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STRIKE AND FADE

After this fighter shoots or fights, it may immediately make a free 6" fall-back or redeploy Move — the strike delivered, and the striker already elsewhere. It may not be charged out of this move, though a faster or deeper threat may still run it down. This is the Silent Order's discipline made a skill: never remain where the blow was struck, never stand to be answered. The Argent Shroud takes it in place of the suicidal charge its siblings learn, for the gang that lives by the descent has no use for a skill that keeps it in the fight.

Beacon of Faith makes a Sister a wellspring the whole line may draw upon. Friendly fighters within 6" of this fighter may pay for their Acts of Faith through her presence, extending the pool's reach across the battlefield, and once per round a friendly within 6" may re-roll a failed Act. She stands as a living reliquary, her devotion carrying the miracle to those who would otherwise be beyond its grace. Around such a fighter the faithful surge and hold, certain the Emperor's hand is never far.

Heroine of Faith marks the Sister whose devotion is so complete the Emperor answers unbidden. Once per battle, this fighter may perform one Act of Faith without spending any Faith from the pool — a single free miracle called in her moment of need. It is the saint's instant, the flash of grace granted to one who has earned it through a lifetime of service. The pool is untouched; the miracle comes as though the Emperor Himself reached down to steady her hand.

Holy Trinity sharpens a Sister's mastery of the three sacred patterns into lethal certainty. When this fighter shoots with a bolt, melta or flame weapon, she may re-roll a failed Hit — the drilled reflex of one who has fired the sacred trinity ten thousand times in the Emperor's name. Bolt, fire and fusion answer her hand alike, and the target she has chosen is rarely spared a second chance. It is the shooting discipline that makes the Sororitas firing line the terror it is at every range the trinity commands.

Martyrdom turns a Sister's fall into fuel for the miracles of those who outlive her. When this fighter goes Seriously Injured or Out of Action, immediately add +1 Faith to the pool, over and above the gang's usual generation. This is the named death that the reliquary remembers — a Sister who dies well pays for the surge that answers her killers. Fighters carrying this skill are worth more broken than whole, and the enemy who cuts one down finds the wound turned into wrath before her body has settled.

Suffer Not the Witch is the witch-hunter's discipline, the cold hatred the Ordo Hereticus breeds into its handmaidens. This fighter gains +1 to Hit and +1 to Wound against enemy PSYKERS, and her attacks ignore a psyker's invulnerable or Wyrd ward entirely — no warp-shield turns the faithful blade. Against the sorcerer, the seer and the daemon-touched, she strikes with a certainty that admits no protection. The unclean mind holds no terror for a Sister who has sworn to see every witch burn.

Zealot is the fury of the faithful who run toward death where others flee it. This fighter automatically passes any test taken to charge, no matter the odds against her, and re-rolls a failed charge distance. Fear of the enemy has no hold on one who counts death in the Emperor's service a reward — she closes the gap with a litany on her lips, certain the charge is righteous and the outcome already blessed. It is the skill of the true believer who does not weigh a fight before joining it.