Bell of Saint Gerstahl
The Bell of Saint Gerstahl is a Holy relic of the Imperium.[1]
History
The Bell was kept on a Shrine World, until the Black Legion attempted to destroy it. Thousands of lives were lost as the world's defenders fought to save the relic. In the end, though, the Bell of Saint Gerstahl was stolen by the Necron Overlord Trazyn the Infinite, who placed it within the vaults of the Tomb World Solemnace alongside the various other artefacts he had stolen in his long life.[1]
The Bell remained there for many millennia, until shortly before the outbreak of the Thirteenth Black Crusade, when the Bell of Saint Gerstahl began to loudly chime all on its own. Each chime from the Bell brought widespread devastation to Trazyn's vaults and destroyed many of his artefacts, before the holy relic suddenly stopped after the thirteenth chime. As Solemnace's Canoptek custodians struggled to repair the damage the Bell had inflicted, Trazyn tossed the holy relic into the Webway, where he hoped it would inconvenience the Eldar as much as it did him, and then began to investigate what the Bell's chiming signified. This eventually led him to discover that the Thirteenth Black Crusade had begun and that Cadia had been invaded once again. Intrigued by this development, the Overlord decided to visit the Fortress World in order to see the conflict unfold for himself.[1]
Sources
- 1: Gathering Storm: Fall of Cadia, Chapter 1: A Dolorous Warning
