During the Battle of Calth, the Word Bearers and several of their cultist soldiers carried small daggers of flint or crude metal, known as athames. They were a mark of status or membership among both, and seemed to have special properties that could manipulate the fabric of reality.

在考斯之战中，怀言者和他们的几名邪教徒士兵携带了被称为仪式之刃的燧石或粗金属小匕首。它们是两者之间地位或成员关系的标志，似乎具有可以操纵现实结构的特殊属性。

Kor Phaeron attacks Roboute Guilliman with an athame 科尔·法伦用仪式之刃攻击罗伯特·基里曼

History 历史

First Chaplain Erebus forged eight athames from the anathame weapon that he had stolen from the Interex, and which later turned Horus to the worship of Chaos. He kept one for himself and gifted the others to the commanders of the Word Bearers Host on Calth; Kor Phaeron, Morpal Cxir, Foedrall Fell, Hol Beloth, Quor Vondar, and Phael Rabor, and the last one for his own bodyguard commander, Kolos Undil.

第一牧师艾瑞巴斯用他从英特雷斯偷来的诅咒武器铸造了八个仪式之刃，后来这使荷鲁斯开始崇拜混沌。他为自己留了一个，并把其他的送给了考斯上怀言者的指挥官；科尔·法伦、莫帕尔·克希尔、弗德拉·费尔、霍尔·贝洛斯、库尔·旺达和费尔·拉博，最后一位是他自己的护卫指挥官科洛斯·昂迪尔。

When passing these out, Erebus warned the assembled commanders that these were no "ordinary" athames, indicating that the athame was a name used by the Word Bearers even before Erebus acquired the anathame.

在分发这些时，艾瑞巴斯警告聚集的指挥官，这些不是“普通”的仪式之刃，表明仪式之刃甚至在艾瑞巴斯获得仪式之刃之前就已经使用过这个名字。

Ultramarines Captain Remus Ventanus was able to banish the daemon Samus with an athame confiscated from Morpal Cxir. He used the knife because he had no other weapon to hand, but was amazed by its potency against the daemon. His Sergeant, Kiuz Selaton, suggested gathering the other fallen daggers and using them against the hordes of daemons rampaging across Calth. Ventanus considered using them might have a corrupting influence and refused, but kept the one he had used on Samus in his belt.

极限战士连长雷穆斯·文坦努斯能够用从莫帕尔·克希尔夺取的仪式之刃驱逐恶魔萨姆斯。他使用这把刀是因为他手头没有其他武器，但对它对抗恶魔的效力感到惊讶。他的军士基乌兹·塞拉顿建议收集其他堕落的匕首，并用它们来对付在考斯肆虐的成群恶魔。文坦努斯认为使用它们可能会产生腐化的影响，并拒绝了，但将他在萨姆斯身上使用的那一个放在腰带上。

Kor Phaeron and his elite guard carried athames during their boarding action of the Ultramarines' orbital weapons platform. When Roboute Guilliman and a small force of Ultramarines boarded the platform, Phaeron was able to stun Guilliman with his sorcerous powers. While the Ultramarines' Primarch was temporarily helpless, Phaeron became intoxicated with the idea of using his athame to turn him to Chaos, just as Erebus had turned Horus. He pierced the flesh of Guilliman's throat with it, but didn't strike a fatal blow. That was his mistake: resistant to whatever dark influence was carried by the knife, Guilliman counter-attacked, driving Phaeron back and forcing the Word Bearers to retreat.

科尔·法伦和他的精英卫队在登上极限战士轨道武器平台时携带了仪式之刃。当罗伯特·基里曼和一小队极限战士登上平台时，法伦能够用他的魔法力量眩晕基里曼。当极限战士的原体暂时无能为力时，法伦陶醉于使用他的仪式之刃将他堕入混沌的想法，就像艾瑞巴斯转变了荷鲁斯一样。他用它刺穿了基里曼的喉咙，但没有造成致命的打击。这是他的错误：基里曼抵抗了刀刃带来的任何黑暗影响，进行了反击，将法伦赶了回去，迫使怀言者撤退。

Kor Phaeron used his athame to great effect in the subsequent Battle of the Macragge's Honour, cutting a "hole" in realspace that allowed the battleship Infidus Imperator to make an instant translation into the warp, without the need for the normal calculations. Later, when the Macragge's Honour devastated the Infidus Imperator with an overwhelming volley, Phaeron cut another hole that allowed him and a small entourage to escape the bridge of his doomed ship, to reappear on Sicarus. Later, during the Underworld War, Ventanus slew Hol Beloth with Beloth's own athame.

