Indominable Legion

## Indominable Legion(Legio Indomita)

Indominable Legion armorial with Chapter iconography.

Indominable Legion Breacher Marine of the 2nd Company

### **Specialty**

Tactical Flexibility and Combined Arms, Punitive Actions, Scorched Earth and Pacification Campaigns

### **Battle cry**

"Sons of Guilliman, never breaking, never forgiving!"

### **Colours**

Bronze helmet, pauldron trim, torso, arms and upper legs, deep purple backpack, pauldron inset, knees and lower legs

### Successor Chapter(s)

N/A

"*Hadrian will be made as Mars. Though the Forge World Principle is red with aged iron, I will paint my home with your blood degenerates.*"
—Aurelius Lanius during the Horus Heresy
The '***Legio Indomita***' (known more commonly as the **Indominable Legion**) are an ancient Chapter descended from the Ultramarines of old, during the age when they marched as the 6th Company of the Emperor's XIIIth Legion. However, the 6th Company of that time, known as 'the Victorious' bear little resemblance to the brutal, grim-tempered warriors of the Indominable Legion of today. Masters in the prosecution of vicious wars of retribution, the Repentant Sons of Hadrian are remorseless and unforgiving warriors. As with almost every scion of Guilliman, the Indominable Legion is a codex compliant Chapter, strictly adhering to the tenets of their gene-sire. There are however cultural exceptions to this rule, with certain names and traditions being altered by their past as the Victrix Company.

As with all those Chapters born from the splitting of the Legions, it was the Heresy that truly gave birth to the Legio Indomita; the idealistic rising star of Legate Aurelius became the cold, wrathful Legate-Paragon, Lanius. Where once the Victorious Company were shining exemplars of their progenitor's belief in the coming golden age of civilisation and lordship for humanity, now only retribution-filled darkness remains, turning the Ultramarine's wise and methodical systems of war to the cruelty of Konrad Curze, crucifying entire hives of traitors as examples to others, for what the Night Lords perpetrate with glee, the Indominable Legion do with a professional, bitterly cold fury.

With the dawn of the 42nd millennium, the Sons of Hadrian have gone to war as never before; with the 13th Black Crusade, destruction of Cadia and subsequent birth of the Great Rift ripping open the flood-gates, heresy and betrayal has begun to spread like wildfire. For possibly the first time in their recorded history since the shattering of the Night Lords, the entirety of the Indominable Legion has marched to war.

Surprisingly, the introduction of the Primaris Marines was accepted without much naysaying from the Sons of Hadrian, their own efficacy in violence and the words of their gene-sire being welcomely received. However, as with every uncommon Chapter, rumours abound that their own initial influx of Primaris Marines has taken issue with the detached barbarity of the Indominable Legion, with many claiming them no better than the Night Lords they so hated. As with many similar rumours however, little has been proven.

## Chapter History

The origins of the Indominable Legion date all the way back to the bygone era of the Great Crusade. Led by the 6th Legate Aurelius both the Ultramarines and Word Bearers laid siege to sub-sector Aurelia, with the 6th Company distinguishing themselves during the final siege of the planet Aurelia. Such was Aurelius' tactical acumen, that the palace, calculated to endure a further a seven days, fell in seven hours. Such was the triumph that both Primarchs, attended the victory, presenting Aurelia with the paragon blade used by the treasonous governor and dubbing the 6th Company the '*Victrix*' (translated to Victorious). As expected of ones bearing the title of 'Victorious' the history of the future Indominable Legion, the 6th Company's history is full of glories and triumph. Darker moments however, are hidden from the remembrancers of the burgeoning Imperium of Man.

During their service alongside the Word Bearers, the practice of warrior lodges were passed, via cultural osmosis into the 6th Company. Despite their Primarch's vocal disapproval of the warrior lodges, Aurelius quietly integrated it into the Unbreakable Brotherhood. seen by the Legate as a forum where every battle-brother could freely question, doubt and even simply speak freely with their superiors and, even more importantly, after the events of Monarchia a form of reconciliation with the Word Bearers who had first introduced them to the Astartes Legions.

After the events of Calth however, when the Word Bearers viciously betrayed and slaughtered the Ultramarines, after the empty, ash-filled victory, burdened by new guilt for what he saw as a betrayal of his Primarch, Aurelius confessed. Already reeling from the monumental and unforeseen betrayal of his beloved brothers, Roboute Guilliman was furious. Effectively exiling the 6th Company from his presence, the Lord of Ultramar refused to hear any of Aurelius' pleas. As the XIIIth chased the murderous forces of Lorgar and Angron, Aurelius and the 6th were commanded to remain on the world of Hadrian in order to stabalise the struggling planet and protect it from the ravages of the traitors' predations.

