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==History==

The Adeptus Custodes were known originally as the '''Legio Custodes''' or '''Custodian Guard'''. The original Custodians were the first genetically and psychologically altered warriors to appear in the Emperor's armies during the [[Terran]] [[Unification Wars]], where they served as the Emperor's personal bodyguard.{{Fn|4a}} The original recruits of the Custodes were from the offspring of Terran nobility.{{Fn|19}} Some of these were later grouped into [[Squad Dynastes]], dubbed the ''Lords of Terra''.{{Fn|56}} The first known appearance of the Custodes was early in the Unification Wars during the fall of the [[Techno-Barbarian]] fortress at [[Wikipedia: Nassau (region)|Nas'sau]].{{Fn|17a}} However, the origins of the Custodian Guard are shrouded in myth and legend. During the Great Crusade, the Custodes always kept a contingent with the Emperor for his protection, but also traveled individually as envoys. The Emperor valued the Custodians above all his other warriors, and while he was willing to expend countless servants he was always hesitant to bleed his Praetorians.{{Fn|15}} After the Emperor's internment in the Golden Throne, the Adeptus Custodes took a limited role as protectors of the Imperial Palace, as ordered by Roboute Guilliman in the [[Edict of Restraint]].{{Fn|19}}{{Fn|22c}}

*[[Burning of Prospero]]{{Fn|61}}

*[[Drop Site Massacre]] - A small squad of Custodes under [[Aquillon]] were slain by the [[Word Bearers]]{{Fn|15f}}

*[[Battle of Signus Prime]]{{Fn|6b}}

*[[War Within the Webway]]{{Fn|4f}}

*{{Endn|48}}: [[Leviathan (Box)]] Rulebook, pg. 247 - ''Sanctum Defiant''

*{{Endn|49}}: [[Dark Imperium: Godblight (Novel)]], Chapter 10

*51: [[Codex: Adeptus Custodes (10th Edition)]]:

**{{Endn|51a}}: pgs. 14-15

*{{Endn|73}}: [[Echoes of Eternity (Novel)]], Dramatis Personae

*{{Endn|74}}: [[The Silent King (Novel)]] - Chapter 6

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