Bone Legion

The **Bone Legion** are a Renegade 13th Founding Space Marine Chapter derived from the Salamanders' gene-seed and their primarch, Vulkan. The Bone Legion is a traitorous space marine chapter based on Petra. Currently, it is encompassed of traitorous space marines, former Imperial Guardsmen and a Klan of Orks known as the Knight Howlas. The bone legion is led by the Bone King and gets their name from the bones found on their armor, and later from their extremely durable armor crafted from bone, called Bonemold.

## History

### Bone Lizards

The Bone Legion began as 13th founding chapter of the Salamanders. Originally called the **Bone lizards**, the chapter was filled with many of the new recruits of the Salamanders and often reinforced their legion forefathers. Their leader, the Bone King, was a Salamanders veteran who was among the first "children" of Vulkan.

The Bone Lizards often fought alongside the Salamanders, whether it be breaking a siege or defending a population of humans from utter destruction. When the Salamanders and the Lizards were brought together, the ensuing conflict was ensured to be a massacre for their foes. Like their predecessors, the Bone Legion carried the lives of innocent humans above all else. There was no drop of blood it would not shed, no flesh it would not scar, and no sacrifice it would not make to serve the Imperium and protect Mankind. However, the Bone Lizards took this mentality a large step further. They deemed that it was the emperor himself that posed the greatest danger to the people of the Imperium. It was he who was sending billions of humans to die in wars that they deemed not necessary to fight. Despite this harsh ideal, the Bone King was extremely reluctant to betray his Emperor, and more so, his Primarch. However, after pressure from many of his captains, the Bone King ultimately made the decision to go rogue. However, because of his respect for both the Emperor and Vulkan, the Bone King refused to fall to Chaos and serve the Chaos Gods.

### Schism of the Salamanders

After going rogue and betraying the Imperium of Man and their fellow Space Marines, the Bone Legion fled into space, ultimately coming into contact with an Imperium Guard battalion, whom they fought with for several weeks. After defeating the Imperial Guard, the Bone King offered the survivors the opportunity to join them, in return for their lives. Several thousand joined in the legion's ranks. After that, the legion voyaged into deep space, ultimately arriving on Petra, where they began to wage war on the planet's native Ork tribe, the Knight Howlaz.

## Petra

Petra is a mountainous and volcanic world in deep space. Patches of tropical landscape and lakes dot the planet, many of which are home to the pyramid temples of the Knight Howlaz built to worship Mork and Gork through ritualistic sacrifice. The planet is home to fauna such as Bonetooth Tigas and Bone Dinas (similar to stegosaurus).

## Unit Types

* Bone King
* Knight Howla Chieftain
* Bone Legate
* Forgemaster - female warriors who also forge the bonemold armor
* Bone Centurion
* Knight Howla Alchemists

## Mechanics

* Bone Legion Gargant
	+ Bone Legion Stompa
* Bone Legion Reaver-class Titan
* Bone Legion Dreadnaught
* Bone Legion Warbike
* Bone Legion Battlewagon
* Bone Legion Trukk