## Chapter Homeworld

During the time of the Great Crusade, the homeworld of the Indominable Legion; Hadrian, was known as a 'war world' essentially acting as one of the countless military academies amongst the realms of Ultramar. Whilst, during their initial years defending the planet, Hadrian was simply a posting with little beyond the more abstract glory of Ultramar and their Primarch's word tying them to it, the future Indominable Legion

On its own, Hadrian is a generally unremarkable world in the Imperium, beyond the curious creatures known as Perytons there is little beyond the extensive military training grounds to mark Hadrian out. As a world of martial academies and fortresses however, Hadrian is extensively fortified, with the mightiest of the bastions serving as the Indominable Legion's stronghold; the Antonine Barbican. Though the fortress-monastery bears countless immense defences worthy of an Astartes citadel, there is a hole in the centre of its massive barrier. This obvious weakness is known as the 'Butcher's Wall' and its existence is very intentional. Instead of a fortification, the Butcher's Wall is a remnant of the Horus Heresy and the Shadow Crusade. After finally accepting Sinnian Rehn's advice, Aurelius crucified those members of the traitor legions that survived each assault on Hadrian's prime bastion as a show of the 6th's mercilessness.

## Chapter Recruitment

As an academy world of Ultramar, Hadrian is extensively militarised. Despite its idyllic climate, its primary purpose is as a military academy. From the day they are born, most of Hadrian's inhabitants are trained and raised as warriors, as theory intensive as it is with live-fire practice, the gruelling training on Hadrian musters an already impressive force on its own without the augmentations of the Astartes. Those enrolled in the academies of Hadrian are always genetically screened before being allowed entry into the war world's centres of learning, for each and every member is treated as a potential recruit for the Indominable Legion. Those who show prodigious aptitude in their live-long education on the world are removed from the fellow class-mates and informed of their new assignment; they have been chosen to undergo the recruitment trials of the Angels of Death and the Masters of Hadrian.

The training proper to become a member of the Indominable Legion is vicious; live-fire or melee exercises against each other, almost literally torturous drilling where failure, even in the face of impossible exertion is greeted by threats of death. Those chosen to become members of the Indominable Legion are pushed to the limits and beyond of their physical and mental endurance. Eventually, after weeding out those incapable of experiencing the brutal training regime, with those who fail made to serve either as serfs, or a member of the Legion's Phalanx (the permanent, non-Astartes standing army of Hadrian), those who succeed must pass a final test, an impossible challenge; face a member of the Indominable Legion in one-on-one combat. The mere idea of a child, no matter how prodigious their abilities, defeating a Space Marine, is insanity. However, those who do willingly face this unbeatable foe, and display the certain qualities the Repentant Sons desire, are accepted as true members of the Chapter.

