Hey all,

Minor spoilers below, you have been warned.

Under the entry for Diaz Lan, there is a sidebar about his secret life (page 14). It references an artefact called the Sarcophagus of the Honoured Dead, and mentions it like I should know who the Honoured Dead are. Is there some reference to this somewhere else? I have returned to the core book and looked through the adventure for other mentions of this group, and have come up empty.

Is this open to my own "fill in the blanks" interpretation, or does it reference some minor sideplot that I overlooked somewhere?

Any insight is appreciated.

I can't remember for the life of me where it's sourced, but it is. There's some fluff that talks of a few strangely etched metallic sealed caskets (blatantly Necron) that sometimes turn up. They're supposed to have all kinds of mythical properties (though none are ever exhibited) and change hands amongst collectors and heretics for small fortunes.

I've found only this through google:

www.scholaprogenium.com/timeline.html

831.M33 — Year of Ghosts. The honored dead rise throughout the Imperium to defeat creatures of the Warp.

Alex

The Honoured Dead, Rites of Battle, Page 252, top right Side Panel.

Yeah and obviously Necron. Or is that Necrontyr

Hah!

Last page, of course. Been working my way through it, but hadn't made it that far yet. Still, RoB post-dates Emperor Protects, so is there mention of this in one of the other game lines perhaps? I started looking back through Rogue Trader but didn't see anything there (and checked the Diaz Lan entry in the GM Screen booklet).

Thanks for the reference though!

The part about "The Honoured Dead" that appears in Rites of Battle was originally part of the Deathwatch Core Rulebook during the playtesting phase. I think it was moved to RoB for page-count issues (don't know for sure). So my guess is TEP was written when this was still in the Core Rulebook so that would make sense.