#watchkeepers

[castellankurze]

Is it just me or does anyone else think that (despite recent Imperial calamities) at least one Chapter of the 26th Founding will STILL hear of the Ultima Founding and think "After almost three hundred years, we're not the New Kids anymore AT LONG LAST!" before cheering? (I'm not saying that Imperial Institutions tend to suffer an inferiority complex when they can't find anyone junior to them, but I am heartily inferring it).

“Why are you so damned cheerful?” growled a voice from next to him.

Captain Micos of the Vanquishers turned to see his counterpart from the Watchkeepers, Captain Felleren, glowering at him, his scarred face twisted in a disapproving frown.

Despite the glare, Micos could not dampen his own expression.  “Because, brother, today I am granted the honour of standing closer to the Ultramarines than ever before.”

Felleren’s glare was unwavering.  The pair of them stood close to the tail-end of the gathered column of space marines, lined for the ceremony in order of succession.  As members of the Twenty-Sixth Founding, the Vanquishers and Watchkeepers would be among the last to be recognized.  “You’re no closer to the Ultramarines than you have ever been,” Felleren finally replied.

“This is true,” Micos agreed with an amicable nod.  “But now, for the first time, we have someone standing behind us,” he said with a gesture towards the behemoth of a marine that stood on his other side.  Still helmeted, the representative of the Knights Cerulean turned his head briefly, but otherwise the primaris marine did not acknowledge the remark.  “As such, our standing relative to the full length of the line has decreased considerably.  I find that ample reason to smile, brother.”

If a space marine’s glare could kill, Felleren’s dark glower would have rendered Micos down to atoms.  “That,” he declared, “is the most idiotic thing I have heard you say all day.  You are an idiot, and now I am more the idiot for having listened to your idiocy.”  With that, he turned away, and did not look towards Micos again.

Captain Micos faced forward once more, still grinning.  The sun seemed a little brighter today than it had moments ago.

[castellankurze]

Is it just me or does the name "Watchkeepers" cry out for the Space Marine chapter attached to have a very strong "YOUR TIME HAS COME!" motif? (I'm seeing a strong defensive focus and an hourglass in black on gold for a sigil): The Vanquishers make me think "Stylished Tank Tracks" for a symbol and a "We CRUSHED it bro!" air to the Chapter.

Hell yes.  Hell yes.  HELL YES.

[castellankurze]

Thank You very kindly for answering my query! (By the way, I've been thinking about the Watchkeepers & the Vanquishers a bit: I hope you won't mind me suggesting "The Hour has Come!" "But it has not yet passed!" as a call-and-response war cry for the former; I'm also toying with "Ave atque vale!" as the battle cry of the latter - the Latin equivalent to "Hello and GOODBYE!").

These are both gold.  I like the original idea of ‘Your time has come!’ as the Watchkeepers’ battle cry but this one can be a great pre-battle chant.  The Vanquishers’ one is too perfect though.

[castellankurze]

Would it seem reasonable to suggest that the Vindicators are frequently employed by the High Lords as a Sword of Damocles dangled over the Mechanicum ("Toe the line or we WILL send in these madmen ... and then hand them your precious vehicles as Spoils of War"), while the Watchkeepers are most often pitted against the Eldar (who HATE Time Travel with passion worthy of Purple Prose, because it really screws with their precognition).

The Watchkeepers have a love-hate relationship with the eldar because often enough their goals of “don’t let the entire time-space continuum as we know it collapse into a slurry of warpstuff and causality paradox” align that from time to time they have actually worked in concert.  Despite that, the farseers of the eldar race that have had cause to conflict with the chapter bear them an especial loathing.  They have also run afoul of more than one Necron lord attempting to reawaken sleeping tombworlds or reactivate ancient tools of the Necrontyr dynasties.

The Administratum did once attempt to call in the Vanquishers against an intractable forge world of the Mechanicus.  Unfortunately, this was following in the wake of such events as the Euxcine Incident where the Minotaurs had attacked the Inceptors and Doom Warriors chapters at the behest of the High Lords, and the Vanquishers were not eager to be perceived as placing themselves at the beck and call of another branch of the Imperium.  The Vanquishers were also not eager to antagonize the Mechanicus, upon whom they rely heavily for the maintenance of their chapter’s navy and fighting vehicles.  Ultimately, though they did respond to the request, the situation was resolved bloodlessly.

[cleardreamy]

37, 58, and 67

37:Tattoos and piercing i want

i don’t really want any of those tbh; i’m scared of needles ; A ; but sometimes i do wish my ears were pierced again58:What’s my strangest talent?

i can pop my tongue really well!67:What was the last book I've read?

an actual book? i don’t even know

[cleardreamy]

Hi

”Here's to the one with the smoking stare

All the right friends in all the right places

Change my attempt good intentions

I need a gun to keep myself from harm

Rule number one, is that you gotta have fun”

[cleardreamy]

Thanks for being one of the best blogs I follow this year. Hope 2016 will be good to ya! ^^

omg thank you so much! I love your blog as well!! same to you!

[despazito]

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