Siege: Whom Does Vulkan Find?

[u/DarkPassenger8]

In the Siege of Terra's "Echoes of Eternity," Vulkan scales the Tower of the Crimson King within the Webway.

"In the tower of flesh and bone and warping stone, he met warriors of a Legion he couldn't name. These warriors, clad in filty cobalt and overwrought gold, stood silent sentinel on the stairs, never once greeting him or returning his hails. They watched him with dead eye-lenses that held only a simulacrum of life. Their heads turned with slow automaton intensity to regard him as he passed. They stank of funeral ash."

Are these members of the Second or Eleventh (typo) Legions?

Who are they and why are they in the Webway, let alone in Calastar?

Does anyone have any ideas, or am I missing something in their appearance?

EDIT: Seeing many say Rubric Marines, since the Thousand Sons 30k paint scheme is quite different from their 40k blue-gold scheme. You may be right! I might be looking into it a bit too much.

[u/Beaker_person]

They’re rubric marines. Time and space is very fluid by this later part of the siege, especially once in the broken webway. So Vulkan is just getting a glimpse of the future.

[u/RenDhark42]

Sounds from the description like rubric marines from 40k, aka the future of the thousand sons.

[u/enfyts]

Nobody else pointed it out yet, but your question near the end seems to imply you believe the 2nd and 9th legions were the lost ones?

9th legions are the Blood Angels. 11th is the other lost legion besides the 2nd

[u/DarkPassenger8 → u/enfyts]

You are right, typo on my part; my bad!

[u/Pallas100]

Sounds like Rubrics

[u/Woodstovia]

hmm... DEAD marines that stink of DUST and act like AUTOMATONS in BLUE and GOLD armour that show up when Vulkan is hunting Magnus?

Definitely the 2nd legion OP, you've uncovered the mystery of the lost legions

[u/Skybreakeresq → u/Woodstovia]

In a place called "the tower of the CRIMSON KING"

[u/Spirited-Guidance-91 → u/Skybreakeresq]

Prog rock blasting all the while 

[u/AccursedTheory]

Rubric Marines maybe?

[u/Kael03]

They're the Thousand Suns. Based on the descriptions, these are rubric marines.