The Vlka Fenryka, the Wolves of Fenris, was the name by which the Space Wolves knew themselves in their own harsh tongue, a title steeped in the savage traditions of their death-world home. To outsiders they were the Rout, the Emperor's executioners, unleashed when diplomacy had failed and only slaughter remained.
Raised from the frozen tribes of Fenris and bound to their primarch Leman Russ, the warriors of the Space Wolves fought with a feral cunning that belied their transhuman discipline. They saw themselves not as knights but as hunters, and every war a great hunt in the Allfather's name.
Within the Legiones Astartes, the Vlka Fenryka held a singular and dreadful role: the Emperor's own sanction, sent to break those Legions and worlds that strayed too far. It was a burden that would set them upon their brothers when the fires of the Heresy first kindled.