Word Bearers - Legion Artefacts: Ashen Axe - The Ashen Axe dates back to the Great Crusade, a vicious chainaxe that was oft used on the citizens of worlds that rejected Compliance. As the Legion descended into darkness, daemons of the Warp were drawn in, feeding off the anguish and misery that its chained blades created. The Ashen Axe has become a malefic nexus for the creatures of the Immaterium. Enemies of the Word Bearers find themselves unable to flee from the axe's blows, as claws and talons grasp at their limbs and root them to the spot. In truth, their minds are assailed by the entities of the aether, circling impatiently for the soul feast the Ashen Axe will deliver.Baleful Icon - This icon bears an eight-pointed star so saturated in the blood of Loyalists that it is forever stained with the taint of treachery. Those who wish the bearer harm find their certainty sapped away by the mere proximity of this blasphemous standard. The Word Bearers that carry it feel its toxic aura much as a sun worshipper feels the kiss of a summer day upon his skin. Those who do not worship the Dark Gods instead find their skin crawling and their muscles shuddering in revulsion. Even Astartes are drained of their righteous anger in its presence.Book of the Reviler - None can truly say what knowledge the Book of the Reviler contains. One glimpse at its pages is an affront to the senses, a sickening assault on one's sanity at the barbarous truths the tome contains. Those with the fortitude to read the lines of this heinous opus manifest mutated boons of Chaos for their efforts.Crown of the Blasphemer - Adorned with the finger bones of defiant men and anointed with the blood of unbelievers, the Crown of the Blasphemer attracts the attention of Warp entities to the wearer. Whether these daemonic creatures are keeping him alive for their own entertainment or because there is some purpose he has yet to fulfil on their behalf is immaterial, for upon the battlefield, the kingly figure beneath the crown is extremely difficult to harm. Powered blades are turned away at the last moment by invisible hands, thunderous volleys of bullets find themselves snatched into the aether at the last moment, and enemy warriors find their minds assailed with visions of a galaxy in flames.Cursed Crozius - This was once the rod of office for a founding member of Lorgar's Chaplains, one of the first of his kind to be sent into the Legiones Astartes in order to watch for signs of sedition. In truth, it has always been the weapon of an Arch-traitor. First used in anger to bludgeon an ex-Librarian Praetor of the White Scars to death, it still bears the indelible stains of that first treacherous kill to this day. Those Chaos worshippers nearby are instilled with all the knowledge they need to slay the Loyalist thralls of the Corpse Emperor. Conversely, those who bear the mark of the Emperor find the crozius' every swing unerringly seeking out the weak spots in their armour.Malefic Tome - This blasphemous tome has been stitched together from the flayed skins of a dozen mortal psykers. These dabblers in the arcane signed their own death warrants, for though they took every precaution in their dealings with daemons, they made their locations known to those Chaos worshippers who walk the material world at will. Each leathery page still bears the hairs and birthmarks of the book's unwilling donors, their horror at the mistake they made still emanating from every inch of stolen skin. The book's leaves are inscribed with true names, hexagrammatic diagrams and daemonic hierarchies that offer the bearer abominable insights into the powers of the Warp.Scripts of Erebus - Copied with painstaking care by the first of the traitorous Dark Apostles from the runes upon his own flesh, the Scripts of Erebus were inscribed in blood bearing traces of Lorgar's vitae. The rituals and imprecations of these long parchments are potent messages in the Dark Tongue. When read aloud, they can channel the energy of the Empyrean into realspace with a staggering degree of stability, allowing the bearer to unleash myriad unnatural deaths upon his enemies, or else banish the powers of their enemy's worn Warp-craft. Though the scripts are rendered invisible by each reading, a journey into the Warp causes them to blossom into being once more, ready to unleash fresh carnage upon the worlds of men.Skull of Monarchia - The destruction of the Perfect City of Monarchia at the hands of the Ultramarines Legion was all but total. A few relics remain from that time, however. The artefact known as the Skull of Monarchia is foremost amongst them, the only intact cranium that remained after the utter destruction visited upon the Word Bearers' perfect city. Chased with precious metals and protected with powerful force fields, it is a constant reminder of the destruction that turned the Word Bearers upon the path of rebellion and damnation. All those nearby find their hatred of the Imperium of Man swelling to new heights.