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Hi, I'm toying with the idea of painting up a thousand sons army with IG allies and I had some color ideas I wanted to ask about.

Specifically I am interested in the THousand Sons that still follow Magnus and not Arihman's Coven

First Question: Are Rubricae blue and gold due to the nature of the spell, or are they painted that way? If so, are Magnus' rubricae also blue and gold?

Second Question: Did the Rubric change the colors of the sorcerors too, or did they do that themselves? Are all the sorcerors under Magnus ordered to be blue and gold, or do some retain original colors as a personal choice?

Third: Are any rubricae, even if blue and gold underneath, painted over in original colors as a personal choice of their sorceror?

Fourth: Are there any regular, non sorceror (or at least in game terms CSM) that have joined the Thousand Sons on the planet of sorcerors, after the rubric was cast, like renegades from other legions/chapters? If so, what would they paint themselves? Or, for that matter, sorcerors that join the thousand sons from elsewhere after the rubric.

Fifth: What colors should the Spireguard be painted as?

Sixth: Are the Vehicles of the Thousand Sons simularly immune due to the rubric, or are they subject to mutation?

This all assumes that Rubricae are immortal and can be rebuilt endless ammounts of times, Sorcerors can be replaced or resseructed, and that after the defeat of the Fang, Magnus didn't just give up, but has been rebuilding the thousand sons as a coherent legion. (please comment on these assumptions).

As far as army list, my secondary detachment was going to be HQ of Primaris Psyker, an elite of Psyker battle squad, troop of Veterans in carapace armor, 2 vendettas as a squadron carrying the aforementioned units, and a heavy support squadron of leman russ battle tanks with no sponsons

The idea of the primary detachment was thousand sons units (not sure if a footslogging blob or in rhinos), with one sorcerer in termy armor and a unit of termies, and another sorceror on a bike with a bike unit; and then whatever daemon engines I felt like kitbashing together.

Idea was as many psykers on the board as possible, regardless of gameplay effectiveness

Anyway, yeah.

Second Question: Did the Rubric change the colors of the sorcerors too, or did they do that themselves? Are all the sorcerors under Magnus ordered to be blue and gold, or do some retain original colors as a personal choice?

See above..

Third: Are any rubricae, even if blue and gold underneath, painted over in original colors as a personal choice of their sorceror?

Anything that happens after Battle of the Fang is unknown, but all fluff taking place in "Modern times" (ie- present 40k) shows Rubricae and their Sorcerers with blue armor. See: Space Wolves Ragnar books and Atlas Infernal (Inquisitor Czevak)

Fourth: Are there any regular, non sorceror (or at least in game terms CSM) that have joined the Thousand Sons on the planet of sorcerors, after the rubric was cast, like renegades from other legions/chapters? If so, what would they paint themselves? Or, for that matter, sorcerors that join the thousand sons from elsewhere after the rubric.



Fifth: What colors should the Spireguard be painted as?

Probably Red.

Sixth: Are the Vehicles of the Thousand Sons simularly immune due to the rubric, or are they subject to mutation?

There is no fluff that is known on Rubricae vehicles so far.

Okay, Because what I was thinking to do, was represent all Rubricae Marines as blue with white/gold trim and pink runes/warpflames; and all Magnus' Sorcerers (including as. sorcs of the ksons squads) as having the original red and white/gold. Spireguard being red/gold too. And any inducted marines (regular CSM) as red with a distinctive shoulder pad or helmet color (black or other)

What I was curious about was whether Rubricae are actually "painted" or whether their armor is at this point wholly magical in such a way that they are literally that color, like dyed.

My reasoning is that Im assuming that rubricae only changed colors (gonna assume the headresses were there before) when the rubric was cast, and the rest of Magnus' legion remained the same color (novels notwithstanding). My logic on giving non-sorcerer, non-rubricae marines distinctive badges are because they arn't geneseed brothers, and as such arn't "true" sons of Magnus.

Rubricae are so magical that they can't even get dirt on their armor, or have the paint be chipped. It's just utterly destroyed when cracked enough. The armor of Rubricae who turned from Red to Blue in Ahriman's presence just "is" cerulean azure.