Even to stand upon the same Battlefield as the Thousand Suns is to risk not just your mortal form but also your very sanity and soul they are unmatched Sorcerers manipulating the perilous energies of the warp to reorder fate mutate living flesh and feel the will and Wits of friend and foe
Alike to do battle with this infernal Legion is to face the imperion Unleashed their Advance is heralded by magical firestorms and volley upon volley of warp infused shells and Bolts as the battle lines close shrieking herds of mutant sangor gibbering chaos spawn flame beling demon engines and tank sized beastial Abominations surge forwards to hack and tear throttle imilate and devour worse than the Carnage the Thousand Sons wreak however worse even than their Unholy twisting of reality
Itself is the fear that however their enemies strive those who battle them can never be sure of Victory Illusions and trickery are second nature to these diabolical champions of Zing even those who believe the Thousand Sons bested May in truth be mere puppets unknowingly serving the very foes they
Fight Magnus the red the Crimson King of Sor Tiaras the fate of the Thousand Sons is inextricably linked to their genan sire the demon primarch Magnus the red in Millennia lost to dust he was a son of the emperor himself self a beacon of wisdom and power who
Served his master with the best of intentions now Magnus is abhorent embittered greater yet lesser than he was before as is the legion he leads Magnus the red is a towering demonic demigod whose might is augmented by the boundless Gifts of zinch he is sorcery made flesh a winged Behemoth who commands the
Imperion at will whose mere presence breaks the fundamental bonds of reality and turns all to Madness magnus’s power is such that he can obliterate Legions of foes with a word or a baleful glare the warp saturated blade he wields can take any form he wills and with a single blow can Sunder
A fortress gate or Mighty War engine magnus’s Rune edged armor is proof against even even the most powerful attacks be they physical or spiritual and his flesh is so drenched in warp energy that he can never be truly slain the demon primarch’s very presence twists reality into Myriad fractured
Reflections and shatters the sanity of even the staunchest foes he is a locus of unbridled change a Nexus of plots uncounted the greatest servant of zinch and a walking repository of forbidden and Sanity blasting secrets yet he was not always thus what records endure regarding mag Agnus and his path to
Damnation are sealed in vaults deep beneath the Imperial Palace or else kept by the Thousand Sons themselves these latter cannot be trusted for no written word remains long in the hands of Zen’s servants without turning to conflicting lies yet primar Gillan if pressed Might Recall a tall and Powerful
Brother red of skin and hair quick to smile and ever ready with learned Counsel he would recall also that magnus’s demeanor hit a troubled mind for his Legion the Thousand Sons were both gifted and and cursed with a preponderance of psychic Brethren and so imperiled by this mutation and the suspicion of their brother Legions the emperor it is said forbade
Magnus and his sons to employ their powers or to Del further into the sorcerers abilities they courted m Ness certain in his righteous Enlightenment pressed ahead in doing so he damned himself his Gene sons and their adopted home world of Prospero the scalds of the Space Wolves
Still tell how their Legion led by primar Leman Russ himself was sent to bring Magnus to heal no records remain in the 41st Millennium of the terrible conflict that followed yet its conclusion is beyond doubt Russ’s Legion burned Prospero shattered its crystal pyramids of learning and would have crushed the
Betrayed and bewildered thousand Sons yet in this moment of bleakest need when his faith in his father the emperor had at last been broken beyond all Redemption Magnus offered himself up to zinch in exchange for his Legion salvation so were the Thousand sons and Magnus Spirited Away to sortiarius the
Planet of the sorcerers located deep within the warp a place of insanity and unbridled change but also of incalculable power this would become the home world of the Thousand Sons for Millennia to come yet their trials were far from over for just as magnus’s body and mind had been irrevocably altered by his
Packed with the changer of the ways so too had those of his genan sons ariman architect of the rubric ariman is the greatest Sorcerer of the Thousand Sons barring only his demonic jeans Sire all of his prodigious power he bends to a single cause the salvation of his damned Legion it is an all to zenian irony that for all his sorcery all his towering intellect and thousands of years of seeking ariman has thus far succeeded only in making matters worse
When the Thousand Sons first came to sortiarius they believed it to be a sanctuary immersed as they were amidst the tides of the imperion and free to practice their spellcraft as they wished they soon discovered that it was indeed a place of damnation already prone to catastrophic physical mutation
