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Regimental Advisors - Master of Ordnance: A Master of Ordnance, for example, serves as a combat attaché despatched from a Militarum Regimentum's artillery companies. They are the eyes on the battlefield, spotting for batteries of long-range weaponry nested far from the front lines.Utilising complex ocular arrays and barometric auguries, they coordinate devastating artillery strikes on the enemy's positions. Wherever the Master of Ordnance directs their gaze, a rain of exploding shells is sure to follow. If mobile artillery is needed closer to the thick of combat, the Master of Ordnance will typically be stationed nearby to coordinate their devastating firepower.
Regimental Advisors - Officer of the Fleet: An Officer of the Fleet performs a similar role to the Master of Ordnance, but is responsible for the coordination of aerial support for ground troops. As a junior commander of the Aeronautica Imperialis assigned to an Astra Militarum company, an Officer of the Fleet has the authority to direct the Attack Craft and personnel transports of the Imperial Navy.Under their guidance, squadrons of Valkyries are ordered to converge on designated targets where they lay down a fiery curtain of las-blasts and missile strikes. If a particularly high-value target cannot be reached by the Valkyries, an Officer of the Fleet can request a precision strike to be delivered by Aeronautica Imperialis vessels stationed in low orbit above the battlefield. With but a few calm words over long-range Vox, Marauder bombers descend from the stratosphere to drop their explosive payload on top of the unsuspecting enemy.
Regimental Advisors - Astropath: Astropaths are Sanctioned Psykers in the service of the Scholastica Psykana, and are commissioned to the Astra Militarum to aid the soldiers of the Imperium with their prognostications. Their ability to divine the shifting psychic currents amidst the roiling swirl of combat makes them invaluable to a Company Commander. Guided by an Astropath's dread visions, commanders order their Heavy Weapons Teams and tank squadrons to fire into seemingly empty patches of cover -- the resultant enemy screams and the wet splatter of shredded flesh quickly silence any doubts as to the psyker's intuition.Astropaths are known to unsettle their comrades with their hollow, eyeless gaze and the susurrus of telepathic murmurs that fogs the air around them. Yet none can deny that their ability to project their thoughts, or to influence the thoughts of others, can make them a potent weapon on the battlefield.
Regimental Advisors - Unit Composition: 1 Master of Ordnance, 1 Officer of the Fleet or 1 Astropath
Regimental Advisors - Master of Ordnance: Flak ArmourLaspistolHand-Held Artillery Targeter
Regimental Advisors - Officer of the Fleet: Flak ArmourLaspistol
Regimental Advisors - Astropath: LaspistolTelepathica Stave
Rehati - Rehati: The Rehati served as the Thousand Sons Legion's inner coven of advisors and was comprised of the most trusted confidants to the Primarch Magnus the Red throughout the Great Crusade until the start of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium.The Rehati were drawn from the ranks of the elite captains of the XV Legion's Fellowships to address whatever issues were currently concerning the Legion. Its members were ever-changing, and inclusion within the Rehati was dependent on many things, not least of which was an Astartes' standing within the Legion.The original five pre-Heresy Cults of the Thousand Sons vied for prominence and a place in the Primarch's inner circle, knowing that to bask in his radiance would only enhance their psychic powers.As the power of the Empyrean waxed and waned, so too did the mystical abilities of the cults. The Rehati served a similar position for the Thousand Sons that was comparable to the Mournival of the Sons of Horus Legion.Following the devastation of their homeworld during the Fall of Prospero and the Legion's mystical migration to the Eye of Terror, the Rehati became made up of a coven of nine Exalted Sorcerers and Daemon Princes favoured by Tzeentch that hold the rank of Magister Templi.Each Magister Templi of the Rehati led one of the nine Post-Heresy Cults of the Thousand Sons. Each Cult in turn is divided into nine Sects commanded by lesser Sorcerers and Daemon Princes. These in turn are further divided into thrallbands, which make up the basic fighting units of the Thousand Sons Legion in the 41st Millennium.
Reign of Blood - Reign of Blood: The Reign of Blood was the name of the brutal period of Imperial history that occurred in the early centuries of the 36th Millennium, when the power-hungry tyrant, the Renegade High Lord of Terra Goge Vandire, gained direct control over the Adeptus Ministorum as well as the Adeptus Administratum by usurping the position of Ecclesiarch.This made him the single most powerful individual in the Imperium since the time of the Great Crusade, and this allowed him to place his own rule above that of the Emperor of Mankind.While Vandire ruled, he carried out massive purges of the Ecclesiarchy and the rest of the Adeptus Terra as well as a campaign of targeted killings and assassinations of countless perceived Traitors, Heretics and conspirators against his rule.Fortunately, his brutal reign came to an end with the coming of the preacher Sebastian Thor and his reborn Confederation of Light, a sect of the Imperial Cult based on the previous Confederation of Light's banned teachings, that sought to end Goge Vandire's corruption of Imperial theology.High Lord Vandire was in power for almost a standard century before finally being overthrown in the midst of the Terran Crusade and slain by his own bodyguards, the Daughters of the Emperor, who later became the Sisters of Battle.The end of the Reign of Blood resulted in a major administrative and theological reformation of the Ecclesiarchy, the creation of the Imperial Inquisition's Ordo Hereticus to police those enemies of the Imperium who lay within its own structures and the creation of the Adepta Sororitas to serve as both the Ecclesiarchy's new military force and the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Hereticus.
