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I did this using the chapter creation for deathwatch in rites of battle. I feel like it's going pretty well so far, I'd love to hear you comments and suggestions. Also I'm going to find a better format for organizing this info. It's kind of a lot of stuff, I'll be impressed if you get through it all haha

The Sons of Glory.

This chapter was created as a crusading force.

The chapter was founded in the 32nd Millennium.

They are a successor of the Space Wolves. Designed as a new generation of the gene seed, hoping to breed out some of the flaws.

They have a “Swift as the Wind” demeanor, they value swift and decisive action over prolonged planning. Recruits are quick to find promotions or a gruesome end, as this trait has lead to rash initiative for better and worse.

The chapter is flawed in the sense that they do not trust other space marine chapters, over their millennia of crusading they have witnessed much betrayal and heresy. They will only fight alongside the Space Wolves willingly. When in dire situations they will often allocate forces to watch “allied chapters”, as to not ever be taken off guard. They are generally trusting of imperial guard and pdf’s because they don’t think unmodified humans pose a legitimate threat.

This chapter has a reputation for their devastating melee skills. While most of this reputation is well earned, it is bolstered by their inclination to make stories much grander then the actual events. They have never been criticized for their martial pride because they have always been able to live up to their tales.

The chapters most famed hero was Grimlfyr Jundarl. He was the captain of the 8th company in the first years of the chapters founding. They were fighting alongside a blood angels successor chapter, Sanguine Fury, against an dark eldar raiding force. The dark eldar were trying to recover a warp tainted artifact from a daemon world just outside the eye of terror. The space marines defeated their foe with little difficulty. When Grimlfyr went to destroy the artifact he was stabbed in the back by Venerus, the leader of the Sanguine Fury forces. Venerus stole the artifact and declared his loyalty to Khorne, the blood god. Wounded and alone, Grimlfyr killed his foes honor guard, and faced Venerus in single combat. He was ultimately victorious over Venerus, and The Sons of Fury killed all of the Sanguine Fury marines that were on the planet. Sanguine Fury was declared excommunicate and retreated to the eye of terror. Grimlfyr returned to the fortress monastery and over time became the master of the chapter. He lead The Sons of Glory to a level of renown previously unknown to the chapter. Over a century latter Venerus had return as a daemon prince! He lead his old chapter out of the eye of terror and began attacking imperial territory and attempting to corrupt loyal systems. When Grimlfyr learned of his old enemies rebirth, immediately requisitioned a battle barge and brought the full fury of his chapter to bear. He practically destroyed the worlds that had paid fealty to Venerus the Thirsty. Upon finding his nemesis, he defeated Venerus again in single combat. The daemon prince would not be bested so easily though and in his death throes flung himself and Grimlfyr into the warp. The Sons of Glory have long awaited the day when their old chapter master will return to them, they jest that he is busy dueling Khorne himself and will return bearing the blood god’s head. Out of respect for their lost chapter master they have not filled the position since his disappearance. Instead they have the Militant Supreme, who essentially fulfills the same role but is always ready to give up his position if the chapter master were to return.

The chapter’s home world is the medieval planet of Jarlsreach in the northern region of Segmentum Pacificus. Their fortress monastery is on the moon dubbed Asgard and is called Unending Glory. They hold direct rule over Jarlsreach, the planets royalty consists of trusted marines who forsake their power armor. The regents hold tournaments every 2 months to see who is worthy of being recruited. An unmodified human must put up a decent fight against one of the regents to be considered. The chapter maintains a high level of successfully modified initiates, but only maintains the sanctioned 1000 power armored marines. Anywhere between 500 to 1500 initiates remain on the planet to act as rulers and can be taken at a moments notice to bolster fallen members of the chapter. Upon their home planet they are allowed to lead relatively normal lives and even marry, but their genetic modifications prevent them from pro-creating.

The Sons of Glory have deviated significantly from the codex astartes but not to the extent of the Space Wolves.

The chapters combat doctrine strongly relies on shock and awe, as well as a strong focus on close combat. They have a huge focus on orbital bombardment of fortified structures and well defended positions. This in turn allows for greater glory of rushing through the shambles of enemy fortresses and meeting their foes in hand to hand combat. Because of this they do exceptionally well in space combat. The precision of their ships guns, and their ferocity in melee have left them almost undefeated in space battles.

They have breed a species of wolves close to the fenrisian wolves the space wolves fight alongside. They rarely use such creatures, but maintain them out of respect to their progenitors.

While The Sons of Glory revere the emperor as much as any other chapter, but their true loyalty lies to Grimlfyr. They utter prayers to him during battle to lead them to greater glory.

While the chapter is technically over standard chapter strength, they only maintain nominal strength as to not catch flak from the Inquisition.

The Chapter is on generally good terms with most factions within the imperium but have a particularly good relationship with the space wolves. They are also well respected by the adeptus sororitas, as they always tend to fight a little harder out of a misplaced sense of chivalry. They have a strong distrust of the blood angles and all blood angels successor chapters and outright refuse to fight alongside them in all but the direst situations. They are also constantly vigilante for the return of Venerus the Thirsty and any remnants of Sanguine Fury. They have also had multiple run ins with the dark eldar archon Naverax, and his Kabal of the Weeping Night.

Battle Cry “No Surrender! Glory Awaits!”

They take pride in their progenitors so their heraldry mirrors very closely to that of the Space Wolves. They often bear wolf themed equipment, and even their livery isn't too far off of the Space Wolves. They have a large respect for the ancient norse mythology of terra, and incorporate it into much of their culture and traditions.

