The Angel, also called the Sleeper and the Angel of Destruction, was an incredibly powerful living weapon, created on Terra by the Emperor himself.

天使，也被称为沉睡者和毁灭天使，是一种极其强大的活体武器，由帝皇本人在泰拉上创造。

Description 描述

The Angel was "twice as tall as a man" (so 110-544 cm tall, using the shortest and tallest men ever recorded), with mighty wings on its back, and glowing with a halo of energy. It carried a massive flaming sword and left a trail of blue fire wherever it went. It was capable of laying waste to cities and armies in seconds. While physical attacks could slow it down or stun it, they could not truly harm it. It was completely immune to psychic attack, with any attempts to attack it resulting in the psyker suffering psychic backlash.

天使“是人的两倍高”（身高110-544厘米，是有史以来最矮、最高的人），背上有强大的双翼，散发着能量的光环。它拿着一把巨大的燃烧之剑，所到之处都留下了蓝色的火焰痕迹。它能够在几秒钟内摧毁城市和军队。虽然物理攻击可以减缓它的速度或使其昏迷，但它们并不能真正伤害它。它完全不受灵能攻击的影响，任何攻击它的企图都会导致灵能者遭受灵能上的反弹。

History 历史

The Angel was created to destroy the Emperor's enemies on Terra during its pacification. Chief among those was the Daemon Prince Pharaa'gueotla, an ancient daemon that had terrorized Terra since the dawn of Mankind. Pharaa'gueotla was finally cast out by the arrival of the Emperor himself, and fled from Terra soon after. The Emperor eventually cornered the daemon on the planet later known as Karis Cephalon. The Emperor, with the help of the mighty Angel, imprisoned the daemon in the very bedrock of the planet.

天使被创造出来是为了在平定泰拉时期摧毁帝皇之敌。其中最主要的是恶魔王子法拉’格奥特拉，一个自人类诞生以来就威胁泰拉的古老恶魔。法拉’格奥特拉最终被帝皇亲自驱逐，不久后逃离了泰拉。帝皇最终将恶魔逼到了后来被称为卡里斯·凯法隆的行星上。帝皇在强大的天使的帮助下，将恶魔囚禁在行星的基岩中。

Though a useful weapon, as shown with the defeat of Pharaa'gueotla, the Angel was flawed and would often cause more harm than good. One incident written in ancient tomes described a city named Coranis, reduced to ashes by the Angel. Judging the population unworthy of the Emperor's love, it wiped out the entire population of Caranis in a single night of bloodshed. From there, it moved out and destroyed the rest of the planet Coranis resided on, until it was emptied of all life. In order to quell the Angel's thirst for vengeance and cause it to fall into a slumber, the Emperor placed a piece of the corrupted flesh of the Daemon Prince Pharaa'gueotla into its coffin. The Angel returned to its coffin in order to destroy the flesh, allowing the Emperor to activate the locks and wards on its coffin, sealing it once again.

虽然天使是一件有用的武器，但正如法拉’格奥特拉的失败所表明的那样，天使是有缺陷的，往往弊大于利。古代巨著中记载的一件事描述了一座名为科拉尼斯的城市，被天使化为灰烬。认为人民不值得帝皇的爱，它在一夜的流血事件中消灭了科拉尼斯的全部人口。从那里，它移动了，摧毁了科拉尼斯所在的行星的其他部分，直到它被清空了所有的生命。为了平息天使对复仇的渴望，使其陷入沉睡，帝皇将一块恶魔王子法拉’格奥特拉的腐化血肉放入棺材中。天使回到棺材前，为了摧毁肉体，允许帝皇激活棺材上的锁和防护装置，再次将其密封。

Though believed to be one of the Emperor's greatest weapons against Chaos, this flawed thirst for vengeance caused the Emperor to send the Angel back to Terra. Slated to be destroyed, the Angel was somehow smuggled out of the Sol system before the Emperor could dispose of it. Its location was unknown for millennia, though recently it was thought to be somewhere on the planet Karis Cephalon.

虽然被认为是帝皇对抗混沌的最伟大武器之一，但这种有缺陷的复仇欲望导致帝皇将天使送回了泰拉。天使注定要被摧毁，但在帝皇处置它之前，它不知怎么地被偷偷带出了太阳系。它的位置几千年来一直未知，尽管最近人们认为它在卡里斯·凯法隆行星上的某个地方。

Millennia later, the Daemon Prince Pharaa'gueotla was freed through the actions of the misguided Radical Inquisitor Lichtenstein. The Inquisitor freed a fragment of the daemon's consciousnesses from its prison in the hope that it would help him locate the thrice-damned Librarium Hereticus. Instead, the daemon tricked the Inquisitor into almost opening a gate to the warp that would have freed the daemon. Its plan would have succeeded if not for the intervention of Inquisitor Kessel. Thought destroyed after it attempted to free itself again by possessing a psyker, the daemon began to roam the planet of Karis Cephalon, looking for another host body. Eventually, it located a suitable host, Cardinal Kodazcka. Using the followers it had gathered to its side, it had the Cardinal kidnapped. Following a daemonic ritual, the daemon possessed the body of the Cardinal and began laying waste to the city of Cephalon.

