in the realm of man is created and blessed be those that are touched by the emperors light.

This pious nature means that the chapter will not hesitate to cleanse anything or anyone touched by Nurgle and will quiet commonly cleanse innocents in order to prevent the spread of disease from taking hold.

### Psalm of cleansing fire

A significant way in which the succentors of each sect fortify the religious believes of their brothers is to sing the Psalm of Cleansing Fire. The Hymn tells of the god-emperor, his creation of all that has beauty in the realm of man and the Fire Adders sacred duty to bring the emperors light to worlds of decay. Once the psalm is started all those within earshot will join the chorus and the battlefield will be filled with the hauntingly beautiful sound of the choir. Witnesses to this outside of the chapter have said that the sound of the choir was enough to bring them to tears.

Each Sect in the chapter have their own variations to the psalm as it details the deeds that the Sect have done.

## Chapter Gene-Seed

The Chapter's true lineage is unknown, with all records of thier creation having been lost, however it is strongly suspected that they hail from the Gene Stock of the formidable Vulkan. Battle Brothers share the same discoloured Ashen skin and red eyes as the Salamanders and whilst they hail from a similar volcanic world it is a genetic trait that is not shared by the local population. Neophytes generally do not exhibit this trait as it only becomes dominant upon receiving the full course of genetic modifications as the become full astartes. The Fire Adders also share the Salamanders genetic propensity for being taller than the average astartes with some first born being recorded as being almost as tall as primaris marines of other chapters.

The chapter's gene seed appears to be of stable stock and displays little genetic mutation. There are no known flaws outside of those associated to Salamanders gene stock.

Where the chapter deviates from their suspected parent chapter is in thier lack of compassion towards others although this is likely to be down to cultural upbringing rather than genetics.

## Deathwatch Service

The chapter has seldom been called on to provide troops to the Deathwatch.

## Chapter Combat Doctrine

The Fire Adders are known to heavily utilise fire support squads with a bias towards the use of flame and melta-type weapons. Battle formations will generally utilise slow-moving lines and heavy fire to keep an enemy force pinned down and overwhelmed. The chapter in the past has utilised heavily armoured slow-moving units and could be seen to field a higher than average number of centurion warsuits, with the uptake in the number of primaris marines the favour has now swung to heavy intercessors and aggressors clad in Gravis armour.

## Notable Space Marines

* **Abbott Asmodeusss Poisontooth** - Current Chapter Master of the Fire Adders.
* **Armarnian Methuselah** - Reclusiarch of the Fire Adders
* **Purifier Matthias** - Champion of the Fire Adders

## Chapter Relics

**Fire tomes** - The Fire tomes is a collection of 9 giant books chained to the wall of Redwall Library. Each book is owned by Sect and it is the armarius' duty to maintain the holy texts of the Sect. Little is known about the contents of the tomes save that the psalm of cleansing fire is recorded within. Imperial scholars are in disagreement, some believe that the texts are nothing more than the battle log for each Sect whilst others believe it to be the words of the god-emperor's song that he projects through the golden throne. None in the chapter will discuss the tomes to outsiders.

## Chapter Appearance

### Chapter Colours

Sect Markings are displayed on the Right Pauldron with the Squad number overlaid.

Squad specialties are displayed on the left knee.

## Notable Quotes

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