Honour Guard - Traitor Legions: LegionLegion NumberPrimarchTitleNotesEmperor's ChildrenIIIFulgrimPhoenix GuardThe Phoenix Guard served as the honour guard for the Primarch Fulgrim of the Emperor's Children Legion. Their present status is unknown, as their last recorded battle with the Imperium occurred 100 Terran years after the Battle of the Iron Cage in the early 31st Millennium.Iron WarriorsIVPerturaboIron CircleFormed in the wake of the attack aboard Perturabo's flagship, the Iron Blood, during the Battle of Phall, the Iron Circle was a self-sustaining unit of implacable killers, devoted servants and incorruptible praetorians all in one. The Iron Circle was composed of six Colossus-class battle robots who served as the Primarch Perturabo's Shield Breakers and personal honour guard during the Horus Heresy. Each automaton bore the heraldry of a IV Legion warrior, and their cold machine hearts were loyal in the way it was only a possible for an unthinking machine to be.Night LordsVIIIKonrad CurzeAtramentarThe Atramaentar were a company-strength formation equipped with Terminator Armour and armed with the finest weapons, they were the personal command of the brutal First Captain, Jago Sevatarion and enforcers of order. Renowned for their cold brutality in battle and their unswerving loyalty to their commander and their Primarch, they seem to have acted as a check on the many fractions elements within the VIII Legion, and though this cannot now be confirmed, it is widely thought that they served as Curze's executioners when the need arose.World EatersXIIAngronDevourersThe Devourers were the premier cadre within the World Eaters Legion that served as a dedicated bodyguard unit for their Primarch Angron (whether he needed one is another matter). In battle they fought encased in Terminator Armour and carried the most savage weapons the XII Legion possessed. This warrior band had only twelve members, and access to its ranks was only attained by defeating a Devourer in single combat to the death or, should one of its number fall in battle against an enemy, a successor was selected by a contest open to all Astartes in the XII Legion, only one of which would survive.Death GuardXIVMortarionDeathshroudThe Deathshroud was an elite cadre of specially selected battle-brothers from the XIV Legion who served as Primarch Mortarion's mute bodyguards during the Great Crusade. Great secrecy surrounded this elite cadre, whose numbers were chosen from amongst the standard ranks of the Death Guard Legion from Astartes who had been singled out and personally selected by their Primarch for their bravery and valour. The Deathshroud wore Artificer-crafted Terminator Armour of the highest quality, presenting a foreboding appearance with their barrel-chested appearance and like their Primarch, wielding large scythes called Manreapers. It was the Deathshroud's sacred duty to never stray more than forty-nine paces from Mortarion, with two Deathshroud warriors customarily escorting the Primarch at any given time.Thousand SonsXVMagnus the RedSekhmetThe Sekhmet were the veteran Space Marine battle-brothers of the Thousand Sons Legion who served as the Primarch Magnus the Red's elite honour guard. They were made up of the best and brightest of the Thousand Sons Legionaries and were equipped with resplendent crimson and ivory Tactical Dreadnought Armour, with jade scarabs gleaming on their breastplates and golden crests rearing from their atef helmets.Their visors were marred by a single vertical slash that obscured the right eye lenses of their helmets. This was in honour of their Primarch, nicknamed the Cyclops, due to the loss of his right eye from peering too deeply into the mysterious realms of the Immaterium.Sons of HorusXVIHorus LupercalJustaerinThe Justaerin were one of two distinct sub-formations within the elite 1st Company of the Luna Wolves and later the Sons of Horus Legion. Led by the Legion's First Captain Ezekyle Abaddon, the Justaerin were the pride of the XVI Legion, sporting their signature black armour, which denoted their specialisation in harrowing actions, shock assaults and strategic decapitation strikes. Tasked with forming the "point of the spear" for the XVI Legion, they went where the fighting was thickest, their attack directed usually at destroying the heart of an opposing target or conducting the decapitation strike of an enemy force. Early proponents of the use of Tactical Dreadnought Armour, many Justaerin entered combat as Terminators, relying on the resilience this gave them to smash aside any resistance and close in for the kill.Word BearersXVIILorgar AurelianGal VorbakThe Gal Vorbak (Colchisian dialect for "the Blessed Sons") was the name later given to the Space Marines of the Serrated Suns Chapter of the Word Bearers Legion who ventured deep into the Eye of Terror Warp rift and brought back the Primordial Truth of the existence of Chaos to their Primarch Lorgar. These crimson-armoured, Daemon-possessed Astartes served as Lorgar's elite troops during the battles of the Horus Heresy. Thousands of the Gal Vorbak were left to die, alone and unsupported, on the surface of the devastated world of Calth when First Chaplain Erebus fled the conflict that the Word Bearers fought against their hated rivals the Ultramarines on that benighted world. Argel Tal, the Crimson Lord, was the sole surviving original member of the Gal Vorbak, having been seconded to the World Eaters Legion for temporary duty before the Word Bearers' assault on Calth. Argel Tal forsook his oaths to the annihilated Serrated Suns Chapter and gained permission from his Primarch Lorgar to form a newly constituted formation, known as the Vakrah Jal, the Chapter of Consecrated Iron, who rose from the ashes of Word Bearers companies devastated on the killing fields of Istvaan V.Alpha LegionXXAlpharius OmegonLernaeanThe Lernaean Terminators were an elite formation that served as Primarch Alpharius Omegon's personal honour guard during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Few knew of the Lernaean Terminator Squads. This was not because they sought to obscure their existence, but rather because they rarely left behind any witnesses of their deeds. The Lernaeans were, like the beast that was their namesake and the icon of their Legion, an unformed legend and the object of shrouded dread. They were the grinding jaws of the many-headed Hydra, the furious assault from the unexpected quarter. And like the beast of myth, they were all but impossible to slay. Clad in Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour chased with baroque finery and armed with Volkite Chargers, they were fearsome close combat assault and vanguard spearhead units against which few enemies could stand. In battle they advanced relentlessly upon the foe, descending with controlled fury and slaying any enemy driven to rout before them.