Legendary Names3

He Who Held Alone is the honour-title given to a Custodian who stood in a fight with no brother at his side and walked away from it. Once per battle, while it is in melee with no friendly model within 3", such a fighter re-rolls all failed Aegis guards and all failed Hit rolls for one round — the demigod who needed no shield-brother and proved it. But the enemy learns the name as surely as its own dead do: any gang that has faced him before may, once per battle, turn one fighter's full attacks upon him as a free Focus, the horde recalling exactly which king to drown.

The Captain-General's Line is the tradition of Trajann Valoris, the First Captain, carried by a Shield-Captain who has earned the right to bear it. Once per round, gang-wide, one friendly Custodian may re-roll a failed Aegis guard — the Captain-General's presence steadying every blade of the Ten Thousand. Yet the tradition is a target painted in gold: such a leader may never be held in reserve or kept off the table, for the Captain-General leads from the front, always deployed in the opening zone where the enemy can see him, and always where it will come for him first.

The Silent Blade is a named officer of the Anathema, a Knight-Centura the witch-cults have learned to fear by name. Her Silence reaches 12" rather than 9", and against any enemy Psyker within it she re-rolls failed Wounds and denies every invulnerable save for the whole battle — a dead-zone that hunts. But she is soulless, and it shows: she can draw no comfort from the Vexilla aura nor any re-roll granted by Leadership, the null in her cutting both ways and setting her apart from the brotherhood's steadying will.