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a b Wallace, Marjorie (2008). The Silent Twins. London: Vintage. p.293. ISBN 978-0-09-958641-8. OCLC 60262552. There is no hunt like that which makes prey of man, for those who have partaken of such forbidden hunts will find no satisfaction in any other pursuit thereafter." Silent Sisters watch as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen prepare the body of her stillborn daughter Princess Visenya Targaryen. [4] Game of Thrones: Season 1 [ ] Siege of Terra (014.M31) – The Silent Sisterhood provided a stalwart defence of the Imperial Palace during the Siege of Terra. They were also instrumental in the defence of the Imperial Webway extension located in the subterranean levels of the Imperial Palace against a massive Daemonic incursion from the Immaterium during the War Within the Webway. Shapiro, Harriet (27 October 1986). "A British Journalist Unravels the Tale of the Twins Who Wouldn't Talk". People . Retrieved 29 April 2019.

In terms of armament and equipment, the Divisio Investigates was particularly well served, and second only perhaps to the Legio Custodes in the scope and customisation of its arsenal. It had long maintained myriad different weapons and tactical systems suited to its needs, from patterns of the Terran Bolter -- a weapon more commonly associated with the Space Marine Legions -- manufactured for use by unagumented Humans, to the exquistely fashioned and utterly lethal powered Execution Blades carried by its Vigilators. a b Misstear, Rachael (31 October 2011). "Powerful Play about Silent Twins Will Get You Talking". Western Mail. Cardiff, Wales. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. Each vigil retains the colours that its founding sisters developed through millennia of isolation, from the deep blue and bright silver of the Vigil of Hrav-Ulan to the bone white and blood red of the Outer Solar Vigil. Every vigil divides its warriors into "cadres," and each cadre is given a unique designation before taking up the vigil's historic hues that were readily identifiable by their corresponding animal totem (the Frost Lynx, Ice Leopard, Iron Lynx, Raptor, White Falcons, etc.) and squad types which were differentiated by their armour colour schemes and unique iconography. They will readily invoke their Emperor-given authority to use and discard any intermediaries and agencies of the Imperium as they require, and "collateral" destruction in pursuit of their targets is judged as a thing to be avoided as a matter of course, but irrelevant in cases of necessity.Silent Sisters prepare the body of King Viserys I Targaryen with Queen Alicent Hightower watching over them. [3] Before Cersei's walk of atonement from the Great Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep, two silent sisters shave her head and body. [4] Silent Sisters dress and prepare the bodies of Lord Jon Arryn [5] and, later, Ser Hugh of the Vale [6] for burial. They perform a complex funeral ceremony for Jon Arryn, involving marching in a circle around his body as it lies in state while carrying vessels filled with burning incense, and periodically turning to bow towards the body.

Although a formidable military force in its own right, the Silent Sisterhood's clandestine, undocumented actions far outweigh their overt activity manyfold. It is purported that for every operation that has been described by the words of iterators or etched into the pict-plates of famed imagists, a hundred more have been conducted behind the veil of secrecy or scoured from records and memory alike. From that point, not a single sound will pass their lips. The Sisters do not speak, they do not declaim their foes with shouted tirades or cry out in pain. Combined with their fearful aura, this muteness in the heat of battle is incredibly unnerving. In some rare cases, these hunters learned to suppress their uncanny auras to some degree, and in living alongside others begot their own bloodlines. None of these would-be settlers ever stayed in one place for long, for the Pariah Gene is not named idly. Wherever the Sisters of Silence sought out new lives, they were hounded into exile once more by those that hated them for their intrinsic otherness.

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Silent Sisters prepare the body of Ser Vaemond Velaryon for its return to High Tide with Princess Rhaenys Targaryen watching over them. [2]

