cincydooley wrote:
There are no wolves on Fenris.

 kazian wrote:
The original colonists were genetically tailored with human wolf genes to be better suited to the climate AND it just happens that tens of thousands of years later, old Emps makes a primarch who happens to have canine DNA in his gene seed who happens to get whisked off into the warp and land on a planet settled by wolf-DNA-settlers. Meanwhile, Emps leads an army of wolf DNA people to wolf-DNA planet to reclaim Wolf DNA son who has become Wolf King of wolf planet because he happened to have a similar mutation as the population. And then, when our powers combine, they become Captain Wolf, by mixing wolf DNA geneseed with wolf DNA settler stock, which causes them all to .. become double-wolfed and suffer the curse of the wolfen.

 Omegus wrote:

 kazian wrote:
The original colonists were genetically tailored with human wolf genes to be better suited to the climate AND it just happens that tens of thousands of years later, old Emps makes a primarch who happens to have canine DNA in his gene seed who happens to get whisked off into the warp and land on a planet settled by wolf-DNA-settlers. Meanwhile, Emps leads an army of wolf DNA people to wolf-DNA planet to reclaim Wolf DNA son who has become Wolf King of wolf planet because he happened to have a similar mutation as the population. And then, when our powers combine, they become Captain Wolf, by mixing wolf DNA geneseed with wolf DNA settler stock, which causes them all to .. become double-wolfed and suffer the curse of the wolfen.

This is the story as presented in A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns, yes. I believe you have summarized it better than anyone before.

You win many internetz.

kazian wrote:I could have sworn that I read that Leman Russ was raised by wolves

It is a population whose pre-Imperial beliefs were about wolf-spirit gods on a planet that sits on the edge of the greatest warp rift ever known. Rather than several strains of functionally identical mutation in different populations that happen to land on the same planet, it would almost be more straightforward to claim that there is some kind of wolf-flavored warp entity that has touched the planet and twists its inhabitants in its own image.

 Psienesis wrote:

It is a population whose pre-Imperial beliefs were about wolf-spirit gods on a planet that sits on the edge of the greatest warp rift ever known. Rather than several strains of functionally identical mutation in different populations that happen to land on the same planet, it would almost be more straightforward to claim that there is some kind of wolf-flavored warp entity that has touched the planet and twists its inhabitants in its own image.

Fenris is not Cadia, being about half-way between Cadia and Terra, and the Eye of Terror did not exist in pre-Imperial days anyway.

 Formosa wrote:
Because it wasn't the warp gods that scattered the primarchs, it was the emperor, the gods just didn't let them get to where the emperor was sending them, fulgrim was.supposed to land on chogoris the white scars homeworld

 Omegus wrote:
Uh, yeah, except all their actions point to feral, bestial attack dogs. They can simper about being more evolved and enlightened as they shuffle around their dark caves playing with bones (source: Prospero Burns) all they want, they are still the most primitive and superstitious of all the Legions.

Yes, this all comes down to barebones semantics! That's so simplistic, it borders on slowed.

 Deadshot wrote:

 Omegus wrote:
Uh, yeah, except all their actions point to feral, bestial attack dogs. They can simper about being more evolved and enlightened as they shuffle around their dark caves playing with bones (source: Prospero Burns) all they want, they are still the most primitive and superstitious of all the Legions.

Yes, this all comes down to barebones semantics! That's so simplistic, it borders on slowed.

What you see as barbaric and backward they see as culture and tradition. Exactly the same as when the Brits arrived in the New World.