The Silent Sisterhood of the Great Tithe - The Sisters of Silence - en - Memoires of Lt. Colonel Gudrun Ceax

Oct 7, 2026

Profiles the Sisters of Silence as a covert, legally empowered order of the Emperor’s servants and militant arm of the Divisio and Astra Telepathica. Describes their role as enforcers of the Great Tithe who hunt, apprehend, process, and sometimes destroy psykers across the Imperium. Includes an on-the-record childhood recollection from Lt. Colonel Gudrun Ceax and explains the Untouchables’ Psychic Null nature, their lack of Warp shadow, and the dread they provoke through an anathema-like “wrongness”.

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CategoryReligion & Spirituality

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Reading Time15 min

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The SiSTerS of Silence

Origins, secrecy, and legal authority

Mandate: Great Tithe and the psyker hunt

The Untouchables and the Psychic Null nature

The SiSTerS of Silence | Title (Formal/Base): The Silent Sisterhood of the Great Tithe
Banner Imperialis: The Divisio Investigates ofthe Divisio and Adeptus Astra Telepathica
Magisterium: Lex Majoris Psykana (authority within accorded duty subject to the review only of the Lords Imperial ofthe Adeptus Astra Telepathica and the Offices ofthe Imperial Household).
Cognomen (Informal): The Sisters of Silence, the Witch-Seekers, the Pale Scourge, the Soulless Ones, the Null Maidens, theEyrine, the Daughters of the Abyss | Domains (Legal Remit): Wherever the shadow of the Emperor falls.
Domains (Vassalage): The Somnus Citadel (Luna, headquarters), the Magadan Orbital Construct (Fortress Anchorage of the Black Ships, Sol System), Cold Alpha (Prison Fortress, Titan orbit, Sol System), Star One/Silent Harbour/Taceant Astra (code designations believed to be Segmentum Solar planetary systems given over to the secure processing of the Great Tithe, location unknown/prohibited). | | --- | --- | ‘As a child on Gehenna, I remember the stories of the white maidens; terrifying ghosts that would come in the night to steal away the witch-born and children who had done terrible wrongs. It was said that they could find the wicked no matter how deep in the hive they sank or to what forgotten spire they climbed. As I grew, I came to believe such things were no more than superstition, but now that I am an officer of the Great Crusade, bloodied upon the battlefields ofa score of worlds, I have come to find that my childhood fears were true, and quite valid.’ The Memoires of Lt. Colonel Gudrun Ceax (Rt.) 227th Gehennan Rifles Across the great Imperium of Mankind, the Sisters of Silence are figures of mystery and fear. They have entered the folklore and superstitions of thousands of Compliant human worlds, despite the efforts of the Imperium’s iterators to stamp out such folly, and it is easy to understand why. Riding the dark void between the stars upon the dreaded Black Ships, the Silent Sisterhood are the enforcers ofthe Great Tithe, known by some as the ‘Psyker Cull’ and the ‘Hunt That Never Ends’. Each one of them is an anathema, a soulless thing that inspires dread wherever they walk. They harvest those humans with the psyker’s ‘gift’, child or adult; whether given up by their kin and government freely, or stalked and trapped to the very ends of their world, there is no hiding place from the Sisters of Silence, no argument that can sway them, and no turning them aside. By the writ of the Emperor they come and go like ghosts between the stars, and strike like the reaper of myth against any who would seek to thwart them. The hunT ThaT never endS It is rightly said that the Sisters of Silence—to give them their most common official designation—are one of most secretive and mysterious of all the Orders ofthe Emperor’s servants. They are a covert organisation that has served as the militant arm of the Divisio and Adeptus of the Astra Telepathica since its foundation, and within whose ranksand titles they are known, at least in formal documentation, as the ‘Divisio Investigates’—a rather obscure phrase which covers up a shrouded world into which very few have ever had the power or the authority to look within. Though markedly different in nature and origin, they share much in common in this regard with the Legio Custodes, particularly in the reach of their legal authority, which where their duties are concerned is effectively inviolate over all the myriad powers and principalities of the wider Imperium and its hundreds of thousands of human inhabited worlds. Markedly also, the Silent Sisterhood has the right and duty to walk freely within the inner sancta of the Imperial Vaults, the sovereign and sole domain of the Emperor and His Household at the behest and licence of the Master of Mankind. It is a right they share only with the Legio Custodes. The duties of the Silent Sisterhood are complex and manifold, but at their core th

FAQs

What is the primary mission of the Sisters of Silence?

They seek out, apprehend, and process psykers for assessment and disposition, and they hunt renegade psykers who are deemed too dangerous to live.

How do the Sisters of Silence carry out their duties across the Imperium?

They travel via the Black Ships and act with near-inviolable legal authority, using their fundamental nature as Psychic Nulls to perform their work effectively.

What makes an Untouchable different from other humans?

An Untouchable casts no shadow in the Warp, is immune to psychic assault, and their proximity causes psykers discomfort and pain while sowing fear in others.

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