Gothelion

Departmento Cartographicae pict-file of Gothelion, Adeptus Astartes Chapter home world of the Night Terrors.

## Planet

### Class

Hive World/Adeptus Astartes Chapter Home World

### Military Forces

Night Terrors
Local PDF

## Location

### System

Unrevealed

**Gothelion** is a perpetually darkened hive world, located near the Segmentum Solar and is the Adeptus Astartes home world to the mysterious and unforgiving Night Terrors Space Marine Chapter.

## Background

The hive world of **Gothelion** is a storm wracked world of darkness and crime. A sunless world bordering the edge of Segmentum Solar, Gothelion is a world ruled by strength and inhabited by the ruthless. Each city is ruled by a baron, who maintains order through a cadre of enforcers known as the Overseers, each the equivalent of a highly trained Planetary Defence Forces (PDF) soldier. The Night Terrors themselves watch these Barons for any signs of corruption, giving the common people the training and tools needed to depose them if, or when, the power eventually corrupts them. They then harvest a generation of new recruits from these rebels, training them in the arts of the Night Terrors.

The main five main hives on the planet are separated by expansive, irradiated wastes where only the insane or the sentenced venture. Inhabited by vicious wraiths and deadly creatures of the night, the land itself is often wracked with lighting storms of immense scale, electrically charged tornado's and immense volcanoes adding to the near toxic atmosphere. As a result of this atmosphere, the hive cities of the planet are encased in life sustaining hab-domes. Any human outside these domes will face a most gruesome death. The Night Terrors often use the brutality of the land to test their Neophytes in a rite of passage. The Asartes are required to survive a week in the wastes, with the most basic of armaments and tools. They must rely on their training and intuition to defeat the many challenges opposing their continued existence.

### Fortress-Monastery

The Tower of Sorrow is a place of superstition and well deserved fear. A structure towering into the sky, made of a combination of ancient stone and reinforced platings, the Fortress Monastery of the Night Terrors is an imposing sight to behold. The Fortress itself is located inside a dormant volcano, hollowed and supported by giant columns of immense proportions. At the base of the volcano is a bog, laced with mutagens, toxins and various minerals in liquid form. The bog is mainly used to power the entire structure due to it's rich properties, but has other strange and darker qualities, such as being a potent mutagen.

The energies channeled from this swamp are then sent upwards. In their ascent, they pass multiple gun emplacements and hidden defences lining the sharp walls of the spire. The Fortress itself is concentrated in the upper levels of the Tower, with each spire being it's own small palace. At the tops of every spire are hefty orbital and aerial defences, protecting the many facilities below. At the highest point of this intimidating structure is the Throne of Curses, the highest echelon of the Chapter. It is here the Dread Lord of the Night Terrors resides, cloaked in a pall of shadows as he oversee's his forces. In the spires around the Dark Throne reside the Librarius, Reclusiarch and other important command divisions.

The Tower of Sorrows has only been faced by a foe on two occasions. Both times they have been repelled and utterly destroyed. The survivors would either drown or mutate into ghastly creatures, most of those still stalk the swamp, naught but mindless beasts and decaying husks.

## Gallery

Gothelion from orbit, note electrical storms and thick atmospheric gases.The Tower of Sorrows, fortress-monastery of the Night Terrors Chapter.