Demi-Legio Custodii Incudatem

The Demi-Legio Custudii Incudatem is a partial Titan legion under the command of the Forge-World of Naximus Prime.

Four Facts About The Demi-Legio Custodii Incudatem

• They are the remnants of a Titan Legion. The Demi-Legio remembers little of its origins, it believes itself to be made up of a number of Titans stranded upon Naximus Prime when the sector fell to the forces of the Warmaster. What battle they were assembled for is unknown but given the mix of naming traditions implied by the various names for its Titans it appears to have been amalgamated from Titans of several Legions perhaps on Naximus for repair. The Legion today are those who survived the nearly ten millennia of isolation weathered by Naximus Prime.

• They often have non-standard equipment. Perhaps due to a lack of resources the Demi-Legio's Titans have been outfitted with all manner of weapons not designed for their chassis by the Magi of Naximus Prime this makes their Titans often unique examples of modifications to the sacred God-Machines of the Mechanicus that do wrankle non-Naximan Mechanicus.

• They are the Defenders of their Homeworld. If it were not for the Demi-Legio it is said that Naximus Prime would have fallen long ago. This close relationship as Guardians of their Forge make the Demi-Legio unwilling to deploy in support of the Crusade unless it is to the specific benefit and at the behest of the Magi of Naximus and more often they are found patrolling the Forge-districts of Naximus Prime then walking upon the battlefields of the Prosperitas Sector.

• Their Princeps are one with their Machines. The Demi-Legio installs its Princeps in fluid-filled Amniotic Tanks which permanently house their heavily bionicised bodies. Few Princeps ever leave their ancient machines instead becoming an organic component of the God Machine until their physical form fails and they must be replaced by new candidates.

Demi-Legio Custodii Incudatem "The Anvilguard"

A small force in comparison to the Legio Ferraeus, the Titans that form the Demi-Legio Custodi Incudatem were stranded upon Naximus Prime during the Heresy. The original name of their Parent Legio (or Legios) lost to the tides of time for ten thousand years, this Demi-Legio served as the defenders of Naximus Prime and its territories, and for ten thousand years a handful of God-Machines protected the Forge from the predations of the Archenemy. Though they have served as a grim threat to the more independent-spirited Knight Houses of Anaximund that they could quickly become the enforcers of their Forge's will against the lesser walkers of the Knight Houses.

Over the course of ten thousand years of repair and refitting on Naximus the Titans of the Legio have been extensively modified beyond their STC patterns, a trespass on doctrine that the Tech Priests of Naximus have forgiven themselves of given the needs of their isolated forge during the long period of isolation caused by the siege of their world by the Regency to this end, along with possessing several different patterns of the standard Titan Classes, the Demi-Legio possesses a number of rare chassis that have not been commonly seen in the Imperium at large since the Horus Heresy. And a number of heavily modified chassis that do not exist in any STC pattern doctrinalised by the Adeptus Mechanicus. These so called 'uglies' (by members of the Legio Ferraeus and never to the face of a Princeps of one) are technically forbidden designs sometimes called the 'Unseen' by the Priests of the Forge.

After the end of Naximus Prime's isolation following the arrival of the Prosperitas Crusade the Titans of the Demi-Legio have been sighted outside the confines of Naximus, often serving, with their Secutarii Titan Guard, as the long arm of the Priesthood of their world. This was, however to prove a costly venture for the Demi-Legio...

The Demi-Legio was, alongside the Titans of the Legio Ferraeus, one of the first Imperial forces to walk upon the Titan graveyard of Henlock. This was in part because of a territorial dispute between Naximus and Ferraeus over the world, and in part because the myriad wrecks upon that world likely once walked alongside the battle-scarred Titans of the Demi Legio. The apocalyptic battle over that seemingly worthless world was why its Titans were sheltering on Naximus when the sector fell.

Just prior to the first battle of Henlock the Demi-Legios Titans were stationed on Henlock for training maneuvers with the Legio Ferraeus, part of a regular spar between the Princeps of the two Titan forces. The Archenemy ambush on Henlock claimed the lives of many Legio staff and, worst of all, the loss of the Warlord-class Titan Domina Praelium – leading to a period of great mourning amongst the force.

The Third Battle for Henlock

Like the Legio Ferraeus the Demi-Legio craved vengeance for the losses it sustained during the first battle of Henlock - fortunately this coincided with the Magi of their Forges' desires to support the Imperial military campaign in order to reclaim the world. But as the Engine War on Henlock has dragged on due to disagreements between the Tech Priests of all three Forges represented on the planet, the Demi-Legio has been deployed in less and less fights.

In part this is due to concerns about the frayed loyalties of the Knights of Anaximund, with the Inner Ring of the Tech Priests of their world fearing an uprising on the Knight World against their rule. Should such an uprising occur, the Naximan Priesthood fears that by having their Titans too far to be deployed to quash such a rebellion the Anaximundi might be tempted to make such an attempt.