## Notable Campaigns

* **Horus Heresy (005-014.M31)** - During the Horus Heresy, after the deception of the Word Bearers and the slaughter that was the Betrayal at Calth, the 6th Company was, like many other members of the Ultramarines Legion, sent off to begin defending and stabilising the realm of Ultramar whilst Roboute Guilliman and the bulk of the Macraggian warriors hunted down his spiteful brother Angron and Lorgar. Aurelius and the Victrix company were sent to guard the world of Hadrian. Against wave after wave of insane traitors, the exhausted 6th Company held the line for countless months. Eventually when things seemed their darkest, when the cruel Night Lords breached the massive wall of Hadrian's prime bastion and Aurelius was set to make his last stand, the mysterious blackshield group known as 'Absolution' swooped in, their aid unlooked for but desperately needed. In the end, as it had been, the traitors were temporarily driven back.
* **The Great Scouring (ca. 014.M31-Unknown Date.M31)** - During the Great Scouring, the Indominable Legion's dark fame truly began to blossom. Whilst every single loyalist reaped a nightmarish, bloody tally in traitor lives, only the Indominable Legion left evidence of their actions; on every world they fought on, much to the horror and disgust of their Primarch and former Legion brethren, the Warriors of Hadrian left a trail of carnage, fatally crippled traitors left to die in misery as punishment for their hideous crimes.
* **Shattering of the Night Lords (Unknown Date.M31)** - After the assassination of Konrad Curze, the Imperium sought to drive the Night Lords out of Imperial space altogether. Already, in the absence of their mad Primarch, the Night Lords were already crumbling as a Legion, the response from those loyal to the Imperium was simple the final blow which irreparably obliterated the Sons of Nostramo as an organised Legion. The Shattering of the Night Lords was, in effect, a Legion destroying a Legion. Though the Ultramarines had long since been separated into the so-called 'Primogenitor Chapters' all responded to the call. So, though they each wore different colours, the Ultramarines as a Legion was reassembled. Led by Legate-Paragon Aurelius Lanius, the Indominable Legion joined their former Legion-Brothers, still burning with brutal vengeful fury that propelled them onwards in the defence of Hadrian. Like a terrible storm, the forces of the Indominable Legion fell upon the foul, flesh covered fortress of Tsagualsa. Faced with such brutal onslaught, the Night Lords could do little but flee. As self-interested and anarchic as they were, the escape of the Night Lords was disorganised, with many bands simply ignoring orders, betraying each other, or even attempting to defend the fortress, even those that attempted escape didn't necessarily succeed. The most notable victims of the Indominable Legion during this assault; 43rd Claw, led by Ferens the Confessor are perhaps the greatest exemplars. After a brutal duel against the Legate-Paragon, Ferens was crucified, and forced to watch as his Legion scattered to the winds, as the Confessor gasped for air Lanius mocked the dying Night Lord.
* **The Plahtoh Campaign (879-880.M37)** - Answering the call of the beleaguered sub-sector Plahtoh, the Indominable Legion joined the Imperial forced against the orkish hordes of Waaagh! Spine-Splitta. Fortifying the world, the strike force, under 3rd Legate; Maximus Julius readied themselves for the incoming storm. Though the Indominable Legion were pitiless and resolute the Orks were simply endless. Unlike countless other foes, the brutality of Hadrian's Sons actively encouraged the Greenskins, whilst others may have paused at the sight of their leaders being butchered by relentless Astartes, the Orks began flocking to the world of Cocytus in droves. Though this would prove a boon to the larger Imperial war machine at during the conflict, the Indominable Legion took massive casualties from the deluge of bellowing savages. In the end, the Indominable Legion were forced to retreat.
* **Battle of Ichar IV (992.M41)** - Joining their progenitors; the Ultramarines in defence of the world of Ichar against the immense force of Hive Fleet Kraken's combined tendrils. Under the leadership of 1st Legate (and soon to be Legate-Paragon) Vipsanius Gaius the Indominable Legion's forces hunkered down in Hive Kothar. More and more, the forces of the Great Devourer poured tides of their murderous creatures into shattering the defences of Hive Kothar, but the Repentant Sons were immovable and unrelenting, making the alien hordes pay a savage, bloody toll for every inch they took into the city. Eventually, even the Sons of Hadrian could not endure any longer. Forced to retreat as the Tyranids swept through the shattered streets. Unknown to the vicious hordes of xenos twisted mutants and hateful bioforms, the Indominable Legion had anticipated even planned for such an event. When Indominable Legion could not feasibly hold their position, they evacuated, then detonated pre-planted explosives, obliterating the hive-city and a horrendous chunk of the assaulting Tyranids.
* **Wars of Punishment (999.M41)** -

## Chapter Organisation

As with their fellow Ultramarine successors, the Repentant Sons of Hadrian organise themselves along the strictures dictated by their Primarch in the Codex Astartes.

### Officer Ranks

* **Legate**- The Captains of the Indominable Legion. It is a duty of the Legate the represent his Company in the Adamantine Forum (itself an echo of the old Unbreakable Brotherhood); the ruling council of the Indominable Legion. Cold and hard-hearted, the Legates of the Indominable Legion are capable of vicious acts of brutality with a disturbing level of detachment.
	+ **Legate-Paragon** - Serving as the elected Chapter Master and Speaker for the Adamantine Forum, the Legate-Paragon is the terrifying leader of the Indominable Legion.

### Specialist Ranks

* **Palatina** - The Guardians of the Legate-Paragon. Exemplars of the cold brutality the Indominable Legion are known for, the Palatina are taciturn and unyielding, even in the maelstrom of war almost acting an aura of calm and silence as their charge commands the flow of the war. To join this austere gathering, each battle-brother must essentially be a living legend in their own right. Uncompromising and utterly loyal to the Legate-Paragon, the Palatina are his most trusted confidantes, often individually acting as his eye and ears amongst the Chapter proper, being tasked with aiding and advising those below their Lord. As the praetorians of the Legate-Paragons, the Palatina's voice has significant weight in the nomination of their newest charge, as was the case with the current Legate-Paragon; Vipsanius Gaius, it was the Palatina who broke the Adamantine Forum's deadlock between 1st Company Legate Vipsanius Gaius and 10th Company Legate Tiberius Amulius

### Non-Astartes Personnel

As a highly militarised world, Hadrian has no shortage of non-Astartes warriors available. Despite their generally non-combat role in serving the Indominable Legion, the serfs of the Chapter are, because of their upbringing on a world that is in effect a military academy, already soldiers in their own right.

