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Starting a Boarding Patrol of Covenant of Fire. Proof of concept here.

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“We are His wrath made manifest”

-common battle cry of the Golden Skulls chapter

This is Auricus, the chapter master of the Golden Skulls, the first model I’ve painted this year.

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The halyrood is a potent symbol in the New Albian milieu. It is, quite plainly, the symbol of the ultimate sacrifice - that of a retainer for his lord. Only the most elite of Greymane warriors are entitled to wear this symbol. Many Imperial clerics have noted the similarities between the Halyrood's various forms and the Terminator Honor. As it is demonstrably older than the latter, they theorize that both symbols derive from a ancient, heathen faith lost to history. The lore for this symbol is drawn from the mythology surrounding the Anglo-Saxon rood, or cross. Specifically, it is meant to be the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Y'know, a little thing like that. As depicted in the poem Dream of the Rood, the rood was not so much a implement of torturous death as it was a loyal and noble retainer, accompanying his lord through that torturous death. I felt this was a thematic thing for the Greymanes. The "heathen faith", if it isn't clear, is Christianity. In the grimdarkness of the far future, Jesus and his word have both been cast to oblivion by the purges of the Emperor and the ignorance of the Imperium. And that's a loss, isn't it? Whether you're a non-believer or believer, you can agree that much is lost with the obliteration of Christian, or rather Catheric faith. So divorced are the Greymanes from their ancestors, they no longer recognize a Christian cross for what it is. They dimly know it represents sacrifice, the ultimate sacrifice even, but they don't know whose sacrifice. I'll leave you with a quote. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

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