HH8节译：大远征中的圣物
Relics of the Great Crusade
A vast panoply of the arcane exists within the galaxy, spread far and wide on the worlds and in the fleets of Mankind and the Outsider. Attempting to apply a classification or category based on a single shared property of all of these relics, tangible and intangible, is a nigh-on impossible task, for they are myriad in form and use. The term 'psyarkana' is used in lieu of such a classification, and is considered to be a catch-all term to refer to ill-understandable and ill-definable items or practices, often of ancient or mysterious provenance. Broadly though, psyarkana fall into two groups: techno-arcana and esoterica.
银河系中存在着数量庞大的神秘制品，它们遥远且广泛地分散在（各个）世界与人类和外星人的舰队中。试图基于一套共有的性质对所有这些有形或无形的圣物进行分类和制定范畴，是一项近乎不可能的任务。因为它们有着各式各样的形体与用途。人们用“迷秘之物”来代称该类型的物品——这是一个笼统的术语，指的是难以理解和难以定义的项目或行动，而且通常也是古老或起源神秘的。广义上讲，迷密之物分为两类:科技秘宝和秘仪。
Techno-arcana are usually strange relics and devices based upon what can be loosely understood to function through technological and scientific means, though rarely can these means be reproduced. Such items, be they human or xenos in origin, are recovered from lost civilisations, discovered in the darkest reaches of space or, under the rarest circumstances, created by the artifices of the Imperium. They can be potent archaeotech stamped from those STCs which survived the Age of Strife or alien artifices which predate the evolution of Mankind entirely. Esoterica, however, often refers to intangible rituals, practices and powers as found in ancient manuscripts which are not easily understood. Often these are wielded through psychic or arcane means, and are suggested to interact in some respect with the currents of the Warp, though this is not confirmed to be true in all cases. Whatever the truth behind such arcane articles, all produce effects contrary to our grasp of the order of nature.
科技秘宝通常是基于我们能大致理解其运作（原理）的技术和科学手段制造的奇怪圣物或设备，但这些技术也是几乎无法被复制的。无论其源自人类还是异形，这些物件都是回收自失落的文明，它们被发现于太空中最黑暗的区域，或者在某些最为罕见的情况下，是由帝国用诡计创造而出。它们可以是取自幸存于纷争纪元的STC模板的强大远古科技，或者是出现时间完全人类进化的异星人诡异技术。秘仪则通常是指那些发现于古代手稿中不易被理解的无形仪式、行动或力量，这些东西通常是通过灵能或奥术手段来使用，而且尽管这一点并非在所有情况中都被证明是真实的，但它们还是被认为与亚空间中的波潮流动有某些关系。但无论这些神秘物品背后的真相是什么，它们都会产生与我们所掌握的自然规律相悖的效果。
Many arcane technologies and strange devices were recovered during the Great Crusade, both relics of Mankind's lost endeavours from the Dark Age of Technology and the product of alien minds and cultures now lost to history. Of these relics few now remain, most were destroyed by the Legiones Astartes as they advanced across the galaxy, deemed too dangerous or profane to remain in human hands. However, some yet survive, either taken as trophies or consigned to the vaults of the Legions or the laboratories of the Mechanicum. In particular, the Iron Hands and their master, Ferrus Manus, proved prolific in their acquisition and subsequent interment of powerful and dangerous relics, a number of which would reemerge after their keeper's death.
很多玄奥的科技和奇异的装置都是回收于大远征时期，其中既有黑暗科技时代中人类努力造出的圣物，也有现在已经失落于历史中的异星人的思维与文化的产物。在这些留存至今的圣物中，大部分都被阿斯塔特军团在向银河各处进军的过程中摧毁了——这些物件被认为过于危险或过于亵渎，以至于不能被留在人类手中。不过，也有某些物件幸存了下来，它们要么是被夺取的战利品，要么就是被送进了阿斯塔特军团的仓库或机械神教的实验室。在获取并埋藏（封存）这些强大且危险的圣物方面，钢铁之手军团及其主宰者——费鲁斯 马努斯被证明表现得尤为出色，许多物件都会在其守卫者死亡后再度出现。
During the Horus Heresy, desperation led many to wield psyarkana they little understood or could scarcely control. Those organisations previously forbidden from making use of dangerous techno-arcana, particularly amongst the Mechanicum and Iron Hands Legion, would continue to covet these strange technologies. Those who had once searched for proscribed esoterica, experimenting with their knowledge in secret would go on to openly embrace it. Many would wage their own campaigns contrary to the orders of both the Warmaster and the Emperor to take possession of psyarkana at the height of the Age of Darkness. The use of these psyarkana relics carried with it the risk of terrible consequence, or else irrevocably tainted the user. Regardless, such rituals and devices were sought after by every faction of the Horus Heresy and frequently changed ownership; pried from the lifeless hands of the vanquished.
