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I'm trying to finish off my sisters army and had some questions about the iconography.

Things like the Aegis defence Line and the older forge world exorcist have the Eagle Icon on them. Is that more of a Space marine type thing and would sisters tanks, units, fortifications have that icon displayed?

You mean the Aquila? Of course they'd have it The Aquila is the symbol of the Imperium and every loyal human from the PDF up to space marines and everything in between would be proud to display it.

Thanks for such a quick answer!!

The aquila is on absolutely everything the Imperium produces for any of its organizations. It's the symbol of the Imperium itself, not one of its aspects.

Of course, if you want your wall to represent a Sisters-specific site or fortification, you should add the Sororitas fleur d'lis and/or the symbol of the Order to which those Sisters belong.

what about the inquisiion symbol? I know they do work for the inquisition.

Except Black Templars, who do not (generally) wear the Aquila, IIRC.

Fixed2bbroken wrote:
what about the inquisiion symbol? I know they do work for the inquisition.

Sure.

Anyway, the symbol of the Inquisition is not an I for 'Inquisition'. A big 'I' usually means 'Imperium', and it is widely used. Most imperial organizations (Administratum, Astronomican, Astra Telepathica, Arbites) have an 'I' as a symbol.

Thank you for clarifying... have so much to learn!

You may want to consider slapping fleur de lises onto your stuff too, if you really want to Sister-up your stuff. That's the main symbol.

Fixed2bbroken wrote:
what about the inquisiion symbol? I know they do work for the inquisition.

Not really anymore. As of the new fluff, they have no stated connection to the Ordo Hereticus, who they were formerly Chamber a Militant to. The Inquisition codex just says that the Hereticus "watches" the Sisters, among other organisations. So, from a fluff standpoint, an Inquisition symbol wouldn't really be appropriate.

Okay people, the correct writing is Fleur de lys. It is French.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Okay people, the correct writing is Fleur de lys. It is French.

Historically correct, but the spelling changed when it was taken into the English language. Either one is grammatically correct in English.

So “fleur d'lis” and “fleur de lises” are now correct English spellings? I am surprised, but well, we make strange things to English words too .

Basically. Of course, Joan of Arc has like forty different names, few, if any, of which are actually correct.

Jeanne d'Arc is the correct spelling .

Yeah, but we don't use that here.

Just gotta weigh in here and state that the Sisters of Battle do not have inquisition symbols or use them as standard; they do however, use the symbol of the ecclesiarchy which is very similar only it has a sunburst shape instead of the 3 bars.

Yep, the I itself stands for the Imperium. It's the other things that get overlaid onto it that tell you what part of the Imperium it represents. The sun-burst is the Ecclesiarchy, the Inquisition is the three bars, the scales are the Arbites, etc.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
So “fleur d'lis” and “fleur de lises” are now correct English spellings? I am surprised, but well, we make strange things to English words too .

So, in English, 'fleur de lis' and 'fleur de lys' are used interchangeably.

But 'fleur d'lis' and 'fleur de lises' are incorrect spellings, even in English!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur-de-lis
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fleur-de-lis

Makes more sense. Thanks.

But 'fleur d'lis' and 'fleur de lises' are incorrect spellings, even in English!

A google search disagrees with you, indicating it is simply not a common usage, but there are several businesses with the name.

 ArbitorIan wrote:
But 'fleur d'lis' and 'fleur de lises' are incorrect spellings, even in English!

If my mediocre knowledge of French gained from school lessons serves me right, the correct plural would be 'fleurs de lis' or 'fleurs de lys'. Fleur d'lis is definitely incorrect though (and illogical, as there's no vowel clash that would require 'de' or 'du' to be turned into 'd'' anyway...)

Brother Michael wrote:
If my mediocre knowledge of French gained from school lessons serves me right, the correct plural would be 'fleurs de lis' or 'fleurs de lys'.

The last one. Correct French .

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Brother Michael wrote:
If my mediocre knowledge of French gained from school lessons serves me right, the correct plural would be 'fleurs de lis' or 'fleurs de lys'.

The last one. Correct French .

Moi, je aussi parle seulement un peu français, mais wouldn't 'fleur de lys' and 'fleur de lis' both be correct?
(and is seulement in the correct place, or does it go before parle or after français?)

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Brother Michael wrote:
If my mediocre knowledge of French gained from school lessons serves me right, the correct plural would be 'fleurs de lis' or 'fleurs de lys'.

The last one. Correct French .

Moi, je aussi parle seulement un peu français, mais wouldn't 'fleur de lys' and 'fleur de lis' both be correct?
(and is seulement in the correct place, or does it go before parle or after français?)

Je aussi causes a vowel clash
It'd be j'aussi then. But I believe you'd just use moi aussi usually. Seulement is in the right place though

Anyone else notice that the sisters are becoming no longer availible on the GW website?

 Raz'kull Skull Krusha wrote:
Anyone else notice that the sisters are becoming no longer availible on the GW website?

Yup.

A few models have gone 'temporarily out of stock' and then become available again, but far more have become 'no longer available' and none of those have come back into stock in the last two months. This isn't new in itself - there hasn't been a Seraphim Superior on GW UK since some time last year - but the process seems to be accelerating.

Last time I looked two special weapons were nla, along with two superiors and another seraphim. There's exactly two seraphim models available now. If anyone wonders why Sisters players still think the army might be squatted... this is why.

Brother Michael wrote:
It'd be j'aussi then. But I believe you'd just use moi aussi usually. Seulement is in the right place though

That guy is right. «Moi aussi, je parle un peu français». Do not add «seulement» here, it wont add any information and it will make it sound less natural. Alternatively «Je parle aussi un peu français» is correct too, but not the same meaning. In the first case, it means someone speaks a bit of French and you do too, in the second case you speak some language and a bit of French too.
«Fleur de lis» is apparently correct, but really «Fleur de lys» is much more usual.

The Aquila is the imperial symbol,k the two-headed eagle. Blind to the past, looking towards the future.

 ashcroft wrote:

A few models have gone 'temporarily out of stock' and then become available again, but far more have become 'no longer available' and none of those have come back into stock in the last two months. This isn't new in itself - there hasn't been a Seraphim Superior on GW UK since some time last year - but the process seems to be accelerating.

Last time I looked two special weapons were nla, along with two superiors and another seraphim. There's exactly two seraphim models available now. If anyone wonders why Sisters players still think the army might be squatted... this is why.

I'm well past the point where I'll just scratch-build my own sisters when I want new ones. :p

 Melissia wrote:
The Aquila is the imperial symbol,k the two-headed eagle. Blind to the past, looking towards the future.

The double-headed Aquila is supposed to represent the Byzantine emperor's power over both secular and religious matters, as well as marking him out as master of both East and West and the true Roman Emperor, as opposed to the Holy Roman Emperor, whose double headed eagle represents the Church and Kaiser ruling the Empire together. The Russian's adopted the double-headed eagle after the fall of the Byzantines, as it looks both East and West, symbolising Russia's dominion over both Europe and Asia.
The IoM just uses a double-headed eagle because it looks cool and Roman and empire-like, but it does maybe symbolise stuff.
The IoM's double-headed is blinded on one side. The blinded side looks into the future, the seeing side into the past. The blind side is better armoured. It is supposed to symbolise the fact that the future may be unforseen, but that the Imperium is well-prepared by learning from the past. That is my guess at least.
After the rise of the Imperial Cult, the eagle probably came to represent the duality of Church and State. Or maybe the Emperor and the Adeptus Terra.
Or maybe there is no symbolism at all and it just looks cool.