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The Remembrancer Order is a group of poets, journalists, photographers and writers that were sent with the Imperial forces on the second part of the Great Crusade, once the Emperor had returned to Terra. The remembrancers were tasked by the Emperor to record for posterity mankind's greatest triumph, the Great Crusade, however they were generally disliked by both the regular troops and the Astartes. Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves, is believed to have suggested that all remembrancers be given a gun if they wanted to be on the front lines.¹

It is not known what happened to the records they made during the Great Crusade, except that by the forty first millennium they had been either entirely destroyed or otherwise concealed.

Notable Remembrancers

• Serena D'Angelus, painter - Impaled herself on a sword with the corpse of Ostian Delafour.⁴
• Ostian Delafour, sculptor - Impaled by Fulgrim on a Statue of the Emperor.⁴
• Kallista Eris, historiographer - Died shortly before the Burning of Prospero.³³
• Mahavastu Kallimakus, documentarist - Disappeared shortly before the Burning of Prospero.^3,7
• Ignace Karkasy, poet - Killed by Maggard.
• Euphrati Keeler, imagist - Escaped with the Eisenstein.
• Mersadie Oliton, documentarist - Escaped with the Eisenstein.
• Petronella Vivar, documentarist - Killed by Warmaster Horus.²
• Solomon Voss, wordsmith - Executed by Rogal Dorn.⁵

Modern Remembrancers

In the 41st Millenium, the title of Remembrancer is still used, although how it came to be used again is unknown. These "modern" remembrancers appear to record the history of the Imperium, much like the remembrancers of the Great Crusade.^6a However, unlike remembrancers of the Great Crusade, "modern" remembrancers do not appear to accompany Imperial armies into the field.^6a

Noteable Modern Remembrancers

• Tremault - Remembrancer who wrote the The Accounts of the Tallarn.^6b

Sources

• ¹:Horus Rising (Novel) by Dan Abnett
• ²:False Gods (Novel) by Graham McNeill
• ³:A Thousand Sons (Novel) by Graham McNeill
• ⁴:Fulgrim (Novel) by Graham McNeill
• ⁵:The Last Remembrancer (Short Story) by John French (published in Age of Darkness (Anthology)
• ⁶:Desert Raiders (Novel) by Lucien Soulban - Hammer of the Emperor (Omnibus):
  • ^a: Chapter 5, p. 610
  • ^b: Prologue, p. 555
• ⁷:Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 51