在荷鲁斯叛乱时期，绝望使得很多人动用了他们几乎不理解（其性质）或几乎无法控制的迷秘之物。那些之前被禁止使用危险的科技秘宝的组织——尤其是钢铁之手军团和机械神教的成员们会继续觊觎着那些怪异的科技。那些曾经寻觅禁忌的秘仪并秘密实验自己（所掌握）知识的人们，也会继续公开地拥抱这些学识。而在黑暗年代的高潮阶段，很多人将会违背来自帝皇和战帅双方的命令，发动自己的战役来夺取迷秘之物。使用这些神秘圣物会带来可怕的后果，或者令使用者受到不可挽回的污染腐化。但不管怎样，荷鲁斯叛乱中的各个派系都在搜寻这些仪式和装置，这些迷秘之物的所有者也在频繁变更——人们会撬开战败者尸体的双手，夺取这些事物。
某些已知迷秘之物
Null-amp Collars
虚无增幅项圈
Recovered as part of a joint operation by the Iron Hands and World Eaters Legions, these devices are the product of a human civilisation far removed from that which survived on Old Earth, now long forgotten. In form they are thick collars of black silicate material, dense and seemingly without obvious components. When fitted to a living being, they project an aura that pacifies the churning of the Aether in the vicinity of the device, though at cost to the focus and mental acuity of the bearer. Before its disbandment, the fledgling Librarius project held severed examples of these devices for study as potential anti-psyker weapons, and these most likely found their way into the hands of the Legions after that body's disbandment at the Emperor's orders. In later years, the few surviving examples of this technology have been used to engineer a 'psychic hood' to augment the ability of a human psyker to combat warp magic without the debilitating cost of the original devices.
此类设备回收自钢铁之手和吞世者军团的某次联合行动，是某个与古老地球相距甚远的人类文明的造物——该文明在很早之前便被遗忘了。其外形是黑色硅酸盐质地的粗厚项圈，质密且似乎没有明显的组件。当被佩戴到活体生物的身上时，它们会投射出一种可以平息设备附近亚空间潮流涌动的光环，但其代价是会牺牲佩戴者的注意力和精神敏感度。羽翼未展的智库项目（成员们）在其（组织）被解散前持有过此类设备被切断的样本，他们将其作为潜在的反灵能武器来进行研究。在帝皇下令解散智库团体后，这些设备可能是落入了阿斯塔特军团的手中。之后的几年中，此类技术为数不多的几个样本被用于（参考）设计“灵能兜帽”——这种新设备能增强人类灵能者对抗亚空间魔法的能力，而且无需像使用原型设备那样付出削弱自身的代价。
Empyreal Lances
高天圣枪
The early Imperium was not the first human civilisation contacted by the shattered remnants of the fallen Eldar empire. Far older and more debased branches of Mankind had preyed upon the vast world-arks of the fleeing Eldar, and these corrupted off-shoots of humanity fell before the hosts of the Great Crusade, with the Raven Guard being chief among their slayers. With their fall, the relics of a number of these civilisations became trophies of the victorious hosts of the Emperor. Among them were the weapons known as empyreal lances, spears crafted from the living bone of captured Eldar spacecraft and defaced with carven glyphs of ancient provenance and dubious purpose. Though of limited use against ceramite plating, such artefacts have been known to have a devastating effect on those cursed with psychic abilities, particularly amongst certain xenos breeds, and in the later years of the Horus Heresy saw some use among the upper echelons of the forces at war.
