The FIRE HAWKS & LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Origins & Lore | Warhammer 40k Index Astartes

The Fire Hawks are a notorious chapter. Arrogant, callous and brutal and uncaring of their own allies, their desire for revenge made them instigators of the Badab War. But they took a turn for the better when they were turned into the spooky ghost chapter known as the Legion of the Damned.

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[GhstClown]

The OG fire hawks scheme with the hot rod flames and the mushroom cloud chapter symbol is a brilliant example of RT radness.

[enzovignati]

FUN FACT: In the tabletop RPG Deathwatch, where you play as a Deathwatch marine, in a supplement book, exist rules for Legion of the Damned, but not as created player characters, but as a random event that if one of the PCs dies, he can be reborn as a Legionarie on the spot and make a glorious last stand, so he gain a lot of Buffs and literally Unlimited Ammo for the encounter. So I interpreted that the Legion of the Damned is like Saint Celestine, a hero of the imperium that have super faith and warp connection. AWESOME VIDEO BTW🔥🔥🔥

[markman]

Idk what it is, but weird loyalist warp entities are always the most interesting thing in the setting to me. Give us a crow demon Corax model, GW!

[TheTurbanatore]

The reason you are the best 40K YouTuber is because you go directly to the source marital and books rather than the wiki.

[Chasemcloud]

Thankyou Arbitor. I seem to remember legion of damned being a design project for new sculptors at GW, but the designs of them made them into models for the tabletop

[nakenmil]

Regarding the Legion of the Damned: Back in the day (early 2000s), I got the impression that they were going to be really important in the future, that they were sort of a sign of the end times, with more and more legionnaires appearing as the Astronomican sputtered out and the Golden Throne failed. I wondered if they were going to be featured in some kind of global campaign like the Eye of Terror or something, or turned into an ultra-elite army, almost akin to what the Custodes are now. I think my headcanon was that they were the remnants of all the marines lost to the warp of the millennia, saved by the Emperor's psychic might and kept in a kind of reserve, a bit like the Living Saints or something. People were theorycrafting over these guys like madmen in the heydays of the message boards.
Well, none of that happened, and they are now a mere curiosity! It happens! X'D

[KateHolden]

I kinda like the idea of a space marine with failing health from centuries of accumulated battle damage. So often it feels like if a marine doesn't get put in a dreadnought, injuries are inconsequential and prosthetics are so good they work just as well as a flesh and blood limb (which does somewhat undermine the necessity of creating superhumans if you could just make cyborgs that are just as good? Maybe the mechanicus and Iron Hands are right? 😅). I want more Darth Vader like Marines wheezing along but still being incredibly dangerous due to due wargear, experience and powers. That's cool.

[vinnythewebsurfer]

Extreme arrogance and petulance? Merciless zeal toward heretics? Fire?

Hmmm. Nope, can’t think of any older legions that BEARS any resemblance to these descriptors, these WORDS.

[TSInfiMa-rz]

Ironically they do more good as ghosts.

Also, I'm excited for your video on the Star Phantoms ian.

[charlesquigley]

Legion of the damned was originally the song "camouflage" about a marine in Vietnam being saved by the ghost of another marine.

No one will convince me otherwise

[CraigLawrence]

There was another youtuber that released a video on the same lore. For the entire time I was listening I thought to myself: " This is great, but I really wish Arbitor Ian told this story." Hopefully I still have still have two wishes.

[ScooterinAB]

Anyone else feel like Ian could read the phone book and still sound cool?

[stoneosborne]

My extra tiny metal Legion of The Damned models thank you for this.

[housebrokengeek]

I know we've moved long past Heresy content but have you considered doing a video on all the units specific to each legion? (Siege Tyrants, Iron Havocs, etc) Just think it would be cool 😎

[SamusSelf-Destruct]

Every time I see a chapter whose origin is “Ultramarines, but their gene seed seems to suggest otherwise” my headcannon immediately goes to the Forgotten and the Purged.

[Tomoyuki_Tanaka]

There's also Rob Sanders's Legion of the Damned novel that hints that they're the Fire Hawks! Raptorus Rex shows up to blow up the Cholercaust Blood Crusade to save the cemetary world of Certus Minor!

[robling]

I'm living for these chapter examinations! I get so psyched when I see one pop up!

[GDark]

Now that was an intense "HI GANG" 😂

[Tsotha]

That's a lot of information about the Fire Hawks I never encountered before - for a long time the only things I knew about them were their participation in the Badab War and them eventually turning into the Legion of the Damned.

[MarcsMinis]

You're by far my favourite lore channel. The depth, the content, the presentation is second to none. Plus the badab war is my personal favourite setting