Miriael Sabathiel

2021-10-04T11:15:26Z

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[[File:Miriael Sabathiel.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|upright=0.56|Sister Champion of Slaanesh]]
'''Miriael Sabathiel''' is a former Sister Superior of the Order of Our Martyred Lady who was corrupted by [[Slaanesh]] and is now her champion. She is the only Sister the [[Adepta Sororitas]] acknowledge to have been corrupted by [[Chaos]]. Although Battle Sisters have fallen to Chaos before (most notably in [[Ephrael Stern|Daemonifuge]] and [[Ciaphas Cain]]) Miriael is notable in her willingness to do so. The sisters of the Order Pronatus in Daemonifuge were brainwashed over the course of years by one of the most powerful Keepers of Secrets the Imperium had ever encountered and the sisters in Ciaphas Cain were mind controlled by a Chaos psyker who could control entire planets at a time. Miriael, on the other hand, was in the clutches of the Emperor's Children for a scant few days before fully devoting herself to Slaanesh ([[Rule 34|kinda makes you wonder what they did during that time]]). Despite this, her existence is one of the few trump cards Sisters can pull against the [[Space Marines]] - they may not be as physically powerful as the Astartes, but at least they've only lost Miriael and a few hundred Sisters over the millennia instead of [[Horus Heresy|nine Legions numbering 10,000+ strong plus their uber-powerful Primarchs]].

==Overview==
No one really knows why she turned to Slaanesh, probably Catholic school-girl syndrome. But what is known is that she's a stain on the honor of the Sororitas and a complete pain in the ass for anyone in her way. She announced her presence to the Imperium by committing several mass killings in such a way to make it obvious a Sister of Battle had done them. The planetary governor, convinced he was dealing with a Chaos cultist trying to stain the Sororitas' honor (something he wasn't entirely wrong about) sent word to the Order of Our Martyred Lady about the incidents and quietly sent a bounty hunter after Miriael. Soon, Canoness Olga Karamanz arrived along with two veteran Battle Sisters to hunt the fallen sister down. They used a tracker to locate the governor's bounty hunter, only to discover that he had already been corrupted and had led them into a trap. After Miriael killed the two veteran sisters, Canoness Olga desperately tried to redeem Miriael before being killed herself.

Interestingly, the book she appears in, The Invitation, repeatedly states that she's the only Sister of Battle ever to fall to Chaos, despite Chaos Sisters also appearing in both [[Ephrael Stern|Daemonifuge]] and one of the [[Ciaphas Cain]] books. While you could just go with the standard "everything is canon, nothing is canon" answer that [[Black Library]] has for all of their canon conflicts, there are a few possible explanations for this.
*The Invitation might take place before the events of Daemonifuge and Ciaphas Cain, meaning that Miriael isn't the only Chaos Sister of Battle to ever exist, but she was the first.
*Chaos Sisters of Battle could be so incredibly rare that whenever one appears, everyone assumes it's the only one to ever exist. Remember that Imperial records are incredibly unreliable even under the best circumstances, and what little reliability they have takes a nosedive wherever Chaos is concerned.
*Other Chaos Sisters of Battle might exist in the setting, but the information on their existence is so tightly controlled by the Sororitas that no one outside of the highest-ranking Canonesses are aware of their existence. (This is confirmed to be true in James Swallow's Sisters of Battle Omnibus in the short story at the end.)
*Sisters of Battle fall to Chaos, just at a slower rate than Space Marines. However, thanks to the over-zealous nature of the Adepta Sororitas, they rarely survive long enough for anyone to hear about them. In this case, what would make Miriael exceptional isn't that she fell to Chaos, but that she survived long enough for non-Sororitas to learn of her existence.
*Miriael is the only one to actively ''embrace'' the corruption and willingly fall, as opposed to being corrupted by outward influence. In Daemonifuge, the sisters are still found to oppose the Keeper of Secrets by what little they could, and in Cain's story the sisters commit suicide the moment they're freed from Varan's mind control; indicating they were in both cases still trying to resist the corruption. Miriael became a full-fledged champion of Slaanesh and revels in it.

