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What? How and why did they become wolves?

Isn't it because they used the Canix Helix to get some wolf-dna into them to survive Fenris's harsh climates, but then a group of them suffered mutation when the Helix went out of control, then generation after generation they fully devolved into wolves?

A couple of them got kidnapped by Urien Rakarth and mutated into huge wolf monsters.

The Space wolves inititates than can´t achieve the end stages of the process of training, gone wild and feral.

Space Woof Trainee Prank: Gone Wild, Gone Feral, Gone Furry

You mean the first colonists during the DAoT? They've swallowed some Cannis Helix-like enzyme or something, to help themselves with the harsh climate of Fenris. Suddendly it went all "Pandorum" on them and they've changed into wolves. Big, scary wolves.

Genetic experimentation.
Most Wolves on Fenris are just that, Wolves from Terra eolved to adapt to Fenris, in the days before the big E when science was a thing and discovery wasn't considered a Heresy colonists experimented with Wolf DNA to try and follow the Wolves' evolutionary path of getting bigger, meaner and hairier, I'd hazard the guess that the original Fenrisians weren't of Nordic decent, I don't think it ever got as simple as a 'swallowed enzyme', that acyually sounds more like the Cup of the Wulfen test but the Canis Helix itself is actually part of the Space Wolves' Gene Seed and reacts with the Wolf DNA that is apparently present in all Fenrisian stock and rejects aspirants without it, a fact that has stopped the Space Wolves from spreading.

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
Isn't it because they used the Canix Helix to get some wolf-dna into them to survive Fenris's harsh climates, but then a group of them suffered mutation when the Helix went out of control, then generation after generation they fully devolved into wolves?

This is how and why.

 Backspacehacker wrote:

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
Isn't it because they used the Canix Helix to get some wolf-dna into them to survive Fenris's harsh climates, but then a group of them suffered mutation when the Helix went out of control, then generation after generation they fully devolved into wolves?

This is how and why.

Except the Canis Helix was made by the Emperor for the Space Wolves so it happened millenia after the Fenrisians settled Fenris. So it's not how or why.

pm713 wrote:

 Backspacehacker wrote:

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
Isn't it because they used the Canix Helix to get some wolf-dna into them to survive Fenris's harsh climates, but then a group of them suffered mutation when the Helix went out of control, then generation after generation they fully devolved into wolves?

This is how and why.

Except the Canis Helix was made by the Emperor for the Space Wolves so it happened millenia after the Fenrisians settled Fenris. So it's not how or why.

This.

Freki and Geri were around before Russ landed on Fenris

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
the Canis Helix itself is actually part of the Space Wolves' Gene Seed and reacts with the Wolf DNA that is apparently present in all Fenrisian stock and rejects aspirants without it, a fact that has stopped the Space Wolves from spreading.

Pretty convenient that Russ landed there, then, isn't it? I know much of the same can be said for a lot of Primarchs, but that one just strikes me the most.

Apparently if the wolves are indeed human, then the colonists had done some gene-splicing that just happened to mimic the effects of the Helix.

And Russ just happened to land there.

There is no sarcasm in any of that. All of this is just one huge coincidence so we'd have Super-Soldier Wolf Men on a planet of Vikings living beside terran-esque wolves.

I'm willing to bet that it was Tzeentch's doing and Cegorach played a joke on him.

 KharnsRightHand wrote:

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
the Canis Helix itself is actually part of the Space Wolves' Gene Seed and reacts with the Wolf DNA that is apparently present in all Fenrisian stock and rejects aspirants without it, a fact that has stopped the Space Wolves from spreading.

Pretty convenient that Russ landed there, then, isn't it? I know much of the same can be said for a lot of Primarchs, but that one just strikes me the most.

That's plain rubbish and makes 0 sense.

 KharnsRightHand wrote:

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
the Canis Helix itself is actually part of the Space Wolves' Gene Seed and reacts with the Wolf DNA that is apparently present in all Fenrisian stock and rejects aspirants without it, a fact that has stopped the Space Wolves from spreading.

