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Power sword
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Power Swords are one of the preeminent types of Power Weapons. When its power cell is activated, the blade becomes sheathed in a lethal haze of a disruptive energy field. This field allows the blade to easily rip through armor and flesh alike.[1]
Known Patterns
- Mk II Mars Pattern: Used by the Dark Angels[7]
- Baal Pattern Mk IV: Used by the Blood Angels[5]
- Ingelldina Pattern: Used by the Space Marines[5]
- Proteus Pattern: Used by Space Marines during the Horus Heresy[10]
- Munitorum Pattern: Used by Imperial Guard Officers[6]
- Swift Justice type [8]
- Sentinel Blade: Used by the Adeptus Custodes
Famous Power Swords
- Blade Encarmine - Wielded by Sanguinius
- Fireblade - Wielded by Fulgrim
- Gladius Incandor - Wielded by Roboute Guilliman
- Lion Sword - Wielded by Lion El'Jonson
- Sword of Secrets - Wielded by Azrael
- Sword of the High Marshals - Relic of the Black Templars
- Black Sword - Used by the Emperor's Champion
- Talassarian Tempest Blade - Wielded by Cato Sicarius
- Moonfang - Wielded by Kor'sarro Khan
- Sword of Silence - Wielded by Belial
- Raven Sword - Wielded by Sammael
- Sword of Asur - Wielded by Asurmen
- Shining Blade - Wielded by Baharroth
Images
Imperial Guard Officer's Power Sword[4]
Dark Eldar Power Sword[2]
Eversor Temple Power Sword[11]
Proteus-pattern power sword of the Word Bearers[12]
See Also
Sources
- 1: Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition) pg.99
- 2: Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Rulebook pg.59
- 3: Imperial Armour Volume Eleven - The Doom of Mymeara pg.135
- 4: Codex: Imperial Guard (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex) pg.35
- 5: Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition) pg.59
- 6: Imperial Munitorum Manual pg.67
- 7: Imperial Armour Volume Five pg.150
- 8: Dawn of War II (campaign)
- 9: White Dwarf 61 (2015), Skitarii Vanguard
- 10: The Horus Heresy Book Five pg.90
- 11: Assassinorum: Execution Force (Game)
- 12: The Horus Heresy Book Two, pg. 144