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===Origin of the Name=== The name Adeptus Custodes comes from the custom of filling the armour with Custard before each battle. This has been confirmed by [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155012076396123&set=p.10155012076396123&type=3&theater| Games Workshop] Jokes aside, however, the word "custodian" means someone who is charged with looking after and maintaining someone or something; the Custodian Guard exists to protect the Emperor and the Imperial Palace. <strike>When this name is "Latinized" as the Imperium does, they become the Adeptus Custodes.</strike> Nobody would ever expect that from GW but ''Custodes'' is actually the '''unaltered''' (!) and even '''correct''' (!!) Latin declension for "watchers / defenders / guardians". Whoah. The "custode" is also a name used in catholic liturgy. It may signify both the veil protecting the main altar in some churches, which reminds of the job of the Adeptus Custodes within the Imperial Palace, as protectors of the Throne room scanning and herding those brought to "commune" with the Emperor (either as astropaths or ''Auditore Imperialis''); or a small circular box containing the Host, therefore protecting the ''corporis mysterium'' (remember that soothing space marine chant in Latin from Dawn of War I? It was ''Pange Lingua''), usually used to bring it to those who couldn't come to Mass, such as agonizing people. There's also the phrase ''"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"'' (who watches the watchmen?).
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