Imperial Fists - Chapter Relics: Angel of Sacrifice - During the Great Crusade, and the Heresy that followed, many thousands of Imperial Fists fought for Mankind. In those days, every company's banner bore a golden crest, forged at the Emperor's decree and presented by Dorn himself. When the Imperial Fists Legion was dissolved, Dorn forbade that the crests be carried into battle until the Emperor Himself returned to lead the reconquest of the stars. Since that day, the crests have lain within Phalanx' stasis vaults, waiting for a day that may never come. The one exception was the Angel of Sacrifice. During the infiltrator Macellanos' attempt to assassinate the Emperor during the Siege of Terra, Garos Hargrim took up his company's splintered banner and slew the traitor. Hargrim perished even as he struck Macellanos down, but Dorn ordered the golden crest be reforged as a crozius to honour the warrior's memory. The Angel of Sacrifice has been wielded by favoured Chaplains ever since, a weighty burden and an honour both.Armour of Dorn - Fragments of Dorn's golden Artificer Power Armour are kept by the Second Founding Black Templars Chapter.Banner of Staganda - The Battle for Staganda was one of the most gruelling campaigns ever undertaken by the Imperial Fists 3rd Company. Staganda had been severed from Mankind since the Dark Age of Technology and, by the time an Explorator Fleet rediscovered the world in M34, the population had been living under brutal Ork occupation for millennia. Avan Gorr, the Imperial Fists' Chapter Master in those times, determined that it was the duty of his Chapter to ensure that the Emperor's light fell anew upon Staganda, and that the greenskin yoke was cast from the world's shoulders. Though the entire Imperial Fists Chapter was mobilised to reclaim the planet, it was the 3rd Company that bore the brunt of the fighting, and its captain that slew the Ork warlord at the pivotal point in the campaign. In the aftermath, a new company standard was fashioned in honour of the victory.Bones of Osrak - The legends concerning Chief Librarian Malandar Osrak lie greatly shadowed by the passage of time, dating as they do from late M32 -- a period on which Chapter records are notoriously silent. The stories of Osrak's defeat of the nine Daemon Lords of the Maelstrom may well be apocryphal, as might his cleansing of the plague vessel Morbiditus. Even the tale of the Exorcism of the Phalanx is questioned by many, for few are prepared to believe so holy a vessel could fall to daemonic possession. Whatever the truth of these stories, none contest Osrak's sheer psychic might. Even now, centuries after his death, the scrimshawed remains of his skull radiate a formidable power. With proper training, a Librarian of the same gene-seed can bend the Bones of Osrak to his will, accomplishing feats beyond the ken of his fellow.Dorn's Skeletal Hand - The now skeletal hand of the Primarch Rogal Dorn recovered from the Chaotic warship known as the Sword of Sacrilege duing the 1st Black Crusade is one of the Imperial Fists' most sacred relics and is kept in stasis in the innermost chapels of the Phalanx. Each Chapter Master writes his name in minute script on the bones of the hand, a symbolic reminder of the Chapter Master's duty to the Primarch. When Rogal Dorn was still alive he and any new Chapter Master would slit their palms and clasp hands, the sacred blood of the Primarch mixing with that of the new Chapter Master. A symbolic and physical representation of the duty and responsibility of the new Master of the Chapter towards the Astartes of one of the Imperial Fists' Successor Chapters. With Dorn's death, the ceremony has ceased but by inscribing the names of its Chapter Masters on the bones of Dorn's hand the Chapter honours the memory of its bond with the Imperial Fists' progenitor.Duty's End - Duty's End is a powerful relic Storm Shield. Brother Sergeant Artor and his squad were posted on the world of Deepcut IX, guarding a mine colony, when Ork raiders attacked. Despite assurances of assistance from the hundred or so miners, their chief foreman convinced them to flee and hide deep in the tunnels. The ten Space Marines were left to defend the mine head unaided against a horde of nearly a thousand Orks. The mine entrance was an excellent place to defend, but inevitably the Ork numbers overwhelmed the Imperial Fists. Artor was last to fall, countless Slugga shells impacting on his great Storm Shield as he hacked down Greenskin after Greenskin.Eye of Hypnoth - The Eye of Hypnoth was presented to the Imperial Fists in late M39 in honour of the assistance they provided in defending the forge world of Hypnoth from Waaagh! Kromak. This device is a highly sophisticated and long-ranged auspex array; tradition dictates that it is best employed to detect hidden weaknesses in enemy fortifications during planetary assaults. Techmarine Karazan has made frequent use of the Eye since 956.M41, and has formed such an accord with the device's machine spirit that no other can operate it with the same precision and efficiency.The Fist of Dorn - The Fist of Dorn is a legendary master-crafted Thunder Hammer traditionally wielded by the Captain of the Imperial Fists' 1st Company. The weapon is shaped to resemble a gauntleted fist that is holding each end of the warhammer's head. The arcane technologies built into the Fist of Dorn allows it to strike with far more powerful blows than that of a normal Thunder Hammer, and was designed to be most effective when used to assault heavily armoured vehicles and fortifications. It is currently carried into battle by Captain Darnath Lysander, who received it from his predecessor Kleitus when the latter was killed in a teleportation accident during the siege of Haddrake Tor.Icon of the Iron Cage - Legend says that in memory of the Imperial Fists' great battle against the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion and their rebirth as a Chapter, a handful of survivors of that time crafted Icons of the Iron