"To the darkness I bring fire. To the ignorant I bring faith. Those who welcome these gifts may live, but I will visit naught but death and eternal damnation on those who refuse them."

“我给黑暗带来火焰。给无知的人带来信仰。那些欢迎这些礼物的人可能会活着，但我将会给那些拒绝这些礼物的人们带来死亡和永恒的诅咒。”

Reclusiarch Merek Grimaldus is a veteran of a score of successful Black Templars Crusades.

隐修长梅里克·格瑞马度斯是一位成功的黑色圣堂远征军的老兵。

Merek Grimaldus 梅里克·格瑞马度斯

Biography 传记

Early Career 早期职业生涯

Grimaldus was noted by High Marshal Helbrecht to have been the youngest Marine in the Black Templars' history to be raised to the rank of Sword Brother.

至高元帅赫尔布雷希特指出，格瑞马度斯是黑色圣堂历史上最年轻的被提升为圣剑兄弟的战士。

He was later elevated from his Marshal's Sword Brethren and inducted into the mysteries of the Reclusiam after the Battle of Fire and Blood. Such was his faith and devotion to the Emperor that the Chaplains saw in the young Grimaldus the makings of a powerful warrior priest. He was mentored by Mordred, whom Grimaldus would eventually succeed as Reclusiarch.

后来，他从元帅的圣剑兄弟中升任，并在火与血之战后被引入隐修室。正是由于他对帝皇的信仰和忠诚，牧师们在年轻的格瑞马度斯身上看到了成为一名强大的战士牧师的特质。他受到莫德雷德的指导，格瑞马度斯最终接替莫德雷德成为隐修长。

He took his vows before the broken Sword of Dorn aboard the Battle Barge Eternal Crusader and has since justified the Chaplains' faith, zealously leading the warriors of the Black Templars in battle.

他在战斗驳船永恒远征号上的多恩断剑前宣誓，此后为牧师的信仰辩护，热诚地领导黑色圣堂的战士们作战。

Third War for Armageddon 第三次阿玛吉多顿战争

For his first command as Reclusiarch, High Marshal Helbrecht charged Grimaldus to lead one of the three Black Templars Crusades that had been dispatched to Armageddon, specifically the Helsreach Crusade. Grimaldus led a hundred Black Templars in the defence of Hive Helsreach. They were besieged by millions of Orks, who attacked from land-side but also from a vast fleet of submersibles launched from the icy Deadlands far to the south. Towards the end of the siege, a great horde of Orks attacked the Temple of the Emperor Ascendant, a vast basilica that had stood since the earliest days of colonisation, and was held at bay for nearly two months before they finally penetrated the temple precincts, looting and destroying priceless holy relics as they went. The Imperial Guard units and the hive militia fled, but the Black Templars refused to yield. The battle degenerated into bloody melee combat in the heart of the temple, where Grimaldus bellowed his now famous cry: "I have dug my grave in this place and I will either triumph or I will die." The battle only ended when the entire Temple collapsed. All were thought lost, but a day later, Grimaldus crawled out from underneath the ruins, carrying the last relics of the Temple. Apothecaries who later treated Grimaldus' wounds claimed that it was a miracle that he still lived, let alone had the strength to crawl from the rubble of the destroyed Temple.

作为隐修长的第一个命令，至高元帅赫尔布雷希特要求格瑞马度斯领导被派往阿玛吉多顿的三个黑色圣堂远征军之一，特别是赫尔斯利奇远征军。格瑞马度斯率领一百名黑色圣堂保卫赫尔斯利奇巢都。他们被数百万欧克包围，他们从陆地一侧进攻，也从遥远的南方冰冷的死亡之地发射的庞大潜水器舰队进攻。围城接近尾声时，一大群欧克袭击了帝皇升天圣堂，这是一座自殖民初期就屹立不倒的巨大教堂，被围困了近两个月，然后他们终于渗透到圣堂区，沿途掠夺和摧毁了无价的圣物。帝国卫队和巢都民兵逃跑了，但黑色圣堂拒绝屈服。这场战斗在圣堂中心演变成了血腥的混战，格瑞马度斯在那里咆哮着他现在著名的呼喊：“我在这里挖掘了我的的坟墓，要么胜利，要么死亡。”直到整个圣堂倒塌，这场战斗才结束。所有这些都被认为已经损失，但一天后，格瑞马度斯从废墟下爬了出来，带着圣堂的最后圣物。后来治疗格瑞马度斯伤口的药剂师声称，他还活着是一个奇迹，更不用说有力量从被毁的圣殿废墟中爬出来了。