数千年后，恶魔王子法拉’格奥特拉通过误入歧途的激进派审判官利希滕斯坦的行动获得了自由。审判官从监狱中释放了恶魔意识的一部分，希望这能帮助他找到三重诅咒异端图书馆。相反，恶魔欺骗了审判官，几乎打开了一扇通往亚空间的门，而亚空间可以释放恶魔。如果没有审判官凯瑟尔的干预，它的计划就会成功。在它试图通过占据一个灵能者再次解放自己后，这个恶魔被摧毁了，它开始在卡里斯·凯法隆行星上漫游，寻找另一个宿主。最终，它找到了一个合适的宿主，红衣主教科达兹卡。它利用聚集在它身边的追随者，劫持了红衣主教。经过一场恶魔仪式，恶魔占据了红衣主教的尸体，开始在凯法隆城铺设无人区。

Deciding the only way to stop the Daemon Prince was to use the very weapon that had defeated it millennia earlier, Inquisition agents were sent to find the Angel. Learning the information they sought was located in ancient tomes, the agents searched the Cephalon Institute of Ecclesiastical Antiquities. Finding tomes secreted in the Institute thousands of years ago, they learned how to awaken the Angel as well as how to imprison it again. Armed with this knowledge, the agents searched for the location of the Angel. With luck they found that it had been hidden in Cephalon itself, deep in the ruins of the Amethyst Palace, in a glowing stasis-coffin.

决定阻止恶魔王子的唯一方法是使用数千年前击败它的武器，审判庭特工被派去寻找天使。特工们得知他们所寻找的信息位于古代巨著中，于是搜查了凯法隆教会古物研究所。他们发现了数千年前在该研究所秘密出版的巨著，学会了如何唤醒天使以及如何再次囚禁它。有了这些知识，特工们开始寻找天使的位置。幸运的是，他们发现它被藏在凯法隆本身，在紫晶宫殿的废墟深处，在一个发光的休眠棺材里。

After locating the coffin, a battle erupted between the Radical and Puritan factions of Inquisitorial agents about who should possess the Angel. During the battle, Pharaa'gueotla arrived to destroy its ancient enemy and the one thing capable of defeating it. Working quickly, the agents freed the Angel from its coffin so that it could battle the Daemon Prince. The two ancient enemies clashed in a mighty battle that left massive craters wherever one of the combatants fell. Eventually, the Angel was triumphant, driving its sword through the body of the daemon. Rising into the air, the Angel hurled the defeated Daemon Prince to the ground.

在找到棺材后，激进派和纯洁派之间爆发了一场关于谁应该拥有天使的战斗。在战斗中，法拉’格奥特拉抵达摧毁其古老的敌人和唯一能够击败它的东西。特工们迅速行动，将天使从棺材中解救出来，使其能够与恶魔王子作战。这两个古老的敌人在一场激烈的战斗中发生了冲突，其中每人坠落的地方都留下了巨大的深坑。最终，天使胜利了，把剑穿过了恶魔的身体。天使腾空而起，将战败的恶魔王子摔落在地。

Soon after, though, the Angel turned on the Inquisition agents. Millennia of imprisonment and a fatal flaw in its creation had led the Angel to become more than was ever conceived. Far from being the champion of Mankind as the Emperor intended, it had come to the conclusion that all humans would eventually turn to Chaos, and that it would be better that they all be exterminated before that happened. Using knowledge gained from reading the ancient tomes, the agents quickly seized the remains of the daemon and placed them into the Angel's coffin. The Angel immediately flew to the coffin to destroy the daemon's remains. As it did so, the agents sealed the coffin and once more the Angel slept. Soon afterward, Inquisitorial troopers led by senior Inquisitor Lords, among them Lord Vertian, arrived to secure the Angel and take it into Inquisition hands.

然而，不久之后，天使转向了审判庭的特工。数千年的监禁和其创造中的一个致命缺陷导致天使变得比以往任何时候都要糟。它远非帝皇所希望的那样成为人类的冠军，而是得出了这样的结论，即所有人类最终都会堕入混沌，最好在那之前将他们全部消灭。特工们利用从阅读古代巨著中获得的知识，迅速抓住了恶魔的遗体，并将其放入天使的棺材中。天使立刻飞到棺材前，摧毁了恶魔的遗体。当它这样做的时候，特工们密封了棺材，天使又沉睡了。不久之后，由高级审判官领主（其中包括维尔蒂安领主）率领的审判官部队抵达，以保护天使并将其交给审判庭之手。