Codex Supplement: Traitor Legions (2016), p75 — Chaos Artefacts of the Black Legion

The Hand of Darkness — 50 Points

An ancient device infused with the atrophying power of the Warp, the Hand of Darkness decays all and everything that its wielder touches. Flesh sloughs from bones and armour is reduced to little more than pools of liquid slag. It was with this fabled artefact that Abaddon finally gained access to the inner workings of the Blackstone Fortresses, before later surrendering it to the Daemon Primarch Mortarion to secure the allegiance of the Death Guard for his Thirteenth Black Crusade.

When making his close combat attacks, the bearer of the Hand of Darkness can instead choose to make a single special attack that uses the profile below:

Range	S	AP	Type
-	x2	1	Melee, Armourbane, Fleshbane, Instant Death