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The smallest of the six Wings of the [[Hexagrammaton]], the Firewing was dedicated to all thebloody subtleties of warfare. It was the hidden blade of the Legion, the knife in the dark and the blade against the throat of the foes' commanders. Within its ranks were to be found an eclectic mix of stalkers, [[Company Champion|champions]] and [[Moritat]] killers, all bound by their shared expertise in the arts of blade and knife, duellists and assassins without peer. The Firewing sought the destruction of the enemy through the violent depletion of their command structure, whether in honourable duels at the heart of a battle or at the hands of subtle killers far from the battlefield. When given free rein upon the field of battle, the initiates of the Firewing chose to wage a war of wills against the enemy, seeking to break their resolve rather than slaughter their ranks. They counted knowledge among the keenest of their weapons, allowing them to strike at the enemy's weakest points where their limited numbers would be most effective. As such they possessed the most extensive library of any of the Wings, a vault that contained the detailed accounting of thousands upon thousands of [[Xenos]] and sub-human empires, and which was guarded by a sub-sect of the Firewing dedicated to the cataloguing of those records. Of all the Wings, they were the remained least changed upon from their origins in the arrival of [[Lion El'JonsonUnification Wars|Wars of Unity on Terra]] and , with many of the eldest marshals of the Firewing were being veterans of that conflict and steeped in the culture of [[Unification WarsTerra]] and early Great Crusadeits nearest colonies. {{Fn|6a}} The introduction of [[Caliban|Calibanite]] influence had little impact on the entrenched and recruits did little to change themcomplex systems of ritual within the veteran ranks of the Firewing, and they maintained whose marshals had long made a policy tradition of recruiting only from [[Terra]] and the densely-populated colonies surrounding that surrounded it. It was also notable for a its strong link links to the [[Luna Wolves]]/[[Sons of Horus]], who recruited from a number of the same worlds. This , a connection that turned to a bitter the bitterest hatred upon with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, for it would pit those once sworn to eternal loyalty against each other.{{Fn|6a}} Long before the events of the Heresy, during the [[Horus HeresySecond Rangdan Xenocide]]in 862.M30, the Firewing would sustain severe casualties, reducing it to a fraction of its former size at the time as its initiates stood toe-to-toe against Rangdan warmasters and reavers.{{Fn|6a}}