Editing Pale Hounds (section)

== Great Crusade==
The Legion’s reunion with their master was for many a great disappointment. Valorn did not praise their skills or laud their accomplishments. In fact, he barely spoke to his sons, save to give them orders in the evacuation of his homeworld. It was only after Taiga’s destruction that Valorn spent any real time with the Hounds and, by all accounts, his primary reaction was simple disappointment. His sons had sought glory above all else, sacrificing their brothers on its bloody alter, with nary a second thought. He balked at the ineffective carelessness of his sons, and so set to work reworking the tactics of his legion both by finding ways to convert the Accursed into capable fighters, and by splitting the legion into two disparate segments: The Fangs and the Claws.

The Fangs acted similarly to how the Hounds originally had, unleashing an unrelenting blitzkrieg against their foes. The Claws however had another purpose. They were to be dropped onto planets that the Hounds were invading or intending to invade with a single mission: disrupt the planet’s defences as much as possible. As such, when the Hammer of the Hounds finally fell, the shield that met it would be severely weakened.

This was met with enthusiasm from the younger Hounds and many of the older ones, who were simply glad to have recovered their Primarch. However, some of the older and more influential legionnaires resisted the changes. They resented the continued implication that they were not good enough for Valorn, that they had somehow failed him. This hampered Valorn’s work somewhat, but enough of the legion’s high-ranking members accepted the changes that he was able to reorganise the legion. The reformed legion’s first victories and the success of Orion Erratz in the Great Joust, using tactics similar to those the legion was now adopting, silenced many naysayers. 

Not all unfortunately. Many marines remained staunchly opposed to Valorn’s changes and, as the legion expanded, he feared that these malcontents could compromise the cohesion of their units, or even disobey orders, leading to unnecessary casualties. As such, once his legion had grown large enough to merit it, Valorn authorised the establishment of three additional chapters and began reorganising the legion to fill them. The thirteenth chapter was filled with the legion’s troublemakers and had one of Valorn’s own adopted great grandchildren placed at the head, one Dacern Adras, to keep them in check. This would prove an ill decision in later years and the majority of the thirteenth would later fall to the whispers of Chaos, including Dacern himself.

Until then however the Pale Hounds enjoyed successful campaigns throughout the Great Crusade. They often fought alone, proud of their new tactics and some would even say arrogant, they often viewed other legions as being very capable of ruining their plans. As such, the rifts between themselves and the other legions grew ever larger.