The Magos (Volume 4): & the Definitive Casebook Nof Gregor Eisenhorn

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The three gifts had a spiritual meaning: gold as a symbol of kingship on earth, frankincense (an incense) as a symbol of deity, and myrrh (an embalming oil) as a symbol of death.

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Arnault Tantalid

Reduced to Dust: He crumbles into dust after Eisenhorn mortally wounds him, leaving behind his empty armour and cybernetic implants. Brain/Computer Interface: His hands are laced with Glavian bio-circuitry, which can directly interface with the controls of any craft he pilots.

Early-Bird Cameo: He first appears in the prologue of Xenos, but doesn't become directly relevant to the plot until Malleus. An Arm and a Leg: In their final encounter, Eisenhorn cuts off Tantalid’s hand before slicing him in half. Oberon GlawThe current lord of House Glaw. Though he and his house maintain a front of loyalty to the Imperium, Oberon and his kin are just as heretical as their ancestor Pontius. There was a 15th-century golden case purportedly containing the Gift of the Magi housed in the Monastery of St. Paul of Mount Athos. It was donated to the monastery in the 15th century by Mara Branković, daughter of the King of Serbia Đurađ Branković, wife to the Ottoman Sultan Murat II and godmother to Mehmet II the Conqueror (of Constantinople). After the Athens earthquake of September 7, 1999, they were temporarily displayed in Athens to strengthen faith and raise money for earthquake victims. The relics were displayed in Ukraine and Belarus in Christmas of 2014, and thus left Greece for the first time since the 15th century. [59] Martyrdom traditions [ edit ] The Three Wise Kings, Catalan Atlas, 1375, fol. V: "This province is called Tarshish, from which came the Three Wise Kings, and they came to Bethlehem in Judaea with their gifts and worshipped Jesus Christ, and they are entombed in the city of Cologne two days journey from Bruges." Gundry, Robert H. Matthew: A Commentary on his Literary and Theological Art. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982.

Seers: He can see the future to some extent, and foresaw that he and Eisenhorn would have a shared fate, particularly that Eisenhorn would be the one to free him from Quixos's control a century in advance. He did not foresee that Eisenhorn would enslave him afterward, however. The Chessmaster: Eisenhorn resembles a Cold War spymaster with Implausible Fencing Powers and Psychic Powers.