You know of whom I speak. Grimaldus was unable to determine the Chapter origin of the Storm Eagle from its outward appearance, as whatever colours it had borne into battle were long gone, stolen by the storm. But Grimaldus argued that the Lions' survival would be for the best and he was depleting Hive Helsreach's defences to march alongside the Lions back into the Mannheim Gap. Meanwhile, the Fairy Tail Mages are shown travelling towards the said location, alongside Yukino and Fiore Princess Hisui and her guard Arcadios. It was a common-enough occurrence. Utilising the flagship's powerful communication array, he was able to amplify his transmitter's signal to send a message through. 9 Beautiful Lion Images! It was not known if this was the very same cloak Helbrecht had granted to Dubaku when he forced him to take the oath of lordship over his depleted Chapter. The Exilarchy was under the command of a warband of Heretic Astartes called The Pure, who were the Chaos-corrupted remnants of the Star Scorpions Chapter that had once been a part of the Adeptus Vaelarii. He argued with Grimaldus that this was the Celestial Lions' fight and no one else's. At his hip, bound by chains of black iron, was the flayed, polished skull of the Greenskin Warlord they had killed together. A Celestial Lion called out to the Reclusiarch, reminding him that the Ork Warlord was the Pride Leader's kill. The interior of such unfortunate vessels had all life torn into genetic scrap; all metal mutated and poisoned beyond salvage. The Celestial Lions were created in the 38th Millennium from the Gene-Seed of the Imperial Fists. "No pity. So in the wake of his failure, the Lions made planetfall in full force. The Reclusiarch explained that the city was vastly overdefended now, with entire battalions sitting idle and awaiting redeployment. Sometimes the Lions would find their Scouts' bodies, but usually they were lost. The plan was simple -- they would march into the Mannheim Gap, and they would destroy anything that moved or breathed. Successor Chapters Above the advance rode the gunship fleet, all flanking the four remaining Thunderhawks in the Celestial Lions' arsenal. It was possible that the Inquisitor was astute in his observations. Chapter Master

The battle continued to rage, as the men and women Grimaldus had led there fought their way further down the canyon. Time passed, as Grimaldus spoke with eighty-one Astra Militarum officers and eleven Naval captains. But they had fought this battle for a bloodline's pride, and here was the moment of reckoning. Third, he and Cyneric needed a gunship to return to the Eternal Crusader. The downed Celestial Lions gunship had fallen victim to the fearful winds and violent storms that wracked Armageddon's skies, heralding the infamous Season of Fire. It was a thing of blunt fangs, sinewy muscle and hammering limbs -- larger than Grimaldus, and both stronger and faster than him.

The Lions' most grievous error was forgetting that.". Sort by. Dawn was less than a solar hour away as they broke cloud cover above the Lions' ruined fortress stronghold. He informed the Lions that in fact, it would not fall. Yet they found their patrols being hit harder than any orbital intelligence had predicted possible. Primitive Void Shielding protected the site from orbital bombardment. Never had they faced such odds, and the last of them cut their way free, pulling their brothers from the storm of blades and fell back to their fortress with the enemy at their heels. But these also grew more infrequent as their fleet was massacred in the sky. He ate the dead -- his own, and the Lions. Many times, the chapter serfs are allowed to take a few shots as well. Though the Emperor was immortal and mighty beyond reckoning, he was in truth no god. The salt continues by the Inquisition when in the novel Spear of the Emperor states that Ekene Dubaku was beheaded by a Callidus posing as Thrall servant of Amadeus Kaias Incarius from the Mentors. Any brother caught praying for mercy from the Inquisition is sent to the Deathwatch.

They immediately recite a litany of hate upon the Inquisition. As with any cleansing, the Lions expected preachers of the Imperial Creed to take over, shepherding the lost populace back to enlightenment. The enemy ambush unfolded further as Greenskins spilled from the earth, pouring in hordes from warrens within the canyon sides and the rocky ground.

