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Hal: Crosslinked to Saints of Prosperitas

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	=== The Saints ===		=== The Saints ===

			''See Also: [[The_Ecclesiarchy_Sects_of_the_Prosperitas_Sector#Notable_Saints_of_the_Prosperitas_Sector\|Notable Saints of the Prosperitas Sector]]''

	The concept of Sainthood within the Imperium is built from the tenet of belief that all humans have a place in the Emperor’s universe. Sainthood is a status awarded by the Ecclesiarchy to those individuals who carry out great works that it believes demonstrate that the God-Emperor acted through them and as such they represent divine manifestations of the God-Emperor’s will.		The concept of Sainthood within the Imperium is built from the tenet of belief that all humans have a place in the Emperor’s universe. Sainthood is a status awarded by the Ecclesiarchy to those individuals who carry out great works that it believes demonstrate that the God-Emperor acted through them and as such they represent divine manifestations of the God-Emperor’s will.

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	'''Saint Dominicia and the Five Companions''' – Saint Dominicia and her five companions, Arabella, Katherine, Lucia, Mina, and Silvana are considered to be the original Soror’s, although it was Thor who led a Crusade to Terra, it was Dominicia who slew the Tyrant Vandire by her hand. She had been tricked into many years of service to him but, according to legend, was visited by the Emperor which led to her casting him down personally. After the conflict, she and the five companions led the formation of the elite fighting cadres of the Adepta Sororitas.		'''Saint Dominicia and the Five Companions''' – Saint Dominicia and her five companions, Arabella, Katherine, Lucia, Mina, and Silvana are considered to be the original Soror’s, although it was Thor who led a Crusade to Terra, it was Dominicia who slew the Tyrant Vandire by her hand. She had been tricked into many years of service to him but, according to legend, was visited by the Emperor which led to her casting him down personally. After the conflict, she and the five companions led the formation of the elite fighting cadres of the Adepta Sororitas.

			=== The Primarchs ===

			The Imperial creed tells that when the God-Emperor walked amongst humanity They begat Nine Children, each a great warrior, to lead the Legions of the Angels of Death forged by Their hand. Though each of The Nine were beings of flesh and bone, they were everything Humanity should aspire to be, pure of spirit, pure of mind, pure of body, the greatest of the God-Emperor's Creations. They were;

			'''Lion El'Jonson''' – known as the Lion and Primarch of the Dark Angels, a Great Knight who slew great monsters with a holy blade, whose Legion served to guard humanity in the darkest reaches. As a result of their relation to his cognomen, Lions are often used to represent a Guardian against darkness and is a reccurring theme in places where the Archenemy is feared to be strongest.

			'''Jaghatai Khan''' – known as the Great Khan or Warhawk and Primarch of the White Scars, a roaring roving soul who quested far and brought the Imperium to distant worlds, yet returned home to Terra in the hour of the Emperor’s greatest need. Because of their association with the Great Khan, Hawks and other birds of prey, save the Eagle (which is associated with the Emperor), are often favoured symbology by explorers and missionaries.

			'''Leman Russ''' – The Wolf King and Primarch of the Space Wolves, the roaring aspect of the fury of the Emperor made manifest, hunting down foes and destroying them utterly. Because of their association with the Wolf King, Wolves are often favoured symbology of Bounty Hunters, Arbites Hunter-Marshalls and even Executioners.

			'''Rogal Dorn''' – The Praetorian of Terra, the Primarch of the Imperial Fists, the champion who remained on Terra with the Emperor and led the defence of the Cradle of Humanity in the darkest of hours. Because of Dorn, gauntlets and symbols of clenched fists are often associated with guardianship, favoured talismans by wardens and bodyguards alike.

			'''Sanguinius''' – The Great Angel and the Brightest One and the Primarch of the Blood Angels, Sanguinius was the favoured child of the God-Emperor made in the form of a winged human, who gave his life against the Arch-Traitor Horus. Because of him, Angels are considered to represent the radiant glory of the God-Emperor made manifest, the highest form of the faithful, from associations with him much of the iconography displaying Saints and other holy servants of the Imperium with angelic wings comes.

			'''Ferrus Manus''' – The Gorgon was the Primarch of the Iron Hands, little is spoken of this Primarch other than to recognise him as a mighty smith who created many wonders. He is known to have been slain by the foul Daemon Fulgrim in the early battles of the Heresy, though his feature in the Imperial mythos does little to explain much about him.

			'''Roboute Guilliman''' – The Avenging Son, the Lord-Commander of the Imperium and the Primarch of the Ultramarines, if Sanguinius is celebrated as a tragic lost light of the Imperium, Roboute Guilliman is celebrated as a great living icon. The statesman who, after the Emperor retreated to the Golden Throne, rebuilt the Imperium into the form it is in today, organising humanity so it may govern, he is the author of multiple treatises on war, governance and administration that the Imperium relies upon today he is a symbol of ‘civilisation’ to the Imperium.

			'''Vulkan''' – Unique amongst all the Primarchs, Vulkan had no cognomen, Primarch of the Salamanders Legion, he was a champion of humanity and a protector of the weak, stories talk about him liberating whole worlds with cleansing flame. He is commonly associated with Fire and the Forge and is attributed to the Imperial Creeds symbolic reliance on fire as a symbol of purification.

