Salamanders - The Pantheon: The Pantheon is an extension of the Salamanders' fortress-monastery on Prometheus, the moon of Nocturne. 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 are restricted from entering the Pantheon. Many Salamanders Astartes have never even seen the Pantheon, though they all know that at its centre is 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 are ever discussed in the Pantheon. The chamber possesses eighteen seats, which represent the Salamanders' original status as the XVIIIth 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.The head seat of the Pantheon is reserved for the Chapter Master, an honour that has been Tu'Shan's for nearly fifty standard years. Thirteen seats are 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 are reserved for honoured guests sequestered by the Chapter Master and with the agreement of the rest of the council. Praetor, the Firedrake's most senior sergeant, often assumes one of these seats. The Librarian Pyriel occupied another. The last position has remained empty for many years, since before Tu'Shan had even assumed the mantle of the Regent of Prometheus.It is 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 have never seen it, let alone perused its pages, they know that it is 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. In truth, despite its name, the Tome of Fire was not one volume, but dozens, supplemented by scrolls, charts, artistic renderings, well-crafted arcana and other, even stranger, objects all arrayed in the stacks around the circular walls of the Pantheon. And all had been wrought by the primarch's own hand.Deciphering the script of the Tome of Fire is not easy. There are secrets within, left by the primarch for his gene-sons to unlock. The volumes foretell of great events and upheavals for those with the wit to perceive them. But perhaps most pointedly, the Tome containes 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 have been discovered over the centuries through the travails of the Chapter's Forgefathers; the locations of the remaining four are still embedded cryptically within the arcane pages of the Tome.Chapter Master Tu'Shan and those masters still on Prometheus would regularly convene and pore over the Tome of Fire texts in the hope of unearthing some clue that would unlock the location of one of these ancient artefacts.