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An Equinox Power Blade, also called an Equinox Power-blade Case, was one of a set of twin Power Swords used by the Blood Angels Legion's elite Legion Assault Marines known as Dawnbreakers during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.
The set was divided into a "Sunrise Blade" and a "Sunset Blade," each of which had slightly different combat characteristics. Each blade is fashioned to serve a ritualised form of combat adapted from the battle practices of the barbarian Human tribes of Baal -- the "Path of the Sun."
The pair were wielded together by a single Astartes in melee combat. The Sunrise Blade was effective at shredding flesh, while the Sunset Blade was capable of sundering even the hardest of substances.
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- The Horus Heresy - Book Eight: Malevolence (Forge World Series) by Neil Wylie and Anuj Malhotra, pg. 206
- The Horus Heresy Second Edition - Liber Astartes (Specialty Game), pg. 257