List of Space Marine Chapters

This is a list of official Space Marine Chapters created by Games Workshop. It does not include any fan-created Chapters, though it does include the Chaos Space Marine Traitor Legions and other Renegade Chapters of Chaos Space Marines. Not every Chapter in existence in the Imperium of Man is known. Please note: fan-created Chapters must be posted at the | Warhammer 40k Fanon Wiki and not on this page.

Alpha Legion
The Alpha Legion is presently a Traitor Legion of Chaos Space Marines who serve Chaos Undivided but they were once a First Founding Legion who were corrupted by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos to fight for the Warmaster Horus after prolonged contact with an alien multispecies organization called the Cabal. Ironically, the Alpha Legion may have turned to Chaos because they believed that by doing so they would best serve the will of the Emperor. As such, the Alpha Legion's true loyalties remain murky and they may be involved in the greatest long-term deception in human history.

Angels Encarmine
The Angels Encarmine are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels.

Angels Porphyr
The Angels Porphyr are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter that was founded during the 31st Millennium, their actual Founding and origin unknown.

Angels Sanguine
The Angels Sanguine is a Second Founding chapter of the Blood Angels.

Angels Vermillion
The Angels Vermillion is a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels.

Angels of Absolution
The Angels of Absolution is a Second Founding Chapter of the Dark Angels.

Angels of Ecstasy
The Angels of Ecstasy are a band of Chaos Space Marines who were formerly a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter called the Sons of Ulthunas, who rebelled against the authority of the Imperium during the Ganymethian Betrayal and swore their souls to the service of Slaanesh.

Angels of Fire
The Angels of Fire are a Space Marine Chapter of unknown origins founded during the 36th Millennium. They are sometimes confused with the Fire Angels Chapter.

Angels of Fury
The Angels of Fury are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and a Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines.

Angels of Redemption
The Angels of Redemption is a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Dark Angels.

Angels of Vengeance
The Angels of Vengeance are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Dark Angels.

Angels of Vigilance
The Angels of Vigilance are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter believed to have been created during the Second Founding from an unknown origin.

Astral Claws
The Astral Claws were created during the 35th Millennium to guard against the numerous threats emerging from the Warp rift called the Maelstrom. They were eventually corrupted by Chaos, rebelled against the Imperium during the Badab War and the Chapter's survivors finally fled into the Maelstrom and became the band of Renegade Space Marines called the Red Corsairs.

Astral Knights
The Astral Knights were a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter from an unknown Founding and origin whose members sacirficed themselves to the last man in a great space battle with the Necrons.

Aurora Chapter
The Aurora Chapter is a Chapter descended from the Ultramarines' gene-seed.

Avenging Sons
The Avenging Sons is a Codex Astartes-compliant Loyalist Space Marines Chapter originally created during the 19th Founding from the gene-seed of the Ultramarines. The Avenging Sons hail from the world of Traekonnis Major.

Avengers
The Avengers are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin about which almost nothing is known in Imperial records.

Black Consuls
The Black Consuls are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines. The Black Consuls are recorded in Imperial records as having been annihilated during the Siege of Goddeth Hive, 455.M41. Current Status: Unknown.

Black Dragons
The Black Dragons are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter from the Cursed 21st Founding. Their gene-seed is defective and riddled with mutation. Specifically, the Black Dragons' mutated Ossmudula organ can lead to the development of bony crests on the heads and arms of certain Space Marines of the Chapter. The affected Black Dragons Marines are formed into special units known as Dragon Claws.

Black Guard
The Black Guard is a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Raven Guard.

Black Templars
The Black Templars are a Second Founding Chapter derived from the Imperial Fists and their Primarch, Rogal Dorn.

Blood Angels
The Blood Angels are one of the First Founding Legions of the Space Marines.

Blood Disciples
The Blood Disciples are a warband of Chaos Space Marines who were once the 8th Company of the Emperor's Wolves Chapter of Loyalist Space Marines.

Blood Drinkers
The Blood Drinkers is a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels.

Blood Ravens
The Blood Ravens are a Chapter of Loyalist Space Marines that prize information greatly, but ironically know little of their earliest centuries of service, though there is some evidence that they are descended from a small group of the Thousand Sons Traitor Space Marine Legion who stayed Loyal to the Emperor during the Horus Heresy. (The Blood Ravens were created by C.S. Gotto for the PC game Dawn of War and its successor, Dawn of War II.)

Blood Swords
The Blood Swords are a Space Marine Chapter created using the gene-seed of the Blood Angels. The Chapter's founding date is not known.

Brazen Claws
The Brazen Claws is a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Iron Hands.

Brazen Minotaurs
The Brazen Minotaurs is a Loyalist, Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin.

Brotherhood of a Thousand
The Brotherhood of a Thousand is a Loyalist Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown origin and Founding.

Carcharodons
The Carcharodons are a Loyalist Space Marines Chapter who participated in the latter stages of the Badab War. They are a fleet-based Chapter. The Carcharodons may actually be the same Chapter as the Space Sharks; the term Carcharodons may simply be an alternate name for that unit of Astartes.

