Mysteries abound in the Age of Darkness. So many personnel files consigned to magenta level secrecy codes, wholesale data purging during our current age, and so much simply left unrecorded in the desolation of the Empire in deep space. The origins of the Epistolary [‘Revelation’] is an enigma in a time of fractured truths. A…
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“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” Euripedes The Merisi clan is well known to any inhabitant of Cthonia. One of the major mining companies that cored out the heart of the World, Gedephron was the fifth son of a distant relative to that Dynasty. Miraculously,…
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Tarik Torgeddon “…ever the Jokster, he was a man of mighty laughter and idiot tricks…” Horus Rising, Dan Abnett. What is it about Sons of Horus collectors and the Mournival? My aim was to paint a tightly focussed force of veterans to flank Abaddon. But no, the Sons of Horus had to be packed full…
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Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. The Blind Poet. M.2. The shadowed histories of the Age of Darkness hold many stories, many lives striving for humanity, or hold in contempt the principles of…
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…the law to him / is like a…cobweb to a spider, / …to entangle those shall feed him The Duchess of Melfi The Twisted – one of the most compelling characters from the Horus Heresy series. Broken on campaign, Horus’ equerry needed to find gainful employment elsewhere. Devoting himself to the darker arts post-Isstvan, the…
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“Victory is a fickle mistress, failure a haphazard executioner; for those with the courage to persevere will not abide their dictates” – Tetrarch Eikos Lamiad Eikos Lamiad was one of the ruling Astartes of the Ultramar system during the age of Crusade and Conquest. The turbulent ages of the Heresy Wars Lamiad came to embody…
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