Editing Silver Skulls (section)

====Perturabo====
Some people think that the Silver Skulls, like the [[Blood Ravens]], are possibly a loyalist fragment of a Traitor legion. In particular, people have considered the possibility that they are descended from the loyalist [[Iron Warriors]] 14th Grand Company (nicknamed the "Sons of Dantioch), lead by Warsmith [[Barabas Dantioch]], that helped '''FORTIFY''' Ultramar during the Horus Heresy. The Ultramarine part being a cover Guilliman gave them to protect them from Imperial retribution for the treason of the majority of the [[Iron Warriors]].

* First of all, the fluff had always explicitly stated that they only ''claimed'' to be Ultramarine successors (ever since their introduction in 2nd Edition, interestingly enough).

* It's stated that they don't know who their Primarch is.

* Centuries of testing by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] has been "''inconclusive''".

* Investigations into their lineage by the Ordo Hereticus has likewise been "''inconclusive''".

* The Inquisitor investigating them found "something" though and gave them a data crystal with the info. The contents were stated to possibly cause a civil war were it to become common knowledge.

* Their livery consists of a silver skull that looks nearly identical to the pre-Heresy [[Iron Warriors]]' Legion symbol.

* The character quote above, from one of the Silver Skulls Siege-Captains, echoes a quote from Barabas Dantioch: "Show me a palace and I’ll show you how an Iron Warrior would take it."

* The last part of their Catechism of Hate, Verse I of XXV: "While faithless traitors still live, there can be no forgiveness.". Implies that they feel they are in some form of penitence until every traitor is slain.

* Their chapter is very much like the [[Iron Warriors]], just shinier and without hazard stripes.

* They have a penchant for siege warfare, up to including having a rank of '''SIEGE''' Captain, which is a rank that was only used in the Iron Warriors and not the Ultramarines Legion, and have dedicated their 9th company from a reserve company of Devastators into specifically a '''SIEGE''' company.

* Their new Chapter Tactic favors retreating to fight again another day. [[Just as Planned|Exactly what Dantioch wished to do against the Hrud]]. Which caused [[Perturabo]] to exile the Warsmith from the [[Iron Warriors]] in the first place.

* In the Imperium Secundus during the Horus Heresy, Dantioch and his Iron Warriors were accepted and beloved by the Ultramarines as loyalists, and eventually proclaimed that they marched for Maccrage. Essentially "honorary" Ultramarines. These loyal Iron Warriors were informally called the "Sons of Dantioch". However, upon Dantioch's assignment to the Pharos beacon, his "Sons of Dantioch" are nowhere to be seen.

* They apparently have the sheer weight of numbers to be one of the most active Chapters among all Chapters, after the opening of the Great Rift. Like the [[Minotaurs]], their gene-seed has low rejection rates.

* Their main recruitment world is on the direct opposite side of the Ultima Segmentum from the homeworld of the Crimson Fists (Founded by Alexis Polux (aka Dantioch's bromanctic partner). And it would be just like Guilliman to have a bunch of Imperial Fists '''FORTIFY''' one side of the Segmentum, while having the Iron Warriors '''FORTIFY''' the other side.

* Dantioch's garrison practiced a proto-version of Emperor worship.

Sarah Cawkwell, author of the Silver Skulls series, has stated that yes the chapter was founded by Dantioch's Iron Warriors, who were adopted by the Ultramarines.

[[Khorne|They have a somewhat Khornate hobby]]-- ''taking skulls'', though they dip them in silver and hang them on walls instead of building a throne for a [[TTS|paraplegic sociopath.]] The writers have stated that the whole "superstitious" and "head-taking/skull collecting" thing is from the culture of their homeworld, not from their gene-seed or Astartes training. Basically, they are what would happen when you recruit [[Iron Warriors]] from superstitious feral tribesmen, train them in combat operations designed by [[Barabas Dantioch]], and call them Ultramarines.