Reign of Blood - History: At the dawn of the 34th Millennium the Adeptus Ministorum held nigh total power, which it used to ensure that every single subject of the Emperor of Mankind in the Imperium paid his dues, both spiritually and financially, to the duly appointed officers of the faith. Zeal eclipsed reason, and misrule reigned supreme.The word of the Emperor was subverted wholesale by corrupt ideologues, each struggling to usurp total control for themselves. In time, the Ministorum exercised such power that it began to dictate the policies of the Senatorum Imperialis of the High Lords of Terra. The Ecclesiarch came to be viewed as speaking with the authority of the Emperor Himself, and he influenced every aspect of the governance of the Imperium.Perhaps it was inevitable that the other great bureaucracies of the Imperium should grow resentful of the Ministorum. The Adeptus Administratum in particular found its own powers greatly curtailed, for the Ministorum's tithes took precedence over its own raising of funds and resources, leaving little in the coffers to pay for the running of the Imperium.The Administratum's influence soon waned so far that the Ministorum was able to dictate policy in secular matters as well. The raising and deployment of armies, the prosecution of wars, the commitment of significant Imperial resources and the appointment of sector lords all fell under the effective control of the Ministorum.In time, other institutions began to distrust the Ministorum's power, and the Adeptus Astartes and the Adeptus Mechanicus in particular became increasingly estranged. This dark period of history in the 36th Millennium came to be known as the Age of Apostasy.
Reign of Blood - Seeds of Heresy: Over the course of the 35th Millennium, the Administratum managed to claw back some of its former influence, but only through a series of machinations that were ultimately to the detriment of the Imperium as a whole. By the insinuation of covert supporters into key positions of power across the Imperium, the Administratum slowly eroded its rival's power and ensured that those officials the Ministorum did succeed in placing were weak, incompetent or venal.Though this ruthlessly instigated policy regained some of the Administratum's lost power, it set in motion a series of events that would see the Imperium face its greatest catastrophe since the Horus Heresy.In an effort to reverse the decline in its fortunes, Ecclesiarch Benedin IV declared that the Ministorum's upper echelons would move from Terra to the planet of Ophelia VII, a world in the Segmentum Tempestus and one of the richest in the Imperium after Terra and Mars.Moving the operations of the Holy Synod to Ophelia VII was a vast undertaking, but the effort proved well worthwhile. Separated from the machinations of the Senatorum Imperialis by ten thousand light years, the Ministorum's power waxed anew.The Synod became a force unto itself, and freed from the interference of the other High Lords the Ecclesiarch was able to raise entire armies and fleets in order to enforce its newfound influence across the Imperium. These forces, known as the Frateris Templar, came to rival the conventional military armies and fleets of the Imperium, and they soon came to be greatly resented wherever they travelled.Three hundred standard years into this new age of influence and power in the late 35th Millennium, Greigor XI was elected to the rank of Ecclesiarch. Heralded as a deeply spiritual individual who desired only that the faithful work together as one, Greigor announced that the Holy Synod would return to its rightful home on Terra, the seat of the Emperor and the heart of the Imperium.The cardinals opposed this course, not least because the Ministorum was so firmly entrenched upon Ophelia VII that a move would be a vast logistical exercise that would stretch the institution's resources to the limit. Subsequent history would prove the naysayers entirely correct, but none were able to deter Greigor from his grand undertaking.The relocation took over a solar decade to organise and carry out, and it was only possible due to a massive increase in the Ministorum's tithes. Greigor XI was soon after discovered dead, the victim of food poisoning. The true cause of his death may never be known, but the anarchy deepened still further as the Ministorum's upper echelons continued as before, imposing more unreasonable demands on their congregations.Eventually, entire worlds buckled under the strain, their own populations starving to fund the reconstruction of the long-abandoned Ecclesiarchy palaces on Terra.
Reign of Blood - Age of Apostasy: As if the situation could not get any worse, the entire Imperium was soon plunged in the early 36th Millennium into even deeper despair. The incidence of Warp Storms, a phenomenon that cuts off vast swathes of the Imperium's space from interstellar travel, increased by an order of magnitude.The Warp began to seethe with roiling energies which bled forth into realspace, making travel between anything other than worlds in the same planetary system increasingly perilous. The central governance of worlds that was limited to only periodic contact at the best of times entirely collapsed. Seeing that their foes were tearing themselves apart, the myriad enemies of humanity struck.The Traitor Legions sallied forth from the Eye of Terror, using their own blasphemous sorceries to strike planets otherwise cut off from outside aid. Orks traversed the Warp in their ramshackle Space Hulks, uncaring where the tides of the Empyrean regurgitated them and wreaking havoc in regions previously beyond their reach.The Drukhari used their Webway to freely navigate the galaxy, and struck wherever they desired, dragging millions of captives screaming to their infernal realm of Commorragh, to suffer tortures and degradations beyond a sane man's imagination.The entire Imperium was gripped by an apocalyptic frenzy of doom and anarchy. Countless new sects sprung into being, many proclaiming that the God-Emperor was enacting his final judgement upon Mankind and that the End Times were at hand.No world was untouched by the anarchy, as whole populations rose up in increasingly bizarre and extravagant acts of penance and self-flagellation. Anyone who dared attempt to reason with such doomsayers were declared Heretics, and world after world tore themselves apart in an orgy of bloodletting and violent penance.
