Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-72.93.49.215-20140912200020/@comment-8881468-20140913223918

for this matter: I love bookzz.org, so many sources easily available:

deathwatch: rites of battle defines purity of gne-seed on pg 17 as follows:

"Pure: The new Chapter is a direct descendent of its Progenitor. It is likely to maintain close contact with its Progenitor and many brother Successors, and follows the traditions of its peers closely. ."

compared to pore hh era, when most legions still had all functioning organs, the current chapters can be perceived as altered stock

"Altered Stock: For whatever reason, the Chapter’s gene-seed has subtly altered, causing some zygotes to become deficient. While some links are maintained with the Progenitor, the Battle-Brothers of the Chapter may be shunned, for they appear subtly different to their brethren."

"Flawed: A major flaw has been introduced, marking the Chapter apart from its brother Successors. Chapters suffering some kind of flaw are often forced to forge their own destiny, either embracing their fate or raging against it. Some go on to earn glory despite their flaw, while others are consumed by it, burning brightly, if all too briefly."

-->  see f.e. black dragons, current bloodangels (in copmparison to pre heresy), doom warriors

no we go to page 20 of that book

"The zygote of the Salamanders Chapter has reacted with the radiation in which their home world is bathed in such a way that their eyes burn a deep red and their skin is almost jet-black, lending them a fearsome appearance [b]yet imparting no specific deficiencies[/b].

and now to the good text under the table of that same page, that gives the salamanders a 90% chancve of a deficiency:

"If it is determined that mutation exists using this table, there is a 90% chance that this is identical to any that the Progenitor exhibits (if any at all)."

as the salamanders gene-seed has no specific deficiencies, the chance for it in their successor chapters is rather minimal, compare that to black rage, red thirst andf the wulfen.....

if we assume the salamanders as suffering from a chapter flaw, then we can look into the table on page 21, it would merely be the chapoter cult with the salamanders beliefs in fire being somewhat special.