hh7节译：训导权与怜悯之刃

One of the singular features of the Legio Custodes as an organisation, and the power of its individual Custodians, is their place in the scheme of the Imperium's law. While an accredited Imperial governor is effectively tyrant of their own world within the edicts and parameters of wider Imperial law, and few would gainsay the Legiones Astartes in any demands they were to make, the Legio Custodes are alone officially afforded the power of the 'Magisterium Lex Ultima' in the high form, which is to say they are beyond all law and  all command save for the direct authority of the Emperor Himself. In addition to this, each one is a lord of the Imperium in their own right. This fact is symbolically represented not only by the right to still carry the single-headed raptor and lightning bolt heraldry of the  Unification campaign, but also by the carrying of the 'Misericordia.'  

关于禁军和禁卫军团在帝国法律体系中的地位，这即是禁卫军团作为一个组织的突出特点，也是单个禁军武士的权力。在更广泛的帝国法律的法令和界限范围内，一名被认可的帝国总督实际上是他自己世界上的专制君王，也很几乎没有人会拒绝阿斯塔特军团提出的任何要求，但只有禁卫军团以最高形式被正式赋予了“至高的训导律法”的权力，这意味着禁卫军团凌驾于帝国的所有法律和命令之上，只对帝皇本人负责。除此之外，每位禁军武士都能凭借自身权利成为一名帝国领主。这一事实不仅象征性地表现在禁军们仍然拥有佩戴统一战争时期的单首猛禽和雷霆闪电纹章，也表现在对于“怜悯之刃”的携带。

For long centuries of unbridled internecine carnage on Ancient Terra during the Age of  Strife, the 'Blade of Mercy' or 'Misericordia' came to represent the complete power of life  and death the warlords held over the mass of humanity which toiled beneath their yolk and suffered at their whim. From the dust wastes of Ursh to the Manakonite Temples  of the No'rad ice hive, the bearing of such a blade, usually in the form of a long dagger or short sword made to perpetrate a single, killing thrust, came to symbolise the dread  authority of the executioner-judge. Beyond the power it represented, the Misericordia might also be used in practice to carry out a 'clean' sentence of death on a transgressor, or to offer terminal surcease to a warrior grievously wounded in battle at their master's discretion, in either case living up to its name as an agent of mercy as well as death. When the Emperor came to mastery of Terra and ended the bloody cycle of the warlords' reign,  His agents and judges, and only they, came to carry the Misericordia as His mastery eclipsed all others, and it is a tradition the Legio Custodes still uphold. 

在纷争纪元的古老泰拉上，肆无忌惮的自相残杀持续了数个世纪之久，“怜悯之刃”代表军阀们对于那些在他们的统治下辛苦劳作、并且因他们的一时兴起而遭受折磨的广大凡人们所拥有着的生杀予夺的大权。从Ursh的荒漠废土到No'rad冰雪巢城的曼孔特圣堂，这样一柄利刃（形状通常是一把长匕首或者用于制造一次致命攻击的短剑）象征着刽子手-法官的可怕权威。除了他代表着的权力，在实践中，怜悯之刃也可被用于对违法者执行“干净”的死刑判决，或者根据受伤战士的主人的判断，向在战斗中受重伤的战士给予最终的安息，在这两种情况中，怜悯之刃都不会辜负它那作为仁慈以及死亡的代理者的名称。当到帝皇统领泰拉、终结了军阀暴政的血腥循环之时，帝皇本人凌驾于了众生之上，此时他的特工与法官们开始携带怜悯之刃，也只有他们才能携带这种武器。禁卫军团仍然保持了这项传统。