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The Culexus Assassins are the most sinister, feared, and hated of all Imperial Assassins. They are [[blank|null-entities]] in the warp, their unnatural lack of a presence inspiring even in non-psykers a sense of unease. To [[psyker]]s their mere presence is terrifying, invoking panic. In the confusion caused by this fear, the assassin can move in on its target and eliminate them. To purely psychic entities like daemons, they are invisible.
The Culexus Assassins possess the "[[Blank|Pariah]] Gene", making them to all intents ''soulless'', accounting for their having no warp-presence. This gene manifests itself very rarely, in a single individual among a billion, or more. This extreme rarity, coupled with the inevitable losses during training, makes the Culexus assassins the rarest of all Imperial assassins.<sup>1</sup> The Culexus temple is known to hunt down and recruit these [[Blank|Pariah]]s but also to vat-grow them. Due to the nature of being parent-less combines with the pariah gene making them seem soul-less these Culexus struggle with social interaction. Whilst able to mimic predictive human behaviour of a character they are playing as part of a mission, they may not actually feel emotions. <sup>3</sup>
The location of the Culexus temple is a closely guarded secret, said to be located on a planet which orbits no sun, and which is beyond the reach of the [[Astronomican]].
