Castellan Consul

The Castellan Consul was an unofficial designation given to certain Space Marines of the Obsidian Guard Legion during the Halcyon Age and Five Ruins. A title first arising amongst the Legion during its apparent exile to the Ullanor Containment zone during the former half of the Halcyon Age, it subsequently spread to the rest of the Legion. Castellans were in the beginning Captains and Commanders placed in charge of the dozens of far flung fortifications spread out to contain the Orks of Ullanor. They were empowered to command all other Imperial forces on the planet including Obsidian Guard Astartes, the Legion’s Auxilia, and any other Imperial Army troops present. In this capacity their authority was meant to be both expansive and limited, unchallenged in a compact area. Their writ included the duties of training the men under them, maintaining existing holdfasts, constructing new ones, and overseeing the local government to ensure they did not jeopardise the integrity of the Containment zone.

Initially it was expected the rank would fade out of practice following the victorious conclusion to the Ullanor Crusade. After all, their role as warders of the Greenskins had been rendered defunct as the back of the Ork Empire was shattered by their Primarch. Fate decreed otherwise and the Castellans would persist, carrying out similar functions on other worlds of strategic vitality to reinforce them against attack. Fortunate indeed for it was the bulwarks erected at the hands of the Castellans that would resist the Ruins best.

Notable Castellans

 * Castellan Adlagard - Castellan of Selesia

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