Characters in development

Drakken Hastur
Bjorn Kragsmark
Torvald Stone-Heart
Vlaskir the Destroyer

Only point I'd make is that the SWs have no successor chapters and its a big step to just "create one" off the bat.
I think you would have to include a very large piece on how this was accomplished/who did it, who sanctioned it etc.

uh... you seem to have caught me with my pants down here haha what if original records of their progenitors were expunged but they believe themselves to be successors of the Space wolves, and in return the Space Wolves admire their fervor? would that make more sense?

It could work, however what usually happens in those situations is that the fathering chapter in question rejects the claims. Again, you would have to write some nice fluff to go with it, proving how your chapter earned their place next to the SW and in so earning their respect. Might be a bit tricky.

Other than that I like it, job well done mate.

Yep, makes more sense.
I'd agree with thatguy, maybe write a short paragraph of a battle/incident where the Chapter came to the aid of the SWs or helped save a unit from destruction so earning the SW gratitude or something like that.

do you hear the voices to wrote:uh... you seem to have caught me with my pants down here haha what if original records of their progenitors were expunged but they believe themselves to be successors of the Space wolves, and in return the Space Wolves admire their fervor? would that make more sense?

It's fairly easy to tell an SW gene-seed from the effects it has on the initiates...
Going with Ratius' idea. Maybe they came to the aid of a Great Company against a horde of [Insert bad guy] after the Great company was depleted in other actions (Saving random members of the populace?)

purplefood wrote:
It's fairly easy to tell an SW gene-seed from the effects it has on the initiates...

What I was thinking, was their chapter creation could have been an "experiment" by the ordo xenos in a secret attempt to correct some of the flaws with the SW gene seed. This especially works for me because I'm trying to focus on them more as space vikings than space werewolves. So while there are a few effects that make them similar to the space wolves, their gene seed is pure enough for there to be no immediately obvious connections. I could have it be like the experiment was actually mildly successful but a few decades afterward the inquisitor was deemed heretical and escaped to Commorragh were he could experiment to no end. As a result of his betrayal, the idea of correcting gene seed was put on hold. That would also fit in because the Kabal of the Weeping Night could be harboring him! and while the sons of glory don't know all the details of their creation, they won't feel clean until the rogue inquisitor is dead!

do you hear the voices to wrote:

purplefood wrote:
It's fairly easy to tell an SW gene-seed from the effects it has on the initiates...

What I was thinking, was their chapter creation could have been an "experiment" by the ordo xenos in a secret attempt to correct some of the flaws with the SW gene seed. This especially works for me because I'm trying to focus on them more as space vikings than space werewolves. So while there are a few effects that make them similar to the space wolves, their gene seed is pure enough for there to be no immediately obvious connections. I could have it be like the experiment was actually mildly successful but a few decades afterward the inquisitor was deemed heretical and escaped to Commorragh were he could experiment to no end. As a result of his betrayal, the idea of correcting gene seed was put on hold. That would also fit in because the Kabal of the Weeping Night could be harboring him! and while the sons of glory don't know all the details of their creation, they won't feel clean until the rogue inquisitor is dead!

That seems... very slightly Mary Sue... especially since the few people that know enough about gene-seed in order to do that are either:
The Emperor
Dead
A bad guy
And the last attempt to do it (By the SW themselves) ended with a Daemon Primarch kicking the everloving crap out of the guy who was the brains behind it...

Alright, well please be gentle with me haha i only have a basic understanding of the lore and i'm trying to work around that so you'll have to let me know when i venture too far off the beaten path.

There a few thing that are deemed untouchable...
SW sucessors is one of them to many people's annoyance.
I suggest you use Ratius' idea in conjunction with them having a savage nature due to their culture...

That's mildly disappointing, then maybe they see themselves as a spiritual successor?

Yeah sure.
Look up The Executioners.
They are fairly savage and out of all other chapters they are the most SW-esque i have seen outside of the SW themselves...

Okay, so their history is solid but their relation to the space wolves has been altered as such.

The Sons of Glory have no knowledge of their true progenitor as that information has been expunged, but ever since their founding have felt a strong connection to the Space Wolves. After a series of brutal campaigns together, a strong bond was forged between the 2 chapters. The Sons of Glory have modeled much of their chapter structure off of the Space Wolves, but maintain much of their own traditions.

I'm working on the details of these campaigns for specific details and battles. Do you guys think a time line would be good?

do you hear the voices to wrote:Okay, so their history is solid but their relation to the space wolves has been altered as such.

The Sons of Glory have no knowledge of their true progenitor as that information has been expunged, but ever since their founding have felt a strong connection to the Space Wolves. After a series of brutal campaigns together, a strong bond was forged between the 2 chapters. The Sons of Glory have modeled much of their chapter structure off of the Space Wolves, but maintain much of their own traditions.

I'm working on the details of these campaigns for specific details and battles. Do you guys think a time line would be good?

I usually say 2 Notable battles and 2 Notable characters minimum. Anything added to that is a bonus so go for it.

Of course earning respect with the Space Wolves could be a Champion of the Son's Of Glory winning a drinking contest against a notable champion of the space wolves is ALSO an alternative!

Right now I'm working on 3 battles in detail, the deception of Sanguine Fury, the one when they earn the respect of the space wolves, and one to take place in the current millennium.

The 2 Characters I'm working on are Drakken Hastur, who is the current Militant Supreme. As well as Vlaskir the Destroyer, who is going to be the rune priest in my current list.

Pretty interesting fluff, looking forward to reading those battles.