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Legio Mordaxis - Legion Combat Doctrine: The corrupted princeps of the Legio Mordaxis exist in a world of constant torment, linked as they are to a god-engine ravaged by disease, forging them into lumbering behemoths nigh-immune to pain.Many of these princeps have welcomed the changes wrought upon them, accepting every "blessing" offered by the Dark Gods. Though they have broken many oaths, the princeps still believe in the strength of brotherhood.
Legio Mordaxis - Legion Specific Wargear: Toxin Nodes - The Dark Mechanicum engineered methods for exploiting the internal corruption of the Deathdealers' Titans into their weapons, enabling them to spit forth disease.
Legio Mordaxis - Notable Titans: Mark of Ruin (Warlord-class Titan) - The Mark of Ruin was a Warlord Titan command by Princeps Senoris Hakoth Rul, who led the Legio Mordaxis during the Battle of Zarathusa Secundus.Noctis Sanguinia (Warlord-class Titan) - The Noctis Sanguinia was a Warlord Titan that led an Axiom maniple of various Titans of the Legio Mordaxis during the early campaigns of the Horus Heresy. Unfortunately, it would meet its end at the hands of the Sons of Konor, a force comprised of Blackshield Knights, upon the world of Haverlund during the Battle for Victory Plaza. With scores of Knights, the Sons of Konor brought down the mighty Legio Mordaxis Warlord Titan and its fellow Traitor Titans.Sin-eater (Warlord-class Titan) - Sin-eater was a notable Warlord Titan of the Deathdealers that had last been seen during the conquest of Hnudiax in the year 999.M30, and would not be seen again until the invasion of Zarathusa Secundus in 009.M31. The changes wrought upon the Legio Mordaxis were plain to see upon its form, oily fluid seeping from its joints with every step. As Sin-eater strode towards the Aquila Atoll, the water around it blackened, that Chaos taint harboured within the Titan corrupting all around it. More troubling still were the sorrowful cries that echoed from the Titan when attempts were made to hail it, the princeps of Sin-eater consumed by eternal agony, now enslaved by the machine curse unleashed upon the Titan Legion by their Word Bearer allies.Irkalla (Reaver-class Titan) - Irkalla was a formerly Loyalist Reaver Titan that became corrupted by the techno curse enacted by its Legion's allies among the Word Bearers. Once lauded for its honourable service during the Great Crusade, when it was once again encountered during the subsequent campaigns of the Horus Heresy, it had been became a cursed revenant war-engine that corrupted the very ground it trod upon.
Legio Mordaxis - Notable Legion Personnel: Princeps Senioris Hakoth Rul - Rul commanded the Warlord-class Titan Mark of Ruin during the Battle of Zarathusa Secundus. The machine disease that infected him pumped through his MIU into the god-engine. There was little left of the man Rul had once been, the black blood of his cursed Titan having turned him into an extension of its dark Machine Spirit. Rul only desired the destruction of his enemies and to spread the machine curse carried by his Legion. This was why his Titans pushed their reactors even as they were descending on Zarathusa, and vented their corrupted plasma into the seas, the black liquid infecting everything it came into contact with. The Traitor Titans of the Deathdealers spread the poison of their machine curse, its black plasma residue becoming huge oil slicks that dominated thousands of square kilometres of ocean. His ultimate fate following the fighting on Zarathusa Secundus is unknown.
Legio Mordaxis - Knight Houses: House Ærthegn
Legio Mordaxis - Space Marines: Word Bearers
Legio Mordaxis - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Mordaxis are purple and black with gold trim.
Legio Mordaxis - Legion Badge: The Legion badge of the Legio Mordaxis takes the from of a triumvirate of skulls; a single skull facing forward and centred upon a pair of skulls looking off to either side.This symbol is centred within a pair of white,  open-faced circlets; a circle within a circle, on a field of black.
Legio Mordaxis - Followers of Nurgle: Though the Legio Mordaxis has a very similar three-headed symbol of stacked skulls, reminiscent of that used by the Death Guard Traitor Legion, utilises toxic weaponry and destroys the environment through the corruptive power of Chaos wherever their god-engines walk, they are not explicitly stated to be followers of the Chaos God Nurgle.However, given their history, tactics, weaponry and heraldry, they are likely servants of the Plague God.
Legio Mordaxis - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus: The Horus Heresy - Shadow and Iron (Specialty Game), pp. 8-10, 13-14, 34-36, 70-71, 92The Purge (Novella) by Anthony Reynolds, pp. 44-45
Legio Mortis - Legio Mortis: Legio MortisDeath's HeadsTraitor Titan LegionDark MechanicumEmperor of MankindWarmasterHorusRuinous PowersHorus HeresyEven before the Horus Heresy, the princeps of the Legio Mortis were known for their cold and calculating demeanour, keeping meticulous kill tallies, and often filling their command decks with servitor-choirs that droned out an endless list of all of their victims.This cacophony of the vanquished drove the Titan's crew to methodical acts of destruction, each fresh kill adding another name to the chant.The Legio Mortis is known to have been raised before the Age of the Imperium, during the Age of Strife, in the early days of the Cult Mechanicus' conquest of Mars.
