Oblivion Knight Centura
Knight-Centura Tanau Aleya
Chamber of Oblivion
Drawn from the elite ranks of the Chamber of Oblivion, the Knights Centura serve as the battlefield commanders of the Silent Sisterhood. Elevated as a result of their seniority, martial prowess, and power as psychic nulls, they are afforded use of the rarest weaponry the order can bring to bear and charged with the inviolate duty of commanding both the tactical operations of the Great Tithe and the sworn duty of destroying rogue psykers deemed too dangerous to live.
Each Knight Centura is the unquestioned mistress of her own Company-Cadre through not only the strict customs of the order, but the trust placed in her abilities by those under her command, a respect earned over perhaps decades of active service, their mortal lifespans extended by the same alchemical treatments by which the nobility of Terra sees out centuries of life despite their mortal birth. While never a codified sanction, Silent Sisters showing marks of age and long service, either physiologically or woven in with the subtle marks of their panoply, are often informally revered by their peers for their ability to survive and their knowledge, even if both are formally at the same rank within the command structure.
- The Horus Heresy Book Seven: Inferno and Liber Imperium (image The Regent’s Shadow by Stanton Feng)