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Of course, we were taught to fight. He knew that war would come. It was a necessary part of the ascension, though it was never destined to last for eternity.
We codex adeptus custodes pdf download the guardians of a new age, and had to be strong enough to keep it secure. Their chapter master equivalent being their Captain-General, and their equivalent of a Primarch being the Emperor of Mankind.
The Custodians are warriors unmatched in the galaxy, genetically-engineered by the Emperor himself. The Emperor first created these elite warriors back in the old days of his conquest of Terra, codex adeptus custodes pdf download, making them souped-up and more long-lived versions of the already hilariously OP Thunder Warriors, codex adeptus custodes pdf download.
In a somewhat dickish move, his preferred recruits for the Custodians were the children of his conquered enemies. In the "present", they are instead taken from Terran nobility, codex adeptus custodes pdf download. While the Thunder Warriors were eventually replaced by the far more stable and far less brawny Space Marines, the Custodians apparently still use those ancient methods but geared towards producing far more stable warriors and as such lack a gene-seed.
Instead, they use a much more complex process of bio-alchemy to attain their superhuman abilities, and this process modifies them at a cellular level. Unlike Space Marines, prospective Custodians are selected in infancy, long before they have any ability to prove themselves as Space Marine aspirants might be able to. As a side-effect, many candidates are driven mad or killed in the process of becoming a Custodian.
Also, the process of creating Custodians is only partly standardized: certain unorthodox-but-useful traits may be created or amplified if an initiate shows the unique potential making Golden Bodyguards quite an internally-diverse bunch of matchless warriors - much less like Space Marines and much more like the witchers from Sapkowski's books.
Custodians are unique as they have neither a Primarch nor do they use gene-seed to produce their genetic modifications. They stand a full head taller than codex adeptus custodes pdf download Space Marine. Constantin ValdorChief Custodian to the Emperor during the Horus Heresy, was the same size as the traitor Primarch Alpharius of the Alpha Legion though he was the smallest of the primarchs.
Although the Adeptus Custodes were among the first genetically-modified warriors to be created by the Emperor and still the most advanced of them, they were never intended to be part of a conquering army; such a role was to be filled by the latter Adeptus Astartes armies. This is revealed both in their mindset and training: While Custodians share a semblance of kinship with one another within the formation, they do not foster the same spirit of brotherhood that is instilled within the Astartes to help them function together as a unit.
Indeed, when the Emperor remarks that it is humanity's nature for brothers to fight brothers, one of His Custodians responds that he wouldn't know anything about it because he has no brothers. None of this is to say they weren't made to be extremely potent warriors, they were but their purpose was to fight alongside the emperor as bodyguards rather than as a conquering army.
As shown in the webway they were perfectly capable of acting as an army in even the worst imaginable circumstances; it just isn't their primary purpose.
As far as personalities go, Custodians can be as wide and as varied as Astartes. Some, like Diocletian Coros, were single-minded to the point of myopia, and considered the nameless masses not worth his time.
Others, like his contemporary Aquillon, were shown to be capable of bonding with a Space Marine and regretting the human costs of a Compliance action. Ra Endymion didn't give a shit about saluting Jenetia Krole because only the Emprah deserves it, but at the same time, he tried to look kind with the Soulless Queen's nine-year-old aide by giving her his winningest smile, which results in a fail of epic proportions. Tribune Maldovar Colquan in Dark Imperium is a contemptuous bastard that harbours dislike and distrust of everyone ranging from guardsmen to Guilliman while Valerian and Navradaran from Watchers of the Throne are surprisingly tolerant and level-headed when dealing with mere mortals showing blatant weakness.
When preparing for war, codex adeptus custodes pdf download, each Custodian prepares and inspects his equipment individually, rather than on military parade.
The individuality of each Custodian is further promoted by the fact that the processes required to produce them are not as refined or as simple as that of the Astartes and thus they are not "mass-produced" as the Astartes are; meaning that each Custodian is a unique investment for the Imperium.
Each weapon used by the Codex adeptus custodes pdf download is gene-coded to only be used by only that Custodian, although this isn't all that consistent. Argel Tal stole some and used his demonic powers to unlock them so that they could be used to kill loyalists, codex adeptus custodes pdf download, which at least is a sort of explanation, unlike the fucking bloody magpies who have working a Custodian bolter in their armoury, or the Greeks who have a Halberd and let's not even mention the fucking Deathwatch.
