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Hexagrammic Wards

Targetdrone.gif This article is about the Human wards; for the Aeldari wards, see Runes of Warding.

Hexagrammic Wards (also spelled Hexagrammatic)[7][9] are techno-arcane devices from the Dark Age of Technology, designed to protect against psychic forces.[4] These wards strengthen the boundaries between realspace and the Warp in a small area, reducing the effects of warp incursions.[9] These wards are utilised by a variety of Imperial[1] and Chaos forces.[11]

Hexagrammic Wards are used heavily in facilities regularly dealing with psykers or similar warp interactions, such as Astropathic Relay Stations.[7] They're also seen throughout Black Ships (alongside pentagrammic wards, a type of ward specially designed to repel Daemons and their corruption).[4] These wards are also utilised thoroughly by the Grey Knights in both their armour and ships.[5][6] Space Marine Librarians of chapters such as the Exorcists utilise hexagrammatic wards, alongside purifying incense, in their vaults of lore detailing ways to combat the daemonic.[8] These wards are also sometimes worn by Inquisitors when they know they will encounter psykers.[1] For example, an Ordo Xenos inquisitor might have various hexagrammic wards tattooed on their forearms or elsewhere.[10] These wards can otherwise be used by the Inquisitor as powerful charms and canticles of faith to psychically unnerve heretical psykers in proximity.[2] Subdermal electoos of hexagrammic wards are also effective defences against malign assault, but one must still defend themselves against the very physical threats Warp Entities can bring to battle.[11]

During the Indomitus Crusade, such wards were engraved in blessed silver on the back of relic badges known as Aegis Indomitus.[3]

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