Huscarls

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Imperial Fists Heresy-era Terminator

The Huscarls were the elite Terminator bodyguards of Primarch Rogal Dorn during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.^[1]

Overview

The original Huscarls have their root in the Great Crusade, where their ranks were chosen from the most capable Phalanx Warders. They acted as mobile bastions that served as guardians for vital components of Imperial Fists battleforces while also proving capable battering rams on the attack in their own right, particularly in ship boarding actions.^[6] More than mere battlefield combatants, Huscarls were also capable strategists who were able to command large numbers of troops, particularly those involved in defensive operations.^[7]

The status of the Huscarls after the Heresy and until the current era is unclear. However since the influx of Primaris Space Marines into the ranks of the Imperial Fists, the Huscarls have been reconstituted by order of Roboute Guilliman. The new Huscarls, however, focus on organising the defense of Imperial worlds.^[2]

Known Huscarls

Huscarls defend against the Alpha Legion^[4b]

Heresy-Era

• Archamus — Master of the Huscarls^[1]
• Kestros — Sergeant and eventual commander. Second of the name Archamus.^[3]
• Vorst - Second to Archamus II^[5]
• Cadwalder^[3]
• Diamantis^[3]
• Gidoreas - Master during the Great Crusade
• Gregorius Skekkir^[4a]

Post-Heresy

• Heyd Calder - post-Great Rift era Huscarl.^[2]

Trivia

The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here.

Huscarls in medieval Scandinavia and also later in Anglo-Saxon England were either non-servile manservants or household troops in personal service of someone, equivalent to a bodyguard to lords and kings.

See also

• Space Marine Honour Guard#Pre-Heresy

Sources

• 1: The Lightning Tower (Short Story)
• 2: Apocalypse (Novel), Chapter 2
• 3: Saturnine (Novel) Dramatis Personae
• 4: Exemplary Battles of the Age of Darkness: The Battle of Pluto: Hydra’s Devastation
  • 4a: pg. 4
  • 4b: pg. 7
• 5: The End and the Death: Volume I (Novel) - 1:xvii
• 6: Exemplary Battles of the Age of Darkness: The Battle of Pluto: Hydra’s Devastation, pg. 6
• 7: Saturnine (Novel) - Chapter 4