One of the singular features of the Legio Custodes as an organisation, and the power of its individual Custodians, is their place in the scheme of the Imperium's law. While an?accredited Imperial governor is effectively tyrant of their own world within the edicts?and parameters of wider Imperial law, and few would gainsay the Legiones Astartes in any?demands they were to make, the Legio Custodes are alone officially afforded the power of?the 'Magisterium Lex Ultima' in the high form, which is to say they are beyond all law and? all command save for the direct authority of the Emperor Himself. In addition to this, each?one is a lord of the Imperium in their own right. This fact is symbolically represented not?only by the right to still carry the single-headed raptor and lightning bolt heraldry of the? Unification campaign, but also by the carrying of the 'Misericordia.'??

關(guān)于禁軍和禁衛(wèi)軍團(tuán)在帝國(guó)法律體系中的地位，這即是禁衛(wèi)軍團(tuán)作為一個(gè)組織的突出特點(diǎn)，也是單個(gè)禁軍武士的權(quán)力。在更廣泛的帝國(guó)法律的法令和界限范圍內(nèi)，一名被認(rèn)可的帝國(guó)總督實(shí)際上是他自己世界上的專制君王，也很幾乎沒(méi)有人會(huì)拒絕阿斯塔特軍團(tuán)提出的任何要求，但只有禁衛(wèi)軍團(tuán)以最高形式被正式賦予了“至高的訓(xùn)導(dǎo)律法”的權(quán)力，這意味著禁衛(wèi)軍團(tuán)凌駕于帝國(guó)的所有法律和命令之上，只對(duì)帝皇本人負(fù)責(zé)。除此之外，每位禁軍武士都能憑借自身權(quán)利成為一名帝國(guó)領(lǐng)主。這一事實(shí)不僅象征性地表現(xiàn)在禁軍們?nèi)匀粨碛信宕鹘y(tǒng)一戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)時(shí)期的單首猛禽和雷霆閃電紋章，也表現(xiàn)在對(duì)于“憐憫之刃”的攜帶。

For long centuries of unbridled internecine carnage on Ancient Terra during the Age of? Strife, the 'Blade of Mercy' or 'Misericordia' came to represent the complete power of life? and death the warlords held over the mass of humanity which toiled beneath their yolk?and suffered at their whim. From the dust wastes of Ursh to the Manakonite Temples? of the No'rad ice hive, the bearing of such a blade, usually in the form of a long dagger?or short sword made to perpetrate a single, killing thrust, came to symbolise the dread? authority of the executioner-judge. Beyond the power it represented, the Misericordia?might also be used in practice to carry out a 'clean' sentence of death on a transgressor,?or to offer terminal surcease to a warrior grievously wounded in battle at their master's?discretion, in either case living up to its name as an agent of mercy as well as death. When?the Emperor came to mastery of Terra and ended the bloody cycle of the warlords' reign,? His agents and judges, and only they, came to carry the Misericordia as His mastery?eclipsed all others, and it is a tradition the Legio Custodes still uphold.?

在紛爭(zhēng)紀(jì)元的古老泰拉上，肆無(wú)忌憚的自相殘殺持續(xù)了數(shù)個(gè)世紀(jì)之久，“憐憫之刃”代表軍閥們對(duì)于那些在他們的統(tǒng)治下辛苦勞作、并且因他們的一時(shí)興起而遭受折磨的廣大凡人們所擁有著的生殺予奪的大權(quán)。從Ursh的荒漠廢土到No'rad冰雪巢城的曼孔特圣堂，這樣一柄利刃（形狀通常是一把長(zhǎng)匕首或者用于制造一次致命攻擊的短劍）象征著劊子手-法官的可怕權(quán)威。除了他代表著的權(quán)力，在實(shí)踐中，憐憫之刃也可被用于對(duì)違法者執(zhí)行“干凈”的死刑判決，或者根據(jù)受傷戰(zhàn)士的主人的判斷，向在戰(zhàn)斗中受重傷的戰(zhàn)士給予最終的安息，在這兩種情況中，憐憫之刃都不會(huì)辜負(fù)它那作為仁慈以及死亡的代理者的名稱。當(dāng)?shù)降刍式y(tǒng)領(lǐng)泰拉、終結(jié)了軍閥暴政的血腥循環(huán)之時(shí)，帝皇本人凌駕于了眾生之上，此時(shí)他的特工與法官們開(kāi)始攜帶憐憫之刃，也只有他們才能攜帶這種武器。禁衛(wèi)軍團(tuán)仍然保持了這項(xiàng)傳統(tǒng)。