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Emperor's Spears - Chapter Organisation: The Emperor's Spears divert substantially from the organisational dictates of the Codex Astartes. They have a vast Chapter fleet, and specialise in air-to-ground warfare and orbital drop assaults. They are particularly mobile when it comes to deployment and redeployment, and are not short of air assets.The Emperor's Spears often ally with the military forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus and Skitarii Legions of the Forge Moon of Bellona in their own star system and Imperial Knights from Raukama, a Knight World located in Elara's Veil.The Chapter is organised into what it calls "war hosts" instead of the traditional ten companies. These are autonomous units of variable tactical composition that often range far from Nemeton in defence of Elara's Veil. The Chapter Master of the Emperor's Spears is known as the "High King" while its captains are called "Warhost Lords."The Chapter's Veteran 1st Company is called "the Paragons." These warriors forsake any chance to rise further in the Chapter's hierarchy to join the Paragons, and it is believed that they must undergo blood rites and other hidden rituals to gain their elite position. On the battlefield, they are fierce hunters, focusing on the elimination of enemy leaders.Chapter specialists known as "Druids" replace the usual Librarians, Chaplains, Techmarines and Apothecaries of Codex-compliant Chapters. These warrior-priests are always ready to harvest the gene-seed of their fallen battle-brothers, as well as performing the traditional duties of the standard Codex roles based on their specialist skills and esoteric abilities.
Emperor's Spears - Chapter Combat Doctrine: Imperial tacticians have chronicled the Emperor's Spears as exemplars of a close-assault ideal. Via Drop Pod and gunship, the Emperor's Spears descend into the heart of the enemy and hold position long enough for other Imperial forces to advance untroubled, linking up with their vanguard.Witnesses cite that Emperor's Spear warriors aren't the berserk madmen one might expect of tattooed savages, but instead wage war in bursts of adrenal fury tempered by periods of chanted tribal dirges. Their way of waging war is chimeric in that regard, as conflictingly melancholic and joyous as the barbarians of Nemeton themselves.Imperial commanders have, in the past, accused the Emperor's Spears of being unreliable, noting that the Chapter expresses traditional Space Marine autonomy to a difficult degree. Cries for aid are answered, but without always coordinating with the Imperial forces on the ground.The Chapter has always made efforts to minimise collateral damage, but Emperor's Spear strike forces have been known to plunge into battle, pitting glory above prudence, as if the Chapter's youth meant its warriors had something to prove to its older brethren. Desperation in recent solar decades has forced the Emperor's Spears into a more cooperative mindset, however. Necessity has forced their hand; with Elara's Veil in such danger from the Archenemy, pride can no longer come first. Now, survival must.Compared to many Space Marine Chapters, the Emperor's Spears are devastatingly well-equipped for orbital and deep-void warfare, primarily due to the scale of their fleet and their experience in grinding void warfare. On the same note, their alliance with the Forge World of Bellona means that all but the most distant warhosts possess abundant war machines, ammunition and materiel -- as well as allied contingents of Adeptus Mechanicus soldiery clad in Bellonan red and black.
Emperor's Spears - Chapter Homeworld: The homeworld of the Emperor's Spears is the Ocean World and Feral World of Nemeton located in the Annwyn Reaches sub-sector of Elara's Veil. Its landmasses are small and mountainous, and heavily forested. There are several equatorial landmasses that are largely marshy jungle. Due to the temperate weather, rainfall is constant across most of the surface.During the late 30th Millennium Nemeton was brought into Imperial Compliance during the Great Crusade by the Ultramarines Legion. Over time, however, the people of Nemeton rejected the advanced technology and attempts at urbanisation brought about by the Imperium and instead returned to the primitive lifestyle they had known during the Age of Strife of living as pre-industrial tribes in the wilderness. Nemeton is still dotted with the ruins of the ancient, abandoned cities the Imperium tried to build after making first contact. Technologically, the world's people have maintained a society equivalent to that of Old Earth's Iron Age.
Emperor's Spears - Nemetese Society: The Twelve Tribes of Nemeton represent a mono-culture of interacting pre-industrial Human tribes who loosely share certain touchstones, including beliefs, cultural practices and a language. As Elara's Veil is a crimson-coloured nebula that takes up most of Nemeton's night sky, the Nemetese tribes have come to believe that rain is something superstitious and sacred born from the great lights in the sky, a belief that is considered borderline heretical by many of the more conservative factions of the Imperium.Elara's Veil is named after the legendary hero Elara, a significant figure in the mythology of the people of Nemeton. Worshipped by most of the peoples of Elara's Veil, Elara's actual historical origin remains unclear. It may be the name of the Imperial Commander or a saint of the Imperial Cult who first brought the region into Imperial Compliance. To the primitive peoples of the Veil, however, she is the Emperor's bride and her crimson funeral veil became the nebula that now bathes the stars red. The Emperor is said to weep over her loss, producing Nemeton's constant rains.The relationship between the Chapter and Nemeton's people is very different from that of most Space Marine Chapters and their recruiting stock. The superstitious tribes see the Space Marines as the spirits of lost children, taking their young before their time and leaving them simply ghosts to be mourned.The most esoteric belief held by the natives of Nemeton is that of the geas. Every child of the tribes is brought before a local shaman known as a "druid" who is usually a psyker at sometime after their birth, who reads the flow of fate in their blood. The nature of geases vary wildly, though all are semi-supernatural "promises" of a specific moment or choice in the child's life to come.The Emperor's Spears believes that Nemeton's seers read these futures through the Warp's echoes, like any actual precognitive prophecy, and armed with this poetic foreknowledge, the bearer of the geas can hopefully avoid the wrong choice when the time comes. Many geases take the form of warnings against dishonour or death should the bearer ever act in a certain way.The written runic language of Nemeton, dubbed the "Runes of Ogham," is incomprehensible to most outsiders, though the Nemetese spoken language is one of the myriad Human dialects dubbed Low Gothic.Nemeton itself is a curiously well-defended world. A large minefield protects approaches to the planet, while many of the rocks that make up Nemeton's rings have been turned into weapons platforms capable of bombarding attackers with waves of deadly torpedoes.Further defences come from the Tech-priests of Bellona, a Forge Moon in the Nemeton System. The Emperor's Spears have formed close links with Bellona's Adeptus Mechanicus leaders, and together they are the foremost defenders of Elara's Veil.
