Editing Order of the Pointed Word (section)

==Nu-Lore==
[[Image:PointedWordSister.png|thumb|right|300px|A [[Canoness]] of the Pointed Word]]
Stewards of the desert world Dar-al-Rashid, the sisters of the Pointed Word place a high priority on knowledge, believing that a sharp mind is deadlier than any blade. Masterfully interpreting the flow of battle, the sisters of the Pointed Word combine speed, efficiency, and faith to annihilate the Ecclesiarchy's many foes.

===Origins===
Dar-al-Rashid is a world of salt and sand. The majority of its surface is covered by a hypersaline ocean known as the Bone Sea. While the saltiness of the ocean renders it dangerous for humans, it is nevertheless home to a number of primitive alien life forms, primarily crustaceans. The world has a single continent, Amira, which runs vertically through the planets eastern hemisphere, stretching from pole to pole. The entire continent is covered in a scorching desert. Life never crawled up from the ocean depths on Dar-al-Rashid and the deserts are completely lifeless, save for the human settlements which dot the coasts.

The inhospitable world would have likely never been colonized were it not for its vital location. Dar-al-Rashid is located on a point in space known to the Navis Nobilite as the Silver Junction, a place where several stable warp routes intersect with one another. When this junction was discovered by the rogue trader Safar al-Rashid, he swiftly established a colony on the world to safeguard local trade, as well as to line his pockets with a fee charged to each ship passing by the world. To see to its defense, he arranged for Canoness Salwa el-Hammad and her small preceptory of battle sisters to be reorganized into the order of the Pointed
Word and deployed to the world.

===Doctrine===
Ever since they first deployed to the desiccated world, the sisters of the Pointed Word have proven vital to the administration of Dar-al-Rashid. The order maintains several hospitals, schools, and orphanages across the world, ensuring that the populace is both well-educated and fanatically loyal to the Adeptus Ministorum. The sisters' compassion for the downtrodden is without compare, and the poor are well cared for under their watch. Although Safar al-Rashid originally left a provincial governor in charge of the world, he proved corrupt and was swiftly replaced by the Canoness Superior of the Pointed Word, who has been the traditional ruler of Dar-al-Rashid ever since.

Of the many virtues extolled by the Imperial Creed, it is prudence that the sisters of the Pointed Word value above all. Intellect is highly prized in the order, and each battle sister is as much a scholar as they are a warrior. Their wisdom has proven decisive in dozens of campaigns across the Imperium.

When they don their armor and take to the battlefield, the sisters of the Pointed Word typically rely on high speed disruption tactics. Utilizing squads of bikes and seraphim, they launch devastating hit-and-run attacks before delivering the killing blow with a blitzkrieg of armored vehicles. Should the situation prove truly dire, they have been known to use their positions of authority to whip the common folk into a frenzy, creating massive hordes of frateris militia with which
they can overwhelm any foe.