Sepulchre?

[Terelo 2]

One of my players is going to create a missionary soon, so I took a look at the starting gear for missionaries. Among other things, they get a sepulchre. What does that mean? Afaik, "sepulchre" is a synonym of  tomb or grave. Is it supposed to be some kind of coffin or what?

Thx for your help.

[Cifer 211]

I'd assume it refers to a reliquary.

 

Either that or he has access to very powerful capital-ship-mounted necron technology. But I think it's probably the former...

[The Boy Named Crow 0]

 This is kind of... out there, but maybe it does refer to just a sepulchre, as we understand it. It's not necessarily beyond reason that a missionary, who goes beyond the borders of the Imperium to spread the creed, might have a guaranteed resting place waiting back in the Imperium... 

[Dangerbutton 3]

I'd never thought about this, but I'm gonna have to point it out to my group's missionary. She gets to be the ship's mortician.

[Terelo 2]

Ok, I like the explanation with the guaranteed resting place, but I does not really fit the starting gear list. I think I will give my missionary a kind of gilded coffin instead. It will make for a grimdark and macabre mood right from the beginning ;-)

Thx for your input.

[Iku Rex 14]

Guys, the meaning here is "receptacle for religious relic" . I'd call it a sealed container with a saint's finger bone or somesuch, and it'd work like a "charm" (page 139).

[Brother Praetus 11]

Iku Rex said:

Guys, the meaning here is "receptacle for religious relic" . I'd call it a sealed container with a saint's finger bone or somesuch, and it'd work like a "charm" (page 139).

Good call, and much along the lines of what I had been thinking.  I'd give you a "thumbs up" emoticon, but I don't see one in the smileys, so you get applauded.

-=Brother Praetus=-