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When passing these out, Erebus warned the assembled commanders that these were no "ordinary" ''athames'', indicating that the ''athame'' was a name used by the Word Bearers even before Erebus acquired the anathame.{{Fn|4}}
[[Ultramarines]] [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Remus Ventanus]] was able to banish the [[daemon]] [[Samus]] with an ''athame'' confiscated from Morpal Cxir. He used the knife because he had no other weapon to hand, but was amazed by its potency against the daemon. His [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]], [[Kiuz Selaton]], suggested gathering the other fallen daggers and using them against the hordes of daemons rampaging across Calth. Ventanus considered using them might have a corrupting influence and refused, but kept the one he had used on Samus in his belt.{{Fn|1d}}
Kor Phaeron used his ''athame'' to great effect in the subsequent [[Battle of the Macragge's Honour|Battle of the ''Macragge's Honour'']], cutting a "hole" in realspace that allowed the battleship ''[[Infidus Imperator]]'' to make an instant translation into the [[warp]], without the need for the normal calculations. Later, when the ''[[Macragge's Honour]]'' devastated the ''Infidus Imperator'' with an overwhelming volley, Phaeron cut another hole that allowed him and a small entourage to escape the bridge of his doomed ship, to reappear on [[Sicarus]].{{Fn|2}} Later, during the [[Underworld War]], Ventanus slew Hol Beloth with Beloth's own ''athame''.{{Fn|5}}
[[Criol Fowst]], a [[human]] leader of the [[Brotherhood of the Knife]], possessed an ''athame'' gifted to him by his [[Legionary]] patron, [[Arune Xen]]. Fowst used his ''athame'' to sacrifice victims as part of the Word Bearers' summoning ritual.{{Fn|1a}} He considered it his most treasured possession, and was enraged when he lost it to [[Oll Persson]].{{Fn|1b}} Persson later used this ''athame'' to cut a rift in realspace that allowed him and a small group of survivors to escape the poisoning of [[Calth]]'s atmosphere.{{Fn|1g}} This athame is apparently made of a rock that was used in the first murder in Terra's history, when Cail slew Abel.{{Fn|7}} Ultimately, Ollanius Persson gave his Athame knife to the [[Emperor]], who used it to kill [[Horus]] during the final battle aboard the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]'' in the [[Siege of Terra]]. The kill marked the blade's 8th murder. This shard anthame then disintegrated to dust after the act.{{Fn|9}}
== The Shard of Erebus ==
