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Remembrancers are a class of itinerant artists, scholars, and chroniclers who are members of the Imperial Remembrancer Order. They accompanied the forces of the Great Crusade in the early 31st Millennium.

The Remembrancer Order included many different forms of artists and journalists within their ranks, including poets, imagists (photojournalists), historiographers (historians), documentarists (journalists), painters, sculptors, actors, singers, and even composers.

Their function was to record the glorious deeds of the Space Marine Legions and the Imperial Army in words, pict-captures, paintings, sculptures, music, and other modes of artistic expression for future posterity.

The Remembrancers were overwhelmingly natives of Terra who had vied with other preeminent artists of the era for the honor of accompanying the expeditionary fleets led by the Astartes. They very grudgingly accepted them aboard the starships of their fleets.

Showing the common disdain for journalists and non-combatants on the frontlines held by warriors of every generation and time, the Remembrancers were generally disliked by the primarchs, the Astartes, and the line troops of the Imperial Army.

Leman Russ, the Primarch of the sixth Legion Space Wolves, suggested that all Remembrancers should be armed and prepared for battle if they wanted to see the front lines of a war. His younger brother, Culain MacTursan of the 10th Legion Stormbringers, went one step further. He demanded that the Remembrancers accompanying his Legion be not only all armed but also cybernetically augmented to withstand the rigors of Legion warfare.

Iskandar Basileus, the primarch of the third Legion Phoenix Blades, took a different view and welcomed the Remembrancers among his Astartes and mortal troops. To him, promoting an artistic sense was as crucial to the life of a warrior as training in warfare.

As a result, one could find a high number of Remembrancers amongst the fleets under his command. Many of the finest artists and creators of the age followed and recorded the Phoenix Blades. Indeed, it was noted by some observers that a cult of the aesthetic had sprung up around the Legion. One can attribute much of this to the Phoenix Blades’ readiness to accept such people into their presence. It also reflects the appreciation of aesthetic refinement that pervaded the Legion. Iskandar Basileus himself sponsored the creation of many works of art, and his patronage was the highest of artistic accolades in Imperial culture.

The eleventh Legion had a policy of five Remembrancers per Grand Company with 100 Remembrancers in a Chapter.

Description
Remembrancers are a class of itinerant artists, scholars, and chroniclers who are members of the Imperial Remembrancer Order. They accompanied the forces of the Great Crusade in the early 31st Millennium.

The Remembrancer Order included many different forms of artists and journalists within their ranks, including poets, imagists (photojournalists), historiographers (historians), documentarists (journalists), painters, sculptors, actors, singers, and even composers.

Their function was to record the glorious deeds of the Space Marine Legions and the Imperial Army in words, pict-captures, paintings, sculptures, music, and other modes of artistic expression for future posterity.

The Remembrancers were overwhelmingly natives of Terra who had vied with other preeminent artists of the era for the honor of accompanying the expeditionary fleets led by the Astartes. They very grudgingly accepted them aboard the starships of their fleets.

Showing the common disdain for journalists and non-combatants on the frontlines held by warriors of every generation and time, the Remembrancers were generally disliked by the primarchs, the Astartes, and the line troops of the Imperial Army.

Leman Russ, the Primarch of the sixth Legion Space Wolves, suggested that all Remembrancers should be armed and prepared for battle if they wanted to see the front lines of a war. His younger brother, Culain MacTursan of the 10th Legion Stormbringers, went one step further. He demanded that the Remembrancers accompanying his Legion be not only all armed but also cybernetically augmented to withstand the rigors of Legion warfare.

Iskandar Basileus, the primarch of the third Legion Phoenix Blades, took a different view and welcomed the Remembrancers among his Astartes and mortal troops. To him, promoting an artistic sense was as crucial to the life of a warrior as training in warfare.

As a result, one could find a high number of Remembrancers amongst the fleets under his command. Many of the finest artists and creators of the age followed and recorded the Phoenix Blades. Indeed, it was noted by some observers that a cult of the aesthetic had sprung up around the Legion. One can attribute much of this to the Phoenix Blades’ readiness to accept such people into their presence. It also reflects the appreciation of aesthetic refinement that pervaded the Legion. Iskandar Basileus himself sponsored the creation of many works of art, and his patronage was the highest of artistic accolades in Imperial culture.

The eleventh Legion had a policy of five Remembrancers per Grand Company with 100 Remembrancers in a Chapter.