* **Patibulum** - (pl. patibulii) A dark, ominous aspect of the Indominable Legion's punitive tactics. As the brutal warriors of Hadrian march, these pale-skinned thralls trudge behind them, bearing the crosses that their masters' foes will be nailed to, they are a symbol of the brutal punishment the Indominable Legion bring to those that shattered the Emperor's glorious dream. Every detachment of the Indominable Legion, be they a simple strike force or an immense crusade force, a host of Patibulii will always be present.

#### Companies

The companies of the Indominable Legion are organised according to the edicts of the Codex Astartes. As well as following the edicts laid down by the Codex Astartes, each company of the Chapter bears an animal symbol usually displayed on their armour in some fashion, declaring their place in the Sons of Hadrian. The symbols are thus:

* The Legate-Paragon alone wears the symbol of the Lion, showing his sovereignty even in the democratic system of the Indominable Legion.
* The 1st Company wears the Bull
* The 2nd Company wears the Horse
* The 3rd Company wears the Bear
* The 4th Company wears the Snake
* The 5th Company wears the Ram
* The 6th Company wears the Pegasus
* The 7th Company wears the Boar
* The 8th Company wears the Eagle
* The 9th Company wears the Elephant
* The 10th Company wears the Wolf

## Combat Doctrine

A savage, brutally remorseless Chapter, the Indominable Legion wage war in the coldly methodical manner of the Ultramarines marked with the viciousness more associated with the sons of the Night Haunter. Most disturbingly, unlike the cackling butchers of Nostramo, the Indominable Legion unleash the agonising torture and mutilation with a detachment and proficiency infinitely more unnerving than the cackling amusement of the Night Lords. Where the Indominable Legion march, they leave behind markers, countless groaning agonised foes crucified and doomed to die lashed by the elements.

#### Compendium Hadrian

As with their cousin Chapters, the Indominable Legion follow the tactical edicts of their Primarch, laid down in the Codex Astartes.

## Gene-Seed

As a Chapter whose lineage is drawn directly form the Ultramarine's time as a Legion, the gene-seed of the Legio Indomita is one of the most stable and pure of the ones currently still used by the Imperium; there are no known mutations and all organs function as they are supposed to. Psychologically, whilst they mirror the majority of their progenitor's own behaviours, the Repentant Sons of Hadrian also have a more brutal, vengefully aggressive streak however, this is more likely the effect of their history and beliefs than any genetic mutation.

Curiously, a minute percentage of the Indominable Legion (no more than one to five members) show curious genetic mutations; their occulobe is defective, turning their irises and sclera entirely black, enhancing the Space Marine's night vision albeit making them more sensitive to bright light. As well, those with that mutation also bear a defective melachromic organ, giving them corpse-white skin. The reasons for this tiny percentage's variation to the baseline of the Chapter is unknown, to those beyond the Indominable Legion itself, who rarely, if ever make any comment regarding this, it is known as the 'Midnight Brand'.

## Chapter Beliefs

As a Chapter, the Indominable Legion are the Ultramarine's strait-laced discipline and logic taken to a terrifying and vicious extreme. Moulded by their Primarch's and tempered by the teachings of the mysterious Nox Vulpes, the professionalism of Macragge's sons has been twisted into a brutality that could be considered sadistic, were it not for the appalling level of detachment and pragmatism they carry out their savage actions with. Like the Ultramarines, the Codex Astartes is sacrosanct, their Primarch's words are to be followed as directly as possible. However, more fanatical members of Guilliman's sons, the Indominable Legion allow improvisation and bending of the rules, such things must be justified in-front of the Adamantine Forum, and, if seen as worthy, is added to the Compendium Hadrian, a great tome of lore first crafted by the original Victrix Company after their separation from their Legion.

Whilst they mirror many of the Ultramarine's own culture, internally the Legio Indomita maintain a democratic streak. Whilst still rigidly hierarchical, in the privacy of their own company, the Repentant Sons still maintain an echo of the old Unbreakable Brotherhood. Ironically, the Indominable Legion refer to themselves as the Repentant Sons not because Guilliman's disgust and horror at their new brutal methods, but, instead because of their implementation of the Unbreakable Brotherhood; despite the warrior lodges being banned by Roboute Guilliman.

