#Ioudas of Zebu

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I swear I'm not dead I'm just busy and have been working on serious lost Primarch OCs in the few times that I'm not busy

Light blue(Celephaïs) is the 11th and red(Ioúdas of Zebu) is the 2nd

More on my boys when I can finally finish art again, see here for their draft designs

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The boys (rough coloured sketches)

Ioúdas of Zebu, Primarch of the IInd Legion- August Voyage (left). Armour embellishments are based on Devil's Tooth mushrooms and muscle on bone.

Celephaïs, Primarch of the XIth Legion- Deepwater Sentinels (right). He himself is based on jellyfish but his armour and robe colouration is based on countershading in certain marine animals.

Height obligatory heights and the difference between them, Celephaïs is the taller one.

Notes on them both + their legions

August Voyage

Deepwater Sentinels

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IInd Legion - The August Voyage

Primarch: Ioúdas of Zebu

Named after Judas Thaddeus, not Judas Iscariot.

Not a psyker.

Weapons were a pair of javelins called the Twin Heralds of the Interstice and a power lance called Soothsayer's Illuminator.

Home planet of Zebu (as in Beelzebub but the cow is fitting) was a living organism and subsequently exterminatus'd after.

Highly contemplative Primarch but often doubted himself, he was known for being eerily perceptive and having a strong intuition but typically ended up with his thoughts spiraling into the worst case scenario.

Quite down to earth when it came to talking to his Astartes, he thought of them more as brothers than sons and often spent his downtime during travel hosting discussion circles with them.

Kind of underwhelming compared to the other Primarchs but was within Magnus' friend circle (minus Lorgar). Admired Guilliman but rarely got the chance to speak to him.

Suspicious of Horus because of a conversation about plans for the end of the Great Crusade, he never got the feeling that Horus actually wanted it end because of a noncommittal answer.

Wasn't intended to have a severe gene flaw, it was being on Zebu that condemned him via a genetic marker being planted into his DNA and slowly unravelling it over time.

His execution was more of a suicide and being forgotten was forgiveness for a crime he didn't commit.

His death took out his entire legion with him via the psychic link created by the genetic marker of Zebu, he essentially assimilated the consciousness of every Astartes to make sure that they didn't become biomass that could be possessed by the remaining traces of Zebu's consciousness in the middle of the Rangdan Xenocides

(Uncertain) Maybe comes back in the 40k era via respawning in the warp Lucius-style for no discernible reason.

The August Voyage "Between life and death, blood and bone;The heavenly bodies and the unyielding eternity-Our only purpose is to go forth.We pursue and we persist, naught to regret-Ever forwards, never back."

Colours were ivory, black, and tarnished gold. When outside of armour, they wore white and red robes as well as jewelry made of bones from Zebu.

Legion Flagship was the Anabasis.

Last First Captain was Lahmis, (named after Lahmi, brother of Goliath) a psyker.

A legion similar in purpose to the White Scars, typically being deployed to the opposite side of the galaxy's fringe regions and occasionally venturing into deep space.

Exclusively recruited people with traceable Zebuai lineage. Existing Astartes from before Zebu was discovered underwent gene therapy to receive some Zebuai traits including the genetic marker.

They were primarily scouts and mappers with a minimal combat experience compared to the White Scars. The legion's ships were built mostly for long, silent travel at the cost of combat capabilities, so in the situations where they came across a significant threat, they were expected to flee and mark off the sector as hostile for later attacks.

Their default gene trait was meant to be incredible adaptability, but the genetic marker of Zebu led to this trait's potency being diminished and caused pain whenever the natural mutations were switched on and off.

Legion had a collective conscious rather than employing vox comms.

The marker also caused a thin film of acidic fluid to secrete from their pores at all times rather than sweat, and this fluid exclusively consumed biological material.

The Primarch himself didn't secrete the fluid so before long battle campaigns or whenever the legion was to travel to or from Terra, tradition dictated that everyone would scrape the film off of themselves to dump into a vat and the Primarch to smear it onto himself as a sign of humility and equality.

Everyone had to wear synthetic fibres because of the film.

In order to protect their hair they typically used clay or shaved their heads outright. A substitute paste made of corpse starch, resin, and water that hardened into a shell the film couldn't chew through was used when clay wasn't on hand.

They knew of their fate, the legion consciousness assimilation was voluntary.

Other posts of the fan legions and Primarchs:

Deepwater Sentinels

Primarch art

Shitpost

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