Emperor's Spears - Notable Tribes of Nemeton: The people of Nemeton are divided into twelve tribes, which are further sub-divided into clans or related families. The Nemetese tribes are all culturally primitive, evidencing a technological level no more advanced than that which prevailed during Old Earth's Iron Age in the first millennium B.C. despite the attempt of the Imperium during the Great Crusade following Nemeton's original Compliance action to resettle the population in cities that maintained the standard levels of Imperial technology. The following tribes are the most well-known.Arakanii - The Arakanii are a coastal tribe, known for their battlefield scavenging, as they loot the dead of other, larger clans after tribal wars. Some of the oldest chronicles still extant on Nemeton even recorded witness-oaths seeing the Arakanii devouring the flesh of the dead.Kavalei - The Kavalei are the "Clan of Kings," a vast and sprawling tribe that eclipsed all others in terms of territory and victories in tribal war. As the most populous clan on Nemeton, most Emperor's Spears Astartes are descended from the people of the Kavalei.Novontei - The Novontei are a clan of wanderers and scavengers, going from region to region, island to island, offering their services as mercenaries and itinerant druids, preferring to serve rather than raid. The other tribes see them as a breed of necessary vermin, useful in battle and for the secrets kept by their druids, but disparaged for their lack of territory and loyalty.Vargantes - The Vargantes are a small northern tribe.
Emperor's Spears - Non-Astartes Personnel: Anuradha Daaz (Helot) - Anuradha Daaz was a "helot", or Chapter serf, in service to the Mentors Chapter. She accompanied Lieutenant Commander Amadeus Kalus Incarius on his mission into Elara's Veil and played a major role during the events in which her master had a central role. Daaz followed Incarius into service with the Emperor's Spears Chapter and served both well into her old age.
Emperor's Spears - Chapter Relics: Beast-Hide Cloak - When a mighty beast stalked a tribe on Nemeton, an Emperor's Spear Astartes returned to his people, who believed him to be a ghost, and set out into the wilds to end its scourge. The "ghost" returned with the slain beast and delivered it to the tribe to symbolise the end of their suffering. In return, the tribal elders bestowed a portion of its hide in recognition of the ghost's grim service, which has since become a treasured relic of the Chapter.Druidic Talisman - Librarians, Techmarines, Apothecaries and Chaplains of the Emperor's Spears diverge from the Codex Astartes to become Druids. The most esteemed mark their black power armour with sigils and totems earned through bloodthirsty duty to the Chapter.Horizon Blade - Blue waves of energy seemingly cascade in the alloy of this relic Power Sword, their ceaseless motion intensified by the movement of the bearer. As they crash across its length, its lethal edge is energised to levels capable of cutting anything it comes into contact with.
Emperor's Spears - Chapter Fleet: Daughter of the Storm (Unknown Class) - The Daughter of the Storm is a warship of the Emperor's Spears.Hex (Strike Cruiser) - The Hex is a strike cruiser of the Emperor's Spears' 3rd Warhost.Skyreaver (Unknown Class) - The Skyreaver is a warship of the Emperor's Spears' 6th Warhost.Warrior Queen (Battle Barge) - The Warrior Queen is the flagship of the Emperor's Spears.
Emperor's Spears - Chapter Badge: The Emperor's Spears' Chapter badge is a black trident pointed upward with a white skull centred upon it, all centred on a field of sky blue.
Emperor's Spears - Sources: Adeptus Astartes: Successor Chapters (Limited Release Booklet), pg. 39How to Paint Space Marines, pg. 87Index Astartes: Emperor's Spears (Limited Edition) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, pp. 3, 10Spear of the Emperor (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Chs. I, V, VIII, IX, XXISon of the Storm World (Short Story) by Aaron Dembski-BowdenWarhammer 40,000: Core Book (9th Edition), pg. 81White Dwarf 460 (January 2021), "Index Astartes - Emperor's Spears: Warlords of Nemeton," pp. 40-46Bolter & Chainsword Forums - Aaron Dembski-Bowden on the Emperor's SpearsBolter & Chainsword Forums - Aaron Dembski-Bowden on the Emperor's Spears (Gene-Seed Origins)Aaron Dembski-Bowden Post on FacebookWarhammer Community Online - Black Library Live: The Big RevealsWarhammer Community Online - Who are the Emperor's Spears?
