Editing 21st Founding (section)

==Alternative takes==

It's called the cursed founding, by apparently introducing more mutations and flaws. However, how the fuck is [[awesome|creating the Legion of The Damned]] a bad thing? The Black Dragons got a kickass Wolverine thing (more like Baraka), among many other actual improvements.

...Oh right, mutations are synonymous with the involvement of [[Chaos]]. And the Legion only shows up extremely infrequently.

Actually, the Black Dragons and Legion of the Damned were a small amount of loyalist rarities in a large founding (the largest since the 2nd Founding). Although we're given only a small amount of specific examples, it's explicitly stated that the vast majority of Cursed Founding chapters fell to Chaos, went renegade, went INSANE, or had ridiculously bad luck and went extinct from it (the [[Lamenters]] apparently weren't the only ones. They're just the only ones that managed to survive in spite of it). And even the Black Dragons get a ton of crap to dodge in exchange for the advantages of their mutations. Not least Dark Eldar wanting them for science experiments.

Going to the "[[Primaris Marine|Primaris]] Beta Edition" theory, Cawl would brag about how his NuMarines were allegedly immune to the curses of their parent chapters (namely the [[Wulfen]] curse and, to an extent, the [[Red Thirst]]), but they still ended up exhibiting them anyway. The Primaris Geneseed also saw the return of some organs that were either thought [[Imperial Fists|lost]] or [[Raven Guard|malfunctional]] in a given chapter and its descendants, but none of the Cursed chapters with mutations have been "cured" by this method, with the Black Dragons and Lamenters getting Primaris forces as well. Compensation perhaps? Cawl pulling some strings to give them needed reinforcements? Farming "useful" mutations when need be? Who knows.

Yet another take is the "Minotaur Cover-up" angle. According to Eadwin Brown, one of the developers of the [[Badab War]]; the current-day Minotaurs were created from a group of repentant [[Iron Warriors]] who were allowed to rejoin the Imperium of Man as rather than out and out treason they were a distant garrison who missed out on the heresy and didn't manage to reestablish contact until the [[Great Scouring]] (essentially meaning they spent several years thinking that they were on a standard [[Great Crusade]] garrison posting, making them technically [[Traitor Legion Loyalists]]), but at the cost of changing their identity and being at the High Lords beck and call, which solves the mystery of their confusing history by playing it up as a cover-up. The theory is that in order to ''do'' this without getting the Inquisition breathing down their necks, the High Lords had to hastily create a justification for their sudden reappearance, and what better justification than the decision to "fix" flaws in other space marine chapters and declaring a new founding, meaning that there's a possibility that the Cursed Founding could have been cursed through the simple, ugly issues born of bureaucratic shell-shuffling. Indeed, the Minotaurs created during the 21st Founding (the old awful Mustard and Ketchup color scheme) were completely batshit insane berserkers, with the shuffling to the High Lords' (and perhaps unwittingly the [[Adeptus Custodes]]') anti-Astartes police makes it seem like they tossed in some leftover World Eater gene seed, made them Chimeras with some other gene seed and used the resulting ball of unstable psychosis to mutual kill something, then used the conveniently present Chapter to get the Iron Warrior Minotaurs legitimized (possibly keeping the World Eater-someone else Chimeras around under modern Minotaur colors as a tip-of-the-spear specialist force to unleash when [[Rip and Tear]] is needed before the rest of the Chapter spends precious gear).

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