By the time they stood in defence of the Mannheim Gap, they had been on the surface for three solar months and sixteen days, defending Hive Volcanus on the west coast of the subcontinent of Armageddon Prime. Pride Leader Ekene Dubaku of the Celestial Lions fighting alongside Chaplain Grimaldus of the Black Templars during the Second Mannheim Gap Siege. This is Warhammer 40,000. It was a rent in Armageddon's priceless earth, torn open by the slow, active dance of the world's tectonics. A lone Space Marine came forward, bearing the black helm of a Pride Leader. Dubaku warned Grimaldus that when the time came, when they confronted the Ork Warlord responsible for so many of his Battle-Brothers' deaths, it would be a Lion's blade that killed the creature. This did not bode well. The Chapter quenched the rebellion in a matter of weeks. The Lions' unseen enemies might well allow them to die in the glory they deserved. But the Reclusiarch assured them that this was not the case. You know who else have golden armour, blue details and star patterns? If the coming storm hit before arrangements could be made, they would risk teleportation. Dubaku stood with Grimaldus at the heart of the impromptu conclave, his anger a palpable thing.

The air was severe enough to scald unprotected flesh, and while the Astartes' Power Armour offered a shield against the elements, it wouldn't protect them for long. Primarch It did nothing. The Celestial Lions are a very brotherly, compassionate chapter, whose fraternal nature comes from the fact that they only recruit from the warrior tribes of the world Elysium IX. The remaining Celestial Lions then determined to die on Armageddon alongside their brothers, as was right and honourable if the Chapter could not be revived.



But the Lions' fierce pride and strict moral principles may have contributed to the path that led towards their near-destruction as a Chapter. Before Elysium IX was invaded, the Celestial Lions Chapter Master Ekene Dubaku prepared to evacuate its population.

Everywhere they fought, the enemy struck back in overwhelming numbers. A mere handful would know the truth behind their deaths, and each of those would be Adeptus Astartes officers who would tread with much more caution when they dealt with the Inquisition in the future. The Lions are now working to rebuild with the help of a temporary detachment of Black Templar specialists, including some apothecaries and techmarines. Its only mission is seeing to the protection of humanity. Five of the Lions' Battle Companies had failed to take it. Somehow at some point in the hours of melee, while the Reclusiarch fought with the Lions, the Steel Legion had laid explosives at the base of the Void Shield reactor. They did not do well with tedium, especially when left alone with nothing to do and no one to shoot. Perhaps it had wormed as deep as Apollyon claimed. "I am remaining on the war-world.

Celestial Lions Chapter Colour Scheme as displayed by a Firstborn Space Marine. NOPE, TURNS OUT, this is not the case, the inquisitions saltyness was so severe that they ended up never actually getting the information to CREATE PRIMARIS MARINES and had to get the information from their brother chapter the Emperor's Spears. "Anyone who trusts an agent of the Inquisition has earned the right to be named naive, Cyneric.

The Lions were granted orbital picts and Auspex-scrye readouts from Hive Command, only to find their intelligence scarcely matched the embattled realities of their deployment zones. Within their chapter it is common for a squad to gather and tell stories of their heroes and their own exploits before an engagement. It had to be there, for then their bones would lie alongside their brothers. His assault came at the cost of his leg, as the iron claw scissored through the limb at the knee, dropping him on his back into the slime. Despite this setback, if that was all they had to deal with, the Lions might still have fought their way clear without being slaughtered. https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Celestial_Lions?oldid=368374. The Lions found him at dawn, slouched against their last Land Raider, shot through the eye-lens. The Chaplain knew he could not return to Hive Helsreach, for the Season of Fire played its tempestuous games around the city, harsh enough to kill sky traffic but not quite violent enough to interfere with Vox signals. The Inquisition is a highly secretive organisation, bound by no Imperial law or authority save its own and that of the God-Emperor.

The entire chapter was deployed to a single hive, and thanks to spectacularly bad intelligence they ended up outnumbered, unsupported, and taking heavy losses at every battle, culminating in a mission in which the supposedly inactive Gargants they were sent to destroy proved to have been lying in wait for them along with several Ork warbands backing them up- all of which had apparently been warned of the Lions' planned attack some time beforehand.

Dubaku now bore a bionic leg and a noticeable limp, his physiology not entirely adjusted to the augmetic replacement yet. Ekene, the Lion's only surviving Pride Leader (i.e. I really love their color scheme and all their fluff, how they come to the defense of the weak and dared criticize the actions of the Inquisition - and the sad fate that followed the chapter afterwards. Inquisitors were capable of determining the corruption in the minds of men in the space of a heartbeat, and a man in Apollyon's position could afford no chances.