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The Importance of Proper Ritual Conduct

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‘We'll do it properly this time,’ Kurum said. Nia, his right-hand woman, nodded and they dragged the dead body to the side. The rest of the cultists wisely decided not…

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True as Wrought

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/Loading…/Error: Critical memory error detected! Eminent system termination.!Admin ctrl. Hêtynn6718256 !Override.!Q: Are we safe?The chilled fane air swirled around the ancestor core. Grymnyr Hêtynn Gâard waited for the Votann’s answer, stroking…

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The Penitence Enduring

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‘He’s slipping… we’re losing him.’ The voice is distant, part of an abstract memory, dust-covered and forgotten until now. His consciousness rises with the beginnings of remembrance, swimming up from…

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Around the Corner

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AgainA bird call echoed in his head.Silas rounded the corner at a sprint, nearly tripping over a discarded lasgun, a dagger gripped in his hand. Its crude leather-bound handle drew…

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Time and Time Again

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My ocular implants settle upon the wonders of my latest creation, and I permit the bellows serving as my lungs to take in a modicum of recycled air in a…

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The Numbers

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---Extract from a diary found in Hive records stack Garitus Potentus III. Found by Adeptus Arbites investigation squad Thalidum Quintus. Diary from missing Administratum clerk Castrius Palermu. Diary reads--- I…

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The Handover

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Prisoner XC14 was going to escape. Again. The thought had started as a hunch, a gut feeling of the sort that had served Judge Saul Hax so well in his…

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Read more about the article The Ancestor Wills It

The Ancestor Wills It

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‘Lord Grimnyr! The planet’s core has been breached!’ One of my Kin reports. I order back, ‘Begin resource extraction immediately! Time is of the essence! The Ancestor wills it!’ My…

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Ready at Last

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He was here at last. She felt His putrid corruption filling the air again. Finally, after all this time, the thickly sweet stench of untreatable failing flesh was amongst them.…

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Necessary Evils

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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…

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