Legio Mortis - Notable Personnel: Camulos - Senior princeps, commander of the Legio Mortis' forces on Mars at the Legion's fortress located at Pavonis Mons. Camulos led the Titans of his Legio against the Loyalist Titans of the Legio Tempestus in open warfare at the Battle of Magma City during the Schism of Mars.Maldis Drane - Madis Drane was a Princeps Senioris and the commander of the Warhound-class Titan Cadavaris Perdita. He was the commander of the Titan contingent of the Legio Mortis sent by the Warmaster Horus to fight alongside the Imperial Censure Host during the Razing of Prospero. A storied and highly decorated veteran, Drane was one of Horus' favoured, quite beyond his loyalty to Mars, and this no doubt was one of the reasons the Warmaster had contrived to have the forces at the Princeps' command attached to the Censure Host under the Warmaster's own authority. The attack on the Zhao-Arkhad sub-forge was to be Maldis Drane's last battle, however, as he was slain when his Titan was decapitated by the Legio Xestobiax Reaver-class Titan Sleepless Watcher.Esau Turnet - Esau Turnet was a Princeps Senioris and the commander of the Imperator-class Emperor Titan Dies Irae during the Horus Heresy. The Senior Princeps had already repudiated his oaths to the Emperor and sworn allegiance to the Warmaster by the time the events of Istvaan III occurred. Turnet was privy to what Horus had planned for the Loyalist Astartes on the surface of the doomed planet.Jonah Aruken - Aruken was the moderatus primus of the Imperator-class Titan Dies Irae during the Horus Heresy. When the Warmaster enacted the opening phase of his rebellion on Isstvan III, he was present on the Dies Irae. After the virus-bombing and secondary firestorm, the senior princeps ordered the Titan's weapons to be reactivated and to fire upon the Loyalist Death Guard Astartes. Horrified, his friend and fellow moderati Titus Cassar attempted to stop the senior princeps from carrying out his unlawful orders. Seeing his future ambitions to command his own Titan being sabotaged by his friend Titus, Jonah shot and killed his fellow moderati. He then carried out Senior Princeps Turnet's orders and proceeded to fire upon the Loyalists.Titus Cassar - Cassar was a moderatus primus of the Imperator-class Titan Dies Irae during the Horus Heresy. He was secretly a member of the Emperor-worshiping cult known as the Lectitio Divinitatus, which believed that the Emperor was a divine being and the god of Mankind. He was often ridiculed by his friend and fellow moderati Jonah Aruken for his beliefs. Titus was present during the opening days of the Warmaster's rebellion at Isstvan III. He watched in horror as the planet was virus-bombed and died and the subsequent firestorm that followed. When ordered by his Titan's commanding Senior Princeps Turnet to reactivate their weapons and open fire on the Loyalist Death Guard Astartes that they had supported only moments before, Titus attempted to stop him with a pistol, but was killed by his friend Jonah Aruken.
Legio Mortis - Knight Houses: House MorbidiaHouse Ju'llHouse Senica
Legio Mortis - Legion Strength: Thanks to its ancient history and its close ties to the fabricator-general of Mars and his coterie, the Legio Mortis was one of the numerically largest and best-equipped of all of the Titan Legions at the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, recorded as a Primus (Maxis)-grade Titan Legion.Conservative estimates place their disposition at or around 200 Titans in active service, as well as having 2 battalions of specialised support armour, 5 Skitarii Auxilia Legions and a close air-support phalanx of 9 squadrons bound to their service.Only the Legio Destructor is believed to have been able to put more Battle Titans into the field at the civil war's outbreak. In particular, the Legio Mortis was known to possess a strong contingent of the most powerful classes of Titan: the Imperator, Nemesis and at least one Apocalypse Pattern war engine.While the bulk of the Legion's Titans were Warlord, Reaver and Nightgaunt classes, Scout Titans such as the Warhound were represented in relatively small proportions to the whole.The allied Knight houses whose Knights often served alongside the Legio Mortis include House Morbidia, House Ju'll and House Senica. During the Battle of Beta-Garmon the Legio Mortis was supported by House Devine, House Gotrith, House Oroborn, House Vextrix and House Xerathon.
Legio Mortis - Legion Colours: The Pre-Heresy colours of the Legio Mortis were black, red, silver and gold. Now that they are the corrupted followers of Nurgle, their Titans no longer resemble the once-proud war machines of the past.They display the outwards signs of their allegiance to the Plague God, and are covered in all manner of putrescence, decay and filth.
Legio Mortis - Legion Badge: The Legio Mortis badge is a skull centred in front of a gate with chains dangling from it. Half of the Cult Mechanicus cog symbol sits atop the gate. This symbolises the Legio's ancient mission of both standing sentinel at the fabricator-general's gates as the personal protectors of their domain, and annihilating all life that would threaten the Machine Cult, for the Legio Mortis served as both sentry and exterminator. Before the Horus Heresy, the symbol of the Collegia Titanica was centred on the forehead of the skull, an emblem that was removed following the Legio's fall to Chaos.A variant of the Legion's badge is a horned death's head in front of a red-outlined blue delta (triangle) on a field of black. Below the death's head are rows of skulls, symbolising the Legio's skill at bringing death to its enemies.