A bane that the Thousand Sons had fearfully named the flesh change they now found this trait accelerating few could doubt that if this curse did not Abate the legion would soon be lost to Madness and monstrosity yet Magnus consumed by his own now Limitless studies and brooding upon his need for vengeance did
Nothing instead it was OAC ariman the legion’s former Chief librarian who took it upon himself to save his brothers the spell that Aran and his co-conspirators worked was called the rubric and it was the final BL blow that cast the Thousand Sons into Eternal damnation admittedly it did arrest the
Flesh change for all time but its cost was monstrous indeed as punishment Magnus cast out his once favored Jean son banishing him in until he could complete the impossible task of comprehending the true nature of Zing yet araman was unrepentant his efforts now became focused upon a single
Goal he would restore his Legion to their true former glory not only undoing the terrible changes he had wrought upon them with his sorcery but restoring them to a position of power not known since before the emperor sent his wolves to lay them low since that time araman has blazed a
Trail of Ruin across the Stars he gathers all those to him that he can use be they th bands of rubrique mutant zinch worshippers or even masterless Renegades for Aran to expend in the name of final exoneration believing with absolute conviction that it is within his gift to
Unpick the puzzle of restoring his brothers the arch sorcerer buls at no deed no matter how dark cruel or taboo providing it will Aid him in his ultimate goal to his foes aran’s acts of violence and desecration seem random to the point of insanity in truth his schemes are nearly
As crawling as those of his demon Primark in battle araman wields the black staff an abomination of a force Stave that manifests in the warp as a burning black absence araman fashioned the staff himself at its tip is the stone of hidden truth recovered from the Runes of
Tisa crowning the weapon are the severed horns of the demon Prince vad hakar the annihilator while its half is built around the charred fragments of aran’s own hea staff that burned on Prospero during the Space Wolves invasion its blade meanwhile is forged from the desecrated remains of an ancient alari far Seer
Stave each new addition is rich in the powers of sorcery heavy with fate and capable of amplifying aran’s own sorceress abilities still further the rubric of araman though the Thousand Sons had long been played by the horrors of mutation the rubric of araman was arguably the greatest single change inflicted upon
Them for many of magnus’s Gene Sons it was also the last the Spell’s energies transformed the traiter legion from a Brotherhood of warrior Scholars into something altogether more grotesque and tragic the power of the warp is ever influx when its influence is felt by the stuff of real space It causes mutation and
Change Unbound unst stable this energy twists all it touches such changes take many forms and can be beneficial for those who can harness them at least while they remain under control many who Embrace such empiric might are transformed over time so that they come to physically embody their own deepest
Obsessions desires or innermost Secrets some believe the Thousand Sons were marked by zinch long before their true damnation others whisper that it was the legion’s manifold pursuit of knowledge their use of the euphemistically titled tutelary familiar actually demonic entities or some faucet of the Sorceress energies they
Corded that led to their anarchic and widespread physical change whatever the truth by the time they became the masters of the planet of sorcerers even the Thousand Sons own fluctuating records told a tale of mutation degeneration and Madness once clean and Powerful limbs became many hued tentacles hands that had formerly scribed learn
Treatises now grew vicious talents or became snapping pincers thousand Sons battle brothers sprouted profusions of staring eyes fire hued wings with glass feathers weird fanged Ms that whispered sanity eroding secrets and countless other abene mutations some changes were powerful Boon that made their recipients better Warriors or more talented sorcerers
Yet even these brought an erosion of sanity and self while the more disfiguring curses reduced once proud Soldier Scholars to gibbering wrecks of heaving flesh and Bone few doubt that Aran and his co-conspirators saved their Legion from a final descent into unspeakable horror yet the Fate to which they
Consigned their brothers was in many ways infinitely worse araman cabal performed their spell without magnus’s approval the Crimson King’s own accounts tell how their efforts were hidden from him behind concealing glamors of incredible potency and how the cabal operated with Supernatural stealth and secrecy still they might not have
Escaped magnus’s notice but that his attention at this time was consumed by schemes for vengeance and the desire for fresh and unfettered learning no reliable records remain of the part which the Thousand Suns played in the events of the apocalyptic horse heresy but perhaps those events too helped to obfuscate aran’s intentions