#### Cognomina

The Indominable Legion maintain the practice known as Cognomina. The practice itself is similar to the Custodes' own practice of awarding names. There are however differences; the 'Company Name' this is the name most likely to change, as it is, rather obviously, indicative of the Company the battle-brother belongs to, for the Legate-Paragon, the Company Name is Victrix in reference to the Indominable Legion's roots as the 6th 'Victrix' Company of the Ultramarines. The 'Campaign Name' is a name granted by the Adamantine Forum, in recognition of a battle-brother's mighty actions during a campaign. For example; Veteran Sergeant Tulius Serverus of the 1st Company bears the campaign name of Vigilus, due to his actions during the eponymous Vigilus Campain. The final name though, is the highest honour than can be bestowed by the Chapter; a 'Legate Name' upon a battle-brother's ascent into the Adamantine Forum, he granted the privilege of selecting a name for himself, often a selected as a symbol of their command as exemplified by the first Legate-Paragon and founder of the Chapter, Aurelius his chosen Legate Name was Lanius.

#### Adamantine Forum

The most important body of the Legio Indomita, the Adamantine Forum hearts as the heart of the Sons of Hadrian. In many ways above even the Legate-Paragon, is this august council that decides the fate of the Chapter. Comprised of the ten Legates who rule the Indominable Legion's companies and chaired by the Legate-Paragon, it is the duty of the Adamantine Forum to guide and mould the Chapter as the first master of the Victrix Company would have wished. Like so many things in the ancient Chapters of the Imperium, the origins of the Adamantine Forum date back to the time of the Great Crusade. Whilst initially perforated throughout the Legions

## Deathwatch Service

As with countless Chapters of the Astartes, the Indominable Legion send brothers to serve in the Deathwatch. Since the coming of the Tyranids and the Indominable Legion's own participation in the Ichar campaign against Hive Fleet Kraken, the current Legate-Paragon; Vipsanius Gaius has started offer up more battle-brothers to serve the Long-Vigil. Those that return are prized for their assimilation of other Chapter's abilities, particularly their skills in rooting out and punishing those that would consort with foul xenos.

## Notable Chapter Space Marines

* **Aurelius Lanius** - The Monster of Ultramar, Master of Hadrian, the Repentant Son, Breaker of Cyrene, Butcher of Traitors. Known by all these grim titles, Aurelius Victrix Meridian Lanius (as per Indominable Legion tradition his full name includes both a company, campaign and legate name) is the founder and first Legate-Paragon of the Indominable Legion, formerly serving the Ultramarines as their 6th Legate. During the Great Crusade, he served alongside both his own Primarch and Lorgar of the Word Bearers, during the conquest of subsector Aurelia. For their exemplary service, the 6th Legion were honoured by their Primarch, Aurelius in particular was presented with the massive two-handed Paragon Blade, wielded by the corrupt tyrant of the subsector after his hold was completely shattered. During the Horus Heresy, Aurelius became infamous for his savage defence of his Primarch's realm during the horrendous Shadow Crusade. This Legate of the 13th Legion earned the dark moniker of the Monster of Ultramar after battling the champions of marauding traitors, mainly of the World Eaters, Word Bearers and Night Lords Legions, atop the growing mountain of corpses, before brutally crucifying any survivors.
* **Legate-Paragon Vipsanius Gaius**
* **Nox Vulpes** - A strange and mysterious figure in the history of the Indominable Legion, the warrior known as Nox Vulpes is, through vague references pieced together by investigating Inquisitors credited as the tutor to Aurelius Lanius, mentoring him in what would become the Chapter's brutal creed. Those few Inquisitors still investigating the brutal Chapter, though given little more than apocryphal fables filled with metaphor and possible half-truths, believe there is a connection between Nox Vulpes and the figure of Sinnian Rehn, supposedly a member of the semi-mythical Blackshield group known as 'Absolution'. Whilst the existence of this band of warriors is contended, it is known that according to the rumours and legends regarding them, the fates of all but Rehn are accounted for. Those interested in the history of the Indominable Legion believe that the mysterious figure of Nox Vulpes is crucial in the Indominable Legion's change from optimistic world-builders to the current brutal avengers they are now.
* **Honoured Nero** - Formerly the commander of the Palatina, during the 7th Black Crusade, Nero; the Pale Blade of Hadrian, was felled by hordes of murderous Khorne Berserkers as he led the defence of Obcenta's primary spaceport. Discovered buried under the corpses of numberless mad killers, his spine severed and his arm reduced to a mangled ruin, Honoured Nero was interred in the ancient sarcophagus of a Contemptor-pattern dreadnought. As with the other small number of the Indominable Legion who suffer from the curious genetic quirk, Honoured Nero appears to suffer from horrific visions of the future, often his awakening has presaged a new Black Crusade.
* **Legate Tiberius Amulius** - The current Legate of the 10th Company, Tiberius is a cold yet strangely passionate warrior. Quick to take up his blade yet also fast to swear bonds of brotherhood. Deadly like the wolf that symbolises his company, Tiberius is a sniper par
* **Legate Longinus Vafer** - The former Legate of the 4th Company, Longinus served the Chapter during the Plahtoh Campaign.
* **Evocatus Iesus Graeme** - Known as the Burning Avenger, the current leader of the Palatina is a mass off horrid scars and injuries. During a vicious incursion against the mad renegades known as the Red Harvest, Iesus was captured, and violently tortured before being set alight and abandoned to die. Somehow, as if driven on by pure wrathful spite, the still burning Graeme endured, returning to seek bloody retribution against those that had slaughtered his brothers. It was during this grim time that he earned the moniker, the Burning Avenger. Even now, covered in hideous burn scars, the brutal Graeme endures, serving the Legate-Paragon with unwavering devotion. As with fully one half of the Palatina, Graeme bears rare mutation of the Midnight Brand.
* **Centurion Felix Titus** - Commander of Contubernium Ulterior; the 2nd Company's 6th Squad. Felix, like most in the Indominable Legion is grim faced, humourless warrior. During the uprisings of Illyricum VIII, the centurion (Indominable Legion equivalent of sergeant) was seen carving a bloody path through the seething tide of foes with a cold, uninterested acumen.