Celebrants
The Celebrants Chapter was founded during the 36th Millennium.

Celestial Lions
The Celestial Lions were founded during the 38th Millennium. Their homeworld is Elysium IX.

Children of Purgatos
The Children of Purgatos are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines of unknown Founding and origin, declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the Inquisition.

The Consecrators
The Consecrators is a Successor Chapter of Loyalist Space Marines created from the gene-seed of the Dark Angels.

Crimson Castellans
The Crimson Castellans were a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origins and Founding who became embroiled in a civil war after a portion of their number turned to Chaos but were largely destroyed when the Tyranid Hive Fleet Jormungandr unexpectedly descended upon the world of Sephrax where they were battling their Renegade brethren. The Chapter homeworld of Vorl Secundus was subsequently abandoned and it is unknown whether the Chapter still exists in some form.

Crimson Consuls
The Crimson Consuls are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding who are a Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines. They were destroyed entirely by the machinations of the Alpha Legion Chaos Space Marines, possibly on the orders of Alpharius (or Omegon masquerading as Alpharius) himself.

Crimson Fists
The Crimson Fists are one of the Successor Chapters created during the Second Founding, drawn from the Imperial Fists Legion. Though they remain understrength from the Ork invasion of Rynn's World, the Crimson Fists are a proud and stubborn Chapter, never admitting defeat.

Crimson Guard
The Crimson Guard is a Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter.

Damned Company of Lord Caustos
The Damned Company of Lord Caustos is a group of Space Marines that turned to the Chaos Gods after they were declared Traitor by an Inquisitor of the Ordo Hereticus.

Dark Angels
The Dark Angels are considered among the most sinister and secretive of the Loyalist Space Marine Chapters and were one of the First Founding Space Marine Legions.

Dark Eagles
The Dark Eagles are a Loyalist Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. Unfortunately, at this time almost nothing is known about the Chapter beyond their name and Chapter appearance.

Dark Hands
The Dark Hands is a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown origins.

Dark Hunters
The Dark Hunters is a Space Marine chapter of unknown founding date or origin.

Dark Sons
The Dark Sons is a Space Marine chapter of unknown founding date or origin.

Dark Tusks
The Dark Tusks Chaos Space Marines are a Renegade Chapter or a simple warband of Chaos Space Marines apparently sworn to the service of Nurgle. The Dark Tusks served as mercenaries in the Halo Stars,often serving the agenda of those with nefarious or Chaotic agendas. Evidence suggests the Dark Tusks are followers of Nurgle, but they were encountered, by Squad Damocles of the Iron Snakes Chapter of Space Marines, fighting alongside a Chaos Cult dedicated to Tzeentch, the Chaos God of Sorcery, on the world of Rosetta. The Dark Tusks wore corroded, rotten Power Armour and smelled of putrescence, decayed flesh and disease. They also carried an array of daemon weapons and "plague weapons". Unlike the majority of Dark Tusks, the leader wore shiny, uncorroded black armour with chain looped about him. The Dark Tusks are described as so degraded in their actions that they were more like animals than men when they were cornered by a Kill-team of the Iron Snakes on Rosetta.

Death Guard
A First Founding Space Marine Legion, the Death Guard are one of the nine Traitor Space Marine Legions which betrayed the Emperor during the Horus Heresy, becoming Chaos Space Marines who now serve the Chaos God Nurgle exclusively. Upon first seeing them, their Primarch Mortarion told them, "You are my unbroken blades. You are the Death Guard."

Death Spectres
The Death Spectres is a Chapter of Space Marines that participated in the Siege of Lelithar and the defence of the Cadian Sector against the 13th Black Crusade.

Death Strike
The Death Strike Chapter participated in the Assault on Moros and acted as the rearguard during the Verdan II Extraction.

Deathwatch
The Deathwatch are not an actual Space Marine Chapter. Instead, they are comprised of kill-squads formed from the veteran Space Marines of other Chapters and serve as the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Xenos of the Imperial Inquisition.

Destroyers
The Destroyers are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and a rare Second Founding Successor Chapter of the White Scars. Nothing else is recorded about the Chapter in Imperial records.

Desert Lions
The Desert Lions are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding who fought in Operation Carthage during the 31st Millennium to retake the world of Istvaan V from the Forces of Chaos who had controlled it since the first days of the Horus Heresy. Nothing else is known about the Chapter in Imperial records.

Disciples of Caliban
The Disciples of Caliban are a Successor Chapter of the Dark Angels Legion, created late in the 37th Millennium.

Doom Eagles
The Doom Eagles are a Primogenitor, or Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines. (Codex Ultramarines, 2nd Edition)

Doom Legion
The Doom Legion is a Space Marine Chapter of unknown founding date or origin.

Doom Warriors
The Doom Warriors is a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown founding and origin.

Dragon Warriors
The Dragon Warriors are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Blood God Khorne who were originally Renegade Space Marines from the 6th Company of the Salamanders Chapter. Captain Terellus of the Salamanders' 6th Company led his warriors to betray the Chapter and the Emperor of Mankind and swear their loyalty instead to the Chaos God Khorne. The Dragon Warriors are specialists in short-range fire fights and melee combat, like all Khornate warbands. They also prefer the use of Melta and Flame Weapons.

