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The '''Keys of Hel''' are seals placed on forbidden technologies from the [[Dark Age of Technology]] or of [[alien]] origin by [[Ferrus Manus]]. The existence of these technologies was known to few outside the [[Iron Hands]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]], and even within it few knew more than the names.{{fn|2}} After Ferrus Manus [[Dropsite Massacre|died]], some of the Iron Hands 'turned the Keys of Hel', seeking any advantage that would help them exact vengeance on the [[Chaos Space Marines|traitors]].{{fn|1}}
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==History==
The '''Keys of Hel''' were named for a mythic goddess of the [[Medusa]]n pantheon, a covenant to lock away technologies expressly forbidden by the [[primarch]] [[Ferrus Manus]]. When these technologies were encountered during the [[Great Crusade]], they were seized and locked away in the vaults beneath Medusa or buried on barren rocks in lifeless star systems, their locations known only by the primarch and a select few [[Iron Father]]s.{{fn|4}} Rumoured to be withheld even from the [[Mechanicum]], the existence of these technologies was known to few outside the [[Iron Hands]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]], and even within it few knew more than the names.{{fn|2}}
After Ferrus Manus [[Dropsite Massacre|died]], some of the Iron Hands 'turned the Keys of Hel', seeking any advantage that would help them exact vengeance on the [[Chaos Space Marines|traitors]].{{fn|1}}
==Forbidden Technologies==
*Agesine Protocols{{fn|4}}
*Eight Sleepers{{Fn|4}}
*Ophidian Scale{{fn|2}}
*Progression of the Seventh Gate{{fn|2}}
*Sarcosan Formulae{{fn|2}}
==Cyber-Cybernetic Resurrection==
[[Image:Crius.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|The revenant Lord Crius]]
'''Cyber-Cybernetic Resurrection''' was one of the possible applications of the forbidden technologies, restoring the dead to a facsimile of life.{{fn|2}} The ghola, often called 'Revenants',{{fn|3a}} retained their memories and were capable of speech.{{fn|1}} Repeated cyber-resurrection was possible even after a Revenant was 'killed' again.{{fn|2}}
Revenants were kept in a cryogenic state at sub-life support temperatures until they were awoken for battle,{{fn|1}} gradually getting slower the longer they spent away from the machine. [[Kastigan Ulok]] modified the standard operating protocols of his cryo-stasis vault to protect it against a catastrophic shutdownshut-down, neuromorphic subroutines bordering on [[Abominable Intelligence]].{{fn|3b}}
===Known Users===
*[[Crius]], member of the [[Crusader Host]], former [[Praetor (Rank)|Clan-Father]] of [[Clan Kadoran]]{{fn|1}}
*Soter, Clan-Father of Clan Kadoran{{fn|2}}
==Trivia==
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*[[wikipedia:Hel (being)|Hel]] is the goddess of the underworld in Norse mythology
==Sources==
**{{Endn|3a}}: Chapter Twenty-One
**{{Endn|3b}}: Chapter Twenty-Seven
*{{Endn|4}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre]], pg. 91
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