早期的人类帝国并非是第一个与陨落的灵族帝国那四分五裂的遗民们进行过接触的人类文明。（某些）远为古老且品行恶劣的人类分支掠夺过逃亡的灵族们所乘坐的巨大世界方舟，之后大远征的军队击溃了这些腐化堕落的人类旁系子嗣——暗鸦守卫在剿灭这些文明的战争中一马当先。随着它们的陨落，来自多个此类文明的遗物也成为了得胜的帝皇军队的战利品。被称为“高天圣枪”的武器也位列其中，这些长矛是用被俘的灵族太空飞行器的活体灵骨（材料）制成的，而且遭到污损，被刻上了具有古老起源和可疑目的的雕文。尽管这些制品在对抗陶钢板甲时作用有限，但它们已知能够对那些拥有灵能能力的生物产生毁灭性的效果，尤其是对于特定的异形物种。在荷鲁斯叛乱的后期，人们看到过部队中的某些上层人物使用此类武器。
Armatus Necrotechnica
机体—亡灵转化技术
These secret devices of necro-technic engineering were among the fel technologies once bound within the sealed vaults of Ferrus Manus. Outside of the Iron Hands Legion, the knowledge of their very existence was limited to prohibited circles of the Emperor's own household and used as part of the construction of the warlord-sinister Psi-Titans. This technology is capable of harnessing the stolen energy of sentient life to power engines of mechanical destruction and repair. How they were later spread is unknown, but must surely have involved the defection or capture of high-ranking Terran artificers from the Imperial Palace or the secretive tech-clades of Luna, for it is thought improbable that even those Iron Fathers who raided the Vaults of Mimir would dare to unleash such dark techno-heresy upon the galaxy. Whatever their origin, these foul technologies were witnessed on several battlefields as the Horus Heresy drew towards its climax, both on Traitor armour and among the ranks of Ferrus Manus' grief-maddened sons.
这些使用亡灵技术工程的秘密装置曾被禁锢于费鲁斯 马努斯的密封仓库中。在钢铁之手军团之外，知道此类技术存在的也仅限于帝皇本人宫廷中的禁忌圈子，而且其也被用于战将—灾厄型灵能泰坦结构的一部分。这种技术能够利用偷取自有感知能力生命的能量来驱动受到机械（结构）破坏的引擎和进行（机体）修复。我们不知道此类技术在之后是如何传播开来的，但肯定涉及到某种情况：来自帝国宫或者月球秘密技术分支的高阶泰拉裔工匠叛变或被俘——因为人们认为，即使是那些袭击了麦米尔宝库的钢铁之父们也不敢在银河系中释放如此黑暗的技术异端。但无论其起源为何，随着荷鲁斯叛乱的高潮来临，人们在数个战场上目击到了这种邪恶的技术，其使用者既有叛军，也有费鲁斯 马努斯那些因悲痛而疯狂的子嗣们。
The Psi-reactive Arsenal
灵能反应武库
Toxiferran weapons
毒铁武器
Improvised chemical combustion mixtures were tested by the Dusk Raiders during the first Xabian War, tainting the earth under the feeding tentacles of that world's monstrosities. Most deadly among these concoctions was the Toxiferran composition. This was a highly volatile mixture of chemicals laced with horrific toxins and psi-reactive particulate matter which earned a reputation to rival even the dread phosphex and molecular acids in its destructive capacity. This mixture was later developed into bespoke weapons which were shared with the other nascent Legions, from replacements for promethium fuel tanks to the Toxiferro cannon which utilises a multichemical injection system to accelerate the combustion process, resulting in billowing clouds of scalding psi-reactive smoke.
在第一次Xabian战争中，黄昏突袭者军团测试了某种简易的化学燃烧混合剂；他们摧毁了这个世界上那些巨大畸形建筑物的摄食触手，也污染了其下方的土地。这些混合物中最为致命的是毒铁合剂。这种带有高度挥发性的化学混合物中掺入了可怕的毒素和灵能反应颗粒，其破坏能力甚至能与恐怖的磷火和分子酸液相媲美。这种混合物后来被发展为一种与其他新生军团共享的订制武器，其形式从用此类物质替换（喷火器的）钷素燃料箱，到使用多重化学剂喷射系统来加速燃烧过程的毒铁加农炮，不一而足。此类武器能产生滚烫的灵能反应烟云。
Psyk-out Munitions
驱灵弹药
Originally a weapon solely produced and utilised by the Orders Militant of the Great Astronomican, the use of these munitions, whose payload is akin to psychically charged ash, quickly spread to the more specialised echelons of the Legions. By the later years of the Horus Heresy, their use by Legion Destroyers was almost commonplace in war zones plagued by esoteric phenomenon or the rogue psykers sometimes deployed by Traitor forces in a similar manner to unguided bombs.