Emperor's Children
The Emperor's Children Traitor Legion is one of the First Founding Space Marine Legions that turned to Chaos during the Horus Heresy and later became Chaos Space Marines wholly devoted to the service of the Prince of Chaos, Slaanesh.

Eagle Warriors
The Eagle Warriors are a fleet-based Progenitor (Second Founding) Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines.

Emperor's Hands
The Emperor's Hands are a Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter.

Emperor's Hawks
The Emperor's Hawks is a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown origin and founding.

Emperor's Shadows
The Emperor's Shadows are a Successor Chapter created using the gene-seed of the Iron Hands.

Emperor's Spears
The Emperor's Spears are a Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and founding.

Emperor's Swords
The Emperor's Swords are a Chapter of unknown founding and origin. The Chapter was decimated by the Alpha Legion Traitor Space Marines.

Emperor's Wrath
The Emperor's Wrath Space Marines Chapter is based in Segmentum Solar. They are a Loyalist Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. Their homeworld is in a star system where there are no planets, only asteroids. This system contains three asteroids that have been hollowed out and made into three massive hive cities. This is where the Chapter recruits new members. This Chapter has a deep hatred for xenos like the Tyranids and the Orks. The Emperor's Wrath has purged many Ork-held star systems using the Exterminatus. The Chapter has done the same on many worlds that have fallen to the various Tyranid Hive Fleets. Some of the worlds purged still had large numbers of Imperial forces on them. The Chapter Master and the First, Second and Third Company are currently on a crusade against the forces of Chaos who have occupied a portion of the world of Cadia following Abbadon's 13th Black Crusade against the Imperium.

Emperor's Warbringers
The Emperor's Warbringers Space Marine Chapter wear a gray-green power armor, with crossed swords as its badge.

Emperor's Wolves
The Emperor's Wolves are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding whose gene-seed contain altered and integrated wolf genes similar to those found in the gene-seed of the Space Wolves, though any further connection between the Chapters remains unknown. The Emperor's Wolves lost their 8th Company in the Warp who reemerged decades later as the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Blood Disciples. Nothing else is known about the Chapter in Imperial records.

Excoriators
The Excoriators are a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown founding and origin.

Executioners
The Executioners were one of four chapters that rebelled during the Badab War.

Exorcists
The Exorcists were founded during the 36th Millennium, some time before the Age of Apostasy.

Extinction Angels
One of the Successor Space Marine Chapters that turned to Chaos after the Horus Heresy, the Chapter is famous for its assault skill.

Fire Angels
The Fire Angels are a Loyalist Space Marines Chapter created during the 25th Founding of the 40th Millennium from the gene-seed of the Ultramarines. The Fire Angels are best remembered in Imperial records for the role they placed in the recent Badab War, a rebellion by several Space Marine Chapters against the Imperium of Man.

Fire Hawks
The Fire Hawks were one of the Space Marine Chapters created during the Cursed 21st Founding, from the Ultramarines' gene-seed.

Fire Lords
The Fire Lords is a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter. Their founding date has not been established.

Flame Falcons
The Flame Falcons was one of the cursed Space Marine Chapters created during the Cursed 21st Founding.

Flawless Host
The Flawless Host is a Chaos Space Marine warband, believed to be a splinter group of the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion (or at least a warband utilizing their gene-seed).

Flesh Eaters
The Flesh Eaters are a Third Founding Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels.

Flesh Tearers
The Flesh Tearers are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels.

Genesis Chapter
A Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines.

Grey Knights
The Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter acts as the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Malleus, the daemon-hunting branch of the Imperial Inquisition. Their fortress-monastery is located on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn in the Sol System. Every Grey Knight Marine is also a psyker, which makes it all the more remarkable that no Grey Knight has ever turned to Chaos.

Grey Slayers
The Grey Slayers Chapter is only mentioned in the short opening piece to the Realm of Chaos sourcebooks.

Grief Bringers
The Grief Bringers are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origins and Founding that suffered heavy losses fighting against the Warp entities called Enslavers on the world of Valhall II. Their armour is described as "principally a sickly pea-green, with engrailed chevrons of headachey purple."

Guardians of the Covenant
The Guardians of the Covenant is a Successor Chapter of the Dark Angels, of an unknown founding.

Hawk Lords
The Hawk Lords are a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown origin whose Power Armour is colored purple with gold trim and chest eagle.

Halo Dragons
The Halo Dragons are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origins and Founding who played an instrumental role in containing the Tau's Third Sphere Expansion during the Zeist Campaign of 999.M41. Little else is known about them in Imperial records.

Heralds of Ultramar
The Heralds of Ultramar are a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter derived from the Ultramarines.

Howling Griffons
The Howling Griffons are a Codex Astartes-compliant who trace their origin from the Ultramarines.

Harbingers of Death
The Harbingers of Death Chapter was founded in the 31st Millennium.

