Wallace believed that her curiosity of the girls’ writings — and a little determination — could unlock their silence.

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Task Force XI swept down upon the once-verdant Agri-world of Peranis, whose giltfir forests had been swathed in fire and blood by the Scintillating Legions of Tzeentch. In 1974, a medic named John Rees noticed the girls’ strange behavior while administering a yearly school-sanctioned health check.Receiving help from an unexpected quarter, in the form of the mysterious Yvraine, high-priestess of the Aeldari god of the dead known as Ynnead, she led the Imperial defenders through a Warp Gate and into the Webway, away from their Chaos pursuers. During the Great Crusade, the Emperor kept a standing battalion of the Silent Sisterhood within His personal armies. For the most part, Wallace noticed, June seemed to be more fearful of Jennifer, and Jennifer seemed to be the dominant force.

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Those remaining were occupied aboard the Black Ships, hunting renegade psykers and performing the crucial role of damping the potent and uncontrolled abilities of their Human cargo. Foremost are those which centre around theories of how the Pariah Gene came about: was it perhaps the result of ancient xenos tampering with the Human genome or some strange and terrible experiment of the Dark Age of Technology? With the threat posed by the Great Rift, they were now needed more than ever, and he declared the Dispensatus Anathema, sending out as emissaries those of the Sisterhood who had fought with him at the Battle of Luna. The Untouchables begin their gruelling duties as novices, and only once they have proved themselves worthy of the Sisterhood's high standards are they inducted fully.Perhaps the most infamous example of loyal psykers turning against the edicts of the Emperor was that of the Thousand Sons Legion.