Psykana Temple Calix

“Will and blade, life and death, cause and consequence, mind
and matter, soul’s truth and warp’s lie: all things indivisible
and one.”
— Temple Calix Training Mantra.
Operating within the ranks of Imperial Sanctioned Psykers,
the Psykana Temple Calix is an order of elite militant
psyker-warriors, battle mystics devoted to personal skill at
arms and the focusing of their psychic might and abilities to
augment their power in close combat.
The Scholastia Psykana is made up clusters of sanctioned
schools, methods and traditions that focus on the use of
psychic power, which, although overseen and regulated by
the authorities on Holy Terra, can vary greatly from sector
to sector, both in their methods and in their philosophy.
Within the Calixis Sector, there are many such branches of the
Scholastia, one of the smallest and most reclusive of are the
Templars Calix, whose isolated temple-monastery is based in
the polar wastelands of Scintilla. While several branches of the
Scholastia focus on preparing sanctioned battlefield psykers for
use alongside the armies of the Imperium in the battlefield, or
their function as specialist advisors to military commanders, the
Psykana Temple Calix focuses instead on martial skill, honing
the mind and body together to create deadly superhuman
warriors who can vanquish their foes in a blaze of power and
with the screaming edge of a force blade.
Some say the traditions of the Templars Calix came from
one of Angevin’s closest advisors who was a scion of a militant
branch of the Scholastia originating in a distant part of the
Segmentum Solar. Others claim it was Drusus who founded the
temple to provide him with specialist bodyguards after his near
death on Maccabeus Quintus. No matter what their origin, the
mystic training of the Templars Calix today focus on the use
of their member’s psychic ability in conjunction with deadly
methods of close-quarter fighting. Personal loyalty to the Golden
Throne, psyker-mysticism, self-discipline and the fighting
arts, both armed and unarmed, are drilled into the Psykana
Templars. Their skills encompass brutally simple methods of
killing an opponent and more elaborate maneuvers commonly
attributed only to assassins, as well as defensive techniques and
practiced agility. The use of all manner of exotic weapons is also
taught but the central focus of a Templar’s training is the use
of force weaponry, the psychoactive properties of which make
these weapons extensions of the wielder’s own power. In the
hands of a Templar Calix, such a weapon becomes a channel
for the destructive forces both of this world and beyond.
Usually clothed in plain midnight-blue robes or the dark storm
coats of the Adeptus Terra, when overt in displaying who and
what they are, the Psykana Templars Calix wear close fitting
cowled mantles of black samite and cover their visages with
masks of tarnished silver to show blank and emotionless faces
to the world.
The Psykana Templars Calix are few, even in comparison
to other Orders of Sanctioned Psykers, and are in constant
demand throughout the sector and beyond. Military
commanders and high ranking adepts prize the presence
of a Psykana Templar as a bodyguard above nearly all
others. On rare occasions small units of Templars have been
deployed as part of a full scale conflict, but such actions
have not been seen for centuries. Of course, the psychic and
martial skills of a Psykana Templar are of great use to the
Inquisition, both as Acolyte agents and as highly effective
executioners. No less than Lord Inquisitor Caidin himself,
the Grand Master of the Ordos Calixis, is guarded and
aided by a Psykana Templar Calix, known simply as Shade,
a powerful telekine and swordsman of unearthly skill who
is one of his most trusted servants.
==Alternate Career Rank==
To become a Templar Calix you must achieve acceptance by
the masters of the Psykana Temple Calix. These masters look
primarily for a controlled and stable personality and psychic
potential rather than martial skill (which they are supremely
confident their training can impart). Joining the temple and
going through training should occasion a period of several
months “downtime” for the character between adventures.
During this time they must help construct or obtain a force
weapon of their own, which may result in a small scenario for the Player Character at the GM's discretion.
Required Career: Imperial Psyker
Alternate Rank: Rank 4 or higher (2,000 XP)
Other Requirements: You must have no more than 10 Insanity Points and 10 Corruption Points.