Editing Legion of the Damned (section)

===Theories===
Their new codex says that it's not actually known for sure if the above is really the case. Most of the [[Imperium]] (other than the [[Space Marines]], who stand by the Fire Hawks theory) believes they are the ghosts of dead Space Marines, and the [[Eldar]] (along with the late Inquisitor Quixos of [[Eisenhorn]] fame) are convinced that they're the Imperial equivalent of Daemons.

Note that similarly [[Kaldor Draigo]] has also been lost in the warp without being dissolved instantly by the raw stuff of chaos, but [[Matt Ward|obviously]] retains his purity because he's a [[Mary Sue|Grey Knight]] Chuck Norris in space, and instead of getting wet when falling into water, he makes it chuck instead, basically willing the warp to become still around him, yeah. The Fire Hawks were already known for being particularly devout and close with the [[Ecclesiarchy]] and [[Sebastian Thor]] and so could conceivably prevent themselves from melting too through sheer faith and willpower.
Also, [[Cypher|certain]] [[Fallen Angels]] manage to be deposited across space and time causing [[What|chronological inconsistencies]] and no end of [[derp|debate]].

They supposedly figure out where they are needed most by using the Emperor's Tarot, a deck of psychoactive crystal cards that are said to be linked directly to the Emperor. I'd imagine how frustrated they would be when they discover that Emperor's Tarot was made by [[Lorgar]] <s>(not doing a good job of proving you're a God, Emps)</s> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|Heresy!}}. The [[Ordo Chronos]] (what's left of it, anyway) thinks that they might actually be using time travel to do this,''(see also the '''Sollemnis''' below)'' but every time they've tried to observe the Legion directly to test this, they've been delayed by freak accidents that just so happen to keep the Ordo Chronos away long enough for the Legion to vanish by the time they show up.

Another theory that links to the time travel one is that they're Marines from an alternate even more grim and dark timeline, or as one anon puts it "in the grim grim darkness of the far far further future, there are only flaming-time-traveling-teleporting armor-ignoring-zombie-space-marines-ghosts" sent back to stop whatever bad is happening to prevent their future from ever happening in the first place.
[[File:Damned Legionaire and Filthy Eldar Xeno.jpg|800px|thumbnail|right|Legionaries are bros. End of story. Don't believe in the hypocrisy of what others say about them.]]
In other words, [[Awesome|they're erasing themselves from existence to save humanity]].

Nobody's entirely sure of the truth anymore, perhaps none of them are true or perhaps '''all''' theories are true and the Fire Hawks are just one set of unfortunate space marines to become Damned Legionnaires after becoming lost in the [[Warp]].

'''Tl;DR:''' Very [[grimdark]].