这种武器最初仅由星炬厅的军事修会生产和使用，但（之后）这种有效成分类似于充满灵能的灰烬的武器很快就在阿斯塔特军团中更为专业的部队中传播开来。等到了荷鲁斯叛乱后期，在那些受到神秘现象困扰，或者叛军部队偶尔以类似于使用非制导炸弹的方式部署非法灵能者的战区中，军团毁灭者部队使用此类武器几乎是司空见惯的现象。
Corpus Mymir
密弥尔文库
One among many of the innovations of Zhao-Arkhad that saw that Forge Worlds censure by the orthodox Mechanicum authorities of Mars, the Corpus Mymir is a psychically active servo-skull. Contained within the drone, the brain of a psyker is kept at a basic level of activity through a combination of drugs and electro-charge implants, allowing it to maintain some basic telepathic and divinatory functions. Before the removal and implantation of the brain, the donor, who was often forcibly selected from the highly psychically active population of the moons of Zhao-Arkhad, receives extensive mimetic conditioning and hypno-therapy, fixating it upon a simple auto-suggestive phrase. Repetition of this phrase by an authorised operator triggers the subconscious manifestation of simple psychic phenomena by the servo-skull. The fact that these devices, often prone to catastrophic failure, became commonplace on the battlefields of the southern Imperium during the savage inter-Forge wars of the late Horus Heresy speaks as much of the desperation of the combatants as it does to the efficacy of the weapon.
铸造世界阿卡达—赵的很多创新发明都遭到了火星正统机械神教权威们的谴责，密弥尔文库就是其中之一。该设备是具有灵能活性的伺服颅骨，其中保存着一颗由药物和带电荷植入物共同令其保持基本活跃水平的灵能者大脑，这令其保持一些基本的心灵感应和占卜功能。在大脑被移除和植入之前，贡献者（通常是从阿卡达—赵的卫星上拥有高度灵能活跃性的人口中强制挑选而出）会接受大量的模拟条件反射和催眠疗法，以将大脑固定在一个简单的自动暗示短语上。被授权的操作员们重复这一短语就会触发伺服颅骨潜意识显现出简单的灵能现象。事实上，在荷鲁斯叛乱后期发生于帝国南部的铸造世界之间野蛮战争中，这种易于造成灾难般失败的设备是司空见惯的，其说明了战斗人员们的绝望，也说明了这种武器的效能。
Psi-resonant Pentacles
灵能共鸣五芒星
A class of artefacts recovered from the Vrant Cluster among the troves of the Reclaimants, their tentacular Crowns or protective armour pieces such as Pentagrammic Sallets and Five-sided Bevors are all painstakingly inscribed with sigils and runes of warding. These markings, through the ill-understood means of their artifice, project an aura around themselves which may slow the passage of time or project waves of force. Least well understood of all, the Pentacles may turn the gaze of the Warp back upon those fated with the gift of warp-sight, blinding them with the turmoil of the aether.
回收物宝库中的此类制品回收自Vrant 星群，其中的触角状王冠和护甲——比如五芒星形的轻便头盔和五边形的面甲上都煞费苦心地刻上了用于守护（使用者）的魔纹和符文。通过某种难以理解的方式，这些标记能在自己周围投射出一种光环，可以减缓时间流速或投射出力量波。最令人不解的是，这些五芒星形制品能将亚空间的凝视转回到那些拥有亚空间视野的人身上，用亚空间的混乱波潮遮蔽他们的双眼。
The Thousand Sons Legionaries who discovered these treasures promptly petitioned for them to be destroyed, gaining the support of the Navis Nobilite and the choir of the Astronomican. However, orders sent by the officers of the Sigillite dictated that they were instead to be prohibited from use and remanded to the Throneworld for further study. The barge carrying the entire collection to Terra was lost en-route and the articles within have since been seen on battlefields throughout the galaxy.