Reign of Blood - Rise of High Lord Goge Vandire: Goge Vandire was the 361st Master of the Administratum, a position he had attained in the early centuries of the 36th Millennium by the ruthless application of bribes, threats and outright assassination. A strident opponent of the Adeptus Ministorum, Vandire had plotted against it for many years.Shortly before his ascension to the rank of High Lord of Terra, Vandire brought about the selection of a man of his own choosing to head the Ecclesiarchy, ensuring that none could stand before his subsequent rise. The new Ecclesiarch, Paulis III, was perhaps the weakest man ever to have served in that office, and soon after his ascension rumours regarding the myriad degeneracies in which he revelled began to circulate amongst the upper echelons of the Imperium's ruling bodies. As confidence in the new Ecclesiarch plummeted, Goge Vandire made his move.Leading a band of his most trusted retainers, the master of the Administratum forced entry into the Ecclesiarchal Palace, gunning down any who attempted to deny them access to Paulis' personal wing. It is said that when Vandire and his men came upon the Ecclesiarch, he was engaged in some vile debauchery that, were if known to the people, would bring eternal shame down upon the entire Imperium.Without trial or appeal, Paulis III was slain. In a daring coup, Vandire proclaimed himself both the new Ecclesiarch and Master of the Administratum, claiming control of both institutions.The next days saw the High Lord consolidate his power in a series of brutal purges of the Holy Synod. Many cardinals simply fled before Vandire's warriors could come for them, while others were defiant, mounting futile, if brave objections.These were slaughtered, to be replaced with men either so weak that they would obey Vandire's every word, or by cunning supporters who shared his own agenda. With his power base firmly established, High Lord Vandire was able to give free rein to the unfettered extremes of his ambition. Whether or not Vandire was mentally unbalanced before his rise, after it was achieved he plumbed new depths of insanity.The High Lord claimed that he spoke with the authority of the Emperor Himself, and that he communed with the God-Emperor during the many trance-like fugues into which he would regularly fall.Coming out of these trances, the High Lord would enter a rage, insisting that his every utterance be transcribed by the army of clerks that waited on his every word. Many of these orders defied logic, with Vandire taking violent action against whole sections of the Imperium's population.
Reign of Blood - Breaking Lord Phaedrus: During this time, Vandire had considerable trouble bringing the Adeptus Astra Telepathica under his control. Lord Phaedrus, the Master of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, was a potent psyker and as such was not swayed by Vandire's charisma or charm.Phaedrus saw through Vandire's veil of lies and deceits, and understood the corrupt High Lord's true intentions. Vandire realised that Phaedrus was using his considerable psychic abilities to stay one step ahead of him, and simply killing Phaedrus would never do, for he would just be replaced by a powerful psyker of equal potency. To remove Phaedrus required a much more cunning plan.Luring the Master of the Astra Telepathica into a trap, Vandire utilised the innate anti-psyker abilities of a Culexus Temple Assassin to nullify Phaedrus' psychic abilities. The helpless Phaedrus was then strapped into a specially prepared life-support machine, where the Culexus Assassin permanently severed Phaedrus' ability to tap into the Warp, making him incapable of using psychic powers.Such an operation would have normally killed the powerful psyker, but with the life-support system and a bribed Magos Biologis, Vandire was able to keep Phaedrus alive. Robbed of his psychic powers, Phaedrus was utterly distraught, which resulted in his multiple attempts to take his own life. But Vandire was always there to thwart him, removing the blade from his hand or to loosen the noose around his neck.In the end, Phaedrus was broken and Vandire achieved his aim: control over the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. If Phaedrus did his bidding, Vandire promised that he would not disclose the loss of his psychic capabilities to his subordinates, who would have immediately replaced him, and even worse, pitied him. With his powerful position put in jeopardy, Phaedrus had little choice in the matter and acquiesced to all of Vandire's heretical demands.
Reign of Blood - Brides of the Emperor: Through trickery and manipulation, Vandire's grip on the Imperium increased still further when he managed to co-opt Alicia Dominica and her sisters of the newly-discovered all-female religious order known as the Daughters of the Emperor from the far-off world of San Leor into his personal bodyguard, renaming them the Brides of the Emperor.Vandire convinced the Daughters that he was personally blessed by the Emperor when he told Dominica to fire a weapon at him. The shot bounced off of the High Lord, who was secretly wearing a Conversion Field generator, though he pretended that it was the Emperor Himself who would not allow him to be harmed, earning the Daughters' absolute but naive loyalty.He then took the Daughters as his new Ecclesiarchal bodyguard back with him to Terra. From then on, the warrior women became his personal retinue of soldiers and companions, and Vandire called them the Brides of the Emperor. They were trained by the best mentors in the Astra Militarum to combine their own skills with the modern weapons of war. Word of their dedication to the protection of Vandire spread throughout the Imperium. They were his constant guardians and his silent executioners, who would kill with a word from their lord.The Brides not only served as Vandire's bodyguard, but also as his servants and companions. They tasted the High Lord's food, fed him when he fell weak with illness, nursed his frail body back to health and entertained him with singing, dancing and other, more exotic skills.For all their gaiety on occasion, the Brides of the Emperor were still hardened fighters, and when the Holy Synod of the Ecclesiarchy tried to have Vandire assassinated a few years later to rid themselves of the tyrant, the Brides went into the Synod's meeting chambers, locked the doors, and emerged an hour later carrying the severed heads of every Cardinal present.
