Inkubas wrote:
Dead. Anyone that was not corruptible was sent down to Istavaan III. Out of the tens of thousands that died as loyalists, I'd say only a handful were able to escape before the viral bombing. However, without giving too much away (look up the Horus Heresy Garro audio series) there's a reason why there aren't many loyalists from the traitor space marine legions.

 dementedwombat wrote:
They got Rolled into Codex: Space Marines.

TiamatRoar wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if Ancient Rylanor's still alive simply due to narrative convention (his body was never found after he went underground for an "unknown purpose". That's a blatant Chekhov gun)

That said, overall the traitor legions that purged themselves at Ishtvaan seem to have been rather thorough. But you never know. There might still be some loyalist Emperor children around considering that there was at least one loyalist Luna Wolf that was far away from Ishtvaan at the time (although he along with the rest of the Outcast Dead were kinda a special case) as well as several World Eaters away from the site. I'd also consider mentioning the Loyalist Iron Warriors like Dantioch and his warband but I'm not sure Perturabo ever bothered with a purge in the first place. Regardless, purging your ranks of EVERY single loyalist when marines were spread across the galaxy is very difficult, I imagine.

 DanielBeaver wrote:
I seem to remember some theory about the Red Scorpions being founded from Emperor's Children loyalists (same source mentioned Blood Ravens maybe being formed from Thousand Sons loyalists). Not sure if that has any basis in canon, or if it's just wild mass guessing.

Captain Sour wrote:
Maybe they could of been put into a new chapter? I dont know if any loyalist legion would want to have loyalist elements of a traitor legion absorbed. But it would make a cool story.

TiamatRoar wrote:

Captain Sour wrote:
Maybe they could of been put into a new chapter? I dont know if any loyalist legion would want to have loyalist elements of a traitor legion absorbed. But it would make a cool story.

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Captain Sour wrote:

There might be,one can hope I forgot about the loyalist World Eaters,didn't know there were Loyalist Iron Warriors. What book/shortstory were they in?

I forget the initial short stories and books that showed Dantioch's origins and escape from the Iron Warriors, although the latest book he and his remaining loyalist followers appeared in was Unremembered Empire. Running a search for him on Lexicanum should get you most of it, I think.


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JubbJubbz wrote:
The novel "Outcast Dead" shows that the Empire wasn't opposed to just throwing loyalists from traitor legions in a dungeon as opposed to killing them.

In this case it was partially because they weren't sure where their loyalties lay, if I recall correctly. When one of them ended up being loyalist, he was free to go (...or rather, free to be conscripted into the Grey Knights), but it took the intervention of Malcador the Sigilite for that so dunno about what would happen to other loyalists from traitor legions. Considering Unremembered Empire, it's probable that things were such a chaotic situation that there was no standard Imperium policy for it. Many chunks of the Imperium only got bits and pieces of news regarding the whole thing, to the point where lots of the Imperium didn't even know who was loyal or a traitor.

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 DanielBeaver wrote:
I seem to remember some theory about the Red Scorpions being founded from Emperor's Children loyalists (same source mentioned Blood Ravens maybe being formed from Thousand Sons loyalists). Not sure if that has any basis in canon, or if it's just wild mass guessing.

I heard about that,but there is no canon based proof. A wild mans guess based on both are obsessed with the purity of their gene seed. Could be possible though.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

Certainly there could be loyalist elements of the traitor legions out there. The forces of the legions were scattered around the galaxy, it's not like they could have gathered up every single member in one place before they started purging. Whether or not any remaining loyalists were absorbed into the remaining legions after the Heresy, or if they helped create the new chapters, or of they were just allowed to die off, is uncertain.

 Jape wrote:
I was going to say they'd been killed as they come from the same gene seed as the traitors but this isn't 40k its 30k, the religious dogma has yet to seep into policy. They might be absorbed or still killed simply due to political reasons. The Imperial Fist who fought loyally for Fulgrim for centuries might raise eyebrows amongst his new comrades.