Trial of Remembrance

Unlike other Legions, the Halcyon Wardens have always understood the unyielding genetic demands of the gene-seed presented a powerful roadblock to legion growth above what any other trial they might themselves implement. The other necessity ever in the minds of Alexandros and the Warden recruiters was the demands placed upon the Astartes themselves. As the spear point of the entire Great Crusade, a high level of mental endurance and physical conditioning was an absolute requirement to become worthy of donning the purple of the Fifth Legion.

Yet, as per the Balov reforms, there was one ingredient that was demanded of any who wished to join the Halcyon Wardens: a respect for Humanity.

Therefore, each aspirant underwent the Trial of Remembrance. One will not find a detailed examination of this for it could vary widely among the Warden's protectorate systems and even within those systems. The remembrancers who travelled to Delos and managed to witness this trial would report at least seven variations scattered across Delos' two super-continents. In the southern mountain range of Tyrin, an aspirants' final Trial of Remembrance came in the form of a recitation of a chosen Delian philosopher. Among the waves to the north of the Sindhuan continent, aspirants undertook a month-long journey, half spent at sea and the other half among the coastal villages.

The lone thread uniting all of these variations was a desire for an aspirant to recognize who he was and where he had come. It was the Shield-Lord's wish his sons never allowed themselves to be completely detached from their origins, regardless of the passage of time. Humanity would form the inner strength of a new Warden.

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