Baleful Icon

Word Bearers :: Table of Contents
Codex Supplement: Word Bearers, p. 7

Cost: 20pts

This icon bears an eight-pointed star so saturated in the blood of loyalists that it is forever stained with the taint of treachery. Those who wish the bearer harm find their certainty sapped away by the mere proximity of this blasphemous standard. The Word Bearers that carry it feel its toxic aura much as a sun worshipper feels the kiss of a summer day upon his skin. Those who do not worship the Dark Gods instead find their skin crawling and their muscles shuddering in revulsion. Even Adeptus Astartes are drained of their righteous anger in its presence.

One unit in your army with the Character special rule that does not have the Unique keyword and no other Relic Wargear may purchase this wargear. Enemy units engaged in combat with a model equipped with this Relic wargear suffer -1 to their Strength (S) and Attacks (A) characteristics.