Editing Council of Nikaea (section)

==Loyalist Response to Nikaea==
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*[[Roboute Guilliman]] had been a strong proponent of the Librarius as an organization, and has publicly endorsed it as a powerful strategic tool in the Astartes arsenal. Nevertheless, the Ultramarines followed the Emperor's command to the letter, disbanding their Librarius and returning their Librarians to the battle companies. During the [[Battle of Calth]] however, Guilliman reversed course and stated that the Edict of Nikaea needed to be overturned as soon as possible, even deducing that the Edict's timing was [[Just As Planned|so convenient]] that it could only mean that [[Tzeentch|someone]] had arranged it. Thus when he thought that Terra and the Emperor had already fallen he decided to build the [[Imperium Secundus]] in a manner he thought sensible and kept his Chief Librarian around as an advisor (much to the chagrin of a [[Space Wolf|Space Wolves]] detachment deployed on Macragge to "ensure" Guilliman's loyalty).
*Without a [[Ferrus Manus|Primarch]], the remaining [[Iron Hands]] mostly fell in with the [[Ultramarines]] and basically did whatever they were doing.
*Though [[Lion El'Jonson]] himself was in support of the Librarius, he had tasked his representative at the Council to support the condemnation of Magnus specifically, though why is not known. However when the ban came down, the Dark Angels enacted it without complaint. The Lion re-introduced the Librarians as soon as he discovered that the traitors were using [[daemons]], presumably knowing what shit was going down from his experiences on Caliban and even going so far as to punch the living fuck out of a [[Chaplain]] who reminded him that it was going against the Emperor's Edict - as in, literally punched his head off, although said Chaplain was about to execute one of the Librarians for using his psychic powers against daemons and refused to back down (and it was an accident anyway). The Lion felt terrible about it as he had meant to hold back but was a little too pissed to control his strength well enough.
*[[Rogal Dorn]] had been rather skeptical of the Librarius project from its inception, though he still allowed for the creation of a Libratius division within the Imperial Fists. He had also been amongst those who had wanted Magnus personally censured, though why, as with the Lion, is unknown (he might have just been being a grump). When the edict came down, Dorn locked all his Librarians up in the [[Phalanx]] and refused to even let them rejoin their battle brothers as line-troopers. However, when [[Nathaniel_Garro#Nathaniel_Garro|Nathaniel Garro]] snuck his way on board to try and rescue them on Malcador's orders, they seemed happy enough where they were. Apparently all the [[Imperial Fists]] need to feel happy is thick walls around them. Dorn explained that they were exactly [[Just as Planned|where they needed to be]], presumably for keeping them in reserve for when the Imperium really need them. What happened to them afterwards is (as of yet) unexplained. The reasonable assumption is that they were held in reserve for the Siege of Terra, possibly on the advice of Malcador.
*[[Sanguinius]] had been one of the three Primarchs who had come up with the Librarius concept in the first place. Naturally, he was all for keeping it around, but he too followed the Emperor's edict. However, his former Librarians kept in fellowship with one another, and would prove their collective worth by saving the entire Legion from the daemonic precursor of the Black Rage at Signus. So he kept them around afterwards and seemingly gave them the green light to just ignore the ban. [[Nassir Amit]] [[FATAL|murderfuckraping]] the Space Wolves detachment supposed to prevent this so hard [[rip and tear|they died to death]] unwittingly helped this along. Maybe. They weren't stupid so they'd hopefully have been more likely to have been like "Okay, well, this was a super-extreme situation and the Emperor would surely prefer to have Sanguinius and his legion than the Edict be kept... we didn't see anything."
*[[Vulkan]] also tried the Sanguinius approach. However, there were barely any [[Salamanders]] left after Isstvan and by M41 they looked back upon Nikaea as an ancient and archaic edict that had no place anymore.
*[[Corax]] was a latent psyker, but was oddly one of the most staunch critics of the Librarius. As such he took no issue with banning psykers within his legion from using their powers. Following a personal encounter with the [[Possessed Marine|Gal Vorbak]], Corax did a 180 and began advocating using Librarians, nearly getting into a shooting match with the Custodes over it. We don't know if they reinstated their Librarians but it seems extremely likely that they did after the Alpha Legion attack to disrupt/steal their cloning tech (which Librarians could have detected).
*The [[Jaghatai Khan|Khan]] was another of the creators of the Librarius project, as his homeworld had a long history of training psykers to safely and responsibly use their powers. When the ban came down, the [[White Scars]] (at least those that got the message) just kinda shrugged, twiddled their mustaches and pretended like it never happened. The "[[stormseer]]" who spoke for the Scars at Nikaea simply privately refused to accept it and vindicated himself shortly after by exploding a daemon with lightning. His psychic powers (and those of the one surviving loyalist from the Thousand Sons) later [[Dark Glass|saved the entire Legion]] during the Horus Heresy. However, the whole thing was a bit moot anyway as the Scars were so far afield that by the time they heard about the ban, the Heresy had already started and nobody cared anymore.
*Leman Russ had a... rather odd relationship with psykers in general. While he strongly disliked Magnus for being an arrogant dick and viewed his powers as unclean sorcery, he seemed not to have any problem with the [[Rune Priest]]s of his own legion. The Wolves in general totally denied that their Rune Priests were psykers at all and claimed that their power came from [[Fenris]] as opposed to the warp. While this was just flatly wrong, their primitive belief structure caused their '''Underverse''' to manifest in a way that was completely different to the [[Chaos]] of the [[Warp]] and allowed them to distinguish between them. This seemingly caused the "Spirit of Fenris" to become an actual honest-to-god warp entity of some sort, which in a weird roundabout way actually validated the Fenrisian's beliefs. Regardless of whether or not Russ or the Wolves understood any of that nuance, it was made clear by [[Malcador]] afterwards that Big E made a decision to tolerate their beliefs, seeing it was important for his "executioners" to be able to deal with other warp-users. In fact, two of their Librarians, Aun Helwintr and Ohthere Wyrdmake, were vocal opponents of employing Librarians at the Council and yet directly participated in the [[Burning of Prospero]].
**''Prospero Burns'' actually nuances this, explaining that they were okay about the Librarius as envisioned but wanted Magnus censured (basically they drew a line between acceptable psyker practices and sorcery) but they failed to get their point across, leaving an opening for Mortarion to get the whole thing shut down. The [[Space Wolves]] supported the banning of Librarians but kept their own afterwards.
*[[Malcador the Sigillite]] gave permission to the Librarians among the [[Knights-Errant]] to begin using their psychic powers after the edict, even supplying them with psychic hoods. The [[Adeptus Custodes]] made it clear that they did not recognize Malcador's authority to do so, but they were in a bit of a logical paradox over the matter: either enforce the Emperor's will by stopping Malcador from continuing his work, or defy the Emperor's will by stopping his appointed Regent from continuing his work. They settled for threatening to kill any Librarian using his powers in their presence so the Knights-Errant just did it out of their presence.

So by the Siege of Terra all but two of the loyalist Legions definitely had active Librarians, and one of the other two probably did.