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Some of you may have seen my threads concerning White Scars and my mentionings of a successor chapter. Well I've decided I'd share the idea and get some feedback on the chapter.

As the title suggests the name of the chapter is the Jade Lions, the idea behind them is that they where created sometime during the 3rd founding and are based off of the Yuan Dynasty where the Mongols ruled china. Their founder and first Chapter Master was a ex White Scar named Changqing The Storm Dragon. Now White Scars fluff says that when Jaghatai united his homeworld he fought against the armies of the Palatine, the Palatines forces are described as "well equipped and highly disciplined armies, maintaining armoured horsemen and tight blocks of infantry." Now in the fluff Jaghatai defeated a great army of the Palatines and eventually went on to conquer all of the cities in the planet though not all where destroyed.

So the idea behind Changqing is that when he became a White Scar following the Emperors arrival he wasn't a member of the Steppe tribes but was instead a soldier from one of the cities (I can't see any reason why they coulden't be recruited from as well). So while he was trained in the ways of the White Scars he didn't have the same cultural connection that they had. This would go on to enfluence his chapter, he was also a strong supporter of tactical flexibility and was a supporter of adapting the teachings of the Codex Astartes. If you haven't already noticed the chapters founder is based off of Sun Tzu and The Art of War though he isn't from the Yuan Dynasty.

The chapters armor is jade green with black trim on their shoulder guards and a black lion emblem as their chapter symbol. Though the chapter was organised by Changqing to be more in keeping with the Codex Astartes he still honored the chapter he came from and his primarchs teachings and so the entire 1st Company is fielded in the traditional manner of the White Scars though the rest of the chapter follows more conventional organisation set down by the Codex Astartes.

When the chapter was founded they took as their homeworld a world that had been liberated by Jaghatai during the Great Crusade. The planet had once been under the controle of alien race who ruled the planet as feudal lords each with his own province, warriors and human slaves. When the White Scars took the planet from the aliens the human populous adapted the government of their former masters as it was all they knew. These provinces constantly war with eachother providing recruits for the chapter. The Chaplains of the chapter fashion their helmets to resemble the aliens and the oldest helmets are actually crafted from their skulls. The chapter does not have 1 fortress monastery but 5, each is home to 2 companies and is intended to prevent the destruction of all the chapters forces should one fall to enemy attack.

As far as the look and all that I would play off elements of chinese mythology and culture for the chapter. For instance power swords would be represented as Jian or a relic blade as a Monks Spade, names would be inspired by wushu characters, prayer parchments would be written in asian looking script probably a form of sanskrit. I particullarly like the idea behind the Chaplains helmet and I would try to make it look like an oni (I know oni are Japanese) and I've also found a sprue piece from the Empire Cannon that is a lion head knocker. If I cut the handle away it would make a perfect rosarius with some GS prayer beads.

Well those are just some of the ideas I've had so far, everything is based off of actual fluff

I like it alot, besides the idea of having 5 monastaries. How about 5 smaller fortresses?

Well I haven't seen anything in fluff that says that every FM is the same size or that there is even a standard size for them I mean I didn't intend for them each to be the size of one normal FM they would of course be smaller then say the Rock or the Fang but they would still be Fortress Monasteries ya know? I'm glad you like the idea, do you have any ideas concerning other aspects of the chapter that are in keeping with the theme like conversions or something?

Here is a banner I'm thinking of using


Here is a potential upscaled Dao for a dreadnought


This would be at the top of my Librarians staff


This would be either the dreadnoughts head or a captains shoulder guard


I would incorporate the face on the left into a chest plate as a oni face minus the feathers


And this is the lions head I would use as the basis for a chaplains rosarius

Shiny...

Shiney?

Shiny=Good

I would use parts from the HE White Lions, like Lion furr.

The shoulder guard above is from the White Lions, I'm not going to do pelts as chinese soldiers wern't exactly known for running around in animal furs.