Aldrynth Cayndos

## Character

### Title(s)

Lady of Wisdom, The Smoldering Cyclops, Sorceress of the Imperium, The Logos Maxima, The Cyclopean Flame, Lady of Fire, Torch of the Emperor, Fire of the Imperium, Regent of the Stars, Gate Guardian, Presence, Lady of Salvation

### Aliases

The Urizen, Vretil, Lady Ravima'lákh (By the Seraphim), Imperial Princess (By most Imperials),

### Role(s)

LuminarchLady Regent of the Imperial Librarius

### Language(s)

High Argothic, Multiple Low Argothic Languages, Multiple Xenos Languages

## Physical Description

### Weight

974 (Unarmored)1894 (Armored)

> *"Stupidity is truly Humanity's worst creation. At least our wars can come to an end, our diseases inevitably cured, and our evils vanquished. But our stupidity? That is about as ever-lasting as my Fathers glory. The worst of all is that many of the Imperial hosts seem to have already been taken advantage of such corruption..."*
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**Uriel**, also known by her titles **"Sorceress of the Imperium,"** **"The Logos Maxima,"** and **"The Cyclopean Flame,"** is a renowned figure among the 20 superhuman Luminarchs and a Psionic being of unparalleled power. Born from altered versions of the Emperor of Mankind's DNA, Uriel inherited tremendous innate psychic abilities, making her a formidable force in the Stellar Imperium's ranks.

Driven by a thirst for knowledge and a desire to understand the nature of the Void, Uriel became a Sorceress of formidable power, delving deep into the mysteries of the universe. Her unwavering dedication to the Emperor's vision saw her take an active role in the Great Crusade, working tirelessly to reunite the scattered peoples of Humanity and establish the Stellar Imperium.

Uriel's reputation as the "Lady of Wisdom" is well-earned. Her unparalleled insight and unyielding commitment to the truth of the Imperium shine a light into the dark and confusing corners of the galaxy. Through her work, the Imperium's ideals of order and progress are upheld, and the light of hope shines brightly for all who follow.

The **IVth** Legion, created from Uriel's genome, was originally known as the **Dragon Legion** but was later renamed The Hierophants of Fire in honor of their genetic mother's immense psionic power. Like her genetic father, Uriel serves as a conduit to the psionic realm of the Void, known as a Psycast. This semi-rare Human mutant has the ability to exact control over the Void and its Gestalt energies, making Uriel an incredibly powerful and invaluable asset to the Imperium.

## Overview

> "*There is no sin but ignorance.*"
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Uriel had been unique among the Luminarchs. While all the Emperor's children were transcendent beings, forged not just of physical matter but of psychic force, in some this quality channelled itself into a superhuman physicality, but others held the power to manipulate the Void either directly or subconsciously as prophetic foresight, preternatural stealth or an aura of majesty beyond the mere mortal. But above all her brethren, Uriel the Lady of Fire was the most numinous, a Psionic being of truly prodigious power. It is said that alone amongst the Luminarchs, Uriel met the Emperor in the Realm Beyond long before they met in the flesh.

Uriel's very essence boiled with psychic potential, to the extent that her physical form seems likely to be more matter of will, or a reflection of a deep spiritual imprint than a mere physical constraint, and those who fell under her burning gaze would feel their thoughts and substance to be no more opaque than glass, and their innermost secrets laid open beneath the Smoldering Queen's stare. In battle, Uriel fought like a mythical goddess; psychic fire wreathed her and followed in her wake like a burning cloak, and solid matter was unmade with a gesture. Armies of mere mortals, powerless before her, would fall to their knees, weeping as their nightmares danced before their eyes. It was said that the paths of the future were laid bare before her and no artifice or subtlety of warcraft could deceive the Luminarch of the Flaming Hierophants. Such power, though, came at the price of suspicion and fear, even by those who called her sister.

But destruction and war was only a means to an end for Uriel. Possessed of a supreme intelligence and a hunger for knowledge, she saw herself and her Imperial Legion as creators of the future. Others might think of themselves as working for the betterment of Mankind, even of being bearers of the Imperium's ideals, however Uriel saw another path. To her the Great Crusade, and each step on its bloody path, was a step from the darkness of ignorance into the light of reason and knowledge. Beyond this she also saw a second ascension, that from the mundane confines of the human mind to the transcendent potential of a psychic race. It was her obsession and belief which drove her to achieve all that she did.

