Elana the Unshaken

A missionary, Elana made it her lifelong goal to bring the
word of the Emperor to the dark places of the Imperium.
In her time, she travelled far and wide across the sector,
often choosing planets noted for their unruly populations
or deadly indigenous life. It is written that she bore a
scar for each world she visited. From the swamps of
Ichovor, where she suffered a disfiguring filth-fly bite,
to the wilderness of Dusk, where she was savaged by
predators, she stoically accepted these “scars” as part
of her service the Emperor.
More than once, Elana was captured by natives to be maimed or tortured in the name
of heathen gods. In all such stories, however, despite the
horrors inflicted upon her, she never faltered in her faith.
In the end, after travelling to scores of worlds, Elana
was captured by a foul Daemon-worshipping cult on a
remote, unnamed feral world. The natives tied her up and
threw her into their master’s cave as an offering. Over the
next month the Daemon tried to break her faith.
Each day it would come and devour some of her flesh and
offer her release. Each day she would refuse. Eventually
the Daemon consumed her completely because she would
not turn from the light of the Emperor. Elana had a final
vengeance, however, as, in eating her flesh and spirit, the
Daemon ingested that part of the Emperor that resided
within her. The Daemon died screaming as the holy light
burned its essence away and freed Elana to her final
reward. Clerics like telling this story to prove that faith
in the Emperor can overcome anything.
Elana is a much loved and widely accepted saint within
the Calixis Sector, and shrines to her can be found on many
worlds. This is no doubt because she embodies many of the
most desirable qualities in revering the Emperor, namely
duty and devotion above personal safety. It might also be
because hearing even a little of the saint’s suffering can make
someone feel infinitely better about their own woes.
Those that care for the sick commonly invoke the name of the saint
in their work. They preach that Elana watches over all those
who suffer in the Emperor’s name but who do not lose faith.
In some places this line of reason has led to self-flagellation
to honor the saint, though the more mainstream elements
of the Ecclesiarchy agree that this is probably misguided.
Acolytes may find solace in the worship of Elana when they
suffer grievous wounds, praying to her to remind them that
all that they do, they do for the glory of the Emperor.
==Eye of Elana==
A lesser saint of the Calixis Sector, Elana the Unbroken, also
known as the Unbowed, was known for her divine perseverance
and unshakable faith in the God-Emperor, a faith which
endured even while she was slowly devoured by a creature of
the warp. It is also said that she had long foreseen her horrific
demise and did nothing to alter its course, as such meddling
would be an affront to the God-Emperor’s plan and a betrayal
of her faith. It is because of these stories, and this reputation,
that the saint’s name is also synonymous with accepting one’s
fate and supplicating one’s self to the divine wisdom of the
Emperor no matter the cost and no matter the consequences.
Because of the manner of her death, little of the saint or
her belongings remained, and so few relics (false or otherwise)
exist within the sector. One notable exception however is the
Eye of Elana, a stylized aquila pendant said to have been worn
by the saint and often represented in pictures and statues of
her. The story claims that when the saint was devoured by the
daemon that killed her, it choked on her faith and vomited
back up the eye, blessed as it was by the divine grace of the
God-Emperor. The eye was taken from the daemon’s bloody
lair by pilgrims, and then conveyed back to the houses of the
holy on Scintilla. Like so many relics, it vanished, either lost
en route or in the depths of Scintilla’s great hives and black
pits. As with all true relics, of course, many organizations, not
all Imperial, are actively searching for its location.
The Eye is unremarkable to look upon, and only a
character with the Pure Faith Talent will be able to ascertain
the eye’s authenticity by touching its surface and feeling its
divine power. To gain its blessing, the bearer must wear it
around their neck, however once it has been put on it cannot
be removed without a ritual of cleansing and absolution
performed by a ranking cleric in a place consecrated to the
Emperor. Doing so beforehand will bring down the worst
kinds of misfortune upon the character, reducing their Fate
Points to 0 until such a ritual can be performed.
The blessing of the eye is mixed at best and grants both
endurance and foresight. The character gains the Unnatural
Toughness (x2) Trait and an extra 6 Fate Points. However
these ‘free’ Fate Points, may only be used to activate Faith
Talents and for no other purpose. Further more the character’s
own store of Fate Points may also only be used to activate
Faith Talents and not for any other purpose, not even to save
the character from death. The bonus Fate Points may be burnt
as normal when activating a Faith Talent. Finally a character
may only ever wear the eye once, and if it is removed, donning
it again grants no benefit (those that wear the eye are fated to
die in the Emperor’s service and it should be no other way).