GHORISVEX’S TEETH

When the daemon Ghorisvex the Red-hand was broken over the knee of Lord Voraddon of the Black Legion, his spirit was bound into Voraddoris chainsword. It resides there still, ripping and tearing at not just the bodies, but also the very souls, of the Black Legions foes.

LOYALTY’S REWARD

This daemon-infused machine spirit earned its name at the Siege of Terra, transforming a fell bolter into a terrifying weapon that has slain countless loyalists. Over the millennia, this gheist-like entity has delighted in slaughtering those faithful to the Emperor.

• That weapon is now a Relic for all rules purposes.
• Each time the bearer makes an attack with that weapon, if the target has the IMPERIUM keyword and a hit is scored, the target suffers 1 mortal wound and the attack sequence ends.
• Each time the bearer makes an attack with that weapon, if the target does not have the IMPERIUM keyword and that attack successfully wounds the target, the target suffers 1 mortal wound and the attack sequence ends.

VEILBREAKER PLATE

Some of the Legion’s more ancient veterans claim to recognise in this suit of thrice-accursed Terminator armour echoes of the infamous Justaerin elite who once served the Primarch Horus. The massive war plate is so saturated with diabolic power that through an act of bludgeoning will, its occupant can tear open a temporary warp rift through which to launch a surprise attack.

• Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
• Once per battle, in your Movement phase, if the bearer did not arrive as Reinforcements this turn, it can use this Relic. If it does so, the bearer and up to one friendly BLACK LEGION CORE unit within 3" of the bearer can be removed from the battlefield and set back up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" away from any enemy models. If two units are set back up on the battlefield using this Relic, both units must be placed wholly within 6" of each other.

CLOAK OF CONQUEST

This patchwork garment is fashioned from scraps of fabric telling of the wearers many conquests. From the mantles of Adeptus Astartes heroes to the banners of the Astra Militarum, with each victory the cloak is further adorned.

SIGHTLESS HELM

The lenses of this helm remain forever dark, the wearer unable to perceive the galaxy with their own eyes. Instead, strange warp senses are granted by the helms machine spirit, illuminating the foe’s weaknesses.

• Each time the bearer makes an attack, you can ignore any or all hit roll, Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill modifiers.
• Each time the bearer makes an attack, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
• Each time the bearer makes an attack, the target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack.

TROPHIES OF SLAUGHTER

This gore-crusted and sigil-carved trophy rack carries gruesome spoils taken from defeated challengers all over the galaxy, and cements the bearers right to lead.

• Add 3" to the range of the bearer’s aura abilities (to a maximum of 9"). This does not increase the range of aura abilities that are psychic powers.
• The bearer has the following ability: ‘Trophies of Slaughter (Aura): While an enemy unit is within 9" of the bearer, subtract 1 from Combat Attrition tests taken for that enemy unit.’

WRATH OF THE ABYSS

Within the hilt of this immense thunder hammer is mounted a strange artefact of unknown origin, a shard of some hyper-dimensional material thought by some to be a key to untold power. Whatever the truth, this brutal weapon strikes with meteoric speed, the sigils upon its head pulsing with sickly warp-light with every impact.

EIGHTFOLD-CURSED CROZIUS

Once a rod of office amongst Lorgars first Chaplains, this weapon is said to have been first used for its true purpose to crush the skull of a White Scars Praetor. It still bears the indelible stains of that first treacherous kill to this day.

CROWN OF THE BLASPHEMER

This artefact draws the attention of warp entities to the wearer: blades are turned aside by invisible hands, and volleys of bullets are snatched away at the last moment.

• Models in the bearer’s unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
• Once per battle, before making a saving throw for the bearer, it can enhance this Relic. If it does so, then until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have a 3+ invulnerable save.

MALEFIC TOME

This unholy book was stitched together from the flayed skins of a dozen mortal psykers, their horror emanating from every inch of its parchment. The tome is inscribed with true names and daemonic hierarchies that offer the bearer insights into the powers of the warp.

• The bearer knows one additional psychic power from one of the disciplines it has access to.
• Each time the bearer attempts to manifest a psychic power, add 1 to the Psychic test.

