Just How Powerful is a Custodian Really? | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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I think the best answer I've heard to whether a Custodes could take on a Primarch was: "No, but they wouldn't embarrass themselves trying."

The reason why the Custodes are so warp resistant is that their soul has a psychic ward called Aegis of the Emperor, and it's powerful enough to banish lesser daemons in their proximity like Nurgle's Rot Flies.

Custodes dealing with the Thunder Warriors: "We erase those brutes easily!" Custodes dealing with Harlequins: "Help! The clowns jump and move weird!"

Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would react to being in Guillimans situation would be pretty cool ngl , getting to see how they would either rule the imperium or lead a rebellion to destroy it 🤷‍♂️

Old lore: Astartes are a pack of wolves and Custodes are lone lions New lore: Astartes are a pack of wolves and Custodes are a pack of Sifs from Dark Souls

The Custodians are supposed to be to Astartes as an Astartes is to a baseline human. I wish it worked out that way on the Tabletop.

To me, the Custodes are the Apex of human evolution that's why they're so awesome, so if you pick and open the human DNA code and max out all the qualities and achieve the full potential and evolution of the human species you will get a custodian each and every time, making them so rare and special

Custodes enjoy their enthusiastic walks while asking their enemies how is their health plan. Apparently it was great.

Imagine your an orc just chillin and suddenly the emperor and 1k custodes appear out of thin air

They are as powerful as the writer wants them to be. Aaron Dembski Bowden made them about the same a Primaris is to a firstborn and that might have been a little too weak. Others have written them on a level close to Primarchs.

A custodian not realizing he is already doomed when suffering a wound would make him a flawed creation. With that much investment going into every single one of them, the Moment one of them is certain to die or have his function impaired severely and permanently, he MUST immediately switch to a self-sacrificial strategy of combat through which he can hope to save as many other custodians as possible while achieving their objective, at the cost of his live. The realization of doom is a powerful weapon when wielded by one not paralyzed by it.

Interesting fact: there are multiple cases in human history where someone HAS had part (up to half) there brain destroyed/blown out of there head and kept going. Forget his name but one of the most famous is a gentleman who was working on the railroad and had a 3 inch in diameter six foot long iron bar go through his head. He had some anger issues after but lived an entire life. Someone in the 90s in the US was shot in the head with a magnum during a robbery... he lived.

The Custodes vs the splinter fleet is definitely more a case of Tyranids getting miswritten rather than showing off how strong Custodes are. There's no way an ever adapting foe like the Tyranids, let alone a master tactician like the Swarmlord, would have just mindlessly ran into a choke point... A cool moment for the Custodes, but definitely a blown up feat for them using the bug bois as a sacrifice.

Yea, that book with the bare handed world eater killing a Custodes was one of the worst I've read. It also got events so completely out of order, with word of the Drop Site Massacre reaching Terra BEFORE Magnus screwed the webway project.

It's a myth that Argel Tal was able to stalemate Aquilon in sparring. He got trounced every time and his record was lasting a few minutes.

What if Custodians like the Astartes thinking they can somehow beat them. The enemy having the perception they are better than you, when they are not, is an advantage in itself. "When you are strong, appear weak" - Sun Tzu

I always like the idea that the emperor had the custodians to be able to put down a rebellious Primarch without being forced to ask one of his brothers to do it

The Harlequin thing I think was old lore, when the power level of the Custodes was more akin to a Marine as you stated at the beginning. It doesn't feel like the book was released all that long ago, but it was still old in terms of the Custodes as a faction with a solid lore.

Please do a video on current Valdor and speculation on his "King in Yellow" persona. The dude has been BUSY these last 10,000 years. He created an alternate dimension and built a planet sized auramite city with multiple captured stars to light it. Has thousands of cloned blanks, reverse daemonhosts AKA Graels (putting blank human soul inside warp matter), armies of WINGED cloned blood angels, full auramite warship fleets in a constant war with the eye of terror, and is creating a lexicon of the language of enuncia. What is he doing? Closing the eye of terror? Trying to bring the emperor back to life? Kill the emperor? More or less every traitor legion is trying to stop him along with 5 eldar craft worlds and multiple inquisitorial warbands. Can't wait for the final book in that series

Some of my favorite quotes are from Valerian, the Custodian noting that space marines are there natural prey and seeing his closest too excitement at fighting along side Imperial Fists was a great read, also during the Horus Hersey it took 16 World Eaters to kill one Custodian. The fight was off panel but the Sister of Silence noted that in particular.