Despite being such a unique character with a badass aesthetic and awesome potential, she's not that prominent in the fluff, similar to [[Ephrael Stern]] before Psychic Awakening. She's also probably the single most misrepresented character in the 40k community, with a mind-boggling amount of misinformation and rumors being posted in any thread she's mentioned in. This is mostly due to irresponsible editing on both the Warhammer 40k Wiki and [[1d4chan|this site]]. There's also a shocking absence of [[Rule 34]] of her, though that's probably because she's a relatively unknown and minor character.

==Tabletop==
Homebrew rules for Miriael Sabathiel. Cuz [[/tg/ gets shit done|that's what we do here]]. [https://drive.google.com/open?id=19IQQfI2EHBuFoyWc6dTAxYwURREIsob- These rules are also available in (much more legible) PDF!]

===MIRIAEL SABATHIEL (HQ)===
{| class=wikitable
! || Power || Points || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Mirial Sabathiel:''' || 5 || 105 || 7" || 2+ || 2+ || 3 || 3 || 5 || 5 || 10 || 3+
|}
''Miriael Sabathiel is a single model armed with: bolt pistol; 2 cyber-kestrals, The Agoniser; frag grenades; krak grenades. Only one of this model may be included in your army.''
{| class=wikitable
! '''Weapons:''' || Range || Type || S || AP || D || Abilities
|-
| Bolt pistol || 12" || Pistol 1 || 4 || 0 || 1 || -
|-
| Cyber-kestral || 24" || Assault D6 || 3 || 0 || 1 || -
|-
| The Agoniser || Melee || Melee || +2 || -3 || D3 || For every wound roll of 6+, the target suffers a mortal wound in addition to this weapons usual damage.
|-
| Frag Grenades || 6" || Grenade D6 || 3 || 0 || 1 || -
|-
| Krak Grenades || 6" || Grenade 1 || 6 || -1 || D3 || -
|}
'''ABILITIES:'''
*'''Armour of Ecstasy:''' Roll a D6 each time Miriael Sabathiel loses a wound. On a 5+, the wound is not lost.
*'''Corrupted Rosarius:''' Miriael Sabathiel has a 4+ invulnerable save.
*'''Damning Strike''': Each time you roll a hit roll of 6+ for Miriael Sabathiel in the Fight phase, she can immediately make an extra attack against the same unit using the same weapon. If she is targeting an {{Template:W40kKeyword|ADEPTA SORORITAS}} unit, this ability takes effect on any hit rolls of 4+ instead. These extra attacks cannot themselves generate any further attacks.
*'''Mistress of Traitors:''' You can re-roll hit rolls of 1 made for friendly {{Template:W40kKeyword|EMPEROR'S CHILDREN}} units within 6" of Miriael Sabathiel.
'''WARLORD TRAIT:''' '''Scintillating Seductress''': Enemy units within 6" of this Warlord subtract 1 from their Leadership characteristic. In addition, each time an enemy model within 6" of this Warlord flees as a result of a failed morale test, roll a D6 before removing that model: on a 5+, that model attacks its former allies and its unit suffers a mortal wound.

'''FACTION KEYWORDS:''' {{Template:W40kKeyword|CHAOS}}, {{Template:W40kKeyword|SLAANESH}}, {{Template:W40kKeyword|HERETIC ASTARTES}}, {{Template:W40kKeyword|EMPEROR'S CHILDREN}}

'''KEYWORDS:''' {{Template:W40kKeyword|CHARACTER}}, {{Template:W40kKeyword|INFANTRY}}, {{Template:W40kKeyword|CHAOS LORD}}, {{Template:W40kKeyword|MIRIAEL SABATHIEL}}

=Gallery=
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Image:Miriael Sabathiel 2.jpg
Image:Miriael Sabathiel by slaaneshg.jpg|Seen here using her tits to do space magic
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Image:Miriael Sabathiel 4.jpg
Image:Miriael Sabathiel by Littlecutter.png|As she appears in [[If The Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device]]
Image:Miriael Sabathiel - Manuel Mesones.jpg|But I thought she couldn't take off.. her um... erm... what were we talking about?
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Image:Miriael sabathiel by sexual yeti-db97kpr.jpg|Tits. Also dat tongue...probably shouldn't put your [[Eldrad|dick]] near it
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==External links==
*[https://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/the-invitation-ebook.html The Invitation eBook on Black Library]
*[https://drive.google.com/open?id=19IQQfI2EHBuFoyWc6dTAxYwURREIsob- The PDF version of the homebrew rules above]
*[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B20ZFeyGKxcwa2dmeEJZTmRkaUk 7th edition homebrew rules for Miriael and Fallen Sisters]
*[[Codex - Fallen Sororitas]] - A WIP homebrew codex for Sisters of Battle who have fallen to Chaos.

