Daughters of the Word (wargear)

Hextrix is a busy man, always working to expand the sector's industries, administering the tech-priests, and researching new and wondrous technologies.

Baal-pattern light power armor: STC-compliant power armor. Based on patterns derived from existing Daughter armor, with some modifications by Hextrix since he didn't have access to the actual templates at the time. Produced in some quantity on Argoth. It's named after Tanith-Baal.

Hextrix is working on an Astartes-compatible version of this armor, for when there are no more ancient legacy suits or salvaged armor to go around. Thus far his work hasn't been wholly successful, due to a lack of resources and proper research and production facilities.

Domina-pattern bolt pistol: Pistol version of the Domina-pattern bolter.

Domina-pattern bolter: Thus far, Daughters have used a variety of bolt and (Tau) plasma weapons, but Hextrix is close to mass-producing a new model bolter, the so-called Domina (Lady) pattern. It's based on the same pattern as the not-so-successful Astartes Domo model (it fails reliability testing). About 90% of the parts used are the same and if fires the same ammunition. Which isn't very useful unless everyone uses the same weapon pattern. What is useful, however, is the custom integration with the Baal-pattern PA, which allows the Domina to use sensor data from the suit, increasing accuracy.

Dagon-pattern incinerator: Abortive attempt at combining a standard flamer unit with a toxin dispenser for use against especially hostile bioforms (read: Tyranids). The actual weapon works well enough, but it's finding a toxin that can be combined with the promethium mix that's the problem.

Jericho-pattern fireblade: This is a human-sized battle sword that utilizes Tau tech to generate a plasma beam along the blade's cutting edge. It's no archeotech powersword, but it's a lightweight and effective alternative to chainswords. 

Sister Superior Riga of the Angelic Touch

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Dark and brooding, Sister Riga doesn't really look the part of a sweet sister of the Orders Hospitaller. Her healing touch cannot be denied, however. Nor her skill with the tools of the interrogator. Or her eagerness in other matters.

Riga would always wear white. In battle or in peace, in bed, or in the torture pit. Always white. Until the day she failed Barotta, and allowed mutation to creep into his Astartes. Then she failed to tell him the sorry state of affairs. Now she wears black to remind her of the price of failure.

She comes from the same simple origins as Karla Omega. And like her fellow Daughter has had to go above and beyond what she trained for. Perhaps the strain has been too great, or her skills not sufficient. Perhaps, after all, she's a pretty thing to look at, and a fun toy, but not more.

Primaris Kay, Duskborn Wyrd, Trained Sorceress

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Light of hair and blue of eye, fair Kay looks like the angel she is not. Born on the Feral World of Dusk in Calixis, she's a former Black Ship prisoner, freed by the Light (or Chaos reavers attacking the Imperium). Trained as a sorcerer by the Salt Witches on Queensworld (Diamantina).

Attached to Barotta early on and has followed him on all his adventures. At some point, either before or after meeting Barotta, she became a disciple of Samus and was possessed by a Daemon. She no longer has Samus' dubious blessings, as the Daemon was ultimately banished by the Banner of Terra (she also doesn't have Nurgle's rot).

She's got very few memories of her life under the Daemon's thumb, and have had to rediscover (or reinvent) herself. With unlimited access to the Ever-changing Library, her powers have grown by leaps and bounds. Truth be told, Barotta has no idea what she can or cannot do these days. Her mind is equally unreadable; those few who experience possession and live are either driven insane or hone their minds harder than adamantium - or both.

Kay has a false sanctioning brand to go with her equally fake devotional tattoos, but they are hardly needed anymore. Who would dare lay hands on the Lady next to Barotta?

Lady Adeptus Karla Omega

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Karla Omega is a Daughter of the Spiked Fist, trained in the ways of the Machine, but no true tech-priest. Due to a desperate lack of proper Mechanicum adepts, she was forced to do a lot of stuff she wasn't really qualified for. But when your Chapter takes the plunge into a warp vortex, leaving you hanging dry, what can you do?

Half woman, half machine, Karla Omega is still a passionate creature, far removed from the cold logic of the Mechanicus. She diligently explores the pleasures and pains of the flesh, while seeking to unlock the deeper mysteries of the Machine God, following paths of her own (if you wish to listen to rumors, she's seduced and tortured her way to many secrets).

In battle, she wears a unique suit of artificer armor designed and made by herself. When not dressed for battle, she favors a clinging body-suit of black, worn under flowing robes of golden mist-silk that reveal more than they conceal. Her head she leaves uncovered, to show off the pure chrome of her skull.

Arch-Prioress Tanith Baal

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The Arch-Prioress is an older (compared to the girls under her command at any rate) woman, stern and grey-haired (by choice, not old age). Her origin and her past are not known, but presumably, she saw service with the Daughters before there was a Coven of the Vile Huntress. Some of the others whisper that she has stood in the presence of the Prophet, and received his blessings.

With the rise of the Jericho Sector, her star is in the ascendant: of all Barotta's servants, she is the one in charge of overseeing the spread of the Word and the Will of the Prophet. She's performed admirably, save one slipup when she failed to keep the Chapter Master informed about the mutations affecting his men.

Who knows what magic she worked, what dark pacts she called upon to get out of that one...