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Memorial Crown

Also known as the Crown, it is a decorative frame display to be attached to the Space Marine’s pauldron-- not to be worn in combat. The Crown frame would start small since its first created to commemorate their successful indoctrination based on the ore/gemstone they procured during a recruitment trial hosted on the homeworld known as the Diving. The Space Marine’s Crown would expand over time either by his own collection or by receiving gifts.

The frame can be attached anywhere on the pauldron, the SM below has made his Crown with a flower theme on a corner of his pauldron.

The tradition of the Crown started when the legion discovered the Primarch's geneseed was so heavily damaged the marines produced from his geneseed would have a limited lifespan and die within 50-60 years if they were not KIA. The Primarch was devastated and created a small token in memory of the first batch lost to the corruption.

Other marines began creating their own token to be remembered by after death, incorporating small stuff they pick up during their deployments to attach to the token- like grains of sand or shards of glass. Eventually the token is expanded into a frame to allow bigger objects to be added on, but ore/mineral/gemstones became the popular type of addition.

When a Space Marine’s service has ended, the body would be cremated and the Crown would be processed per the dead’s will. Often, the Crown would be delivered back to his homeworld, archived in the battleship or to a specific individual to be honoured after death. In the event the Space Marine chooses not to specify the Crown would be sent to the legion's homeworld to be devoured by the local fauna.

Gift of Awe

Originally called Gift of Ore, a Remembrancer had purposely transcribed the word Ore as Awe to make the tradition look more appealing on paper. The naming was approved by the legion including the Primarch (literally because it sounded cooler). Wyrm Grinders often use gemstones as their gift due to being able to show off their gem appraisal skill and because it will be installed onto the recipient's Memorial Crown.

As this gift is going to be inserted on the Crown, you can't just perform this tradition to anyone. There is a lot of planning between the two marines before the Gift can be produced. The giver must respect the conditions laid out by the recipient if they wish to add to their Crown.

Homeworld: Tiritan

Has anyone watched Arrival? I love the heptapods deep noises, it sounds so fitting in a deep dark water world. However, I’m guessing the noises are made due to a dense fog-like atmosphere they live in.

Additionally, I never really subscribed to the idea of massive worms being able to burrow in sand that easily no matter how much I love the concept.

However, liquefaction is a thing!

Imagine if Jupiter got smashed into another planet I guess? The only reason why the planet doesn’t have a solid core is cause of the mega Wyrms that keeps churning the deep layers underneath the sandy surface. That should in theory make pushing sand around easier for the fauna on the planet.

Tiritan is now a sand world with extremely dense layers of gases, the local fauna makes deep haunting noises and you can barely see anything in front of you with all the swirling gases around.

The Primarch’s Inner circle! I don’t have a name for the circle yet…

These guys are actually my OCs, I just revised their looks and they’re mostly just there for legion backstory.

Rie’vn has been the first captain before the discovery of the Primarch, so his geneseed is uncorrupted and that means he lived a normal astartes life span. When the Primarch finally became a renegade, Rie’vn defected and seeked refuge from another loyalist legion.

Deep down, he still had hope for his legion and secretly gave his Primarch a way to escape from total obliteration. He was absorbed into the other loyalist legion but was killed at the Dropsite Massacre.

Jure is one of the early generations of marines who got the corrupted gene seed, he is the first and only champion of the Legion. Even after death no one took the mantle. Wyrm Grinders are extremely good at close combat and Jure is exceptionally so with a knife. He’d be one of the best fighters but not at Sigismund level of course, he’s just among that reputation.

My personal bias is that he’s never lost a fight to anyone when he pull out his knife but that’s just too op at this point.

He died to geneseed breakdown, but never regretted serving his Primarch. Unfortunately, his death starts a terrible rift in the legion brotherhood that will eventually lead to the termination of the Wyrm Grinders.

Sheva is the younger step-brother of Jure… and just like in his original lore I don’t freaking know what to do with him. He’s dead though lol

Where is the Primarch and the Wyrm Grinders in 40k?

From the Lexicanum the bulk of the legion were absorbed into Ultramarines and Dark Angels I think? Those are the loyal ones to the Imperium.

The rest of the renegades and the Primarch absconded into the depth of the stars.

They are now a massive fleet based legion but not because the astartes population is a lot, their headcount is throttled due to majority bearing the corrupted gene seed. Instead, they are constantly expanding their ship size and numbers, and many years later they would return to their homeworld with a freaking massive ship, all so the legion could extract the mega Wyrms.

So the Wyrm Grinders managed to extract 4 of the 10 mega Wyrms before the Imperium reacted and the planet got exterminated. Eh, good enough.

The legion is a bit more like their own exclusive society now? The main ships of the fleet clustered together are like a pit stop space station. You can start your own warband and fly off to do whatever. You can come back to the main fleet anytime and maybe trade with other adventuring squads. Having a WG in your warband is good cause you’d have permission to enter the ‘pit stop’ too and do some trading through the WG member in your band.

The place is a neutral ground and the Primarch closely monitors the main fleet to ensure the peace is enforced.

The bulk of the population remains directly under the Primarch, and you can do your own thing as long as you obey the Primarch when he gives orders. If the Primarch recalls all of the astartes you either obey or never show your face again cause you’re no longer welcomed. The Primarch seldom gives orders nowadays anyway— busy trying to find godhood or a miracle in the mega Wyrms.

I’m trying to leave the legion somewhat open ended in 40k cause I want to be able to play in the sandbox lol