r/CelestialLions

Artwork by goldgardian

I've done it! I finished my first Celestial Lion.

It's not perfect but I'm very satisfied with the results.

He's the first in my Last Wall army and he will have his Bladeguard brethren to accompany him soon.

For the Adeptus Vaelarii. For the Emperor.

My first thought is, what is going to happen with the second book? Why would we leave the Veil? What is the timeline of this?

If you aren't watching the live q and a. Your chapter and the celestial lions are on Armageddon with the sons of Vulkan!!

Spoilers for Spears of the Emperor*

At the beginning of the book Brêac mentions several times that they’ve been sending ships for years to the other side of the rift, with no success as those ships never contact them back or returned, so they stopped. With our assumption that those ships most likely have been destroyed or lost. But we gotta remember right, the Great rift is basically still a warp storm of sorts and has a lot of weird time displacement things going on.

GW has made that a plot device for years with characters mysteriously getting lost in warp storms and then randomly showing up again at the right time and place. And I think that is what is going on. The Forces that are on Armageddon are the ones previously sent through the great rift and somehow survived.

Brêac also states that the lions “Make No effort” to go back to the Imperium, for obvious reasons. So I’m still not sure how or why they will go back. Maybe some of those Spears ships just happens to have some Lions on them

Spoilers from World Ablaze*

People have been wondering how the blood angels got back across the rift. One of the announcers kind of spoils something by saying they kept oaths and sent a force and only a few of them made it over. In World Ablaze, we see the 6th Company, finally make it to Armageddon and they say by the time they got there the war has been going on for 2 years. That’s how warp travel/crossing the rift effect what’s going on

I made the original and revamped version of the Heraldry Sheet due to how difficult researching heraldry in one place was. But after the first two versions I had too much free time and decided to update it one last time, this time using more reference from Black Templar and Imperial Fist heraldry sheets online and including more such as the Sentinels of the Veil, Black Templar Iconography and Emperors Spears to make it more full and less empty than what I had originally posted.

The Heraldry Sheet uses alot of inspiration from the community with miniatures and fan art, such as:

• Chest Aquillas ( Blue and White )
• Company Markings for Greaves (3rd Company)
• Seal Designs
• Golden Iconography meaning
• Techmarine ( Ironweaver )
• Tribal Pattern

Reference from the Warhammer40k Fandom:

• Four Pointed Star

Blood and Fire:

• Constellation Patterns
• Prideleaders and Veteran Sargeants with Black Helmets
• Yellow Lenses

And some by my personal interpretations and designs for the heraldry sheet, such as:

• Seal designs with reference to Black Templars
• Manticore Symbol
• Lion head variant
• Company greave markings
• Companies represented by greave markings based on the Blood and Fire art.
• The Title

After spending alot of time on this, I feel satisfied with the finished image and don't plan on updating or making another post like this

This is my interpretation of Celestial Lions heraldry so feel free to do however you want with them and if you notice mistakes or have any questions, feel free to point them out so people can know in the comments. ✊🏾🦁

Working on painting my Last Wall army and what better way to show the Lions than a small squad of company Heroes. Kitbashed a few so they don’t look like anyone else in my army and have a feel of only a few brothers left grouping together for a last stand.