Editing Salamanders (Chapter) (section)

===Recruitment===
Unlike other [[Space Marine]]s, the Salamanders' method of recruitment is almost as [[Noblebright]] as it gets - befitting their slow and methodical approach to life, Salamander aspirants start their training at around the age of six or seven as an apprentice to a full Salamander. They won't have to do life-and-death tests like how other Space Marine aspirants start out, no siree, they will spend their time ''smithing'' - clearly reinforcing the Salamanders' sympathies for the common people (since they worked like one and recruit by literally teaching children) and predilection for creating wargear (because they actually smithed, duh). As we don't know the criteria by which the aspirants are chosen (and there's probably not a lot of metrics by which seven-year-olds can be clearly distinguished from one another anyway), we can only assume the Salamanders are perfectly open to accepting awestruck boys who've said they want to be like the Salamanders when they grow up to give them a chance to achieve their dreams or let them serve their heroes as [[Chapter Serf]]s even if they fail. This also [[Fail|probably means that any Salamander who has trained an apprentice is a better parental figure than]] [[The Emperor]].

The smithing practice continues until they reach the age to begin the gene-seed implantation process, after which they are judged by Chaplains and Apothecaries as to whether they are worthy to become [[Space Marine]]s and, as an obvious show of care from the Salamanders, whether they would actually survive the gene-seed implantation. After being cleared at this point, the aspirants will have succeed at a number of trials based on what [[The Emperor]] and [[Vulkan]] did in their contests before [[Vulkan]] swore loyalty to him (which are mostly presumed to be far less lethal to the washouts than other prospective Marines from what we know about the two's competition), until eventually they are required to climb up Cindara Plateau as well as go to Mount Deathfire and slay a Fire Drake (these ones are obviously lethally dangerous).