The Remembrancers were the artists, poets, historians, and scholars appointed to accompany the Legions and chronicle the glories of the Great Crusade. Conceived in a moment of confidence, when the Imperium believed its reconquest of the stars all but complete, the Remembrancer Order was meant to capture the founding of a new golden age for the generations yet to come.
They were civilians amid gods of war, and their presence changed both. Through their eyes the deeds of the primarchs and their sons were rendered into song and sculpture, and through their friendships with individual legionaries the vast, inhuman project of the Crusade gained a human face. Yet many Remembrancers chafed under the restrictions placed upon them, and some saw too much of the truth that their masters would have preferred kept hidden.
When the war came, the Remembrancers were among its first victims. Witnesses to atrocities they had never been meant to record, they were murdered, imprisoned, or scattered, their hopeful mission drowned in blood. Those who survived carried a terrible knowledge into the Age of Darkness. What had begun as a celebration of humanity's triumph became, instead, testimony to its greatest tragedy.