Through Morkai’s Gate
I: Arun We were born in the Fenrisian snow. Twin boys dumped out onto the coldest rock in the Imperium, in a time of winter's bitter fall. Born to the warrior-queen Rena,…
Tideborne
The terrible storm subsided, the eversea's bid for the sky's domain once again denied. The last rays of the setting sun speared through the clouds, turning the waters a liquid…
The Anomalous Return of Captain Evidandro
Captain Evidandro returned to us a year and a day after vanishing in the tyranid-infested hell of the distant Corolis meatgrinder. He staggered naked from the Fractured Peaks wilderness to…
Not Even in Death
Pain was the first sensation. So in birth, alike in rebirth. It clung to wakening like babe to mother, surged electric through phantom limbs and breathed fresh life into the…
Born Three
They don’t realise that I can hear them as they crawl over me like flies on a rotting carcass. But unlike those who feed on a dead animal, these insects…
The Emperor’s Peace
He drifted on a vermilion sea, formless. Above, diamonds of starlight sparkled against a black satin sky. His consciousness had no memory of his body, he was merely a shadow…
Like the Angel
That afternoon, because it was midsummer and too hot to work in the fields, the village children went up the hill to see the Angel. A path had been worn…
Hagen’s Legacy
I haul myself through the orifice, the peristaltic pulsing of the narrow tunnel eliciting groans from my armour. Helmet gone, I gag on the bile washing over my face. It’s…
The Unsung
Their lips form murmured chants praising Him, the God Emperor of Mankind. The hymn they sing is unforgettable, the first thing they were ever taught, the basis of their being.…
The Judgement of Wrath
Sweat stung Salit’s eyes as he staggered through the steamy jungle undergrowth. Blood seeped from deep gouges across his back and he gritted his teeth against the pain of each…