Cage. No one knows if these stories are true. However, there are a few talismans used by the Imperial Fists in the Jericho Reach Deathwatch that bear a resemblance. Whether or not they are the very same Icons crafted millennia ago there is no way of telling, but their inspiring effects on the Battle-Brothers that wear them cannot be denied. Named for the infamous siege of the Imperial Fists against the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion, the Icon is a talisman worn on Power Armour that reminds the Battle-Brother of the strength of faith and unity his Chapter displayed against the Traitor Legions, and how that strength still flows through his Chapter today.Ossific Relic - Many Imperial Fists bear small tokens of lost Battle-Brothers, engraving their bones with descriptions of their deeds so that they may never be forgotten and will live on forever. Ossific Relics take the form of small bones, normally finger or hand bones, carried in a small pouch near the Battle-Brother's heart, or sometimes on a chain around his neck or wrist. Far from grisly or barbaric, this practice is the ultimate act of remembrance for an Imperial Fist, and the relics of his fallen brethren are his most valued possessions.Pain Glove - A tool of both torture and penitence, the Pain Glove is a cage of ancient technology and cunning design that the Imperial Fists have used for centuries to test their strength, punish the unworthy, and cleanse themselves of sins, weakness and guilt.Roma - The Roma was the first Imperial battle honour won by the VII Legion at the start of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium. The honour exists now only as a Ceramite icon, as it is too precious to be displayed in even the most heavily protected Inner Reclusium aboard the Phalanx.Scrimshaw Tools - It is said that as an Imperial Fist grows older and sees more of his Battle-Brothers fall in combat, his urge to master the practice of scrimshawing the bones of his fallen kin becomes all but irresistible. Often, this devotional act serves to belay any sense of failure the Battle-Brother may feel for his own part in the death, whether real or imagined, and in some cases is an act of penance imposed by the Chapter Chaplains or by the Imperial Fist himself.Soulspear - The Soulspear was an ancient Chapter relic wielded by the Primarch Rogal Dorn during the Great Crusade. It was forged from lost archeotech by the hand of the Emperor Himself, and gifted to His son. In battle it acted as a Warp vortex weapon, able to cut through anything. This sacred artefact was entrusted to the Imperial Fists' Successor Chapter, the Soul Drinkers, when the Legion was split during the Second Founding. The spear was lost for over ten thousand years before the Chapter discovered its whereabouts on an old derelict starfort. Upon destroying the starfort's defenders, the Soul Drinkers made their way to a treasure room in which the Soulspear was kept, where it was then stolen from their grasps by the Adeptus Mechanicus. In their obsessive need to obtain this sacred relic, the ensuing crisis resulted in a chain of events that saw the Soul Drinkers' declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the Inquisition. The Soul Drinkers eventually recovered the Soulspear, which was used by their Chapter Master Sarpedon to slay a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch named Abraxes.Spartean - Captain Garadon's bolt pistol is a true work of the artificer's art. Since its forging in M35, hundreds of warriors have used the pistol to slay the enemies of Mankind. Every wielder has said the same of the weapon: if the marksman's eye is true, then the Spartean's shot will be too, whatever obstacles lie in the way.Strikers of Allerox - These heavy gauntlets were worn by Captain Allerox in the purging of Hive Greyreach. The hive was infested by daemons who had slaughtered nearly half of the workforce populace. Allerox himself strangled the daemonic Herald of Khorne who had led the bloody rampage.The Sword of Dorn - The blade carried by Rogal Dorn was shattered when Dorn broke it over his knee after returning from Horus' flagship Vengeful Spirit with the broken body of the Emperor at the end of the Battle of Terra. Dorn vowed never to wield the blade again as a penance for his failure to protect the Emperor. First Captain Sigismund kept the shattered blade and had part of it forged into the weapon known as the Sword of the High Marshals that is a relic of the Black Templars Chapter, as a reminder of the duty and sacrifice expected of the Sons of Dorn. The broken blade resides in the halls of the Eternal Crusader, the Battle Barge and flagship of the Black Templar Crusade Fleet.Liber Mithrus - The Liber Mithrus was an ancient tome of knowledge granted to the Imperial Fists Legion at its Founding by the Emperor of Mankind Himself. The Imperial Fists Chapter later inherited the artefact after the Second Founding and held it as a sacred relic, placing it in a special shrine erected on the desolate Shrine World of Mithron. There it was protected by a perpetual honour guard composed of an entire company of Space Marines drawn from the Imperial Fists. During an incursion by the Forces of Chaos led by the Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion, the book was nearly captured until the surviving Imperial Fists were aided by the arrival of the Ultramarines 2nd Company's Ultima Squad. Unfortunately, a daemon possessed the commander of the 2nd Company, Captain Severus, after the Ultramarines recovered the Liber Mithrus from its shrine. The daemon intended to use the arcane knowledge contained within the tome to open a Warp portal on the Ultramarines homeworld of Macragge and unleash its daemonic brethren upon that bastion of the Imperium. The daemon was defeated by Battle-Brother Proteus within the Reclusium of the 2nd Company's Battle Barge by wielding the sacred Hammer of Macragge. It is unknown if the Liber Mithrus was returned to the Imperial Fists following this incident.