hh8节译:禁忌的寻觅者

Seekers of the Forbidden

During the Great Crusade, it was primarily the warriors of the Thousand Sons and the Word Bearers Legions who were chosen to quell the threats of the occult and the arcane. Looking at the pattern dictated by history, it appears they were frequently found to be adjacent to areas of such need. Knowing what we now know, it is suspiciously fortuitous that they should have made themselves available for so many similarly aligned actions of Compliance, a trend which was only exacerbated by their reuniting with their Primarchs, although of course this was part of the Emperor's template for these two Legions. Certainly, there were inherent dangers in prolonged exposure to the darkest aspects of humanity among the stars and in allowing these two Legions to accumulate occult knowledge, the taint of which may have contributed to their eventual downfall.

在大远征时候，帝国主要选择千子和怀言者军团的战士们去平息（关于亚空间的）密教活动和玄奥现象。从史料上描述的案例来看，他们似乎频繁地被发现前往有此类需求的地区。从我们已知的内容来看，有着这样一个可疑的巧合：这两个军团参加过很多次类似的镇压行动，而且在他们与原体重聚之后，这种趋势只是愈演愈烈，不过这的确也是帝皇为这两个军团制定的模板的一部分。当然，这两个军团持续暴露在星辰间人类最黑暗的方面，而且能够积累起诡秘知识，这种情况存在着固有的危险，而且这一过程中所造成的腐化也将会导致他们最后的堕落。

The Thousand Sons in particular seem to have experienced combat against a disproportionate number of suspected sorcerous' threats and almost without exception made haste to undertake conquests of worlds known to contain libraries, crypts and other repositories of arcane tomes. Though part of their role was, nominally, to safely dispose of such grimoires, it was an open secret that they cloistered these relics of humanity's forgotten knowledge within their own libraries in Tizca. Some among the Primarchs are also said to have grown resentful of Magnus’ pursuits in the realms of proscribed knowledge, and of his Legion's propensity to disrupt the course of conquests in their desire to attain it. This became a recurring source of friction, notably so when Magnus reportedly almost came to blows with his brother Russ in the Ark Reach Cluster and again when Corax chastised the Thousand Sons Legion for interfering in the Riohbia Campaign.

尤其是千子军团，他们似乎对抗过数量多到不成比例的可疑巫术威胁，而且对于那些因保有图书馆、地穴和其他奥秘典籍资料库，千子几乎会无一例外地匆忙征服。尽管千子名义上的职责是安全地处置这些魔法手稿，但他们将这些关于人类被遗忘知识的遗产馆藏于提兹卡城中军团自己的图书馆内也是一件公开的秘密。据说某些原体也越来越厌恶马格努斯在禁忌知识领域的追求，他们对于千子军团为了获取这些知识而对征服过程造成的干扰也感到厌烦。这种情绪滋生出了争执，当马格努斯在方舟边境群星和他的兄弟鲁斯几乎爆发冲突，以及克拉克斯指责千子军团过度干涉Riohbia战役时，这种情况变得尤为明显。

History shows us that the lore and esoterica which Magnus the Red and Lorgar Aurelian claimed during the Great Crusade would grow to be their most potent weapon. In retrospect it seems obvious that to these two Primarchs the Great Crusade came to be more a wondrous expedition into the accumulated religions, occultism and arcana of Mankind than a war for conquest.

但历史也告诉我们：赤红马格努斯和珞珈 奥雷利安所寻求的密典和传说将会发展为他们最强大的武器。事后来看，很明显对这两位原体而言，大远征开始成为一场探索人类积累起来的宗教、神秘学（知识）和奥秘的美妙冒险。

Given what we know now, it appears unwise that our primary response to threatening phenomena which we scarcely understood, was to employ the Word Bearers and Thousand Sons Legions to contain it, for though they may have destroyed the cultures responsible for arcane evils, they also took the knowledge of those people by looting the ruins of their cities, ransacking their libraries, picking clean their sacred shrines and exhuming the secrets of their burial sites. The Crimson King and the Aurelian were seeking forbidden knowledge from the very beginning. Though it is assumed that at least originally their intent was not malicious, the blame lies at our own door for not intervening； for not expounding to them the supernatural nature of that which they would come to consort with, and for not warning them of the damnation which would surely follow.

从我们目前所知的来看，将派出怀言者和千子两个军团作为解决我们根本不理解的威胁现象的主要对策明显是不明智的，因为尽管他们毁灭了那些利用奥术为恶的文明，但他们仍通过劫掠城市废墟、洗劫图书馆、搜索神庙和发掘埋葬起来的秘密等方式获取了这些人的知识。猩红之王和奥雷利安从一开始便在寻觅禁忌的学识，虽然我们假定至少他们最初的意图并无恶意，但未曾干预他们也是我们应被指责的过错：我们本该告诉他们所经历事务的超自然本质，并且警告他们那必将到来的诅咒。

Had we but seen the signs that these noble Legions were acting with ulterior agendas at the end, we may have been able to influence the directions they took. And when He had the chance, could not the Emperor have acted more compassionately to correct the transgressions o f His wayward sons than to incite the bitter humiliations of Monarchia and Nikaea? Perhaps had it been so, these Legions, which were so learned in the arcane and charged with the passion for a greater calling, could have raised the Imperium up with the power of their wisdom. Tragically, the seeds laid by the Primarchs of the XVth and XVIIth Legions would instead come to terrible fruition.

但是，如果我们见证过这些高贵的阿斯塔特军团最终那别有用心的行径，我们或许能够影响他们的走向。不过就算我们有了这个机会，帝皇就会更具同情心地纠正他任性儿子们的过错，而非在完美之城和尼凯亚让他们感受到痛苦的屈辱吗？倘若他真能纠正这些过失的话，那些饱学奥秘且对于伟大号召拥有着激情的军团也许能够用自己的智慧令帝国崛起。但可悲的是，第十五和十七军团原体所播下的种子最终结出的是恐怖的恶果。