八版圣典节译：冷酷者阿斯托瑞斯

ASTORATH THE GRIM 

Astorath the Grim is the Blood Angels High Chaplain and Redeemer of the Lost. There is no rank within the Chapter more greatly honoured, or more deeply loathed. Honoured, for the burden the Redeemer of the Lost bears, and for the essential duty he performs; loathed because that duty is stained forever with the blood of his battle-brothers. 

冷酷者阿斯托瑞斯是圣血天使战团的至高牧师，以及迷失者的救赎之人。在战团中，没人比他更为尊荣，也没人比他更为可恶。他享有尊荣，是因为他肩负着迷失者的救赎之人的重担，执行着至关重要的职责；被人憎恶则是因为他执行这项职责便要让双手永远浸透战斗兄弟们的鲜血。

It is Astorath's calling to seek out those amongst the scions of Sanguinius whose souls have been claimed by the Black Rage, and whose mental degeneration has become so severe that even death in battle is no longer possible. His quarry found, Astorath ends his Lost Brother's life with a single mighty blow to the neck from the ill-omened weapon known only as the Executioner's Axe. This is without doubt an act of mercy, a gift to the accursed. Nonetheless, no battle-brother can ever feel entirely comfortable in Astorath's presence, for they know that the bite of his forbidding axe might one day be the last thing that they feel. 

阿斯托瑞斯的责任是要找出那些灵魂已经被黑怒攫住的圣吉列斯子嗣们，以及那些精神状况恶化的极其严重，以至于赐予他们在战斗中死亡的机会都已不再可能的兄弟们。被处决者们发现，阿斯托瑞斯是用他那把仅仅被称为处刑斧的不详武器对着失落的兄弟们的脖子挥下强力的一击来给予他们帝皇的馈赠。但毫无疑问这是一种仁慈之举，一份赠给被诅咒者的礼物。尽管如此，也没有哪位战斗兄弟会在冷酷者出现时觉得心里舒服，因为他们都知道，可能有朝一日，那把禁忌巨斧的劈砍就是他们能感受最后一件事物。

Whilst officially bound to the Blood Angels, Astorath's task carries him far and wide amongst the Chapter's successors. It was long ago considered that these terrible duties were best borne by a single brother and, thus far at least, a single brother has been equal to the task at hand. So does Astorath tread the stars, hacking apart those enemies who would prevent him from bestowing his gift of oblivion. 

由于其和圣血天使战团之间的官方联系，阿斯托瑞斯也会远赴圣血天使的子团中执行任务。在很久之前，圣吉列斯的子嗣们就认为这项残酷的职责最好只由一位兄弟来承担，而至少到目前为止，一名战斗兄弟也足以完成手头的任务。阿斯托瑞斯也会踏入群星，砍开那些阻止他将自己的遗落礼物赠予兄弟们的敌人。

To an observer, it might perhaps seem that Astorath's presence fans the destructive fires of the Black Rage. Certainly it is more prevalent wherever he treads, and even those Blood Angels who are yet sane are unmistakably wilder in the Redeemer's presence. However, the truth is entirely opposite. 

观察者们可能会发现：似乎阿斯托瑞斯的出现会激起黑怒的毁灭性怒火。而且确实无论他走到哪里，这种情况都会变得更为普遍，甚至那些还神智健全的圣血天使在救赎之主的面前也无疑会变得更加狂野。不过，事实完全相反。

Astorath can sense the Black Rage's degenerative onset before it becomes apparent to any other soul - including its victim. Individual afflictions echo through his mind in the form of doom-laden chords, and grow ever stronger as other battle-brothers fall into the Black Rage's clutches. No separation of distance can serve to mute this dolorous symphony, a sombre orchestra that only Astorath can hear. Whether the victims are fighting on Armageddon or in Ultramar, Astorath can sense their plight - and he must go to them as his duty requires. 

在黑怒那恶化的开端在其他任何灵魂——包括受害者的灵魂中变得明显之前，阿斯托瑞斯就能感受到它。个体的痛苦以充满毁灭的弦音的形式在冷酷者的意识中回响，当有其他兄弟的灵魂被黑怒扼住的时候，这种声音会变得更为沉重。距离的阻隔也无法减弱这种悲恸的交响乐，也只有阿斯托瑞斯能听到这种阴郁的丝竹之音。无论受害者是在阿玛吉顿还是在奥特拉玛作战，冷酷者都能感受到他们的困苦——责任要求他必须前去为兄弟们解脱。

So it is that the Redeemer of the Lost has become a true angel of death to his foes and his battle-brothers alike, a legend of destruction amongst the Blood Angels successor Chapters and their enemies both. Wherever Astorath the Grim treads, the enemy face not only his fury, but the onslaught of Space Marines caught in the twilight shadows of the Black Rage. Astorath's sorrow for his doomed baffle-brothers serves only to fuel a determination that they shall pass into death having known one last great victory. In this cause he fights like a man possessed, resolute that his twin gifts of death and redemption shall not be denied. 

所以无论对于他的战斗兄弟还是他的敌人而言，迷失者的救赎之人都是一位真正的死亡天使，他在圣血天使的子团和他们的敌人当中都是一个关于毁灭的传说。无论冷酷者踏足何处，敌人们不仅要面临他的怒火，也要面对身处黑怒模糊暗影中星际战士们所带来的屠杀。阿斯托瑞斯对于他那些注定要遭受毁灭的兄弟的悲伤只会增加他的决心——他们将在获知自己取得了最后一次伟大胜利后走向死亡。在这种情况中，他会如同狂人一般战斗，确保他将包含了死亡和救赎的双重礼物赠予失落的兄弟。