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*[[Salamanders]] — 89,000{{Fn|15c}}
*[[Raven Guard]] — 80,000{{Fn|9}}
*[[Thousand Sons]] — 85,000{{Fn|21b}}{{Fn|Note 3}}
The Legion size issue is contentious, with several types of numbers mentioned in separate sources meant to reflect a general or nominally-sized legion. As well as numbers directly given in sources themselves, several [[authors]] have commented on the issue.
*Before the Word Bearers invasion of the Boros Gate it is mentioned that the Black Legion's strength is unparalleled and that their ranks outnumbered the Word Bearers by almost ten to one. If at that point the Word Bearers kept the ranks at the size of 100,000 space marines it means the Black Legion had vastly increased their numbers to around 1,000,000 space marines.{{Fn|13}}
*{{Endn|Note 2}}: Further down the page of the cited source, Betrayal states that this number is leading up to Istvaan III. After the conflict, some 60,000 Sons of Horus Astartes were lost, some of which are the Loyalists. After the betrayal at Istvaan III, the current numbers of the Sons of Horus are estimated to be 70,000-110,000.
*{{Endn|Note 3}}: The novel [[A Thousand Sons (Novel)|A Thousand Sons]] stated the Thousand Sons to be 10,000 strong by the time of the [[Burning of Prospero]].{{Fn|12c}} Subsequent rulebooks for the [[Horus Heresy (Game)|Horus Heresy game system]] retconned this to a much higher number.{{Fn|21b}}
===Original names and appearances ===
**{{Endn|12a}}: Chapter Twenty-Two, pgs. 380–388
**{{Endn|12b}}: Chapter 31
**{{Endn|12c}}: Chapter 2
*{{Endn|13}}: [[Dark Creed (Novel)]], Chapter 4
*{{Endn|14}}: [[Vulkan Lives]], Chapter 19
