Canary
The dark was freezing, and shivered with the distant crump of artillery fire. The smell of ferrocrete and damp. The taste of lilac and brass.Too late, Trog felt the tensile…
Neverchosen
Blood sprayed across his ceramite chestplate and the chapel walls in equal measure as Zalayt drove his chainsword deep into the ogryn’s chest. The beast looked absurd in long, flowing,…
Irreversible
Resplendent Hero of Ullanor. Slayer of the Dark Champion of Ekxos IV. Favoured son of Roboute Guilliman. Titles that meant nothing as Praetor Cestus gurgled on his swiftly coagulating blood.…
Leftovers
The Rhino crested the ridge and swung into view. Its blocky square form stood out against the sharp outline of the Atuluvian mountains. The fact that it was painted bright…
Ashes of the Faithless
More artillery shells screamed in, and their impact was echoed by the cries of the fallen.Sorvane crouched behind the scorched remains of a Predator tank. The vox was full of…
Unlikely Allies
‘The worms that walk,’ Khait of Prospero said, scholarly surprise tingeing his transhuman baritone.‘We do no—’A fist clad in ceramite the colour of dried blood smashed through the creature's approximation…
Oubliette
‘You feculent, cantankerous, oafish excuse for an Astartes. My eyes are stinging from your disease-ridden aura alone, and you want me to join my mind with yours? Is your brain…
Flesh and Iron
'Bio matter,' thought Lotros Annorax as he prodded at the brown plod on the hardened desert floor. 'Fecal,' he confirmed as the steam emanating from the freshly dropped turd formed…
Descension
The Gate of Screaming Skulls splits down the middle and tears asunder. The first ever uninvited guest of Commorragh stands in the broken portal. Stepping over the threshold is a…
Fallen Angel
Castellus’ knees shuddered as he lumbered through the battlefield, the ceramite peppered with holes.He could feel the fingers on his sword arm flexing, twitching for the familiar hilt of the…