Empyric Conduit Blade

The Empyric Conduit-Blade is a vile weapon created by the heretek Mechanicus faction, the Empyric Engineers to turn the energies of the warp upon itself. They are among the oldest and most revered devices created by the Engineers, occupying a centerpiece in every Engineer shrine as a sacred standard.^[1]

Each conduit blade is crafted from adamantine and mono-edged. They are inset with gold field-guides, have a warp-mechanism stored within the hilt and a small null-field generator is fixed in a socket at the weapons base. Resembling glittering gems laced with circuitry, their gilt appearance belies the danger of their contents. Inside, raging and incoherent, is raw warp-matter. These generators are miniaturized versions of vast warp-machines housed within the hidden strongholds of the Engineers, used to draw forth the essence of the empyrean and imprison it within null-field containments for study. The null-field generators are only about a kilogram in weight and are very rare and expensive. They can only hold a limited number of Emypric Discharges, before their warp energy is exhausted.^[1]

At the wielders command, the null-field generator will discharge, allowing warp-stuff to foam out through the conduit-blade and into the target. A normal victim will suffer greatly as the warp energies attack their body, mind and soul. They will also immediately mutate and rapidly acquire multiple physical mutations. A stricken daemonic entity will suffer even greater bodily harm, though they are exempt from the mutagenic effects and mental instability that the blade typically induces. Neither physical armour or daemonic resistance can protect the target from this discharge. The weapons wielder and bystanders are not exempt from it malign power either. When the weapon discharges, the user also suffers from its corrupting influence and screaming visions of the warp briefly radiate from the blade and its victim, terrifying anyone in close proximity.^[1]

Images

Empyric Conduit-Blade^[1]

Sources

• 1: Dark Heresy: The Radical's Handbook, pg.191