Legio Mortis - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus (1st Edition), pg. 59The Horus Heresy - Book One: Betrayal by Alan Bligh (Forge World Series), pp. 138-141The Horus Heresy - Book Seven: Inferno by Alan Bligh (Forge World Series), pp. 25, 46, 50, 101, 108-111, 176, 179, 182-183Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Rulebook (Specialty Game), pp. 14-15, 58-59, 80-83Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Titandeath (Specialty Game), pp. 40-44, 95Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Traitor Legios (Specialty Game), pp. 28-33Titan Legions (2nd Edition), pg. 12False Gods (Novel) by Graham McNeillFlight of the Eisenstein (Novel) by James SwallowGalaxy In Flames (Novel) by Ben CounterStorm of Iron (Novel) by Graham McNeillMechanicum (Novel) by Graham McNeillVengeful Spirit (Novel) by Graham McNeillCybernetica (Novella) by Rob SandersAngel Exterminatus (Novel) by Graham McNeill, Ch. 27, pg. 416
Legio Mortis Metallum - Legio Mortis Metallum: The Legio Mortis Metallum is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.
Legio Mortis Metallum - Notable Campaigns: Defence of Fornax Orbis Majoris (999.M41) - As the 41st Millennium drew to a close, a massive invasion by the Chaos, led by the Warmaster of Chaos Abaddon the Despoiler, invaded the realm of Mankind. Heralding the 13th Black Crusade, the forces of Chaos proceeded to simultaneously attack several Imperial systems. During this invasion the Legio Mortis Metallum valiantly defended the hive city of Godspire Secundus when a large Chaos invasion, spearheaded by the vile Death Guard Traitor Legion, invaded the Forge World Fornax Orbis Majoris.
Legio Mortis Metallum - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Mortis Metallum - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Mortis Metallum - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Mortis Metallum are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Mortis Metallum - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Mortis Metallum is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Naesseas - Legio Naesseas: The Legio Naesseas, also known as the Legio Naessias (or "Deep Dwellers" in Low Gothic) is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.Hailing from the Ocean World of Daxxos, they are charged with the defence of their Mechanicus masters' stackforges from deep-sea megafauna such as vast predatory whales and fanged megadectapods.Indeed it is from one of these beasts, the dread Krakynekin, that the Titan Legion derives its heraldic icon, the hooked tentacle of Daxxos.Though relatively small, the Deep Dwellers are a proud Titan Legion, equally capable of waging war in the briny depths of their homeworld as on the battle-ravaged city streets of a hundred worlds.During the years of the Horus Heresy they remained fiercely loyal to Terra, taking part in the battles of Drussen, Tallarn, and the Solar War, though it would cost the Legio Naesseas dearly.This Deep Dwellers are known to be extremely loyal to the Emperor and have close ties to the Imperial Fists Chapter.
Legio Naesseas - Legion History: There is little official information on the exact founding of this particular Titan Legion, however, official Imperial records indicate that the Legio Naesseas, known commonly as the "Deep Dwellers," hail from the Ocean World of Daxxos, whose oceans are home to some of the deadliest creatures in the galaxy.As wardens of this world, these god-engines are known to stride the oceans' floor, constantly battling sea leviathans, gnarlwhales and other such terrible creatures of the briny depths that would threaten the monolithic Roam-Stackforges of the Daxxosian Mechanicus that follow in the Deep Dwellers' wake, gathering their raw materials for production from the oceanic crust.Due to their constant deployment in the depths of the deep oceans, the outer hulls of the Legio's Titans become tarnished over time, however, their bioluminescent white patterns still stand out in the murky deep. The Deep Dwellers use these markings to identify themselves while fighting in the abyssal darkness of Daxxos' ocean bed.When called upon to battle off-world to take part in a campaign or Imperial Crusade, the Titans are hoisted to the surface of Daxxos by vast cranes.
Legio Naesseas - Notable Campaigns: Drussen Atrocity (009-010.M31)Battle of Tallarn (010-012.M31) -  During the Horus Heresy, Perturabo, primarch of the Iron Warriors, launched an all-out planetary invasion of the verdant Imperial staging world of Tallarn, his IVth Legion bolstered by dozens of allied Traitor Imperial Army regiments, the Titans of the Legio Krytos and the Knights of House Caesarean. Both the Loyalist and Traitor high commands were taken by surprise by Perturabo's actions and the invasion quickly escalated after he ordered an Exterminatus upon the world, scouring its surface of living matter by way of a voracious Life-eater virus bomb barrage. While the population of the once-verdant world was all but wiped out, many defenders survived thanks to extensive subterranean shelters. The ensuing campaign was fought between vast formations of Imperial Army and Solar Auxilia tanks, the Titans of the Legio Naesseas, Legio Gryphonicus, the Knights of House Megron, the indentured Battle-Automata of the household army of the Rogue Trader Sangrea as well as the armoured forces of the Iron Hands, Imperial Fists, White Scars and Ultramarines Legions. No infantry could survive unprotected in the poisoned wastes, and the war quickly drew in other forces from across the Segmentum Tempestus. The Battle of Tallarn is considered the largest armoured engagement in the known history of Humanity, and while ultimately counted as a victory for the Loyalists, millions of warriors and war machines on both sides were left scattered across the lifeless, deadly surface of the planet.Solar War (010-014.M31) - The Solar War refers to the final stage of the Horus Heresy, where the traitorous Warmaster Horus made one last push on the Segmentum Solar to wage war upon the Imperial Throneworld itself. A series of battles were fought throughout the Sol System from 010-014.M31. With the Emperor preoccupied with the War Within the Webway and Malcador the Sigillite waging the Shadow Wars, it was left to the Imperial Fists Primarch Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra, to oversee the defences of both Terra and the greater Sol System. The Legio Naesseas fought alongside the Imperial Fists Legion in the defence of Terra, providing their god-engines in defence of the various defensive Spheres organized by Dorn to help stave off the inevitable invasion of the Imperial Throneworld by the Traitor forces.
