Using this weapon, a Librarian can magnify the power of his blows, shattering armour and pounding flesh with his superhuman strength.Ī common item for those of the Ordo Malleus possessing psychic powers, these weapons allow an Inquisitor or Acolyte to smite Daemons with the purest of energies.Ī Force Rod is a black rod of alien origin which acts as a psychic battery. A psi-matrix is a serpentine or interlaced pattern which concentrates psychic energy. One of the weapons they typically wield to help enhance their innate psychic abilities is the Force Axe, a carbon steel axe blade which incorporates a psi-matrix. Space Marine Librarians who serve as Terminators wear psychically-attuned armour called the Aegis Suit. The basic Force Weapon is used by psykers of all the intelligent races of the galaxy, often taking the form of a sword, axe or staff whose design reflects the user's culture. Eldar Force Weapons are grown from the psycho-reactive substance known as Wraithbone, and are often of superior craftmanship and efficiency than their Imperial counterparts, but the basic principle of the psyker channeling his power through his weapon remains the same for these xenos constructs. Force Weapons are one of the few weapons that can seriously damage daemons and Daemonhosts and are often used by the members of the Ordo Malleus for that reason.įorce Weapons are also often used by the Eldar Warlocks and Farseers, who use their Witchblades and Singing Spears to devastating effects on the battlefield. Other well-known Force Weapons are the Force Warhammers or Daemonhammers, the signature weapon of the Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus, which provided that branch of the Inquisition with its name.
In the center of the sunburst is a skull made out of psy-reactive crystal etched with the thirteen Runes of Castigation. Exceptional psykers can lend their weapon to a non-psyker and still channel their power through it, for such is their intimacy with their weapon that physical contact is no longer necessary to employ its powers.Ī notable example of a unique Force Weapon is Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn's Runestaff, a steel staff topped with a thirteen-pointed sunburst made out of electrum. Unlike Power Weapons, the power of a Force Weapon comes from the psyker's mind, and not some contraption sacred to the servants of the Machine God embedded in the weapon's hilt.
Force Weapons are treasured possessions to their wielders, and will quite often accompany them in death, being buried or cremated alongside their owner.Ī Force Weapon can be wielded without risks by a non-psyker, but in his hands, it will have none of the mighty abilities it displays in the hands of a psyker. Once mastered, each Force Weapon is intimately attuned to its wielder's mind, and another psyker trying to wield it will find it a daunting, if not impossible task.
Mastering a Force Weapon is a difficult task for even the Space Marine Librarians, but the ultimate reward is well-worth the risk, for a psyker channelling his power through his Force Weapon can strike the most powerful of foes down in one fell stroke. Force Weapons are hand-crafted to the user's specifications, quite often by the user himself, and the psyker's first challenge once the weapon is complete is to attune it to himself, to learn to channel his power through it without risk to himself or his allies and surroundings. This device sometimes appears as a decorative pattern on the blade. Within the structure of the weapon is interwoven a powerful device called a Psi-Convector, formed into a precise serpentine shape which concentrates and directs psychic energy. Large alien monstrosities and daemons that are resilient to conventional weapons can be slain outright by a single wound from a Force Weapon, as their bodies and minds are destroyed by the unearthly powers of the Immaterium.įorce Weapons take the form of swords, spears, warhammers, axes or other close combat melee weapons. They are designed to allow a psyker to channel deadly Warp energies into their victim, acting as a conduit between the wielder's mind and the flesh of his target. Force Weapons effectively act as deadly, psychic extensions or amplifiers of the wielder's own Empyrean-spawned powers. A Librarian of the Blood Ravens Chapter concentrating his power into his Force Staffįorce Weapons are advanced, psychically-attuned close combat weapons that are only effective in the hands of a psyker.