Alpharius Omegon uses the Pale Spear to kill an unfortunate Space Wolves Legionary during the Horus Heresy.
The Pale Spear, also called the Sarrisanata, was one of a number of strange and esoteric weapons associated with Alpharius Omegon, the primarch of the Alpha Legion. The Pale Spear was rumoured to be a strange xenos artefact whose original forging predated even the rise of the Aeldari.
This double-bladed spear flickered seemingly out of phase with the material universe when wielded, emitting an eerie and otherworldly howling, and was able to pierce any physical defence it encountered without impediment, ripping it apart at a molecular level. Against living matter, it inflicted hideously gaping, bloodless wounds as the flesh where it struck dissolved into oily smoke.
According to an account given by Alpharius which is belieived to be one of his endless lies and attempts at misdirection, the Pale Spear was discovered by Omegon on the nameless, empty world he found himself on after the scattering of the primarchs in their gestation capsules from beneath the Imperial Palace.
Alpharius wielded the spear when he confronted the Imperial Fists Primarch Rogal Dorn at the Hydra Moon Fortress during the Battle of Pluto. He had rebuilt the spear while leading the XXth Legion's forces on a rampage of destruction and terrorism through the Sol System in preparation for the final Traitor assault on Terra.
In individual combat, Alpharius slew Dorn's Huscarls, his elite Terminator bodyguard, and was able to stab the Praetorian of Terra multiple times with the weapon.
After Alpharius stabbed the spear into Dorn's chest, the other Primarch grabbed its haft and cut Alpharius' hands off with his own massive chainsword Storm's Teeth before stabbing Alpharius with the other end of the Pale Spear and then executing him with a slash of Storm's Teeth across the head.
It is unknown what happened to the Pale Spear after the Battle of Pluto once it fell into Loyalist hands.
In the Era Indomitus the Pale Spear was moved to an Ordo Malleus vault in the Psyphos Sub-sector by command of Inquisitor Kayzen Hart, in order to lure the Alpha Legion Harrowmaster Solomon Akurra into an ambush. While Solomon was able to retrieve the blades of the Pale Spear and use the legitimacy they provided to wrest back control of the Alpha Legion warbands operating in the Ultima Segmentum, the original haft of the Pale Spear remains in Inquisitor Hart's hands.
It is unknown if the Pale Spear's power is reduced when only its components can be wielded, though the weapon's blades alone were still able to pierce Primaris Marine Mark X Gravis Power Armour and leave its unique bloodless wounds marked by dissolution of the flesh into oily smoke.
Sources[]
- Alpharius: Head of the Hydra (Novel) by Mike Brooks, "Hydra Dominatus"
- Praetorian of Dorn (Novel) by John French, Chs. 3, 4, 5
- The Horus Heresy Book Three: Extermination (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 265
- Renegades: Harrowmaster (Novel) by Mike Brooks, "Hindsight", "Legacy", "Ghost Legion"