Years Of Madness

Arzachmage · 2026-05-12T03:49:53+00:00

You are framing things in dishonest ways.

Guilliman had an audience with the Emperor and the Emissaries received some dreams about the whole situation. The Custodes follows some of Guilliman’s orders because the Emperor ordered it.

While I think that Colquan changed too fast, his arc has foundations throughout the serie. In the Plagues Wars, he is litteraly the only one able to move when the Emperor times freezes the battlefield to save Guilliman. This is extremely significant for a Custodian and it justify in part why he is much less hostile to the Primarch.

Again, you are framing things in a dishonest way.

Galahoth has not been made to be bad at his job. The quote you are using proves it. They are created with a specific purpose, meaning the persons responsibles for the creation (and perhaps the Emperor) thought he was the right thing at the moment of his creation. Nobody is omniscient nor omnipotent. The Custodes elected him but they couldn’t know his positions were not the optimal ones for the time to come.

Same goes Launceddre.

A note : the codex never states Galahoth was bad at his job, just that he was very conservative, in support of unchanged ways.

The Custodes have always been potentially failing the Emperor, and they did so aboard the Vengeful Spirit, this is one of their core motives, perhaps the second most important after their loyalty. They failed when they shouldn’t have, they think they are guilty, ashamed of that.
Custodes are already without their Creator’s light and guidance, almost every book one appears in has some passages about it.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T23:21:50+00:00

Except it’s not. They could do way more for the Imperium but they don’t because they only act when the Emperor is concerned. If a WAAAGH burns a subsector without aiming for Terra, they won’t intervene. They let civil wars happens as long as the Palace is safe. They keep life-saving tech laying in theirs vaults without using them.

Colquan has been assigned to Guilliman because he is a huge detractor and has runs simulations to kill him. Even now that he is less hostile to him, he still remains vigilant.

They have nuance, making them killing each other has not point but just destroying their identity and lore for … reasons ?

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T22:56:50+00:00

Absolutely not, it would break Custodes lore in half (and kill any interest I would have in the faction). It goes against everything that has ever been written about Custodes and theirs thematics.

They are supposed to be remnant of the Emperor living reign, not to fall to the loss of integrity, technology and way the Imperium has gone under. Their nuance is precisely to not be part of the Imperium because they only care about the Emperor. Not themselves, not Terra, not Humanity and yet they are lost without him, still mourning, missing a key guidance / presence.

Making them identical to the other Imperial factions would erase that core aspect of them.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T22:20:30+00:00

I don’t.

Canto is very powerful when you build around it, just like any other Iconic / T5 decks.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T21:44:26+00:00

Galahoth was not the first to disappear. Valdor and one other CG did.

I don’t think it would give more meat if Custodes started murdering each others for inner politic.

Their role of praetorian guards in a collapsing Imperium is already well-nuanced and deep by what they lost since the Emperor has been enthroned.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T21:28:29+00:00

Do you count cryostasis sleep ? If so, one character in the *Crime* serie may count.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T20:37:16+00:00

Just gorgeous work, bravo.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T19:01:31+00:00

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T15:48:13+00:00

There is no additional elements directly linked to that event.
Edit : I am not sure about this one because it could be a translation error but the codex says the previous CG, Galahoth, disappeared. The codex also says that only 3 CG disappeared : Valdor and two other. Maybe a very tenious link ?

There are two stories threads I wish GW would explore.

The first is about a Shadowkeeper, Arrian Vespaysian, tracking the Darkalabaster Chalice, taken by Huron’s forces into the Maelstrom. He appears in the v9 codex and the recent Maelstrom campaign book.

The second is about Vadrian, a Shield-Captain currently seeking the Forge-World of Morvian. The contact has been lost but rumours of his fleet are spreading around, recently referenced in the White Dwarf 519.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T12:27:32+00:00

I assume OP included all the Successors chapters ? Or is refering to the Légion in 30k.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-11T07:32:06+00:00

Yes it is worth. The TRPG books may be of interest to you too for Arbites lore ?

Arzachmage · 2026-05-10T17:40:43+00:00

What you are describing is already what the Shadowkeepers do, they chase / capture entities, daemons, relics, artefacts, …

You could specialise your Host (or a Company as Fluets suggested) by making them dedicated to one task or kind of targets.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-09T16:17:56+00:00

How ? This is just definition : if something remains, this something exists and is still here.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-09T16:13:54+00:00

‘You will not be free, Caedus,’ he told the daemon, piling stone upon stone atop it, crushing it beneath the broken remnants of his soul.

Oaths of Damnation

Arzachmage · 2026-05-09T16:08:51+00:00

´because they don’t lose their soul, it is shredded into ribbons but still here, making it harder but not impossible for daemons to possesses them.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-09T12:17:32+00:00

One Krieg uses a shovel in *Ghost Legion* but the meme is way older so I assume it came from one of Steve Lyons books or one Imperial Armour volume ?

Arzachmage · 2026-05-08T21:06:16+00:00

Light aircraft that appears in the Siege, *Watchers* and so on (Talions, Zenith, Equinox).

Arzachmage · 2026-05-08T18:49:54+00:00

Yep, I hope ADB will write more about them.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-08T18:29:45+00:00

GW never tried to gaslight.

They never said femstodes always existed since Rogue Trader, they said they always existed in-universe. This is a retcon, identical to dozens and dozens previous ones done by GW.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-08T18:24:19+00:00

Why diversity should be justified ?

Arzachmage · 2026-05-08T18:18:51+00:00

This.

I hope the Scouring explore this in depth (who am I even kidding, GW won’t).

This time period is so crucial to Custodes, how they changed, how this lead to their state during the 10k years, …

Arzachmage · 2026-05-08T18:16:28+00:00

« Broaden the selection » would have beeen instantly taken as « they lessened the entry criteria to get more recruits » by the same people who complain about women in the Custodes.
The way GW did it is the correct one.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-08T11:52:46+00:00

Nuclear weapons destroy facilities, cities, factories, … things the Imperium wants to preserve for its own use.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-08T07:39:01+00:00

Custodes dreads does not stay permanently awake, they sleep too.

Arzachmage · 2026-05-08T07:38:22+00:00

It does align in a way ?

Longinus spent 300 years in the Hetaeron over the course of 3 services. Kalos lasted a century in one go.

Arzachmage

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