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Overview

Justiciars are Ascendant Hive Knights elevated to enforce doctrine, not to conquer. Where Executioners kill and Hive Champions annihilate, Justiciars judge. They are dispatched when resistance proves persistent, disruptive, or ideologically offensive to Hive logic.

Each Justiciar is marked by a distinct paracausal hue, denoting the method by which judgment will be rendered.

They are not interchangeable. Justiciars are not champions. They do not command reverence like Hive Champions, nor do they embody the will of the Hive pantheon.

They are something colder.

They are the moment when the Hive decides that the experiment has run long enough.

Blue Justiciar

"The verdict was reached before you arrived."

Blue Justiciars — Arbiters of Judgment

Blue Justiciars are cold, methodical, and unyielding. They are sent when a foe is deemed anomalous—not because they are strong, but because they persist outside expected outcomes.

They do not escalate needlessly. Instead, they strip advantage, dismantle coordination, and impose order through perfect execution of Hive doctrine. Every movement is deliberate. Every strike is instructional.

A Blue Justiciar exists to prove a point: that resistance is not heroic, clever, or inspiring—only incorrect.

Hive forces fight differently in their presence, adopting stricter formations and measured aggression. Chaos offends them. Improvisation invites correction.

Green Justiciar

"You will tire. We will not."

Green Justiciars — Wardens of Suppression Green Justiciars are deployed when victory must be achieved through attrition, not force. They are the Hive’s answer to prolonged wars, fortified positions, and enemies who survive by endurance rather than strength.

They poison momentum. They deny recovery. They constrict space and time until resistance collapses under its own weight.

Green Justiciars are patient. They do not hurry judgment—they wait for it to become inevitable.

Among the Hive, they are feared not for their brutality, but for what they represent: a future where the battle never ends, only tightens.

Red Justiciar

"You are no longer being measured. You are being erased."

Red Justiciars — Inquisitors of Finality

Red Justiciars are dispatched when conflict becomes personal.

They are unleashed not to correct, but to end—to close a matter so decisively that no further logic need be applied. Their presence signals that the Hive no longer seeks compliance, only conclusion.

A Red Justiciar does not merely kill its enemies; it removes them from consequence. Where it walks, resurrection falters, Light dims, and the battlefield itself is dragged closer to the Ascendant Plane—where death is absolute and memory is eternal.

Even the Hive tread carefully around them. Red Justiciars are permitted to gamble their own existence, for judgment without risk is considered hollow.

Foresworn Justiciar

"If I fall, then I was unworthy. If you fall, then you were never real."

Justiciar of the Foresworn Brood — Bearer of the Broken Oath The Foresworn Brood does not field Justiciars lightly. To them, judgment is not a tool of order—it is a weapon of defiance.

A Justiciar of the Foresworn is an Ascendant Knight who has rejected the finality of Hive destiny as dictated by gods and princes. They believe the Sword Logic was stolen, diluted, and shackled by false absolutes—thrones, pantheons, and promised ends that never truly arrive.

Where other Justiciars enforce doctrine, the Foresworn Justiciar tests it. They are sent not merely to punish resistance, but to measure truth through conflict. If an enemy endures, adapts, or defies extinction, then the fault lies not with the foe—but with the logic that failed to destroy them.

To the Foresworn, this is heresy made holy. A Foresworn Justiciar does not fight for hierarchy. It fights to prove that hierarchy is unnecessary.

They will gladly condemn Executioners, Princes, and even Ascendant kin if those forces demonstrate weakness, hesitation, or reliance on inherited power. Authority, to them, is valid only if it survives resistance without intervention. When a Foresworn Justiciar invokes its Ascendant Mandate, it is not calling for order—it is declaring a trial by extinction, where all participants are equally expendable. Even itself.

Unlike orthodox Justiciars, those of the Foresworn do not treat the Ascendant Plane as a sanctuary or guarantee. They regard it as unfinished proof—a place where truth is revealed only when escape is impossible. A Red Foresworn Justiciar dragging a battle into the Ascendant Plane is not enforcing finality out of cruelty, but out of conviction: that no verdict matters unless death is absolute. They do not fear true death. They invite it.

Feared by Executioners, who know the Foresworn will not protect them. Despised by traditional sects, who see them as destabilizing radicals. Watched carefully by higher powers, as their logic produces results no one else dares to test. Many Hive believe the Foresworn Brood will eventually destroy itself. The Foresworn consider this a compliment.

When the Foresworn Brood dispatches a Justiciar, it is not to restore order. It is to ask a single, unforgiving question:

"If all law is broken, what still deserves to exist?"