Bibliotheca Imperialis

Reliquium

The named artefacts of M30 through M42 — primarch weapons, Custodes regalia, traitor relics, daemon-bound blades, helmsmens' instruments, and the Emperor's own forge-work. Some are still wielded. Some are sealed in fortress-monastery reliquaries. Some are presumed within the Eye of Terror. The Imperium tracks them all in the Ordo Malleus' restricted-access registries.

TRAITOR · BLACK LEGION

The Talon of Horus

The Warmaster's Claw · Worn by Abaddon

The Talon of Horus was forged by the Emperor Himself in a chamber of the Imperial Palace's deepest forges, before the Crusade was formally declared.

TRAITOR · BLACK LEGION

Drach'nyen

The Daemon Sword · Abaddon's Greatsword

The Atlas Infernal is the prophetic tome carried by Zaraphiston the Sorcerer, Abaddon's senior Tzeentchian advisor across the first nine Black Crusades.

TRAITOR · WARMASTER

Worldbreaker

Horus's Mace · Lost After Terra

Worldbreaker was Horus's secondary weapon and his preferred instrument when something needed to be broken rather than cut.

LOYALIST · BLOOD ANGELS

The Death Mask of Sanguinius

The Primarch's Face · Worn by Every Chapter Master

Sanguinius's body was recovered from the Final Chamber of the Vengeful Spirit by Dorn within hours of the Emperor's wounding.

LOYALIST · BLOOD ANGELS

Axe Mortalis

Dante's Power Axe · Slayer of Daemons

Axe Mortalis is Dante's two-handed power axe, balanced for his Sanguinary frame and weighted to a tolerance the chapter's Tech-marines have to recalibrate after every campaign.

LOYALIST · BLOOD ANGELS

The Spear of Telesto

Sanguinius's Inferno-Spear · Lost After Terra

The Spear of Telesto was Sanguinius's masterwork spear — a long-hafted weapon that fired controlled plasma-bolts of unique aesthetic.

LOYALIST · ULTRAMARINES

The Gauntlets of Ultramar

Calgar's Twin Powerfists · Re-Forged After Macragge

At the First Battle of Macragge in 745.

LOYALIST · DARK ANGELS

The Lion Sword of Caliban

Lion El'Jonson's Blade · Returned With the Primarch

The Lion Sword was forged on Caliban by the Order of the Knights — the chivalric order Lion El'Jonson came to command before Imperial Compliance brought him into the Crusade.

LOYALIST · DARK ANGELS

The Sword of Secrets

Azrael's Blade · The Engraved Confession

The decorative engraving along the blade of the Sword of Secrets is, by chapter doctrine, the actual partial-text of the chapter's most damning confession — a sentence-by-sentence record of the…

LOYALIST · DARK ANGELS

The Lion Helm

Azrael's Crown · A Channel to the Primarch

The Lion Helm is a power helmet of pre-Heresy Caliban manufacture, made before the planet's destruction and probably before the Lion's primarch identification.

LOYALIST · SPACE WOLVES

The Spear of Russ

Found in Fenrisian Ice · Lost with the Wolf King

The young Leman Russ found the spear frozen in a Fenrisian glacier, by saga-tradition, in his twelfth winter — before the Emperor had landed on Fenris, before Compliance had begun.

LOYALIST · SPACE WOLVES

Frostfang

Ragnar's Frost Sword · Sgt Hakon's Inheritance

Frostfang is a Frost Sword — the Space Wolves' Chapter-unique weapon class.

XENOS · AELDARI

The Maugetar

The Harvester · Maugan Ra's Reaper-Scythe

The Maugetar — the Harvester — is the weapon Maugan Ra carries as Phoenix Lord of the Dark Reapers.

XENOS · AELDARI

Suin Daellae

The Doom That Wails · Khaine's Wraithbone Sword

Suin Daellae — the Doom that Wails — was forged by Vaul, the smith-god of the Aeldari pantheon, as part of the long bargain between him and Khaine.

XENOS · CHAOS-TOUCHED

The Anathame

The Alien Blade · The Wound That Began the Heresy

The Anathame is not a human artefact.

TRAITOR · DEATH GUARD

Silence

Mortarion's Great Scythe · The Manreaper

Silence is Mortarion's signature weapon — a great curved war-scythe with a long haft, forged by the young Mortarion himself in the underforges of Barbarus, before the Emperor had found him.

TRAITOR · WORLD EATERS

Gorechild

Kharn's Chainaxe · Angron's Gift

Angron forged Gorechild himself, in the small private forge he kept aboard his flagship — a habit he had retained from his Nucerian arena days and never quite released.

TRAITOR · EMPEROR'S CHILDREN

The Doppelgänger Blade

Lucius's Replicating Sword

The Doppelgänger Blade has a single unsettling property: it replicates any weapon it parries.

LOYALIST · SALAMANDERS

The Eye of Vulkan

One of the Nine · Vulkan's Helm

The Eye of Vulkan is one of the nine artifacts Vulkan crafted before his post-Heresy disappearance.

LOYALIST · SALAMANDERS

The Spear of Vulkan

One of the Nine · The Master's Spear

The Spear of Vulkan is, by Chapter record, the second of the Nine recovered.

LOYALIST · SALAMANDERS

The Gauntlet of the Forge

One of the Nine · The Hand of Vulkan

The Gauntlet of the Forge is a master-crafted power gauntlet that integrates a heavy flamer along the back of the wrist.

LOYALIST · ADEPTUS CUSTODES

The Castellan Spear

Custodes Guardian Spear · Trajann Valoris's Office

The Castellan Spear is the personal weapon of the Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes.

XENOS · NECRON

The Sangprimus Portum

The Phial of Primarch Essence · Trazyn's Theft

The Sangprimus Portum is a small crystalline phial, said to contain the genetic essence of the original twenty Primarchs — a sample taken by the Emperor before the scattering, preserved in a…

LOYALIST · ECCLESIARCHY

The Ardent Blade

Celestine's Faith-Flame Sword

The Ardent Blade is, by every Adepta Sororitas record, a two-handed flaming sword whose flame is sustained not by any conventional power-source but by Celestine's own faith.

LOYALIST · BLACK TEMPLARS

The Black Sword

Helbrecht's Two-Handed Blade · Sworn to the Eternal Crusade

The Black Sword was Sigismund's weapon before it was the High Marshal's symbol.

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