Reign of Blood - Reign of Blood: This violent repression and wanton slaughter continued for seven solar decades after Vandire's ascension to the Ecclesiarchal Palace, and provided a new name for Vandire's rule -- the "Reign of Blood." The immense resources of the Adeptus Ministorum were directed towards bloodthirsty pograms against often imagined Heretics and the building of immense new monuments to the Emperor and Vandire.However, Vandire's insanity was always directed outwards, and though distant planets boasted kilometre-high spires and cathedrals, the Terran Ecclesiarchal Palace was allowed to fall into decay once more. Vast wings of the palace fell silent, none save the Brides of the Emperor daring to enter the presence of the High Lord, so erratic had his outbursts become.For the masses, there were only two choices. Submit utterly to the rule of High Lord Vandire, or be crushed by the Brides of the Emperor and the Frateris Templar. Those worlds not gripped by anarchy or locked within the deadly embrace of Warp Storms were entirely in Vandire's thrall, the toils of the populations directed towards his glory. Yet, in one distant corner of the galaxy, upon the once decimated world of Dimmamar, there sparked a glimmer of hope. That hope was a man, and his name was Sebastian Thor.
Reign of Blood - Sebastian Thor: Sebastian Thor was a supremely humble priest of the Imperial Creed, who never courted or coveted the immense power he would one day come to wield. He was a simple preacher, but the passion and wisdom of his oratory caused the faithful of the world of Dimmamar to flock to him from far and wide.He spoke out against the injustice of the High Lord's rule, and while most who did so would soon be ruthlessly suppressed, his supporters always protected him from the attentions of Vandire's agents. In fact, many of the assassins dispatched to deal with the bothersome backwater rabble-rouser were converted themselves, and protected him against many subsequent assassination attempts.In a rage, Vandire mustered a vast army of the Frateris Templar at the Clax System, and dispatched them to Dimmamar to reduce the nest of Heretics to ashes once and for all. The army never arrived, for the vessels of the fleet that carried it were torn apart as they traversed the Warp, by a Warp Storm so mighty it afflicts the region still, 4,000 Terran years later.Astropaths and others gifted with the psyker's power claim the screams of those slain in the so-called "Storm of the Emperor's Wrath" can be heard there even now.Soon, Thor had amassed a sizeable following, and people were even travelling from off-world to hear his impassioned sermons. It was then that members of the proscribed Confederation of Light came to Thor, men and women who had hidden their faith since the dark time of the First War of Faith in the 33rd Millennium, when the adherents of the Temple of the Saviour Emperor had wiped out their rival sect of Emperor-worship to assert their dominance as the Imperial state church.What words passed between Sebastian Thor and these hooded ambassadors may never be known, but Thor and the Confederation became as one, and those who had been so ruthlessly suppressed centuries earlier for their more compassionate interpretation of the Imperial Creed were once more a force in the galaxy.
Reign of Blood - Terran Crusade: The Adeptus Astartes and the Adeptus Mechanicus had both become estranged from Terra, fortifying their own fiefdoms while undertaking their traditional duties as best they could. Space Marines still stood against marauding aliens and the Forge Worlds of the Mechanicus still churned out the arms and armaments needed to defend humanity from its many enemies.Yet, both institutions did so according to their own judgement, rarely coordinating their long-term goals with those of Terra. The Mechanicus and the mighty Space Marine Chapters continued to play only a small role in the events of the Age of Apostasy. The vagaries of Warp travel made any long distance journeys hazardous at best and impossible in some areas.Instead, the Adeptus Astartes' Chapter planets and the Forge Worlds of the Adeptus Mechanicus became fortresses amidst a sea of anarchy. These organisations were on the defensive, protecting the few star systems they could from the ravages of the Age of Apostasy and the carnage of Vandire's Reign of Blood.With news of Sebastian Thor and the spread of his mighty army of the faithful -- the reborn Confederation of Light -- many Space Marine Chapter Masters in the Segmentum Solar and the sectors nearest to Terra in the rest of the Imperium began voicing their support for this reform movement.The Chapter Masters of the Adeptus Astartes and the Fabricators of the Adeptus Mechanicus began to voice their concerns. Gastaph Hedriatix, the Fabricator-General of Mars and the very highest of the servants of the Machine God, issued a demand to the Holy Synod of the Ecclesiarchy. The High Lord had to be immediately indicted and called to account for his deeds.In response, Vandire dissolved the Senatorum Imperialis, the council of the High Lords of Terra, and ordered what forces he had left to assault those of the Adeptus Astartes and the Adeptus Mechanicus who questioned his authority. Needless to say, most of Vandire's commanders refused such a suicidal course of action, and the insane High Lord condemned these as Heretics.Finally, the Fabricator-General saw that he and his allies had no choice but to depose Vandire themselves. A vast army of Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-Guard, spearheaded by four Chapters of Space Marines -- the Imperial Fists, Fire Hawks, Soul Drinkers, and Black Templars, launched themselves towards Terra to besiege the Ecclesiarchal Palace in 378.M36 in what became known as the Terran Crusade.
