The lion guard

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**coganaut**

While reading about the dark angels I found a image that was labeled Lion el Johnson and the lion guard. Does anyone have any info on the Lion guard?aybr from a book or even a source that I have yet to see?

**Super Ready**

It's *probably* back from the days of the Order on Caliban... or possibly a nickname for an Honour Guard. Can you post or link to the image please? Should help in giving us more clues.

**coganaut**

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Lion_El'Jonson?file=El%20jonson.jpg

The picture is from warhammer40.wikia.com
Them being a honer guard, sounds very possible. I guess since I can't find anything about it I could always make my own fluff for it.

If you click that link and the click the picture of Johnson you can shuffle through them it's the third picture.

**DarknessEternal**

Don't trust 40kwikia.

**Super Ready**

Looks like fanart to me. It's possible it's Black Library though, I suppose I'll be corrected soon if that's the case...

**coganaut**

Lol well I will just go with fan art lol. Just was a cool name so wanted to know more

**Snrub**

I don't think that's fanart but it most certainly is a fan caption.

As an aside when ever you deal with the 40k wikia you should always have a bag of salt handy. They tend to treat fanon as canon and will caption pics with not always truthful statements.

A much more reliable font of info is Lexicanum40k. They at least list the sources for their articles.

**Kerrathyr**

It seems fanart to me, too.

In addition, it reminds me of a photo of a squad entry for one of the last two editions of GD (don't remember which year nor what country), of a DA squad with scibor lion's_head_sculpted shoulder pads (which rendered the squad technically illegal for a competition like GD, among other things)

Anyhow, I think not stops you from taking a veteran (or command) squad and calling it "lion guard"