We are seekers and we shall find our prey, we are warriors and woe to those we oppose, the Emperor's mark is on our brow, all who deal with the Warp must beware, His Judgement and vengeance is ours to deliver!’. They were active during the time of the Great Crusade in the early 3. Millennium, and their purpose was to hunt and kill rogue human psykers whose activities presented a terrible danger to the people of the newborn Imperium of Man. Also known as the Silent Sisterhood and the Witchseekers, they were the militant arm of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica and were referred to internally within the records of the Adeptus Terra as the Departmento Investigates. The ultimate fate of the Sisters of Silence is not found in Imperial records, and no references to their continued existence in the era of the 4. Millennium exists. It is believed that they were either destroyed long ago or were ultimately folded into the organisation of the Imperial Inquisition. The Sisters of Silence's primary base of operations was the Somnus Citadel on Luna, the moon of Terra. Lost In The Night EP: http:// Chase The Light EP: http:// Management: [email protected] Booking: [email protected]. Palace’s tracks It's Over by Palace. Title: Silence Artist: Delerium Vocal Artist: Sarah Mclachlan Album: Karma Year: 1997. Welcome to our new member portal! If you know the email address associated with your Palace Movie Club account, please click here to generate your password. If you aren't sure what email address is linked to your Palace Movie. A Prosecutor Squad of the Frost Wolves cadre. The Sisters of Silence were organised into multiple warrior cadres that were readily identifiable by their corresponding animal totem (the Frost Lynx, Ice Leopard, Iron Lynx. The Silence: Masaki Batoh: Guitar and Vocal, ex: Ghost Kazuo Ogino: Keys, Bulgarian Tambula, Lute, Pipes, ex: Ghost Futoshi Okano: Drums, ex: Ghost, Subvert Blaze Ryuichi Yoshida: Baritone Saxophone and Flute Jan Stigter: Bass. These warrior- investigators were tasked with the apprehension of untrained psykers, often colloquially referred to on primitive human worlds as . The Sisters operated the Adeptus Astra Telepathica’s infamous Black Ships, which ranged the galaxy following behind the Great Crusade's Expeditionary Fleets in search of rogue psykers to capture or expunge, seeking to collect and carry them back to Terra where they would be tested and their eventual fate decided. Though few in number, the Sisters of Silence commanded great respect within the Imperium and most servants of the Emperor regarded them with some awe. Few would willingly stand in their way or interfere with their activities and few indeed were those who were comfortable in their presence. Unlike other living beings, these women sworn to silence possessed no presence in the Warp and were therefore unaffected by psychic powers. There were many names for them in the multitude of human cultures to be found across the galaxy: Untouchables, Pariahs, Blanks. All of the members of their order were non- psychic, for they bore the Pariah Gene which made them immune to all forms of psychic assault and their minds unreadable by telepathy. These bearers of the Pariah Gene possessed the innate ability to disrupt psychic abilities. Their mere presence was intolerable to a psyker, for they become visibly uncomfortable in their company. Close proximity or intimate contact with Pariahs could cause a psyker great pain. This made it ideal for the Sisters to serve as Imperial Witch Hunters, identifying psykers secretly hidden amongst normal human populations as well as discovering those as yet unaware of their own innate abilities. The Sisters were also authorized to destroy any psykers they deemed too dangerous to capture and send back to Terra for testing. Within these tomes of psychic research and ancient lore, the young Sisters- in- Waiting learned much concerning the nature of the witch. 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. During the ensuing battle, the Sisters managed to wound a mutant Jorgall psyker and capture it to be transported back to Terra for study. The Sisters of Silence deployed in support of the Space Wolves. Legion and a contingent from the Legio Custodes, and provided the main line of defence against the potent psychic abilities of the Thousand Sons Legion. They were also instrumental in the defence of the Imperial Webway located in the subterranean levels of the Imperial Palace against a massive daemonic incursion from the Immaterium. No Sister could utter a word, unto death, once she took the Oath of Tranquility. A novice Sister who had yet to take the vow was allowed to converse normally, though they were also trained in the use of the various forms of gestural signing incorporated into their Order as its primary means of communication. Sisters- in- Waiting served their Order by speaking when communication was needed with outsiders, acting as interpreters between the senior ranks of Sisters and other Imperial servants. Those Sisters that took the Oath of Tranquility communicated exclusively through the use of the various forms of sign- language, similar to the battle signs employed by the Space Marines, and would not willingly break this most sacred of oaths. These