Baleful Icon

Chaos Portal Word Bearers

The Baleful Icon is an artefact possessed by the Word Bearers. It bears an eight-pointed star so saturated in the blood of loyalists that it is forever stained with the taint of treachery. The Word Bearers have mounted it upon a standard and those that carry it feel its toxic aura, much as a sun worshiper feels the kiss of a summer day upon his skin. Those who wish the bearer harm, however, find their certainty sapped away and their muscles shuddering in revulsion by the mere proximity of this blasphemous standard. Even Space Marines are known to be drained of their righteous anger in the Baleful Icon's presence.^[1]

Sources

• 1: Codex Supplement: Traitor Legions, pg. 99