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==Who's Their [[Primarch|Daddy?]]== So just like their [[Blood Ravens|vidya gaem cousin]], there's been some speculation about who their Primarch might be. Some have pointed to [[Ultramarines|the smurfs]], due to their love of the codex (and Ultramarines' successors make up fifty to sixty five percent of all successor chapters). Others have thought they might be [[World Eaters]], because of similar colors and combat. However, the creator of the Storm Wardens at Fantasy Flight Games, Ross Watson, told us the biggest inspiration he had for making the chapter was a [[Warhammer 40,000 Fanon Wiki|fanon]] chapter, along with some inspiration from Sons of Dorn (a novel about the [[Imperial Fists]] recruitment), Brothers of the Snake (a novel about the [[Iron Snakes]]) and [[Horus Heresy]] novels thrown in their for good measure]. This fanon chapter, called Warriors Eternal, was a successor of the [[Storm Lords]], a [[White Scars]] [[Second Founding]] chapter. So, if Watson just thought of a carbon-copy of the Warriors Eternal, then the Storm Wardens' Primarch might also be [[Jaghatai Khan]]. However, Astartes usually take on physical characteristics similar to their primogenitor's features after they are implanted with their geneseed. That's how Salamanders and their successors turn literally black, or how Raven Guard and their successors lose their skin pigmentation, and how White Scars successors take on mongoloid/asian phenotypes as a result. By no accounts do these power-armored highlanders look asian like the White Scars and their successors do. Also, since the other "scottish chapter" has usually been the Iron Hands ("scottish" mostly due to the Iron Hands' independant clan structure and their original recruitment from Albia), you could also be of the opinion that the Storm Wardens share more similarities with the sons of [[Ferrus Manus]]. Of course, now that [[Games Workshop]] is in full control, they'll probably just go for their [[Matt Ward|favorite boys in blue]], assuming of course that they even remember that this Chapter exists. So, let's just never ask them. [https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2010/4/30/chapters-of-the-deathwatch-part-6/ Ross Watson talking about the origins of the chapter] For the [[Skub|lore-contrarians]] and/or [[World Eaters]] fans among you; upon close examination of the [[Forge World|lore]] ([[Writefag|and with a little "speculation" to fill in the gaps]]), there may be some credence behind the Storm Wardens being the descendants of Angron's Loyalist sons. Firstly, the World Eaters recruited from Feudal and Feral Worlds throughout the Imperium during the Great Crusade due to [[Perturabo|extraordinarily high attrition rates]]. Sacris, the Storm Warden's current homeworld, is a [[Feral World]] with a notably fierce tribal-warrior culture that's practically tailor-made for Astartes recruitment (i.e. [[Awesome|Celts in Space]]). And since at least one company of War Hounds was operating in that corner of Segmentum Obscurus (specifically the 88th Company deployed to the nearby Halo Stars), the chances of a passing XIIth Legion fleet taking one look at Sacris' human population and NOT calling dibs on the entire planet would be fairly low. Secondly, the Storm Wardens' preferred and specialized battle doctrine, using [[Dakka|heavy firepower]] and [[METAL BOXES|armored assaults]] to deliver [[Black Templars|sword-swinging]] Space Marines directly into the thickest fighting, reads almost identically to how the World Eaters and War Hounds fought with combined-arms tactics and copious amounts of [[Rip and tear]]. And thirdly, the Chapter culture (martial discipline, general fixation with honorable melee combat and weaponry, settling arguments with one-on-one duels, etc.) and color scheme (blue armor with white pauldrons) of the 41st Millennium's Storm Wardens are, again, more than a little reminiscent of the Crusade-era War Hounds. Admittedly, any of these individual points could describe several Space Marine Chapters following the Heresy and Scouring. But when put together, the characteristics that define the Storm Wardens begin to look a lot like the XIIth Legion of old. There is also that passage in the Deathwatch books where the Storm Wardens have had visions of [[Angron|a traitor Primarch]] who questioned them on their lineage. The biggest leap in this theory is, of course, how the bloody hell a bunch of World Eaters ended up becoming the remarkably calm and honorable Storm Wardens we know today. The answer, [[Matt Ward|as it always seems to be with Games Workshop]], may in fact be [[Roboute Guilliman]] and the [[Ultramarines]]. The Thirteenth did take in [[Traitor Legion Loyalists]] during the [[Horus Heresy]], with many theorized to have formed their own Successor Chapters during the [[Second Founding]]. [[Mary Sue|Convinced that some of Angron's sons can actually be trusted]], Guilliman would allow some of these loyal World Eaters to found their own chapter based on the noble ideals of the original War Hounds. Preferably somewhere [[Lorgar|far]], [[Angron|FAR]] away from [[Ultramar]]. Sacris, literally on the opposite side of the galaxy and maybe even the Marines' original homeworld, would be chosen as their chapter homeworld. The newly christened "Storm '''Wardens'''" (named for their adopted Primarch's title of Lord-Warden during [[Imperium Secundus|that one incident we do not speak of]]) would then go home to set up shop and keep watch over the [[Eye of Terror]] (and totally not [[Dark Angels|Caliban]] or [[Iron Hands|Medusa]] as Guilliman's guard/attack dogs). Short version: War Hounds/World Eaters + [[Roboute Guilliman|Halfway decent fatherly influences]] + [[Codex Astartes|Seeing what a Space Marine Legion can do in the wrong hands]] + [[Honor|Sacris' isolated warrior culture]] + 10,000 years = Storm Wardens. (This also goes a long way to explain why they [[Dark Angels|buried their Chapter's history]] after the Nemesis Incident. A company of [[Enslavers|Enslaver]]-tainted Space Marines is [[Night Lords|scary]] enough. A company of Enslaver-tainted Space Marines in command of an entire chapter of ''World Eaters'' is something almost insanely more [[Tyranids|frightening]].)
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