Until it was too late for Magnus to stop him the ninefold toms tell of the rubric of araman they describe how the spell was so unbelievably powerful that it sent a bow wave and a dollarus howl rolling through the imperion into Infinity they describe a catastrophic superstorm of sorcery that engulfed sortiarius
Of an explosion of a resting and binding spellcraft so violent that it Formed an impossible fixed Point amidst The everchanging Madness of the warp writhing strands of Fate were snatched into its grip like insects in Amber and crushed into enforced stasis lightning strikes lashed down from sortiarius Skies again and
Again each strike blasting another of the Thousand Sons at last so the toms say Magnus ended the onslaught only by beseeching zinch to intered by then the the damage was done every single thousand Sons Warrior struck by the Sorceress bolts had been reduced to ins soral dust sealed forever within their battle
Armor their souls their minds all had become mere gists doomed to haunt their cursed War gear and lended a near mindless semblance of life never again would they be slaves to change instead they became the gollum likee Servants of their former Librarians who alone had been unharmed by the rubric and who had
Instead had their sorceress abilities vastly enhanced thus was the Thousand Sons Legion transmogrified cursed to the form it still wears until this day it is said that Magnus would have slain araman and his conspirators but such was not the will of zinch instead having banished his former Chief librarian and favored genus son
The Crimson King set about salvaging what he could of his Legion by necessity were the Thousand Sons now divided into two camps these Sorcerers retained their full sentience indeed their minds and their cunning had been vastly enhanced by the rubric thus they became the legion’s Commanders and magnus’s
Champions the rest of the Legion the rubric were now not but dust and Echoes became the foot soldiers of the Thousand Sons they could still follow direct orders responding only to those who could utter their true names and thus command them they became the walking weapons of their sorceress
Masters who in turn swore to work magnus’s will of course more often than not it was their own Ambitions they served Magnus could have been forgiven for fearing that his Legion did not have long left to it new Space Marines were created through the excision culturing and implantation of genan
Seed this nigh Supernatural substance creates the unique organs which transform a mortal human into a Space Marine in the rubrique all was Now dust while the genan seed extracted from dead Sorcerers seemed only to take root within recruits possessed of prodigious psychic talents such a small recruitment pool
Could never keep Pace with the attrition of constant War contradiction and Fabrication hide the truth of how this quandry was solved but somehow the Thousand Souls learned of the rituals of rebinding should a slain rubric armor be pieced back together and should the correct highly perilous rights be
Performed the Fallen Warriors dust and ghost would manifest again their warar would be restored their power unemed the Thousand Sun would be risen again to the cursed unlife he had so long endured thus so long as a single sorcerer remained to scavenge fallen rubrique from Lost battlefields and say the right words the
Thousand Sons Legion would know the same damned immortality as did its luckless foot soldiers Legions of sortiarius since the rubric the Thousand sons have become amongst the strangest and most eclectic of all the heretic Ardis forces their thraw bands comprise not only Sorcerers and rubrique but also all manner of infernal
War engines mutant slave soldiers and unnatural entities they fight to plunder knowledge to twist fate to exact Vengeance for ancient wrongs or sometimes for reasons so inexplicable and esoteric that they seem like Madness yet there is always a plan in motion the core of most thousand Sons thraw bands Remain the
Rubri for all their cursed nature these chilling silent Warriors have many advantages in battle for one thing their obedience is absolute rubrique fight entirely without question obeying he who invokes their true names and knowing nothing of fear hesitation or even an instinct for self-preservation rubrique are tremendously resilient not only psychologically but also
Physically lacking any true corporeal form form to be wounded they can only be stopped by the ruinous dismemberment or wholesale destruction of the armor that houses their Essence should this feat be achieved the insor dust of the rubric Marine is typically scattered and lost yet no matter how long that Warrior
May spend effectively dead still they can be restored to their cursed on Life Time and Again horrific Whispers persist that the rubric somehow Afflicted even those thousand sons who inhabited the time stream before its casting how such a sanity bending thing could be none can