Imperial Fists
The Imperial Fists Chapter was formed from the Imperial Fists Legion, Legion VII of the First Founding Space Marine Legions. They are considered the greatest practicioners of siege warfare in the Imperium of Man.

Imperial Hawks
The Imperial Hawks are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. They specialise in high altitude assaults utilising Jump Pack-equipped Astartes and Land Speeders in squadron strength formations. Almost nothing else is known about the Chapter in Imperial records.

Imperial Paladins
The Imperial Paladins are a Loyalist Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. Unfortunately nothing more is currently known about them in Imperial records.

Imperial Ravagers
The Imperial Ravagers' fortress-monastery is a space station that orbits the world of Vindict V. They were summoned to perform Exterminatus upon the planet Stalinvast in The Inquisition War trilogy novel Draco.

Imperial Stars
The Imperial Stars are a Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter.

Inceptors
The Inceptors are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines.

Invaders
The Invaders are a Loyalist Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marines Chapter of unknown Founding and origin. Their Chapter homeworld of Ogrys was lost to an assault by the Eldar of Craftworld Alaitoc approximately a standard century ago and the Invaders have been forced to become a Fleet-based Chapter while they rebuild their strength from the heavy losses they suffered against the vengeful xenos.

Iron Champions
The Iron Champions are a Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and founding date.

Iron Fists
The Iron Fists are a Successor Chapter of the Iron Hands Legion of unknown founding.

Iron Hands
The Iron Hands are one of the initial First Founding Space Marine Legions.

Imperial Harbingers
The Imperial Harbingers hail from the world of Birmingham ("the Black Planet") and are specialists at drop assaults.

Iron Hearts
The Iron Hearts were briefly mentioned in the short story "Hell in a Bottle" by Simon Jowett published in Let the Galaxy Burn. Their Primarch is mentioned as "Primarch Rubineck", possibly one of the unknown Primarchs listed in the Space Marine codexes. The removal of this Chapter's name may be the result of the content of the short story where at its end a Chaos Daemon Lord gains entrance to the Chapter's training centre via the body of a failed Space Marine. Further canon disregards the use of the name of the Primarch and goes on to state that the Chapter was all but annihilated fighting the Daemon Lord who manifested in their star system. Only two companies, the Sixth and Tenth, remain at full strength.

Iron Knights
The Iron Knights are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Imperial Fists. The Iron Knights were one of the many Loyalist Space Marine Chapters who participated in the defence of Cadia from Abaddon the Despoiler's offensive during the Thirteenth Black Crusade.

Iron Snakes
The Iron Snakes is a Second Founding Chapter of unknown origin. The Iron Snakes are tasked with protecting the Reef Stars. The novel Brothers of the Snake by Dan Abnett, is mostly about the exploits of the Iron Snakes' Damocles Squad. The Iron Snakes were one of the many Space Marine Chapters who participated in the defense against the Thirteenth Black Crusade.

Iron Warriors
The Iron Warriors were a First Founding Space Marine Legion that turned Traitor, pledged themselves to Chaos and fought against the Imperium during the Horus Heresy.

J
No known Chapters' names begin with the letter "J."

Knights of Blood
The Knights of Blood are a currently Renegade Space Marines Chapter who were declared renegades and Excommunicate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra on the advice of the Inquisition because of the terrible destruction they wrought against friends and foes alike, yet the Knights of Blood still consider themselves to be loyal to the Emperor of Mankind, if not to his Imperium. The Knights of Blood are a Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels, created during an unknown Founding.

Knights of Gryphonne
The Knights of Gryphonne were a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown origin and founding date.

Knights of the Raven
The Knights of the Raven are a Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown founding date.

Lamenters
The Lamenters are an unfortunate Chapter of Space Marines who took part, on the losing side, in the Badab War, before being devastated by the Tyranids.

Legion of the Damned (Fire Hawks)
The Legion of the Damned are the most famous of the Chapters of the Cursed 21st Founding and were once known as the Fire Hawks. They are listed as officially dead in Imperium records even though some of their members sometimes appear on battlefields only when the situation for other Imperial forces is dire, turning the tide of battle. Many claim to have seen these living spectres but no thanks can ever be given to them, for they leave as suddenly and as quickly as they appeared.


 * See also Fire Hawks

Luna Wolves
The Luna Wolves are one of the First Founding Space Marine Legions and were led by their Primarch, the Warmaster Horus. After Horus was promoted to the rank of Warmaster so that he could lead the Great Crusade in the Emperor's absence when he returned to Terra, they were renamed the Sons of Horus''. ''They led their fellow Traitor Space Marine Legions to Terra during the climax of the Horus Heresy where they carried out the infamous Siege of the Imperial Palace. When Horus was killed at the hands of the Emperor, the Sons of Horus fled into the Eye of Terror where they took on yet another name: the Black Legion. Today, the Black Legion is led by Horus' self-proclaimed successor, Abaddon the Despoiler.

Liberators
The Liberators are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines.

Lion Warriors
The Lion Warriors are a Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin.

