The Space Wolves did indeed give the impression of being a pack of rash, impulsive, primitive, barbaric fellows.
They never bound themselves with too much etiquette or too many rules, living freely and acting as they pleased.
But that did not mean they were truly barbarians. In a sense, the Space Wolves had quite a few things in common with the White Scars of Chogoris.
They merely looked "barbaric" on the surface.
Yet when the subject touched upon the reputation of the Space Wolves as a whole and the honor of the Wolf King, Leman Russ, even these unruly wolves had no choice but to treat it with the utmost caution.
The wolves styled themselves as the Allfather's executioners and enforcers. They obeyed only their loyalty to Russ and the Allfather, and they even believed the Sixth Legion to be the most unwaveringly loyal of all the Legions.
"Lord Guilliman, are you questioning the loyalty of Russ's sons?"
"At the Council of Nikaea, the Wolf King and the Rune Priests denounced those sorcery-wielding sons of Magnus, proving long ago our zero-tolerance stance toward psychic powers."
Lox immediately seized the opening. They had already prepared a plan; no matter how the Space Wolves defended themselves, he and Guilliman could continue pressing the attack.
"The Wolf King's stance is admirable, but your Rune Priests classify their power as a gift of Fenris's nature rather than Warp sorcery. From an objective standpoint, isn't that a double standard?"
"Why is what the sons of Magnus use psychic sorcery, while what you use is rune power from Fenris? Logically, that makes no sense, because by the duck test, they are the same thing."
Lox's aggressive questioning embarrassed Fafnir. If the true body of this mortal adviser had been here, he would not have minded letting