This belief defies all facts to the contrary. The Iron Hands of the 41st Millennium ironically harbour a special hatred for the Successor Chapters of the other two Loyalist Shattered Legions - the Salamanders and the Raven Guard - that fought with them at Isstvan V, for they believe that if those Legions had been stronger and continued to fight rather than retreating, Ferrus Manus would not have been lost and the Horus Heresy might have ended there. The Traitors had renounced their oaths and turned against their brothers, but the Loyalists had allowed it to happen, and the Emperor had fallen.Īn Iron Hands Primaris Marine displaying the extensive cybernetic augmentation for which the Chapter is known. It soon came to pass that none were immune from their ire. The Iron Hands chose to isolate themselves from many of their fellow Adeptus Astartes Chapters after the Second Founding and slowly became bitter recluses, wielding their anger as a protective shield against a universe of growing weakness and insanity. Following the apparent death of their primarch at Isstvan V, the surviving members of the Legion returned to their homeworld and fanned the coals of hatred that would endure across the millennia. This is a belief most probably rooted in the traumatic experiences of the Horus Heresy, but the inherent character of the people of the Chapter's homeworld of Medusa, with their stoicism and patient forbearance, also plays a part. The unique identity of the Iron Hands is forged by their belief that all flesh is inherently weak, for it is subject to mortification, decay and temptation and is thus a weakness that must ultimately be purged if the Chapter's Astartes are to best serve the Emperor. For over 10,000 Terran years, the sons of Ferrus Manus have stoked their burning hatred, drawing strength from this inexhaustible well of rage as they await their lost primarch's return. While the Traitors declared their primarch dead upon the blasted wastes of Isstvan V, the current Iron Hands Chapter refuses to accept this, for the primarch's body was never recovered. Though left as one of the " Shattered Legions," the cold fury of the Iron Hands' bitter vengeance would afterwards be writ across the stars. The Iron Hands were undone by their own hubris and the blade of the Traitor both, and paid a heavy price in the brutal slaying of their primarch and the near-crippling of their strength. It was during the Drop Site Massacre of Isstvan V that the Iron Hands, the Raven Guard and the Salamanders Legions were ambushed by the Traitors led by the Warmaster Horus, and though the three Loyalist Legions fought with extraordinary valour, Ferrus Manus himself was lost, beheaded by Fulgrim's Slaaneshi Daemonblade which he had uncovered from the xenos world of Laeran.
Ferrus Manus gathered together his most Veteran Astartes and departed for the Isstvan System. Their Primarch Ferrus Manus was enraged by the weakness of those Legions who fell to Chaos, particularly with his closest brother amongst the primarchs, Fulgrim of the Emperor's Children, and by his own inability to face the Traitors. When the Horus Heresy first erupted and plunged the newborn Imperium into a galaxy-wide civil war, the Iron Hands Legion was too far from Terra to intervene directly in the climactic battle of the conflict. Their primarch was Ferrus Manus, a bellicose and uncompromising warlord and peerless weapon-smith, from whom the X th Legion took their name and whose command was to them inviolatable law. They were the hammer that had shattered countless foes in the Emperor's quest to liberate Mankind from the darkness of Old Night. Renowned for their pride, cold-hearted brutality and remorselessness in battle, the Iron Hands were among the most powerful and famed Space Marine Legions of the Great Crusade.
The Iron Hands were born as the X th Legion of Space Marines, engineered by the Emperor to bring His light to the long-lost Human colony worlds scattered across the stars. Like the other Loyalist Astartes Legions, the Iron Hands would later be divided up after the Horus Heresy into multiple different Chapters, as required by the Codex Astartes, although one Chapter of the original Legion remained known as the Iron Hands and is described below.Īlthough unwavering in their faith in the Emperor of Mankind and His dream of Human unity as embodied in the Imperium of Man, the Iron Hands also believe that Human flesh is weak and easily corruptible, and strive to replace their organic bodies with more "pure" bionic substitutes, thus closely emulating the faith of the Adeptus Mechanicus' Cult Mechanicus. The Iron Hands are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and one of the original First Founding Space Marine Legions created from the gene-seed of their martyred primarch, Ferrus Manus.
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