Lords of Decay
The Lords of Decay are a warband of Chaos Space Marines originally drawn from the Death Guard Traitor Legion though they have grown large by recruiting members of the other Traitor Legions and Renegade Space Marine Chapters dedicated to Nurgle who have deemed their commanders' attitude towards the Imperium of Man in general and the defence of Terra in particular to be too fearful. The Lords of Decay are known to have been led for a time by the Daemon Primarch Mortarion himself. The Lords of Decay are known to be the only Chaos Space Marine warband in existence to have attempted a direct attack on the Solar System and to have ever defeated a member of the Adeptus Custodes in combat since the Horus Heresy. They were also heavily involved in assisting the Forces of Chaos during the terrible Siege of Vraks. The Lords of Decay are primarily composed of Plague Marines.

Lords of Wrath
The Lords of Wrath Chapter is mentioned in the 3rd edition of Codex: Imperial Guard on p.32. They are said to have participated in the capture of Decius Mus, the Arch-Heretic of Auscum, with assistance from the 23rd Bruttiam Regiment.

Mantis Warriors (Mantis Legion)
Sometimes referred to as the Mantis Legion in older texts, the Mantis Warriors was one of the three Astartes Chapters that joined the Astral Claws in rebelling during the Badab War. For their sins, they have been required to give up their homeworld and pursue the Emperor's forgiveness by defending the Imperium from their fleet without recruiting new members until their penance has been earned and their disgrace erased. This restriction was raised after the Mantis Warriors proved critical in throwing back the attach of a Tyranid splinter Hive Fleet from the strategically-placed Imperial world of Herodian IV

Marines Errant
The Marines Errant is a fleet-based Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin.

Marines Exemplar
The Marines Exemplar is one of the Chapters founded to make up the Astartes Praeses, the twenty Chapters created to guard the regions surrounding the Eye of Terror.

Marines Malevolent
The Marines Malevolent Chapter was founded in the 32nd Millennium.

Masters of Proteus
The Masters of Proteus are a Space Marine Chapter of unknown founding.

Mentors
Often referred to as the Mentor Legion. The Mentors are a 26th Founding Chapter and are the second Chapter to be designated number 888 (the first one being the destroyed Star Scorpions).

Metamarines
The Metamarines are a Space Marine Chapter that participated in the 13th Black Crusade.

Minotaurs
That there existed a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter called the Minotaurs, created during the Cursed 21st Founding of the 36th Millennium, is not widely contested in the Imperial record, but whether or not they are the same as the Chapter bearing the name that took part in the suppression of the Macharian Heresy in the opening decades of the 41st Millennium (and the same Chapter that would later go on to play a crucial and bloody role in the Badab War) is not so certain. The Minotaurs possess a reputation for being unusually xenophobic Astartes, even for the Imperium, as well as often unreliable combatants who do not work well with other Imperial military units.

Mortifactors
The Mortifactors are a Chapter founded during the 40th Millennium from Ultramarines' gene-seed.

Night Watch
The Night Watch is one of the Chapters founded to make up the Astartes Praeses, the twenty Chapters created to specifically guard the regions of the Imperium surrounding the Eye of Terror.

Novamarines
The Novamarines is a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines. The Novamarines are scattered throughout the galaxy, and have not fought together as a Chapter since the early years of the 37th Millennium.

Omega Marines
A Space Marines Chapter of unknown origin or founding raised during the 40th Millennium.

Oracles of Change
The Oracles of Change is a warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from an unknown Chapter and dedicated to the service of Tzeentch. The Oracles are lead by the Chaos Sorcerer Amadeus Volkstein, who was once a Loyalist Librarian Epistolary before being corrupted by the promise of knowledge and power offered by the Lord of Change.

Praetors of Orpheus
The Praetors of Orpheus is a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines.

The Pyre
The Pyre is a Chapter of Chaos Space Marines that was formerly a Loyalist Chapter given the task of combating Chaos around the Eye of Terror who were ultimately corrupted by Chaos and turned Traitor themselves.

Punishers
The Punishers are a Chaos Space Marine warband. There is little else known about them in Imperial records.

Purge, The
The Purge is a Chaos Space Marine warband dedicated to the Chaos God Nurgle, the Plague Lord. They despise life in all its forms and have waged war against aliens and Mankind alike across the 3000 standard years since their founding in the 38th Millennium, though their origin remains unknown. They aim to exterminate all known life in the galaxy in service to Nurgle in his aspect as the Lord of Death. When The Purge attack a world, famine, pestilence and death soon follow. They are infamous for their conduct of genocidal campaigns and the indiscriminate use of chemical weapons on civilian and military targets alike. They recently played a major role in defending the other Forces of Chaos during the Siege of Vraks by the Imperial Guard. Their current location is unknown.

Purple Stars
The Purple Stars are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter featured in the novel Eye of Terror by Barrington J. Bayley. The Purple Stars' Power Armour is a royal purple with five gold colored stars on the right shoulder plate. In the novel Eye of Terror, a half-squad (5 warriors) of Purple Stars Space Marines were sent on a one-way mission into the Eye of Terror with an Inquisition reconaissance team, and were wiped out to the last man when their cloaked nullship was discovered and boarded by Chaos Space Marines.