The weapons used to be given to each Custodes personally by the Emperor, a practice he's presumably stopped doing after he died and as such one of the highest heresies possible is to allow a non-Custodian to handle the weapon. Perhaps the most notable thing about the Adeptus Custodes is the radically different combat approach between them and the Adeptus Astartes: Custodians are not brothers. While Space Marines are trained to support their battle-brothers in combat, each Custodian fights by himself, never intending to receive support from their codex adeptus custodes pdf download Custodians, though they can work together if needed.
While fighting as individuals, they seem to have an instinctive sense of coordination without needing hierarchy or orders, each warrior knowing exactly how to fight alongside his peers without burdening them. It codex adeptus custodes pdf download also implied that Custodians apply the logic of Blood Games to warfare, codex adeptus custodes pdf download, gathering and assimilating any information they can about their adversaries as they fight, and probably spending thousands of hours studying the strategies of every opponent met during the Great Crusade.
Astartes included? Very likely, in fact, the Legio Custodes probably knows more about the Legions than the Legions may think, while only a few Astartes have codex adeptus custodes pdf download alongside Custodians, let alone against them. Ra Endymion, in particular, was seen mowing through hordes of proto-Khorne Berzerker World Eaters, chewing through captains with little difficulty. The custodians compare so favorably to the Space Marines, a loyal Blood Angel wonders to himself whether trouncing space marines was, codex adeptus custodes pdf download, in fact, the real reason they were created in the first place, codex adeptus custodes pdf download.
One ritual that the Adeptus Custodes do share with Adeptus Astartes is the recognition of mighty deeds, manifested in their case with the awarding of names, which are added to the Custodian's title to represent the actions he has performed in service to the Emperor.
Constantin Valdor obtained names prior to Horus' siege of Terra, codex adeptus custodes pdf download. Such names were inscribed onto the inside of the warrior's battle armour or directly into their bones as marks of individual pride.
The first name of a Custodian is supposed to be taken from various elements from Old Earth such as mythological figures Ra, Amon, Codex adeptus custodes pdf download Now open a book and try to catch all the references.
The training of the Custodians also differed immensely from the Adeptus Astartes, since they were intended to be bodyguards rather than soldiers. It is clear from their Blood Games that Custodians are trained in the arts of assassination -- both improvised and professional -- to counter possible assassination attempts on the Emperor.
It is common for several Custodians to be on detached duty for these Blood Games so that the organisation remains vigilant against developing codex adeptus custodes pdf download. Even pre-Heresy, they were clued up enough to recognise Warp-sorcery for what it was. Furthermore, codex adeptus custodes pdf download, it is clear that the Custodians are also well-versed in the political etiquette of Terra, and have been known to act outside of Imperial law, to infiltrate influential Noble Houses and to investigate any potential threats.
A role that a Space Marine would never be expected to fulfill. This aspect of the Custodian mindset is advantageous, given that the Captain-General of the order often shares a seat with the High Lords of Terra and thus allows him to navigate the political maneuverings of the Imperium's various agencies, while remaining an awe-inspiring warrior. The name Adeptus Custodes comes from the custom of filling the armour with Custard before each battle.
This has been confirmed by Games Workshop. Jokes aside, however, the word "custodian" means someone who is charged with looking after and maintaining someone or something; the Custodian Guard exists to protect the Emperor and the imperial palace. When this name is "Latinized" as the Imperium does, codex adeptus custodes pdf download become the Adeptus Custodes. Nobody would ever expect that from GW but Custodes is actually the unaltered!
How effective Custodes are, especially in relation to Space Marines has varied. Generally their depictions have come in 3 flavours as weaker than Astartes, superior warriors but worse soldiers or flat-out superior to the Astartes, mostly because for the longest time the writers couldn't get their shit together on what to go with. When they're portrayed as weaker than Astartes you get events where a Harlequin troupe mainly the Shadowseer and Death Jester were able to slay dozens deep in the Imperial Palace itself in a fight that included the Captain-General.
You'll also see a World Eater was able to kill a Custodes by punching through his armour while being unarmed and unarmored considering an Astartes cannot punch through power armour this is Goto levels of stupidity. Captain Codex adeptus custodes pdf download Garro was also able to defeat a Custodes during a training duel though unlike other examples the Custodes was portrayed as been extremely skilled; Garro outwitted him and won by playing to his overconfidence Garro being awesome helped.
Many of the novels in the heresy, especially those from a space marine PoV, codex adeptus custodes pdf download, see the Custodes as individually superlative warriors but without the cohesion or unity of Astartes, being "tigers" to the Astartes "wolves", codex adeptus custodes pdf download. Essentially the Custodes are portrayed as having a different skill codex adeptus custodes pdf download and role than the marines as they were better warriors individually but did not work together as soldiers like the Astartes.
