Editing Psychic Awakening (section)

=== Faith & Fury === 
''The [[Sisters of Battle]] and [[Astra Militarum]] – bolstered by a massive strike force of Adeptus Astartes led by the [[Black Templars]] – stand firm in their creed to defend Humanity, at any cost...''

As part of GW's reminder that [[Sisters of Battle]] exist, Faith and Fury sees [[Kor Phaeron]] of the [[Word Bearers]], alongside members of 5 other Chaos Space Marine legions, attacking the Talledus system, a region of great importance to the [[Ecclesiarchy]] on account of its ties to [[Sebastian Thor]]. Defending Talledus is the Sisters of Battle, the Black Templars, the Salamanders, the White Scars, and the Imperial Guard, although this is not the Imperial Guard's book.

Content includes updates for the [[Black Templars]] (who were not included in the [[Imperial Fists]] Supplement of the 8.5 Marines Codex), "Chapter Litanies" and updates to Space Marine "Heroes" (such as Chaplains or Librarians) allowing them to take new relics and warlord traits with the use of a specific Stratagem, as well as updated rules for the Word Bearers, Night Lords, Alpha Legion, Iron Warriors, Emperor's Children, and World Eaters. New model releases include a new Chaos Space Marine Sorcerer.

What is notably absent are PA rules for the Sisters of Battle, which [https://imgur.com/dCVln2B GW has confirmed will still be getting in the future], presumably this means that Faith and Fury is not, in fact, the SoB PA book after all.

Fluff updates include the Word Bearers trying to corrupt the Imperial Cults of an Imperial world by creating a massive ritual to flood the world with the chaotic energies of the Warp, only to see the Great Rift's energies causing weird shit like Flocks of Golden Eagles or Pillars of Golden Flame to appear, which restore faith in the Emperor when they're seen - basically, [[Chaos]] doesn't have a monopoly on warp fuckery, now pious Imperials can do it too. This culminates during the battle of Talledus when "golden faced spirits" are summoned out of the Sisters of Battle's tombs, creating a shield that instantly burns any demon that touches it to ash while also repairing the walls of the immaterium (de-Chaosifying the area, like a Blank) and generally screwing Kor Phaeron over, leaving him looking stupid and calling for reinforcements.

This is further expanded upon in a [[FAIL|collector's edition exclusive chapter]] that covers the Alpha legion turning an entire planet of normal humans instantly into Psykers, except their faith causes them to summon the aforementioned "good warp stuff" like flocks of golden eagles and the like as well as the '''Emperor Angelic''', a [[Greater Daemon|psychic manifestation of the Emperor]] that promptly fucks the Alpha Legion up. Regular humans on the planet are also turned into anti-daemon power houses called the "Humble Saints" which can nuke the Alpha Legion's psykers and daemons with a wave of their fingers. But because it's still Grimdark, the [[Iron Hands]] demand these new Imperial Saint-like humans be purged and call in the [[Sisters of Silence]] and [[Inquisition]] to do so when the Sisters of Battle refuse to let them.

The Iron Hands are proven right to be wary of these humble Saints, as very soon after they manifested they started to explode in spectacular fashion. The Sisters of Battle quickly changed their minds when the saints, being transported off planet, started to explode, destroying the ships and all the lives onboard with them. All the Saints were slaughtered in the ensuing cleansing.

tl;dr: The Word Bearers discover that, unfortunately for them, through their ritual the Imperial Faith was able to hijack their hard work, by summoning their own warp entities - Golden Eagles, Pillars of Golden Flame, Golden Faced Saints, and '''a psychic manifestation of the Emperor himself.''' The Alpha Legion now has the know-how to replicate this ritual that can turn normal humans into Anti-Daemon time bombs en masse. Chaos no longer has a monopoly on Warp fuckery.

Meanwhile the White Scars engage in a series of battles across asteroids with a Night Lords warband who Kor Phareon promised could get some nice loot and cause some seer terror. [[Awesome|The White Scars are very badly damaged by the Night Lords who deployed a bunch of Deamon Engines on Asteroids and use Warp Talons to fucking ambush patrols of White Scars.]] In the end the mission is inconclusive.

Iron Warriors deployed massive fuck off daemon engines which harvested planets for resources and destruction against them. The Black Templars breached on with a boarding torpedo and sacrifice themselves to destroy the daemon engines. They boarded daemon engines. And won. Just, let that sink in.