Demi-Legio Custodii Incudatem

The Imperial Titans or God-Machines are titanic armoured war-machines towering over the battlefield at heights that rival many buildings, made in the image of humankind to fight the enemies of the Imperium. Each is piloted by a specialist Mechanicus-trained crew raised within the massive training halls of the Collegia Titanica.

The majority of common facts about the wider Collegia Titanica are found on the Legio Ferraeus page.

Four Facts About The Demi-Legio Custodi Incudem

• 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 Custodi Incudem "The Anvilguard"

A small force in comparison to the Legio Ferraeus, the Titans that form the Demi-Legio Custodi Incudem were stranded upon Naximus Prime during the Heresy. The original name of their Parent Legio 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.

Recently the Demi-Legio has suffered badly at the hands of the Archenemy; its Titans were stationed on Henlock for training maneuvers with the Legio Ferraeus, amidst rumours of the Legios merging as a bridge between their estranged Home Forges. 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.