Emperor's Storm - Emperor's Storm: The Emperor's Storm is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. Nothing else is currently known about it in Imperial records.
Emperor's Storm - Chapter Colours: The Emperor's Storm primarily wears golden Power Armour. The shoulder plates and helm are white. The Aquila or Imperialis on the chest plate, as well as the shoulder plate trim are maroon. The right shoulder plate bears a black squad specialty symbol: Tactical, Assault, Devastator or Veteran. A white Gothic numeral is centred on the squad specialty symbol, indicating squad number.
Emperor's Storm - Chapter Badge: The Emperor's Storm's Chapter badge is an ebon raptor head on a field of white.
Emperor's Storm - Canon Conflict: In How to Paint Space Marines, the Chapter was first introduced as an example created by Joe Hill. In this version, the Emperor's Storm Space Marines wore Power Armours that combined white, maroon and checkered plates, and some of them carried symbols reminiscent of the Redemptionists.
Emperor's Storm - Sources: Adeptus Astartes: Successor Chapters (Limited Release Booklet), pg. 40How to Paint Space Marines, pp. 90-91
Emperor's Sword (Weapon) - Emperor's Sword (Weapon): The Emperor's Sword, also called the Sword of the Emperor, is a famed relic blade that was wielded by the Emperor of Mankind Himself during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy.It was eventually passed on to the resurrected Primarch Roboute Guilliman in 999.M41 by the Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl in the wake of the 13th Black Crusade and the Ultramar Campaign, just before Guilliman assumed the mantle of lord commander of the Imperium and Imperial Regent for the second time.The weapon had been kept safely in Cawl's possession on Mars for over 10,000 standard years since the end of the Heresy and Guilliman's first tenure as the lord commander.Touched by the Emperor's own psychic might, this finely wrought, master-crafted sword is lit from hilt to tip with leaping flames. When it is swung, the burning blade draws pyrotechnic arcs through the air, able to slice through the stoutest of armour with ease.
Emperor's Sword (Weapon) - Sources: Codex Adeptus Astartes - Space Marines (8th Edition), pg. 20Gathering Storm - Part Three - Rise of the Primarch (7th Edition), pp. 128-129Eye of Terra (Anthology) edited by Laurie Golding (Cover)Master of Mankind (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (Cover)
Emperor's Swords - Emperor's Swords: The Emperor's Swords is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding and the first of two separate Chapters to bear the name. The Chapter was decimated by the forces of the Alpha Legion after 300 standard years of infiltration and subversion on its homeworld of Ghorstangrad. A second Chapter to bear the name, this one settled on the Chapter homeworld of Bellicas, would also be destroyed, this time by the awakening of Necrons beneath the world in 970.M41.
Emperor's Swords - Chapter History: The first iteration of the Emperor's Swords was decimated by the machinations of the Alpha Legion Chaos Space Marines. For over a dozen generations the Alpha Legion manipulated the slums, gangs, and sects of the Emperor's Swords' homeworld of Ghorstangrad, a heavily populated Imperial Hive World. The Alpha Legion's operatives placed subconscious triggers in the rituals used by the gangs and sects who inhabited the Underhives of the planet's various hive cities. It was from these gangs and sects that the Emperor's Swords recruited new Space Marines for their Chapter.
Emperor's Swords - Notable Campaigns: Decimation of the Emperor's Swords (Unknown Date.M41) - When the Alpha Legion finally launched its assault on Ghorstangrad, it was able to use the subconscious triggers it had placed within the Emperor's Swords recruits to disorient and confuse a good number of the Loyalist Astartes. These members of the Emperor's Swords even turned on their fellow Space Marines. In the ensuing chaos, the Emperor's Swords ceased to be a functional Chapter. Some of the survivors turned Renegade and joined the Alpha Legion. Those that died at the Traitors' hands had their gene-seed harvested for use by the Alpha Legion in creating new Chaos Space Marines. As for Ghorstangrad, it fell to the control of Chaos and became a stronghold for the Chaos Space Marines.
Emperor's Swords - Chapter Colours: The Emperor's Swords primarily wore metallic silver Power Armour. The Aquila or Imperialis on the chest guard, as well as the shoulder plates, were red. The black squad specialty symbol -- Tactical, Assault, Devastator or Veteran -- was located on the right shoulder plate. A white Roman numeral was centred on the squad specialty symbol, indicating squad number. The colour of the helmet stripe was used to denote company number in accordance with the Codex Astartes -- i.e. White (1st Company), Yellow (2nd Company), Red (3rd Company), Green (4th Company), etc.
Emperor's Swords - Chapter Badge: The Emperor's Swords' Chapter badge was a large white skull pierced through by two intersecting ebon swords on a field of red.
Emperor's Swords - Canon Conflict: There is some ambiguity in existing canon in regards to the existence of the Emperor's Swords Chapter. Apparently there were two Space Marine Chapters named the Emperor's Swords, and both were destroyed in their entirety. The first was decimated by the insidious actions of the Alpha Legion on their homeworld of Ghorstangrad, after its Initiates were subverted by the Alpha Legion for 300 standard years. The world then fell to Chaos and became a stronghold for the Chaos Space Marines. The second Chapter to bear the name was destroyed when the automatons of a Necron Tomb World stirred to life beneath their fortress-monastery on their Chapter world of Bellicas in 970.M41.
