"There may be questions, suspicions. I cannot afford discord among the men, not now. Please keep the reason you've been a Blackshield for a century a secret so that they will draw their own conclusions. I'm sure this will cause no issues. Anyway, say hi to our resident Chaplain, who consults the Codex Astartes to determine if it's time to use the bathroom. You'll love him."

Imagine the reactions when they see 1000+ year old Dante

Titus is a lot more expressive and cynical than he was 200 years ago because....

While it is implied Leandros called the Inquisition out of good intentions and genuinely thought Titus would be given a fair trial, Inquisitor Thrax, the guy who picked Titus up from Graia, was notoriously paranoid (even by Inquisition standards) and distrust of Space Marines in general, thus had ZERO intention of finding out if Leandros' accusation is true or not. As far as Thrax was concerned, any SM who were touched by the Warp, is a heretic and had to be brutally questioned. Titus spent 100 year in Thrax's custody where he was kept in stasis whenever he wasn't getting mind probed or interrogated. Ultramarines demanded Titus to be properly tested for corruption and return to the chapter, but Thrax always insisted he had to be sure.

Turned out the Emperor had a sense of humor when Thrax himself ended up getting possessed by a daemon during a crackdown on renegade chapter and his Grey Knight retinue summary executed him before the daemon could fully manifest. Another Inquisitor and Red Hunters Space Marine Chapter kill team were sent to investigate and found Titus and a number of astartes were kept prisoner. Instead of turning them back to the Inquisition, said Inquisitor instead handed them to Deathwatch. After a series of evaluation by chaplain of the Watch, Titus was deemed uncorrupted and fit for duty, however, he decided to serve as a Blackshield under an alias as an act of penance despite his proven loyalty.

Source: White Dwarf 498

Technicly over 400 years with 4 gold service studs.
It’s just records are removed with his service before death watch by the inquisition.

I remembered Leandros in Space Marine 1, he had no studs until now. He's about a hundred years old which means that he's younger than Titus.

Most Scottish Space Marine ever!

Meanwhile Chairon is 10k years old because he was on Calth during the Word Bearers betrayal
Unless it's an oversight, Cawl probably snatched him when he was young and put him on stasis until he got primaris right

In case anyone's curious, there are dreadnought pilots who are thousands of years old. Originally regular Space Marines, they are now entombed within the Dreadnought carapace until killed. Bjorn the Fell-Handed from Space Wolves was over 10 thousand years old and fought in Horus Heresy (biggest 40k civil war).

even in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, SCOTLAND IS FOREVER!!!!

Even though most marines don't live to 200, he still young for a space marine. They just simply don't get to live to the point where age would kill them. There is even a canon event where Salamander space marines stumble upon a crashed heresy era Salamander ship and find a brother in there who is still alive but his body had been atrophied to the point that he had been immobilized for thousands of years. His mind and memories were broken but they learned his name: Gravius. And that mofo didn't die from old age, he died because the planet erupted into a massive lava sphere and Salamanders couldn't take him with them because his armor had fused to the captain chair that he was sitting on.
And also, when Tau took down a dreadnought, they were shocked to the core when they discovered that the mech AND the pilot was over 6000 years old - much older than their entire civilization.

3:55 I like how Chairon shakes his head at Gadriel like dude wth are you doing

I never realized the studs in his noggin were significant i just thought they were like space marine tech organ stuff.

Titus is over 400 years old. Gild studs indicate 100 years of service. The reason he remarks 200 is because thats how long the primaris have existed for.

upon seeing Dante

Chairon: see those service studs?
Gadriel: GOT DAMN!!! THAT WAS NOT A MASK???!!!!!

i have only seen cutscenes so far but it seems like the devs did as much as they could to establish that chairon has the ability to sense chaos. not actively but good enough to be of use.

It’s confirmed in Space Marines 1 he was 175 with 2 gold studs so it looks like for him, gold studs are 50 years of service making him 275 with 4 gold studs.


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Aged really well.

All reactions lol? You mean all one of them?

Demetrian Titus was born on Tarantus approximately 600ish.M41 and fought in the Battle of Macragge hence his knowledge in fighting Tyranids. In fact given his four gold service studs he is likely older than Cato Sicarius and is likely one of the oldest non Dreadnought Ultramarines alive save for Calgar and Cassius.

2:29 Put some freaking respect on those Cadians, Gadriel.