The Silent Sister

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But underneath the laughter, Wallace began to discover a darkness within each twin. Reading through June’s diaries, she found that June felt possessed by her sister, whom she referred to as a “dark shadow” over her. Meanwhile, Jennifer’s diaries revealed that she thought of June and herself as “fatal enemies,” and described her sister as “a face of misery, deception, murder.” Though nominally part of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, the Silent Sisterhood answers directly to the Golden Throne, and they undertake many actions throughout the Imperium at the behest of Roboute Guilliman, the Imperial Regent and lord commander of the Imperium and his fellow High Lords of Terra. First among the Sisterhood's duties include ensuring the Great Tithe of psykers to Terra is adhered to. From that point, not a single sound will pass their lips. The Sisters do not speak, they do not declaim their foes with shouted tirades or cry out in pain. Combined with their fearful aura, this muteness in the heat of battle is incredibly unnerving. Incorruptible and possessed of an untarnished spirit, the Oblivion Knights of the Raptora cadres are only ever deployed against the most dangerous of foes such as rogue alpha-level psykers or major Daemonic

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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. In the home, they’d talk, make sounds, and all that, but we knew that they weren’t quite like, you know, normal children, talking readily,” their father Aubrey recalled. These roles combined with the sinister aura given off by these Pariahs makes them an object of dread and fear among the masses of the greater Imperium. Oblivion Knights may be deployed either as full cadres led by officers called "mistresses," or individually as commanders for other cadres. An elite cadre of Oblivion Knights known as the " Raptor Guard" or Raptora formed the honour guards of Knight-Commander Jenetia Krole and other high-ranking sisters at the time of the Horus Heresy. Mankind's surety of purpose, restored by the tremendous success of the Great Crusade, was shaken to its core by the treachery of the Warmaster Horus. The corruption Horus spread through the Legiones Astartes eroded the Imperial Truth -- the secular wisdom, laid down by the Emperor, that saw the furtherance of logic and science required the outlaw of the concept of supernatural entities.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. Silent Sisters are seen tending the wounded as Robb Stark surveys the field in the aftermath of the Battle of Oxcross. A pair of Silent Sisters deliver a box containing Eddard Stark's bones to Catelyn. [7] Game of Thrones: Season 3 [ ]

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There is no hunt like that which makes prey of man, for those who have partaken of such forbidden hunts will find no satisfaction in any other pursuit thereafter." Harming a Silent Sister is a grave offense - even laying hands on one, much less raping one. While not exactly clear, harming a Silent Sister might carry an instant death sentence. Sister-Senior Celia Harroda – Sister-Senior Celia was the Witchseeker Pursuivant, a heroine of the Sisters of Silence during the Siege of Terra, when there was a massive Daemonic incursion within the Imperial Webway created by the Emperor in the subterranean levels of the Imperial Palace. 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 greatsword she collapsed upon the threshold between the Warp and realspace, never to take another breath.A Null Maiden of the Sisters of Silence arrives upon Luna, to battle against the Daemon Primarch Magnus the Red. Though the Sisters of Silence have access to the multitude of the Imperium's approved STC designs, which they have often relied on in their duty, during the late Great Crusade these were largely replaced in the field with unique patterns of grav-repulsor craft outfitted with sophisticated covert operations and stealth systems better suited to their needs.