Prometheus - The Pantheon: In the 41st Millennium, the Pantheon is an extension of the Salamanders' fortress-monastery on Prometheus. Though, in truth, this bastion of the Chapter is not much more than a simple spaceport linked to an orbital dock where the Chapter's modest armada of vessels can be refitted and repaired. Rank-and-file battle-brothers of the Chapter were restricted from entering the Pantheon. An attached Apothecarion saw to the outfitting of new recruits and their genetic enhancement as they became battle-brothers.Trial arenas were sunk into the basement level. It was here in these pits that Initiate and Veteran together could undergo tests of endurance and self-reliance, as was in keeping with the tenets of the Promethean Cult. Walking across hot coals, lifting massive boiling cauldrons, enduring the searing pain of the Proving Rod or bearing red-hot iron bars were just some of the labours expected of the sons of Vulkan to show their faith and will.There were dormitories and relic halls, too, though again relatively few in number. The most prestigious of these was the Hall of the Firedrakes, a vast and vaulted gallery hung with the pelts of the great salamanders slain by the warriors as a rite of passage, and from which the hall took its name.The Firedrakes, of which Tu'Shan was captain as well as regent, were barracked on Prometheus along with the Chapter Master himself. These venerable warriors were almost a breed apart; the transition they made to the vaunted ranks of the 1st Company changed them in myriad ways as they embraced the full evolution of their genetic encoding.Unlike their fellow battle-brothers, the Firedrakes were seldom seen on the surface of Nocturne where the other Salamanders would readily cohabit with the human populace, albeit often as part of a solitary lifestyle. Their rites were ancient and clandestine, conducted by the Chapter Master himself. Only those who had undergone the most heinous of trials and endured hardship beyond imagining could ever hope to aspire to become a Firedrake.Akin to that sacred and revered order, access to the Pantheon was also restricted. Many Salamanders Astartes had never even seen the Pantheon, though they all knew that at its centre was a small, circular deliberation chamber located deep within the subterranean heart of Prometheus. Only matters of dire import or of profound spiritual significance to the Chapter were ever discussed in the Pantheon. The chamber possessed eighteen seats, which represented the Salamanders' original status as the XVIII Legion of Space Marines. The Chapter had retained this numerical designation after the Second Founding broke up the original Space Marine Legions into their Successor Chapters, an event in which the Salamanders had been unable to participate because of their heavy losses during the Drop Site Massacre and their status as one of the Shattered Legions.The head seat of the Pantheon was reserved for the Chapter Master, an honour that had been Tu'Shan's for nearly fifty standard years by the end of the 41st Millennium. Thirteen were for the other officers of the Chapter: six to the captains of the remaining companies; one each for the Apothecarion, Librarius, Chaplaincy and Fleet; with a further three devoted to the Armoury and the Masters of the Forge, an unusual triumvirate but necessary given the Salamanders' predilection for weaponscraft.Three of the seats were for honoured guests sequestered by the Chapter Master and with the agreement of the rest of the council. Praetor, the Firedrakes' most senior sergeant, often assumed one of these seats. The Librarian Pyriel occupied another. The last position had remained empty for many Terran years, since before Tu'Shan had even assumed the mantle of the Regent of Prometheus.It was in the Pantheon that the Masters of the Salamanders would sit to consult the Tome of Fire. This artefact of the Chapter had been written by the hand of the Primarch Vulkan in ages past. Though many within the Chapter had never seen it, let alone perused its pages, they knew that it was full of riddles and prophecies. Rumours held that the words themselves were inked partly in Vulkan's blood and shimmered like captured fire if brought up to the light.The Tome of Fire was not merely one volume, as the name suggested, but rather dozens arrayed in the stacks around the circular walls of the Pantheon. Deciphering the script of the Tome of Fire was not easy. There were secrets within, left by the Primarch for his sons to unlock. The volumes foretold of great events and upheavals for those with the wit to perceive them. But perhaps most pointedly, the Tome contained the history, form and location of the nine artefacts Vulkan had hidden throughout the galaxy for the Salamanders to unearth.Five of these sacred relics had been discovered over the centuries through the travails of the Chapter's Forgefathers; the locations of the remaining four were embedded cryptically within the Tome 's arcane pages. Chapter Master Tu'Shan and those masters still on Prometheus would regularly convene and pore over the Tome of Fire in the hope of unearthing some clue that would unlock the location of one of these ancient artefacts.Access to Prometheus is facilitated by numerous teleportation points situated all across Nocturne's surface. When a battle-brother is summoned from Nocturne by the Pantheon, they can be teleported directly to the Chapter's fortress-monastery to one of its ten translation points within the teleportarium. With Nocturne's stable teleporter array the process is smooth. Though the process to make it happen is extensive and difficult, each translation point is capable of supporting a full squad of Firedrakes arrayed in their Terminator Armour. The whole 1st Company can be deployed to Nocturne via teleportation.