Q
No known Chapters' names begin with the letter "Q."

Rainbow Warriors
The Rainbow Warriors appeared as an example Space Marine Chapter in Rogue Trader (the first edition of Warhammer 40,000 published in 1987), but there is no mention of them in later editions of the game.

Rampagers
The Rampagers are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the White Scars. Their Power Armour is red. The Rampagers' Chapter badge is a fist clenching a yellow lightning bolt. According to How To Paint Space Marines, their squad badges are placed on the outer side of the right greave.

Raptors
The Raptors are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Raven Guard. The Chapter first appeared in Rogue Trader-era Warhammer 40,000 as the "Raptor Legion."

Raven Guard
The Raven Guard is one of the original First Founding Legions of Space Marines. The Primarch of the Raven Guard was Corax.

Reclaimers
The Reclaimers are a Chapter that took part in the anti-Tyranid action on the world of Coronia in the Damocles Gulf. They are mentioned several times in Sandy Mitchell's Ciaphas Cain series of novels, and are also one of the Astartes Praeses, the 20 Space Marine Chapters whose only duty is to protect the regions of the Imperium closest to the Eye of Terror. They wear cherry-red Power Armour and their badge is a pair of gauntleted fists imposed on a blue pentagram.

Red Hunters
The Red Hunters have unusually strong ties to the Inquisition for a Space Marines Chapter; the entire Chapter has been known to serve under an Inquisitor Lord of any of the three main Ordos on occasion.

Red Scorpions
The Red Scorpions are the Chapter responsible for the creation of the Land Raider Helios artillery support vehicle. They are considered perhaps the most intensely Loyalist and puritanical of all the Space Marine Chapters and will not serve beside any xenos or mutants, including even Imperially-sanctioned Abhumans like Squats and Ogryns. However, they have a high-regard for psykers and make extensive use of Space Marine Librarians. They are well known in the Imperium as some of the best melee warriors in the galaxy.

Red Talons
The Red Talons are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Iron Hands.

Red Templars
The Red Templars is a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown origin or founding date.

Red Wolves
The Red Wolves are a Second Founding Chapter created from the gene-seed of the Iron Hands.

Relictors
The Relictors Chapter was founded in the 36th Millennium as one of the twenty Astartes Praeses Chapters who are tasked with defending the regions of the Imperium closest to the Eye of Terror, though they were originally called the Fire Claws. Following the direction of a Radical Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus, the Fire Claws sought to collect a great horad of Chaos artefacts that they hoped to against the servants of the Ruinous Powers, thus earning the name Relictors. When the more Puritan factions of the Inquisition learned about this, they moved against the Chapter and forced it to undertake a a century-long Penance Crusade to earn the Emperor's forgiveness for consorting with Chaos. Following further conflicts with the Inquisition concerning their methods of battling Chaos, the Chapter eventually fled into the Eye of Terror and was declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the Ordo Hereticus. Whether this renegade Space Marine Chapter has actually turned to the service of Chaos or is simply still pursuing its own agenda in the battle against the Ruinous Powers remains unknown.

Revilers
The Revilers are a Successor Chapter of the Raven Guard who specialize in jungle warfare.

Salamanders
The Salamanders are a First Founding Space Marine Legion whose Primarch was Vulkan.

Sable Swords
The Sable Swords are a Loyalist, Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter said to be founded in the latter years of the 41st Millennium, making them one of the newest Space Marines Chapters to be raised. Their origin and founding remain unknown, but their fortress-monastery is located on the world of Obsidia in the Ultima Segmentum.

Scythes of the Emperor
The Scythes of the Emperor are a Chapter of Space Marines who, along with the Lamenters, were virtually destroyed during the invasion of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Kraken.

Silver Guard
The Silver Guard is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin that fought to liberate the Sabbat Worlds Sector from the control of the Forces of Chaos during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade that began in 741.M41.

Silver Guards
The Silver Guard Chaper turned Renegade after the "Obscuran Uprisings" in the late 34th Millennium.

Silver Skulls
The Silver Skulls is an Ultramarines Successor Chapter founded during the 31st Millennium.

Skull Bearers
The Skull Bearers Chapter wears bone-colored Power Armour.

Sky Sentinels
The Sky Sentinels are a Loyalist Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding.

Sons of Antaeus
The Sons of Antaeus is a Space Marines Chapter created during the Cursed 21st Founding, records concerning the activities of the Sons of Antaeus are few.

Sons of Guilliman
The Sons of Guilliman is a Chapter created during the 33rd Millennium from Ultramarines gene-seed.

Sons of Justice
The Sons of Justice Space Marines are also known as "The Defenders of Varlite" because they fought along side the Storm Lords and the Black Ravens in an apocalyptic battle to defend the fortress of Varlite, an important air field and military camp built around and over the mountain ranges of the world of Valkador V.

