"All men are drawn to the beauty of flame, but the guilty man fears its touch while the pious man welcomes it." Origins Like many Space Marine chapters, the origins of the renegades known as the Creatures of Prometheus are largely lost to the depths of tie and obscure records buried deep inside the Imperium's vaults. It is not, for example, entirely certain to which chapter they are a successor to; official records credit them as one of the rare descendents of the Salamanders, but if so they are a true miracle of the Magos Biologus, as they do not bear the signature pitch-black skin that marks that chapter's geneseed, nor any other recognizable flaw in the Black Carapace. Some speculation credits them as a successor to the Black Templars, but this is similarly improbable based on their religious fervor, martial bent, and ritualistic organization, but this ignores the chapter's reverence for (and indeed, even the existence of) its Librarians as well as the wide-spread appearances of psychic talent across its members. More credible reports name them as a Blood Angels division that has somehow managed to transmute, if not eliminate, the Curse of Sanguinous. This seems plausible, given that the Lamenters claimed similar success, but raises another question: why, amongst all the Angels of Death, would they alone deny any connection to their parent chapter? The Blood Angels and their host of successors are highly protective of each other, though perhaps no more than some other families of Marines, but the Creatures of Prometheus (and, indeed, the Blood Angels themselves) have shown no special connection whatsoever with each other even under the direst of circumstances, rarely even interacting.