探索到这些宝物的千子军团战士们迅速请求将其销毁，此举也得到了导航者贵族和星炬厅唱诗团的支持。不过，掌印司的官员下达的命令是禁止使用此类装备，并要求将其送回王座世界进行进一步研究。但运送全套此类装置前往泰拉的货船在半路失踪，而从此之后，全银河各处的战场上都能看到此类造物。
The Ever-changing Axiom
万变公理
All but hidden beneath the surface of the presence which all sentient life projects into the Warp, there is a certain kind of sound which can be spoken as incantation. In the Halo Stars it is called the 'tongue of creation", on Artadane the "voice of god" and on Drussen the "language of unmaking. The perfidious Eldar are said to know it and fear it as it is the "Vernacular of the Old Ones'. Only a few words of the Axiom are known, for to attempt to reconstruct the entire lexicon is strictly forbidden and would be beyond the combined capabilities of every data-scribe in a star system. When spoken aloud, in no more than a whisper, a practitioner can bend the fabric of reality and send shockwaves through the Immaterium. However, even an infinitesimally small slip of the tongue, or mistaken raising of the voice in anger can break reality and the speaker both, and each time such sounds are spoken they change in meaning.
任何有知觉的生命都会在亚空间中投射倒影，而这种倒影的表面之下隐藏着一种声音，人们可以将其作为咒语来说出。在光晕群星中，它被称为“创造之舌”；Artadane世界上的人称之为“神之言”，Drussen上的人则称之为“毁灭之语”。据说不可信任的灵族异形通晓这种语音，而且它们畏惧这些“古者的方言”。对于万变公理，人们仅知道其中的寥寥数词，因为试图重新构建整个词汇表是被严格禁止的，而且这项工作（的总量）将超出一个恒星系中所有数据抄写员能力的总和。然而，即使是极其微小的口误，或在愤怒时错误地提高了声音，都可能将现实和使用者同时击破；而且每次被说出之后，这些话语的意义就会改变。
Transvectic Generators
位移发生器
Various relics have been classified as, or produced to be, Transvectic Generators, whether they act through esoteric means, such as the so called Warp-flasks or Athames of the XVIIth Legion, or by technological means such as the Aetherbaric Plough and Empyreal Split-piston held in the stasis vaults of the Phalanx. Regardless of the means by which these items function, they all act to create a short-ranged, stable tunnel through the unreality of the Warp by which a being no larger than a Legionary might traverse battlefield terrain or bypass fortifications entirely, relocating from one place to another in the blink of an eye via a Warp conduit. However, such casual dalliance with the powers of the Warp is not undertaken without considerable risk, and the surrounding field created by a Transvectic portal into the Immaterium can quickly become unstable and drag the user and others nearby permanently into unreality.
有各种各样的圣物都被分类或制造为位移发生器，无论它们是利用神秘手段——比如第十七军团所谓的亚空间之瓶或怨毒之匕，还是利用科技手段——比如保存在山阵号静滞库中的以太质分裂仪和至高天活塞仪。无论此种装备是用哪类手段进行运作，其都能创造出一条穿过亚空间非现实宇宙的短程且稳定的隧道，这条隧道可能允许体积不大于一名军团战士的事物穿过战场地形或完全绕过防御工事——使用者能在一眨眼的瞬间通过亚空间管道从一个区域转移到另一个区域。不过，这种对于亚空间力量的随意调弄也并非是不会造成相当大的风险，进入非物质界的位移入口周边的力场（可能）很快就会变得不稳定，使用者和附近的其他人会被永久性拖入非现实宇宙。
Aetherkine Projectors
以太质投射器
These Immaterially charged weapons allow a telekine to project their psychic might in the form of focussed bolts of aetheric force. Such potent devices are re-engineered from ancient artefacts recovered early in the Great Crusade by the IXth Legion. They were discovered to be held by only by a single feudal community living within the ruins of the once-grand buildings ofChasqur IV, a world left largely barren and blackened, having never recovered from the brutal civil war between the planet's former psyker overlords and non-psyker peasant class centuries prior. The Aetherkine Projectors were liberated from the few survivors in their final stronghold, where they had been secured in fear of them being used to dominate their kith once again.
