It is the Iron Priests who forge each blade and bless each bolter, and it is they who appease the spirits of plasma and flame. Like Techmarines they spend several Terran years with the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars where they learn the innermost secrets of arcane mechanics. Their expertise lies with technical matters and their role is akin to that of Techmarines in other Chapters. The Iron Priests are masters of the forge, Armoury, war engines and the Machine Spirits, and it is their job to maintain all the advanced weapons and technology of the Space Wolves.
Harl Greyweaver, Iron Priest and Forge Master of the Deathwatch's Watch Fortress Erioch in the Jericho Reach. They also stood guard over certain troves of weaponry and schematic patterns gifted by Terra and uniquely developed by the Iron Priests themselves. Their role was not simply to supply their Legion with arms and maintain their wargear, but to ensure it was as self-sufficient as possible. The Priests of Iron masked vast technological lore behind an outwardly barbaric show of tech-mysticism whose temper - if not form - would do justice to the most obtusely arcane tech-adept of Mars. They were the masters of the armouries, war machines and technological arcana of the Space Wolves Legion.
There were several divisions of particular prominence, with the "Priests of Iron" being one of them. Occluded to outsiders beneath webs of what outwardly seemed superstition and barbarism, they were more than technicians and specialists, but instead the repositories of the Legion's true history, the keepers of its secrets and the masters of its lore. They were one of several subdivisions within the Priests of Fenris, the interconnected orders which provided for the physical, spiritual and technological needs of the VI Legion. The role of Iron Priest harkens back to the bygone era of the Great Crusade in the last two centuries of the 30th Millennium.
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