Emperor's Swords - Sources: Adeptus Astartes: Successor Chapters (Limited Release Booklet), pg. 40Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 21Codex: Necrons (5th Edition), pg. 27Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pp. 30, 49Warhammer 40,000: Rulebook (5th Edition), pg. 144White Dwarf 390 (US), "The Battle for Cardrim," pg. 30
Emperor's Swords (Bellicas) - Emperor's Swords (Bellicas): The Emperor's Swords is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding and the second Chapter to bear the name.The Astartes of the Emperor's Swords were wiped out in 970.M41, when a massive force of Necrons that had just awakened deep beneath their Chapter homeworld of Bellicas assaulted their fortress-monastery and slaughtered every last Emperor's Swords Space Marine over the course of a three-solar-week-long siege.During the Era Indomitus the Emperor's Swords were refounded and transformed into a Chapter of all Primaris Space Marines.They joined with the Void Daggers and formed a coalition to engage the T'au Fifth Sphere of Expansion although Imperial contact with this coalition of Chapters has now been lost.
Emperor's Swords (Bellicas) - Notable Campaigns: Defence of Galthamor (925.M41) - Skullkrumpa -- the infamous Red Scourge of Galthamor -- was an ambitious and foul-tempered Evil Sunz Ork warboss and one-time favoured minion of the great Warlord Grax himself. In 925.M41, Skullkrumpa's Speed Freeks laid waste to the Hive World of Galthamor. The second iteration of the Emperor's Swords Chapter, this one based on the world of Bellicas, defended the besieged Imperial world, but Skullkrumpa managed to personally slay the Emperor's Swords' Chapter Master Kendral during the assault on Fireheart Hive, the planet's primary population centre. Following the death of their Chapter Master, the enraged Emperor's Swords managed to drive off Skullkrumpa's forces.Hall of Swords (970.M41) - The Emperor's Swords Chapter, the second to bear the name, was destroyed when a Tomb World awakened beneath its fortress-monastery on the world of Bellicas. Those forces isolated outside were swiftly overwhelmed, but the fate of those within was far grimmer. Necron Crypteks shut down the defences and entombed the Space Marines within their own citadel. Waves of Necron Warriors marched through the shadowed halls, each with the aim of accruing more kills than his peers. Though the Space Marines fought with determination and never once surrendered to terror, after three weeks the contest went to Necron Lord Trakesz following his personal decapitation of Captain Arnoc Voreign. Two decades later, in 990.M41, the Fire Lords Chapter descended upon the blighted world of Bellicas, exterminating the Necron menace and avenging the destruction of the Emperor's Swords.
Emperor's Swords (Bellicas) - Notable Emperor's Swords: Chapter Master Kendral - Kendral was Chapter Master of the Emperor's Swords in 925.M41. Kendral died at the hand of the infamous Ork Skullkrumpa while defending the world of Galthamor. Though he died, the remainder of his force was so enraged by his death that the Space Marines drove off the Ork forces.Captain Arnoc Voreign - Arnoc Voreign was a captain of the Emperor's Swords Chapter, who in in 970.M41 helped to lead the Emperor's Swords' stubborn defence against the encroachment of a massive Necron invasion force when the Astartes discovered to their shock that their homeworld Bellicas was actually a Tomb World and that the Necrons had awoken beneath their own fortress-monastery! Despite their best efforts, their fortress' defences were overcome and the Astartes found themselves trapped within their own citadel. Despite their hopeless situation, Captain Voreign continued to valiantly fight against wave after wave of Necron Warriors. Though they fought with determination and never once gave in to their dire circumstances, three solar weeks later the Necrons emerged triumphant from the fortress-monastery after having completely wiped out the Emperor's Swords. Their Necron Lord had also personally decapitated Captain Voreign.
Emperor's Swords (Bellicas) - Chapter Colours: The Emperor's Swords Chapter colours are not recorded in current Imperial records.
Emperor's Swords (Bellicas) - Chapter Badge: The Emperor's Swords' Chapter badge is not recorded in current Imperial records.
Emperor's Swords (Bellicas) - Canon Conflict: There is some ambiguity in existing canon in regards to the existence of the Emperor's Swords Chapter. Apparently there were two Space Marine Chapters named the Emperor's Swords, and both were destroyed in their entirety.The first was decimated by the insidious actions of the Alpha Legion on their homeworld of Ghorstangrad, after its initiates were subverted by the Alpha Legion for 300 standard years. The world then fell to Chaos and became a stronghold for the Chaos Space Marines.The second Chapter to bear the name was destroyed when the automatons of a Necron Tomb World stirred to life beneath their fortress-monastery on their Chapter world of Bellicas in 970.M41.
Emperor's Tarot - Emperor's Tarot: The Emperor's Tarot, also called the Imperial Tarot, is a pack of 78 psychoactive liquid-crystal wafers that are linked to the psyche of the Emperor of Mankind in the Warp.The Tarot, commonly believed to have been designed by the Emperor Himself before the Horus Heresy, is used throughout the Imperium as a form of divination.