## Chapter Fleet

As a martial, former member of the largest Space Marine Legion in the Imperium, the Indominable Legion's fleet is massive and filled ancient vessels, all the better to bring the brutal punishment and vengeance to those that would challenge the Imperium. Given their propensity towards vicious punitive campaigns, the Indominable Legion's fleet contains many ships from other less salubrious sources, taken as spoils of war from punished enemies.

* ***Invicta* (Battle-Barge)** - The behemoth flagship of Indominable Legion. the terrifying Invicta is, much like the Indominable Legion, a dark mirror of the Ultramarines. Proud and stalwart, but also darkly brutal, the Invicta is a icon of the savage punishment the Chapter is infamous for. It was the Invicta that has served at the Indominable Legion's flagship, even before their separation from the Ultramarines. From the subjugation of sub-sector Aurelia to the defence of Hadrian, the Invicta has forever heralded the coming of the 'Victrix' Company.
* ***Pax Tenebris* (Battle-Barge)** - Once known as the *Tears of Monarchia*, this vessel did not start life as a vessel of the Ultramarines Legion. Before being claimed by the nascent Indominable Legion during the assaults of the traitor's rear-lines during the Horus Heresy, the *Pax Tenebris* was known as *Monarchia's Tears*, a vessel in service to the despised traitors of the Word Bearers. Under the rulership of Arhkren Thirl; Chapter Master of the Iron Light, the *Tears of Monarchia* went about attempting to spread the Primordial Truth, exhorting those who fell to their promises of power and freedom to serve as a traitor rear-guard in order to delay the incoming behemoth of the six Loyalist Legions prevented from reaching Terra. These worlds were of little help, furious and filled with rage for the betrayal of Lorgar's sons, Aurelius Lanius' forces butchered their way through every catspaw, every delaying action, culminating in the brutal extinction of the Chapter of the Iron Light. Cleansed and rechristened as the Pax Tenebris, this vessel has a blood-soaked history as a scourge of rebels and dissidents.
* ***Into the Lion's Maw* (Battle-Barge)** -
* ***Vindicta Et Ira* (Battle-Barge)** -
* ***Blade of Hadrian* (Strike Cruiser)**
* ***Longinus' Blood* (Strike Cruiser)** - Named after the former 4th Legate of the Chapter, it was this vessel that led the Indominable Legion's hasty retreat from Cocytus against the ramshackle hordes of Orks.
* ***Primarch's Wrath (Strike Cruiser)***
* ***Marked by Vengeance***