In defense of horus getting stabbed, it was a special sword that is destined to stab anyone its pointed at at by the power of nurgle himself

Pretty sure there is an excerpt in plague wars going over the amount of Custodes assigned to Guilliman. It’s like 20ish plus one of their dreadnoughts. The reason it’s that many is because they think that’s how many it would take to kill him if he started acting a bit odd.

Hello Majorkill, Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.

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It really depends on the writer. In the book the Regens shadow, two minotaurs took down a custodies, while 1 custodie took down a group of primaries in a short story I can't remember the name.

My reaction to Majorkill not mentioning Kitten *My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined*

Absolutely love your videos I’m glad there’s someone out there just saw the lore how it is but there own way

I'm listening to this while painting my Shadowkeeper Custodes 👀 I got the combat patrol and battleforce box at Christmas and now I've been on a huge Custodes binge since.

Awesome that you're backing up Squidmar's Titan Diorama project, I'm so excited to see how it turns out!

My favourite part is when every few weeks majorkill discovers that he still has stock, calendars etc to sell

For anyone wondering, the thumbnail is of captain commander Alexandrius. I commissioned him from the artist Bachzim. Not an actual character unfortunately, I though him up :)

I wish this man made more videos about custodies and their lore. They are GOOD.

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Let's also not forget that Valdor can finger gun people out of existence like that fun scene from Nemesis! I'm still relatively new to the lore, but I think something else that makes the Custodians so interesting is not only their physical capability but their adeptness at all sorts of other capacities. For example, in the Blood Games short story, you see that the Custodes also operate as a top level intelligence organization and undercover spy agency as well. They seem to be generally far smarter (and wiser) than your garden variety Astartes, and in general have much better personalities. That kind of lends itself to their ability to fight 'separately, but together', their communication and awareness likely dwarfs even that of Astartes.

Amazing vod like always !!

Hello Majorkill, great video a always. Could you do a video about the imperial navy, it's ships, and their role, as well as warfare in the void? Thank you!

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@majorkill On the subject of a world eater punching through a Custodian, back at the time it was written, custodians wore artificer grade ceramite, as auramite hadn't been introduced into the lore yet.

Keep up the great work you're doing!

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Classifying Custodians as soldiers is such an understatement. Each of them were meant to be rulers of clusters of planets to manage them since the imperium was getting too big for Big E to handle. They are masters of all aspects of human endeavour.

It's always good to see Majordaddy in Custodian aesthetic.

9:32 way to catch me off guard with that awesome quote that i will forever take out of context

The lawnmower 4.0 can still cut you if you dint use the guards and it never says it doesnt cut you just that it reduces the nicks it can give you if used right

I can't remember if it is official or fan made but I remember when they revamped the Custodes the line about recruitment was something like "That while one in a million may be capable of becoming an Astartes, only one in a Billion could even hope to become a Custodian."

i love the look on my opponent when Russ one shots a 5 man custard squad every time before moving on to Valdor and carving him a new breathing hole. There's lore, and then there's game.

You should do a video on the similarities of the dark glass ship and the event horizon ship. That would be sick and a nice dip into the horror element of 40k.