women never spoke, even when wounded by projectile rounds or badly injured by weapons fire or the bite of edged weapons. Small in scale, full of delicate gestures of finger and thumb, it served to convey concepts of great subtlety or intricate nature. It was far more graceful than the large, sharp motions of Battle. Mark. The gestures used to communicate in Battle. Mark were large, sharp motions that enabled a person to convey their thoughts in line of sight and can be seen at extreme ranges. This gestural language is most similar to Astartes battle- sign and may have a similar origin. Since Sisters- in- Waiting had not yet sworn the Oath of Tranquility they often acted as interpreters for the senior Sisters when dealing with outsiders. A Novice- Sister was not required to perform as many menial tasks as a Sister- in- Waiting, as she had more important tasks to fill her days, such as learning witch- lore and practicing her combat skills. These Sisters had no eyes, for in their place they had two heavy lenses or ruby- coloured bionic implants in place of their natural eyes. It is said that to attain this esteemed rank a Silent Sister must personally have slain 1. On one occasion a mighty Bloodthirster, the greatest of the daemons of Khorne, fought its way through the Imperial defenders and to the Webway gate into the Palace itself. Only the last minute intervention of Sister Celia Harroda was able to stop the beast from crashing through the gate and into the Imperial Palace's dungeons. Sister Celia confronted the huge daemon, her presence chilling the air around it and stifling its otherworldly power, and silently she despatched the monster with swift strokes from her blade of frost. The effort utterly exhausted her and with the final, banishing stroke of her sword she collapsed upon the threshold between the Warp and realspace never to take another breath. Alongside Amendera Kendel, Sister Herkaaze was drawn to the notice of the Sisters of Silence as a child. Each of the Sisters were recruited from worlds in the Belladone Reach. Kendel and Herkaaze had shared a vague kinship throughout their Aspirant trials, but as they had grown into full Sisterhood, the women’s early friendship soured. Years later, they were bitter rivals within the Order, each nursing antipathy for the other. How this bitter enmity began is not truly known, but one story, told to novices by other novices, said that the women had once fought with a fire- witch on Sheol Trinus; Herkaaze, unwilling to fall back before a powerful enemy and regroup, had been struck by burning debris and later turned the blame upon Kendel for refusing to support her. Sister Emrilia’s extensive old wounds might indicate that there was some truth to this tale. She wore her purple- black coloured hair in a topknot from a seamless scalp, bare but for a blood- red tattoo of the Imperial Aquila. Sister Kendel was an Oblivion Knight and commanded the Black Ship. Aeria Gloris. During the Great Crusade Sister Kendel was a part of a cadre of Sisters sent on the orders of Malcador the Sigillite to deploy alongside the Death Guard Legion in the prosecution of the xenos known as the Jorgall for daring to venture into human space. The Sisters proved instrumental in attacking and wounding a powerful mutant Jorgall psyker. They then captured the wounded creature for transport back to Terra and further research into its abilities. Sister Kendel then moved on to perform other duties. After the opening shots of the Horus Heresy occurred on Istvaan III, Sister Kendel volunteered to protect the Death Guard Captain Nathaniel Garro and the survivors of the frigate Eisenstein at the Somnus Citadel on Luna. She was later forced to lead her fellow Sisters into battle with the corrupted Death Guard Astartes Solun Decius who had finally given into the Nurgleite contagion inflicted upon him by the reanimated corpses aboard the Eisenstein. His corrupted body had mutated into a daemonic entity known as the Lord of the Flies. After defeating this significant daemonic threat, Sister Kendel, Captain Garro and Captain Iacton Qruze of the Luna Wolves were confronted by Malcador the Sigillite. He informed them of his intentions to form a new organisation which would need to utilise . Amendera Kendel’s ultimate fate remains unknown. The second- in- command of the Storm Dagger cadre had made no secret of her disdainful opinions for the Warmaster. Horus’ mutiny against his father the Emperor. Sister Nortor’s breath would rasp quietly through the mechanical apparatus at her neck; almost three- quarters of Nortor’s throat had been replaced with a mechanical augment. Made of a polished silver- steel, her cybernetic implant served the function of flesh destroyed during an engagement against the Jorgalli, inside one of the xenos’s bottle- worlds. As well as her neck, much of the Null Maiden’s lungs were also synthetic proxies assembled by the Sisterhood’s biologians. Many of her fellow Sisters were privately envious of the dour Sister Thessaly; Nortor’s larynx had been lost to the acidic bite of the bottle- world’s alien atmosphere, and she had refused to allow her augmentation to be fitted with an artificial replacement for her missing vocal cords.
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