Reign of Blood - Aftermath: With Vandire's death, order was restored to the Imperium. Sebastian Thor became the new Ecclesiarch, and he moved to dismantle most of Vandire's "reforms" and the political power base he had used to enact his tyranny.Thor reformed the theology of the Imperial church as well, altering its doctrines to stress personal salvation through faith in the Emperor and acts of compassion and kindness rather than ensuring political domination of the Imperium and its worlds. This change was not well-received by some believers.They formed a secret, schismatic organisation within the Ecclesiarchy dedicated to the old ways known as the "Temple Tendency" for their continued adherence to the beliefs of the original Temple of the Saviour Emperor cult which had founded the Adeptus Ministorum.Independent High Lords of Terra were restored to all of the positions on the Senatorum Imperialis, and the Ecclesiarchy and the Administratum once more became autonomous, and highly competitive, Adepta.To restore the proper role of the Adeptus Ministorum in the Imperium, Thor dismantled the fanatical legions and fleets of the Frateris Templar, and issued the Decree Passive, which held that the Ecclesiarchy could maintain "no men under arms."However, seeing that the Ministorum still had need of armed protectors who could work the will of the God-Emperor and undertake Wars of Faith when necessary, Thor soon exploited the loophole in his own decree and transformed the Daughters of the Emperor into the Adepta Sororitas' Orders Militant, who became better known in the Imperial imagination as the Sisters of Battle.Thor also reshaped the administration of the Ecclesiarchy, founding the Holy Synod of Terra, a council comprised of all the Cardinals in the Imperium, which would collectively shape religious doctrine for the state, thus preventing any one person from reshaping the Imperial Creed to their own benefit.One unexpected outcome of the Reign of Blood were the secret Wars of Vindication that began within the Officio Assassinorum and led to outright conflict within the Imperial Palace itself for a time.But Thor was not the only one who sought to restore balance to the Imperium's political structure. To prevent another tyrant like Vandire from ever again arising from within the Imperium's own internal power structure, two new divisions of the Inquisition were created: the Ordo Hereticus, tasked with eliminating all threats to the Emperor's will which came from within the Imperium, no matter how high up they were to be found, and the Ordo Sicarius, which was tasked with policing the Officio Assassinorum and ensuring that no Imperial Assassin would ever again get diverted from their task to serve their own ambitions.The Sisters of Battle were named the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Hereticus, for while they shared the faith of the Ministorum, their ultimate loyalty was to the God-Emperor alone -- and the Inquisition always spoke for the Emperor.In a clash between the Ministorum and the needs of the Imperium as defined by the Ordo Hereticus, the Orders Militant always looked to the Inquisition first.
Reiver - Unit Composition: 4 - 9 Reivers1 Reiver Sergeant
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Relic Blade - Relic Blade: A Relic Blade is an ancient and incredibly powerful two-handed melee weapon used by the transhuman warriors of the Adeptus Astartes that often takes the form of a master-crafted sword or axe. These weapons were sheathed in an armour-sundering power field designed for tearing through the heaviest of armour.Remembrancer works from the Horus Heresy era depict these magnificent Power Weapons in the hands of the great heroes and villains of that lost age, and accounts can be found through the  millennia of how the wielders of Relic Blades turned the tide of key battles.Some Relic Blades have been crafted in the long centuries since the end of the Heresy in commemoration of other momentous events in the Imperium's or an individual Space Marine Chapter's history.Only a precious handful have survived the passage of time and these are reserved for Astartes of long and faultless service who have earned the right to wield a Relic Blade. These elite veterans are warriors without peer, who have proven themselves many times over in countless battles and have defeated the direst of the Imperium's foes.Relic Blades take various forms, but are always a great, two-handed melee weapon of some fashion. Often, these rare and extremely powerful blades can be found in the hands of Chapter Masters, members of a Space Marine honour guard, a company captain, and Vanguard Veterans.
Relic Blade - Axe of Morkai: The Axe of Morkai is a mighty weapon borne into battle by the Great Wolf Logan Grimnar, of the Space Wolves Chapter. The Axe Morkai is an ancient artefact, thrumming with the power of the Warp, a battlefield trophy taken from a defeated Chaos Champion by the Great Wolf himself.Grimnar had the Chapter's Iron Priests reforge the deadly axe into the likeness of the twin-headed wolf-god Morkai, the guardian of the gates of the afterlife in the myths of the people of the Space Wolves' homeworld, Fenris.