EPISTLE OF LORGAR

When a priest reads aloud this hallowed epistle from the Book of Lorgar, the very air turns metallic and the words summon dark blessings from the immaterium.

• The bearer knows one additional prayer from the Prayers to the Dark Gods.
• In your Command phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield, it can chant one additional prayer it knows that has not already been chanted by a friendly model this turn.

ASHEN AXE

A malefic nexus for the warp’s denizens, foes of the Word Bearers find themselves unable to flee the Ashen Axes blows, as invisible claws seem to root them to the spot. In truth, their minds are assailed by the entities, who circle impatiently for the soul feast the Ashen Axe will deliver.

THE ARMOUR DIABOLUS

This ancient battle plate is etched with a thousand and one dark runes of vengeance. Should the wearer’s blood flow into one of these graven sigils, it glows white hot and the infidels who dealt the blow burst into warpflame.

• The bearer has a Save characteristic of 2+.
• Each time an enemy unit shoots or fights and the bearer was selected as a target of any of that units attacks, after that unit has finished making its attacks:
  
  • Roll one D6 for each wound the bearer lost as a result of those attacks: for each 4+, the attacking unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
  • If the bearer was destroyed by those attacks, before removing it from play, roll one D6: on a 4+, the attacking unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.

BALEFUL ICON

This icon bears an eight-pointed star so saturated in the blood of loyalists that it is forever stained with the taint of treachery. Word Bearers feel its toxic aura much as a sun worshipper feels the kiss of a summer day upon their skin. Those who seek to harm the faithful will instead find their muscles shuddering in revulsion, and even the Adeptus Astartes are drained of their righteous anger in its presence.

CLAW OF THE STYGIAN COUNT

This vicious taloned gauntlet has spilt the blood of thousands of victims since its creation for the infamous champion known as the Stygian Count. When plunged into flesh, nano-barbs slide out of each of the weapons claws, tearing open cratered wounds when yanked out.

VOX DAEMONICUS

Emanating from the ornate winged helm in which it makes its home, this living susurrus haunts the airwaves, spreading lies and falsehoods across the vox networks of the Night Lords’ enemies.

• Enemy units that are set up on the battlefield as Reinforcements cannot be set up within 12" of the bearer.
• The bearer has the following ability: ‘Vox Daemonicus (Aura): Each time an enemy unit attempts to perform an action or a psychic action while within 12" of the bearer, roll 2D6: if the result is greater than the enemy units Leadership characteristic, that unit cannot attempt to perform that action or psychic action.’

TALONS OF THE NIGHT TERROR

Attached to armoured boots or melded with daemonic flesh, these talons give the wielder the appearance of some eldritch raptor-beast that has evolved to better disembowel prey. Should the bearer descend feet first into the ranks of his quarry, these talons will eviscerate all those too slow to evade them.

• Each time the bearer makes a Normal Move or Advances, after the bearer has moved, select one enemy unit it moved across this phase and roll one D6, subtracting 1 from the result if that enemy unit is a CHARACTER unit: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
• Each time the bearer finishes a charge move, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer and roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.

SCOURGING CHAINS

The Scourging Chains once jangled from the rafters of the Primarch’s throne room, and many a soul has been hung from their spikes. As the wearer closes with his victims, the chains appear taut as corded tendons, before lashing out to render the captured prey helpless to the killing blow.

• Each time the bearer makes a melee attack, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
• While an enemy model is within Engagement Range of this model, subtract 1 from the Attacks characteristic of that model.

MISERY OF THE MEEK

This elixir was crafted by one of the Legion’s few remaining Apothecaries, distilled from the fear and suffering of countless victims. When a son of Nostramo indulges in its sickening contents, they are imbued with new energy.

• The bearer regains up to 3 lost wounds.
• Until the end of the turn, add D3 to the bearers Attacks characteristic and add 3" to the range of the bearers aura abilities (to a maximum of 9").

STORMBOLT PLATE

This armour was fashioned in the darkest pits of long dead Nostramo. It is wreathed in a cloying darkness, a web of midnight skeins that perpetually shrouds the wearer.

