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[[Image:Culexus assassin.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A '''Culexus Assassin''']]
The '''Culexus Temple''' is one of the temples of the [[Officio Assassinorum]]. The motto of the temple is: '''That which is unknown and unseen always commands the greatest fear'''. This motto is quite appropriate as [[Psyker]]s, their exclusive targets, are unable to sense the Culexus Assassins, aka psyker-killers.
The Culexus Assassins possess the "[[Pariah]] Gene", making them for all intents, "soulless," accounting for their lack of 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.{{Fn|1}} The Culexus temple is known to hunt down and recruit these [[Pariah]]s but also to vat-grow them. Due to the nature of being parentless, combined with the pariah gene making them seem soulless, 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.{{Fn|3}}
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]].{{Fn|2a}} The [[Eldar]], whose leaders are usually psychics, fear the Culexus greatly. [[Farseer]] [[Alladrios Kulcassian]] of [[Craftworld]] [[Alaitoc]] coordinated a centuries-long effort to locate and destroy this temple. Somehow he discovered the location and dispatched the ''Legacy of Eldanesh'', a [[Shadow]]-class cruiser. However, using his precognitive powers, he discovered to his amazement that the temple's destruction would lead to the Annihilation of Alaitoc. Choosing the lesser of two evils, he re-called the cruiser home.{{Fn|1}}[[Image:CulexusAssassin.jpg|thumb|leftright|220px|A Culexus Assassin dispatches a [[Chaos Space Marine]]{{Fn|4}}]]
==Equipment==
*[[Dranos]]
*[[Vaedrex]]
*[[Noctus Kord]]
==Miniatures==