Say yet more than one thr raw band has descended to plunder ancient battlefields from the days of Imperial prehistory though they have lost any true sentience War recalls to the rubrique the Marshal abilities they possessed in life these remain undammed and are now augmented by an array of fearsome Sorcerers
Armaments provided by their masters excellent shots all the rubrique lay down unceasing hails of fire from ins soral bolt guns and screaming Soul Reaper cannons or engulf their foes in conflag rations of mutagenic fire that burn away not only the fo’s bodies but but also their souls the rubrique remain just as
Skilled At Close Quarters fighting in Eerie silence but with all the speed and Poise of living breathing adeptus Dardis only when the fires of battle die and the foe are no more do they settle back into a state of mindless torp until their masters call upon them to act
Again indeed even this lifeless State can work to the Thousand Sons Advantage more than once inert rubrique have been disguised as statues amidst the confusion of Urban War zones striking suddenly and with complete surprise at a word from their master during the raid on vanor void docks 50 rubrique were concealed within the
Airless interior spaces of a wrecked Imperial bulk Haller the rubrique drifted undetected through their enemy Patrol lines before reanimating and boarding the Imperial warship they came to investigate their seemingly abandoned transport some Sorcerers have even been known to seal rubrique inside xenos tombs and other repositories of esoteric
Knowledge ordering them to stand Eternal guard over their Arcane caches springing to life only should the incautious or acquisitive disturb them the rubric Marines and the elite Scarab occult Terminators form a resilient and Powerful core to any thraw band they are however far from the only assets that the Lords of sortiarius have
At their disposal many Sorcerers bulk out their thraw bands with numerous but imminently Expendable hosts of slaves and servants Beyond counting are the Cults of zinch worshipping humans scattered throughout the Imperium the desperate the insane the mutated and the deviously ambitious all offering worship to zinch the underbelly of the Imperium teams
With Petty maesters and their pitiful followers all offering themselves body and soul to the changer of the ways in hopes of seizing even an iota of power to change their powerless lives armed and hurled into battle such chaos Cults support thousand suns invasions with cunningly timed
Uprisings or pack out the holds of thraw band warships ready to be expended like living ammunition once battle is joined herds of zangar 2 provides the sorcerers with flesh and blood soldiery these mutants are creatures of zinch through and through blessed with the change Gods Mark and protected by sorcery and unnatural
Fate Savage Mings of human Aven and Savage beasts these creatures nonetheless wield enoro weapons with remarkable Skills the shamans who lead them meanwhile possess sufficient cunning and innate magical power to act as lieutenants to the sorcerer Lords of the Thousand Sons or even to lead pharoh raiding bands in their own right the Thousand Sons can also call upon War engines with rumbling engines and thundering
Guns many of the legion’s battle tanks still survive though some have undergone mutations of their own or else been taken as hosts for predatory demonic entities more such manifestations of Zena’s will are bound into the Brazen shells of the legion’s demon engines these beastial machines are built by warp Smiths skilled in the
Infernal arts and whose Services the Thousand sons have either Bartered for or secured by force trickery or hypnotic compulsion hunting packs of Tanks armored transports and rapacious demon engines are often employed to provide thraw bands with overwhelming Firepower and increased Maneuverability equally the Thousand sons are not above stealing such assets from other Renegade War bands or even from securing alliances with such forces these arrangements are always temporary and invariably end badly for the sorcerer’s unfortunate allies the ruling cabals it is a strange contradiction that the chosen Traer
Legion of the change cot organizes itself with a rigid hierarchial system imposed by Magnus in the wake of the rubric this structure has been maintained by all of his gen Sons at least in appearance through the bloody Millennia sense Magnus the red occupies the Pinnacle of power on sortiarius both literally and
Figuratively from his insor old Chambers at top the Tower of the Cyclops the demon primar a single eye sees all and his Insidious will reaches out like Zen’s own to influence the plots and deeds of his cunning Scions below Magnus are his most powerful lieutenants known as the
Rahati the Magister templi who rule over the legion’s nine great Colts always there are nine in this Elite cabal chosen sorcerer Lords and Demon princes whose empiric might and unnatural gifts surely indicate Zen’s favor of course the changer of ways is ever fickle when one of these Warlords Falls from Grace
Their fate is often a cautionary tale against unbridled ambition and treachery while none but the hopelessly insane would think to scheme against Magnus himself the jealous and rightly paranoid rahadi have no wish to share power with their fellows thus their ranks Chang change often all scheme constantly to reinforce their own
