Later, the Custodes permitted Guilliman to enter the Emperor's Throneroom alone for an entire day. Shortly after, Terra was 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. Д¬enturies later during the Terran Crusade Custodes arrived to reinforce the reborn Roboute Guilliman as he battled the Thousand Sons on Luna. 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. After a long and fruitless discussion, the Custodes convinced the leader of the Brides, Alicia Dominica, to return with them to the presence of the Emperor. During this time, the Custodes attempted to make their way towards Vandire, halted only by the Brides of the Emperor whom Vandire had convinced into becoming his personal bodyguards. Дuring the Age of Apostasy, the Adeptus Custodes reemerged briefly during the siege of the Ecclesiarchal Palace of Terra in the reign of Goge Vandire. 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. 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. 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 Legions. 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. The Emperor valued the Custodians above all his other warriors, and while he was willingly to expend countless of his servants he was always hesitant to bleed his Praetorians.

During the Great Crusade, the Custodes always kept a contingent with the Emperor for his protection, but also traveled individually as envoys. However the origins of the Custodian Guard are shrouded in myth and legend. The first known appearance of the Custodes was early in the Unification Wars during the fall of Techno-Barbarian fortress at Nas'sau. The original recruits of the Custodes were from the offspring of Terran nobility. 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. The Adeptus Custodes were known originally as the Legio Custodes or Custodian Guard. They are to the Space Marines what those transhuman warriors are to common Guardsmen, an elevated elite whose raw strength and willpower are wholly insurmountable. Custodians are the mightiest of mankind's warriors.

Such is their authority in this matter that Space Marines and Inquisitors must kneel before them. It is the Adeptus Custodes that decide who may enter the throne room of the Emperor, and when. For much of their history the Custodes rarely left the Imperial Palace and even more rarely left Terra. Together with the Sisters of Silence they represented the Talons of the Emperor being the right hand of the Emperor. Due to the vast size of the Imperial Palace, the Custodes always act as a defensive army. The Adeptus Custodes, renowned as the Brotherhoood of Demigods, the Golden Legion and a host of other titles, ( The Custodian Guard, The Guardians, Watchers of The Throne, The Thousand Companions, The Ten Thousand ), but most commonly known as Custodians, are the guardians of the Imperial Palace and the Golden Throne, as well as being the personal bodyguard to the Emperor. M31 (during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy).

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