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[[Category:Chaos]]
[[Category:Sisters of Battle]]
[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]]

UR-025

2021-10-04T09:50:09Z

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[[File:Blackstone-Fortress-men of irone-eldar.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|*BEEP* Alas poor Yorick, I knew him Amallyn]]

{{Topquote|I am not a machine as you would understand. I am not a slave. I am not a thing. I am beyond and above you. I am a man of iron. And I am free.|UR-025}}

'''UR-025''' is one of the very, very, very few [[Men of Iron]] remaining in the Galaxy, and the only one that has ever had a model. He appears in the [[Blackstone Fortress]] box set as one of the characters.

=Background=
As one of the elusive Men of iron of legend, UR-025 is a sentient machine that predates the Imperium, supposedly coming from the Dark Age of Technology itself. If this information is true, that means it's one of the oldest characters in the setting period, considering his existence predates the [[Horus Heresy]], the [[Great Crusade]], the [[Unification Wars]], the [[Age of Strife]], the [[Fall of the Eldar]] and the [[Cybernetic Revolt]]. That would put him at roughly 19.000 years old, probably much, much more if we take in consideration the lack of precision of the imperial calendar and the lack of a specific fabrication date. Needless to say, it is an old fucker, and as such it has seen many, many things. He has claimed on occasion that he used to know the [[Omnissiah]], and "not the [[Emperor of Mankind|earthling corpse]], the [[Void Dragon|actual one]]". Since the end of the Cybernetic Revolt, UR-025 has had to survive by living in the fringes of inhabited space. He knows very well that, if he's ever discovered, he will be hunted down and destroyed by the [[Imperium of Man|Imperium]] or worse, turned to the [[Mechanicus]] to be studied forever. And thus he's designed a way to camouflage himself in plain sight: he just put an imperial aquila in his chassis and pretends to be an advanced remote-controlled/almost-autonomous [[servitor]] belonging to some [[Magos]], and thus no-one really bothers the cheeky fucker. That still does not stop him from creeping out most of his companions during the expedition to the Blackstone Fortress.

For a Man of Iron, he harbors no ill will towards Humanity — but he will kill any humans who threaten his anonymity. He is actually a rather sentimental fellow, lamenting not having company to talk to multiple times. He remembers plenty of extinct xenos species he had deals with, sounding genuinely saddened by their passing. Longing for company, UR-025 explores the seventh Blackstone Fortress; his goal is to determine if the fortress itself is also a sentient machine. Believing he may share some form of companionship, even kinship, with the ancient alien machine. [[Belisarius Cawl]] would be great friends with him—and by friends we mean that Cawl would dissect him for the Omnissiah.

=On the Tabletop=
===40k===
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''UR-025''' Imperial Robot|| 40 || 3+ || 3+ || 5 || 5 || 4 || 3 || 8 || 3+
|}

UR-025 is a single model, armed with a power claw and a Mk I assault cannon (24" 4 shot heavy bolter). His Self Repair System rule allows him to regain one lost wound at the start of every round. Compared to other options he isn't that impressive. Sentinels, Leman Russ Punishers, Dreadnoughts, Kataphrons, Dunecrawlers, most Battle Automata, most AdMECH HQs and a squad of Skitarii have better weapons than he does. Being a character, he does make a cheap objective camper while regenerating the odd sniper wound and contributing a bit of firepower, though paying 1 CP (as the only usable keyword is Imperium) hurts. Take Grauss or X-101 instead.

===Kill Team===
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''UR-025''' Imperial Robot|| 30 || 5" || 3+ || 3+ || 5 || 5 || 4 || 2 || 8 || 3+
|}

In [[Kill Team]], UR-025 is excellent, filling a hole in the Admech's roster and being a Heavy that doesn't count against the normal limit on Specialists. He's slow, however, and doesn't get any benefit from Canticles.

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[[Category:Adeptus Mechanicus]]
[[Category:Imperial]]

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