The Dark Wolves are a renegade Astartes warband, their origins long shrouded in mystery. Some claim that the warband was once a Great Company of the Adeptus Astartes Space Wolves Chapter, though none would dare cast such a dire dispersion within earshot of any of the fearsome sons of Fenris themselves. According to one legend, before their fall the Dark Wolves had been tasked with an all but impossible mission in punishment for some unrecorded failing or crime. This mission took the Dark Wolves to the very edge of the Abyss, and some say they lingered there overlong, the taint of the beyond poisoning their souls for all time. Whatever the truth of the matter, the Dark Wolves are known to be in possession of a number of heavy tanks, which they field together as an armoured spearhead known a