Enuncia is an ancient language, but instead of communication, the language was used as a tool or a weapon: when spoken aloud or written, Enuncia is capable of manipulating the very fabric of reality, a power beyond even the most potent psykers. It is incredibly dangerous, especially since it required no natural psyker ability, and could potentially be used by anyone.

暗言是一种古老的语言，但它不是用来交流，而是被用作工具或武器：当大声说出或书写时，暗言能够操纵现实的结构，这种力量甚至超越了最强大的灵能者。这是非常危险的，尤其是因为它不需要天生的灵能者能力，并且可能被任何人使用。

History and emergence 历史和出现

Enuncia is very obscure, with only a few fragmentary references appearing anywhere in Imperial records. Even fewer of these references include any information on the use of Enuncia. One theory states that Enuncia accounts for ancient human legends concerning the use of "magic"; another says that it was one of the tools of creation itself. In Terra's ancient past the Cognitae attempted to build a tower etched in Enuncia, but were foiled by the forces of the Emperor and Ollanius Persson.

暗言非常晦涩难懂，帝国记录中只出现了少数零碎的参考文献。这些参考文献中包含有关暗言使用的任何信息的更少。一种理论认为，暗言解释了古代人类关于使用“魔法”的传说；另一种说，它本身就是创造的工具之一。在古代泰拉，闻道学派试图用暗言建造一座塔，但被帝皇和欧兰尼奥斯·佩松的部队挫败。

The few effects of Enuncia observed can include the control of daemons (without the usual bargaining), or as a potent weapon against enemies, causing physical damage to the target ranging from uncontrollable vomiting to cranial rupturing. However, the reality-warping effects can also damage the speaker, many of whom suffer wounds to their mouths and throats when speaking the words. Uniquely, neverborn are as suseptible to the effects of Enuncia as their counterparts in the materium. Likewise, machines attempting to process written forms of the language can suffer spontaneous breakdowns.

观察到的暗言的少数影响可能包括控制恶魔（无需通常的讨价还价），或作为对抗敌人的有力武器，对目标造成身体伤害，从无法控制的呕吐到颅骨破裂。然而，现实扭曲效应也会损害发言者，其中许多人在发言时口腔和喉咙会受伤。独特的是，无生者和物质界中的同类一样容易受到暗言的影响。同样，试图处理书面语言形式的机器也可能发生自发故障。

Two known cases could be extracted from the archives concerning the Horus Heresy. In the first, use of a single Enuncia "word" is attributed to the Space Wolves Skjald Kasper Hawser. He successfully employed the word during the Battle of Prospero, to fight against a Tzeentchian Daemon which revealed itself to be the entity Russ thought used Hawser's body to spy on the Space Wolves. Hawser, although mangling the daemon, suffered injuries to his throat and teeth after employing such a word of power.

从档案中可以找到两起与荷鲁斯叛乱相关的已知案例。第一个案例中，太空野狼战团的吟游诗人卡斯佩尔·豪瑟尔被认为使用了单个暗言词汇。在普罗斯佩罗之战期间，他成功运用了这个词汇，来对抗一只奸奇恶魔，而事实证明，这只恶魔就是鲁斯认为曾借助豪瑟尔的身体来监视太空野狼的那个存在。尽管豪瑟尔重创了那只恶魔，但在使用了如此强大的暗言词汇后，他的喉咙和牙齿都受了伤。

In the second case, Enuncia was used to introduce corrupted machine-code into the defense network of Calth during the Word Bearers' attack on Ultramar.

在第二个案例下，暗言被用来在怀言者攻击奥特拉玛期间将机械废码注入考斯的防御网络。

In the 400s M41, Zygmunt Molotch, a product of the heretical Cognitae institution, was attempting to reconstruct Enuncia by examining several ancient archaeological sites on varying planets. Molotch was presumed killed by an air strike summoned by Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor, while examining his latest site.

在400.M41，异端闻道学派机构的成员齐格蒙特·莫洛奇试图通过检查不同星球上的几个古代考古遗址来重建暗言。莫洛奇被认为是审判官吉迪恩·拉文诺在其检查其最新遗址时被空袭杀死的。

However, Molotch survived, and, after allying with a fellow Cognitae "graduate," Jader Trice, approached the problem from a different angle. He attempted to reconstruct Enuncia from scratch, using an enormous array of logic engines and cogitators to combine letters and phonemes in all possible combinations. To do this, he set himself up as Lord Governor Subsector on Eustis Majoris, using the resources of the Administratum, and several warp-tainted data engines recovered from the lost Mergent Worlds, which had been embroiled in a warp storm for centuries. The project, controlled by a group called the Secretists, gradually extracted fragments of Enuncia from seemingly random data.

然而，莫洛奇幸存了下来，在与闻道学派“毕业生”贾德·特里斯结盟后，他从不同的角度处理了这个问题。他试图从头开始重建暗言，使用大量的逻辑引擎和沉思者将字母和音素组合成所有可能的组合。为了做到这一点，他利用内务部的资源，自任为尤斯蒂斯主星分区的星区总督，并使用了从失落的梅根特世界回收的几台受亚空间污染的数据引擎，这些世界已经被卷入亚空间风暴几个世纪了。该项目由一个名为秘术师的团体控制，从看似随机的数据中逐渐提取出暗言的片段。

Molotch and Trice were close to assembling a complete Codex of the language, when they had another breakthrough: the capital of Eustis Majoris, the Hive City of Petropolis, was in fact designed as a massive "spiritual resonator" by the infamous heretical architect Theodor Cadizky with precisely nine hundred and ninety-nine temples, the central one of which, called the Old Sacristy, being in the exact centre of the hive. All the others, the axial temples, formed lines from the Old Sacristy that give the entire hive an overall mathematical symmetry, creating a focal point for psychic energy that, when combined with the completed Codex, would make Molotch into a virtual god.

莫洛奇和特里斯即将完成一部完整的语言圣典，这时他们又有了另一个突破：尤斯蒂斯主星的首都，佩特罗波利斯巢都，实际上是由臭名昭著的异端建筑师西奥多·卡迪斯基设计的一个巨大的“精神共鸣器”，有九百九十九座神殿，其中最中心的一座被称为旧圣器室，就在巢都的正中心。其他所有的建筑，即那些中轴线上的神殿，从旧圣器室延伸出一条条规整的线条，使整个巢都具有整体的数学对称性，为灵能能量创造了一个焦点，当与完成的圣典结合时，将使莫洛奇成为一个虚拟之神。

The ritual was interrupted at the crucial moment by Ravenor and his team, though not before Molotch had absorbed a tremendous amount of psychic energy and healed his body of the disfiguring wounds suffered during the air strike years ago. Molotch was able to escape the planet.

仪式在关键时刻被拉文诺和他的团队打断了，尽管在此之前，莫洛奇已经吸收了大量的灵能能量，并治愈了他在几年前空袭中遭受的毁容伤口。莫洛奇成功逃离了这个星球。