Editing Iron Gaze (section)

====The Sin-eaters of Iron Gaze====

In decades following their founding and settling the planet of Nazareth, Iron Gaze continued their research of the trove of data slates they found.

Around year 750 M41, a data slate containing research of a certain Magos Biologis was found. The research was focused on gene-manipulation in order to give humans natural anti-Warp, and therefore anti-corruption, resistance.

Intrigued by the research, Iron Gaze sought to alter their own geneseed with what they found. It seemed like they succeeded, giving their new recruits a low-level anti-Warp resistance, but at cost of suppressing psyker abilities completely and deteriorated control of Omophagea, making them somewhat more bloodthirsty. At first, at least.

As they soon found out, recruits that carry the Blank gene, even if its recessive, started exhibiting some very strange abilities. First of all, after implantation of the geneseed, their Blank gene became active, making them incredibly powerful Blanks, able to control their auras. Furthermore, their Omophagea became even more stimulated, making them feel bloodthirst and desire for enemy flesh more keenly than their brothers. A positive side of this mutation that they are able to consume enemy brain and gain extremely detailed knowledge about their victims life.

While Blanks are extremely rare, people carrying the gene recessively turned out to be a little less so. In fact, Iron Gaze very soon had several dozen such individuals within their chapter. This prompted creation of a special rank that replaced now extinct Librarians: the Sin-eaters. Due to their importance, Sin-eaters are the only members of the chapter that get to wear otherwise rare Terminator armors.