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==History==
[[Image:Custode Icon.png|thumb|right|Symbol of the Custodian Guard at the time of the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]]{{Fn|50b}}]]
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}}
[[File:Custodesimage.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Custodian Guard c.[[M31]]]]
The Custodes were equipped with the best [[power armour]] of the age, and had access to the most highly advanced weaponry and vehicles of the Imperium, including designs that were not permitted to the [[Space Marine Legion]]s.{{Fn|17e}} After the end of the [[Horus Heresy]] and the enthronement of the [[Emperor]], the Custodes were said to have changed the colour of their cloaks from red to black to symbolise the darkness that had fallen over their order.{{Fn|2b}} To further mark their failure many, such as those in the [[Hetaeron Guard]], stopped wearing all but their black helms, capes, and loincloths.{{Fn|56}} However others such as those in the [[Ephoroi]] were observed still wearing standard power armour.{{Fn|22d}} By the end of the [[41st Millennium]] with the reappearance of [[Roboute Guilliman]], the Custodes abandoned their shrouds of shame and were seen again wearing their traditional red garments and power armour.{{Fn|19}}
During the [[Age of Apostasy]], the Adeptus Custodes reemerged briefly during the siege of the [[File:Emperor Imperial Ecclesiarchal Palace Rogue Trader]] of [[Terra]] in the reign of [[Goge Vandire]].jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Custodians ring During this time, the Custodes attempted to make their way towards Vandire, halted only by the [[Golden ThroneBrides of the Emperor]], who Vandire had convinced to become his personal bodyguards.After a long and otherwise fruitless discussion, the Custodes convinced the leader of the Brides, [[Alicia Dominica]], to return with them to the presence of the [[Emperor]]. What happened during that moment is unknown, but the effects resulted in the Brides of the Emperor rebelling against Vandire, ending his reign once and for all.{{fn|21b}}
Centuries later during the [[Terran Crusade]], Custodes arrived to reinforce the reborn [[Roboute Guilliman]] as he battled the [[Thousand Sons]] on [[Luna]]. Shortly after, Terra was [[Battle of Lion's Gate|besieged by Daemons]], proving to many Custodes that they had been wanting and let the threat of the Archenemy arrive on the Emperor's doorstep.{{Fn|25d}} Later, the Custodes permitted Guilliman to enter the Emperor's Throneroom alone for an entire day.{{Fn|18}} The reappearance of a Son of the Emperor galvanised the Custodes, and behind closed doors Guilliman and [[Captain-General]] [[Trajann Valoris]] amended the [[Edict of Restraint]] and modified the role of the Custodes that would see many of them journey across the Galaxy on [[Crusade]]s.{{Fn|25d}} Now members of the Custodes will bring war to the enemies of mankind, while the [[Companions]] oversee the safety of the Emperor's mortal form.{{Fn|19}}
The Adeptus Custodes are so revered that it is deemed heresy for the [[Administratum]] to record them ever losing a battle. Thus, it is officially recorded that any warzone the Custodes are deployed to is an Imperial victory, even before they arrive.{{Fn|25c}}
[[File:Emperor Imperial Palace Rogue Trader.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Custodians ring the [[Golden Throne]].]]
===Combat History===
====Unification Era====
*[[Coldharvest Campaign]]{{Fn|25f}}
*[[Ullanor Crusade]]{{Fn|25f}}
[[Image:CustodesRT.jpg|thumb|right|180px|The appearance of some of the Custodes between the Post-Heresy and [[Era Indomitus]] periods.{{Fn|2a}}{{Fn|56}}]]
====Horus Heresy====
*[[Burning of Prospero]]{{Fn|61}}