## History

### Rediscovery by the Emperor

With such a potent mind within the Void, it was not long until the Emperor noticed Uriel's presence and directed his Great Crusade expeditionary fleets to make for his Daughter. When his fleet arrived at **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** in **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** and the Emperor set foot within the grand precincts of **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]**, he and Uriel immediately embraced and conversed as if the two had known each other for years. Following her discovery, Uriel and the Emperor engaged in decades-long joint travels and study of the Immaterium, with the Emperor imparting further knowledge to his daughter, along with multiple warnings about the dangers inherent in overindulging the gifts of the psychic due to the dark entities that existed within the Void and sought to manipulate mortals for their own benefit.

The IVth Legion, the Hierophants of Fire, had inherited Uriel's psychic talents, as their inheritance-helix had been created from samples of Uriel' own psychically-potent genes. However, the IVth Legion's inheritance-helix was genetically unstable, often resulting in rampant and unwanted mutations, Imperial Marine-organ rejections, and mental instability. The Legion was dramatically under-strength because of these problems and its eventual survival was questionable. It was said the Legion owed its name to the fact that the 8 hundred stable Angelus who still remained functional within it by the time Uriel was found on **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** by the Emperor had been those most devoted to studying the empyrean and honing their control.

The Hierophants of Fire Legion was not allowed to join the Great Crusade at its beginning, with some in the young Imperium advocating its disbanding and the euthanizing of its members; however Uriel pleaded with the Emperor to give her a chance to find a way to stop the rampant mutations after she accepted her rightful position of leadership over the Legion. The Emperor agreed to this, and after several decades of often desperate effort, Uriel was finally successful: the aberrant mutations decimating her Legion stopped. This effort had a visible cost, and a hidden one: Uriel lost her left eye, the skin becoming smooth and scarred where the eye had previously been. To stop the mutations, Uriel had **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]**. **[-----DATA EXPUNGED-----]** by **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** believing **[-----DATA EXPUNGED-----]** **[-----DATA EXPUNGED-----]** **[-----DATA EXPUNGED-----]** the "cure" for **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** **[------DATA EXPUNGED------]** **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** to stop the mutations. **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** to make **[------DATA EXPUNGED------]** **[-----DATA EXPUNGED-----]** **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** psyker's gift **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** **[-----DATA EXPUNGED-----]**

Because of the setbacks that had befallen the Hierophants of Fire and the continuing suspicion of many in the Imperium towards the Hierophants' use of psychic abilities and the flaws in their Inheritance-Helix, the Luminarch and her Angelus developed an extremely close emotional bond. Approximately 100 Terran years after it had begun, the Hierophants of Fire Legion were finally permitted to join the great effort as the 28th Expeditionary Fleet of the Great Crusade.

### Great Crusade

When the IVth Legion had first been created, its Angelus were used to quell the last few pockets of isolated resistance to the Emperor's rule that remained on Terra following the Terran Wars of Unification. Lou'iisa was a nation that had existed since the Long Dark and was chiefly known for holding out against the Unification for a considerable period of time until it was finally forcibly incorporated in the newborn Imperium. The ruling family, the Verelt, attempted to stubbornly cling to power, forcing Imperial Army forces to invade their province. The Angelus of the newborn IVth Legion were sent in to finally crush any further resistance in a brilliant campaign that lasted only eight weeks. Shortly after achieving this objective, the IVth Legion was formally named the Hierophants of Fire by the Emperor Himself and was sent out into the galaxy as part of his Great Crusade. This particular conflict holds the distinction of being the final campaign of the Terran Unification Wars that took place during the Great Crusade.

