Eternity Gate (Imperial)
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The Eternity Gate is the Imperial Palace's final gateway to the Sanctum Imperialis which holds the Golden Throne and the Emperor himself.[1] Ornate designs on the Gate itself depicts the Emperor defeating a great dragon.[1][6]
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Two Warhound Titans of the honoured Legio Ignatum stand guard, an eternal vigil they share with the 10,000 guards of the Adeptus Custodes. [1]
Along the enormous part-hallway part-road to the Gate known as the Grand Processional[4b] scores of banners line the way, carried in battle by the Empire's greatest heroes from its very founding, among them one carried by Lord Commander Solar Macharius. Just as they honour the Emperor, he returns such honour. At the end of this hallway of heroes the gate itself stands, massive and unbreakable, forged of tempered adamantium layered with ceramite. Its outer face is sheathed in gold, and masked with an image of the Emperor in the days of the Great Crusade standing triumphant over his broken enemies.[1]
An elite core of 300 Adeptus Custodes called the Companions stand guard over the Emperor himself while the rest of the Adeptus Custodes guard the rest of the Imperial Palace.[1]
During the Battle of Terra in the Horus Heresy, Primarch Sanguinius led the defense of this entrance from the hordes of Chaos vying to overrun the Palace when no other could withstand the ferocity of the assault. Later during the War of the Beast, an Eldar raid got within sight of the Eternity Gate before it was defeated by Custodes.[2] A Chaos uprising known as the Siege of the Eternity Gate took place sometime later.[5]
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The Eternity Gate[6]
Sanguinius defends the Eternity Gate during the Siege of Terra[4]
Sources
- 1: Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook, pgs. 6–8
- 2: Throneworld (Novel),
[Help] - 3: Codex Imperialis, pg. 3
- 4: Echoes of Eternity (Novel)
- 5: Codex: Adeptus Custodes (8th Edition), pg. 30–31 — The Tale of the Ten Thousand: Siege of the Eternity Gate
- 6: Warhammer Community: The shockwaves of the Siege of Terra are felt in a bumper epilogue anthology (posted 22/1/2025) saved page, original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-us/articles/wvwxpbdq/the-shockwaves-of-the-siege-of-terra-are-felt-in-a-bumper-epilogue-anthology/ (last accessed 22/1/2025)
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