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[[File:Shrineworldpic.JPG|thumb|right|Image of the Shrine World]]
'''Shrine Worlds''' are [[Imperial]] worlds devoted to a [[Saint]] of the [[Imperium]] and are often named in their honour. These worlds are ruled directly by the [[Adeptus Ministorum]] and attract huge amounts of pilgrims from all over the Imperium. There are also the dark mirrors to these places of Imperial devotion - fallen worlds where the inhabitants offer up ceaseless prayer to the Dark Gods. These places of obscene sacrifices and bloody rites are not suffered continued existence for long.{{Fn|2}} Often the Shrine World - is a place of eternal rest for holy men and women of the [[Imperium]] and the entire surdace of this sacred planets given over to the hallowed crypts of sainted and great monolithic cathedra.{{Fn|4}} Most shrine worlds usually fall into another category - for example, [[Hagia]] is an [[agri world]] while, [[Herodor]] is a [[Hive World]]. They have a strong relationship with the saint in question, such as being the world of his or her birth or martyrdom.{{cite this}}
*{{Endn|2}}: [http://web.archive.org/web/20130908182043/http://app.fantasyflightgames.com/dark-heresy/calixis-worlds.shtml Fantasy Flight Games materials] ''(saved archive page, dated September 2013, last accessed 23 January 2016)''
*{{Endn|3}}: [https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/5/5/bow-before-the-might-of-chaos/ FFG] Teaser for "The Final Gambit", supplement for Conquest Card Game ''(last accessed 8 May 2016)''
*{{Endn|4}}: [[War Zone Fenris: Curse of the Wulfen]], Chapter 5, ''Hostile Environments''
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