Emperor's Tarot - Imperial Tarot Readings: To read the Tarot, the cards are first laid upside down and then turned, one at a time. As they are turned they are read and interpreted by the reader. The second and fourth cards drawn are signifiers, bringing clarity to the ones preceding them.While universally constituted of 78 cards, the Tarot will not be exactly the same in the Calixis Sector as it is in the Sector Solar. While some variants such as the Wolarii Deck, the Bone Cards of the Three Priests of Exorandis or the Solar Deck are fairly common, other regions of the Imperium have developed their own, unique variants of the Imperial Tarot.The Emperor's Tarot is believed to be one of the few ways remaining for the Emperor to directly communicate with Mankind and is held by the Ecclesiarchy and the devout of the Imperial Cult to be a sacred tool used by Him to warn of impending dangers now that He is in his Ascended state (i.e. interred within the Golden Throne).The Emperor's Tarot can only provide a truly precognitive reading if it is used by an individual who is a trained psyker, and even these powerful individuals usually chose to work in small groups or at least in pairs when drawing the cards.A non-psychic individual who uses the cards will only produce a random reading with no more deliberate predictive value than the original deck of Tarot cards from Old Earth.To further complicate the readings, the cards themselves react to the psyche of their reader and may show some permanent or temporary variation of their primary design when drawn, including an object appearing or vanishing in one figure's hand, the posture of a figure dramatically changing or a shadow appearing where usually there would be none.These unexpected changes can add a further layer of interpretation to any individual Tarot reading.
Emperor's Tarot - Known Cards: Known cards of the Emperor's Tarot include:The High PriestThe Emperor / The God-EmperorThe Harlequin (of Discordia)The Inquisitor (of Mandatio)The Assassin (of Adeptio)The Space MarineThe SquatThe Daemon (Major Arcana)The Hulk (Major Arcana)The Warped Renegade (of Discordia)The Galaxy (Major Arcana)The Star (Major Arcana)The Knight (of Mandatio)The SwordThe Emperor's ThroneThe Eye of HorusThe Great HosteThe Shattered WorldThe Galactic LensThe Great EyeThe DespoilerGuilliman's WrathThe Blind SeerThe Extinguished StarThe NovaThe Lords of TerraThe Young WarriorThe Dishonoured ScionThe Fortress of FaithThe Silver DoorThe CroneThe PilgrimThe Lightning TowerThe Ragged FoolThe ExecutionerThe CandleThe SupplicantThe Lord of Swords
Emperor's Tarot - The God-Emperor: A Human body, brown with age and blackened in death, sits locked within a great throne of gold, steel and brass. The corpse's mouth is open, projecting a silent scream that echoes through the unseen layers of the universe. Before the howling cadaver, a legion of angels kneels, crying violet tears.When drawn from the deck, this card speaks of Warp travel, of discovery, of hope in the cold depths of space.Inversed, when drawn upside down, it foretells of the Warp's malign touch infecting the servants of the Imperium. A hopeless war. Death from the far reaches of space.
Emperor's Tarot - The Great Eye: An eye. The Eye. A wound in reality, an open scar in space where the bruise-purple and blood-red eye of Chaos leers into the galaxy. The stars die around the Eye: some fading into cold blackness, others bursting in white hot torment. The Eye stares dully, little emotion beyond distant hate. But the nebula flares, tendrils spreading across space. The Eye has opened.To draw this card it to foretell of war against the forces of Chaos as the Eye is often interpreted to be the Eye of Horus, the Warmaster who betrayed the Emperor and unleashed the terrible Horus Heresy upon the galaxy.
Emperor's Tarot - The Despoiler: The galaxy burns. A figure stands in ancient power armour, wreathed in a billion screaming souls that encircle him like mist. In its right gauntlet, Holy Terra blackens and crumbles. A demigod's blood drips from the talons. In the dim reaches of the vision, almost an afterthought, a distant howling light fades into darkness and silence. The figure smiles for the first time in ten thousand years.When drawn, the Despoiler card is the bane of life, the truest indicator of coming loss and unavoidable bloodshed for the Imperium of Man, usually at the hands of Chaos.Inversed, the card represents a rival for the Despoiler. Someone destined to stand against the machinations of Abaddon the Despoiler, the Archenemy of Mankind, and those of the Ruinous Powers of Chaos.
Emperor's Tarot - Some Interpretations of the Tarot: The combination of the Eye of Horus with the Great Hoste, the Shattered World above the Emperor's Throne reversed, and the Galactic Lens reversed is known to be a very bad portent. It signifies the gathering of the powers of Chaos and the death of many worlds, usually a warning of another Black Crusade from the Eye of Terror or a similarly devastating campaign by the Imperium's many enemies. An inverted Fortress of Faith is also a sign of death and destruction and therefore a portent of doom.The Lightning Tower below the inverted trio of the Crone, the High Priest and the Pilgrim signifies a difficult journey lies ahead. If the Silver Door is drawn atop this combination, this signifies that the coming journey may be one from which there will be no coming back. This reading is generally considered to be a cautionary warning of great danger and not an absolute prediction of death to come.
Emperor's Warbringers - Emperor's Warbringers: The Emperor's Warbringers is a Codex Astartes-compliant Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of an unknown Founding which is a Successor Chapter of the Imperial Fists. The Chapter sometimes makes use of camouflage on its vehicles and its armour and possesses a reputation as especially brutal combatants against the foes of the Emperor.