Relic Blade - Black Spear: The Black Spear is a deadly relic-weapon of unknown provenance, similar in some regards to the sacred arms of the Adeptus Custodes.The spear is a Power Weapon of remarkable potency, able to pierce even Terminator Armour. It also incorporates a single-shot laser weapon sufficiently potent enough to be used as an anti-tank weapon if needed.The Black Spear is currently wielded by Chapter Master Asterion Moloc and is the ceremonial badge of office of every master of the Minotaurs Chapter.
Relic Blade - Black Sword of Sigismund: The legendary Black Sword wielded by First Captain Sigismund of the Imperial Fists Legion, and later the first High Marshal of the Black Templars Chapter, is kept in a place of honour in the most sacred chapel of the Black Templars.
Relic Blade - Black Sword: Paired with the Armour of Faith, the traditional weapon of the Black Templars' Emperor's Champion is the Black Sword.A massive two-handed Power Sword, blessed by the Chapter's Chaplains, it becomes a deadly weapon in the hands of the chosen of the Black Templars.Such is the skill with which this weapon has been crafted that the Emperor's Champion can either wield it two-handed or one-handed as a normal Astartes Power Sword.
Relic Blade - Blade of Caliban: The Blades of Caliban are Chapter relics of the Dark Angels and their Unforgiven Successor Chapters. Each has its own honourable heritage.Only the Champions of each Dark Angels company, having performed heroic and faultless duty, earn the right to wield one of these unique Power Swords.
Relic Blade - Blade of the Scorpion: The Blade of the Scorpion is a Power Sword and a powerful relic of war, having long been the chosen weapon of each successive lord high commander (Chapter Master) of the Red Scorpions Chapter.This greatsword is perfectly balanced, having been made of micro-folded adamantium, etched at a molecular level with liturgies of harm and destruction. The blade can cleave through even ceramite plate unassisted when wielded with a Space Marine's superhuman strength.But what makes the Blade of the Scorpion so special is its disruption field generator, which is far more powerful than that found on a standard Power Weapon and which gives the blade its devastating strength.In skilled hands, the sword can bisect even a Chaos Terminator in a single blow or shatter granite without so much as marring the blade's mirror-like finish.The Blade of the Scorpion was long wielded by Carab Culln, the lord high commander of the Red Scorpions Chapter, before his internment within the cybernetic sarcophagus of a Dreadnought.
Relic Blade - Blade Encarmine: The Blade Encarmine is a revered relic of the Blood Angels Chapter that is an artefact of Belarius, a servant of the Primarch Sanguinius during the time of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, which was given to him by the primarch himself.Berlarius went on to become the first Chapter Master of the Blood Angels after the death of Sanguinius at the hands of Horus aboard his flagship the Vengeful Spirit during the climax of the Siege of Terra.
Relic Blade - Frostfang: Frostfang is a mighty Frost Blade crafted centuries ago by the Iron Priest Fergus Forgrim, the famed master craftsman of the Space Wolves Chapter.Its chainsaw blade is fashioned from a rare metal that was created using a secret technique that died with the ancient Iron Priest.It was given to Ragnar Blackmane by House Belisarius as a reward for protecting its ruling celestarch from an assassin.
Relic Blade - Glaives Encarmine: The Glaives Encarmine are broad, two-handed greatswords wielded by the Blood Angels' Sanguinary Guard. Crafted long ago by using forgotten methods and techniques, few weapons in the Blood Angels' armouries approach the elegance and mastery of manufacture embodied in the Glaive Encarmine.In battle, a skilled battle-brother can wield such a weapon as easily as he might a combat knife, sweeping it back and forth in swift, graceful arcs of death and taking life with each effortless blow.
Relic Blade - Heavenfall Blades: The Heavenfall Blades are a quintumvirate of legendary Power Swords wielded by the highest-ranking members of the Inner Circle of the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter.According to Chapter lore, the Heavenfall Blades were cut from a single block of obsidian that formed the core of a meteorite that struck The Rock, the Chapter's mobile fortress-monastery, in orbit around the Feral World of Al Baradad, shortly after the fall of Caliban in the early 31st Millennium.Each of these blades are carried by a master of the Chapter and is as potent a symbol of their rank as it is deadly. Below are the known Heavenfall Blades:
Relic Blade - Sword of Secrets: The Sword of Secrets is the mightiest of the Heavenfall Blades, and is wielded by Azrael, the current supreme grand master of the Dark Angels.Its blade is so incredibly well-crafted that it has not chipped nor lost its razor-sharp edge over its many millennia of bloody use.Only the supreme grand master knows that it is also the only device that allows access to the deepest-known dungeon in The Rock.Fitting the blade into a cleft in the wall unlocks the iron gate leading to a dark tunnel and the rune-protected cell in which the Arch-heretic Luther was once imprisoned before his escape in the Era Indomitus.
Relic Blade - Sword of Silence: In times of need, Belial, the grand master of the Deathwing (1st) Company, wields the famous master-crafted Power Sword known as the Sword of Silence.This sword is one of a quadrumvirate of legendary swords collectively known as the Heavenfall Blades. These formidable weapons are only carried by the highest-ranking members of the Inner Circle of the Dark Angels. The Chapter's lore states that these blades were forged from the core of a meteorite that struck The Rock in orbit around the Feral World of Al Baradad.The blades wielded by the grand master of the Deathwing and the master of the Ravenwing also utilise small amounts of the obsidian taken from the meteorite in their working.
