Changes: Legio Magna

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"DEATH STALKS THE COWARDS! THE HERETICS WILL BE CLEANSED! NO ESCAPE! NO MERCY!"

— Looping wide-band vox broadcast transmitted from Abominatus, Legio Magna

The Legio Magna ("Flaming Skulls") is a Traitor Titan Legion of the Dark Mechanicum that repudiated its oaths to the Emperor of Mankind and followed the Warmaster Horus into the service of the Ruinous Powers during the Horus Heresy.

There is very little information in Imperial records about this obscure Titan Legion, though it is suspected to have been founded before the Age of the Imperium, during the Age of Strife.

The Legio Magna 's homeworld was located in the Ultima Segmentum, where it originally hailed from the Forge World of Estaban VII. During the Horus Heresy, the Legio Magna was supported by House Morbidia.

It is assumed that this Legion was either destroyed at the end of the Heresy or was driven towards the Eye of Terror along with the rest of the forces of Chaos. If it survived the Heresy, its current whereabouts and activities are unknown.

Legion History

During the Great Crusade, the Flaming Skulls were a minor Titan Legion from the Forge World of Estaban VII, known to campaign alongside both the XVI^th (Sons of Horus) and XVII^th (Word Bearers) Space Marine Legions.

Their ties with the Warmaster Horus ensured they were amongst the first to march in his name, emerging from the forge cities of Mars clad in bone and accompanied by sinister howls as they laid waste to the Imperium.

Legio Magna Warlord Titan — *Legio Magna* colour scheme as displayed by the *Warlord*-class Titan *Damnation of Worlds*.

Notable Campaigns

Schism of Mars (Unknown Date.M31) - Later Imperial histories record that the first blow of the Martian civil war unleashed during the Horus Heresy that was known as the Schism of Mars was struck against Magos Mattias Kefra, whose forge in the Sinus Sabaeus region of the Red Planet was housed within the Madler Crater. Titans of the Legio Magna marched from the southern Noachis region and within minutes had smashed down the gates of his forge city. Howling engines daubed in red, orange, yellow and black and decorated with flaming horned skull devices, ran amok within the high walls of the crater, crushing everything living beneath them and destroying thousands of years of accumulated wisdom in a fury of fire. Vast libraries burned and weapon shops that served the Solar Guard Imperial Army regiment were reduced to molten slag as the indiscriminate slaughter continued long into the night.
The Battle of Ice World Tralsak (011.M31) - The shallow, frozen oceans of Tralsak are flash-boiled to steam by the fury of engine-war as Loyalist Titans of Legio Atarus and Legio Agravides clash with the Traitors of the Legio Magna and Legio Victorum as the Loyalist Shattered Legions and Traitor World Eaters fight across the disintegrating landscape of ice floes. Ultimately, outright victory eludes both sides, and each uses the cover of the world-enveloping fog thrown up by the destruction to extricate their forces and redeploy them elsewhere. Nevertheless, numerous supporting Knights of both sides remain to fight a war in which neither will concede defeat.
Battle of Beta-Garmon, "The Titandeath" (006-013.M31) - The Legio Magna took part in the long and savage Beta-Garmon campaign, which included hundreds of war zones across dozens of worlds. During this conflict, the Legio Magna was supported by the Knights of House Atrax. Even before the greater armies of the Warmaster Horus reached the star cluster, the battle lines had long since been drawn, and fighting had been going on for many Terran years. It was a cauldron of battle that would consume millions of lives before its end and see the demise of entire Titan Legions, earning this campaign the dire moniker of the "Titandeath." The Beta-Garmon Cluster, also known as the gateway to the throneworld of Terra, was the last hurdle that the Warmaster Horus' forces had to overcome before they reached the Imperium's capital world. Heavily fortified by the Loyalists, Beta-Garmon would become one of the greatest and bloodiest battles of the Horus Heresy, as well as one of the longest-lasting.
Siege of Terra (014.M31) - The Legio Magna took part in numerous engagements during the dark days of the Horus Heresy, but its most notable action occurred when they participated in the Siege of Terra and the assault on the Imperial Palace alongside the other Traitor Titan Legions.

Notable Titans

Abominatus, "Despoiler of Worlds" (Imperator-class Titan) - Abominatus of the Legio Magna is one of the most terrifying of all the servants of the Blood God. Abominatus is the hellish union of an Imperator-class Titan and a Greater Daemon of Khorne. When it walks, the ground shakes beneath its steel-shod feet and the enemies of the Blood God quail in fear. This Chaos Titan wields fire and steel against its foes, with flames and gun smoke flickering from each casement and embrasure in its massive body, while its soul burns with the unquenchable fire of a daemon's hate. Abominatus carries a veritable arsenal of weapons built onto its body. Its primary armaments, a Hellstorm Cannon and Plasma Annihilator, along with its main battery function in an identical fashion to its Imperial counterpart. However the weapons on its main fighting platform are quite different. This Chaos-possessed Titan also has a Scorpion Cannon, a lethal multi-barrelled weapon used for close assaults that is normally mounted on Daemon Engines of Khorne. It possesses Manglers, huge battle claws which can sweep aside battle tanks and flay enemy Titans to twisted metal. As Abominatus is part daemon and part machine, this makes it particularly resistant to psychic attack as well.

Notable Personnel

None listed in current Imperial records.

Legion Appearance

Legion Colours

The colours of the Legio Magna are red, orange and black.

Legion Badge

The Legio Magna's badge is a flaming, horned skull centered in front of an orange sun on a field of black. Below the skull is a red letter 'V', and below that are three skulls lined up besides one another in a v-shaped pattern.

Canon Conflict

The Traitor Flaming Skulls Legion are revealed in Imperial Armour Volume One to be the Legio Magna.

The Legio Magna, however, appears in several other sources as fighting on the side of the Imperium -- they are mentioned to have taken part in the Angevin Crusade, defended the world of Orask from a Tyranid splinter fleet, and, most recently, participated in the Third War for Armageddon.

It is unknown if part of this Legion remained loyal during the Horus Heresy and has survived into the 41st Millenium maintaining its old name, or whether this simply is a mistake on the part of Games Workshop.

Sources

Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Rulebook (Specialty Game), pp. 17, 74
Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Titandeath (Specialty Game), pg. 95
Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: The Defence of Ryza (Specialty Game), pg. 38
The Horus Heresy - Book Four: Conquest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 99
Horus Heresy: Collected Visions, pg. 356
Imperial Armour Volume One, pg. 8
Imperial Armour Apocalypse II, pg. 79
Mechanicum (Novel) by Graham McNeill
Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (6th Edition), pg. 193
White Dwarf 108 (UK), " 'Eavy Metal", pg. 76
Codex Titanicus (1st Edition) Titan Legion Colour Schemes
Citadel Journal 13, "Abominatus, Despoiler of Worlds Chaos Titan" by Adrian Wood & Gav Thorpe, pp. 41-44
Dark Heresy Timeline by Alan Bligh, pg. 2
Warhammer Community - The Defence of Ryza: Your First Look (31 Mar 2020)

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