How do Warhammer 40K purity seals work?

Placebo effect.

>>54394713
They don't. They're just bits of wax and paper.

>>54394713
chaos is famously scared of parchment for some reason.

>>54394713
The wax affixes the paper to the object

>>54394727
First post, best post. Also, the placebo effect applies double in Wh40k

>>54394727
Whoah there, do you know how heretical you're going?

The purity seals are essentially a pledge loyalty to the emperor and ensure victory in battle and protection for the soul of the warrior against the metaphysical (and physical) forces of chaos.

>>54394713
Very well, thank you.

>>54394775
>The wax affixes the paper to the object

The paper also contains ink set in intricate visual patterns. These can be decoded into meaning by sentient beings literate in Gothic.

>>54394775
How does wax stick to power armour during battle? That sounds like they would break of way to easy.
Or is it faith holding them togheter?

>>54394713
They're just old, archaic reminders of a religious past. Primaris marines don't bother with that kind of superstition.

>>54395356
Durawax and papersteel

>>54395356
FAITH AND MAGNETS!

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>>54395375

This isn't even counting the ones in the Dark Imperium set.

>>54395356
Maybe the wax is slightly elastic? Maybe they just reapply ones that get broken off?

>>54394713
Same way they work in medieval fantasy, since they were just ported over.

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>>54394713
They're duct tape used to hold old and busted things together. That's why 30k era doesn't have really any of them and in 40k, the more of a relic something is (older and more busted), the more seals it has.

>>54394989
>The purity seals are essentially a pledge loyalty to the emperor
Also, they were invented by the word bearers just like all other religious parts of the imperium

>>54394713
They fucking annoy you, when you're trying to build mark 6 marines out of your space marine bits.

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>>54394713
They're torn hymens.

>>54394713
The seals don't do anything themselves, they just represent something done to the weapon. They're a stamp of quality workmanship and maintenance, a certification of having been the recipient of 'blessed' rituals, and so on.

>>54394713
grocery list pinned to them so they dont lose it on the way to the store.

>>54395356
The wax probably some sort of magnetic nanopaste that sticks easily to adamantium, whereas the 'parchment' is probably some sort of printed steel or silicoid material that is suitably archaic but still futuristic enough to survive a missile impact.

>>54395356
I recall reading somewhere that they are wax and parchment when initially granted, but they are copied soon in metal to make them truly last the trials of warfare.
No source, can't remember.

>the tech priests have begun covering our guardsmen in blessed wax seals
>we intended to stop them at first but I think moral is improving
>please advise

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If you cover Mortarion in purity seals would it banish him?

>>54394713
Faith in the God Emperor made manifest

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>>54396759
Two can play that game!

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>>54396821
>>54396759

>>54396715
>a force of guardsmen from a planet on the fringes of imperial space misinterpret the translation of "seal" from High Gothic
>their rough riders have Purity Seals, genetically engineered battle seals that they ride into battle on land and sea

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>>54395512
Chapter culture is probably hard to change unless they're literally starting from scratch.

I still more interested to know how the tubes. FUCKING. TUBES. work and why everyone is addicted to them.

>>54396516
I also read this somewhere, in one of the old codexes or chapter approveds?

>>54394713
In 'Space Marine' they're used to basically certify something has been inspected/purified/ritual complete/etc.

>>54395512
maybe they are oaths of moment instead

they are used to mark inspection standards met.
they are replaced after each battle because the item attached to is inspected again.

Leo your armour clean and functional.

>>54397055
The wax is different in those, isn't it?

>>54396715
It would be extremely painful.

>>54394727
This but considering the nature of the warp, if you believe something hard enough it's probably real

this >>54394727 and >>54397869
They're mostly just decoration, I don't think i've ever seen any indication in fluff they do anything. But we do know faith in the Emperor has had an effect, even though logically it shouldn't.

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>>54397782

>>54396964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uq34TeWEdQ

Faith, and that is all that matters

>>54397911
Demons are repelled by aquilas, and hexagrammic wards are a thing, so I expect the seals to have some value regardless of the wearer, if only because of mankind's collective belief in them.

>>54394713
Same as WAAAGH and ork weapons work.

People believe that they work and thus fuel it through warp with their faith.

Mortal beings exists natively in materium, while their souls dwell in immaterium.
These souls transfer their energy using faith to an object of belief, here it being purity seals.

>>54395356

All the other answers are true. Also, they sometimes are just wax and paper and they DO break away during battles.

>>54394713
Faith. The faith then makes cool shit happen. Chaos related and otherwise.

>>54395700
Not quite, before the Heresy other legions swore 'oaths of moment' which were promises they made for the coming battle. Or were those also invented by the word bearers?

>>54397782
He's a big guy.

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>>54403118
>Mortal beings exists natively in materium, while their souls dwell in immaterium.

Fukken humie normies stealing da meme magic. REEEE !

>>54394713
They make things pure. And seal it.

>>54395356
They do come off in battle and then the chaplain gives them new ones before the next battle.

>>54395356
They don't. They come off. Chaplains and Priests reapply them to rebless the wargear.

>>54394713
I hate the purity seal aesthetic. Something about it just intrinsically repels me.

>>54410254

Sounds like you've been tainted by chaos to be honest.

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>>54394713

Poorly.

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>>54394713
Probably something similar to those Japanese paper amulets every anime priestess uses.

>>54394713
the seal itself does nothing.
the seal is basically a certification that something is pure.

For example a mechanicus purity seal means that an engine has been properly monitored and fixed up.

A marine purtiy seal means that hsi armor has been mmaintained by the chapter serfs abnd blessed by the chaplain and so on.

>>54403906
For you.