八版圣典节译：放逐恶魔

Chief amongst the Grey Knights’ strategies concerning the vanquishing of a Daemon is the knowing of the beast’s true name. Such knowledge grants great power, which is why Daemons adopt misleading pseudonyms and titles. In the hands of a learned mystic,a true name can be invoked to bind, or even banish,the Daemon in question. Ordinarily,to do so takes weeks or even months of careful preparation and ritual, lest the invoker become corrupted by the power he attempts to bind.

灰骑士战胜恶魔的首要战略就是知道这些野兽的真名。这些知识能赋予强大的力量，这也是恶魔使用误导性的假名和头衔的原因。在博学的神秘主义者手中，一个真名可以被调用来绑定甚至放逐恶魔。通常来说，这么做要耗费数周甚至数个月去进行仔细的准备和仪式，以免召唤者被他想要绑定的力量所腐化。

For a Grey Knight,however, a true name is a weapon as reliable as his stormbolter.Even the lowliest Grey Knight can invoke a true name at a moment’s notice,disorienting and weakening his foe,and leaving the beast open fora killing strike from a Nemesis blade. Some in the Chapter can recall a true name to slay the Daemon’s physical form, or even cast it back into the warp.To banish a Daemon in this manner is the closest that the Grey Knights can come to a lasting victory–a Daemon bodily slain will return to the mortal realm far sooner than one banished body and soul.

但对灰骑士而言，真名是一种和风暴爆弹枪同样可靠的武器。即便是最低级的灰骑士也能在瞬间的注意中引用真名，令自己的敌人迷失方向并被削弱力量，让这头野兽在复仇女神之剑的致命一击面前敞开防御。战团中的某些人能够回忆起真名来杀死恶魔的物理形体，甚至将其驱逐回亚空间。以这种方式驱逐恶魔是灰骑士最接近取得持久胜利的战斗手段——相比于（仅仅）被摧毁物理躯体的恶魔，那些躯体和灵魂都被放逐的恶魔重返物质领域的速度要慢很多。

Alas,if true names are a Grey Knight’s surest weapon against a Daemon, they are also the hardest of all to acquire.A true name is borne of the warp,and in the minds of mortal men is shifting and mutable. So it is that in the candlelit chambers of the Grey Knights’ Augurium, a veritable army of ebon-cowled scribes toil in shadow,endlessly sifting through the visions reported by the Chapter’s Prognosticars, searching for clues to the ever-changing true names.No scribe can be trusted with more than a fragment of a true name, lest he become corrupted by the power it contains. Thus, each scintilla of lore is inscribed onto a blessed scroll in sigils of the scribe’s own blood – mere ink cannot cage such knowledge. Each is then presented for collation and interpretation by one of the Chapter’s Senior Librarians and, in turn, bound into one of the blessed grimoires within the Sanctum Sanctorum.

真名是灰骑士对抗恶魔最可靠的武器，但也是所有武器中最难获得的。真名来自于亚空间，在凡夫俗子的头脑中是变幻无常的。所以在灰骑士占卜大厅闪烁着烛光的房间内，一群名副其实的穿着黑色蒙头斗篷的抄写员们在阴影中辛勤工作，他们不停地在战团预言师报告的幻象中筛选，寻找不断变化的真名的线索。每名抄写员都只能被托付一块真名的碎片，以防他们被真名包含的力量所腐化。因此，每一丁点关于真名的知识都要用抄写员自己的血液构成的魔纹誊写在被赐福的纸卷上——仅仅用墨水书写是无法禁锢住此等知识的。然后，每张纸卷都由战团中的一位高级智库进行整理和解释，然后依次装订成一本圣者神堂内受祝福的魔导书。