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Hello folks,

I have a question regarding the Adeptus Sororitas. Lets say you are some imperial Guardsmen and you fight alongside the Sororitas on a battlefield. In this battle you did something great, lets say saving around 200 sororitas from corruption or their certain death, is there something like a honorary title you can get from them in recognition of your actions?

Not that I've seen, although don't let that stop you making something up.

Order of the Albus Militis

Sisters don't need saving from corruption... rather, if there was something there that was corrupting people, the Sisters would be the very last to succumb, if they ever did.

However, the Sisterhood is not a branch of the Munitorum and the like, they don't award medals and such, bravery and sacrifice are simply what is expected of them and those around them. While I'm sure the Ecclesiarchy has some sort of title they award to regular people who go above-and-beyond ("Defender of the Faith" or some similar thing) the Sisterhood doesn't really do that.

After all, it's the Sisterhood. They're better than the Guard, in terms of gear and training. They're better than the unwashed masses, in terms of just about everything.

Saving Sisters from death? That wasn't you, that was the Emperor. It was His Will that they lived. Death? Death for a Sister means she can now go on to the Emperor's side to join the War Eternal. It's not a bad thing to them.

Agreed. The Adepta Sororitas are technically a sub-branch of the Ecclesiarchy, hence it would be an Ecclesiarchy award - most likely Purity Seals for a small scale.

The Adepta Sororitas don't really have internal 'medals' - aside from promotion in rank - so there's nothing to adapt.

From the Only War RPG, the closest thing I can see is this:

Drusian Laurels - Drusian Laurels are awarded for defending high-ranking members of the Ecclesiarchy of the Calixis Sector, or participating in actions to protect particularly valuable or venerated shrines or artefacts. This award appears as a gold-etched Aquila flanked by laurels. Awarded for defending the personnel and property of the Adeptus Ministorum.

Note that 'Drusus' was a reknown saint in the sector where the RPG is set, but every region of the Imperium probably has something similar (or else would revert to Ollianus Pious, patron saint of the Imperial Guard).

 Psienesis wrote:
Sisters don't need saving from corruption... rather, if there was something there that was corrupting people, the Sisters would be the very last to succumb, if they ever did.

True, but they can still be saved from dying in a last stand by well-timed reinforcements. Yes, it was the Emperor's will, but it was His will enacted through this particular unit, and that may be worthy of recognition. Plus, I dont think the Sororitas are all so utterly brainwashed as to not feel simple gratitude.

It needn't be a formal "medal"; just some sort of favour, be it an item of wargear (anything from a fallen Sister's helm to a handful of sacred bolter casings) or simply the rescuers' Valkyrie being blessed by the Sister Superior.

I don't mean to pry, but is it out of curiosity or specifically for only war or a campaign or something?

It is for a Fanfiction story i´m writing right now. ^^

i have to dirty a mind to participate in this conversation.....
good day
FMJ

There are campaign ribbons, though, for particularly large engagements and the sort, as the Sisters and the Black Templars share honors from one another on that basis.

Fauk wrote:
It is for a Fanfiction story i´m writing right now. ^^

If you want a Guard character to have a decoration from the Sororitas in recognition of deeds performed, you could have one of the Sisters - perhaps a Superior or acting squad leader - give them a private token, such as a chaplet ecclesiasticus or a small rosary bearing the Sigil Sororitas in unofficial recognition of their deeds, with the knowledge that it would never publicly be rewarded.

Can you give me some more information about the stuff you mentioned? English is not my mother tongue and I haven´t heard about these items, so right now I don´t know what all of these are, because they maybe named differently in my language or something like that.

To be fair, I rather imagine the Sororitas would honor any lay person who performed a great service to their orders. It might not be a formal decoration per the Imperial Guard, but I could easily see them giving a Guardsman a minor holy relic, an Aquila blessed by a Cardinal, a venerated tryptich or an honored sacred text to memorialize their service. Model the gift on sacred items of the Roman Catholic source and you won't go far wrong.

