'Believe in gods again.'[//@spacedhulk et @death_of_a_rubricist+]Bluff? Bravado? Intent to dissemble or dissimulate? All of the above; doubtless. Such was the task – perhaps nature – of the Marines Mendicant. From his non-standard armour to…
Vessel of Demise[//graham_p/@thrones_arcane+][//@natedungeon+]Rushing to their station, the two voidsmen find themselves in sudden, total darkness. A moment later, harsh pops of red and amber light lash across the passageway, casting the pa…
All statements, in the end, fail the test of truth. [//Interrogation; Erson Monad, Riven Lords – Brevet-Captain of the Fatemakers. Post-Lemmas+] By fa[___________]ommon theory put forward by [____________] analysts of the War was that the S…
The request – request – for my presence at the briefing had come late in the evening; just early enough to ensure that I could not concentrate on my duties, nor find escape in sleep. As the early shuttle translated and we rounded the curve
In equal parts satisfied and perturbed by his work, the surgeon stepped back, adjusting the heavy jackskin gloves. Jaw slack, eyes rolling, the Space Marine sat in the throne, back arched, skin blanched and shaved, naked limbs truncated. Th…
A note on chronography: The events of this shard cannot be accurately dated, owing to gravitational anomalies within the Bisarra star's Mandeville Radius. As an easy measurement of time in relation to Imperial Standard is not possible, the
[//authval={douglas_m/@dougmackie+] She was an experienced interrogator, unflinching in her work and could handle herself in a combat zone. Indeed, Inquisitrix Emmeline van der Veigh had been one of the first in her order to earn military h…
[//Princip. belligerents={Partisan}//][Void Barons] [Inheritors] [Iron Guard] [Silver Stars] No sanitised skull-helm of the office for the Void Barons. No, here their savage sensibilities were all too clear. The helm resembled silver-cast c…
Coldforge itself certainly exists – indeed, it may simply be the political and practical implications of freezing a primary Forgeworld from history that ensure its name is remembered. Today, the Forgeworld is a relatively minor entity, havi…
As the conflict between Partisan and Orthodoxy forces escalated to planetary level slash-and-burn campaigns and wanton genocide, and the front reached ever-closer to their Heliopolian Void home, the Umathron Ur-Wodan Confederacy determined
[//Asinius Cisalpine, High Lord of Terra, M41+] In a direct mirror of Operation Starfall, Master Gan Ruhl of the Firebreak worked alongside the Riven Lords to set an ambush on Jonai, a world within the Qorabbas system, for the Flesh Eaters.…
"From the dark void, salvation came in the guise of argent stars. Progeny of He-on-Earth at their head: the saviour of the sons of Hyperborya, and rekindler of our manifest destiny." [//Jarnail Solarion of the Inheritors on the emergence of…