			'''Corvus Corax''' – Known also as the Liberator, the Deliverer and the Shadowed Lord , Corax was the Primarch of the Raven Guard Legion, a dark and shrouded figure who famously liberated many worlds during the Heresy. Because of Corax, Raven’s are often seen as symbols of hidden protection, and vigilance, featuring commonly in the iconography of covert bodies within the Imperium.

			Though the Imperial mythos recognises the mortality of the Primarchs in the deaths of Ferrus Manus and Sanguinius, it only ever speaks of them being killed by great monsters, Sanguinius at the hand of the Arch-Traitor Horus, and Ferrus Manus at the hands one of the Nine Daemons.. Of the remainder, all are considered to have left the Imperium at various points in time, promising to return when they were needed by the Imperium most, or when the End Times come.

			There are apocryphal accounts that state that the Horus and the eight remaining members of the nine daemons were once Primarchs who turned upon the God-Emperor, their progenitor. Most Ecclesiastical literature dismisses this as falsehood, for the idea of the God-Emperor ever creating something ‘flawed’ is highly unsettling to most followers of the Cult. But it is noted by supporters of this version of the tale, that there are twenty plinths around the Imperial palace, nine are occupied by the statues of the nine Primarchs...the remaining eleven remain empty to this day.

			To the Imperium, the Primarchs occupy a position in cosmology equivalent to forms of Demi-God, their names are invoked in rite and ritual dependent on their associations.

			To most Imperial Citizens, Primarchs are as mythic and legendary of the God-Emperor himself, on some worlds they may be recognised in other shapes and roles, their names may be spoken or pronounced differently.

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 There are two state religions within the Imperium, the [[Machine Cult]] (or Credo Omnissiah) and the far more dominant Cult Imperialis.
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 Almost universally, the Imperial Cult does believe in an event known as the ‘End Times’ when the God-Emperor will arise from the Golden Throne, when great heroes of the Imperium will return to it, and when the final battle against the Archenemy will take place and the God-Emperor will sit in judgement of all souls, and those found unworthy will be consumed by holy flame. The signs of the End Times are a subject of argument, some say that they will only come when the Imperium falters… others see signs around them now, in the 41st Millenium. Whatever the time to their arrival preparing humanity for these times is a core focus of Cult doctrine.

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	<nowiki>* <small>This is a cause of considerable conflict with Machine Cult who worships the ‘Omnissiah’ or ‘Machine-God’ – especially with those factions of the Machine Cult who view the Emperor as a separate entity to the Omnissiah. Because of the Adeptus Mechanicus’ value to the Imperium, this deviation is largely ignored, despite more fanatical elements of the Ecclesiarchy decrying the Machine Cult.</small~~></nowiki~~>		<nowiki>*</nowiki> <small>This is a cause of considerable conflict with Machine Cult who worships the ‘Omnissiah’ or ‘Machine-God’ – especially with those factions of the Machine Cult who view the Emperor as a separate entity to the Omnissiah. Because of the Adeptus Mechanicus’ value to the Imperium, this deviation is largely ignored, despite more fanatical elements of the Ecclesiarchy decrying the Machine Cult.</small>

	<nowiki>** <small>In some more fanatical elements of the Imperial cult ‘Beware’ is replaced with ‘Burn’, this tenet is a core factor in the discrimination received by mutants, abhumans and psykers. The Creed is very quiet on the subject of Navigators.</small~~></nowiki~~>		<nowiki>**</nowiki> <small>In some more fanatical elements of the Imperial cult ‘Beware’ is replaced with ‘Burn’, this tenet is a core factor in the discrimination received by mutants, abhumans and psykers. The Creed is very quiet on the subject of Navigators.</small>

	<nowiki>*** <small>The definition of ‘Witch’ is a difficult one to pin down, the Adeptus Ministorum tells followers that Sanctioned Psykers and Astropaths are sacred tools of the Imperium confirmed by Holy Terra, and that ‘Witches’ are renegade and xenos psykers who use their foul powers on the Imperium. The average Imperial citizen struggles to tell the difference between the two, and many legally sanctioned Psykers have lost their lives to mobs that couldn’t differentiate them from Witches.</small~~></nowiki~~>		<nowiki>***</nowiki> <small>The definition of ‘Witch’ is a difficult one to pin down, the Adeptus Ministorum tells followers that Sanctioned Psykers and Astropaths are sacred tools of the Imperium confirmed by Holy Terra, and that ‘Witches’ are renegade and xenos psykers who use their foul powers on the Imperium. The average Imperial citizen struggles to tell the difference between the two, and many legally sanctioned Psykers have lost their lives to mobs that couldn’t differentiate them from Witches.</small>

