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I know that Custodes are generally recruited from nobility. Being descended from certain family lines may have an impact on probability of psychic potential, however, is there any rule or regulation that prevents psychic Custodes?

Thinking about it, having the Emperor's most trusted bodyguard be non-psychic might be desirable. With psychers you never know when something might go wrong with them, and having that happen near the Emperor isn't a great idea, even if the chances are remote.

Don't think there's any mention of such. With them working together with blanks(sisters of silence) which causes serious health issues to nearby psykers maybe that's reason why not? Not to mention psyker is always an risk factor.

they cannot no. Codex: Custodes specificly says they weed out psykers as it's too big a potential vunerability

No, atleast not until Geedubs wants to print more money.

In codex: adeptus custodes, it describes how from thousands of near-perfect candidates only a couple can ever be recruited. In the next paragraph it explains what qualities the perfect, recruitable candidates have. Then it goes on to explain that they can never have any psychic potential as they cannot afford to have any taint of chaos.

 cuda1179 wrote:
I know that Custodes are generally recruited from nobility. Being descended from certain family lines may have an impact on probability of psychic potential, however, is there any rule or regulation that prevents psychic Custodes?

Thinking about it, having the Emperor's most trusted bodyguard be non-psychic might be desirable. With psychers you never know when something might go wrong with them, and having that happen near the Emperor isn't a great idea, even if the chances are remote.

Its possible but that's not what the Emperor intended for them.

 Delvarus Centurion wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:
I know that Custodes are generally recruited from nobility. Being descended from certain family lines may have an impact on probability of psychic potential, however, is there any rule or regulation that prevents psychic Custodes?

Thinking about it, having the Emperor's most trusted bodyguard be non-psychic might be desirable. With psychers you never know when something might go wrong with them, and having that happen near the Emperor isn't a great idea, even if the chances are remote.

Its possible but that's not what the Emperor intended for them.

umm no that's exactly what the emperor intended for them.

Given the level of genetic rewrite involved I suspect even if a Custodian were inclined to be psychic it'd have been written out since that wasn't what the Emperor needed them doing when he made the templates. They could be psychic, but it would be as a result of someone going "yeah, pull the "psychic Custodian" gene-template out of storage, time to make some", not as a result of someone with the correct genes happening to go through a process designed to produce a non-psychic Custodian.

Long story short, they "could" If the Emperor (or whoever makes them now) wanted them to be. But as far as I know there aren't any custodes psyker in the lore...

There not..

However there make up is somewhat worked, modified and changed to be resistant and so but not psykers. There's a huge open door to chaos, and they are his bulwark who guard him. There is no room for a single crack of weakness in his bodyguard who defend him.

Also. There's a reason they work well in concert with sisters of silence who gifts actively layer together. He not have sisters of he had basically grey knights as guards.

Generally I think that any psychic custodes would be more like imperial saints, channeling the emperors energy into psychic powers.

Could it possibly be because the custodes represented the Emperor's vision for mankind? If he had succeeded in his plan to enter the webway, there would no longer need to be any astropaths, navigators or psychers. I imagine the custodes were meant for this new world the emperor had planned.

It is possible that the Emperor, fearing the influence of the Warp, intentionally alter the Custodes' gene codes to make them non-psychic.

Technically correct answer: They are all psychic, all humans who don't have the pariah gene are.

Practically correct answer: None of them are psykers in the traditional manner.

BrianDavion wrote:

 Delvarus Centurion wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:
I know that Custodes are generally recruited from nobility. Being descended from certain family lines may have an impact on probability of psychic potential, however, is there any rule or regulation that prevents psychic Custodes?

Thinking about it, having the Emperor's most trusted bodyguard be non-psychic might be desirable. With psychers you never know when something might go wrong with them, and having that happen near the Emperor isn't a great idea, even if the chances are remote.

Its possible but that's not what the Emperor intended for them.

umm no that's exactly what the emperor intended for them.

No its not, the Emperor did not intend for them to be psychic.


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 DarknessEternal wrote:
Technically correct answer: They are all psychic, all humans who don't have the pariah gene are.

Practically correct answer: None of them are psykers in the traditional manner.

Wrong they aren't psychic, they have the Emperors Aegis but that isn't their own psychic power.

All humans are psychic. It's why Chaos exists.

Custodes didn't used to be human at all, but you can thank the new writers for that retcon.

They clearly aren't pariahs given their continual proximity to other psykers, so now Custodes are psychic.

 DarknessEternal wrote:
All humans are psychic. It's why Chaos exists.

Custodes didn't used to be human at all, but you can thank the new writers for that retcon.

They clearly aren't pariahs given their continual proximity to other psykers, so now Custodes are psychic.

if custodres wheren't human what where they?

In their previous incarnation, they were built from the ground up by the Emperor. They were a species unto themselves.

They were not modified humans.

Of course, in their previous previous incarnation, they were just regular humans with a spear and magic helmet. (the helmet had a force field).

 DarknessEternal wrote:
In their previous incarnation, they were built from the ground up by the Emperor. They were a species unto themselves.

They were not modified humans.

Of course, in their previous previous incarnation, they were just regular humans with a spear and magic helmet. (the helmet had a force field).

I'm sure the rogue trader era Custodes where a terror to any and all wabbits

 DarknessEternal wrote:
All humans are psychic. It's why Chaos exists.

Custodes didn't used to be human at all, but you can thank the new writers for that retcon.

They clearly aren't pariahs given their continual proximity to other psykers, so now Custodes are psychic.

Obviously all humans are psychic to some degree but we aren't talking about that, we are talking about actual psychic humans, those that can directly interact with the warp 'psykers'


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Morgasm the Powerfull wrote:
No, atleast not until Geedubs wants to print more money.

Making them psychic won't make them more money, if they wanted to make more money off them they just have to make them OP, they can do that without psychic powers.

Given how they are made, yeah they could, but the emperor didn’t want them made that way so there are no psyker custodes, if the emperor wanted psychic custodes, he would have done it.

The Grey Knights are as close to athe Emperor as the Custodes genetically speaking so they are the psychic Custodes.