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Student Curious About Xenos






I know, I know, I did the one thing everybody says not to do - create my own space marine legion. Disclaimer: I would never actually try to use this storyline in tournament or at an actual gaming store, nobody likes that guy)

Some FAQs my main gaming buddies have asked me about the overall idea:

Q: did you create your own primarch?
A: yes

Q: did you make up rules for him?
A: no, he will proxy as Leman Russ, just as the rest of the legion will proxy as space wolves. Making up rules is how you make Mary Sues.

Q: Are the primarch and made up legion Mary Sues fluffwise?
A: no, because they were all wiped out, also the legion I made up does not have any special gifts/deficiencies like the blood angels or space wolf problems.

Now that that's out of the way, here is my idea

Legion Number: II Legion

The overall theme of this legion are cavemarines/explorers

Spoiler:
The primarch Osmund landed on the planet of Hadria, a planet stuck in a perpetual ice age/tundra that is famous for its prehistoric mammals (Mammoths, saber tooth tigers etc.). He grew up in a Stone Age tribe that were hunter gatherers and moved often. According to legend, the biggest mammoth was revered as a deity by the natives, but Osmund managed to successfully hunt and kill the beast, earning him the name Osmund sé Fecwyllend (pseudo Anglo Saxon for Osmund the God Killer). Later The emperor comes and makes him the leader of the II Legion. The II Legion was still in its "alpha phase" and so Osmund fought with his legion through their training as a crusading legion that found they preferred planetary exploration. Unfortunately they never completed their training as they responded to a distress call from an imperial world that had recently been conquered. The governor of this planet lured them to land on the planet and framed the II Legion in killing their civilians, thereby invoking the wrath of his brother primarchs (the populace did not want to be part of the imperium and decided to try and cripple it). As total war erupted between the small legion in training and the planetary populace, it was only a matter of time before they were killed to the man. The primarch also died at the hands of a thousand weapons bearing down upon him. By the time Leman Russ arrived, all he saw was a few surviving marines fighting helpless civilians so he and his space wolves finished them off. The space wolves returned to terra and told the emperor of what happened and so he destroyed the statue of the primarch and all documentation of the II Legion


Their Legion name was the Hadrian Mammoths

(Side note, their captains and prominent figures had names based off of famous explorers)


Constructive criticism welcome! I would love to hear what other people think of this idea, below are some color scheme concepts I came up with.


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Lord Osmund himself w/mammoth skin cape

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Tentative legion symbol (kinda adds the II in there?)

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Tentative legion symbol

   
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Why Aye Ya Canny Dakkanaughts!

Can you explain what you mean about the Primarch's rules? "he will proxy as Leman Russ", is this 30k Leman Russ? In which case this would probably need to be moved to 30k forums and if not, then where are you getting the rules from?

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Whoops! You are right, didn't even see the 30k forums

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Looking for the Rest of the II Legion

This looks like a really good scheme artistically speaking. I love the legion symbol and colors.


 
   
 
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