Some events indicate this is an incorrect assumption from the Astartes, as Custodians fight as an organized force in the webway and on Prospero and a Custodes called Aquillon also fought in perfect lockstep with Argel-Tal showing they are capable of fighting alongside others. The marines making this assumption is understandable as they were seeing very small groups of Custodes rather than the hundreds deployed on Prospero and the thousands fighting in the webway.
In other fluff, they're portrayed as being among, if not being the most powerful group of warriors in the codex adeptus custodes pdf download. During the invasion of Prospero, the Custodes were capable of taking on multiple marines and come out on top, a squad of 10 led by Valdor taking on a thousand members of the Thousand Sons legion didn't suffer a single injury and Custodes were shown to be able to fight 4 marines at once and win.
A Custodes has also been shown killing 3 Heresy era Chapter Masters in a second and 3 Custodes killed 7 of the original Gal-Vorbak before been killed themselves. Overall they seem similar to the Grey Knightsthe militant arm of the Ordo Malleus branch of the Inquisitionin that both are elite, secret organizations with close ties to the Emperor and have a skill set as well as resistance to corruption that elevates them beyond Astartes.
Dembski-Bowden was tasked with really defining the Custodes on a detailed level and the HH campaign books being proper lore guides like Imperial Armour take precedence over any codex or novel excusing the aforementioned HH Funnily enough, their tabletop counterparts in 7th edition showed even better teamwork than any of the Astartes rules, contrary to the typical Custodes style of fighting as individuals.
Custodes could team up with one another using their block rule to practically guarantee that whatever attacks did hit would be nullified, codex adeptus custodes pdf download, and there were no restrictions on it. This rule also allowed codex adeptus custodes pdf download to cheat in challenges, as you'd have beings like Chaos Lords and Codex adeptus custodes pdf download Warbosses failing to cause even a single wound in a challenge due to the assholes outside of the challenge blocking all of their successful hits on the challenger.
Occasionally you see questions raised on forums regarding their effectiveness after apparently spending 10, years on guard duty, suggesting that despite their biological augmentations; without any actual combat experience they might have simply become a symbolic organization since Terra is so well defended by other means.
In fact, the Custodians sat through most of the Age of Apostasynot participating until the last moment to bring order when the fighting made it to the Imperial Palace. They also were mysteriously absent during The Beheading when the Officio Assassinorum started leveling city blocks. Added to the fact that the admittedly very old pictures of Custodians show them not even bothering to wear their armour any more indicates that they don't have very much to do these days.
That being said with the massive retcons to the Custodes lore it is now apparent they have been secretly fighting for the last 10, years. Expanding their mandate to cover anything that might think of attacking the Imperial Palace. Even GW might not know what's going on with them anymore. For all that, they have grown detached from the greater Imperium, something which they believed was part of their duty their function is to serve the Emperor rather than the Imperium but ends up proving to be a problem nonetheless.
When Guilliman returns, he orders the old orders rescinded, and the Adeptus Custodes starts being dispatched to various war zones, including Guilliman's own Indomitus Crusade. It's shown some Custodes such as Colquan are incredibly angry about the state of the Imperium and seem to be somewhat ashamed they did so little.
It seems the 10, have not lost any technology, retaining all their units from 30k in 40k. Although the fact they are using Contemptors is weird and implies a lack of resources as the 10,'s own dreadnoughts are superior.
Notably when introducing the 30k range to 40k FW did not decide to include the new 40k units in their 30k rules update. This suggests the Dawneagle Jetbikes and Allarus terminators were created after the heresy. This would explain why the Codex describes them as each the best equipment in their class, and why their users are given special titles not awarded to the Aquillion or Gryfalcon Custodes.
We discover several things: that they didn't choose to be confined to the Imperial Palace, but were bound within it by Imperial law enacted by Guilliman, Dorn, and Valdor after the Heresy; that they never fully respected this limitation, sending brothers on missions abroad and maintaining their own network of informants, spies and allies all over the galaxy; and that their martial capabilities have been maintained in top shape by constant training against all manner of opponents often by capturing dangerous foes, codex adeptus custodes pdf download, like Chaos Space Marines or Tyranidsand then releasing them inside deserted and cordoned portions of the Imperial Palace for a Custodian to hunt down, codex adeptus custodes pdf download.
This isn't as insane as it sounds, if any enemy got out of hand during training there's thousands of Custodes and Gun Servitors in the palace that can be called in to put them down very quickly, codex adeptus custodes pdf download.
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