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=== Kinebrach Blades ===

The Kinebrach’s main contributions to the Imperium, and its long war against [[Chaos]], are not the soldiers they send to the front lines — although the Kinebrach can be quite physically formidable when pressed, by weight of numbers they are insignificant on their own — but rather the weapons they can forge; specifically, it is Kinebrach blades that the Imperium craves from them.

The Kinebrach have tendency to put a great deal of themselves into their work — and the description is not entirely figurative. The Kinebrach as a species are all latent psykers, but their ability is limited to what they can do with crafting and metalwork. [[Dwarfs_(Warhammer_Fantasy)#Runesmithing |In some ways this is a good thing, as it allows for the expression of psychic abilities in a more stable, controlled fashion, and if a daemon does possess a Kinebrach what the daemon can do with its host is limited.]]

There is a lot of ceremony and ritual to the forging of a blade, but a master Kinebrach smith can beat a blade to contain parts of their very self — their hate, their anger, their sorrow — and the finished blade will carry a portion of its maker's soul as power, hungering for war and vengeance on their behalf. The Inquisition is always willing to pay vast sums for a genuine Kinebrach work, as such swords make for unrivalled weapons in vanquishing daemons; even for all their Chaos god-granted power, a daemon skewered with a Kinebrach blade will suffer for it.

But there is a price.

Strands of fate twist through the metal, binding the blades' destinies to war and bloodshed — and its wielder bound along with it. Even an inanimate object has a minuscule reflection in the Warp, and Kinebrach blades take this to extremes; the histories that empower the blades are impressed upon the present in turn — a vicious cycle of fighting and death. This makes little difference in the Dark Millennium, for all who wield one of these blades are already on the warpath. Perhaps, in some distant future, the powers of the Kinebrach blades will be regarded as curses rather than blessings. For now, though, there is the war.