Fire Lords Chapter

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**Deuce11**

There was some interesting fluff in Codex SM about Fire Lords

Anyone have any other info about this chapter?

**Xenith**

I think the stuff they put in the codex is the first real stuff theyve written about them.

**The Watcher**

The wiki has a rather extensive chapter about the fire lords, aka the legion of the damned. If I remember correctly, the entire chapter got stuck in the warp, and due to their 21st founding messed up geneseed, contracted some form of disease or mutation that caused them to slowly go mad.
Still loyal, they figured they'd take as many of the imperiums enemies with them as possible, os the basically went on a crusade.
That's the short and skinny of it, but if I'm wrong, feel free to correct.

**Xenith**

The watcher, that would be the Fire Hawks you are thinking of. The Fire Hawks became the legion of the damned, according to common fluff.

The Fire Lords are something else entirely.

Most thats known is:

They start war with a huge incendiary bombardment, then launch themselves at the enemy before the flames are out.
Captain Jaric Phoros of the chapter imagined the redeemer pattern land raider

**Chrysaor686**

Copy/pasted from the 40k Lexicanum:

Due to a clerical error in the Imperium's labyrinthine bureaucracy, the once-prosperous world of Grissen had gone unnoticed until a mid-level functionary discovered that the planetary tithes were now some eight thousand year overdue. An Imperial Guard regiment was immediately raised to bring the Emperor's law back to Grissen. When the regiment found itself overwhelmed by the sheer ferocity of the fighters they found planetside, a task force from the Fire Lords Chapter, under the command of Jaric Phoros, joined the fray.

At first the Space Marines made little progress. The natives were so entrenched that even the most devastating orbital bombardments made scant impact on their positions. Nonetheless, the Imperial decree was that Grissen should be brought back into the fold, for it would prove an excellent recruiting ground for the Imperial Guard, and so Phoros held back from ordering Exterminatus. Biting back his mounting frustration, Phoros directed his Techmarines to construct a weapon that would win the war. Within a week of the first Land Raider modifications the Fire Lords took Grissen's capital city. Within a month, the largest planetary faction was suing for peace and Grissen was part of the Imperium once more.

In the wake of the Grissen campaign, Phoros disseminated his new design's schematics. Hawing always been possesed of a sardonic frame of mind, he named the new pattern 'Prometheus' after a god from Terran legend who brought fire to men. He changed the official designation to Redeemer only upon learning that the name was already taken by a variant developed by the Salamanders. Nonetheless, the original Redeemer still serves in the Fire Lord's second company, the name Prometheus resplendent on its flanks and honoured in the Chapter's Histories.

I don't know how much of that is taken from the codex, as I don't have the codex. So take what you will from it.

**Goliath**

That exerpt is copied word for word from the codex.
The symbol is a fist holding a fireball.