Positions while undermining those of their Rivals staging Grand conquests performing devastating rituals and concocting Labyrinthian plots to further their own agendas should one of these eldrich beings take to the battlefield it will always be an aid of such Schemes and the hapless foes soon become nothing more than victims sacrificed to the rahat’s Ambitions bearing some of the most powerful Arcane Treasures in the Galaxy wielding empiric powers that make them the masters of mutation illusion and unbridled change each magest temply is the equal of entire
Armies below the rahadi the main power structure of the Thousand sons comprises cabals of sorcerers infernal Masters and further less highly favored demon princes just as the legion itself is divided into nine great Cults so a coven of nine such Champions lead each of these Cults and direct its efforts in real
Space this is not of course the totality of every Sorcerer And infernal Champion that leads the Thousand Sons to war none safe perhaps Magnus himself could give an accurate account of how many there are for the legion has mustered its full strength only rarely in the last 10,000
Years even then with illusion and trickery being as natural to the Thousand Sun Sorcerers as it is breathing none could be sure that all of magnus’s she Sons answered his call to war just as the rahadi scheme constantly against one another so the rest of the Thousand Sons Champions strive constantly to advance
Their own power and positions those Sorcerers charged with leading the rubrique into battle aspire to muster the Arcane lore and infernal influence to rise to the rank of exalted and command entire thraw bands those exalted Sorcerers and infernal Masters already leading such War bands to plot War
Constantly seeking a path by which they might seize a position within their chosen Cults ruling cabal meanwhile those who rule eye The Mantel of the rahadi jealously and lay their plans to assume the position of maest temply in their own right the rubric of araman left a scar
Upon the collective consciousness of the thousand Sons such that overt violence between Champions is rare Magnus will not suffer his Scions to Fritter their lives away over Petty jealousies and punishes severely those he finds guilty of doing so besides this there are too few thousand Sons still truly living as it
Is few amongst their rank are willing to risk the future of their Fraternity in such a crude Fashion on the other hand the changer of the ways rewards cunning manipulation and trickery his demons whisper into the minds of those thousand Sons still sentient enough to hear them they impart Dark Secrets offer perilous
Packs and promise might Beyond Compare for those willing to outmaneuver and subtly sacrifice their Rivals between these interesing minations and the Myriad dangers of the battlefield many thousand Sons champion secure the protection of the segment formerly magnus’s own bodyguards these Elite thousand suns Warriors fought in stylized Terminator armor and wielded ceremonial Power
Blades based upon the ancient prospering copes they ritually etched passages of their Legion esoteric lore into the plates of their armor seeing it as their duty to guard this precious knowledge after the rubric their Essences were trapped forever within the Arcane inscriptions they had wrought absorbing their power and
Becoming all the more potent for it now these second met Guardians can be claimed by any thousand Sons sorcerer infernal master or demon Prince with sufficient lore to command them they are utterly loyal once bound to service and will fight with indefatigable ferocity to protect their Ward against any and all peril
Below the ranks of the Champions the Thousand sons and their allies proliferate anarchic profusion bands of rubri herds of zor and surval Chaos Cults fill the ranks alongside Allied or enthralled Renegade chaos Space Marine War bands Magi of the dark mechanicum provide technological Arcana or offer tribute of weapons and ammunitions from
Their surf worlds demonic entities are bound into service mortal psychers are taken as acolytes or offered up as sacrifice there are few tools the Thousand Sons will not use to work their will and few bargains they will not strike or later reneg on in service of their goals the great
Colts the nine great Cults of the Thousand sons are immensely powerful if much fragmented bodies each offers worship to and work works the will of a different aspect of the changer of the ways in doing so they further the overall cause of their Legion sometimes in competition with the
Other great Cults but always at the expense of their luckless foes each of the great cults specializ izes in a different facet of the zinan power such as stolen knowledge cunning scheming or the manipulation of time itself these folky color the way in which the Cults make war the kinds of
Strategies and tactics they employ and even inform the grand plans they seek to put into motion across the galactic stage in order to affect these plans each cult maintains its own Kabal of zch marked Champions to direct its efforts its own ranks of sment and rubrique squadrons of War engines packs of demon