这种从非物质宇宙中获取能量的武器允许灵能者将以太质的力量汇聚成矢弹，以此来投射自己的灵能力量。通过参考回收自大远征早期的古代造物，第九军团重新设计制造出了这种强大的设备。这些设备只被发现于一个生活在Chasqur IV世界上曾经雄伟辉煌的建筑废墟里的封建社会中——数个世纪之前，星球上的灵能者霸主和非灵能者农民阶级之间爆发了残酷内战，该世界从未从此次战争中恢复过来，基本处于荒芜和黑暗的状态。帝国是从星球上最后一座据点的极少数幸存者手中回收了以太质投射器——由于当地人害怕其再次被用于统治自己的亲朋，便将这些设备封存于此地。
Terminal Lucidity Injectors
精神注入器
This device was discovered by the Dark Angels while destroying a large xenos city-compound on an oxygen-rich death world, whose name has since been purged from Imperial records. The world was commanded by the planet's tall and lithe masters, who lorded over a heavily muscled gene-bulked slave-stock of barely humanoid form. These creatures were spent as commodities of war against the other compounds of that world, which battled in competition for the planet's scarce mineral resources. The stocky warriors were bonded from birth with subcutaneous collars, carved with symbols of esoteric meaning, which siphoned a portion of the wearer's natural psychic energy over the course of their lifespan. At the end of their brutal lives, this life-force would be pumped directly back into their souls to send them into a death-induced fury of vitality.
在毁灭某个富含氧气的死亡世界（该世界的名称已被从帝国的记录中清除）上某座巨大的异形城市复合体时，黑暗天使们发现了这些设备。高大而柔韧的（异形）主宰者们控制着这颗星球，它们统治着几乎不再有人类外形的奴隶阶层——奴隶们因基因改造而变得身形巨大，肌肉发达。在与其他异形城市复合体为争夺这个世界上稀少的矿物资源而进行的战争中，这些奴隶生物会被用作战争消耗品。这些矮壮的战士们从出生开始就被植入了皮下项圈——其上刻着带有神秘意义的符号，能在佩戴者的生命周期中吸取部分的自然灵能能量。在奴隶们悲惨的生命结束时，这些生命力量会被直接注入他们的灵魂，使他们进入死亡引发的暴怒中。
Empath Bonds
共灵纽带
The Empath Bond technology was recovered by the Iron Hands and Luna Wolves during the liberation of Genaesus II, in which they fought back hordes of unrestrained psykers. The source of this power was discovered after felling a group of psykers and it was found that they each shared a fragment of a psychoactive meteorite embedded in their flesh. All of these psykers were eradicated, and with them the knowledge of their bonding methods lost. Only through an extremely complicated aetheric process could two fragments of this material be bonded by the artifices of Imperial science, effectively forming an inextricable link between two psykers' souls, regardless of the distance between them. This allows the psykers to share their power, drawing upon each other's strength to make both far stronger than they would have been alone, as well as giving them the ability to transfer a portion of their own vitality to their partner in times of dire need.
钢铁之手和影月苍狼军团在解放Genaesus II世界的过程中回收了共灵纽带技术——星际战士们在这场战役中击退了成群的无受限灵能者。在击倒了一群灵能者之后，星际战士们发现了其力量来源——所有灵能者体内都被嵌入了一块有灵能活性的陨石碎片。但由于这些灵能者全部被消灭，其进行绑定结合的方法也就遗失了。只有通过一个极其复杂的以太质化过程，这种材料的两块碎片才能以帝国科学的技巧被结合在一起，无论彼此间距离有多远，这种材料都能在两名灵能者的灵魂间有效地形成一道无法分开的连接。灵能者们能以此来共享他们的力量；他们也能相互吸收彼此的力量，令二者都比原本单打独斗时更为强大；这种装置也让他们有能力在急需的状况下把自己的一部分精力转移给自己的搭档。
Sacrificial Innervation
灵祭仪式
One of the darkest rites of known esoterica, only the most desperately power hungry psykers undergo Sacrificial Innervation. In doing so, they forego the bounds of humanity and morality to sacrifice a piece of their own soul in pursuit of the deeper knowledge of the Warp. This trade of mortal essence for psychic essence can take many forms, such as ghastly blood rituals, sadistic carnivals of sacrifice and literal compacts with Daemons. Whatever the case, if successful, such a nte leaves the practitioner both greater and lesser than they once were. Though they may gain a new blaze of knowledge and power behind their eyes, their mortal forms are invariably shrivelled to husks of their former vitality, or else they are stalked by a beast of the Warp, waiting for but a moment of weakness.