Merek Grimaldus 梅里克·格瑞马度斯

Upon commencement of the Season of Fire, Grimaldus was given the title "Hero of Helsreach", the greatest honour its inhabitants could grant. Grimaldus's next assignment was to have been to return to the Eternal Crusader and stand with High Marshal Helbrecht and Commissar Yarrick in their pursuit of the Ork Warlord Ghazghkull, who by this point had left the Armageddon Warzone. However, Grimaldus had uncovered evidence that a hidden enemy was attempting to systematically eliminate one of their brother Chapters, the Celestial Lions. Helbrecht gave Grimaldus leave to remain on Armageddon to investigate these troubling findings.

在火之季节开始时，格瑞马度斯被授予“赫尔斯利奇英雄”的称号，这是其居民所能给予的最大荣誉。格瑞马度斯的下一个任务是回到永恒远征号，与至高元帅赫尔布雷希特和亚瑞克政委一起，追捕此时已经离开阿玛吉多顿战区的欧克军阀碎骨者。然而，格瑞马度斯发现了证据，表明一个隐藏的敌人正试图系统地消灭他们的兄弟战团之一，天狮。赫尔布雷希特允许格瑞马度斯留在阿玛吉多顿，调查这些令人不安的发现。

Grimaldus travelled to the Lions' forward base near Hive Volcanus, where he met with only 96 surviving Space Marines out of the 983 that arrived on Armageddon. After speaking with the highest-ranking surviving Celestial Lion, Pride Leader Ekene Dubaku, he learned of the Lions' plight - they had challenged the Inquisition over the conduct of Inquisitor Apollyon during the Khattar Massacre and the Inquisition had decided to make an example of the Chapter by grinding them down and letting others witness their shameful death. Dubaku and his remaining Brothers were determined to die in a final blaze of glory against the orks infesting the Mannheim Gap and avenge the deaths of those Lions that had perished in the Third War. Dubaku asked Grimaldus to perform a ceremony of last rites to bless them for the coming battle.

格瑞马度斯前往火山巢都附近的天狮前方基地，在那里他会见了983名抵达阿玛吉多顿的战士中幸存的96名。在与幸存的最高级别的天狮、骄傲领袖埃肯·杜巴库交谈后，他了解到了天狮的困境 — 他们在哈塔尔大屠杀期间就审判官亚玻伦的行为向审判庭提出了质疑，审判庭决定以该战团为例，把他们碾碎，让其他人见证他们可耻的死亡。杜巴库和他剩下的兄弟们决心在最后的荣耀之火中死去，对抗曼海姆峡谷的欧克，为那些在第三次战争中丧生的天狮报仇。杜巴库请格瑞马度斯为他们举行最后的仪式，为即将到来的战斗祈福。

Grimaldus at Hive Helsreach 格瑞马度斯在赫尔斯利奇巢都

Grimaldus, however, refused. He believed that the Celestial Lions could and should rebuild themselves. To that end, he called upon Astra Militarum forces from Helsreach and joined the Lions when they returned to Mannheim. The Imperial forces were victorious and Grimaldus earned the gratitude of Ekene Dubaku - now Chapter Master of the Celestial Lions. Grimaldus would later depart from Armageddon alongside Helbrecht in their pursuit of Ghazghkull.

然而，格瑞马度斯拒绝了。他相信天狮可以而且应该重建自己。为此，他从赫尔斯利奇召集星界军部队，并在天狮返回曼海姆时加入了他们。帝国军队取得了胜利，格瑞马度斯赢得了埃肯·杜巴库的感激之情，他现在是天狮的战团长。格瑞马度斯后来与赫尔布雷希特一起离开阿玛吉多顿，追捕碎骨者。

Age of the Dark Imperium 黑暗帝国时代

Grimaldus has since crossed the Rubicon Primaris and become a Primaris Space Marine.

格瑞马度斯已经越过原铸界限，成为原铸星际战士。

In the wake of the Great Rift's creation, Armageddon has been invaded by Daemons. This has caused a climate of fearful and superstitious fervor and its major population centres have become rife with Imperial sub-cults and worshipful creeds. The same is true for the people of Hive Helsreach and Grimaldus has, perhaps unsurprisingly, become the focus of one particularly large Imperial Savior Cult within the Hive. Due to his efforts to save its people during the Third War for Armageddon, the Cult attaches spiritual significance to the Hero of Helsreach and a talismanic notion of protection to him. To worship the Reclusiarch, Grimaldus' Cult will gather at the ruins of the Temple of the Emperor Ascendant and perform several rituals in his name. These include lighting huge pyres, where the Cult burns alive citizens that they have accused of witchery, mutation or heretical thought.

