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The Sixth Legion answered to many names, the Space Wolves, the Vlka Fenryka, the Rout, but the Imperium remembered them best by the one function that defined them: they were the Emperor's executioners, the sanction loosed when reason had failed and a thing simply needed to be destroyed. Where other Legions warred to conquer and to build, the Wolves warred to end things, and they did it with a ferocity that unsettled even their fellow Astartes.
They wore that reputation openly, even proudly, a brotherhood of storm-grey warriors who cloaked their discipline beneath the manners of the barbarian world that had made them. Beneath the fangs and pelts and saga-songs, however, ran a cold and deliberate purpose, for the Rout were never so wild as they let their enemies believe. This was the leash the Emperor kept for his other sons, and when the Heresy came, it fell to the Wolves to prove whether a weapon forged to punish primarchs could be trusted to master itself.
Fenris and the Wolf King
The Wolves were raised upon Fenris, a death-world of grinding ice and drowning fire where the seasons themselves tried to kill the tribes that clung to its islands. Only the strongest survived to be taken into the Legion, and the savagery of that world was bred into every legionary. From Fenris also came their primarch, Leman Russ, found among the wolves of the wild and raised a king before the Emperor reclaimed him, a giant of appetite and cunning who ruled the Sixth as a lord of the sagas rather than a general of drill-yards.
The Wyrd and the Fang
Fenris left its mark upon the flesh as well as the spirit. The gene-seed of the Wolves carried a flaw the Legion named the wulfen, a wildness in the blood, the canis helix, that could rise in battle and, in a cursed few, consume the man entirely. The Wolves fought in packs rather than companies, led by wolf-lords whose deeds were remembered in saga, and they went to war beside the great Fenrisian wolves and the silent, doom-touched Deathsworn. It was a Legion that wore the mask of the beast so well that many forgot there was a keen mind beneath it.
Executioners at Prospero
When the Emperor judged Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons to have transgressed too far, it was the Wolves he sent to bring the sorcerer to account, and the burning of Prospero became the Sixth Legion's defining act of the age. What was meant as an arrest became annihilation, twisted by the whispers of Horus into outright destruction, and the Wolves razed a wonder of the Imperium to ash. Yet through the Heresy that followed, the Rout held loyal to the Emperor who had forged them, executioners still, hunting the traitor Legions with the same remorseless purpose they had once turned upon their own kin.
Order of battle
Units
Troops
InfantryGrey Slayer PackThe seasoned core of the Rout, Grey Slayers are veteran hunters who carry bolter and blade with equal, savage skill.
InfantryLegion Tactical SquadThe disciplined line beneath the Legion's savage mask, Tactical Squads prove the Rout were never truly the wild beasts their enemies believed.
Elites
InfantryDeathswornWarriors who have looked upon their own deaths, the Deathsworn are the Legion's silent doom-touched, sent where none are meant to return.
InfantryLegion Destroyer SquadBearers of the weapons other Legions bury, Destroyers loose rad and phosphex with a grim relish that even their own kin find hard to watch.
InfantryVaragyr Wolf GuardLeman Russ's own wolf guard, the Varagyr are the mightiest of the Rout, veterans wrapped in Terminator plate who stand at the Wolf King's side into every doom.
Fast Attack
BeastFenrisian Wolf PackGreat predators of the death-world, the Fenrisian wolves run to war beside their masters, a tide of fang and muscle that no line easily holds.
VehicleLegion Storm Eagle GunshipA roaring gunship that drops a pack into the enemy's midst and scours the ground before them, the Storm Eagle brings the hunt down from the sky.
Heavy Support
WalkerContemptor DreadnoughtAn entombed hero of the Rout who fights on past death, the Contemptor carries a legend of Fenris into wars its warrior should never have seen.
WalkerLegion Deredeo DreadnoughtAn entombed elder become a bastion of fire, the Deredeo anchors the pack-line with a storm of shells that hurls back anything the sky or field can send.
VehicleLegion Land Raider ProteusAn armoured hunter that carries the Rout's killers through any fire to the throat of the foe, the Proteus is a war-machine built to close.
VehicleLegion Sicaran Battle TankA swift hunter-killer tank whose autocannons rake the fleeing, the Sicaran lets the Rout run down armour as its wolves run down men.
VehicleLegion Spartan Assault TankA colossal armoured leviathan that hauls a wolf guard pack unbroken into the enemy's heart, the Spartan is a battering ram of ceramite and fury.
Heroes & legends
Characters
BjornThe Young WolfIn the age of the Heresy a mere Blood Claw, the young Bjorn fought at Russ's side long before he became the Imperium's oldest and most venerable Dreadnought.
Geigor Fell-HandFell-HandA wolf guard of grim renown, Geigor Fell-Hand led the Rout's warriors through the Heresy's hardest fighting with an executioner's cold resolve.
Leman RussThe Wolf KingThe Wolf King of Fenris, Leman Russ was the Emperor's executioner, a primarch of appetite and cunning who razed Prospero and stayed true to Terra through the Heresy.
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