## Chapter Relics

* ***Cyrenenian Gladius*** - The paragon blade presented to Aurelius upon his conquest of the world of Cyrene by Roboute Guilliman during a joint campaign alongside the Word Bearers in the Aurelian system, taken from the defeated nobles who had defied the Imperial Truth, this weapon would go on to become Aurelius' signature weapon, gaining a dark fame as the 'Monster's Blade' during the Horus Heresy. Since then it has been a symbol of office for the Legate-Paragon of the Indominable Legion.
* ***Butcher's Visage***- The *Butcher's Visage* is an ancient and revered artefact that takes the form of a helm fashioned into the furious likeness of some ancient pagan war god. Said to have once been worn by the first ever Legate-Paragon Aurelius Lanius during the dark times of the Horus Heresy millennia ago. Wrought as a symbol of fear, during the 6th Company's shift towards the Indominable Legion of today, the Butcher's Visage is every bit a part of the Monster of Ultramar's reputation, as well as Aurelius himself.
* ***Raiment of Hadrian*** - An ancient warsuit of MK IV 'Maximus' Power Armour, the Raiment of Hadrian has been in service since the early days of the Chapter. Though the Butcher's Visage marked Aurelius' shift from the civilisation-building of the Ultramarines to the punitive brutality of the Night Lords, the Raiment of Hadrian was made famous by his successor after his death. Due to the machinations of Horus, MK IV plate was a rarity amongst the loyalist Legions, so, during the Siege of Tsagualsa, where the Ultramarines and their successors once again shattered the Night Lords as a cohesive unit, this armour was taken as the spoils of war, stripped from a Night Lord Captain before his crucifixion. Worn by the second Legate-Paragon of the Chapter; Claudius Magnus the Raiment of Hadrian became during the 1st Black Crusade, after Aurelius was slain by a a vengeful cabal of Night Lords, the Raiment of Hadrian is as brutal as the Chapter it serves. Equipped with various protective systems and bearing the names of those killed by its wearer and a tally of those that begged for death rather than crucifixion, the Raiment of Hadrian is an ominous bulwark against those that would harm the Legate-Paragon.
* ***Profligate's Bane*** - During the countless rebellions of mutants and heretics that heralded the arrival of Hive Fleet Kraken, the shattered remnants of a power axe were discovered amidst the countless corpses of Astartes of the Indominable Legion and, an immense mass of slaughtered genestealer cultists. Lodged in the throat of a dying Genestealer Patriarch, none know which of the dead brothers wielded the blade and landed that fatal blow on the foul xenos rebellion's leader. Since its recovery and reforging, the power axe has become a brutal relic of the Indominable Legion, after the death of its prior unknown wielder, those more superstitious members of the Chapter whisper it now actively hungers for the blood of rebels and traitors, the machine spirit within making even the smallest nick to the flesh a rending wound.
* ***The Crucem*** - Borne by the Ancient of the Palatina the Crucem is the grim Chapter Banner of the Indominable Legion. Woven by the first Legate-Paragon; Aurelius Lanius himself during the breaking of the Space Marine Legions, soaked in the blood of the Aurelius Lanius and Nox Vulpes, the Cucem depicts rise of the Indominable Legion as a distinct force, eleven Astartes, each bearing the symbols of each Company as well as the Legate-Paragon's symbol, atop a mountain of traitor corpses.

## Chapter Appearance

### Chapter Colours

The Indominable Legion have a two-tone colour scheme. Their helms, torso, pauldron trim, arms and upper legs are a lighter bronze. The backpack, pauldron inset, knees and lower legs are a deep purple.

Usually, with the Aquila or Imperialis adorning the chestplate, the symbols are usually bright white. As they the standard Codex markings the pauldron trim usually varies as is the case with all that follow the teachings of Roboute Guilliman.

### Chapter Badge

The Indominable Legion usually mark their armour with Macraggian glyphs and sigils. Aside from these more personalised symbols, for the Chapter proper, each one bears a depiction of the mythological Peryton. On Hadrian, the Peryton is a symbol of the end, during the Horus Heresy, Aurelius and by extension the 6th 'Victrix' Company adopted that symbol after the future Legate-Paragon adopted teachings of Nox Vulpes. In a way, since the splitting of the Legions, the Peryton symbolised the end of the Indominable Legion as members of the XIII Legion.

## Chapter Relations

### Allies

* **The Ynnari** - Interestingly, given their brutality towards every enemy of the Imperium and the Ultramarines, especially xenos that would subvert the will of the Imperium's worlds, the Indominable Legion have taken well to the Imperium's alliance with the Eldar servants of the god Ynnead. Amusingly, given the Indominable Legion's own use of heavily metaphorical speech to mask their tactical decisions, the Eldar's own heavily metaphor-filled language translated much easier for the Warriors of Hadrian. Given their cold brutality, the Drukhari of the Ynnari have expressed interest in working alongside the Indominable Legion.

