The Apocrypha of Davio was a great and holy document that was created in the 33rd Millennium in an attempt to list all of the Space Marine Chapters of the Second Founding. It is unknown how many Successor Chapters were created -- some Second Founding Chapters in the past 10,000 years have been destroyed (such as the Dark Angels' Successor Chapter, the Lions Sable), leaving no records of their histories in the often incomplete Imperial archives of the Adeptus Administratum. Other Second Founding Chapters have been lost in more recent times and their names in the records of the fallen heroes of the Imperium are all that remain of them. Some survive to this day, the proud inheritors of their Legions' histories and the traditions of their Primarch. The Grey Knights, the elite Space Marine Chapter that serves as the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Malleus of the Inquisition, was secretly created during the Second Founding. They have the honour of being implanted with gene-seed engineered directly from the genome of the Emperor Himself. It is possible that the Raptors, the Silver Skulls and other Chapters were also established during the Second Founding.
Though no comprehensive list has ever been assembled, the current known Chapters of the Second Founding include the following:
| Chapter | Progenitor Chapter | Legion Number | Chapter Master |
| Angels of Absolution | Dark Angels | I | Unknown |
| Angels of Redemption | Dark Angels | I | Unknown |
| Angels of Vengeance | Dark Angels | I | Unknown |
| Angels of Vigilance (Suspected, unconfirmed) | Dark Angels | I | Unknown |
| Lions Sable (Destroyed and forgotten) | Dark Angels | I | Unknown |
| Destroyers | White Scars | V | Unknown |
| Marauders | White Scars | V | Unknown |
| Rampagers | White Scars | V | Unknown |
| Storm Lords | White Scars | V | Unknown |
| Wolf Brothers | Space Wolves | VI | Beor Arjac Grimmaesson |
| Black Templars | Imperial Fists | VII | Sigismund |
| Crimson Fists | Imperial Fists | VII | Alexis Polux |
| Excoriators | Imperial Fists | VII | Demetrius Katafalque |
| Fists Exemplar | Imperial Fists | VII | Oriax Dantalion |
| Iron Knights | Imperial Fists | VII | Unknown |
| Soul Drinkers (Excommunicate Traitoris) | Imperial Fists | VII | Unknown |
| Angels Encarmine | Blood Angels | IX | Unknown |
| Angels Sanguine | Blood Angels | IX | Unknown |
| Angels Vermillion | Blood Angels | IX | Unknown |
| Blood Drinkers | Blood Angels | IX | Unknown |
| Flesh Tearers | Blood Angels | IX | Nassir Amit |
| Brazen Claws | Iron Hands | X | Unknown |
| Emperor's Shadows | Iron Hands | X | Unknown |
| Red Talons | Iron Hands | X | Autek Mor |
| Aurora Chapter | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Black Consuls | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Doom Eagles | Ultramarines | XIII | Tulian Aquila |
| Eagle Warriors | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Genesis Chapter | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Inceptors | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Iron Snakes | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Libators | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Mortifactors | Ultramarines | XIII | Sasebo Tezuka |
| Nemesis | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Novamarines | Ultramarines | XIII | Lucretius Corvo |
| Patriarchs of Ulixis | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Praetors of Orpheus | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Silver Eagles | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Silver Skulls | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| White Consuls | Ultramarines | XIII | Unknown |
| Black Guard | Raven Guard | XIX | Unknown |
| Raptors | Raven Guard | XIX | Unknown |
| Revilers | Raven Guard | XIX | Unknown |
| Desert Lions | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Red Hunters | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Yellow Jackets | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
See Also
Sources
- Codex: Angels of Death (2nd Edition), pg. 7
- Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition), pg. 6
- Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition), pg. 54
- Codex: Blood Angels (3rd Edition)
- Codex: Dark Angels (5th Edition), pp. 10, 73-75
- Codex: Dark Angels (3rd Edition, 2nd Release)
- Codex: Dark Angels (3rd Edition), pg. 14
- Codex: Space Marines (7th Edition) (Digital Edition), pp. 12-15, 26-27, 109-110, 114-116, 136-143
- Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition), pg. 18
- Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pp. 7-8
- Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), pp. 22-47
- Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 9
- Codex: Space Wolves (2nd Edition), pg. 9
- Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition), pp. 9-10
- Dataslate: Cypher - Lord of the Fallen, pp. 15, 17-18, 20-22, 28
- Deathwatch: Honour the Chapter (RPG), pp. 9-16, 58-88, 103-105, 106, 109, 111
- Deathwatch: Rites of Battle (RPG), pp. 53, 55-58, 60-64, 66
- Index Astartes I, "Codex Astartes: The Holy Tome of the Space Marines," by Rick Priestley & Andy Chambers, pp. 12-13
- Warhammer 40,000: Compendium (1st Edition), pg. 34
- Warhammer 40,000: Rulebook (6th Edition), pg. 183
- The Beast Arises (Series):
- Predator, Prey Book 2 (Novel) by Rob Sanders