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After re-reading Death of Antagonis noticed a lot of things, especially in terms of the number of members that were apart of the 2nd Company and organization.

We all know the Codex Astartes standard for Marines for a company is 100, not counting specialist. Without spoilers there are several times in the story that the number of members of the 2nd company are mentioned. These were usually broken down by saying the number of total marines or number of squads at the present battle or area. This happened several times and during certain events of the story and the numbers fluctuate due to circumstance. But if you were to tally up all those numbers when they are mentioned, they were well over 100 marines.

Throughout the story, Codex compliancy is a huge plot point, its even stated several times that the Black Dragons were not a Codex Chapter. That had me thinking do they actually go pass the 100 Marines per company standard or is this just an error on the writer? Another thing to note, very similarly but a lot different from Blood Angels. The Black Dragons house a secret unit in each company, known as The Blessed which are an unknown number of Marines, whose Gene seed have turned them into living monsters/dragons and they are sedated away from the chapter until needed. If you count that unit they’re already well over 100.

Some last things to note in terms of organization. They do not have lieutenants, that rank is switched with 1st Sergeant from what we seen so far. Chaplains are highly revered and can even take command of companies becoming de-facto Captains like Darrigg. Black Dragons Librarians do not wear the Codex blue like other chapters. Their Librarians wear black armor, like seen in Tribute to Flesh with Epistolary Rothnove.

All of this just makes me wonder, The inquisition always tries to find them guilty of heresy or treachery, yet they haven’t once hit them for going against the Codex.

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🎨: With the upcoming preorders this week we get our first look into the new war for Armageddon and 11th edition.

Old man Yarricks model will be up for sale along with his new partner Commissar Graves. 3 new battalion boxes will be up for sale including a Deathwatch one that has everyone’s favorite ship, the Corvus Blackstar.

Wazdakka himself finally has a model, and as much as I hate Orks it’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen

📚: The Warhammer community is continuing their lore deep dive on Armageddon with part three, this is all about Ghazghkull grand plan goes in depth of his history and some new/old Orks characters that will be showing up in this all out war, it shows brand new art as well.

Armageddon: The Return of Yarrick is up for preorder and like all the previous campaign books this is jammed packed with new lore and will most likely have some narrative changing lore/slash message within it. Can’t wait to see what chapters show up and what the battles will be like.

World ablaze anthology will be available too, a book of all new stories taking place on Armageddon. Chapters that will have stories will of course be the Salamanders plus others, looking forward to seeing what members shows up, like Tu’Shan or Adrax.

A new book that was announced and will also be available this week is “ Veterans of the Fall” an Astra Militarum book that is about the Kasrkin. If you’re interested in this I would recommend reading the short story that leads into it “Tattershield”

This is variant/alternative cover #2 for the Dark Krakens comic. Featuring everyone’s favorite, Lieutenant Jacarae in his artificer Gravis armor and custom heavy harpoon bolter(Eels Kiss). My sister got me absolute Batman volume 2 for my birthday so I very much influenced. More pages are in the works!

Last 9 pages: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkKrakens/s/0xTFaQTllz

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To be continued, More pages are in the works! Let me know what your favorite page or panel was!

Previous 10 Pages: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkKrakens/s/q4gh24zKSR