As the Talons of the Emperor, the Sisters of Silence use their Blank powers to bind a daemon to this reality, and the Custodes kill it. As in "actually kill it" kill it; with its connection to the Warp severed, the Daemon dies a true death instead of merely being banished. Beyond that, Custodes are a lot more than just Better Than You warriors over the Astartes. Where the Astartes were built for war, the Custodes are the Emperor's personal bodyguards, but also his personal artists, poets, musicians, confidants, diplomats, etc. They are the Ultimate Snowflake Army, as each Custodian is effectively meant to be a character in their own right, each with their own skillset that goes beyond their ability to shoot a gun or swing a sword. They cover a broad range of skills meant to serve the Emperor and Imperium as a whole, be it contributing to the overall culture (such as it is as of the 42nd Millennium) or protecting the Imperial Palace (and by extension, Holy Terra) from all manners of threat and infiltration. These skills of defense are honed in the Blood Games, a series of live exercises where a Custodian will act as an infiltrator, and spend months or even years finding a way to breach the securities of the Imperial Palace and enter the Sanctum Imperialis (should be noted that the Eternity Gate leading to the Throneroom is guarded by two War Titans that have basically been made part of the wall on either side of the doors, and is basically a massive, kilometers-long hallway with little to no cover in between). If the infiltrator wins, then his methods and tactics are reviewed, and the securities of the Palace are refined to address the discovered vulnerabilities. So far no outside forces have ever been able to enter the Sanctum Imperialis. During the War of the Beast, an Aeldari raid managed to get within sight of Eternity Gate before they were mowed down by Custodes, and some time later, a group of heretics tried to bumrush Eternity Gate with some hijacked atmospheric barges, but were also stopped.

I always chalk up inconsistencies in Warhammer 40K as different people throughout the galaxy hearing different things. Imagine the same story being told across the galaxy with various accounts and over time and it is easy to see how stories may get dissorted.

Lord Kitten is back in his Custodies Cosplay. The Might Golden Kitty. Great work my dude.

great vid majorkill

In one of the book about the Indomitus Crusade, the Stratarchis Tribune Colquan, define a force of 34 custodian guard a “world capturing” or “world conquering” (i dont remember right now) force..

Your list of Astartes who could handle a Custodian was missing the High King of Fenris, Grimnar the Old Wolf. The guy sprints in terminator battle-plate and casually eats Grey Knights for both first and second breakfast

Great custodes vid :)

Love the cosplay, shoulder piece looks dope af. I know Henry would be proud.

No, the custodes could not kill a primarch because they have armor made out of the toughest material ever, PLOT. Which basically makes them unkillable

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Awesome video! Now we need a sister's of silence video!

I thought he would've mentioned that short story were the big E teleports Angron aboard his ship and Angron just straight away grabs and rips in half a fully armoured Custodes with his bare hands. There's also a part in one of the dark imperium trilogy were Roboute is fighting traitors and urgle daemons and his custode guard is struggling just to keep up he's moving g and killing that fast. Another tidbit is the custodes are performing two roles in both guarding Roboute as the newly appointed regent but also to act as his executioners if they believe Roboute has plans to take the throne of Terra.Based off those bits I'm not convinced 20 custodes would be enough.I think they'd need around full company at least or even a full on war depending on how many ultramarines successors were yo join him.

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The emperor enjoys your content majorkill keep going Also ty for putting me into the thumbnail

Finally a custodes vid!!!!

Hello Majorkill, Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you. (I second this notion)

Was wondering if you were going to mention the Eldar incident....we all know how you feel about that.

Well the malnourished one ain't killing no primarch.

6:40 aged like milk unlucky Majorkill I am actually curious if in a short or something you mentioned that bit of lore when the custodes board the Vengeful Spirit and if you think this is a backtrack on their ever increasing power level in recent lore, or if it's fair game

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Shadow keeps are made up of veteran custody’s, they are the custody’s of the custody’s lol. They also are custody’s of the dark cells so it’s even more ironic.

Hey majorkill, also a huge custodian fan, but the Tyranid situation went down slightly different, they Survived the fleet and only survived because a space marine fleet of MM drove off the Tyranid splinter fleet.

Slippery gypsy is probably my favorite definition of harleyquinn ive heard to this day

And such a great idea investing in the Squidmar diorama, for the betterment of the hobby!

lmao what a sight to open on.

Coming into 40k more from fantasy because of our giga chad Henry. One thing that you will never be able to convince me is that the world's are not connected in someway. A pocket dimension of some sorts where only slivers of the warp and chaos can enter?

