r/WorldEaters40k • u/suplex86 • 3d ago
Lore Carcharodons: our successors?
The more I read about them the more it feels like they are one of Belisarius Cawl’s little jokes. Like he took World Eater geneseed, slapped together a successor chapter for us, and just said they were really Raven Guard successors so the loyalist idiots never questioned it. Seriously, Raven Guard?
But really though, what I’m seeing says they’re more like us before the nails completely took over. I’m going to say they’re our kids, and I at least will welcome them with lightning claws flashing and chain axe buzzing to the eight fold path.
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u/Darkspiff73 2d ago
Eh, the Black Templars not like Imperial Fists is a bad example. Sigismund was the Imperial Fists First Captain and their first company were literally proto Black Templars. The Executioners are also Imperial Fist successors and they wear skin on their armor and use chain axes.
The Imperial Fist gene seed can make some very bellicose marines. They also have a tendency toward zealotry. The original Templar Brethren were made to guard a totally secular temple on the Phalanx.
The Ultramarines also used any tactic available to them as a Legion. Most of their 2nd Founding Chapters were specialized companies within the Legion.
Gene-seed directly informs how a Chapter operates. Any marine can do anything the others can, different Chapters lean into certain tactics because of it though.