Why do Librarians always wear blue?

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**Shovan**

I've only been playing for about a year and only just recently got deep into the fluff of the game. I've noticed that Librarians always wear blue armor and I've been curious as to why.

**Fafnir**

Because the Ultramarines are the best, and they wants to be like the Ultramarines, obviously.

**Temujin**

Because Guilliman had OCD and needed to organise everything into neat little colour-coded categories. My Imperial Fist librarians, techmarines and chaplains will proudly wear their bananamen-yellow armour.

**Captain Idaeus**

It is written in the Codex Astartes that all Librarians must wear blue power armor with gold and yellow highlights, no matter how cool your scheme is... well its also so they can pretend to be as awesome as a thousand sons sorcerer.

Joking aside, they dont HAVE to wear blue, unless your chapter is super codex.

**Temujin**

Captain Idaeus wrote:It is written in the Codex Astartes that all Librarians must wear blue power armor with gold and yellow highlights, no matter how cool your scheme is...

The smurfs will have to take the banana armour from my Imperial Fists librarian's cold dead hands if they want me to follow their precious book so bad.

**helgrenze**

So it is easier to target them on the battlefield?

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Captain Idaeus has it right:

"According to the guidelines of the Codex Astartes, the armour of Librarians is blue with gold and yellow highlights, regardless of chapter colours. The left shoulder plate of the Librarian's armour displays the chapter symbol in the case of power armour; for Terminator armoured Librarians, the chapter symbol is displayed on the right shoulder armour (leaving the Crux Terminatus for the left). The free shoulder pad displays the Librarian symbol, its exact form denoting the rank of the Librarian. Librarians wear golden yellow tabards which are edged with black patterns, the complexity of the pattern denoting the Librarian's rank.

Their equipment is often heavily ornamented by artificers of the chapter due to the heroism and valour shown by the Librarians, making every piece individual."

Source:
Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition)

**Chowderhead**

So it it the same for Tech=marines and servitors?

**MRMUMMBLES**

Its because blue is calming and they dont want em goin nuts and spewing up a demon!

**Little lord Fauntleroy**

MRMUMMBLES wrote:Its because blue is calming and they dont want em goin nuts and spewing up a demon!

Ah, someone else who knows the "whole blue is calming thing" and doesn't look at me like I'm insane.

And you're from Leicestershire-I like you a lot now good sir!

**Waaagh_Gonads**

No it is not MRMUMBLES... and here I was thinking a serious discussion could be held in the background forum...

Anyway techmarine armour.

"In deference to their training on Mars and the close bond that exists between Techmarines and the Adeptus Mechanicus, Techmarines sometimes incorporate red into their armour, though they are careful not to obscure their own Chapter's Colours."

Source:
Page 14, 4th ed Space Marine Codex:

**baroncrowle**

But a blue librarian in a sea of red looks but ugly

**MRMUMMBLES**

Well in a serious thought its the colour of there offices,....so to speak. jst as a chapter has its own colours so would the officiol body that trains librarians. like techmarines wear red because there trained on Mars. Or maybe each world in the Imperiam only has a small segment of the dulux colour chart

**Wyvern**

Techmarines and Vehicle crews wear red to denote that they have a link with the Adeptus Mechanicus. They have their own Chapter colours and markings on one of their shoulders. IIRC.

**Alkasyn**

I'd guess it's for the same reason Chaplains wear black and Apothecaries white, to denote their rank and make it easier to spot them on the battlefield when playing.

**Krauser**

Fafnir wrote:Because the Ultramarines are the best, and they wants to be like the Ultramarines, obviously.

And that's exactly why the BT don't have librarians, simply because we are the best and we don't need links to UM to prove it.

**Fafnir**

Nah, it's because the BT get to chill with the Great Knights, which are better than Librarians... and other BT...

**Captain Idaeus**

Its because blue is calming and they dont want em goin nuts and spewing up a demon!

though not actually written in any fluff, this is probably the best reason i have heard for the color other than better uniformality.
Perhaps this is what THE GUILL was thinking when he wrote it into the book.

**Krauser**

Librarians wear blue armour because they are the chapter cops. (always getting into their brothers minds and stuff looking for heresy). That's why they wear blue armour. lol

**grayspark**

Yeah, it's basically just to stand out from the rest, because Librarians are "suspicious".

**Neconilis**

baroncrowle wrote:But a blue librarian in a sea of red looks but ugly

To each their own of course, but I love seeing my blue armored librarian amidst my Blood Angels troops.

**Major Malfunction**

Everyone knows the Librarian wears Blue because it's lucky... duh.

**Haddi**

Librarians wear Blue, so that all the Chapters may have their hearts emboldened, to have a member wearing Proud Ultramarines colors instead of their ignoble, non-smurf scheme.

**Shovan**

Ugh. All this Ultramarine talk makes me think I'm probably gonna be painting my Librarian red to match the rest of my army.

**Burntbeard**

Rune Priests FTW...! No uber smurf colors for the SW Psykers! FYI the BT are just a bunch of warriors, not one brain amongst them... hence no psykers, the only reason Grey Knights hang out with BT is the same reason we keep our slower "friends" around in order to make ourselves look better hehe

**Kilkrazy**

In the modern era, librarianship is principally a woman's occupation.

To be a librarian is to be intellectual. The traditional name for intellectual women is 'bluestockings'.

Consequently, blue is the traditional colour of librarians' uniform.

**Krauser**

Burntbeard wrote:Rune Priests FTW...! No uber smurf colors for the SW Psykers! FYI the BT are just a bunch of warriors, not one brain amongst them... hence no psykers, the only reason Grey Knights hang out with BT is the same reason we keep our slower "friends" around in order to make ourselves look better hehe

You really don't wanna go that way wolf lover

**Burntbeard**

Krauser wrote:You really don't wanna go that way wolf lover

So are you saying that BT fight better because their Black, cuz colour has nothing to do with it =P
The wolves of Fenris are just too much to handle =P

**Zed**

So that you have to buy another paint pot. Or so that the Inquisitor can pick him out quickly if it he starts doing dodgy things.

**DEUS VULT**

Blue brings out their eyes.