Pretty convenient that Russ landed there, then, isn't it? I know much of the same can be said for a lot of Primarchs, but that one just strikes me the most.

I'm not arguing that, not a chance, Russ' story is a butchering and blending of Nordic/Asgard Lore and Roman Lore/Romulus and Remulus.
I'm not sure if Russ himself actually has any wolf in him though, his boys are feral monsters, Russ is a test tube baby.

This is not a useful post, but my personal expressions that I couldn't hold inside.

Over-abundance of body hair has led to the misconception they're werewolves. They just happen to be hirsute

Ross_R wrote:
This is not a useful post, but my personal expressions that I couldn't hold inside.

Spoiler:

Every single cell of my body hates this part of the WH40K background. Seriously, the idea that wolves on Fenris once were humans is the worst thing I've ever read. Though, I must say, many things from the last codexes are definitely trying to take the first place in my personal "most dumb part of the WH40K background" top 10.

That's the worst? Not stuff like all Astartes wanting to be Smurfs?

Russ was supposed to land on fenris, the Emperor intended for his sons to be raised on certain world's, the chaos gods just took them early and mucked with the order, khan was supposed to land on chemos and fulgrim on chondax, angron clearly wasn't supposed to land on nuceria, so the emp creating the canis helix just means he was sticking to his plan.

That makes sense...or at least as much sense as 40k ever makes.

They are bitten by a radioactive wolves. The rest is just an elaborate cover-up. This is also why they don't like the inquisition.

 Formosa wrote:
Russ was supposed to land on fenris, the Emperor intended for his sons to be raised on certain world's, the chaos gods just took them early and mucked with the order, khan was supposed to land on chemos and fulgrim on chondax, angron clearly wasn't supposed to land on nuceria, so the emp creating the canis helix just means he was sticking to his plan.

Source?

 oldzoggy wrote:
They are bitten by a radioactive wolves. The rest is just an elaborate cover-up. This is also why they don't like the inquisition.

Seems legit to me!

/thread.

The colonists that landed on fenris had to adapt to the climate so they did some stuff with their genes that led to some of them turning into wolves. (my guess would be mixing human and thunderwolf genes maybe? That'd be the only explanation as to why their was already thunderwolves on the planet)That's why Fenrisians can tolerate their home planet, and many others cannot.

pm713 wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
Russ was supposed to land on fenris, the Emperor intended for his sons to be raised on certain world's, the chaos gods just took them early and mucked with the order, khan was supposed to land on chemos and fulgrim on chondax, angron clearly wasn't supposed to land on nuceria, so the emp creating the canis helix just means he was sticking to his plan.

Source?

The HH books obviously lol, Thief of Revelations though if I remember correctly

The people of Fenris did not become wolves. As we all know, there are no wolves on Fenris.

 Happyjew wrote:
The people of Fenris did not become wolves. As we all know, there are no wolves on Fenris.

I personally think the "wolves" are similar to the beasts of Caliban, in that they are corrupted by chaos to a certain extent.

 Formosa wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
Russ was supposed to land on fenris, the Emperor intended for his sons to be raised on certain world's, the chaos gods just took them early and mucked with the order, khan was supposed to land on chemos and fulgrim on chondax, angron clearly wasn't supposed to land on nuceria, so the emp creating the canis helix just means he was sticking to his plan.

Source?

The HH books obviously lol, Thief of Revelations though if I remember correctly

Is this one of those things said by a Daemon?

You mean a Daemon like that Magnus fellow that most of the "There are no Wolves on Fenris' argument revolves around?

 Happyjew wrote:
The people of Fenris did not become wolves. As we all know, there are no wolves on Fenris.

A case of mistaken identity. The Inquisition mistakenly stumbled upon the annual Galactic Furry Convention on Fenris a few centuries back.

 oldravenman3025 wrote:

 Happyjew wrote:
The people of Fenris did not become wolves. As we all know, there are no wolves on Fenris.

A case of mistaken identity. The Inquisition mistakenly stumbled upon the annual Galactic Furry Convention on Fenris a few centuries back.

Everything since has been a 4chan conspiracy to lower the reputation of the Sons of Russ. This is merely a PR issue.