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The Encarta Maleficarum is a secret ritual that is sometimes conducted on members of the Black Priest of Maccaebeus by the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus. Those Black Priests that undergo this rite do so in order to aid them as holy exorcists.
The ritual itself involves the use of forbidden knowledge which is burned deep within the mind of the Black Priest where it is shackled with wards that are inscribed by occult means directly into the cerebral cortex. This act is considered a rare procedure and a radical one even by the most ardent of the Daemonhunters. The usage of the Encarta Maleficarum can lead to the death of the subject and are not noted for their high survival rate. Furthermore, even if successful, the life expectancy of the subject is greatly reduced and their sanity as well is eroded in the process.
The benefits to the rite can lead to the Black Priest also becoming resistant to possession by the Daemonic with intrusions blocked by the ward or leading to the collapse of the subject into a catatonic state for a short time.1
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- 1: Dark Heresy: The Inquisitors Handbook, p. 55
