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What remained of the Legion was divided into three Chapters. The most zealous marines formed the [[Black Templars]]; the more rational and newly recruited marines the [[Crimson Fists]] and the ones most devoted to their Primarch and Legion remained the Imperial Fists. Rogal Dorn spent the next twenty years rebuilding and reforming his chapter according to the standards of the Index Astartes. (There were other chapters, like the Soul Drinkers for instance, though it is unclear when they came into existence.){{Fn|2a}}
Rogal Dorn is missing and presumed dead after attacking a [[Chaos]] fleet with a vastly outnumbered force.{{Fn|9}} Seeing the importance of attacking the enemy fleet while they were still preparing, he relied on hit-and-run attacks until his reinforcements could arrive. Dorn went missing on board the [[Despoiler Class Battleship]] ''[[Sword of Sacrilege]]'' after leading a desperate attack on its bridge. Different sources have stated that Dorn's whole body was recovered, and his [[Remains of Rogal Dorn#The Skeletal Body of Rogal Dorn|skeleton]] is now keept kept embedded in clear amber exept except for his hands,{{Fn|5}} that unstated remains was were recovered,{{Fn|2a}} respectively and that only one of his fists was found.{{Fn|18}}{{Fn|43}}{{Fn|Conflicting Sources}} But they all agree that [[Remains of Rogal Dorn#The Skeletal Hands of Rogal Dorn|his hand]] is kept in stasis as the chapter's most holy relic.{{Fn|2a}}{{Fn|5}}{{Fn|18}}{{Fn|43}}
Dorn's skeletal fist is kept within the shrine, the bones intricately engraved with the heraldry of all the Chapter's previous Masters. Only the Chapter Master has the right to engrave his name upon the bones. Each bone corresponds to former commanders. Left hand, the first metacarpal: Lords [[Bronwin Abermort]], [[Maximus Thane]], [[Kalman Flodensbog]], the first phalanx of the thumb, [[Ambrosian Spactor]], etc.{{Fn|5}}
