Tomb of the Unknown Saint
A Radical Inquisitor's Asset
A Soul Binding for the doomed Psyker
There are some psykers that are pure-blooded and seem useful but might die on the trip to Terra or fail sanctioning. There are psykers that are not pure-blooded and would be shot on sight but an inquisitor would find them useful but wants to lessen their chances of exploding into daemons.
Once, there was a false living saint. In that, she was a psyker manifesting her belief that she became a living saint; wings and glow and all. The psyker was devout and a believer, but she wasn't truly imbued with the Emperor's presence. In her death, an inquisitor performed a ritual that binds her soul to a fragment of the Emperor's to gain the grace she wished for in life. This connects her to the Throne Emperor and gives her protection from the Warp's denizens. It essentially works like a stationary version of warp-bound living saints. This inquisitor created the Tomb of the Unknown Saint as a focal point to bind his soul and others to the Unknown Saint. The binding works even for mutants, abhumans, and the like. There is an issue. This (false) Unknown Saint's concentrated presence is fed by and influenced by those that bind to her. Unlike the throne Emperor, she does not greatly dwarf their presence. Those bound greatly influence each other in terms of thought or emotion. That also means if one was corrupted, all of them would feel the effects. So this asset has a balancing effect that has to be controlled carefully through who is allowed to bond and the level of purity they have.
Once, there was a false living saint. In that, she was a psyker manifesting her belief that she became a living saint; wings and glow and all. The psyker was devout and a believer, but she wasn't truly imbued with the Emperor's presence. In her death, an inquisitor performed a ritual that binds her soul to a fragment of the Emperor's to gain the grace she wished for in life. This connects her to the Throne Emperor and gives her protection from the Warp's denizens. It essentially works like a stationary version of warp-bound living saints. This inquisitor created the Tomb of the Unknown Saint as a focal point to bind his soul and others to the Unknown Saint. The binding works even for mutants, abhumans, and the like. There is an issue. This (false) Unknown Saint's concentrated presence is fed by and influenced by those that bind to her. Unlike the throne Emperor, she does not greatly dwarf their presence. Those bound greatly influence each other in terms of thought or emotion. That also means if one was corrupted, all of them would feel the effects. So this asset has a balancing effect that has to be controlled carefully through who is allowed to bond and the level of purity they have.
This can be seen as extremely heretical in the eyes of other inquisitors and thus is only an asset that would be used by a radical in secrecy or with enough power behind them to protect the bound.
Mechanically
The Tomb of the Unknown Saint allows an unsanctioned and unbound psyker to become bound to a being without being corrupted by Chaos or having to go to Terra and sanctioned to be bound to the Emperor.
- The character receives the Soulbound trait and counts as a bound psyker.
- Use of Willpower including summoning powers with those similarly bound to the Unknown Saint gains a +30 bonus.
- Every time a character Soulbound to the Unknown Saint would gain corruption, every other member bound to the Unknown Saint that is within a planet-wide vicinity to them would take a Challenging (+0) Willpower test or receive half of the corruption they did.
- Along with this, with the increased psychic connections to each other, those bound to the Unknown Saint have gain Peer (Unknown Saint) (2).
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