Relic Blade - Raven Sword: This infamous master-crafted Power Sword known as the Raven Sword is one of a quadrumvirate of legendary swords collectively known as the Heavenfall Blades. These formidable weapons are only carried by the highest-ranking members of the Dark Angels' Inner Circle.Chapter lore states that these blades were forged from the core of a meteorite that struck The Rock in orbit around the Feral World of Al Baradad.The blades wielded by the master of the Deathwing and the master of the Ravenwing also utilise small amounts of the obsidian taken from the meteorite in their working.It is also said that a small portion of this meteoric substance was despatched to each of the Dark Angels' Successor Chapters, so that the senior members of the Unforgiven's own Inner Circles would also bear the same heritage forged in steel as those borne by the Masters of the Dark Angels.The Raven Sword is currently in the possession of the master of the Ravenwing, Captain Sammael.
Relic Blade - Fellbane: Fellbane is one of the legendary Power Swords collectively known as the Heavenfall Blades. These formidable weapons are carried only by the highest-ranking members of the Dark Angels' Inner Circle.Chapter lore states that these blades were forged from the core of a meteorite that struck The Rock in orbit around the Feral World of Al Baradad.Fellbane is currently in the possession of Master Lazarus, captain of the Dark Angels' 5th Company.
Relic Blade - Sword of Sanctity: The Sword of Sanctity was one of the Heavenfall Blades gifted to Grand Master Orias, the first master of the Disciples of Caliban, who fell in battle against the Orks of the Quolon Pass.The sword was recovered about 970.M41 by Grand Master Nakir of the Consecrators Chapter, who some 30 standard years later offered it to the Supreme Grand Master Azrael of the Dark Angels, with the intention of returning the blade to its proper master.Azrael answered that, "It has found its proper master. It is not only yours by right of recovery, but you would bring honour to the cousin of my own blade", and gave it back to Nahir.
Relic Blade - Monster Slayer of Caliban: The Monster Slayer of Caliban is an ancient Power Sword of the Dark Angels Chapter that was traditionally bestowed upon the most honourable knight of The Order before the onset of a long quest into the wilds of Caliban.Its well-honed blade is empowered by a force generator of magnificent strength; however; over the ages, it has grown somewhat temperamental, and the know-how to fix such ancient technology has passed beyond what the Techmarines of the Dark Angels can now repair in the 41st Millennium.It is believed that as long as its owner stays pure of mind, the Monster Slayer of Caliban will strike down even the greatest of foes. This has been proven countless times, perhaps most famously when Master Mortifer wielded the blade to dispatch three hulking Carnifexes.It is said that Mortifer later lost his faith, and the sword fizzled out at a critical moment and could not penetrate even the crude armour of an Ork Warlord.
Relic Blade - Perfidious Relic of the Unforgiven: Borne by the mysterious Watchers in the Dark, these are ancient relic swords of the old Ist Legion that have been recaptured by the Deathwing and sometimes carried into battle by the wraith-like figures.The exact nature or function of most of these revered relics is unknown, for they are as mysterious as the cowled figures that bear them.What is known is their effect on the battlefield, for their presence alone dampens the power of enemy psykers and fills the Dark Angels' opponents with feelings of dread.
Relic Blade - Pale Spear: The Pale Spear was one of a number of strange and esoteric weapons associated with Alpharius, primarch of the XXth Legion, and rumoured to be a strange xenos artefact whose forging predated even the rise of the Aeldari.This double-bladed spear flickered seemingly out of phase with the material universe when wielded, emitting an eerie and otherworldly howling, and was able to pierce any physical defence it encountered without impediment, ripping them apart at a molecular level.Against living matter, it inflicted hideously gaping bloodless wounds as the flesh where it struck dissolved into oily smoke.
Relic Blade - Soulspear: A formidable Warp-based Vortex Weapon capable of cutting through almost any substance that belonged to the Soul Drinkers Chapter, the Soulspear had supposedly been discovered upon some isolated world during the Great Crusade by the Imperial Fists Legion.According to the Soul Drinkers' own legends, with this mighty and fell weapon the Primarch Rogal Dorn slew countless enemies and from it hung his personal banner on a hundred worlds conquered in the name of the Emperor.When the Second Founding occurred, and the Space Marine Legions were sundered into separate Chapters, Dorn saw fit to gift his successors with a symbol of their sacred purpose. The Soul Drinkers were gifted with the mighty Soulspear.The blade of the Soulspear was as long as a man's forearm, glossy black, and inlaid with intricate circuitry that shifted and changed before the eye. There were smooth indentations where fingers far larger than a normal man's would fit, each one with a laser-needle surrounded by a ring of gene-sensitive psychoplastic.According to the legends of the Chapter, only a scion of Rogal Dorn could activate the power of the Soulspear and wield it successfully in battle. In truth, since the Soul Drinkers were not actually of Dorn's genetic lineage, the Soulspear only recognised the unique genetic signature of the Soul Drinkers themselves. It is thus also likely that the entire mythology surrounding the relic is false, and its actual provenance remains unknown.The Chapter proudly carried this mighty relic weapon into combat for millennia, until it was lost sometime in the 40th Millennium when their flagship Sanctifier had disappeared during a Warp jump.The spear was lost for over ten thousand standard years before the Chapter discovered its whereabouts on an old derelict star fort. Upon destroying the star fort'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 grasp by the Adeptus Mechanicus, who desired to study its arcane technology.In the Soul Drinkers' obsessive need to obtain this sacred relic, the ensuing crisis resulted in a chain of events that saw the Soul Drinkers corrupted by Chaos and 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.