Sons of Horus
The Sons of Horus was the name given to the Luna Wolves Legion after their Primarch Horus was named Warmaster by the Emperor, to carry on the Great Crusade in his name after he returned to Terra following the Ullanor Crusade in the 31st Millennium. Horus resisted using this name, which he found overly grandiose, until after his corruption by Chaos, when he found such monuments to his ego far more fitting. Today, at the end of the 41st Millennium, the Sons of Horus are the Chaos Space Marines collectively called the Black Legion and they are led by Horus' self-proclaimed successor and former First Captain of the Legion, Abaddon the Despoiler.

Sons of Malice
The Sons of Malice are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines who turned Renegade some time prior to the start of the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41. the Sons of Malice were originally Founded to watch over the sectors of Imperial space surrounding the Eye of Terror as one of the 20 Chapters of the Astartes Praeses. Events leading to the Chapter's excommunication began following the successful end of the Cilix 225 Campaign against heretics who had threatened to depressurize three underwater hive cities on that world, and ultimately led the Chapter to declare itself to be both enemies of the Imperium of Man and the Forces of Chaos even as it took up service with a Chaos God, the Renegade God Malal, also called Malice, the Hierarch of Anarchy and Terror. Perhaps the Chapter's most eerie quality is that the Sons of Malice reportedly fight in utter silence, and those who have fought against them cite this as the prime source of the deeply disturbing aura surrounding them.

Sons of Medusa
The Sons of Medusa were a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter involved in the Badab War.

Sons of Orar
The Sons of Orar is a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown origin, though the Chapter symbol is closely related to the Ultramarines' symbol. Though the history of the Sons of Orar has been lost, what is known is that they revere Orar, an Ultramarines Captain who won great renown in the wake of the Horus Heresy.

Sons of Vengeance
The Sons of Vengeance turned Renegade alongside the Silver Guards after the Obscuran Uprisings in the late 34th Millennium.

Sons of Ulthunas
The Sons of Ulthunas Chapter turned Renegade against the Imperium of Man during the Ganymathian Betrayal. They are currently known as the Angels of Ecstacy and are Chaos Space Marines who serve Slaanesh, the Prince of Chaos.

Soul Drinkers
The Soul Drinkers are a Space Marines Chapter created during the Second Founding, who were drawn from the Imperial Fists Legion. The Soul Drinkers threw off the yoke of the Imperium which they beleived was corrupt and were declared Renegades by the Inquisition, but they are still loyal to the Emperor and their gene-seed was stabilised after numerous mutations.

Space Sharks
There is speculation that the Space Sharks' Chapter was a Successor Chapter of the Raven Guard.

Space Wolves
The Space Wolves are one of the twenty First Founding Legions of the Space Marines. Their Primarch was Leman Russ.

Star Dragons
The Star Dragons are a Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and founding.

Star Phantoms
The Star Phantoms  are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin who participated in the Badab War. This Chapter was responsible for the final assault which ended the Badab War. Over five hundred Space Marines assaulted the Imperial Governors' palace on Badab, and during the assault, crippled the the Chapter Master of the Renegade Astral Claws, Huron Blackheart. The Cities of Death expansion book claims Captain Androcles of the Star Phantoms wounded him with a combi-melta in an ambush, although other sources claim that this was accomplished by an orbital bombardment.

Star Scorpions
The Star Scorpions was a Space Marine Chapter of the 25th Founding.

Steel Confessors
The Steel Confessors are a Chapter founded in the 36th Millennium by the Adeptus Mechanicus for their own purposes. They have far more Techmarines than normal Space Marine Chapters and the use of bionic replacements is rampant.

Storm Callers
The Storm Callers are a Chapter of unknown founding and origin.

Storm Giants
The Storm Giants are a Chapter founded during the early 41st Millennium.

Storm Lords
The Storm Lords are a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the White Scars.

Storm Warriors
The Storm Warriors committed their entire Chapter's forces to the defence of the Cadian Sector during the Thirteenth Black Crusade.

Storm Wardens
The Storm Wardens are a Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown founding and origin based on the forbidden world of Sacris in the Calixis Sector of the Segmentum Obscuras. Their entire First Company and Chapter Master Owin Glandwyr were placed into stasis within a sealed portion of the Chapter's fortress-monastery on Sacris with the cooperation of the Inquisition following the Nemesis Incident of 945.M36. Furthermore, the Chapter homeworld of Sacris was forbidden to have any contact with the rest of the Imperium by the Inquisition. The reason for these steps remain unknown.


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Subjugators
The Subjugators are a 26th Founding Space Marine Successor Chapter of the Crimson Fists.

Taurans
The Taurans are a standard Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter. They have bone-white Power Armour with black greaves, helmet, aquila, backpack, and markings. The Chapter's symbol is a black bull's head on a bone-white field.

Tainted, The
The Tainted are a large warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the Death Guard Traitor Legion who are dedicated to the Plague Lord Nurgle in his aspects as the God of Despair and the Mortifier of the Flesh. The Tainted supplement their numbers on the battlefield with a large number of disease-ridden Chaos Spawn called "Plague Spawn," mutated Plague Ogryns and other horribly mutated beasts who are collectively known as the "Rotted Circus". The most powerful of these beasts was a massive Chaos Spawn riddled with Grandfather Nurgle's plagues who was named "Jibberjaw". The Tainted were one of the 11 Chaos Space Marine warbands to participate in the Siege of Vraks, seeking to aid the Forces of Chaos in the defence of the Imperial Armoury World of Vraks that they had seized from the Emperor under the leadership of the Apostate Cardinal Xaphan.

