Legio Praesagius

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The Legio Praesagius battles the Fire Masters^[1]

The Legio Praesagius, also known as the True Messengers, were a Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica at the time of the Horus Heresy from the Forge World of Gantz.

History

The legion gained great fame during the Great Crusade at Tentrion. Other hard-fought battles followed as the True Messengers found themselves assigned to the vanguard of a number of Expedition Fleets, often fighting alongside the XVIIth and XIIIth Legiones Astartes. In many campaigns they found themselves summoned to battles others had dubbed impossible, called upon to champion the armies of the Great Crusade and to bolster flagging morale. Amidst the howling dust wastes of Akeron Cards and the towering cities of Benthur, they fought with stoic pride and utter devotion to the cause of the fledgling Imperium, and paid a high price in blood and the precious Battle Titans that were the soul of the Titan Legion to achieve victory.

By the dawning of the 31st Millennium the True Messengers had been crippled by the continuing pace of their deployment, reduced to a third by casualties and with many of their surviving Titans unable to take to the field due to damage. Though the reputation of the Titan Legion remained intact, it could ill afford to remain at the tip of the spear of men and machines that was the Great Crusade. In recognition of the Titan Legion's service and eager to add to the defences of his newly established realm, Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, prevailed upon the magos of the newly founded Forge World of Gantz to offer a new home to the Legio Praesagius.^[3]

Staying loyal to the forces of the Emperor during the Horus Heresy they defended the population of Ithraca from the Fire Masters with the aid of the Ultramarines during the Calth campaign.^[1][2]

The nine Warlords of the Legio were destroyed in action during the Battle of Ithraca, sacrificing themselves to allow the remaining war engines of the Legio to disperse into Ithraca and continue the battle. In the annals of the Collegia Titanica, they are known as the Nine Paragons of Ithraca.^[3]

Titans

• The Auric Pegasus
• Chrysaor's Wake
• The Lion of Mars
• Plutarchos
• Reason's Thunder
• Sabris Regnum
• The Silver Thorn
• The Triumph of Accatran
• The Will of Adamant

Related Articles

• List of Titan Legions
• Imperial and Chaos Titans (List)

Sources

• 1: Black Library
• 2: Honour to the Dead (Audio Drama) by Gavin Thorpe
• 3: The Horus Heresy Book Five - Tempest, pgs. 59-60