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The Crimson Fists are a [[Space Marine]] [[Chapter]] and one of the most renowned successors of the [[Imperial Fists]], created during the [[Second Founding]] from what remained of the VII [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]] by their [[Primarch]] [[Rogal Dorn]]{{Fn|1}}. None better embody the defiant and unconquerable valour of the old Legion than the Crimson Fists{{Fn|22d}}. The Chapter was brought to the brink of destruction during the [[Invasion of Rynn's World]], when an [[Ork]] [[Waaagh!]] led by the [[Arch-Arsonist]] [[Snagrod]] resulted in the destruction of their [[Fortress Monastery]]{{Fn|29}} and ultimately reduced the Chapter to fewer than a hundred battle-brothers, placing it at risk of being disbanded{{Fn|49}}. Despite this catastrophe, and hardships since, the Crimson Fists have endured and rebuilt{{Fn|22d}}.

[[File:CPArtOld.jpg|thumb|right|The Crimson Fists battling [[Orks]]{{Fn|Note One}} on the cover of [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]], the first rulebook of [[Warhammer 40,000]]{{Fn|16c}}]]

After the [[Horus Heresy]], it was decided (in the [[Codex Astartes]] written by the [[Ultramarines]] [[Primarch]] [[Roboute Guilliman]]) that no single man should ever wield the power of a whole [[legion]] of Space Marines alone, and that each legion was to be split up into thousand-man strong chapters. [[Rogal Dorn]] of the [[Imperial Fists]] legion long opposed this, but decided to yield rather than risk the fragile peace of the post-heresy Imperium. The Imperial Fists legion was divided into four chapters: The marines most devoted to their Primarch were to remain Imperial Fists, the most zealous started the never-ending crusade of the [[Black Templars]] and the younger and more level-headed marines formed the Crimson Fists. The first [[Chapter Master]] of the Crimson Fists was [[Alexis Polux]], a hero of the Heresy. The chapter's name derives from the ceremony conducted at the initiation of new chapter masters in the Imperial Fist legion. The Chapter Master and the Primarch would both cut their palm and share blood in a warrior handshake; strengthening the marine with the blood of the Primarch and forming a symbolic bond between them{{Fn|1}}.