An Axe-Rake
An Axe-Rake is a heavily reinforced chainaxe with a grappling barb.
Ashen Circle[]
Well-known users of this weapon include a specialist unit within the Word Bearers Legion, known as the Ashen Circle.
This vicious blade was used to drag down victims, and topple graven idols and false icons for the Word Bearers' pyres during the Emperor's Great Crusade.
On the battlefield, the Ashen Circle's task was deemed no less important than other combat duties by their Legion; for they sought out those things which gave the foe the heart and courage to fight: false idols, profane totems, charismatic leaders, priests, battle flags and champions.
These they singled out, dragged down with the hook-blades of their Axe-Rakes and destroyed with brutal fervour, often making plunging attacks far in advance of their own lines in order to do so, with no thought as to their own survival.
Vervunhive[]
Axe-Rakes were also used in the 41st Millennium by the workers of Vervunhive on the world of Verghast during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.
The workers of Vervunhive wielded Axe-Rakes as weapons against the invaders of their hive city from the neighbouring, Chaos-corrupted hive of Ferrozoica.
Sources[]
- The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 257
- Necropolis (Novel) by Dan Abnett
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