Legio Naesseas - Legion Traits: Elite Magos - This Titan Legion is well known for the skill of its tech-priests and magi. Even in the heat of battle these individuals can call upon the favour of the Omnissiah to keep a Titan in the fight, though its Machine Spirit might be ready to rebel.Motive Mastery - The princeps of the Legio have learnt to wear their Titans like a second skin and can coax bursts of speed and devastating charges out of their god-engines via the constant connection of their MIU.
Legio Naesseas - Legion Combat Doctrine: Pragmatic and relentless hunters of the deep-ocean floor, the Legio Naesseas has adapted to war under circumstances alien to many other Titan Legions.Training and operating under almost perpetual Zone Abyssia conditions, the Deep Dwellers earned their cognomen in a lightless world defined by its crushing pressure and unseen, constant threat. To survive in such an environment requires a specific regimen of training, strategy, wargear, and culture amongst the scions of this Titan Legion.Reputed to strike with the remorselessness of the sea in storm, the Legio Naesseas favours the use of energy weaponry, particularly lasers, as the short, sharp release of power boils the ocean with each strike and is not diminished by pressure and water resistance in the same manner as more conventional projectile-based weaponry. For this reason, the Legio ensures that each of its Titans is equipped with Plasma Rifling.Advancing relentlessly whilst unleashing eye-searing bursts of energy, the Deep Dwellers are also notorious for abandoning ranks when the enemy closes with them to instead stride into the jaws of death with their magna-harpoons raised.They score their kills in the fashion of their homeworld, spearing enemies in place while pumping fire into them to ensure they cannot break free to scatter and harm the stackforges. When within range, they will rush the enemy in the hope of winning renown, honour, and additional kill-stripes.
Legio Naesseas - Legion Specific Wargear: Ranging Auspexes - Focusing lens arrays stud the Titan's command canopy, allowing its princeps an unequalled view of the battlefield. Through these telescopic eyes the distance to enemies can be swiftly determined, allowing for the most effective weapon volleys.Plasma Rifling - Gas channels allow for excess plasma from the Titan's reactor to be funnelled into the firing chambers of its energy weapons, extending their range and increasing their lethality. These mechanisms are not without their dangers, however, and can put extra strain on the Titan's reactor.
Legio Naesseas - Notable Titans: Kharcius (Warlord-class Titan)
Legio Naesseas - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Naesseas - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Naesseas is aquamarine, white with dark gold trim. The Titans of this Legio often decorate their hulls with depictions of the horrific sea creatures that live in the deep fathomless depths of their homeworld's oceans that the Legio Naesseas must fight on a daily basis.When fighting in the deep oceans of Daxxos, each god-engine is all but isolated in the darkness from its brethren. A damaged Titan has little hope of survival if ranging far along the seafloor, for even a small hull breach can result in a torturous, drowning death.In aid of these ranging missions, the Legio Naesseas also pays great heed to the risk of creating firing solutions against friendly god-engines when they are occluded behind swirling eddies of silt.To ensure this does not happen, each god-engine is coated in a unique pattern of white bioluminescent paint and equipped with the Ranging Auspexes.
Legio Naesseas - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Naesseas  takes the form of a large black tentacle, representing their homeworld's deadly apex-predator, the Krakynekin.
Legio Naesseas - Sources: White Dwarf 24 (Aug 2018), "Parade Ground: The God-Machines March," pg. 105White Dwarf 35 (July 2019), "Crusade Titan Legions," by Owen Barnes, pp. 106-111Games Workshop Online Store - Adeptus Titanicus Warlord TitanGames Workshop Online Store - Adeptus Titancus: The Horus Heresy Grand Master Edition (Specialty Game)Warhammer Community - The Defence of Ryza: Your First Look (31 Mar 2020)Warhammer Community - Adeptus Titanicus Part 5: Miniatures Showcase (10 Aug 2018)
Legio Nivalis - Legio Nivalis: The Legio Nivalis, also known by their cognomen of the "Ice Giants" in reference to their atypical pale colour scheme, is one of the smaller Loyalist Titan Legions that form the Collegia Titanica.The Titans of Legio Nivalis specialise in battles in arctic environments, especially across frozen plains.
