One of my players is going to create a missionary soon, so I took a look at the starting gear for missionaries. Among other things, they get a sepulchre. What does that mean? Afaik, "sepulchre" is a synonym of tomb or grave. Is it supposed to be some kind of coffin or what?

Thx for your help.

I'd assume it refers to a reliquary.

Either that or he has access to very powerful capital-ship-mounted necron technology. But I think it's probably the former...

This is kind of... out there, but maybe it does refer to just a sepulchre, as we understand it. It's not necessarily beyond reason that a missionary, who goes beyond the borders of the Imperium to spread the creed, might have a guaranteed resting place waiting back in the Imperium...

I'd never thought about this, but I'm gonna have to point it out to my group's missionary. She gets to be the ship's mortician.

Ok, I like the explanation with the guaranteed resting place, but I does not really fit the starting gear list. I think I will give my missionary a kind of gilded coffin instead. It will make for a grimdark and macabre mood right from the beginning ;-)

Thx for your input.

Guys, the meaning here is " receptacle for religious relic " . I'd call it a sealed container with a saint's finger bone or somesuch, and it'd work like a "charm" (page 139).

Iku Rex said:

Good call, and much along the lines of what I had been thinking. I'd give you a "thumbs up" emoticon, but I don't see one in the smileys, so you get applauded.

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