Editing Mastodontii (section)

===Support Formations===

APOTHECARION

No other arm of the Legion was honoured so greatly or so completely.  Indeed, the Eighth quietly believed that they, not the [[Eternal Zealots]] or the [[Life Bringers]], were the only Marines who fully understood the value of their Apothecaries.  Among the Mastodontii, the Apothecarion was revered as the font of life and its protector.  Without new Marines, the Eighth's mission could not be completed, but it was equally good to preserve the life of veteran Battle Brothers so that they could continue their own work.

ARMORIUM

It is said that when Tollund Ötztal first laid eyes on a Rhino transport, he smiled and gently stroked the machine's hull.  The war spirit within purred at his touch, for it was kin to the Mamutoi's ally Sabaka and knew Ötztal as a friend.  For this reason, the TechMarines of the Mastodontii are known as the ''Sons of Sabaka'' by their brother marines.  In truth, these mysterious figures owe more to [[Mars (Hektor Heresy)|Mars]] than Tisenjoch when it comes to their spiritual beliefs, but the path of the TechMarine is always one of balancing the twin mysteries that they embrace.

CASTRA

Perhaps the most eccentric of the Legion's support arms, the Mastodontii Castra refused to fortify cities.  They believed that by making population centers defensible, they encouraged brutal and indiscriminate city-fighting.  Instead, the Eighth Legion's engineers focused their skills on fortified lines and stations to help prevent civilian areas being threatened in the first place.

LIBRARUS

Tollund Ötztal's gene-seed proved especially difficult to implant into psykers.  All those who see the Warp risk mental instability, but the would-be Librarians of the Eighth Legion were particularly prone to madness.  While this genetic flaw left the Legion's Librarus under-staffed, those few who withstood the trial of the gene-seed were invariably strong-willed and capable.  The Mastodontii Librarus was headed by Erlik, an unusually ugly marine whose facial scars made him seem more like a monster than a man.

VICTUALARY

Though capable enough as a logistical centre, the Eighth Legion's Victualary never developed the intelligence-gathering capabilities found in other Legions.  The Mastodontii did not even issue Warrants of Trade in any great quantity, being content to simply take what information came to them.  Such complacency sometimes led the Legion into difficult situations, but Tollund Ötztal firmly believed that his men were warriors and should not find excuses to absentee themselves from the battlefield.