Pyre Guard

The Pyre Guard were the elite Space Marine Battle-Brothers of the Salamanders Legion who served as Primarch Vulkan's elite bodyguards during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Sworn to protect the Primarch, they were warriors apart. Terran-born, they did not always fully appreciate the earthy sentiments of the Nocturnean culture in which Vulkan was raised, but they knew their duty and felt it in their genhanced blood. They were led by Numeon, a Terran-born officer who of all the Firedrakes of the elite 1st Company was preeminent, the Legion’s First Captain and Equerry. Their fate following the Horus Heresy remains unknown, but like their contemporaries, the Morlocks, of the Iron Hands Legion, they may have met their ultimate fate during the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V and were utterly wiped out.