Editing Legion Herald (section)

==Overview==
Legion Heralds were Space Marines who were tasked with carrying the official banner of their lords, be they [[Primarch]] or otherwise. They often represented the interests of their Legions in key missions and frequently acted as emissaries to other Legions or units.

Some in /tg/ have speculated that they must have had one of the easiest jobs in the Legiones Astartes during the [[Great Crusade]], which sounds accurate until you remember that they were often separated them from their Legions for extended periods of time, meaning that they would have to exercise a great deal of independent judgment while trying to balance their orders from home against whatever their allies were doing. A key example of this is Herald Kinor Argonis of the Sons of Horus, who was sent as an emissary to the Iron Warriors during the Battle of Tallarn and spent most of it yelling at [[Perturabo]] to stop fucking the planet up while also dealing with [[Alpha Legion]] bullshit on the side. Moreover, those fuckhueg banners they toted around made them a ''very'' noticeable target on the battlefield. Said banners had often been awarded to them personally by a senior officer, their primarch, or in a few rare cases the Emperor himself, meaning that they were treasured relics whose loss would represent great shame and dishonour for the Legion in general and the herald in particular. To compensate for their visibility and the fact that they could only carry one weapon into battle, they usually wore [[Artificer Armour]], which doubled as an indicator of the symbolic importance of their role.