Erda is a Perpetual that is considered to be the most powerful of her kind, after the Emperor.

尔达是一个永生者，被认为是她同类中最强大的，仅次于帝皇。

Erda (right) and John Grammaticus 尔达（右侧）与约翰·格拉马迪库斯

History 历史

Erda met the Emperor in Terra's ancient past, when he was a warlord king known as Neoth in the age of the First Cities. At that time, the Emperor was already shepherding Mankind into the path that would lead to the creation of the Imperium. Erda grew to adore the Emperor and she became one of the many Perpetuals that aided him in his task. In time, though, the Emperor's arrogance and the risks he took to accelerate Mankind's future caused most of the Perpetuals to leave him. A few like Erda and the Sigillite stayed by his side, but the departures drove the Emperor to begin creating loyal artificial Perpetuals to ensure his plan would succeed. This led to the beginning of the Primarchs' creation, which both Erda and Astarte aided with. As the project began, Erda's skills as a geneticist greatly aided the Emperor, but he later also required her rare gene-stock for the Primarchs to be born. Combining Erda's genes with the Emperor's resulted in the birth of the Primarchs (making Erda functionally their mother in the same way the Emperor is their father), but Erda was prevented from taking part in their lives as the Emperor prepared them for the Great Crusade. She despaired at the bitter future the Emperor had planned for them, with the Primarchs forcing humanity to claim the galaxy, and she tried to save her sons from him. While they were still infants, Erda caused the creation of a warp vortex which scattered the Primarchs across the galaxy, and then went into hiding for many years. According to Erebus, Erda was unwittingly manipulated by the chaos gods into fulfilling their agenda. While the Emperor raged at her betrayal, he never sought to retaliate against Erda even though he knew where she was.

尔达在泰拉的古代遇到了帝皇，当时他是首城时代被称为尼奥斯的军阀国王。当时，帝皇已经带领人类走上了建立帝国的道路。尔达越来越崇拜帝皇，她成为帮助他完成任务的众多永生者之一。然而，随着时间的推移，帝皇的傲慢和他为加速人类的未来而冒的风险导致大多数永生者离开了他。像尔达和掌印者这样的少数人留在了他的身边，但这些离开的人促使帝皇开始制造忠诚的人造永生者，以确保他的计划取得成功。这导致了创造原体的开始，尔达和阿斯塔特都给予了帮助。随着项目的开始，尔达作为一名遗传学家的技能极大地帮助了帝皇，但后来他也需要她稀有的基因才能让原体诞生。将尔达的基因与帝皇的基因结合，导致了原体的诞生（使尔达在功能上成为他们的母亲，就像帝皇是他们的父亲一样），但尔达被阻止参与他们的生活，因为帝皇为他们准备了大远征。她对帝皇为他们计划的痛苦未来感到绝望，因为原体们迫使人类占领银河系，她试图从他手中拯救她的儿子。当他们还是婴儿的时候，尔达制造了一个亚空间漩涡，将原体分散在整个河系中，然后躲藏了很多年。根据艾瑞巴斯的说法，尔达在不知不觉中被混沌诸神操纵，以实现他们的计划。虽然帝皇对她的背叛大发雷霆，但他从未试图报复尔达，即使他知道她在哪里。

By the time of the Siege of Terra, Erda was living in exile at Guelb, an ancient site in Mauritania close to her birthplace. Living with a group of servants and the Space Marine Leetu, she was eventually visited by John Grammaticus. Grammaticus sought Erda's help in getting into the Imperial Palace and had also arranged to rendezvous with Ollanius Persson at her home. Erda was shocked to hear that Oll had become involved in the affairs of the human race again, and expressed worry over his fate when he did not arrive. Though sympathetic to John's cause, she ultimately said she had no way to help him enter the Palace. Consulting the stars and her tarot, Erda eventually came to the conclusion that Persson would arrive on Terra two weeks after Grammaticus. She wished John luck in his endeavor to find Persson and gave him the services of Leetu.

到泰拉围城时，尔达流亡在盖尔布，这是毛里塔尼亚靠近她出生地的一个古老遗迹。她与一群仆人和星际战士勒图住在一起，最终被约翰·格拉马迪库斯拜访。格拉马迪库斯寻求尔达的帮助进入皇宫，并安排在她家与欧兰尼奥斯·佩松会面。尔达听说欧尔又卷入了人类事务，感到震惊，并对他未到的命运表示担忧。虽然同情约翰的事业，但她最终表示无法帮助他进入皇宫。尔达观察了群星和她的塔罗牌，最终得出结论，佩松将在格拉马迪库斯两周后抵达泰拉。她祝愿约翰在寻找佩松的过程中好运，并为他提供了勒图的服务。

During the later stages of the Siege of Terra, Erda was confronted in her home by Erebus, who offered her a chance to join Chaos. Erda refused, and Erebus summoned all four types of Greater Daemons against her. Erda revealed her true essence to be a tripartite being: a dark-skinned woman wielding a staff, a crone capable of freezing anything she touched, and youthful girl wielding a sickle. These forms unleashed a tornado of psychic energy, and after a vicious battle, struck down all four of the daemons. However, Erda was exhausted and badly wounded in the process. Erebus put his athame blade to her neck and again demanded she join Chaos and "worship" him. Erda spat in his face, which caused Erebus to stab her with his Athame blade and kill her.

在泰拉围城战的后期阶段，尔达在家中遇到了艾瑞巴斯，艾瑞巴斯给了她加入混沌的机会。尔达拒绝了，艾瑞巴斯召集了所有四种类型的大魔来对付她。尔达揭示了她真正的本质是一个由三部分组成的存在：一个皮肤黝黑的女人挥舞着拐杖，一个能够冷冻她所接触到的任何东西的老太婆，还有一个挥舞着镰刀的年轻女孩。这些形态释放出一股灵能能量的龙卷风，经过一场激烈的战斗，摧毁了所有四个恶魔。然而，尔达在这个过程中筋疲力尽，受了重伤。艾瑞巴斯把他的剑放在她的脖子上，再次要求她加入混沌并“爱慕”他。尔达朝他脸上吐了一口唾沫，导致艾瑞巴斯用他的仪式匕首刺伤并杀死了她。

Trivia 琐事

The word Erda is an Old High German word for "Earth" (modern Standard High German: "Erde").

尔达这个词是古高地德语中“地球”的意思（现代标准高地德语：“尔德”）。