Silent Sisters

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As the Legiones Astartes began to fracture, the worship of Horus' new gods saw many psykers treat with Daemonic forces, creatures coalesced from Mankind's dark reflections and beliefs within the Empyrean. Some did so unwittingly, and the resultant manifestations tore tiny holes in the fabric of realspace -- holes that the fiends lurking behind the veil would gladly rip wider. Leilani Mollitas - Novice-Sister Leilani Mollitas served as a Sister-in-Waiting to Oblivion Knight Amendera Keel during the early years of the Horus Heresy. a b Misstear, Rachael (31 October 2011). "Powerful Play about Silent Twins Will Get You Talking". Western Mail. Cardiff, Wales. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019.

In some rare cases, these hunters learned to suppress their uncanny auras to some degree, and in living alongside others begot their own bloodlines. None of these would-be settlers ever stayed in one place for long, for the Pariah Gene is not named idly. Wherever the Sisters of Silence sought out new lives, they were hounded into exile once more by those that hated them for their intrinsic otherness. The weapons of the Silent Sisterhood are trusted mainstays of the Imperial arsenal. Their gleaming gunships and transports are much like those of the present-day Adeptus Astartes, for it is imperative the Sisters of Silence strike fast and hard, then withdraw to fight again. A force so small in number has no other option if it wishes to make its mark upon a hostile universe. Their most trusted weapons are the bolter, the Flamer and the Power Sword. They tend to use these in overlapping wave assaults. Under an Imperial governorship which displaced a squalid mess of rival competing petty kings and confederations that had held the planet beforehand, Pentacanaes had grown first into a frontier outpost, then into a port-of-call, with hundreds of Imperialis Auxilia regiments temporarily stationed there before mustering and redeployment to the front lines. Sister-Commander Bellas - Sister-Commander Bellas, alongside her fellow commander Aphone, served as a senior commander of of the Silent Sisterhood during the Indomitus Crusade. After Lord Commander of the Imperium Roboute Guilliman declared an end to the crusade, Bellas was among those Imperial forces that lent their aid to the Realm of Ultramar during the Plague Wars. She fought against the vast plague hordes of Nurgle and helped Lord Commander Guilliman reclaim the world of Espandor from the Plague God's clutches. Vigilator • Pursuer • Pursuer Beast • Prosecutor • Witchseeker • Questora • Firebrand • Subjugator • Sanctioner • ExpurgatorStructured in isolation and with the ironclad rule of discipline, this militant arm of the Divisio Astra Telepathica operated with remorseless efficiency and under an unassailable vow of silence and secrecy, a distinction which gave them a ready common name to those of the Imperium's authorities with whom they dealt, and to the Imperium through which they began to pass ghostlike upon their dark harvest, they became objects of fear and awe. Ser Wylis Manderly threatens to send his daughter, Wylla, to the silent sisters if she does not speak her wedding vows to Little Walder Frey on the appointed day. [35] Just as the Sisters of Silence are called upon to hunt, they are also called upon to purge. To this end, the Firebrand cadres of the Silent Sisterhood are deployed for the widespread purgation of opposing forces, condemned criminals, tainted Abhumans and other gene-threats, as well as the pacification of aggressive, rebellious or resistant crowds and bystanders.

When Cersei Lannister is discussing the concerns regarding the safety of religious persons with the High Sparrow, it is mentioned that Silent Sisters have been raped. [9] In the books [ ] Such organisations as these have great autonomy, and it is not unknown for their masters to believe themselves above such scrutiny. Large-scale assaults against covens of psychic mutants or the sorcerers of the Heretic Astartes see the Sisterhood's coldly rational and tactical discipline standing in sharp contrast to many zealous and fanatical warriors who fight in the Emperor's name. A Null Maiden was a full-fledged member of the Sisterhood who had taken the Vow of Tranquility, and were assigned to the Chamber of Vigilance, the Chamber of Judgement or the Chamber of Oblivion. Null Maidens were divided according to their tactical function, including Vigilators, Prosecutors, Pursuers, Firebrands, Subjugators, Expurgators, Sanctioners and Witchseekers, as described below. The returned Ultramarines' Primarch Roboute Guilliman prepares to lead the Imperium's forces against the encroaching darkness of Chaos.As part of this never-ending task, their duty was also to hunt down Renegade psykers and destroy those who are deemed too dangerous to the rest of Humanity to live. This was a perilous task well beyond the abilities of any merely Human law enforcement or military force, but it is made possible, indeed in some cases seamless, in its execution not simply by the martial prowess of the Sisterhood itself, but crucially by their fundamental nature as psychic Nulls. Nemesis Praxia is a unique rank held by a senior sister who is the high guardian of the compiled lore and estates temporal of the Divisio Investigates, and ultimately responsible for the training of all of the Silent Sisterhood's acolytes. June and Jennifer were the daughters of Caribbean immigrants Gloria and Aubrey Gibbons. The Gibbons family moved from Barbados to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s, as part of the Windrush generation. [3] Gloria was a housewife and Aubrey worked as a technician for the Royal Air Force. [4] The couple also had three other children: Greta was born in 1957, David was born in 1959, and Rosie was born in 1967. [5] Spectra-vestments - Worn by the Sisters of an Excruciatus cadre, the bloody-coloured raiment of the Silent Judges and the chill silver of her acolytes conceal sophisticated field generator technology that allows it to blur and shift to adapt to its surroundings or simply bleed shadow at will, concealing them from sight should they wish and making them things of darkness rather than substance when viewed from a distance. Although a formidable military force in its own right, the Silent Sisterhood's clandestine, undocumented actions far outweigh their overt activity manyfold. It is purported that for every operation that has been described by the words of iterators or etched into the pict-plates of famed imagists, a hundred more have been conducted behind the veil of secrecy or scoured from records and memory alike.

