Editing Council of Nikaea (section)

==Traitor Response to Nikaea==
*[[Lorgar]] and his [[Word Bearers]] were already planning evil, so they just completely ignored the prohibition.
*Surprisingly, most of the Thousand Sons did follow the decree and murderfucked filthy Xenos the old fashioned way instead... for a little while. [[Magnus|Magnus The Red]] himself on the other hand decided being a ninja space wizard was too cool, and ignored the decree. If he hadn't, maybe he would've been all right.
*The [[World Eaters]] ignored the decree as well. They still had official Librarians (not [[Sorcerer_(Warhammer_40,000)|Sorcerers]], actual honest to goodness Librarians) during the Heresy; however, the World Eaters hated their librarians from the moment Angron introduced the Butcher's Nails and frequently didn't even tolerate them being around. This was nothing specifically personal, it was just that psykers made the Butchers' Nails a bit...''twitchy'' and could not themselves be implanted with the Butcher's Nails without catastrophically losing control of their powers - which is not a good thing for brain implants that are already turning you into a psychotic, rage-filled murder machine. Between this and a superstitious dislike of anything "unnatural" (but only the terminally stupid would actually mention this paradox to Angron, who is unnatural in so many ways, above all unnaturally angry) there just weren't enough Librarians left to bother suppressing and the World Eaters mostly ignored them, allowing them to tag along in battle as they saw fit. They weren't represented at the council for reasons that should be obvious: Angron just didn't give a fuck because the decision didn't involve RAGE. By the time of the Shadow Crusade the remaining 19 Librarians weren't even considered full members of the Legion anymore due to their lack of the Nails. In a final showdown though, they '''did''' try to kill [[Lorgar]] before he could transform Angron into a demon prince. Needless to say, that didn't work, and Angron's first act upon attaining daemonhood was to [[rip and tear|kill them all]]. 
*[[Mortarion]] was already just about the biggest psyker hater in the universe, was one of the decree's strongest supporters. He had even informed by [[Malcador]] that the Emperor was planning to get rid of the Librarius about 70 years before the council even took place, giving him plenty of time to prepare for it. Hilariously, this backfired badly on him when he eventually realised that getting the Edict pushed through only weakened the loyalist's psykers; his allies were (mostly) letting their psykers run rampant with a whole new set of freakshow abilities. Things got so bad for him that he tried to get the librarian supporting Jaghatai Khan on his side. Jaghatai countered by attempting to carve the hypocrite out of Mortarion's pustuled arse. He then pillaged a Thousand Sons' library world and [[Wat|actually summoned a demon]] [[just as planned|whose sole purpose was to tempt him into using sorcery even more]]. [[fail|It worked]], and Mortarion then [[derp|yo-yoed between studying sorcery whilst pillaging every ritual device he could get his hands on, and smashing the various trinkets he acquired]]. It peaked with Molech before Mortarion tried to get back to first principles. Ironically due to his lack of people skills and his poor Psy-dar he never knew his [[Typhus|second-in-command]] was a dirty warp burglar. First rule of management, get to know your people. [[Not as planned|As final nail in his coffin]], he became a powerful Psyker himself when Granddaddy Nurgle adopted him.
*The [[Alpha Legion]] also ignored the edict like they did almost everything else. Officially, they disbanded the Librarius; unofficially, [[Alpharius]] and [[Omegon]] kept their Librarians around for special operations.
*[[Konrad Curze]] was said to have supported the use of Librarians, and was quite a potent psyker himself (though untrained and not fond of his abilities). Somewhat oddly, he never seemed to express any personal opinion on psykers, and appeared to have been almost completely neutral regarding the topic. However, despite his Legion having a significantly greater than normal proportion of psykers in their ranks, most of the Night Lords seemed to dislike psykers in general. When the Edict came down, the [[Night Lords]] nominally accepted it but Curze seemingly didn't bother to enforce it. In fact, he apparently cared so little about the whole business that he passed on the decision as to what to do with the Legion's psykers to his First Captain [[Sevatar]]. Sevatar didn't care either, and so passed the decision in turn to individual company commanders. Most happily went along with the Edict (even going so far as to exile their Chief Librarian, who ironically was recruited into the Knight-Errants afterwards), but they occasionally dabbled in sorcery throughout the Heresy. 
* The [[Sons of Horus]] went along with the decree initially, but when they got their Heresy on, they learned sorcery quickly from the Word Bearers (through the Lodges) and were quick to use it openly and without restraint after Istvaan.
* [[Perturabo]] was against using Librarians, in fact it was noted as one of the only things that brought him and [[Rogal Dorn]] together. However his opposition to the Librarius initiative was one born of pragmatism rather than a dislike of psykers. He basically took the opposite view of Guilliman; where Guilliman believed the Librarians to be a useful military tool, Perturabo thought them to be a waste of time and resources. If it might have helped the [[Iron Warriors]] build or tear down fortresses any quicker then they might have joined the "fuck Nikaea bandwagon" with gusto, but there are no recorded Iron Warriors Librarians after turning traitor either. Perturabo was pissed (as usual) that Big E used the coliseum he had been allowed to build for competitive events as a courtroom.
* Although [[Fulgrim]] was initially a proponent of the Librarius amongst Astartes, since he viewed the psyker as another step on the human road to perfection, he seemingly did not support exploration of the matter for his own legion. It was stated clearly in at least two sources that "The Legion employed no Librarians, as the genetic mutation that allowed a psyker to access the warp was considered a flaw, a nothing considered a flaw would be allowed in the Legion." (A Reflection Crack'd, Angel Exterminatus). As further evidence, the [[Emperor's Children]] appear to have followed the Edict since no EC Librarian has ever appeared in the fluff.

In M41 the Edict technically still stands (no one can overrule the [[Emperor]] and he never officially revoked his Edict) but it stopped being enforced after the [[Horus Heresy|Heresy]] and the marines could please themselves. Also of interest is that the Emperor violated the Edict himself by ordering the founding of the Grey Knights, who are even bigger violators of it than the Thousand Sons.