Editing Arms of Asura (section)

=Organization=
''"The Arms of Asura is an unfurling lotus, its petals blooming in resplendent flame."'' - Lightbringer Madhukant of the First Choir

Little remains of the Arms of Asura's standard Legion hierarchy from prior to the Heresy, the Legion entirely enveloped and transformed by its gradual shift toward mysticism and Chaos-worship. Devoted to the exploration of the divine and the proliferation of truth, the Legion's structure is built around that of a religious organization rather than a military one, its Astartes primarily devoted to spiritualism before war, their martial practices more a means than an end, and in some cases merely incidental to certain ranks. The leadership of the Legion is arcane, steeped in nuance and debate even internally, for Anshul teaches that truth is ever-changing and one's understanding of it must constantly be renewed, but there are certain recognizable patterns in its the Legion's hierarchy that can generally hold true. 

The usage of battalions and companies has been dropped entirely. Instead, each functional limb of the Arms of Asura - generally just over a thousand Astartes in number, with a massive support structure of cultists and supplicants - is referred to as a '''Choir'''. Each Choir is headed by a Lightbringer, a venerable scholar and warrior of the Legion, formidable in both wisdom and in battlefield prowess. The Choirs are divided into '''Orders''' - specifically, the Orders Epistemos, the Orders Aesthetemos, the Orders Homilos, the Orders Theologos, and the Orders Ethos. Governed by a religious leader with titles unique to each Order (i.e. Epistemagos, Aesthetemagos, etc), these organizations are devoted primarily to their associated religious studies, and are further divided on the basis of doctrinal and martial differences into '''Covens''', each one lead by an Arch-Magister (and, below him, several Magisters).

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