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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==
[[Image:Lantern.jpg|thumb|right|The Lantern]]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 armoryarmoury. When [[Mortarion]] was discovered and brought aboard the Emperor's personal [[Battle Barge]] ''[[Bucephelus]]'', he saw the pistol in its armory armoury and took it as a gift from his father.{{Fn|4}}
The Lantern was capable of firing powerful energy blasts that disintegrated living beings. Rather then sully his [[Manreaper]] with the blood of the [[Jorgall]] [[Xenos]], Mortation instead made extensive use of the Lantern to kill his enemies on their world cylinder ship.{{Fn|3b}}
*[[Death Guard Armoury]]
==SourceSources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal]], pg. 265
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition)]], pg. 26 - ''Mortarion''