科尔·法伦在随后的马库拉格之耀之战中使用了他的仪式之刃，在现实空间中开了一个“洞”，使战列舰伪帝号能够立即转换到亚空间，而不需要进行正常的计算。后来，当马库拉格之耀号以压倒性的齐射摧毁了伪帝号时，法伦又开了一个洞，让他和一小群随从逃离了他注定要失败的船的桥，重新出现在西卡鲁斯上。后来，在冥土战争期间，文坦怒斯用贝洛斯自己的仪式之刃杀死了霍尔·贝洛斯。

Criol Fowst, a human leader of the Brotherhood of the Knife, possessed an athame gifted to him by his Legionary patron, Arune Xen. Fowst used his athame to sacrifice victims as part of the Word Bearers' summoning ritual. He considered it his most treasured possession, and was enraged when he lost it to Oll Persson. Persson later used this athame to cut a rift in realspace that allowed him and a small group of survivors to escape the poisoning of Calth's atmosphere. This athame is apparently made of a rock that was used in the first murder in Terra's history, when Cain slew Abel. Ultimately, Ollanius Persson gave his Athame knife to the Emperor, who used it to kill Horus during the final battle aboard the Vengeful Spirit in the Siege of Terra. The kill marked the blade's 8th murder. This athame then disintegrated to dust after the act.

克里奥尔·福斯特是短刀兄弟会的人类领袖，他拥有一个由他的军团赞助者阿鲁内1克森赠送给他的仪式之刃。福斯特用他的仪式之刃来祭祀受害者，这是怀言者召唤仪式的一部分。他认为这是他最珍贵的财产，当他把它输给欧尔·佩松时，他非常愤怒。佩森后来用这个仪式之刃在现实空间中制造了一个裂隙，让他和一小群幸存者逃离了考斯大气的毒害。这个仪式之刃显然是由一块石头制成的，这块石头在泰拉历史上第一次谋杀中使用过，当时该隐杀死了亚伯。最终，欧兰尼奥斯·佩松将他的仪式之刃交给了帝皇，帝皇在泰拉围城中的复仇之魂号上的最后一场战斗中用它杀死了荷鲁斯。这起谋杀标志着这把刀的第八次谋杀。行动结束后，仪式之刃便化为灰烬。

The Shard of Erebus 艾瑞巴斯的碎片

Ten thousand years later, during the Invasion of Ultramar, Marneus Calgar, the Chapter Master of the Ultramarines, killed the Daemon Prince M'kar with the athame that Uriel Ventris had retrieved from Captain Ventanus' tomb. The Daemon recognised the knife as the Shard of Erebus.[Note 1]

一万年后，在奥特拉马入侵期间，极限战士战团长马涅乌斯·卡尔加用乌瑞尔·文崔斯从文坦努斯连长的坟墓中取回的仪式之刃杀死了恶魔王子姆’卡。恶魔认出这把刀是艾瑞巴斯的碎片。[注释一]

By the 5th year of the Indomitus Crusade, Abaddon had despatched agents dubbed the Hand of Abaddon across the Galaxy to gather the Shards of Erebus. The Hand eventually succeeded in gathering all 8 shards to rebuild the Anathame. The shards were subsequently inserted into the body of the Red Corsair Graeyl Herek and sent into the realm of Vashtorr the Arkifane within the Warp. Before a great anvil, the shards were reassembled into a new blade dubbed the Culler and taken up by the Hand members Tharador Yheng and Augury.

到不屈远征的第五年，阿巴顿已经派遣了被称为阿巴顿之手的特工穿越银河系，收集艾瑞巴斯碎片。最终成功地收集了所有8块碎片来重造诅咒之刃。这些碎片随后被插入红海盗格雷尔·赫里克的身体，并被送往亚空间内的造物者瓦什托尔的领域。在一个巨大的铁砧之前，这些碎片被重新组装成一个名为库列尔的新刀刃，并被阿巴顿之手成员塔拉多·伊恩和奥格里拿起。

Other Athames 其他仪式之刃

In M41, an operative of the Ordo Malleus stole an athame from a museum on a T'au Sept World; the T'au had mistaken it for a crude flint knife, proof of how little the gue'la had evolved over their long history, and had no idea of its special properties. When trapped by a team of Fire Warriors, the operative used the knife to "cut a hole in reality" and escape.

在M41，一名圣锤修会的特工从钛家门世界的一家博物馆偷走了一个仪式之刃；钛误以为这是一把粗糙的燧石刀，这证明古’拉在漫长的历史中进化得很少，也不知道它的特殊性质。当被一队火战士困住时，特工用刀“在现实中开了一个洞”并逃跑了。

Trivia 琐事

• In real life, athames are ceremonial blades used in certain rituals.

• 在现实生活中，仪式之刃是某些仪式中使用的仪式刀。

Notes 注释

• Note 1: This knife was likely the same athame that Ventanus had taken from Hol Beloth, though it could also have been the knife Ventanus had taken from Morpal Cxir and used to banish Samus.

• 注1：这把刀可能与文坦怒斯从霍尔·贝洛斯那里拿走的那把刀是一样的，尽管它也可能是文坦努斯从莫帕尔·克希尔那里拿走的用来驱逐萨姆斯的刀。