Dorn: I will have to hurt some custodes. Custodes: lmao you can try, fuck around and find out my lord.

Everyone's talking about how cool the custodes are, but I can't find anyone talking about the sick ass shoulder pauldron he wears. Sick as

The Eldar Incident has been put down, even by the author himself, as being a mistaken use of Custodes instead of he mortal guards of the Emperor, Lucifer Blacks. So we can call it an outlier like Outcast Dead.

Majorkill Being the average Custodes enjoyer against the average chaos fans.

Artefacts/treasures of Vulkan update and speculation on what they could be would be pretty cool ngl.

good timing. I just read the first heretic and have been searching about this exact topic all morning.

Man, I didn't know MajorKill was a Custodian himself!

What if Magnus had the special gene that makes one immune to blanks, like the Emperor and Hyperion? Also, what what happened after different Primarch aside from Guillimaine returned first?

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@majorkill u should do a few videos of you painting your custodes or playing a game with them would love to see u on like miniac or squidmar or somthing painting with them or on miniwargameing or tabletoptitains owning with the Golden boyz

I think in an attempt to make the Custodes' lore awesome, GW made them too OP to make them good on the tabletop. In-lore they can possibly take on a hive alone.

I think maybe Logan Grimnar could kill a Custodian, and maybe give named Custodians a good fight before he will die

Your content is awesome!!!

"Tyberos because uhhh just look at him" killed me

You mentioned ‘matching Argel Tal’ however Aquillon was pretty consistently beasting on him, defeating him in seconds in sparring matches. It wasn’t until Argel Tal accepted a demon inside of him that the gap closed

No, the Custodes who guard Robooty Guillichad can't beat him, and they're high AF if they really believe they can. In M41 he's become a legit badass and one of the toughest primarchs still around, because he never stops learning and he's always getting better.

Major, deadass seeing you in that outfit gives motivation for me to keep working out so could rock that outfit one day 😂

Heard about your offer for the Squidmar double-Titan diorama! So freaking yes do it! Very generous offer btw 💪

I'm sick and tired of people saying that Constantine Valdor beat Horus in a sparring match. It literally never happened. Majorkill even acknowledged that in an older video. Edit: Also, a Grey Knight was described as only fractionally slower than Valerian, Hero of the Lion's Gate and definitely above the average Custodian. They would only be more effective than the Grey Knights with Sisters of Silence, with it even being stated that together it was literally impossible for them to be defeated (although I guess that would be different if they tried to fight a C'tan Shard)

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I think the world eater punching a hole through a custodes makes sense taking into account chaos juice defies logic and reason and as such chaos characters can be as powerful as the plot demands

I still remember how hard I cringed when the almost naked world eater literally broke the custodians armour and ripped his spine from his chest while the custodian was fully armoured and he had his weapons. It was McNeil's horus heresy novel but I can't recall the title. some people say that the custodian had a previous injury and was downgraded to be a guard in the cells underneath the palace. Ok that was true but we are talking about a fully armoured in artificer armour custodian with his glaive. The world eater punched his armour with bare hands and broke his chestplate. Maybe McNeil was drunk when he wrote it and the GW reviewer was also drunk. I don't know.

Hey dude, nice to have a reason to get shirtless, lookin good mate. I read the first heretic a few months back and the way I remember it, Argel Tal wasn't able to match Aquillon until after their pilgrimage, ie as a demonhost or whatever the proper term would be. Hearing about them got me thinking and the way I remember it, the custodes were portrayed as very much better than space marines, I'd even argue they were described this way so as to illustrate gal vorbaks newfound power.

Sly Marbo can take down a Primarch. Multiple at once.

An unarmored Angron ripped one in half with his bare hands..

I just saw on squidmar’s video where you offered him $20k for the diorama and/ make it part of the raffle. I think thats pretty awesome since thats a charity project. Youre a class act Man. Super respectable. Now im even more glad i bought some of your minis. Thanks for putting out great content and good vibes. Keep it up Sir!