Necessary Evils
221.989.M41Arch-Bishop Faustinius Uriah, Ecclesiarchal Representative and Governor of Orthorga Primus, frowns as he stares at the scroll in his hands. ‘A problem,’ he says, fingers drumming on his desk. ‘But not…
Déjà Vu
'Is there anything that can stop the Guilds?' ‘No!’ the Cthonian miners roared, their voices echoing from the vaulted roof of their ancient hold.‘Is there any prize we won’t take?’‘No!’ Bravah…
Darksun Centennial
‘It is the 99th day of the new Darksun, Brother-Primus.’ A watchful day, a wary day, as any Auspiciar would tell his Magi. Gimion had a half-dozen Nurglite entities chained…
Where Only Madness Comes
The area is coated with grime. Every surface is covered in a mix of blood and rust. Servitors' frames lay dead and mutilated. Kymass looks to his master, the towering…
Chit Happens
Hubert was a pen-pusher, so the laspistol in his sweaty grip felt far more alien than whatever was pounding the fortress void shields. The invasion was an abstract to him,…
A Delicate Process
A daemon engine was a strange creation, a melding of opposites, a constantly waring mix of metal and daemon. The tension inherent to that combination made them machines of terrible…
Anthology XIII
You wake up this morning as you do every morning, at the sound of the bull grox grunting in the fields. You go through all the essential ablutions, washing your…
Drums and Death
Much of Segmentum Pacificus was lost to insurrection during the Night of a Thousand Rebellions. The slow-moving cogs that drove the Adeptus Administratum had not been quick enough to allocate…
Splintered
As I wake, I find myself embraced by darkness. Where before there was a void, now I am. A consciousness born out of oblivion. I don’t have a name, a…
The Deadlands
Kaeria did not like to be saddled. She preferred bareback flying. The saddle meant there was a mission, and missions were a bore for her. Private Jaekzon may have been…