在已知的秘仪中，灵祭是最为黑暗的仪式之一，只有那些贪求力量到了最为不顾一切地步的灵能者才会执行此类仪式。通过这种方式，他们放弃了人性和道德的限制，牺牲了自己的一部分灵魂，以追求更深层的亚空间知识。这种用凡俗本质换取灵能本质的交易可以采取很多种形式，比如恐怖的鲜血仪式、残忍的献祭狂欢以及与恶魔签订的文字契约。但无论如何，一旦仪式成功完成，进行仪式的人也就同时变为了更强大但同时也更卑贱的存在。尽管他们的眼底会燃烧起新的知识与力量之火，但他们的凡俗躯体也总是会萎缩，健康有活力的身体会化为一具干瘪的壳；或者，他们会遭到一只亚空间野兽的跟踪，后者只等待着他们露出片刻的软弱。
The Digittalis Arcanis
数字神机
Part ancient cogitation device, part psycho-biometric interface, the Digittalis Arcanis is a relic of the Dark Age of Technology which requires the arcane attentions of its wearer to function. Under the ministrations of those given to a particular kind of lore, a Digittalis Arcanis can be made to swell its owner with power, enhancing their reflexes and tolerance for pain as well as imparting an unearthly knowing in its hearer's mind. Though the boost is temporary, it can grant a warrior superlative abilities for the duration of a battle, filling them with a heady sense of greatness, which they would quickly come to crave after its passing. Repetitive desire for the power of the Digittalis Arcanis comes at a great cost however, as when the unnatural power ebbs, so too is a portion of the user's very soul sapped away into the device.
数字神机部分是古老的沉思者设备，部分是灵能生物特征接口（界面），这种来自黑暗科技时代的遗物需要佩戴者倾注玄奥（灵能）注意力才能发挥作用。在那些被赋予特定知识的人的帮助下，一台数字神机能令拥有者充满力量，增强他们的反应能力和对痛苦的忍耐力，并向倾听者的脑海中灌输超自然的知识。尽管这种提升效果是暂时的，但该设备能在战斗期间给予一名战士最卓越的能力，让他们心中充满令人兴奋的崇高感——当效果过去之后，使用者很快就会渴望这种感觉。然而，对数字神机力量的重复渴望会令人付出巨大代价——当（设备提供的）超自然力量减弱时，使用者的一部分灵魂也会被吞噬进这种设备。
Divining Blades
占卜之刃
Weapons of ancient provenance, forged from the unimaginably rare Nightmare Steel, the Divining Blades are relics far beyond mortal ken to comprehend. It is said of such weapons that they are keen enough to cut unreality and reality both when swung; that their subtle edges, which lie beyond both of those dimensions, can never be blunted; and that they have an oscillating frequency in synchronicity with the turning of the universe itself. Charged with untold ethereal power, a Divining Blade can locate and sever the true essence of a Daemon within the Warp if it passes into proximity with its edge, and thus these artefacts inspire a primal terror in Daemons which behold them. Examples of Divining Blades are extremely rare, and only the Warmaster is known to have possessed a collection of such blades, earned in conquest and bartered for by his agents over a century, indeed, it is possible he owned the majority of those examples to be found in our plane of existence. As a sign of the utmost favour, he gifted a single Divining Blade unto perhaps a score of warriors in whom he saw the greatest potential destinies in his war, each a single Divining Blade.
占卜之刃是一种拥有古老起源的武器，由罕见的噩梦金属铸造而成，它们是远超出凡夫俗子理解范围的圣物。据说将其挥动时，这种武器强大到足以切分开现实与非现实空间；它们微妙的刀锋处在两个维度之外的空间中，所以永远不会钝化；而且它们的振动频率与宇宙本身的翻转（频率）同步。占卜之刃中充盈着不可言说的以太质能量，倘若亚空间中的某只恶魔接近了它的刀锋，这柄武器就能找到并切断恶魔的真实本质；因此，看到这些制品会令恶魔们涌起一种原始的恐惧。占卜之刃的样品极其罕见，已知仅有战帅本人拥有一批此类利刃——在超过一个世纪的时间中，荷鲁斯在征服中夺取、或由代理人们交换得来了这些圣物；事实上，他拥有的可能是大部分发现于我们所存在位面的占卜之刃。作为极致恩惠的象征，战帅赐给了大约二十位被他认为在战争中最具潜力的战士每人一柄占卜之刃。
Chogorian Dreamplate
巧高力斯幻梦甲胄
Dreamplate is a layer of additional protection, as much physical armour as aetheric barrier, worn over the warplate of a worthy Legionary to guard against the darkest beasts of heaven. Storied pieces of warding armour, each example of Dreamplate is hand chiselled, lacquered and embellished by the StormSeers of the White Scars. These are then granted to the most stoic of heroes amongst their own Legion, and gifted only to the most respected warriors among the other Legions. The White Scars' close allies were few during the Great Crusade, and it is for this reason Chogorian Dreamplate is a rare and much-prized possession for those few who are blessed to possess it, though by the time of the Horus Heresy many of the White Scars' own heroes had died and their hallowed protection was plundered by whoever could acquire it.
