Supe robot gangster #1 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Hey all! Another legion organisation question for those with a copy of inferno! Does the book outline how each fellowship is organised? And if so can anyone help me in regards to fellowship size, company size etc. etc? Many thanks in advance! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/331390-thousand-sons-fellowship-organisation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandlemad Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 So the nine Fellowships appear to mostly float around the 8-9K mark each. Below that were the Circles, which varied in size from a handful of squads to hundreds of warriors. Their numbers and makeup varied widely due to weird ritual stuff and they weren't organised in a 1st company, 2nd company manner, e.g. Circle Iaed-9 was set at 512 warriors organised into squads of either 16, 9 or 7 warriors. It's bizarre and mention is made of a 'spiral pattern'. Individual squads were also called Chantries. The number of circles within a fellowship changed and varied, as did their makeup. It's pretty clear though that rank and status also varied depending on your standing within one of the cults and other organisations, as did psychic ability vs veterancy, and how important a cult was to Magnus at the time (thinking here of the Corvidae waning early on in A Thousand Sons). Gets very complex. This is all after Magnus's 'pesedjet' reforms of the legion. There is also the order of ruin (logicians, siegemasters, warships), order of the jackal (dreadnoughts, apothecaries, khenetai occult blades) and order of the blind (infiltrators, maybe destroyers). Contrary to what was suspected, these were separate from the normal fellowships (not like the five main cults or the DA wings) but were attached to them sometimes. EDIT: Just checked though and mention is made of a terminator being part of the 1st circle of the 6th fellowship, a centurion leading the 5th fellowship's third tactical support battalion, an honour guard being part of 'the circle of Auramagma' (as a bodyguard, presumably), and a prominent primus-medicae being part of the legion apothecarion's 'Heroditine circle'. I think the term is meant to be ambivalent, certainly the overwhelming impression is one of immense complexity. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/331390-thousand-sons-fellowship-organisation/#findComment-4666683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supe robot gangster #1 Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 Haha thanks for that! That kinda helps? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/331390-thousand-sons-fellowship-organisation/#findComment-4666909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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