During the Great Crusade, the Emperor kept a standing battalion of the Silent Sisterhood within His personal armies. They were tasked with hunting and exterminating those who would use their psychic talent against the Imperium or their fellow Humans during the wars for Imperial Compliance. Since that time, the remit of the Null Maidens has demanded that they wage near-constant war. Eventually, intelligence reached the Imperial planetary governor of a particularly dangerous doomsday cult, calling itself the "Final Banquet," having taken root in a desolate slum sector known as the Distempora. The cult violently resisted any attempts to destroy it and it was reliably rumoured to be led by a "holy family" with the power to "work miracles." During the Terran Wars of Unification it was doubtless true that a number of so-called " Untouchables" did serve under the banners of Unification, but evidence suggests that understandably perhaps they did so at a remove both from the Emperor Himself, and His aide and minister, Malcador the Sigillite, then vizier to the Master of Mankind, the both of them being psykers of prodigious strength, with He who was to be Emperor the greatest psyker Humanity has ever known.The Silent Sisterhood maintained fluency in numerous other forms of gestural and non-verbal linguistic communication such as Legiones Astartes and later Adeptus Astartes battle-sign of various types, voidsys and graph-binarc for conversing with other military forces of the Imperium directly when the need arose. Earlier, following one of her mum’s frequent house moves, Joa and Cath, full of suspicion, confided in their brother, Chris, who looked inside the plastic bin and saw bin bags and air fresheners. Fearing her mum had concealed a second baby, Joa eventually broke down and told a friend and her friend’s mum. The latter went to the police on her behalf. Primarily equipped with flamers, their secondary tactical function is to deny rogue elements escape routes, cut off avenues of ambush and prevent encirclement by often numerically superior opposition forces. Even within small detachments, the Firebrand cadres are deployed to prevent the interruption of the retrieval of the Imperial Tithe. However, in such instances, they are often presented as a force intended to intimidate the related governing structures and population into compliance through fear rather than having to carry out the promise of death and fire they so obviously represent, though of course they never shirk from this dark duty when it becomes necessary. Given their particular duties, their training and tactical bias focuses on close-quarters combat, short-ranged, high-intensity warfare which often sees them fighting from a position of numeric inferiority and on unfamiliar ground, and their skill in such conditions is supreme. Fear is alien to them, their conditioning and experiences exposing them to horrors against which even a veteran of the dark frontiers of the Great Crusade could not have readily endured. Inside Story Silent Twin – Without My Shadow". BBC Genome. BBC. 22 September 1994 . Retrieved 17 September 2017.

The hosts of Silent Sisters upon Terra eventually numbered near three thousand, and Guilliman declared them the Vigil Indomitus. They would be the first in a spreading network of vigils throughout the Imperium, each granted the explicit authority to carry out their ancient duties. The Vigil Indomitus divided into cadres, with each joining the battle groups of the Indomitus Crusade fleets. During the Era Indomitus, the Vigil Indomitus established satellite vigils throughout the Segmentum Solar, hoping they would prosper enough to be able to join later fleets of the Indomitus Crusade. Some of these vigils would not be ready by the time their appointed battle group passed by, beset by calamity or forced by circumstance into striking out on their own. Some would wait in the dark for many years, never to be reached as crusade forces were diverted and delayed, for despite Roboute Guilliman's superhuman logistical acumen, such tragedies of bureaucracy continued to haunt the Imperium in the Era Indomitus. A Witchseeker, more commonly called simply a " Seeker," was the most junior tactical role to be found among the Null Maidens, often taken by former acolytes newly raised to full sisterhood. Seeker cadres were usually tasked with the widespread purgation of opposing forces, condemned criminals, tainted Abhumans and other gene-threats, as well as the pacification of aggressive, rebellious or resistant crowds and bystanders. From this point onwards no Sister of Silence utters a single spoken word for the rest of their lives, not even under the duress of pain, be it the stroke of blade or impact of a bullet, such was their stoic resolve. No secret could or ever shall pass from the keeping of the Sisters of Silence, and no word of remission or clemency from them was ever given. Such was their zeal and focus during the Horus Heresy, the Sisters of Silence were given unprecedented autonomy. They are trusted implicitly by the High Lords of Terra, for those deaf to the whispers of the Warp are amongst the most reliable of Human agents. Theirs is the duty of monitoring the masses via a network of trusted agents within the Adeptus Astra Telepathica.Spectra-vestments - Worn by the Sisters of an Excruciatus cadre, the bloody-coloured raiment of the Silent Judges and the chill silver of her acolytes conceal sophisticated field generator technology that allows it to blur and shift to adapt to its surroundings or simply bleed shadow at will, concealing them from sight should they wish and making them things of darkness rather than substance when viewed from a distance. The exact biological source -- as it is believed to be -- which creates in a Human being the state of psychic Null, the so-called " Pariah Gene," has proven an elusive and ephemeral subject of study, and in testing no single "gene" at all. Such attempts to exploit or isolate it when pursued by both the Imperial Archotechnologist Corps and the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade's early years courted disaster, and as a result the Emperor decreed a general moratorium upon the study of the biological basis of the psychic Null phenomena, affecting all but His own direct experimentation should He wish it. Talion - The Talion is a type of gunship and assault landing craft used by the Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence. It saw service during the Battle of Lion's Gate.

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