Black Templars (Чёрные Храмовники) :: Space Marine (Adeptus Astartes) :: Imperium (Империум) :: Warhammer 40000 (wh40k, warhammer 40k, ваха, сорокотысячник) :: фэндомы

Outsiders often mistakenly interpret the lack of Librarians within the anks of the Black Templars Chapter – and the fury with which its battlebrothers slay Chaos Sorcerers – as an intolerance of all psykers.

This could hardly be further from the truth, for the Black Templars hold special reverence for Astropaths, seeing them as holy disciples who have actually communed with the Emperor. Navigators are similarly honoured; their psychic blessing allows them to see the divine light of the Astronomican, and to guide the Black Templars through the Warp to deliver righteous retribution against the Emperor’s enemies.

Instead, the Black Templars’ abhorrence is reserved for deviant alien witches and rogue psykers: those who embrace the blasphemous Dark Gods in their quest for power. These individuals threaten to drag entire worlds from the Emperor’s light and into damnation. So it is that Black Templars strengthen their souls with the purity
of their faith when facing heretical psykers, not due to ignorance but
through wisdom.

It is uncertain how, or when, the Black Templars ceased to field Librarians, for with their disappearance, much of the Chapter’s history was also lost.
Outsiders suggest that, as the Chapter came to worship the Emperor as a god, they took his decree at the Edict of Nikaea to disband their Librarius divisions as holy law. Others whisper that the Black Templars’ gene-seed has somehow
deteriorated, or that their Librarians were slain during a great war in the Chapter’s history.

Some scholars point to the Black Templars’ final battle to end the Catelexis Heresy of M34, and the apocalyptic psychic death-screams that tore through the Warp after the slaying of the Cacodominus, as another
possible explanation.
Whatever the truth, the Black Templars have come to accept the loss of their Librarians as part of the Emperor’s divine plan. If the Emperor decides to once again bless the Black Templars with Librarians, they will embrace it, but until that day, they will wage battle without these powerful warriors at their side.