Legio Nivalis - Legion History: The Legio Nivalis is known to have participated in some engagements of the Horus Heresy, the most notable being the Liberation of Atlas conducted shortly after the Battle of Calth.
Legio Nivalis - Notable Campaigns: Liberation of Atlas (Unknown Date.M31) - Atlas was one amongst several barge cities that roamed the skies above the acidic and toxic seas of the Mechanicum Forge World of Constanix II. Archmagos Delvere, master of the world's capital city of Iapetus had allied himself with the Traitor Word Bearers Legion and begun the manufacture of precedently unknown Daemon Engines. Delvere's malign influence had expanded to nearly each of the other city-barques, including some of the Legio Nivalis princeps that would fight alongside him when Corax, primarch of the Raven Guard, Space Marines from the XIXth Legion and Loyalist Mechanicum elements would finally assail him. Amongst those engines having remained loyal to the Emperor stood Castor Terminus, a towering Warlord-class Titan that had been posted at Atlas to ensure its defence. It is unclear why the Warlord Titan's princeps chose not to intervene when the Traitor-aligned Magos Vandellin was appointed ruler of Atlas, just as the exact reasons as to why he chose to support the Loyalist faction now that the Raven Guard had arrived remain a mystery. Nevertheless Castor Terminus played a vital role in Corax's plan of action: its void shield having been modified by XIXth Legion Techmarines and turned into reflex shields, Castor Terminus was thus enabled to walk the streets of the city-barque unnoticed, appearing at the right location to annihilate Vandellin's primary assault column which the Raven Guard's plan of action had deliberately permitted to draw close. The modification also proved valuable in safeguarding Castor Terminus once Vandellin's big guns, amongst them Inferno Cannons and Turbolasers, shelled the city in their attempt to bring down the Titan. It is unclear if Castor Terminus retained use of the Kiavahrite stealth technology it was outfitted with or if even its use has spread to other parts of the Legio in the years to come.
Legio Nivalis - Notable Titans: Castor Terminus - A Warlord-class Battle Titan known to have participated in the Liberation of Atlas on Constanix II. Castor Terminus was one of several god-machines that had been stationed on Constanix II to safeguard the atypical planet's security. Rallying to the Loyalist Mechanicum forces and the Raven Guard strikeforce led by Corax himself, Castor Terminus played a decisive role in the liberation of the floating barge-city of Atlas, having been secretly augmented by Kiavahran reflex technology, the Titan's void shields had been modified to allow it to conceal itself perfectly, thus enabling it to strike an unforeseeable and devastating blow to the Traitor Skitarii forces. In addition to this unorthodox modification, Castor Terminus is also known to have been equipped with unorthodox weapon-systems, such as a carapace-mounted micro-munitions discharges which launched hundreds of explosive darts into enemy infantry formations. Its armament further featured the more common Macrocannon and Las Blasters it used with deadly efficiency against armoured targets.
Legio Nivalis - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Nivalis - Legion Colours: As their name implies, the Ice Giants favour a pale colour scheme of icy white and pale blue.
Legio Nivalis - Legion Badge: The Legio Novalis' badge is not recorded in current Imperial records.
Legio Oberon - Legio Oberon: The Legio Oberon ("Death Bolts II") is a Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Hailing from the Forge World of Anvari, the personnel of the Legio Oberon were famed for wisdom beyond their years.Despite joining the Great Crusade in its final days, the Legio soon amassed a string of victories alongside the Ultramarines Legion, utilising the superior tactical knowledge of their princeps to unleash bold assaults intended to dismantle their opponents' tactics.
Legio Oberon - Origins: The date of the Legio Oberon's founding lies not in the distant, darkened past like that of most Legios, but within the glory days of the Great Crusade, its creation sanctioned alongside the colonisation of a new Forge World.Anvari, for that was the name bequeathed upon the Forge World, was established as a thrall domain of the mighty Accatran in an attempt to secure the latter's power within the Realm of Ultramar.In honour of the Forge World's founding, the first colonists were gifted a fragment of the Legio Destructor's strength, the wardens of Accatran given leave to forswear their oaths to their homeworld in order to protect another. In recognition of this act, the god-engines took new names and assembled under a new banner -- that of the Legio Oberon.In accordance with Accatran's desire to forge more steadfast bonds with Ultramar, much of the Legio Oberon's strength was seconded to expeditionary fleets in which the Ultramarines Legion served. Such extended service brought about numerous changes within the Titan Legion, not least the tempering of the warlike nature often displayed by princeps of the Legio Destructor, a divergence ever more apparent when both Titan Legions served alongside one another.Indeed, the princeps of the Legio Oberon made great efforts to study the tactical plans supplied by the Ultramarines, incorporating them into the Death Bolts' own simulations and assessments.Given the long service of the average princeps, it is unsurprising that the Legio Oberon soon became known as expert tacticians, adapting the standard tactics of the Collegia Titanica and proposing many amendments to its strategic guidelines. Though many were rejected, an outcome Legio Oberon personnel often attributed to dogma and the inability to accept improvements suggested by a young Titan Legion, the Death Bolts II displayed an aptitude and skill for warfare matched by few other Titan Legions.
