A Blade Champion is a Custodian who has devoted centuries to the perfection of the sword, mastering the countless martial disciplines of the Adeptus Custodes until there remains no form of bladed combat he has not made his own. Where every Custodian is already a warrior without equal among ordinary men, the Blade Champion stands above even his golden brothers, a duellist so complete that he can read an opponent's death in the angle of a shoulder or the shift of a stance. In battle he wields a masterwork blade capable of shearing through the thickest armour, flowing between guard and killing stroke with a fluid, contemptuous ease. Such a warrior is unleashed upon the enemy's champions and warlords, the monstrous heroes whose fall breaks the will of all who follow them, and few indeed can withstand him for more than a handful of heartbeats. Yet the Blade Champion is more than a slayer, for his mastery is a living archive of the Custodian fighting arts, techniques refined across ten thousand years of guarding the master of mankind. To watch him fight is to witness a deadly art perfected far beyond mortal understanding.
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