Editing Second Founding (section)

==List of Second Founding Chapters==

===[[Dark Angels]]===
*[[Angels of Absolution]]
*[[Angels of Redemption]]
*[[Angels of Vengeance]]
*[[Lions Sable]] (destroyed trying to apprehend several Fallen in what was later revealed to be a massive trap set by [[Cypher]] shortly before [[The Beheading]] and all records of their existence were erased to hide the involvement of the Fallen in their collapse.)
*[[Star Phantoms]] ([[A Game of Pretend|maybe]], though this chapter definitely did exist in M31)
*[[Angels of Vigilance]] (again maybe, though this one is more likely)

According to ''The Unforgiven'' by Gav Thorpe, the Angels didn't get started with their Inner Circle and Fallen Hunting until some decades after the Second Founding so it may be possible that some of the Dark Angels Second Founding chapters are exempted from this practice and hierarchy. Since all twelve chapters were present at Cypher's revelation and that the majority of officers would have been veterans of the Horus Heresy and the Scouring, it's more likely that Unforgiven would been of one mind and joined willingly and any [[Blam|dissenting voices silenced]] or sworn to absolute secrecy.

While much of the truth is lost to apocrypha and LIES, it does at least provide a potential explanation for the [[Star Phantoms]]' temporal fuckery, as they might have been the Chapter where the Astartes who decided that the Fallen hunting affair would be dumb were allowed to join in exchange for vows of silence.

===[[White Scars]]===
*[[Destroyers]]
*[[Marauders]]
*[[Rampagers]]
*[[Storm Lords]]

===[[Space Wolves]]===
*[[Wolf Brothers]]

===[[Imperial Fists]]===
*[[Black Templars]]
*[[Crimson Fists]]
*[[Soul Drinkers]] (sort of, it's a long story)
*[[Excoriators]]
*[[Fists Exemplar]]: Mostly destroyed by [[The Beast]]. Majority of the survivors went on to re-establish the destroyed Imperial Fists under the Last Wall Protocol, barring one unit that lost contact in the fighting and defected to the [[Iron Warriors]]. The records of the Fists Exemplar were subsequently put to the torch by their own Chapter Master to cover up the shame of being the first Chapter to (technically) fall to Chaos since the days of the [[Horus Heresy]] 
*[[Iron Knights]] (found before Fourth Founding)

===[[Blood Angels]]===
*[[Angels Encarmine]]
*[[Angels Sanguine]]
*[[Angels Vermillion]]
*[[Blood Drinkers]]
*[[Flesh Tearers]]

===[[Iron Hands]]===
*[[Brazen Claws]]
*[[Red Talons]]

===[[Ultramarines]]===
The Apocrypha of Skaros indicates that the Ultramarines sired 23 chapters, but doesn't name them all. The listed second founding chapters are given below:

*[[Aurora Chapter]]
*[[Black Consuls]]
*[[Desert Lions]]
*[[Doom Eagles]]
*[[Eagle Warriors]]
*[[Genesis Chapter]]
*[[Inceptors]]
*[[Iron Snakes]]
*[[Libators]]
*[[Mortifactors]]
*[[Nemesis]]
*[[Novamarines]]
*[[Patriarchs of Ulixis]]
*[[Praetors of Orpheus]]
*[[Silver Eagles]]
*[[Silver Skulls]] (post-retcon; they were previously a [[Third Founding]] Chapter)
*[[White Consuls]]
*[[Yellow Jackets]]

The rest of the second founding Ultramarines have been added piecemeal as time goes by.
*[[Obsidian Glaives]]

Also note that the Ultramarines "adopted" some of the loyalist forces from otherwise traitorous legions and permitted them to call themselves Ultramarine Second Founding chapters. More details can be found [[Traitor_Legion_Loyalists#The_Ultramarine.27s_Second_Founding_Connection|here]].

The [[Scythes of the Emperor]] were the Ultramarines 199th Company on Sotha, who became the Ultramarines [[Heresy|eleventh]] company as part of the second founding; Guilliman unofficially gave himself an extra company to guard the Pharos device, but after he was placed in stasis following his injuries at the hands of Fulgrim they were eventually rolled into their own chapter during the Third Founding.

===[[Salamanders]]===
None, as there weren't enough Salamanders left after the [[Horus Heresy]] to fill one Chapter, let alone two.

===[[Raven Guard]]===
*[[Black Guard]]
*[[Raptors (Chapter)|Raptors]]
*[[Revilers]]

===[[Grey Knights]]===
The Grey Knights were not created from any of the Space Marine Legions, as their [[gene-seed]] was specially created by the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] himself and their founding members were hand-picked by [[Malcador the Sigillite]]; at least two of the eight founding Grand Masters were loyalists who had formerly been a part of a [[Chaos Space Marines|Traitor Legion]] (Revuel Arvida/Janus, [[Thousand Sons]]; Iapto/Severian "the Wolf", [[Luna Wolves]]; Crius/[[Garvel Loken]] would have been the ninth had he not refused the position). They were founded to supply the newly-formed [[Inquisition]] with a strike force against future [[Chaos]] threats.

===Unknown===
Some chapters have histories which stretch back to the Second Founding but have deliberately obfuscated their parent legion for one reason or another.
*[[Red Hunters]] - likely down to their status as the Inquisition's lapdogs, which results in regular mind-scrubbing and their history being [[1984]]'d after every few campaigns. They're implied to be Second Founding, however.
*[[Purple Stars]]

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