Engines and hosts of lesser zch worshipers ERS whose number vary greatly even from one conflict to the next moreover each great cult is further divided in numerous thraw bands and as the Colts differ so too do their thraw bands while all are raiding forces at their core their strength composition
And favored methods of War vary depending upon the whims and influence of the sorcerers who lead them some fight entirely alone their leaders bent upon some nefarious design or self motivated quest in which great numbers would prove more a hindrance than a help forces of this sort often cross the Galaxy by secret
Paths opening corus skating warp portals or stealing through isolated spars of the elari webway the better to strike swiftly and silently at other times multiple thraw bands from these same more even different great Cults gather their might to launch a great offensive or to defend some sight precious to the legion’s
Designs it takes a great event indeed to draw the great Colts together and see them fight as one yet when they do the very Stars tremble the most recent example was magnus’s vengeful attack upon the Space Wolves home world of Fenris by that apocalyptic conflict’s end finis itself was scarred and
Tainted space wolfes badly mauled while the nearby world of midgardia was sacrificed Wholesale in order to power An Almighty ritual by magnus’s Will did these energies draw sortiarius out of the warp’s depths allowing it to manifest in real space around the same Star as long lamented Prospero this conflict marked the greatest victory
For the Thousand Sons Legion in Millennia yet it was but the first stage in magnus’s Labyrinthian plot for revenge and Vindication sortiarius the planet of the Sorcerers there is nothing natural or true about the planet of the sorcerers nothing that is not In Perpetual flux sortiarius is a demon world it is an agglomeration of raw empiric energy bound escapa to the whims of the changer of the ways the Thousand sons have made this same sanity blasting realm their
Own and have plundered its Dark Secrets without Mercy or restraint though Magnus has succeeded in translocating sortiarius from the warp back into real space it remains a holy unnal Planet whose warped reality is antha to Natural Life the air swirls with kaleidoscopic storms of raw magic Horizons glow with ominous and unnatural
Lights or Shimmer and resolve into new shapes before horrified onlookers eyes striated clouds the color of fire Race Across an everchanging Sky forming learing demonic faces and staring eyes before shattering apart again in eruptions of blue and purple lightning squalls of raw empiric energy Fall Like Rain upon bone
Mountains and plains of ring flesh and Flame there energy Flows In mutating torrents back to the unnatural oceans which boil between the worlds ever shifting continents the only fixed point in the geography of the strange world is Tisa once the capital city of Prospero its blasted remains were Spirited Away to sortiarius
Along with the Thousand Sons themselves like the Traer Legion who inhabited this damned city has changed beyond recognition over the Millennia where before there stood gleaming crystalline pyramids now there Rise megalithic structures of veined stone whose flanks glow with baleful runes and dancing warp flame and whose impossible geometries are encrusted with learing Gargoyles where before there stood magnificent towers of marble and gold now there Loom Cloud scraping obelisks immense spars of tunneled out bone and pupating flesh Towers about which whirl flocks of demonic Abominations Legions are the Maul shapen edifices of Tia but they are all dwarfed by the innermost megalith the Tower of the
Cyclops looming ominously over the planet’s surface the highest levels contain magnus’s personal sanctum and from the Pinnacle comes a flood of iridescent light cast by an entrapped Tempest of glowing warp energy this raging storm is enveloped by an orb of profane Wards and through the eye of the storm
Magnus watches the manifold Paths of the past present and future for thousands of years Magnus has observed the material Universe from his Tower biting his time in planning his master Strokes of Vengeance sortiarius serves the Thousand Sons as both a sanctum of study and and experimentation and also a staging
Ground for their endless Wars within tisa’s towering structures are sprawling librarium of plundered and Forbidden Knowledge these lie side by side alchemical Laboratories wathed in unnatural fumes and ringing with the screen of endlessly mutating experimental subjects Labyrinthian corridors lead to sorcerer layers scrying Chambers sacrificial altars summoning Circles troves of sorceress Arcana and
Unholy armories without number all are employed by the great Cults of the Thousand Sons in order to strengthen their mini faceted War Machine further facilities lie within tsa’s fluid bounds their purpose to support magnus’s Marshall Endeavors the vast nine circled pit known as the Abyssal mul in which demon
