Contrary to the tenants of the Codex Astartes, the Iron Guard does not utilise Assault Marines as the Chapter such formations as suicidal and dishonourable. The Iron Guard are nominally Codex-adherent, however, due to Chapter tradition and heavily influenced by their home world's feudal culture, the Chapter organises themselves much differently than standard Codex-compliant Chapter. The librarium is located in the Star Tower. This is also where the relics of the Chapter are carefully stored.

This is also the location of the ' Hall of Heroes', where those honoured dead who have valiantly fallen in service to the Imperium are memorialised in large, lifelike statues. Attached to the fortress-monastery there is the ' Steel Dungeon' from where Hyperion rules the planet and the chapter.

In the center of one of the biggest cities, Khar'tuzad, it is a fortress, inside of it it is the fortress-monastery of the chapter and the ' Star Tower'. On this world the society is organised in the form of big medieval cities. On the opposite side of this sea is a massive desert with a salt zone in its center, probably an ancient dried up sea. Nelmarth is comprised of a large continent in a ocean with a great sea inside of it and a multitude of small rivers. The home world of the chapter is Nelmarth, a notable Imperial feudal world located in the Utima Segmentum. The names of those fallen battle brothers of the Iron Guard who had sacrificed themselves would now forever be written in the Hall of Heroes. Only three squads managed to survive and escape the hive planet which was now completely taken over by Chaos. The four remaining Iron Guard squads used this moment to fall back. Outnumbered and outgunned, the loyalist troops made an attempt to distract the Chaos Forces surrounding them, destroying a near by factory. The Forces of Chaos had laid a ambush and had drew in the over zealous astartes. During that battle two of the six squads send had fallen and had been killed. One of the first battles fought by the Iron Guard was against the notorious Magma Hounds, a Chaos Warband on the hive world Keshovia. The Iron Guard is a loyalist Successor Chapter created during the latter part of the 37 th Millennium during the 23 rd 'Sentinel' Founding in response to the destruction of various chapter. Chapter History Creation ' Our souls are like our walls, impenetrable.' - Banoclès, Ironclad Dreadnought of the 3 rd Company.

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