• Enemy models cannot target the bearer with ranged attacks unless it is within 12" of the firing model, or it is the closest eligible target.
• Each time an attack is made against the bearer, the bearer is treated as having the benefits of Light Cover and Heavy Cover against that attack.

FLAYER

When the Legion’s frightful tendencies came to the fore, the Flayer was the tool that carved the skin to be hung in the Night Haunter’s throne room. The foulest of deeds were done with this blade, and its dreadful reputation endures.

AXE OF THE FORGEMASTER

Masters of the soul forges have long had to ensure dominance over their creations. Such are the energies of unmaking bound into this axe’s haft that a single blow can turn an armoured tank into a pile of rusted scrap.

SIEGEBREAKER MACE

A vast sphere of dense star-metal bound with sigils of shattering and mounted on the pole of a captured Adeptus Astartes standard, the Siegebreaker Mace was created with acts of destructive symbolism in mind.

FLESHMETAL EXOSKELETON

This semi-sentient bio-mechanical armature bonds with the wearer’s wargear and anatomy alike. Blades that penetrate the wearers armour blunt themselves on the hardened flesh beneath, while the warriors cabled muscles reknit in a frenzy of writhing, silvered fibres.

• Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack (to a minimum of 1).
• Each time an enemy unit shoots or fights, after it finishes making its attacks, if the bearer lost any wounds as a result of those attacks but was not destroyed, roll one D6: on a 4+, the bearer regains up to D3 wounds lost as a result of those attacks.

CRANIUM MALEVOLUS

This ironclad death’s head is a mouthpiece for the mind-shattering language of the soul forges. The coded blurts of Dark Tongue it emits are potent enough to undo the machine spirits of enemy technology.

INSIDIUM

This vast suite of bionics was originally implanted to avoid the mutating effects of the immaterium, but the warp is fickle. Insidium and its bearer are now a warped host of the techno-virus, the fusion of mortal, daemon and machine turning the bearer into an unstoppable leviathan.

SPITESPITTER

For each servant of the Corpse Emperor destroyed, this hate-filled weapon allows its wielder one step towards victory in the Long War, and one closer to damnation.

TECHNO-VENOMOUS MECHATENDRILS

The morass of mechanical tentacles that grace the wearers back are possessed of a cruel consciousness. Each is a small Daemon Engine, capable of using the essence of stolen souls to repair warp-infused metal nearby.

• Each time the bearer repairs a model using its Master of Mechanisms ability, that model regains up to 3 lost wounds instead of up to D3.
• Each time the bearer makes an attack with its Mechatendrils, if a hit is scored, the target suffers 1 mortal wound and the attack sequence ends.

BLADE OF THE HYDRA

Ever since the Daemon Prince Gharual of the Nine Sundered Souls was bound inside this oversized chainsword, the blade has been a fiendish tool of destruction. Those with a will strong enough to control its multiple thirsting personas can cause the sawtoothed blade to shimmer into not one but several swords that gnaw and gnash with an immortal hunger.

DRAKESCALE PLATE

A suit of powered armour forged by a tech-savant of the Dark Mechanicum, this battle plate incorporates the living titanium scales of a mica skydrake. Its wearer is protected by the elder beast’s innate resistance, and attacks seem to slide from its dark scales like water from obsidian.

• The bearer has a Save characteristic of 2+.
• Each time an attack is made against the bearer, an unmodified wound roll of 1-3 for that attack fails, irrespective of any abilities that the weapon or the model making the attack may have.

HYDRA’S WAIL

This sophisticated jamming device is corrupted by the Ruinous Powers. A burst of directed scrapcode infiltrates the vox networks and communications devices of the enemy, rendering strategic planning null and void.

VIPER’S SPITE

This ornate bolt pistol has a wide, serpent head muzzle and a magazine that never seems to run dry. When fired, it makes no noise louder than a dry hiss, but a cacophony of screams is never far behind. The projectiles it fires glow with acrid viridian witchfire so virulent that they can sizzle through even Terminator war plate.

HYDRA’S TEETH

The legend goes that these bolt rounds are sentient in the manner of daemon weapons, and that sorcerous powers have somehow given them a terrible hunger for destruction. Once fired, they seek out fresh victims before exploding in a blast of warp-fuelled destruction.