### Strained

* **Ultramarines** - The relationship between the Indominable Legion and their progenitors is strained to say the least. Even before the separation of the the Legions, the 6th Company had begun to fall from Guilliman's favour, their brutality and the growing influence of the mysterious Nox Vulpes horrifying the Lord of Ultramar.

### Enemies

* **Night Lords** - In many ways, it was the Night Lords that caused the Indominable Legion. Whilst in defence of Hadrian the Chapter fought against countless members of the traitor legions as the Shadow Crusade and its aftermath were unleashed upon the realm of Ultramar, it was the endless, avaricious cruelty of the Night Lords which finally shattered the expected decorum of the Ultramarines. Advised by Sinnian Rehn, a member of the Nostramans that had rejected the treacherous madness of his Primarch long ago, the Monster of Ultramar began taking punitive measures against the endless tide of traitors; slaughtering them in mounds single-handedly all whilst bellowing out is frustrated fury, then crucifying the survivors of his brutal rampage. Since then, during the shadowy era of the Imperium Secundus, when the Night Lords has shattered into countless marauding warbands, the Indominable Legion have reserved a special and savage hatred for the sons of the Night Haunter.

## Notable Quotes

### By the Indominable Legion

"*H-how? You know our ways, how do y-you-"
"We learned by your example, you left your work across the galaxy Night Lord, we simply observed it."
"N-not just. You knew what we would-"
"We knew because you taught us. Undone by your own evil. Like all cowards and murderers. Know this as you die, as the endless night you hold no rule over closes in, know that this; every moment of pain, every ignored scream for death's cold release, all of it, is your fault Night Lord.*"
—Aurelius Lanius 'the Monster of Ultramar', future Legate-Paragon of the Indominable Legion and Captain Ferens 'the Confessor' of the Night Lords during the Shattering of the Night Lords
"*We are the future you earned. In your hubris you believed you could spit your petty spite across existence, crush the dream of humanity and believe you would remain untouched. You were mistaken. Like produces like, we are the punishment and suffering you have reaped. We are the Indominable Legion and we bring you only what you have earned.*"
— Anonymous member of the Indominable Legion
"*Ah, a child of Mortarion, so filled with spite and bile it now leaks from your festering hide. Tell me, Death Guard, was it worth it? Was your ravaging of Terra a sufficient salve? Was it proof against the shameful truth that you have been reduced to naught but a rotting carcass?*"
—Legate-Paragon Vipsanius Gaius during the Plague Wars
"*Stars consumed, eyes widen, endlessly staring. Light darkens, night, night and the laughter of feasting gods.*"
—Honoured Nero 996.M41
"*Even as I fell, I prayed to Terra for a chance to avenge my brethren...but, we can't expect the Emperor to do all the work.*"
—Iesus Graeme the Burning Avenger to the Red Harvest
"*I always knew you were an idiot, Ferens. Like that preening peacock Shraivok, stupid enough to believe yourself owed command yet too arrogant to thrive with it.”
"And you Rehn, too weak to join the Legion in its new glory."
"Hm. You know Ferens, I always hated our Legion. Not a brotherhood of warriors like the others, just a gaggle of thieves and killers either barely clinging to sanity or long past caring to try. Why in the Emperor's name would I want to join it in anything?*"
—Ferens the Confessor and Nox Vulpes during the Shattering of the Night Lords
### About the Indominable Legion

"*Invicta. The Invicta...of course those preening arseholes from Macragge have a ship called the Invicta. Arrogant bastards to the last.*"
— Arhkren Thirl, Chapter Master of the Iron Light
"*Even amidst the carrion of my fathers' empire...seeing what has become of Aurelius and his warriors is...affecting.*"
— Roboute Guilliman after his return
"*By the God-Emperor...Angels of Death? No. Nonono. These were Angels of Vengeance..."*"
— Colonel Gerndrin of the Therenk 146th serving alongside the Indominable Legion during the Indomitus Crusade
"*Hmm, these primitives are a rare breed, very interesting indeed.*"
—A Drukhari member of the Ynnari upon serving alongside the Indominable Legion

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 White Scars Successors
 Imperial Fists Successors
 Blood Angels Successors
 Iron Hands Successors
 Ultramarines Successors
 Salamanders Successors
 Raven Guard Successors
 Unknown Lineage
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