Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-5846164-20130912160556/@comment-16911761-20130916181241

Well, rarity when describing successor chapters seems to work like this in the wiki IMO, if one were to account for those Legions whose standing numbers were relatively small or at the outcome of the Horus Heresy were reduced to a fraction of their combat strength, then any successor chapters from these Legions would then be considered rare when compared to the ones from the larger Legions, also, i don't think its wise to count a Chapter as a successor of this Legion or that Legion without sufficient proof, alleged or suspected does not necessarily mean that they are already a successor of the aforementioned Legion, take for example the Soul Drinkers, they were first considered to be a second founding chapter hailing from the Imperial Fist bloodline, but nearing the end of one of the novels that portrayed the Soul Drinkers, the examination of their gene seed disproved them, judgements based on similar iconography, name similarities, favored tactics without supporting gene seed evidence does not confirm the founding Legion of the said chapter. Alas, we can only speculate as of this moment, but you are correct to say that if one were to present a confirmed successor chapter of the Salamanders, then that would make the Salamanders bloodline to be the rarest, followed then by the Space Wolves bloodline which only had one successor, the Wolf Brothers, and then by Dark Angels and Iron Hands. If only they explained the reason why they consider the Raven Guards to have one of the rarer bloodlines, then it would have made this a lot easier, hahaha