Legio Oberon - Horus Heresy: By the end of the Great Crusade, the Legio Oberon had acquired a distinguished record of victories alongside the Ultramarines and, in recognition of their service, was ordered to muster at Calth in preparation for an assault upon the Ghaslakh Orks' xeno-hold.As events have since shown, such a mustering was nothing more than a pretence through which the Warmaster Horus hoped to deal a fatal blow to the Ultramarines and their allies, including the Legio Oberon. The Death Bolts were to emerge from the calamitous events of the Battle of Calth largely unscathed, for the principal strength of the Titan Legion had yet to arrive when the Word Bearers embarked upon their campaign of extermination.Such an outcome was a mote of light in an otherwise series of dark events yet it offered little solace to the Legio Oberon itself, for the catastrophic damage wrought upon both Calth and the numbers of the Legio Praesagius was seen as a stain upon the Death Bolts' honour.In vengeance, many princeps of the Legio Oberon swore oaths of battle to never return to Anvari until the Traitors had been driven back and the strength of the Legio Praesagius restored. To fulfil this oath, the god-engines of the Legio Oberon were readily committed to the Crusade of Iron when Gantz dispatched a call for aid.For the remainder of the Horus Heresy, much of the Legio Oberon's strength was committed to Ultramar in pursuit of the surviving god-engines of the Traitor Legio Infernus and the Word Bearers who fought alongside them.Those princeps that had vowed never to rest until the Traitors were defeated did not return to Anvari until the fires of war had settled and those that did were few in number, the rest having gained redemption in the cold embrace of death.
Legio Oberon - The Death Bolts - Legio Honorum and Legio Oberon: The naming of the Legio Oberon caused much contention between the archivists of Mars' data vaults when news reached them of the Legio's existence. The founding of any Titan Legion is a momentous affair for the Cult Mechanicus, rife with pomp and much ceremony, yet the sheer size of the galaxy prevents the rapid transmission of information.To facilitate the timely organisation and founding of new Legios, it was deemed only necessary for the details of their creation to be passed to Mars for ratification at the earliest convenience. Though a Titan Legion did not truly exist as part of the Collegia Titanica without Mars' acceptance it was, in most instances, little more than a formality assigned only minor importance by those Forge Worlds now tasked with sustaining a nascent Titan Legion.Thus a solar decade passed before news of the raising of the Legio Oberon reached Mars, upon which it quickly became apparent that the cognomen assigned to the newly-founded Titan Legion, that being the "Death Bolts," had already been assigned to the Legio Honorum, a Legio founded upon Mars many solar decades before.Following much contemplation it was agreed that the Legio Oberon's cognomen would from then forth stand as "Death Bolts II" in accordance with the precedent set by other Titan Legions such as the Legio Victorum and Legio Vulcanum.It should be noted that the archives of Accatran, of which Anvari was a thrall domain of, are extensive and held records of battles where the Legio Destructor fought alongside the Legio Honorum prior to the founding of the Legio Oberon.Whether the naming of the Legio Oberon was done so by mistake or as a deliberate act is unknown, but it was not uncommon for many Forge Worlds to undertake minor acts intended to create a stir amongst the Martian Mechanicum Parliament, often to draw attention to ambitious yet distant Forge Worlds.
Legio Oberon - Legion Combat Doctrine: Years spent fighting alongside the Ultramarines during the Great Crusade saw the Death Bolts II's princeps learn much from the thorough tactics of the XIII th Legion. The Legio Oberon often employs trained strategisers whose sole duty is to watch the enfolding battle and devise counters to enemy strategies.When the Titans of this Legio march to war their battlegroups advance in tight formation, each Titan supporting the next to stand resolute in the face of incoming fire.The prosecution of war is, to the princeps of the Legio Oberon, an exercise in mental prowess, and their princeps participated in games of strategy when not upon the field of battle.The use of Warhound Titans proved a key element of battlefield tactics within the Legio Oberon during the campaigns of the Horus Heresy. When enemy movements were known, maniples of Warhounds would often be dispatched to strategic locations long before the Legio marched.Operating as a hidden vanguard, the Warhounds would conceal themselves until the enemy line moved past their position. When the remainder of the Legio Oberon engaged their foes in battle the Warhounds would emerge, assaulting the rear of the enemy, sowing disorder and panic in their ranks.The Legio Oberon's fleshsmiths and mechnicians had a penchant for augmenting their Skitarii's cybernetic arms with heavy rotary cannons.
Legio Oberon - Legion Traits: The Legio Oberon's princeps were known to have complete confidence in their own ability upon the battlefield and rarely second-guess their own decision.They are also known for commanding both Titans and Knights with great skill, directing their efforts even as they unleash their anger upon a foe.Even amongst a Legio famed for their robust tactics, the princeps excel at developing near foolproof plans.
