A Shrine World of the Imperium of Man is dominated by the religion of the Imperial Cult and acts of devotion to the God-Emperor of Mankind. It may be that these places saw the birth of a famous Imperial saint or formed the battleground for a particularly important war in the Imperium's history. Often studded with cathedrals, temples and shrines spread across the globe to the Emperor and his saints, these worlds are frequently directly controlled by the Ecclesiarchy and may form training grounds for members of the Adeptus Ministorum and the Adepta Sororitas. There are also dark mirrors to these places of Imperial devotion -- fallen worlds outside the grace of the Emperor where the heretical Chaos Cultist inhabitants offer up ceaseless prayers to the Ruinous Powers of Chaos. These places of obscene sacrifices and bloody rites are not suffered continued existence for long by the Imperium if they exist within realspace. A Shrine World can also be considered to belong to another category of world at the same time, as for example Hagia is also classified as an Agri-World while Herodor is also a Hive World. All Shrine Worlds will have a strong relationship with the Imperial saint connected to the planet in question, such as being the world of his/her birth or death or the site of a major miracle the saint was responsible for performing in the name of the Emperor.

Notable Shrine WorldsEdit

SourcesEdit

• Calixis Sector Encyclopedia
• Codex: Sisters of Battle (2nd Edition)
• Dark Heresy: Blood of Martyrs (RPG)
• Dark Heresy: Core Rulebook (RPG), p. 250
• Fantasy Flight Games - The Calixis Sector
• Legion of the Damned (Novel) by Rob Sanders
• Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (6th Edition)
• Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (5th Edition)