There is also the observation that no Space Marine, or Custodian Guard for that matter, has ever been recorded as being a psychic Null. This factor weighs the evidence of some scholars that within the Space Marine gene-seed itself is perhaps a shadow of the Emperor's own genetic material and a sliver of His own psychic power which is crucial to the process and success of the transformation of a mere Human into a transhuman Astartes.There appears to be perceptible degrees of this effect which vary from individual to individual, with some Untouchables "stronger" in the phenomena than others, and it is from the strongest of these that the Sisters of Silence are drawn. It is also noteworthy to the extent that the disturbance caused by an Untouchable is evident not only to Humanity, but also all other lifeforms and xenos species encountered to some greater or lesser extent. In terms of armament and equipment, the Divisio Investigates was particularly well served, and second only perhaps to the Legio Custodes in the scope and customisation of its arsenal. It had long maintained myriad different weapons and tactical systems suited to its needs, from patterns of the Terran Bolter -- a weapon more commonly associated with the Space Marine Legions -- manufactured for use by unagumented Humans, to the exquistely fashioned and utterly lethal powered Execution Blades carried by its Vigilators.

A largely impoverished but relatively societally stable Sol pattern Hive World, mere solar weeks in distance from Terra by the tides of the Empyrean, Pentacanaes had been both an early and an easily acquired bauble for the Great Crusade. Struggling to barely maintain an industrial technological base, its only advantage was as a fleet anchorage, and the only resource it offered the Imperium was its vast Human population which ran into the tens of billions of lives. They came to believe that skill in the Power Sword and bolter were but one half of a sister's armoury, for knowledge of their quarry carried equal weight. In this quest they had learned a great deal about the extremes of psykerkind to be found in the Human-settled galaxy. The sisters learned to ferret them out, combat them and, if need be, execute them with extreme prejudice for the greater good of all Mankind. Then there was the gossip – a friend heard “two shoppers discussing how mum gave birth to babies and the rest of their family ate them.” The Silent Sisterhood as an organisation was one of singular reach and secrecy. Its exact numbers were unknown save to the Emperor, for though it remained nominally part of the Divisio Astra Telepathica at the time of the Great Crusade, it had long become interwoven with the will and direct agency of the Emperor Himself. For while the Legio Custodes guarded the Master of Mankind directly, the Sisters of Silence became pivotal to the carrying out of the Emperor's great and secret works to contain and limit the influence of the Ruinous Powers and their servants as he sought to expand the Imperial Truth.Travelling to Duskendale, Brienne of Tarth comes across a band of silent sisters. She asks them if they have seen her sister but they shake their heads. [1] Later Brienne, Ser Illifer, and Ser Creighton Longbough come across some poor fellows marching to King's Landing, who tell them that even silent sisters have been molested. [1] [30] The Sanctioner Cadre is a specialised force of the Chamber of Vigilance whose principal task is to identify and eliminate troublesome agitators -- such as rebellious warlords, priests and demagogues -- or to silence dangerous Rogue Psykers whose capture would otherwise incur a high cost in lives and the expenditure of too many valuable assets. This is a task for which they are armed and equipped with a variety of specialised wargear including long-range Nemesis Bolters, sensor-auspex and stealth gear. These Divisio Astra Telepathica-administered star systems were only known to other arms of the Imperium as vague and shifting code designations, but here the Silent Sisters alone held sway and what numbers, facilities and resources they possessed in these sovereign domains, none save they and the Emperor knew.