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The '''Wolfblade''' is a small unit of [[Space Wolves]] assigned to [[Terra]] as bodyguards for [[Navigator]]s of [[House Belisarius]]. In addition to bodyguard duties, they train the House's own security troops and lead them into battle, when the need arises.{{Fn|1a}}. At any given time, there are no more than twenty-four Space Wolves assigned to the unit, most of them on Terra.{{Fn|2a2}}.

According to one source, the Wolfblades are the only [[Space Marines]] on Terra, since the populace of that world associates Marines with the destruction caused by the [[Battle of Terra]] during the [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|1d}}.

The unit's history reportedly dates back to an agreement between the Wolves' [[Primarch]], [[Leman Russ (primarch)|Leman Russ]], and the head of House Belisarius{{Fn|1b}}: in exchange for the Wolves' service, Belisarius supplies Navigators to serve aboard the Space Wolves' space fleet.{{Fn|1a}}.

For most Space Wolves, assignment to the Wolfblade was not sought after, since it required separation from the rest of one's [[Great Company]], and there were few opportunities for the kind of glory associated with fighting as a Space Wolf.{{Fn|1a}}. For that reason, many of the Wolves posted to the unit were somehow "misfits", and the posting was sometimes regarded as punitive or a form of exile.{{Fn|1c}}. For instance, [[Ragnar Blackmane]] was assigned to the unit after losing the [[Spear of Russ]]. However, [[Wolf Priest]] [[Ranek]] told Ragnar that some of the [[Chapter]]'s greatest leaders were former Wolfblades, since the posting allowed them to become politically savvy about the inner workings of the [[Imperium]], and to make useful contacts therein.{{Fn|1a}}.

*[[Torin|Torin the Wayfarer]]