The Sword of Secrets

The Sword of Secrets is among the most treasured relic blades of the Dark Angels, a power sword whose keen edge has served the Masters of the Chapter across ten thousand years of unending war. Its very name speaks to the buried purpose of the Chapter, whose secret shame and secret hunt shape all that they do.

Borne by the successors of the Lion among the Space Marines, the blade has been raised in the Chapter's gravest hours, from the wars against the servants of the Chaos Space Marines to the silent, merciless hunt for the Fallen who betrayed their gene-sire. Each Master to wield it inherits not only its edge but the weight of the Chapter's deepest, most jealously guarded truths.

Sheathed at a Master's side, the Sword of Secrets is a mark of absolute trust, borne only by those admitted to the innermost circles of the Dark Angels. When it is at last drawn, it is because the enemy before it is one the Chapter would see slain above all others, and few who have looked upon its glowing edge have lived to speak of what they saw.