Culexus Temple - Wargear: Animus Speculum - A uniquely designed battle-helm, the Animus Speculum can either muffle or focus the Culexus' powers as required. Only once an Operative is in the field do they reverse its contra-psychic dampers, allowing the full terror of their null aura to billow forth. The helm is only partially effective even while active, as most people can barely stand to be in the same room with a Pariah. At the same time, the grotesque lens set into the helm's leering faceplate can harvest and focus psychic energy into a devastating beam. In this way, the Animus Speculum allows the Culexus to turn the foe's own sorcerous powers against them, with horrific results. The Animus fires bolts of negative psychic energy, and can drain nearby psykers of their connection to Warp energy to increase its own power. Each Culexus Assassin is accompanied by a Custodian, who operates the Animus Speculum and ensures that his charge remains under his control and does not arouse suspicion amongst the other allied Imperial forces fighting in the campaign.Psyk-Out Grenades - Culexus Assassins also use the exotic Psyk-Out Grenades, a weapon used exclusively by the Culexus Temple and the Daemon Hunters of the Ordo Malleus. These potent weapons contain pressurised canisters of psi-refractive particles that billow forth in crackling clouds when the grenade explodes. This highly dangerous substance is only produced as a metabolic by-product of the Emperor's Golden Throne on Terra. The dust-like substance is heavily impregnated with negative psychic energy and is very rare. When some has been collected, the Imperium's finest armourers use the dust to make Psyk-out Grenades and Psycannon rounds. For most victims caught in the cloud collapse of these particles, all conscious thought is driven from their minds. The effect is far worse for psykers, however, their powers fractured and turned inwards to tear bloody gouges in their psyche.Synskin Bodyglove - The synskin of Culexis Assassins incorporates a nodal layer called Etherium. This strange technology shifts the wearer out of phase with reality, making them appear ghost-like and insubstantial. With the Etherium activated, an Operative becomes a ghostly retinal after-image, flickering toward the foe as though projected upon a faulty pict-reel. When required, a Culexus can simply vanish altogether, prowling through the midst of their enemies and reappearing only when doing so will reap the greatest harvest of terror. This, combined with the Culexus Assassin's innate anti-psychic abilities, means that psychic attacks pass right through him as if he were invisible. Another important aspect of the Etherium is the Force Matrix, the numerous psychic conduits that run within it. The Force Matrix is made from a material similar to that used in Force Weapons. When psykers tap into the Warp, they are not always efficient in using all of the energy they can absorb: much excess psychic energy is simply left to dissipate into the surrounding space. The Force Matrix acts as a conductor, absorbing this excess Warp energy and providing the Culexus Assassin, who is unable to tap directly into the Warp, with a source of energy to enhance his abilities. The closer the Culexus Assassin gets to psykers, the more energy the Force Matrix will absorb.