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Hello DakkaDakka,

I have been scouring 40K background, to come up with a storyline for my own collection of Space Wolves. Bottom line is; I have been trying to find a battle where x number of Space Wolves disappeared, and my force would be this lost element.

So far I have discovered this storyline of missing company, and that they have re-appeared after disappearance, during 13th Black Crusade I believe. So can you guys help me out, and tell me as much as you can about 13th company. Or any other disappeared elements of Space Wolves?

Fluff says the 13th company chased the Thousand Sons into the warp (maybe through the Eye of Terra) and all gone missing from the Imperium.
At the end of M41 in Imperium Calander, Wuflen pop up in scattered systems, and was identified as elements of the lost 13th Company. The Space Wolf rushes out to pick them up and try to hide them from the Inquistion. They are "currently" inducted into the other 12 Great Companies. Maybe a few packs in each company.

The 13th Great Company is very special and background changed over time.

General info is, they disappeared while following the Thousand Sons after the battle of Prospero, showed up from time to time to fight the TS in real Space.
The company contained more Wulfen than usual and therefore also more priests than usual.

for everything else it depends what book to you read

other lost company would be the one of Svengar the Red, lost 912.M41,

You could just make up a lost company. It's what I did. There's a huge gap in Warhammer history they actually write about.

Ilgoth wrote:
Hello DakkaDakka,
So far I have discovered this storyline of missing company, and that they have re-appeared after disappearance, during 13th Black Crusade I believe. So can you guys help me out, and tell me as much as you can about 13th company. Or any other disappeared elements of Space Wolves?

By 'Ashes of Prospero', 13th's Jarl Bulveye and his Old Guard prepare to leave Prospero for Fenris with aid of Njal Stormacaler's Stormriders. But - this is already in post-Rift timeline, with Primaris already ?recently? arriving on Fenris.

‘Bulveye?’ The name was instantly known to Njal. For the past several years, more and more of the lost 13th Company had reappeared, each warrior and squad bringing with them their own tales of being trapped in the warp and breaking free from the Eye of Terror. In that time, Njal had studied the oldest records, gathering names of those that had been lost. The names of all those still missing were forged hard in his memory.
‘The Old Wolf.

They were caught up (possibly with some Army elements) in 1K Son's Portal Maze . But - it's Maze, labyrinth of portals, so units of 13th were fragmented in it , with many reconnecting to Jarl by retracing their steps - but not all, bein' dispersed by (real)space and timeloss and all.

‘You have been fighting the Thousand Sons long?’ Njal asked his escort.
‘On and off,’ said Halvar. ‘It is… This place makes it hard to keep track. I thought perhaps days, maybe two weeks since we entered. We put the bolt and blade to the curs of the sorcerer that trapped us, and we searched for a way out or another foe. Nothing. This last day, the Thousand Sons returned, but clad not as we had known them.

I have mixed feelings about how often they're bringing in elements of the old HH. it was fine when it was one or two characters, Bjorn, Gulliman etc, but now we're seeing whole companies of heresy era space wolves return.

we'll have to see though, with the return of the 13th company Russ can't be too far behind.

It was best with just Bjorn. But the opened things up with Siege of Fenris so here we are.

BrianDavion wrote:
I have mixed feelings about how often they're bringing in elements of the old HH. it was fine when it was one or two characters, Bjorn, Gulliman etc, but now we're seeing whole companies of heresy era space wolves return.

we'll have to see though, with the return of the 13th company Russ can't be too far behind.

But actually with SW it now presents pretty good story opportunity - Old Guards are _pre_ Heresy Wolves, Emperor's Executioneers before Russ decided to change his ways, and carry old - pre-Imperial actually - Fenrisian culture and Primarch experience (they were Russ' Host BEFORE Emperor came to Fenris). OTOH there's Primaris Wolves - ones lacking hands-on relation to cultural background and history of SW. And on gripping hand there's 'real' 40M Wolves, survivors of ten millenia struggle against both enemies within and enemies without.

And 13th are possibly most 'established lore-friendly' loyalists to appears in 40M from times of HH - nobody else had so much spotlight in BL for years, nobody else even was described as bein' active en masse in 40M.

well keep in mind Primaris Marines are heresy era recrutis as well, so they likely have more in common with the 13th company then modern wolves.This is another thing worth noting about the primaris marines in general, you have a LOT of heresy erea folks popping into chapters now, it'll likely result in a subtle shift for various marine chapters. some perhaps slowly growing more like the original legion they broke off from.

I run 13th company-esque wolves myself. The fluff is great and a fun variation of the standard Space Puppies.

BrianDavion wrote:
well keep in mind Primaris Marines are heresy era recrutis as well, so they likely have more in common with the 13th company then modern wolves.This is another thing worth noting about the primaris marines in general, you have a LOT of heresy erea folks popping into chapters now, it'll likely result in a subtle shift for various marine chapters. some perhaps slowly growing more like the original legion they broke off from.

Rechecked 'Dark Imperium'...you are right ,'faded fenrissian tribal tattoos' on Bjarni...
My headcanon only god know why was that Cawl didn't bothered to recruit from proper - and distant - worlds but from Ultramar and Terra neighbourhoods. I.e. Wolves would be terrans from populations pre-Primarch Legion recruited from.