Engines and Brazen battle tanks are fashioned repaired or bound into servitude the glimmering Spire of glass the living Crystal void docks that rotate constantly through ninefold astral alignments high above the Tower of the Cyclops the sanctums sacriligious which contain fluctuating warp portals that with skill foresight
And favorable fate can be used to travel thousands of light years across the Galaxy and bypass even the most formidable enemy defenses with entire thraw bands amongst the most potent of sortiarius as assets are the obelisks of ruin though each is different in form and precise function these impero geometrical
Constructs are the source of the demon world’s orbital defenses these constitute an overlapping and Incredibly intricate interweaving of spells that wreath the planet from one pole to the other it is said that sortiarius knows the weaknesses of all who attempt to approach it in anger and delights in Levering open the
Cracks in its enemy’s defenses through Twisted sorcery whether it is accurate to attribute such sentience to the Demon World is questionable it cannot be denied however that almost every attempted attack upon the Thousand Sons a natural home world has ended in disaster storms of writhing warp flame
Spring to life in the void engulfing those foes who attempt to approach by stealth elusory glamors inv vagle themselves into the mind of those who make a more overt approach tricking them into firing on one another even as they seek to bombard the sorarian surface sensor networks fill with contradictory
Information or crackle madly as they are possessed by Unholy data demons even as hatches open to depressurize decks Warheads detonate within sealed magazines and warp drives implode to hideous effect such are but a few of the unnatural Fates that have claimed those who dare approach sortiarius with harmful
Intent beyond the bounds of Tisa sortiarius is freakish and ever shifting certain landmarks and regions are known to the Thousand Suns from Nomad Peaks to the shimmering amoric Plains the forests of tentacles the glass fire chasms and the predatory caverns of transmogrification however the location of these places are ever in
Flux dictated not only by the movement of the planet’s land masses but also the phases of sortiarius as star and Newfound sister worlds and the EB and flow of warp energies across the world surface it is amidst these strange environs that the sangor herds scratch in existence they pre upon one another and
On the muing chaos spawn that haunt The Wilds avoiding only the enormous Muth Vortex beasts that are sortiarius unnatural apex predators the sangor labor to Ray strange flu carens where the planet’s sorcerous lay lines converge channeling zin’s power through real Space by erecting duplicate carens in the Wilds of other
Worlds the longer these simulacra remain in place the more mutating empiric energy bleeds through from sortiarius corrupt the natural landscapes before full scale Invasion the fall of Ultimus to do battle with a thousand Sons is no simple or cleancut matter duplicity misdirection the manipulation of fate and the callous sacrifice of allies and
Enemies alike all play their parts in their intricate schemes worse what looks to their foes to be the totality of the conflict may turn out to be but one strand of a far wider and more intricately woven web such was the case when hak atali set his sights upon the Bastion world of
Ultimus and its hub Fortress Aila in cursus when indominous Crusade Fleet quintis pushed battle groups into the misto sector they reclaimed a valuable s of systems for the Imperium in their wake the battle groups left sturdy Supply chains r running through the Bastion worlds of Ultimus and vacon Ultimus in particular was a
Seemingly impenetrable strong point 10 regiments of ASR militar soldiery garrisoned its towering fortifications manipul of the scaran occupied its Subterranean bunker plexus a a maniple of the liio decimator Titans patrolled its irradiated deserts and squadrons from battlefleet pacificus its orbital approaches despite or indeed partly because of all these
Defenses hak atali resolved to conquer Ultimus in Zen’s name his reasons were many faceted atali was a rahadi Magister templi of the cult of scheming and he wished to prove his dominance not to mention the might of his cult by laying low an imperial World proclaimed impregnable moreover battle group dely of crusade
Fleet quintis continued to prosecute an effective offensive through the omnicon reach drawing on supplies funneled through Ultimus their efforts threatened the sorcerer sanctum that atali maintained in that region upon the moon of vioria the Magister Templar also sought a precious Prize he had learned from a demonic familiar that a precious magical Relic the Talisman of glass languished with an a sealed inquisitorial Vault on Ultimus his rival rahadi hor scarus of the cult of magic sought to seize this Relic and atali had determined to secure it first T’s attack upon Ultimus began with
