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That one Legion amongst twenty should be so singled out might imply some special favour, but in truth it was a title that spoke not to special honour, but to the Legion's place in the Emperor's purpose. While the other Space Marine Legions acquired names later in their history to accompany their initial numerical designations, the XVII th Legion were named as the Imperial Heralds at their Founding. Only once a foe was broken and bowed in repentance, could they be accepted as deserving anything but ruin.
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While others might acknowledge and even respect their foes, the XVII th saw no virtue in defiance. All that mattered was that their duty be done. For them there was no joy in battle, nor glory in conquest. Dour and mirthless, few of them formed the bonds with other Legions that were common during those early days. While others went to war with righteousness, the XVII th fought with the cold fury that only the condemned and redeemed can know. Recruited from the sons of exterminated foes of the Emperor, they were trained and raised to know the crimes of their forebears and the price of forgiveness. While all the Legiones Astartes fought with utter devotion, the warriors of the XVII th Legion carried with them an air of zealotry. Pict-file of a pre-unification XVII th Legion Tactical Legionary arrayed in Mk II 'Crusade' pattern battle-plate.įrom its earliest days, the XVII th stood apart from its brother Legions in its Astartes' duty and outlook. Legion History The Heralds of Truth " If we kill everyone who resists us then we will reign over a kingdom of ashes." - Unknown battle leader, Unification Wars, ca. 3.2.1 Known Chapters of the Word Bearers Legion.As Guardians of the Faith, they founded the galaxy-spanning Ecclesiarchy, and after witnessing how it nearly plunged the Imperium into another civil war, now act as its moral compass to ensure that such a powerful body can never again be corrupted. They used this knowledge to save Warmaster Horus from possession on Davin, but to their eternal regret were unable to prevent the Dornian Heresy, which crippled their living deity. They were one of the first legions to comprehend the existence and threat of Chaos, and that faith in The God-Emperor was soul-armour against its wiles.
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It is a duty they carry out with both impassioned, fiery rhetoric and the cleansing purity of the bolt gun. The Word Bearers are tireless in their crusade to have the galaxy worship the Emperor as divine. They have always been the bearers of the ideals of the Imperium and of its vision for the future of humanity. Since their inception, the Word Bearers' devotion to the Imperium has been beyond question. The Word Bearers are a Loyalist First Founding Space Marine Legion. Faith ennobles all of the works the soldier undertakes be they so base or vile, and imports to them the golden spark of transcendent purpose." - Lorgar Aurelian, Primarch of the Legiones Astartes Word Bearers It makes even the least soldier mighty, the craven is remade worthy and through its balm any hardship may be endured. " Faith is the soul of any army be it vested in primitive religion or enlightened truth.