大裂隙形成后，阿玛吉多顿被恶魔入侵。这造成了恐惧和迷信的气氛，其主要人口中心充斥着帝国的分教派和崇拜的信条。对于赫尔斯利奇巢都的人们来说也是如此，也许毫不奇怪，格瑞马度斯已经成为巢都内一个特别大的帝国救主教派的焦点。由于他在第三次阿玛吉多顿战争期间为拯救人民所做的努力，该教派对赫尔斯利奇英雄给予了精神上的重视，并对他给予了护身符般的保护。为了崇拜隐修长，格瑞马度斯的信徒聚集在帝皇升天圣堂的废墟上，以他的名义举行几次仪式。其中包括点燃巨大的火堆，教派在那里焚烧他们指控的巫术、突变或异端思想的活着的公民。

Many of the Cult's members will also dig ceremonial graves and then cover them over with shrouds of industrial tarpaulin. They do so in the belief that - just as he reputedly dug his grave in the Temple's grounds once before - Grimaldus might rise from such a ritual pit, to defend the people of Helsreach as he did previously. A high ranking member of the Imperium has his servants watching these Cults, and the one that worships the Reclusiarch in particular. So far, however, it is unclear if there is anything excessively divergent in the Cult's beliefs. They do wonder, though, what the pious Grimaldus would make of the Cult, if he knew about it.

许多教派成员也会挖掘仪式坟墓，然后用工业防水布覆盖。他们这样做是因为他们相信，就像他以前在圣堂里挖掘坟墓一样，格瑞马度斯可能会像以前一样从这样的仪式坑中升起，保卫赫尔斯利奇的人民。帝国的一位高级成员让他的仆人监视这些教派，尤其是崇拜隐修长的教派。然而，到目前为止，尚不清楚教派的信仰是否存在过度分歧。不过，他们确实想知道，如果虔诚的格瑞马度斯知道这件事，他会怎么看待这个教派。

Retinue 随从

Grimaldus often went to battle accompanied by his Reclusiam Command Squad, known as Squad Grimaldus. Over the course of the siege of Helsreach, the squadron suffered losses, with the remaining members being wiped out in the defence of the Temple of the Emperor Ascendant.

格瑞马度斯经常在他的隐修室指挥组，即格瑞马度斯小队的陪同下参加战斗。在赫尔斯利奇围城期间，中队遭受了损失，其余成员在保卫帝皇升天圣堂时损失。

Grimaldus elected not to reform his Command Squad following their deaths. In the aftermath of the siege, however, High Marshal Helbrecht provided Grimaldus with an apprentice, Initiate Cyneric, who was under consideration for elevation to the Chaplaincy.

格瑞马度斯在他们牺牲后选择不改革他的指挥组。然而，在围城之后，至高元帅赫尔布雷希特为格瑞马度斯提供了一名学徒，即信徒塞内里克，他正在考虑升任牧师。

In addition, Grimaldus is occasionally accompanied by a trio of Cenobyte Servitors, each bearing one of the surviving relics from the Temple of the Emperor Ascendant - a broken aquila statue, the remains of the founding charter of Helsreach and an orb containing the last of the Temple's holy water.

此外，格瑞马度斯偶尔会有三名修士机仆陪同，每名机仆都携带着帝皇升天圣堂的一件幸存圣物 — 一尊破碎的天鹰雕像、赫尔斯利奇创始宪章的残余和一个装有圣堂最后圣水的宝球。

Grimaldus 格瑞马度斯

Wargear 战备

As a Chaplain, Grimaldus wields a crozius arcanum that was forged for him upon his induction into the Chaplancy. He also possesses a plasma pistol recovered from the body of a Sergeant of the Imperial Fists who saved his life in the Battle of Alfava Metraxis.

作为一名牧师，格瑞马度斯使用的是他入职牧师时为他锻造的牧师权杖。他还拥有一把等离子手枪，是从一名在阿尔法瓦·梅特里克斯之战中救了他一命的帝国之拳军士身上找到的。

He wears a relic helmet, worn by every Reclusiarch in the Chapter's history since their very founding. He also has a Chaplain's rosarius made out of bronze and red iron and shaped like a heraldic cross.

他戴着一顶圣物头盔，自战团成立以来，每一位隐修长都戴着这顶头盔。他还有一个由青铜和红铁制成的牧师的玫瑰念珠，形状像纹章十字。