Celestine The Living Saint 活圣人塞勒斯汀

塞勒斯汀

Celestine

活圣人

The Living Saint 

展开精雕细琢的翅膀，手握炽热泛着光晕的长剑，圣赛勒斯汀是帝皇力量的化身。 她像一颗星星般闪耀，剑指战场的战火硝烟，散发出神圣的光芒。神皇的信徒因她的存在而精神抖擞奋勇向前，异教徒则被恐惧笼罩畏缩溃退。

四散逃去无疑是最明智的选择，赛勒斯汀的突袭有如帝皇本人的裁决一般雷霆万钧，以一种非人的力量打击那些混沌异形。仅仅凭借一个手势，活圣人就能从天上降下复仇之火，亦或是给伤病的盟友注入复苏之风。

在被封为活圣人之前，除了她是一位来自我们的殉道女士修会的修女，所有人对赛勒斯汀知之甚少。 她曾是在对抗帕拉丁异端分裂战争中牺牲的一位战士。但当洗净她身上的鲜血，拂去战争带来的污秽之后，她再次在信徒面前以一种无暇的姿态站起屹立。剩下的帕拉丁十字军经历了一场血腥的复仇风暴，塞勒斯汀被尊为十字军的荣誉领袖。整个地区，不仅是分裂异端，一切被认为不应存在于人类世界的存在都被完全肃清。

十字军的领袖安斯加尔勋爵认为神圣的战争即将在帕拉丁区域的首府终结，但塞勒斯汀坚持解放一个名为塞图斯里斯的闭塞小世界。除她以外没有人直到这个世界有一个曾被圣凯瑟琳造访过的古老火心圣殿。下令将破碎的祭坛移开，搬走下面的石板，露出一个隐藏的地窖入口。不让任何人跟随，她独自沿着千年来被尘土覆盖无人踏足的阶梯向下走去。当第一缕晨曦破晓，塞勒斯汀从古墓中归来，被神圣的光柱高高托起，小天使和鸽子陪伴在侧。此刻她身披一套金光闪闪的盔甲，手握一柄被花瓣环绕的宝剑，剑刃是如此锋利冷冽叫人无法直视。她环顾四周，凡是胆敢与她对视之人，都被最狂热的崇拜和最幽深的恐惧支配。

她圣化之后，安斯加尔勋爵和同伴们宣布塞勒斯汀为活圣人。她的存在令信徒们前所未有的热情高涨，成千上万的异端在她的军势面前迎来毁灭终焉。很多人仅仅是站在她面前就感到压力倍增，因为在他们面前的是一个永远无法效仿赶超的楷模。

塞勒斯汀已经在帝国的各个角落与帝国的不忠者战斗了超过数个世纪。她曾许多次在战斗中被击倒，但无论她在哪倒下，她的归来就像灿烂的黎明一样周而复始不可动摇。双子侍女总是侍立身侧一同作战。这些冠军拥有一部分和塞勒斯汀同样的恩赐，并愿意为保护她献出自己的生命。预测塞勒斯汀和她的双子侍女下次在哪出现总是困难的，但是无论她们现身何处，帝皇的意志都将得到彰显。

个人渣翻自战斗修女sororitas codex， 这次把原文放在下面免得影响阅读

Celestine

sculpted wings spread wide, halo and ardent blade in hand, Saint Celestine is an embodiment of the God-Emperor’s might. She shines like a star aimed the smoke and fumes of battlefield, radiating holy light. The faithful are filled with strength and courage by her presence as even as heretics recoil in terror.

Those who flee are wise to do so, for Celestine strikes like the Emperor's own judgement, smiting the unrighteous with a strength that belies her Human form. With a gesture, the Living Saint calls fires of retribution down from on high, or infuses her sick and injured allies with healing energies.

Of her life before she was declared a Living Saint, very little is known of Celestine, other than that she was a Sister Repentia of the Order of Our Martyred Lady. She was but one warrior amongst those who fell in war against the heretics of the Palatine Schism. But after her body had been cleansed of the blood and filth of battle, she rose once more, standing flawless before the faithful in attendance. The remainder of the Palatine Crusade passed in a bloody whirlwind of vengeance as Celestine was hailed as the Crusades figurehead, the entire sector being scoured of not just the schismatics but every being the Crusaders deemed unworthy of existing upon the worlds of Man.

Lord Ansgar, the Crusade’s leader, believed the holy war would reach its conclusion at the capital world of the Palatine Sector, but Celestine insisted upon first liberating a small backwater world named Sanctus Lys. Unknown to all but her, the world was home to the ancient Shrine of the Fiery Heart, once visited by Saint Katherine. Celestine ordered a broken altar moved aside and the flagstones beneath it taken up, uncovering the entrance to a hidden crypt. Barring any from following her, she descended dusty steps that none had trodden for millennia. As first light broke above the ruined shrine, Celestine rose from the tomb, borne aloft on a column of divine radiance and attended by cherubs and doves. She was now clad in a suit of shining golden armour, and wielded a blade wreathed in sweet-scented petals, its blade so bright none could bear look upon it. She gazed around, and all who dared meet her eyes were struck down by equal parts heavenly adoration and infernal terror.

After her apotheosis, Lord Ansgar and a conclave of his Thorian compatriots declared Celestine a Living Saint. Her presence invested the faithful with an unprecedented fervour, and hundreds of thousands of heretics met a fiery end at the hands of her armies. Many were fearful in her presence, for to stand before her was to submit to the judgement of one whose example could never be emulated.

Celestine has fought the faithless over long centuries, and in all corners of the Imperium. Many times it has appeared that she has been struck down in battle, but wherever she falls she inevitably rises once more like the radiant dawn. The Geminae Superia often fight at her side. Each of these champions is possessed of a portion of Celestine's grace, and would lav down their lives to protect her. It is difficult to predict where Celestine and her Geminae Superia will appear, but wherever they go, the Emperor's will is made manifest.

@木桩子1号 非常感谢大佬翻的小说，读完对活圣人了解加深了好多，有机会等我回去一块玩呀