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The Obsidian Glaives [[Homeworld]] of [[Obstiria]] is an irradiated world. The Obsidian Glaives are the world's sole inhabitants, as all attempts to settle the planet have failed. As such, the [[Chapter Master]]'s title as [[Planetary Governor]], which is symbolized by the '''Crown of Obstiria''', worn under the Chapter Master's helmet, is hollow.{{Fn|4}} The [[Fortress Monastery]] of the Obsidian Glaives, the '''Penumbral Spike''', is surrounded by mountain ridges. The surest pass towards it is the '''Black Gulch''', which formed a test for [[Aspirants]]. The Chapter recruits its Aspirants from criminal youths who have been sentenced to death. A [[Chaplain]] would visit the boy at his cell and test his commitment to his sin and the looming punishment. A penitent boy would be offered with a chance to extend his punishment by serving as one of the [[Emperor]]'s Space Marines.One of the trials, held after the first steps of augmentation, was a journey to the Penumbral Spike, leading through the Black Gulch. An aspiring Obsidian Glaive had to reach the Fortress Monastery alive, braving the deadly radiation of the sun.{{Fn|4}} While a strictly [[Codex Astartes|Codex-adherent]] Chapter, the Obsidian Glaives based their culture around punishment. Where other Chapters consider their service to the Emperor their duty, the Glaives see it as a form of punishment for their crimes and failures. They will take blame, often self-appointed, for perceived failures, and seek to offer penance for their shortcomings. Cases of self-flaggelation have been recorded.{{Fn|4}} The Obsidian Glaives' Fortress Monastery was home to a rich collection of relics and historic documentation. The Chapter is known to have gathered wargear of defeated enemies and stored it in the vaults below the Penumbral Spike. Among their greatest treasures, however, were the remains of their first Chapter Master, [[Fulminos]], who survived entombed in a Dreadnought sarcophagus.{{Fn|3}} Obstiria's radiation degrades the connections between the sarcophagus of a [[Space Marine Dreadnought|Dreadnought]] and its pilot. These connections cannot be replicated by the Chapter and the degradation slowly poisons the Dreadnought's mind, causing them to constantly flashback to when they were still able bodied Space Marines, and eventually kills them. Because of this each of the Obsidian Glaives' Dreadnoughts are equipped with life readings, that display the amount of time each interned Space Marine has before death claims them. In order to expand that time for as long as possible, the Chapter keeps most of the Dreadnoughts asleep in a shielded vault, that protects them from the radiation, deep beneath the '''Penumbral Spike'''. Due to their adherence to the [[Codex Astartes]], the Obsidian Glaives leave one Dreadnought active for a short time to serve as an honour guard for the [[Fortress Monastery]]; before they are rotated with another Dreadnought within the vault.{{Fn|3b}}