Legio Oberon - Notable Titans: Corinthian (Imperator-class Titan) - The Corinthian was an Imperator-class Titan of the Legio Oberon that survived the Word Bearers' treachery during the Battle of Calth. The Titan was later captured by the Legio Audax during the Shadow Crusade's battle for the city of Meahor on the world of Nuceria.Panthera Rex (Warlord-class Titan) - Panthera Rex, depicted above before the ambush on Espandor during the Crusade of Iron, was armed in a manner favouring the bold and decisive tactics of the Legio Oberon. This Warlord was to play a significant role in the battle of Espandor, launching devastating counterattacks against the hunting packs of the Legio Audax. Though outmatched in terms of speed, Panthera Rex unleashed the power of its Volcano Cannon at close range, scarring its own hull as payment for the death of the Traitors. However, the Agri-world would prove to be the Titan's grave, as it would fall alongside those of its Legio who gave their lives so that the Titans of the Legio Praesagious could withdraw intact.Feram Lex (Warhound-class Titan) - The Warhound-class Titan Feram Lex, depicted above, took part in several notable campaigns during the latter years of the Great Crusade and the subsequent Horus Heresy.
Legio Oberon - Notable Personnel: Master-Princeps Tetaros Kast - Tetaros Kast served as a princeps of the Legio Oberon during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. In the latter conflict he commanded the Legio's Battlegroup Avalon when the Word Bearers turned upon the Ultramarines and their Loyalist allies at the Battle of Calth. He was one of the few princeps of the Legio Oberon to survive the onslaught of the Traitors' initial attack and was able to escape and bring word of the Warmaster Horus' betrayal to the Legio Praesagius on their Forge World of Gantz. Once the True Messengers' learned of their brother Legio's catastrophic losses, their senior surviving princeps, Dae Vergos, sought vengeance against the Traitors. She took command of the remnants of her Legio and declared the beginning of the Crusade of Iron against the forces of the Arch-traitor. Master-Princeps Kast would later join the crusade and take part in the battle of Ulixis against the traitorous Legio Infernus, which ultimately ended in an Imperial victory.
Legio Oberon - Knight Houses: House OrhlaccHouse VornherrHouse Vyronii
Legio Oberon - Space Marines: Ultramarines
Legio Oberon - Legion Strength: At the onset of the Horus Heresy, the Legio Oberon had existed for less than 200 standard years. Such a time frame precluded any chance of the Death Bolts II amassing vast numbers of god-engines, for the construction of such war machines remains a laborious process. As a result, the Death Bolts II were classified by the Collegia Titanica as a Tertius-grade Legio.Like many newly-founded Titan Legions, the core of the Legio Oberon has come from another, far older Legio which equipped the Death Bolts II with over two dozen ancient god-engines that predated the Legio Oberon's founding by several millennia.The composition of the Legio Oberon fitted the standard distribution as set down by the doctrines of the Collegia Titanica which consisted of a flexible mixture of Warlord, Reaver and Warhound-class Titans.A notable exception was the presence of a single Imperator-class Titan, dispatched from Accatran, which remains the personal god-engine of the Legio Oberon's commanding grand master to this day.
Legio Oberon - Legion Colours: The Titans of the Legio Oberon are primarily painted orange with black striping.
Legio Oberon - Legion Badge: The sigil of the Legio Oberon is a black crown cleaved by a downwards striking lightning bolt. This symbol is centred within a white diamond, outlined in gold.
Legio Oberon - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus: The Horus Heresy - Loyalist Legios (Specialty Game), pp. 144-149Adeptus Titanicus: The Horus Heresy - Rulebook (Specialty Game), "Selected Notable Engine-Wars of the Age of Darkness," pg. 15Adeptus Titanicus: The Horus Heresy - Shadow and Iron (Specialty Game), pp. 8-12, 14-15, 20, 25-27, 66, 68The Horus Heresy: Book Five - Tempest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 13-69Warhammer 40,000: Rulebook (8th Edition), pp. 158-159Betrayer (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, pg. 302Butcher's Nails (Short Story) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, pg. 201Warhammer Community - Shadow and Iron: Crusades of Vengeance (05 February 2020)
Legio Officium - Legio Officium: The Legio Officium is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Legio Officium - Legion History: The Legio Officium's last remaining Warlord-class Titan, Fire Bane, was present on the Cemetery World of Dianixis when the Thousand Sons Chaos Sorcerer Ahriman and his forces attacked the world in the battle remembered as the Death of Dianixis, seeking the skull of Lepidus, a hero of the 2nd Black Crusade buried there and the arcane information inscribed upon it.
Legio Officium - Notable Titans: Fire Bane (Warlord-class Titan) - Fire Bane was the last Warlord-class Titan of the Legio Officium. During the Death of Dianixis Fire Bane strode to war from its shrine. The cry of its warhorns echoed across the damned world, and its weapons burnt a path towards Ahriman's circle of Chaos Sorcerers. Drawing together the power of his fellow sorcerers, Ahriman forced the massive god-engine to its knees, before pulling the core of its plasma reactor through its carapace.
Legio Officium - Legion Colours: The Legio Officium's colours are unknown.
Legio Officium - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Officium is unknown.
Legio Onerus - Legio Onerus: The Legio Onerus is a Traitor Titan Legion that fell to the corruption of the Plague God Nurgle. It served among the Nurglite forces of Chaos that invaded the Realm of Ultramar during the Plague Wars of the Era Indomitus.