Terror Tigers
The Terror Tigers played a small part in the Inquisition War trilogy novel Harlequin. They lost one quarter of their Chapter when a mutant warlord assaulted their homeworld, after which their Chapter Master ordered his own execution as punishment. An exploration team of Terror Tigers rediscovered the lost feral world of Hannibal, intervening in an Eldar attempt to reclaim the world as their own. The team dramatically came to the primitive human natives' rescue.

Thousand Sons
The Thousand Sons are a Traitor Legion of Chaos Space Marines wholly dedicated to the service of the Chaos God Tzeentch who were once one of the First Founding Space Marine Legions before the Horus Heresy. The Legion's Primarch was Magnus the Red, an unusual Primarch who possessed potent psychic powers and a deep knowledge of sorcery. Magnus the Red is presently a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. The Thousand Sons also had an unusually high number of psykers in their midst, a number which only increased after they swore themselves to the service of the Changer of Ways, who is the Chaos God of Sorcery. Due to the workings of a potent sorcerous spell called the Rubric of Ahriman, none of the Thousand Sons Chaos Marines possess organic bodies any longer; instead, their souls have been directly fused with their suits of ancient Power Armour. The Thousand Sons may also have included a small contingent of Space Marines who remained loyal to the Emperor during the Heresy, refused to flee into the Eye of Terror and split off to form their own Loyalist Chapter. The descendants of these Space Marines may be the current Blood Ravens Chapter, which like the Thousand Sons possesses an unusual number of psykers among its Battle-Brothers.

Thunder Barons
The Thunder Barons are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines mentioned in Soul Drinker and Daemon World.

Tiger Claws
The Tiger Claws Chapter was the original name for the Traitor Marines who now call themselves the Astral Claws. They were depicted as wearing black and orange tiger-striped Power Armour with a tiger head as their symbol. Imperial records were later amended to indicate that the Tiger Claws were in fact a separate Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines who were later believed destroyed in the Warp by the Imperium. However, a large portion of their Astartes survived and were illegally absorbed into the Astral Claws Chapter. They are now rightfully considered a part of that Renegade group of Astartes (see Red Corsairs).

Tigers Argent
The Tigers Argent are a Loyalist Chapter of Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marines of unknown Founding and origin. They aided the Imperial Angevin Crusade that conquered the Calixis Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus for the Imperium of Man in the early 39th Millennium. There is little else currently known to be recorded about them in Imperial records other than that their homeworld is known as Icefang.

Ultramarines
The Ultramarines, one of the First Founding Space Marine Legions, are considered the greatest of all the Space Marine Chapters in the Imperium of Man, almost single-handedly holding the Imperium together after the Horus Heresy. They are currently led by their Chapter Master, Marneus Augustus Calgar. Their homeworld is Macragge in the Imperial realm of Ultramar. The Ultramarines have more Successor Chapters than any other First Founding Chapter.

Valedictors
The Valedictors were originally a First Founding Legion which saw action on the Eastern Fringe of the Imperium against Orks, Eldar, and Traitors during the Horus Heresy. They were described in detail in two Epic articles in White Dwarf magazines 126 and 136, circa 1990-91. The status of the Valedictors changed in White Dwarf 235, where they are said to be of a "later founding," (post-Second Founding). Therefore, in the most recent canon literature, the Valedictors are no longer a First Founding Legion. The Valedictors' Power Armour is oak-leaf green with a teardrop on the kneecap plate with a Roman numeral inside to denote the company. The Chapter symbol is a winged "V".

Violators
The Violators are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Slaanesh. Their Power Armour is a shade of blue and their Chapter badge is a lightning bolt crossed with a dagger. They are known to use electrical pulses to stimulate certain parts of the brain to increase their pleasure. They fought in the 13th Black Crusade and mostly saw combat in the Cadian Sector. During this campaign they repeatedly took new recruits from the worst Imperial prisons that they liberated during their assaults.

Warp Ghosts
The Warp Ghosts is a Chapter of unknown founding and origin, who turned Renegade.

White Consuls
The White Consuls are a Second Founding Chapter of Space Marines. They are listed in the Apocrypha of Davio as having derived from the Ultramarines' gene-seed.

White Minotaurs
The White Minotaurs are a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter of unknown origin and founding date.

White Panthers
The White Panthers were part of the 26th Founding. They are organized according to the Codex Astartes.

White Scars
The White Scars were one of the First Founding Legions of Space Marines. They are known and feared throughout the Imperium for their highly mobile way of war.

White Templars
The White Templars are a Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter, rumoured to be descended from the Black Templars.

Wolf Brothers
The Wolf Brothers were a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Space Wolves. They were later eradicated by the Inquisition due to rampant mutation of the unstable Space Wolf gene-seed.