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The "Cursed" Founding chapters all have tampered, altered, or wholly hybrid seeds.

Take the Lamenters for example:

They are a Blood Angels successor chapter and yet they are unaffected by the Black Rage or Red Thirst that plagues their brethren. Its theorized by Imperial scholars that in the time of the cursed founding the geneticists and biologists of the imperium sought to uncover the secrets of the Emperor's great work by experimenting tirelessly on the existing gene stocks. The results were Chapters like the Black Dragons, Flame Falcons, and Lamenters. All blessed with exceptional physical forms, slightly better even then the other chapters but at the same time horribly cursed. The big E probably could of made marines like the Cursed Founding Marines but foresaw the consequences of pushing their genetics too far. The Lamenters have an aura of sadness and despair that is quite palpable. They are always in the wrong place at the wrong time; case in point: They were the first marines to "Discover" hive fleet Kraken, costing them 3/4 of their chapter. The Black Dragons have defective osmodia glands which control the bone growth of a young marine. The worst cases grow spiny ridges on their heads and other parts of their bodies, even extended long bones in their forearms which protrude through the afflicted's skin. The chapter actually sharpens these growths and uses them as close combat weapons. The Flame Falcons are on average 7'6"-8' tall, on the larger end for even space marines. Their chapter was hugely successful until all their veterans burst into flames. The irony is that they did not die but rather fought on as marines encased in an inferno, the flames burning everything but themselves. The chapter saw this as a blessing from the emperor and celebrated but the Inquisition saw it as mutation and purged them.


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