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The '''Lantern''' was the name of an energy pistol used by the [[Death Guard]] [[Primarch]] [[Mortarion]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|1}} Even after ascending to [[Daemonhood]], Mortarion still wielded the Lantern and continues to do so ten millennia later in the [[Thirteenth Black Crusade]].{{Fn|2}}

==Overview==

The Lantern is a brass-coloured pistol. Dating back to the [[Age of Strife]], the pistol was forged by the leader of a cult on [[Shenlong]] which worshiped a dragon god. Later during the [[Great Crusade]] the [[Emperor]] himself led an invasion of Shenlong, slaying the Lantern's maker and taking the weapon into his personal armory. When [[Mortarion]] was discovered and brought aboard the Emperor's personal [[Battle Barge]] ''[[Bucephelus]]'', he saw the pistol in its armory and took it as a gift from his father.{{Fn|4}}