Editing Mastodontii (section)

==Culture==
{{Infobox 40k Planet
|name= Tisenjoch II
|bgcolor=black
|fgcolor=white
|image=[[File:Tisenjoch.jpg|200px]]
|class= Feudal World/Space Marine Legion Homeworld
|orbdist= 1.58AU ± 0.12AU
|gravity= 1.08G
|temp= Cold temperate
|pop= 25,000,000
|governor=
|system= Tisenjoch System
|sector= Ildrisviel Sector
|subsector=
|segmentum= Segmentum Pacificus
}}
Even before being reunited with their sire, the Legion was prone to acts of ritual self-mutilation.  From their beginning on Terra, the Eighth would render their faces terrible with great scars.  As the Eighth Legion expanded, squads of battle-brothers used common patterns of scarification to show their identity.  Replacements would take on the ritual marks of their new squadmates, obscuring but never totally erasing any scars they had already earned.  By the second century of the Great Crusade, it was possible to read the battle history of a Mastodontii marine on his face.

Self-injury also played a role in the discipline of the Legion.  Minor wrong-doing in the ranks would be punished by the offender themselves, with the guilty party engaging in self-flagellation until the mortification of the flesh assuaged their guilt.  After the Mastodontii were reunited with their gene-sire, these tendencies became even more manifest.  In order to wash away the blood guilt of violence, Legionnaires would mark their victories by taking the whip to their own backs.  In many Chapters, it was customary to use barbed whips in order that the blood of the Legion would be join that of the enemy and innocent dead.

The introduction of recruits drawn from Tisenjoch brought new symbolism into the rites and heraldry of the Legion.  Representations of great beasts, especially the Mamutoi's mammoth-totem Sabaka, became common.  Although the veneration of Sabaka is little-known to the scholars of the Imperium, the image of the mammoth became synonymous with the Eigth Legion and gave them their common sobriquet.

===Recruitment and Training===

Though Tisenjoch was not a vastly populated world, its people were uniquely suited to the implantation of the Mastodontii gene-seed.  This genetic quirk encouraged the export of the Legion's headquarters from Titan to Ötztal's homeworld sometime in the fifth decade of the Great Crusade.  As in other Legions, the Eighth carried out semi-ritualised trials to determine the fitness of their Aspirants.  At first, these trials were in common with the traditions of old Terra, but over time the standard became the Test of Four Seasons.  Uniquely, Aspirants were paired together and succeeded or failed along with their partner.  It is believed that the Test re-enacted the hunting of Andugu, Orgolesh, and Huwadu by the Legion's Primarch, although the precise details were never disclosed to outsiders.

Another idiosyncracy of the Mastodontii training was special instruction in wrestling.  Their Primarch was a remarkable grappler and his gene-sons proved worthy heirs.  These skills were rarely used in field warfare but often helped the Mastodontii in tight environments, such as tunnel fighting or boarding operations.

===Notable Domains===

The heart of the Eighth Legion was Tisenjoch, the feudal world that had been home to their Primarch.  From this rugged planet came many of the Legion's recruits and much of its distinctive culture.  The Mastodontii also recruited from a handful of other wild worlds scattered throughout the Segmentum Pacificus, bringing the sons of hardy nomads to Tisenjoch to face the Test of Four Seasons.

===Notable Members===

* Culayne Kardynat, Legion Master

* Centurion Aglukkaq

* Venerable Dreadnought Kumaglak