幻梦甲胄是一层额外的保护，是一层如同实体甲胄般的灵能屏障。一位最值得尊敬的军团战士会在自己的战甲外侧穿上这层灵能甲胄，以抵御天堂中最黑暗的野兽。作为护甲上的重要部分，每一套幻梦甲胄都是由白疤军团中的风暴先知们亲手雕琢、上漆和装饰的。这些圣物会被授予白疤军团中那些最为坚忍的英雄；作为礼物时，也只会赠送给其他军团中最受崇敬的战士们。白疤军团在大远征时期几乎没有亲密的盟友，因此对于那些少数有幸拥有它们的人而言，巧高力斯幻梦甲胄是一件稀有而珍贵的宝物。但是等到了荷鲁斯叛乱时期，白疤军团中的许多英雄战死沙场，他们神圣的护甲也被任何能得到它们的人所掠夺。
The Liber Magra Veneficarum
巫术大典
Copies of this ancient grimoire, within which is contained text from human and xenos histories which entirely contravene any and all of the tenets of the Imperial truth, have been hunted by the Elucidators and burned on a thousand worlds. It is an evil work, full of the incantations and processes of ritual, designed to bring forth the terrors of the depths of the Warp. The original tome is thought to have been compiled during the darkness of Old Night and is lost, though many ritualist cultures have preserved hand copied examples of the grimoire through the millennia thereafter. Certain desperate and unscrupulous warriors among Horus' armies are thought to have acquired copies during the Age of Darkness, though even they surely knew it was a vile thing, which Mankind would be best served to forget.
这本古老魔导书的复制本中包含了来自人类与异形历史的文本，其内容完全违背了帝国真理的所有原则。澄清修会的宣道官们已经在一千个世界上搜查和焚毁了此书。这部邪恶的作品中充满了进行旨在将亚空间深处的恐怖之物带往现实的仪式所需的咒语和过程。原著被认为是被编写于旧夜时代的黑暗，而且现在已经丢失了，不过从那以后的几千年里，许多祭祀文化都一直保存着此书的手抄本。在黑暗年代中，荷鲁斯派系军队中某些绝望且不择手段的战士被认为获得了此书的复制本——尽管他们也知道这是一件人类最好将之遗忘的邪恶之物。
Icon of the Blazing Sun
炽阳圣符
The symbols of the Emperor, a golden Aquila, a shard of Fulgurite, an ornamented Raptora Imperialis, the Lightning Totem and the carving of Crossed Thunderbolts; these are the signs of the Blazing Sun. Holding these relics aloft and invoking His name, for some strange and inexplicable reason among those truly loyal creates an aversion in the scions of the Warp. The power of His title and symbols are said to be able to protect the faithful from the depredations of the creatures of the Warp, and from the evil intentions of psykers. However, to call upon His name in vain, or to lack true conviction and be found wanting in faith can lead to ever more dire consequences.
此物是帝皇的象征，（可能是）一只金色的天鹰、一块闪电熔岩碎片、一个被装饰过的帝国猛禽（标志）、闪电图腾和交叉雷霆的浮雕；这些是一颗炽热太阳的标志。当真正忠诚的人们高举这些圣物并呼唤帝皇之名时，出于某些奇怪且无法解释的原因，来自亚空间的族类会对其产生嫌恶感。来自帝皇头衔与象征物的力量据说能够保护人类之主的信徒免受亚空间生物的掠夺和灵能者邪恶意图的伤害。但是，徒然求告帝皇之名、缺乏真正的信心或被发现缺乏信仰都将导致更为可怕的后果。