Emperor's Warbringers - Notable Campaigns: The Relic of Vulscus (Unknown Date.M41) - An artefact from the Great Crusade, a Bolt Pistol used by the Primarch Roboute Guilliman himself, was unearthed on the planet Vulscus when labourers were laying the foundation for a new Promethium refinery. In ages past, the Primarch had led his Legion in the final battle against the heretical Baron Unfirth during the Great Crusade, ending generations of tyranny and bringing Vulscus into the light of the Imperium. However, the relic's provenance could not be certified and so the Inquisition sent the Emperor's Warbringers's 5th Company and elements from the elite 1st Company to retrieve it. When the Warbringers finally achieved their objective and acquired the relic, Chaplain Valac discovered beneath the millennia of corrosion and decay on the Bolt Pistol the symbol of an eye engraved into the grip of the gun -- the Eye of Horus! The Bolt Pistol was not a relic of the Imperium, but an abomination! Roboute Guilliman had indeed been on Vulscus, but it had not been the Ultramarines or their Primarch who had brought the planet into the Imperium, despite the official version preached by the Ecclesiarchy and taught in sanctioned histories of the world. The real liberators had been the XVI Legion, the Luna Wolves. If any Primarch had left a relic upon a Vulscun battlefield, it had been left by the Warmaster Horus, the Arch-Traitor himself. The Warbringers intended to destroy the vile relic, for it was not holy, but tainted by its association with Horus, a thing of heresy and evil, corrupting to the innocent by being mistaken for something holy. The Inquisitor that accompanied the Warbringers protested this action since there was no indication that the Bolt Pistol itself was in any way tainted by Chaos other than by association, but Captain Phazas gave the Inquisitor two choices: either return to Titan as a hero who had brought about the destruction of an unholy Chaotic artefact, or be denounced as a Horusian Radical and perish alongside the relic. The Inquisitor knew he would be slain if he broke faith with the Warbringers, and so, reluctantly, he relented and let the Astartes obliterate the relic.
Emperor's Warbringers - Notable Warbringers: Chapter Master Raynald Hoare - Current Chapter Master of the Emperor's Warbringers.Captain (Space Marine) Phazas - Commander of the 5th Company who led the Warbringers mission to Vulscus to determine the provenance of a recently rediscovered relic of the Great Crusade.Chaplain Valac - Chaplain of the 5th Company.Scout Sergeant (Space Marine) Carius - Scout Sergeant of the 10th Company.Boethius - A Veteran Battle-Brother of the elite 1st Company.Domitian - A Devastator Marine of the 5th Company.
Emperor's Warbringers - Chapter Fleet: Deathmonger (Battle Barge) - Battle Barge of the Emperor's Warbringers' 5th Company.
Emperor's Warbringers - Chapter Colours: The Emperor's Warbringers primarily wear dark drab olive-green Power Armour. The Aquila or Imperialis on the chest guard is black. Unlike other, more rigid Chapters, the Warbringers are known for not eschewing the use of camouflage for important missions as the situation and environment dictate. The black squad specialty symbol -- Tactical, Devastator, Assault or Veteran -- is located on the right shoulder plate. A white Roman numeral is stenciled in the centre of the squad specialty symbol, indicating squad number. The left lower greave displays a roundlet of the respective company's colour number in accordance with the Codex Astartes -- i.e. White (1st Company), Yellow (2nd Company), Red (3rd Company), Green (4th Company), etc. A black Roman numeral is stenciled in the centre of the roundlet, further identifying the company number an individual Battle-Brother belongs to.
Emperor's Warbringers - Chapter Badge: The Emperor's Warbringers' Chapter badge is a pair of black, crossed, double-edged swords, pointing downwards over a field of dark drab olive-green.
Emperor's Warbringers - Sources: Adeptus Astartes: Successor Chapters (Limited Release Booklet), pg. 41Insignium Astartes: The Uniforms and Regalia of the Space Marines, pg. 54Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition, pg. 108Victories of the Space Marines (Anthology) edited by Christian Dunn, "Black Dawn" by C.L. Werner, pp. 89 - 126Angels of Death - Setting the Stage (Short Story), by C.L. Werner
Emperor's Wolves - Emperor's Wolves: The Emperor's Wolves is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. The Emperor's Wolves lost their 8th Company in the Warp who reemerged solar decades later as the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Blood Disciples. Nothing else is known about them in Imperial records.
Emperor's Wolves - Chapter Colours: The Emperor's Wolves primarily wear black Power Armour. The shoulder plates are red, with black trim. The Aquila or Imperialis on the chest plate is silver. The white squad specialty symbol -- Tactical, Assault, Devastator or Veteran -- is located on the right shoulder plate. A black Low Gothic numeral is centred on the squad specialty symbol, indicating squad number. The white Gothic numeral on the left knee guard indicates company number.
Emperor's Wolves - Chapter Badge: The Emperor's Wolves' Chapter badge is a large stylised grey wolf's head, centred on a field of red.
Emperor's Wrath - Emperor's Wrath: The Emperor's Wrath is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding that is based in a star system in the Segmentum Solar. The Chapter Master and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Companies are currently on an Imperial Crusade against the Forces of Chaos who had occupied a portion of and subsequently destroyed the world of Cadia following Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade against the Imperium.
