Culexus Temple
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The Culexus Temple is one of the temples of the Officio Assassinorum. The motto of the temple is: That which is unknown and unseen always commands the greatest fear. This motto is quite appropiate as Psykers, their exclusive targets, are unable to sense the Culexus Assassins, aka psyker-killers.
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Operatives
The Culexus Assassins are the most sinister, feared, and hated of all Imperial Assassins. They are null-entities in the warp, creating a terrifying aura of unnaturalness and paranormal fear around themselves by merely existing. Psykers within range of a Culexus Assassin are so unnerved by the experience they may simply break and and attempt to flee, making these Assassins perfect witch-slayers. They are also extremely useful against daemons who originating from the warp, are made entirely of psychic energy. In the confusion caused by this fear, the assassin can move in on its target and eliminate them.
The Culexus Assassins possess the "Pariah Gene", making them to all intents soulless, accounting for their having no warp-presence. This gene manifests itself very rarely, in a single individual among a billion, or more. This extreme rarity, coupled with the inevitable losses during training, makes the Culexus assassins the rarest of all Imperial assassins.
The location of the Culexus temple is a closely guarded secret. The temple is located on a planet which itself is beyond the reach of the Astronomican, and orbits no sun at all.
The Eldar, a potently psychic race, whose leaders are usually Warlocks and Farseers, fear the Culexus greatly. Farseer Alladrios Kulcassian, of Craftworld Alaitoc coordinated a centuries-long effort to locate and to destroy this temple1. Somehow he discovered the location and dispatched the Legacy of Eldanesh, a shadow-class cruiser. However, using his precognitive powers, he discovered to his amazement that the temple's destruction would lead to the Annihilation of Alaitoc. Choosing the lesser of two evils, he re-called the cruiser home.
Equipment
The Culexus Assasin slays his foe by using a deadly psychic blast directed through an ancient device known as an Animus Speculum. It is unknown how this device functions fully, but it is speculated that the warp energy separated from its targets by the null aura of the Culexus is held in this device and then unleashed. Indeed, the weapon becomes more and more potent when within the vicinity of psykers. The device fires bolts of negative psychic energy and drains the power of nearby psykers to bolster its power. Secondly, the Culexus carries an Etherium, a device that induce enormous distortion and confusion in all nearby enemies psychic or not, the fact that the enemy is already disconcerted by the soulless Culexus combined with the Etherium makes the Culexus impossible to target.
Culexus assassins also make use of psyk-out grenades, which are devastating to psykers, but do nothing to those without psychic potential. the grenades utilize a substance that is said to be a by-product of the constant workings of the Golden Throne itself.
Miniatures
Sources
- Codex: Assassins (2nd Edition)
- 1Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition), page 8 Shadow games
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