Silent Sisters

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Still, not all were reviled or ironically burned as witches. The offspring of these few had children of their own, and over the generations, the genetic peculiarity of the Silent Sisterhood found its way further into the vast spread of the Human race.

But underneath the laughter, Wallace began to discover a darkness within each twin. Reading through June’s diaries, she found that June felt possessed by her sister, whom she referred to as a “dark shadow” over her. Meanwhile, Jennifer’s diaries revealed that she thought of June and herself as “fatal enemies,” and described her sister as “a face of misery, deception, murder.”

Along with the Legio Custodes, the Sisters of Silence had the right and duty to walk freely within the inner sanctum of the Imperial Vaults deep beneath the Imperial Palace, the sovereign and sole domain of the Emperor and His household at the behest and license of the Master of Mankind. Following the end of the Horus Heresy, Mankind became superstitious and fearful of the unknown, and the Silent Sisterhood was cast out by a distrustful Imperium.

The Emperor within the Imperial Webway leads the Legio Custodes and Silent Sisterhood against the forces of Chaos during the War Within the Webway of the Horus Heresy.In many ways, the Sisterhood stand guard over Humanity's psychic evolution. Truly these women are death incarnate to those who believe that their unnatural powers make them gods amongst mortals -- the Talons of the Emperor are always ready to tear such fools down from their pedestals. Marla Sunderland rebelled against House Arryn during Aegon's Conquest, [18] but she was deposed by her younger brother Steffon with the failure of the Sistermen's Rebellion. After five years of imprisonment, Marla's tongue was removed and she was forced to join the silent sisters. [13] Fools may call these women abominations, hags and freaks. Only the wise known the Sisters as the bravest of all Humanity's saviours -- they who battle Chaos itself." She was getting on and I fully believe she had a mental illness all of her life that went untreated. I was more angry at her family, not her," she says.