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|Founding Chapter=[[Salamanders]]/Unclear{{Fn|Canon ConflictConflicting sources}}

 The '''Black Dragons''' are long rumored rumoured to be a [[Salamanders]] [[Successor Chapter]].{{Fn|15}}{{Fn|5a}} The chapter was founded in the cursed [[Twenty First Founding|21st Founding]], just prior to the [[Age of Apostasy]].{{Fn|1a}}

It is rumored rumoured that the Black Dragon [[Apothecaries]] deliberately encourage these growths, wishing to create more of the valued Dragon Claws. This is a very dangerous practice and such gene-manipulation away from the genic template of a [[Space Marine]] is forbidden in the [[Imperium]]. When the usual 5% tithe of [[gene-seed]] is requested, the Black Dragons often resist giving it over, and sometimes have needed to be threatened with military action in order to comply with the tithe request. When they do send it in, the veracity of the gene-seed is unknown, as each passes the most stringent tests; some, therefore, believe that it is not even the gene-seed of the Black Dragons. How this is procured is a mystery, although the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] and some ordos of the [[Inquisition]] are eager to investigate the medical practices of the Cursed Founding chapter.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|3b}}

==={{Endn|Canon ConflictConflicting sources}}===*The exact lineage of the Black Dragons is unclear. Multiple sources describe them as likely being derived from the [[Salamanders]]{{Fn|5a}}{{Fn|15}} and having a connection to the Chapter.{{Fn|6a}} However, the more recent [[10th Edition]] Space Marine codex lists them in Chapters with an unknown founder.{{Fn|19}}

*{{Endn|15}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/24/when-is-a-dragon-not-a-dragon-more-often-than-youd-think/ Warhammer Community: When is a Dragon Not a Dragon? More Often Than You’d Think… (Posted on posted 24/11/2021)] ''(Last last accessed on 24 November 2021) ''