Emperor's Wrath - Chapter History: Very little is known about the Emperor's Wrath Chapter. The Emperor's Wrath's homeworld is in a star system where there are no planets, only asteroids. This system contains three asteroids that have been hollowed out and made into three massive hive cities. It is from this system that the Chapter recruits new members.The Emperor's Wrath has a deep hatred for xenos like the Tyranids and the Orks. The Emperor's Wrath has purged many Ork-held star systems using the Exterminatus and has done the same on many worlds that have fallen to the various Tyranid Hive Fleets.Unfortunately, some of the worlds purged still had large numbers of Imperial forces on them, which has produced tense relations between the Emperor's Wrath and the Imperial Guard and several other Space Marine Chapters whose Battle-Brothers were killed during such drastic actions.
Emperor's Wrath - Notable Campaigns: 13th Black Crusade (999.M41) - The Chapter Master and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Companies of the Emperor's Wrath are currently on a Crusade against the Forces of Chaos who had occupied a portion of and subsequently destroyed the world of Cadia following Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade against the Imperium of Man.
Emperor's Wrath - Chapter Colours: The Emperor's Wrath's colour scheme is not listed in current in Imperial records.
Emperor's Wrath - Chapter Badge: The Emperor's Wrath's Chapter badge is not listed in current in Imperial records.
Emperor-class Battleship - Emperor-class Battleship: The Emperor-class Battleship is a slow and ponderous voidship that serves as one of the mainstay capital ships of the Navis Imperialis. The Emperor-class dispenses with the normal armoured prow and instead carries a mass of sensor probes and forward turrets. The Emperor-class also may carry eight squadrons of Shark Assault Boats or other common Imperial attack craft, which serve as its primary offensive punch.The Emperor-class is one of the oldest Imperial warship designs still in use, due to the discovery of the Emperor-class vessel called the Divine Right that was fused into a space hulk for some ten thousand Terran years.Emperor-class battleships along with the Retribution-class battleships are known to have a huge golden monument relating to the Imperium atop their bridge. The Emperor-class' monument is a cloaked angel with a sword and shield.
Emperor-class Battleship - Armament: The main armament of the Emperor-class is made up of its 8 squadrons of Shark Assault Boats or other common Navis Imperialis attack craft, though the vessel has used its bulk to ram enemy warships on more desperate occasions. These attack craft are able to roam far from the battleship and engage enemy capital ships that would otherwise be out of range of the battleship's main batteries.The battleship's broadside weapons batteries and Lances are capable of immolating an entire city when fired from orbit.
Emperor-class Battleship - Void Shields: Void Shields on Imperial vessels (and enemy vessels for that matter), are larger and more powerful versions of the defensive energy fields than those found on Titans and other war machines.A Void Shield is created by a single generator that creates a sphere of protective Warp energy around the voidship that protects it from direct and indirect enemy fire. It prevents damage from energy weapons and actual critical structural damage occurring to the ship.Any vessel large enough to be built with a Void Shield Generator thus has a shield but directed energy weapons overload the generators so once enough fire has been absorbed, the Void Shield collapses. The shield regenerates several solar minutes later assuming the voidship is not attacked again and that subsequent attacks do not damage the shield generator.Ordnance like torpedoes and the weapons payloads of aerospace fighters are not affected by the effects of Void Shields and can do direct damage to the warship's hull unless engaged by its defensive turrets. The Emperor-class battleship possesses four shield generators and thus generates four separate Void Shields.
Emperor-class Battleship - Propulsion: Every Imperial voidship is equipped with a Plasma Drive for normal propulsion through the depths of realspace.Running up to a third of the warship's length, the aft section of the Emperor-class is a mass of drive tubes, engine compartments and nuclear fusion-based Plasma Reactors.Most Imperial Navy starships employ Warp-Drives to breach the barrier that separates realspace from the Immaterium and allow for interstellar travel. Damage to or misuse of this technology can result in the implosion of these drives and the creation of a volatile Warp rift.
Emperor of Mankind - The God-Incarnate: The Thorian faction of the Inquisition believes in a similar resurrectionist concept to that of the Star Child concerning the Emperor's eventual rebirth and reincarnation called the God-Incarnate.These Inquisitors hold that the Emperor's divine essence in the Warp may be transferred to a physical vessel, a specially-chosen Human receptacle known as a "Divine Avatar."
