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Ahh, and so "The Tithes" takes its side in the most important ongoing Culture War in Warhammer...

Should custodians of the Emperor's Chosen - the baseline classic color scheme - have red on their pauldrons?

"The Tithes", along with all three existing codex covers and many pieces of key official art, as well as the color scheme presented on the Adeptus Custodes miniature boxes says that no! They shouldn't!

They are all, however, wrong!

Because just as many pieces of official art within codex illustrations and - most importantly - the official presentation of the Emperor's Chosen color scheme have it as red!

And why wouldn't it be red?! The space is so clearly meant to carry the host's colors - why would it be left blank and worse looking? Why would the very clear intent of the miniature designers be so eagerly scorned? Why would GW so callously ruin its own creation? Why would Tyrith Shiva Kyrus betray me personally?

And so I say it shan't be so! The source material is extremely clear - despite its numerous omissions and contradictions, often within the same picture - the pauldron shall be red and red shall be its underlying color! All else is but lies and falsehoods, destined to be cast down under the blinding light of truth (not reflected off the brazenly unpainted pauldrons)!