	<nowiki>**** <small>This does not simply refer to the Imperium’s xenophobic hatred of all Xenos life forms but also the universal rejection of any ideas, technology, culture and philosophy brought from ‘without’ – this is a major reason for the conservatism of Imperial society, which treats ‘new’ ideas with immense suspicion.</small~~></nowiki~~>		<nowiki>****</nowiki> <small>This does not simply refer to the Imperium’s xenophobic hatred of all Xenos life forms but also the universal rejection of any ideas, technology, culture and philosophy brought from ‘without’ – this is a major reason for the conservatism of Imperial society, which treats ‘new’ ideas with immense suspicion.</small>

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	<nowiki>* This is a cause of considerable conflict with Machine Cult who worships the ‘Omnissiah’ or ‘Machine-God’ – especially with those factions of the Machine Cult who view the Emperor as a separate entity to the Omnissiah. Because of the Adeptus Mechanicus’ value to the Imperium, this deviation is largely ignored, despite more fanatical elements of the Ecclesiarchy decrying the Machine Cult.</nowiki>		<nowiki>* <small>This is a cause of considerable conflict with Machine Cult who worships the ‘Omnissiah’ or ‘Machine-God’ – especially with those factions of the Machine Cult who view the Emperor as a separate entity to the Omnissiah. Because of the Adeptus Mechanicus’ value to the Imperium, this deviation is largely ignored, despite more fanatical elements of the Ecclesiarchy decrying the Machine Cult.</small></nowiki>

	<nowiki>** In some more fanatical elements of the Imperial cult ‘Beware’ is replaced with ‘Burn’, this tenet is a core factor in the discrimination received by mutants, abhumans and psykers. The Creed is very quiet on the subject of Navigators.</nowiki>		<nowiki>** <small>In some more fanatical elements of the Imperial cult ‘Beware’ is replaced with ‘Burn’, this tenet is a core factor in the discrimination received by mutants, abhumans and psykers. The Creed is very quiet on the subject of Navigators.</small></nowiki>

	<nowiki>*** The definition of ‘Witch’ is a difficult one to pin down, the Adeptus Ministorum tells followers that Sanctioned Psykers and Astropaths are sacred tools of the Imperium confirmed by Holy Terra, and that ‘Witches’ are renegade and xenos psykers who use their foul powers on the Imperium. The average Imperial citizen struggles to tell the difference between the two, and many legally sanctioned Psykers have lost their lives to mobs that couldn’t differentiate them from Witches.</nowiki>		<nowiki>*** <small>The definition of ‘Witch’ is a difficult one to pin down, the Adeptus Ministorum tells followers that Sanctioned Psykers and Astropaths are sacred tools of the Imperium confirmed by Holy Terra, and that ‘Witches’ are renegade and xenos psykers who use their foul powers on the Imperium. The average Imperial citizen struggles to tell the difference between the two, and many legally sanctioned Psykers have lost their lives to mobs that couldn’t differentiate them from Witches.</small></nowiki>

	<nowiki>**** This does not simply refer to the Imperium’s xenophobic hatred of all Xenos life forms but also the universal rejection of any ideas, technology, culture and philosophy brought from ‘without’ – this is a major reason for the conservatism of Imperial society, which treats ‘new’ ideas with immense suspicion.</nowiki>		<nowiki>**** <small>This does not simply refer to the Imperium’s xenophobic hatred of all Xenos life forms but also the universal rejection of any ideas, technology, culture and philosophy brought from ‘without’ – this is a major reason for the conservatism of Imperial society, which treats ‘new’ ideas with immense suspicion.</small></nowiki>

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	''See Also:''		''See Also:''
			* [[The Ecclesiarchy]]
	* [[Factions_of_the_Prosperitas_Sector#The_Ecclesiarchy_in_the_Prosperitas_Sector\|The Ecclesiarchy in the Prosperitas Sector]]		* [[Factions_of_the_Prosperitas_Sector#The_Ecclesiarchy_in_the_Prosperitas_Sector\|The Ecclesiarchy in the Prosperitas Sector]]
	* [[Prayer and Liturgy]]		* [[Prayer and Liturgy]]

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	All humans born on worlds that are in the thrall of the Imperium and do not owe a close relationship to the Adeptus Mechanicus (who follow the [[The Cult Mechanicus\|Machine Cult]]) are indoctrinated in some form or another in the tenets of the Cult Imperialis.		All humans born on worlds that are in the thrall of the Imperium and do not owe a close relationship to the Adeptus Mechanicus (who follow the [[The Cult Mechanicus\|Machine Cult]]) are indoctrinated in some form or another in the tenets of the Cult Imperialis.

	The Cult is also known as the Imperial Cult or Imperial Creed. These terms refer to the Religion itself, not the Priesthood. The title of that organisation is the Adeptus Ministorum, sometimes simply referred to as the Ministorum, or the Ecclesiarchy.		The Cult is also known as the Imperial Cult or Imperial Creed. These terms refer to the Religion itself, not the Priesthood. The title of that organisation is the Adeptus Ministorum, sometimes simply referred to as the Ministorum, or the [[Ecclesiarchy]].

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	~~=== The Cult Imperialis ===~~


	There are two state religions within the Imperium, the Machine Cult (or Credo Omnissiah) and the far more dominant Cult Imperialis.		There are two state religions within the Imperium, the Machine Cult (or Credo Omnissiah) and the far more dominant Cult Imperialis.