Misinformation centered around a world far away across the misto sector employing duped mortal Cult agents he saw to it that an aspiring sourcerer within the cult of magic learned of an entirely fictitious demon Sword the lie went that this potent weapon lay inomed beneath the mountains of the world of norus and was soon to be discovered by dig teams of the adeptus mechanicus while his lies were seeping their way to the intended target atali made aaack with a demonic entity this creature manifested before
Hap Fester an exalted Sorcerer of the cult of magic who had recently fallen from the favor with his Cults rahadi and would do anything to Curry that favor with his displeased master from the Demon’s whisperings hap Fester learned of the so-called precious secret being hoarded by his acolyte predictably he was quick to
Punish the aspiring Sorcerer And to pass on the information about the blade on norus to his rahadi master believing that the fabled demon blade would lend him might in his planned attack on Ultimus Karis launched an attack upon nus his thraw bands were soon embroiled in a running battle with the adeptus
Mechanicus while his narus Gambit was developing Tali set other plans in motion he triggered cultist sleeper cells on several Imperial held worlds along the star spun way the stable warp route connecting Ultimus to both norus and the Oman Reach he fed small thraw bands and carefully picked kill team teams into the escalating conflict Fanning the Flames of War and imperiling the star spun way at the same time atali himself met with the champions of several Renegade bands of heretic asardes within his sanctum on the moon of
Yoria there he promised these rapacious Pirates power and sorceress rewards in return for their aid they were to launch diversionary attacks against key task force from the battle group dely their intent to draw in the battle group’s reserves the Imperial commanders would thus be left with no additional forces
That could threaten atali Sanctum nor respond should Ultimus call for Aid next a had several of his sorcerer lieutenants send nightmares of disaster and defeat to poison the sleep of General grismond Ultimus commanding officer filled with nameless dread seeing the Flames of War burning hotter along the star spun way grasman resolved
That he had to act but Alli lieutenants stoked grisman’s growing Panic with the skill of impressario uring his response was disproportionately heavy-handed the General sent more than half his warships along the star spun way bearing three of his Garrison regim most of his scari and half the Titans to
Form a decisive Army of reconquest it was not long before this Force detected the distress calls emanating from nus compelled to Aid the hardpressed adeptus mechanicus explorator they fell upon the cult of magic thraw bands attacking the planet thus were cor Scar’s thrw bands mauled tally aided by his ally within
The cult of Prophecy knew the precise moment to Spring his trap he Unleashed demonic allies upon those same Renegade warbands who had pledged to Aid him in the Oman reach offering his Earth while allies up his sacrifices to the demons caught between their Imperial foes and ravening demons the paradic bands were
Slaughtered in return for this offering the Lord of change who led the demons conjured up a short-lived warp storm that surrounded narus it would burn out within 9 weeks but that would be long enough for until it did more than half of Ultimus garrisons was trapped still aali was not
Done he dispatched thraw bands of tangor to the Agri worlds of horth and kadak and had them raise flux Kens and secret so were the food stores destined for Ultimus infected with mutagenic Magics he swore a blood favor packed with a sorcerer of the cult of time
Having them launch a raid against the planet desmar atali sworn allies used their temporal powers to cast desmar a decade backwards along its own timeline everything that had happened upon that world for the last 10 years was undone and while it would happen again as fate intended this sent ripples through time and
Space four of Ultimus is garison regimens were desari and now all four had not yet been raised thus in an instant they vanished from that world and all forgot they had ever been there at last rahadi hak atali launched his invasion of Ultimus with vast and terrible
Forces against them stood a hand ful of Warships a demi maniple of Titans and a meager three regiments of Astra militarum of course the Imperial forces fought as hard as they could but Riven by a mysterious plague of mutation spreading through their ranks from tainted rations and horribly overmatched
In martial might they could never prevail atali claimed the Talisman of glass from amongst Ultimus blasted ruins but he also protected his personal sanctum undermined an entire battle group of indominous Fleet quentis and crippled the military might of his most despised rahati rival meanwhile the punishments and inquisitions as to how General grismond
Had come to leave a crucial redound world so woefully unprotected would rage on for years to come this was fortunate as hakali had several schemes already developing that would benefit greatly from that ongoing strife that for e for for for that for
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