They might equally commission a hymn or a prayer in the heroes honor. His name might be inscribed on a sacred monument or in a cathedral to ensure his name (if not his deeds) were never forgotten. Perhaps even a statue might be erected in his or her honor if the deed was especially spectacular.

Of course, if the deed was particularly dramatic, and had signs of the Emperor's favor associated with it, the hero himself might become venerated. If the story became popular enough, in time (probably post-Mortem) he might even be canonized as a Saint himself.

A lot might depend on the character of the hero and what s/he did after the event. A hero who was pious and exemplified the ideals of the Ecclesiarchy would be more likely to become sainted later. Likewise, a hero who was ultimately martyred would be short listed for sainthood - his very martyrdom being a 'sign' to the truly faithful.

There's no reason to believe a Sororitas Order would shrink from rewards to those who served their cause, or even from 'sponsoring' an allied saint. Such a saint could be the source of great prestige for the Order, developing a market for saint-related relics, artifacts, sacred medals and the like. If they hit the big time shrines and sites associated with a saint can draw pilgrims, which are an enormous source of income (as well as the prestige) for the Order and the Ecclesiarchy.

Or not, as you see fit. It's YOUR fanfic, your take on the Imperium, after all.

My two cents.

Personal keepsakes if you like, emblazoned with Ecclesiarchy or Sororitas symbols, that a Sister might pass over as personal recognition of the Guard character's deeds.

Otherwise, have the Ecclesiarchy itself bestow an award to the Guard Unit. I mean the Ecclesiarchy are the heralds of the God-Emperor's will, so having a Priest give an official blessing to a unit in recognition for their unwavering faith in service to the Daughters of the Emperor would be a pretty special thing.

[quoteCan you give me some more information about the stuff you mentioned? English is not my mother tongue and I haven´t heard about these items, so right now I don´t know what all of these are, because they maybe named differently in my language or something like that.

A regular Guardsman?

They'd probably be executed for heresy, thinking they can save the incorruptible from heresy.

Can you give me some more information about the stuff you mentioned? English is not my mother tongue and I haven´t heard about these items, so right now I don´t know what all of these are, because they maybe named differently in my language or something like that.

Look up a picture of a "catholic rosary" and replace the cross with an aquilla, and that's pretty much what you're after.

Not quite. The Chaplet is the icon of the Ecclesiarchy, not the Emperor's own sigil.

The Chaplet Ecclesiasticus is the little icon on the end of the beads attached to most Sisters' armour, either as a charm or as a belt. It looks something like this;

http://brashsculptor.deviantart.com/art/Chaplet-Ecclesiasticus-183746739

The Sigil Sororitas is the 40k name for the Fleur de Lys icon that the Sisters put on all their tanks;

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/d/dc/Adeptus_Sororitas_Icon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110820063406

It's quite common for Chaplets to get lost or broken during combat - they form a back-up weapon, having a dagger blade hidden in the shaft of the icon (Swallow J., Faith and Fire, Black Library 2006), and are only held on by a bit of string, so a Sister "misplacing" one after a long fight wouldn't be examined too closely (she would probably have to whip herself a few extra times while atoning for using too much ammunition).

My answer is completly out of my imagination, but it doesn't hurt to share. For a RPG campaign of Only War, my group team fought alongside a regiment with a long history of heroism: the Traxian White Owls 11th. Since they came from a planet that was conquered by the Order of the Valorous Heart and still maintain a large covent of the same Holy Order, the White Owls have a lot of experience fighting with them. On their regimental banner they have commandation from the Sisterhood in the form of purity seals and by adding the Holy Order heraldic to that of the regiment. This perticular White Owl regiment had 3 Sisters of Battle commandation, 4 Space Marines ones and 1 from the Ordo Hereticus. I got this idea from Hellsreach of Aaron Dembski Bowden. A commander of a squadron of lightning pilots said to Grimaldus, a Black Templar Chaplain, that his squadron was awarded by his Chapter the right to paint the Black Templar cross on the wings of their aircrafts as a sign of their heroism and excellence. It wasn't an unusual practice to award heroic Imperial Guard regiments in such a fashion for the Black Templar. I thought that other Space Marines and the Sisterhood would do the same thing.