Libertas as Excalibur
Libertas, Garroās super-shiny sword that lowkey definitely will become the Titansword, is old as balls. It, or parts of it, predate Old Night (c.M25), the āunknowable scienceā capable of ācancelling outā the unreal anti-life of a daemon.
Garro, born in Albia, feels a special connection with the bladeā¦ could it be because itās Excalibur, the legendary sword of Britain (aka Albion)?
It has Libertas written on the blade, which one could simply ignore completely as blades can be modfied, but whereās the fun in that. In fact, it says Libertas Rex on the cover to Garro:
Rex being Latin for kingā¦ as in King Arthur. The Latinised name for Excalibur? Caliburnus (from chalybs - āsteelā). Caliburnus Rex. The Kingās Sword.
Now imagine the Captain of the 7th Great Company of the XIVth Legiones Astartes is presented with a sword to go along with his new honorific āBattle-Captainā after a battle in the Unification Wars. Faded by the millennia, the remaining letters read LIB RĀ S REX. With fragments between it could be liberus, perhaps liberas.
He calls it LIBERTAS.
