Relics and Honor Guard

The past few weeks I've been trading some models with Scott, one of the Johnson City crew at the FLGS, gaining some marine items and parting with some unused Orks and some Dark Angel bikers I'd got in a major eBay lot. His Imperial Fist items that I got were nicely enough done up, that I had no desire to strip the paint from them. Thus they have been re-purposed into the Lions of Harlech.

When the Lions of Harlech were founded, the Imperial Fists made sure that they received some chapter relics and equipment to ensure that the Lions started out well. One of these was the Landraider Redeemer Faithful Purpose. The Lions of Harlech carefully preserved this relic both to honor their progenitor chapter, the Imperial Fists, but to also as a statement of their intentions of honorable service. When the Lions reconnected with the Imperium, one of the first emissaries they sent out was to the Imperial Fists. It was a delegation from the Imperial Fists that helped establish that the Lions were still untainted from their long tenure apart. Captain Shambliss of the Imperial Fists when he returned to his chapter spoke highly of the Lions and their still faithful care of the relics given to them by the Imperial Fists on the Lions' founding. The Fists responded by sending an honor guard of two veteran squads to liaison with and work with the Lions in recognition of their faithful and honorable service. Now the Faithful Purpose once more deploys for war representing both progenitor and successor.