Drach'nyen, the End of Empires and the Echo of the First Murder, is an ancient daemon of pure, unadulterated malice currently bound in the daemon sword of the same name wielded by Abaddon the Despoiler.

德拉科’尼恩，帝国的终结和第一次谋杀的回声，是一个古老的纯粹、完全的恶意恶魔，目前被束缚在大掠夺者阿巴顿挥舞的同名魔剑中。

The Daemon Sword Drach'nyen 魔剑德拉科’尼恩

Appearance 外观

Drach'nyen can take many forms, and it only appears as a great blade in the hands of Abaddon because that is how the Warmaster chooses it to be. In truth, the sword has no real shape or size, at least nothing that could be understood by the mind of man.

德拉科’尼恩可以有很多种形态，它只在阿巴顿手中看起来像一把巨大的剑，因为战帅就是这样选择的。事实上，这把剑没有真正的形状或大小，至少没有人能理解的东西。

Drach'nyen 德拉科’尼恩

The weapon normally appears to be something akin to a two-handed sword, except that Abaddon wields the weapon with a single hand in conjunction with the Talon of Horus. The guard of the weapon tends to be golden in colour, with a leering face of a demon just above the handle. The ricasso of the weapon has spikes protruding from the sides as well as outward from the blade, and the blade itself is blue with red, tormented faces (the faces of souls it has devoured since being claimed by Abaddon) writhing across its surface.

武器通常看起来类似于双手剑，除了阿巴顿用一只手挥舞武器，与荷鲁斯之爪一起。武器的护手往往是金色的，手柄上方有一张恶魔的斜眼脸。武器的刃柄有从侧面和刀刃向外突出的尖刺，刀刃本身是蓝色的，上面有红色的、痛苦的面孔（自阿巴顿声称拥有以来，它吞噬的灵魂的面孔）在其表面扭动。

History 历史

The origins of Drach'nyen are a mystery to most, unknown perhaps even to Abaddon himself. Daemons speak of the blade in fear, calling it the Thorn in Reality or the Shard of Madness. It is, however, known to be a weapon that has existed long before the rise of Mankind.

德拉科’尼恩的起源对大多数人来说都是一个谜，甚至对阿巴顿本人来说都是未知的。恶魔在恐惧中谈论这把刀，称之为现实中的荆棘或疯狂的碎片。然而，众所周知，它是一种早在人类崛起之前就存在的武器。

The First Murder 第一次谋杀

Drach'nyen was born at the moment of the first murder - the first time a human killed another human outside of the need to survive. The name Drach'nyen, which can be translated as the End of Empires, is an approximation of the scream of the first murderer and that of the brother he murdered.

德拉科’尼恩诞生在第一次谋杀发生的那一刻，这是第一次有人在生存需要之外杀死另一个人。德拉科’尼恩这个名字可以翻译成帝国的终结，是第一个杀人犯和他谋杀的兄弟的尖叫的类似事物。

War Within the Webway 网道战争

During the Horus Heresy, Drach'nyen entered the human portion of the webway. The Emperor of Mankind was able to sense its presence, and knew it was the daemon born of the first murder. Shortly after its arrival, the daemonic forces were able to overwhelm the Imperial forces at Calastar, forcing them to retreat to the Imperial Palace. In order to cover the retreat, the Emperor left the Golden Throne to confront Drach'nyen. The daemon took the form of a Stone Epoch war-chief, impaling the Emperor and claiming it would be His death. The Emperor ripped the daemon, now in the form of the daemon sword, from His body and hurled it at the Custodian Ra Endymion, impaling him and binding it within him. As the last Imperial forces retreated from the webway, He order Ra to run.

在荷鲁斯叛乱时期，德拉科’尼恩进入了网道的人造部分。人类帝皇能够感觉到它的存在，知道这是第一次谋杀中诞生的恶魔。在它到达后不久，恶魔势力就能够在卡拉斯塔压倒帝国军队，迫使他们撤退到皇宫。为了掩护撤退，帝皇离开了黄金王座去对抗德拉科’尼恩。这个恶魔为石器时代的战酋，刺穿帝皇，声称这将是他的死亡。帝皇从他的身体上扯下了恶魔，现在是魔剑的形式，并将其扔向禁军拉·恩底弥翁，刺穿他并将其绑在他身上。当最后一支帝国军队从网道撤退时，他命令拉逃跑。

Drach'nyen in its original form during the Horus Heresy 荷鲁斯叛乱时期原始形态的德拉科’尼恩

Later during the Siege of Terra, the host of Drach'nyen manifested upon the Throneworld to lead an army of Daemons.

后来在泰拉围城中，德拉科’尼恩之主出现在王座世界，领导一支恶魔军队。

Abaddon's Claim 阿巴顿的夺取

At some point, Drach'nyen was bound in the labyrinth beneath the Tower of Silence on Uralan, where the Chaos Gods themselves lock away their secrets. Abaddon was led to the Tower of Silence during his 1st Black Crusade in 781.M31 and, after fighting off constructs of dark energy that served as the tower's guardians, entered the mirrored heart of Uralan beneath the crypts. Wandering a haunted labyrinth of impossible angles that was continuously made and unmade as he walked, Abaddon encountered a towering figure wreathed in golden light. The golden figure led him to the centre of the labyrinth, where a shard of shifting darkness hung. When Abaddon grasped it, Drach'nyen took on the form of a fearsome blade.

在某个时刻，德拉科’尼恩被束缚在乌拉兰寂静之塔下的迷宫里，混沌诸神也在那里锁住了他们的秘密。阿巴顿在781.M31的第一次黑色远征中被带到了寂静之塔，在击退了作为塔楼守护者的暗能量构造体后，进入了乌拉兰地穴下面的镜像之心。阿巴顿在一个不断被制造和拆除的、充满不可能角度的迷宫中漫步，遇到了一个被金色光芒笼罩的高耸身影。金色的身影把他带到了迷宫的中心，那里挂着一片变幻的黑暗。当阿巴顿抓住它时，德拉科’尼恩变成了一把可怕的刀刃。

Abaddon retrieving Drach'nyen 阿巴顿找回德拉科’尼恩

After that, Drach'nyen served Abaddon well. With it Abaddon hewed open the gates of the Kromarch's citadel, disrupting the nullification fields with which they were reinforcing the fabric of realspace. Another famous story tells about the impaling of the Great Technomandrite of Danth, thus sealing the fate of the anti-empyric Lemuel Cluster.

在那之后，德拉科’尼恩为阿巴顿提供了很好的服务。阿巴顿用它打开了克罗马奇城堡的大门，破坏了他们用来加强现实空间结构的无效立场。另一个著名的故事讲述了刺穿了丹斯的伟大技术牧首，从而决定了反旋涡星群莱缪尔的命运。

Trivia and Notes 琐事和注释

• Fratricide as the first murder could mirror the Biblical story of Cain and Abel.

• 作为第一起谋杀的兄弟可能反映了《圣经》中该隐和亚伯的故事。