Red Drakes

"We fight for the Emperor, like all his sons, with valiance and strength! We are here to fight his enemies and cull the traitors, for him and Flerma we march!"

- Flame Dragon Seldar Germ, speaking to his soldiers during the Yrog campaign

The Red Drakes are a loyalist chapter of non-codex compliant space marines, they where created during the 8th founding. They are known for their ability to breath fire. There founding chapter in unknown. They specialize in shock tactics and prefer to take out the enemy as quickly as possible.

As of right now it is unknown exactly how many members the Red Drakes have, it is however known that the number lies somewhere in between 3.000 and 4.500 battle brothers. They manage to keep this large numer secret by spliting there forces through the galaxy to make there true nmber of astartes hard to keep track of, similarly to the Black Templars

History
The Red Drakes where created during the 8th founding, being given the feudal world, Flerma, as a home planet and the other planets in its system as recruiting planets.. They where created to hunt chaotic corruption and root it out wherever they find it.

They first picked up the taint of chaos on there vary own home planet of Flerma. when they found out that some of the planets population had turned to chaos, and had made attempts to summon deamons, they swiftly and brutal oblitirated the chaos cultists and purged all signs of corruption from the planet.

The Omrig War
They became well known for being very effective in rooting out chaos. There flame dragon (the Red Drakes equivalent to a chapter master), Seldar Gurm, fa