Legio Custodes Telemon heavy dreadnought

[Aeternus]

Honoured brother Numerian of the Moritoi

 

"Previously a Proconsul of the Tharanatoi, Numerian was granted the honour of internment in a Telemon pattern heavy Dreadnought following his noble fall as part of the Legio Custodes strike force present at the end of the unification wars - the battle of Mount Ararat. He would remain a constant example of the heights his fellows should aspire to, taking part in conflicts ranging throughout the galaxy as first the Imperium was established through blood and fire, and later would fight again as hope and progress were sacrificed upon the alter of Horus' tyrannic aspirations.

 

Eventually Numerian would fall in the raging battle over Humanity's birthworld - fighting as part of a host sent to protect, or ultimately deny, the traitors access to the Forbidden Fortress deeply set in the Himalazia mountains. The vile Word Bearers, knowing alone they had neither the arms nor armour to confront such a mighty warrior, instead turned to their shamanistic practices and sadistic rituals, conjuring a great daemon the colour of dark crimson, who engaged Numerian upon the peak where he had held his ground for days.

 

Wreaking terrible blows upon each other, one fighting with golden fist wreathed in arcane energy, and the other with an axe that could cleave through ceramite as but an afterthought, the battle caused all but the most blood crazed of traitors to stop and feel fear. This welcome reprieve granted the rest of the Custodian host a chance to strike back, and consolidate their defensive positions. But this came at a price.

 

Had he been at his full strength, capacitors brimming with energy and atomantic barriers sizzling in the snowfall, the fight would have surely ended with Numerian casting aside the broken corpse atop the mountains. Alas, the ancient's golden plate was scarred a hundred times over, and his energy was almost depleted. The colossal daemon, though bleeding ichor from a dozen wounds, seized the opportunity, carving Numerian's left arm from his sarcophagus body. The next strike took the warrior's right leg at the knee, and the daemon-king began to gloat.

 

But no Custodian, especially not one as old nor as righteous, would die easily. Mustering the last of the strength in his fibre-musles and servomotors, Numerian launched himself at the beast, carrying them both free of the mountaintop. Even as the adversary, its wretched face bunching in anger and hate, tore into Numerian's body with claw, tooth, axe and whip, seeking to untangle itself, the two combatants fell. They fell from the highest peak, flame lapping against them at the violent speed of their descent. Aligning his Arachnus storm cannon up against the beasts neck, held close in the deathly embrace, Numerian's last action before they impacted the ground was to pulse all the remaining power into one final shot. One bright lance split the air, spearing under the daemon-king's chin, through a head cast in fear, and out the other side, before the tightly woven bundle of auramite and warpflesh impacted upon the rocks below, both breaking apart."

 

 

- Excerpt from 'Forgotten heroes of the Golden Legion', life-work of Custodian serf Aramon Taris of the Tower of Hegemon

 

[Honda]

Oh, you wicked, wicked boy.

 

Love him <looks over at FW wish list again>

[Bjorn Firewalker]

You made an awesome model, with an awesome backstory to go with him. Excellent works.

[Pearson73]

What an excellent gritty paint job, the glow on the weapon is just right.

[Aeternus]

Oh, you wicked, wicked boy.

 

Love him <looks over at FW wish list again>

 

Haha :D Thanks, and y'know, they're some beautiful models. If you're not convinced by this one number 2 might push you over the edge ;)

 

 

You made an awesome model, with an awesome backstory to go with him. Excellent works.

 

Cheers Bjorn!  backstory was just an afterthought when I was putting him up, but figured a cool slightly biased account would be fun to write, glad you like it :)

 

 

What an excellent gritty paint job, the glow on the weapon is just right.

 

Thanks Pearson :) Always preferred a gritter Custodes gold scheme like fw do to *bright bright yellow gold*, so pretty happy with how the armour, the verdigris and such came out! Glow was one of the things I added last, but figured the model needed some other colour beyond gold, red and black to break it up a bit more.