Legio Onerus - Notable Campaigns: Plague Wars (ca. 012.M42) - The Legio Onerus aided in the Chaos attack on the world of Espandor in Ultramar, which nearly fell to the Nurglite assault, until the Lord Commander of the Imperium Roboute Guilliman arrived in the region following the end of the first phase of the Indomitus Crusade and counter-attacked with a large Imperial strike force. As battle raged anew across Espandor's surface, the Legio Onerus' Titans were destroyed by Guilliman's forces at the Spires of Priandor. It is unknown if the entire complement of the Legio's Titans were destroyed on Espandor.
Legio Onerus - Legion Colours: The Legio Onerus' colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Onerus - Legion Badge: The Legio Onerus' badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Ordo Canis - Legio Ordo Canis: The Legio Ordo Canis ("Head Hunters") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.
Legio Ordo Canis - Notable Campaigns: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Ordo Canis - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Ordo Canis - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Ordo Canis - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Ordo Canis are grey and gold.
Legio Ordo Canis - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Ordo Canis is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Osedax - Legio Osedax: The Legio Osedax ("The Cockatrices") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. It hails from the Forge World of Phaeton, located in the Segmentum Solar.This Titan Legion's complement only reached its final form some time during the Great Crusade following the transplant of several Phaetonite magi to the world of Atar-Median. When they departed their homeworld, these Phaetonites took with them a core of ancient Legio Osedax god-engines that had once defended Phaeton in the anarchy of Old Night.These Titans -- approximately one-third of Phaeton's total -- went on to become the heart of the newly-founded Legio Atarus, while those Titans left behind on Phaeton remained the core of the Legio Osedax.
Legio Osedax - Origins: The more common appellation of "Cockatrices" for the Legio Osedax is aptly chosen for, like the ancient cockatrice that once ravaged Old Earth, it is a beast twisted by a cold rage and utterly lacking in mercy, its very presence anathema to that which lives.Where its god-engines tread they bring only death and ruin, leaving behind no refuge for the foe nor shelter for the enemies of the Imperium. Its princeps specialise in the brutal realm of close-quarters combat, and it is a rare sight when a Legio Osedax god-engine takes to the field unadorned by vast power claws or immense chainblades with which to rend and tear at the foe.In battle, they are a fearsome force, unrelenting and heedless of their own safety, seeking only to close with and eradicate the foe. Yet, they are not mindless berserkers, instead applying their savage skills with a deliberate and calculated cruelty in battle and adopting a scrupulous sense of decorum when off the field of war.The Legio Osedax was not always as such, the infamy of the Cockatrices born of something far more honourable and rooted in the origins of the Forge World that they called home, in the grim domain of Phaeton. Of all the Forge Worlds that managed to maintain the most tenuous of communications with Mars throughout Old Night and the Age of Strife, Phaeton was hardest-pressed by the tide of horrors that roamed the stars.Against this unrelenting onslaught, the Legio Osedax stood alone, their numbers slowly dwindling with each battle. Their valour in that distant age is still recorded in some few archives and data-repositories, yet, despite their courage, the Legio Osedax was reduced to but a fraction of its original size as it fought to preserve Phaeton.The last few maniples of the Legio Osedax enacted a desperate new strategy in order to preserve the Forge World that had sustained them. The first target of this strategy was the world of Koronal, once a thriving Hive World before the Age of Strife, but now a nest of raiders and pirates.Here, the remaining might of the Legio Osedax went forth one last time. Yet, as they set foot upon Koronal, they flew no flags of honour nor issued any call to battle. Instead, they opened fire on the hive city itself, collapsing the ancient structure even as the raiders within sought to arm themselves and wake their machines of war. The few crude macro-stalkers and heavy tanks that managed to break free of the collapse were cut down without mercy.Koronal was but the first world to feel the fury of the Legio Osedax and soon a swathe of burned and broken worlds surrounded Phaeton.The princeps of the once-lauded Legio Osedax gained a new name for their red-handed slaughter -- they became the "Cockatrices" -- creatures whose slightest glance brought death and ruin. This was the price of Phaeton's salvation, the utter ruin of the Titan Legion's legacy.
Legio Osedax - Great Crusade: With the arrival of the Emperor's forces in the years after Phaeton's salvation, this new and baleful reputation secured the Cockatrices a place in the vanguard of the Great Crusade, but as ill-omened destroyers rather than honourable warriors.Over the long years of the Great Crusade the Cockatrices would render countless worlds into sterile wastelands as a warning to those who would deny the Emperor's rule, and with each victory the spoils of war swelled both the coffers of Phaeton and its pride. Phaeton began to resent the leash placed on them by distant Mars, whose power they had begun to rival, and this resentment would quickly sour, turning first to a subtle war of trade embargoes and bitter words, then to hidden skirmishes and battlefield "accidents."The tech-adepts of Phaeton ignored few chances to shame their rival and overlord, and the Cockatrices endeavoured to exceed the glories of Mars' Titan Legions.Only the creation of the Phaetonite thrall-forge of Atar-Median, a last insult to Mars veiled in submission, would avert open war between the two great Forges, but this had merely delayed the inevitable.Kelbor-Hal, fabricator-general of Mars and now close confidant of the Warmaster Horus, quietly laid his own plans to humble proud Phaeton and cripple the powerful Legio Osedax.