Emperor of Mankind - Wargear: One True Armour - The One True Armour is the name of a specially-crafted suit of golden auramite power armour worn by the Emperor during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. After his wounding by Horus during the Siege of Terra it is said that the Emperor's armour was removed and melted down by His own order to create badges that would honour the Imperial Fists Terminators that had fought beside him aboard the Vengeful Spirit. Fragments of the One True Armour were placed inside the Crux Terminatus badges worn by especially honored Space Marine Terminators. Meanwhile, all of the Cruxes terminatus granted to the Astartes of the Grey Knights also contain a shard of the Emperor's armour. The right gauntlet of the One True Armour is currently in possession of the Dark Angels Chapter, who use it to create thousands of Crux Terminatus badges for themselves and their successors among the Unforgiven.Emperor's Sword - This famed sword was wielded by the Emperor Himself during the Great Crusade and was passed on to the resurrected Primarch Roboute Guilliman after he assumed the mantle of Lord Commander of the Imperium for the second time in 999.M41 in the wake of the 13th Black Crusade and the Ultramar Campaign by the Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl. The weapon had been kept safely in Cawl's possession on Mars for over 10,000 standard years, since the end of the Horus Heresy and Guilliman's first tenure as the Lord Commander. Touched by the Emperor's own psychic might, this finely wrought, master-crafted blade is lit from hilt to tip with leaping flames. When it is swung, the burning blade draws pyrotechnic arcs through the air, able to slice through the stoutest of armour with ease.Emperor's Shield - This auramite shield was once wielded by the Emperor Himself, and aside from its indomitable protective powers it reflects the force of any incoming attacks right back at its wielder's foe with a sonorous boom. It was later lost through unknown means and came to rest in the Warp. It was found there by the Dark Angels Primarch Lion El'Jonson after he recovered it from a shapeshifting Daemon that was guarding it within a domed structure the Lion found in the sub-realm of the Immaterium called Mirror-Caliban after he reawakened beneath The Rock in the Era Indomitus. El'Jonson then wielded it throughout his travels across the Human-settled galaxy to aid its people in defending themselves from the forces of Chaos and xenos.Emperor's Lightning Claw - The Emperor's Lightning Claw is a Lightning Claw that was usually seen wielded on the Emperor's left hand during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Its appearance varies greatly in depictions and it may actually have had anywhere from between three to five claws.
Emperor of Mankind - Notes: The reach of the Astronomican is said to be around 70,000 light years, which by default becomes the maximum radius of Astronomican-assisted Warp-navigable space.According to some sources, the decaying Emperor is a cause of the Astronomican's slowly weakening intensity. Presumably, this would progressively affect Warp navigation over the centuries in the outer limits of the Imperium.
Empire of Scrap - Empire of Scrap: The Empire of Scrap was the name of an Ork Empire in the galactic core ruled by the Ork Warlord Morbok.It was Morbok who triggered the Five Hundred Years' War with the Grand Orion Compact of the Leagues of Votann when his WAAAGH! overran the hold of Oriâkh's Irongate Kindred and tore apart the Ancestor Core within.The Grand Orion Compact, the league of which Oriâkh's Irongate was a member, swore the most widespread Grudge in recorded Kin history for this death of their Votann, hurling all their might against Morbok's Empire of Scrap for more than five Terran centuries, until the last Ork was slain and the insult answered.
Empyrion's Blight - Empyrion's Blight: Empyrion's BlightvectoriumHeretic AstartesDeath GuardTraitor LegionSpace MarinesNurgleTheir physical corruption by Chaos also seems to have affected their rational minds, for the tactics of the Empyrion's Blight cannot be anticipated. Their goals cannot be fathomed. They appear to delight only in destruction and death for their own sake. The spreading of the ways of Nurgle has become their sole purpose.
Empyrion's Blight - Warband History: The Empyrion's Blight are a Death Guard warband led by the Chaos Lord Gideous Krall, a former Death Guard captain. Known as the the "Infector of Worlds," Krall led his warband from the Eye of Terror to wreak havoc and spread the foul rot of Nurgle throughout the Imperium.The Empyrion's Blight have invaded and plunged the region known as the Sargassion Reach into conflict, and have also spread a disease, a Warp-spawned plague called "the Sickening," in their wake. Planet after planet had fallen to the contagion, and the Imperium, as well as the Brazen Minotaurs and Raven Guard Space Marine Chapters,  failed to stop them.The spreading of the Sickening became the Empyrion's Blight's sole purpose as they made their way through the Sargassion Reach, determined to invade the Kandoor System, a sector of Imperial space teeming with heavily-populated colony worlds.
Empyrion's Blight - Notable Empyrion's Blight Heretic Astartes: Chaos Lord Gideous Krall - Krall is a former Death Guard captain who became the Chaos Lord and commander of the Empyrion's Blight in its campaign to spread the Sickening and the rest of Nurgle's gifts across the Sargassion Reach and into the Kandoor System.Chaos Lord Lebbeous Sacar - Lebbeous Sacar was the commander of the Empyrion's Blight warband before he was replaced by Gideous Krall.
Empyrion's Blight - Warband Appearance: The Nurglish physical corruption of the Empyrion's Blight appears to extend not only to the physical -- the oozing boils, necrotic flesh and parasitic worms that they encouraged to writhe and fester inside their once glorious bodies -- but to their logical minds as well, for they no longer seem to pursue what might be considered rational goals other than the spread of disease and decay.The Empyrion's Blight Chaos Space Marines and their mortal Chaos Cultist auxiliaries also all replace their mouths with mechanical vents that dribble caustic acids that further erodes and decays the flesh of their lower faces.
Empyrion's Blight - Warband Colours: The Empyrion's Blight power armour is the same as that of the Death Guard from which they broke away, composed of decayed and cracked plates of ceramite discoloured in sickly greens and browns.Empyrion's Blight Chaos Space Marines, like those of the Death Guard, often wear grotesquely warped suits of the antique Mark III Iron Power Armour.
Empyrion's Blight - Warband Badge: The Empyrion's Blight warband's badge is usually a modified version of the standard Mark of Nurgle, similar to that used by the Death Guard.