• That weapon is considered to be a Relic for all rules purposes.
• Each time the bearer is selected to shoot, you can choose for that weapon to fire a Hydra’s Teeth bolt. If you do so, the bearer can only make one attack with that weapon, but the following rules apply:
  
  • That attack automatically hits the target.
  • Add 2 to the Strength and Damage characteristics of that attack, and improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 2.
  • Invulnerable saving throws cannot be made against that attack.

ICON OF THE HYDRA CULT

This unassuming, apparently meanly finished sigil hides a powerful device beneath its serpentine exterior. Within its coils lies unknown cloaking technology that emits a gloomy pall to hide the vilest of deeds from the most vigilant of sentinels.

MINDVEIL

Shimmering with illusion, the Mindveil is a long cloak stitched with the interlocking teeth of Dostoy Primes chameleonic hydrasharks. So potent are the spells of confusion and dislocation cast upon it that the bearer is accompanied by incorporeal mirages that mirror his appearance. Stranger still, at a chanted command in the Dark Tongue, the wearer’s true location and that of one of his doppelgangers can switch places, an instant translocation that leaves his enemies gaping in confusion.

• Each time the bearer makes a Normal Move, Advances or Falls Back, until the end of the phase, add one D6 to the bearer’s Move characteristic.
• Each time the bearer makes a Normal Move, Advances, Falls Back or makes a charge move, until that move is finished, it can move horizontally through models and terrain features (it cannot finish a move on top of another model, or its base).

THE ENDLESS GRIN

This fleshy mask is the still-living, flayed face of a man who begged Slaanesh to fulfil his wish to live forever. It is said the Dark Prince was only too pleased to oblige, gifting the unfortunate soul immortality, but also forcing him to present his face to the Chaos Lord Shixe. After butchering the supplicant, Shixe wore that face as a prized reminder of the occasion for several centuries, wallowing in a fraction of its life-sustaining properties in the process. The Endless Grin has since changed hands many times, but the potency of its anguish has never diminished, nor the arrogance of its invigorated wearer.

• Each time the bearer would lose a wound, roll one D6: on a 6, that wound is not lost.
• Once per battle, when the bearer is destroyed, you can use this Relic instead of using any other rules that are triggered when the bearer is destroyed. If you do so, mark the bearers position then remove the bearer from the battlefield. At the end of the phase, roll one D6: on a 3+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield as close as possible to the position you marked and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with D3 wounds remaining.

FATAL SONANCY

Xenotech implants grafted into the bearer’s neck give them the ability to emit a hypermodulated scream, powerful enough to shatter diamond. The myriad resonant frequencies and sheer deafening power of this scream hit with a physical impact, blasting away flesh and bone alike, and reducing its victims to shuddering pulp.

ARMOUR OF ABHORRENCE

A canvas of the perverse, this suit of armour is adorned with fleshy mementos of captured warriors. The war plate turns its wearer into an effigy of excess, a mosaic of dark exuberance that delights the Emperors Children, but instils sheer horror in their enemies. In battle, enemy warriors experience utter revulsion at this ghastly display, yet they are unable to turn away from its mesmerising repulsiveness.

REMNANT OF THE MARAVIGLIA

A rare recording of the grand symphony played for the Emperor’s Children at the onset of the Horus Heresy, this composition’s original performance saw the final descent of the Legion into darkness. When transmitted through vox-casters purpose-built into the zealous bearer’s armour, mere seconds of this perverted symphony are enough to drive the servants of Slaanesh into a furore of excess.

DISTORTION

The unblemished sheen of this faultless blade reflects an alluring countenance to the bearer, their seemingly unmatched beauty a peerless example of perfection. In reality, the bearer is a hideous wretch, every ounce of elegance leached away to power the blade’s fearsome edge.

RAIMENT REVULSIVE

A cloak stitched with the flayed skins of defeated mortals, the Raiment Revulsive is a symbol of contempt and hatred for those incapable of sharing the Emperor’s Childrens abhorrent tastes. The screams of anguish that come from the still-living faces on this diabolic hide are a sweet concerto to the ears of the wearer and his depraved allies, imbuing them with unbridled confidence.