Relic Blade - Spear of Russ: The Spear of Russ was an ancient Chapter relic once wielded by the Primarch Leman Russ of the Space Wolves Legion during the glory days of the Great Crusade. It had been kept for millennia at a sacred shrine on the planet Garm, waiting for the day Russ would return for the Last Battle.But an arch-heretic named Sergius had stolen the spear during a bloody uprising on Garm, and Ragnar Blackmane, then a Blood Claw in Berek Thunderfist's Great Company, had been among the warriors sent to crush the revolt.After numerous battles, Ragnar came face-to-face with his old nemesis Madox, who had manipulated Sergius into taking the spear in an effort to summon Magnus the Red, the Thousand Sons Legion's infernal Daemon Primarch, into the physical realm.The foul sorcerer nearly succeeded, but just as Magnus began to cross the threshold from the depths of the Warp, Ragnar seized the spear from Sergius and hurled the legendary weapon at the fearsome primarch. The spear struck Magnus like a thunderbolt and the Daemon Prince was hurled back into the raging maelstrom of the Warp. Garm had been saved, but the Spear of Russ had been lost, possibly forever.As "punishment", Ragnar was sent to Terra in exile by the Great Wolf Logan Grimnar to serve in the Wolfblade, an ancient honour guard comprised of Astartes from the Space Wolves Chapter who protect the Navigators' House Belisarius on the Throneworld, in accordance with an ancient pact forged at the time of the Great Crusade over ten millennia ago.With the aid of his fellow Wolfblades, Ragnar later managed to also recover the Spear of Russ on the Daemon World of Charys with the aid of the Space Wolves' long-lost 13th Great Company.This act redeemed Ragnar in the eyes of his Battle-Brothers and he was reinstated as a member of Berek Thunderfist's Great Company after he returned from his time as a Wolfblade.
Relic Blade - Spear of Telesto: The Spear of Telesto was an ancient Chapter relic wielded by the Primarch Sanguinius of the Blood Angels Legion during the Great Crusade. It was forged from lost archeotech by the hand of the Emperor Himself, and gifted to His angelic son.Within the fortress-monastery of the Blood Angels on their homeworld of Baal, the Spear of Telesto is shown being used by the primarch against the Slaughter-Lord Morroga on the Tapestries of Riga.The blade itself, an elongated tear cut with a hollow in the centre, represented the single drop of blood that Sanguinius shed when he swore fealty to the Emperor.Glittering with an inner light, it rested atop a sculpted haft that showed the angel of blood clad in the monastic vestments of a Sanguinary High Priest. His perfect face was lost in a voluminous hood and his mighty angel wings spread against the air; and below that was a single Purity Seal that bore the personal mark of the Emperor.In combat, the Spear of Telesto is able to emit a powerful blast of energy which can vaporise anyone who does not possess the blood of Sanguinius in his veins.Originally thought to have been lost during the Horus Heresy, with the discovery of documents relating to its whereabouts on the world of Evangelion in the 41st Millennium, the Blood Angels' battle barge Bellus was sent to recover this revered artefact.The sacred weapon was ultimately found amongst the Ork-held star systems on the borders of the Segmentum Obscurus by a team led by Inquisitor Ramius Stele.
Relic Blade - Spear of Vulkan: The Spear of Vulkan is a mighty relic Power Weapon of the Salamanders Chapter that takes the form of a huge halberd, once wielded by the Primarch Vulkan himself.The weapon is currently in the hands of Vulkan He'stan, the Forgefather of the Chapter.
Relic Blade - Sword of Dorn: The Sword of Dorn was carried by Rogal Dorn, primarch of the Imperial Fists Legion, and 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 Siege of Terra. Dorn vowed never to wield the blade again as a penance for his failure to protect the Emperor.The Imperial Fists Legion's 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 still-broken blade resides in the halls of the Eternal Crusader, the battle barge and flagship of the greatest of the Black Templar Crusade Fleets.
Relic Blade - Sword of the High Marshals: As a sign of his office, High Marshal Helbrecht of the Black Templars wields the potent Chapter relic known as the Sword of the High Marshals, which was forged from the remnants of the sword of the Primarch Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fists Legion from which the Black Templars were spawned.According to legend, Dorn broke the sword across his knee after the Horus Heresy for failing to defend the Emperor of Mankind from Horus, never wielding it again.It was decreed by the Black Templars' first High Marshal, Sigismund, that the weapon carried by all High Marshals would forever after remind them of their duty to atone for their primarch's failure by incorporating the pieces of Dorn's sword in its forging.