Approximately 5 standard years after the Hierophants of Fire began the Great Crusade to reclaim and reunify the human-settled galaxy, the Hierophants of Fire began to display powerful psychic abilities, which was a welcome development for its Angelus as they sought to further emulate the Emperor. This development was reluctantly tolerated by the Emperor, who was greatly wary of psychic abilities wielded by anyone other than Himself, Mendrion, or Viceroy Izrail, but the Hierophants abilities proved to be a powerful weapon for the Imperium Dominus during the Great Crusade. Throughout that long campaigns, the Hierophants of Fire made extensive use of Sorcerers, and their Void-derived powers would leave whole populations in thrall to their will rather than carrying out a planetary conquest through a costly full frontal assault like the other Imperial Marine Legions. This tactic earned the ire of the Luminarch Metatron Alaric of The Imperial Harbingers Legion who saw anything less than a frontal assault as dishonorable and cowardly. But soon, the IVth Legion's joy at their psychic gifts turned to revulsion and horror as a wave of ghastly, degenerative mutations once more manifested across a wide swathe of the Battle-Brothers of the IVth Legion. These mutagenic changes were known as the "Flame Rot" amongst the Angelus of the Hierophants of Fire, and were much feared, as the spiral of degenerative mutation ultimately reduced a proud Angelus into a mindless mutant abomination that would later be recognized by the Imperium Dominus as a gibbering Chaos Spawn. The majority of those afflicted by the Flame-Rot were put into stasis by the Legion in the hope that someday in the future a cure could be found to reverse the onset of these crippling mutations. The number of active Angelus within the IVth Legion soon began to dwindle to dangerously low levels as a result of the ravages of the Flame-Rot.

Fortunately for the IVth Legion the Emperor's Great Crusade finally arrived at the isolated world of **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]** and the Hierophants of Fire were reunited with their Luminarch Uriel at this time. The Flame-Rot had become a pandemic in the Legion at this point, but the entire Legion was transported to the newly discovered world to meet their gene-mother.

After the initial joyous reunion with one of His lost daughters and the celebrations that followed, the Emperor and the vast majority of the Great Crusade's large fleet departed **[-DATA EXPUNGED-]**, leaving the Hierophants of Fire behind. Unfortunately, the rampant mutations within the Legion only increased after the departure of the Emperor. It was then that Uriel intervened to save her genetic children, and through mysterious sorcerous means was able to save those Angelus that had been the least affected by the rampant mutations. In the end, only a force of 8 hundred Battle-Brothers of the IV Legion had been saved. As mentioned above, Uriel then moved to rebuild the Legion, and approximately 100 standard years into the Great Crusade, the Hierophants of Fire were granted permission to form the 28th Expeditionary Fleet and begin bring new worlds into Imperial Compliance for the Emperor.

## Personalty

Uriel is a complex and driven individual with a sharp intellect and an insatiable thirst for knowledge. She is a true visionary, always looking beyond the present moment to envision a brighter future for humanity. Her powers as a Psionic being give her a unique perspective on the world, allowing her to see through the veil of reality and perceive the true nature of the universe.

Despite her incredible power, Uriel is not a cold and aloof figure. On the contrary, she has a deep empathy for all living beings and is fiercely protective of the Imperium and its citizens. She is a natural leader, inspiring those around her with her confidence, determination, and unshakable belief in the power of humanity to overcome any obstacle.

However, Uriel's single-minded pursuit of knowledge and progress has also led to a certain detachment from those around her. She can be aloof and even intimidating to those who do not share her vision, and her incredible powers can make others feel vulnerable and exposed in her presence. Nevertheless, those who know Uriel best understand that her ultimate goal is to lift all of humanity up to a higher plane of existence, and they are willing to follow her to the ends of the universe to achieve that goal.

## Wargear

* **Drakes Teeth:** Gifted to Uriel upon Her Rediscovery, Darkes Teeth is one of 10 other flaming swords. Forged from the Fingers of a God of Ethereal Flame, and so uses a form of extremely powerful Void-Flames that are capable of extinguishing the existence of chaotic beings of darkness into ashes, or even rending their very essences completely. When unsheathed, the blade is engulfed in Void-Fire. The aura of these weapons disintegrates everything and anything which their bearer deems fit for destruction, changing it into nothing more than flowing ash, and engulfs the surrounding landscape in a blazing firestorm, the heat of which is intense enough to even scorch the sky.

* **Void Breaker:** This ornate scepter-maul was fashioned for Uriel by the master weaponsmith Mulciber, Luminarch of the Iron Asha’karii Legion, in a rare display of filial support. Perfectly balanced for Uriel's strength and size, it is a formidable weapon and apocryphally seen as the pattern on which the Chaplain's, and Librariums Crozier was later based.

* **The Bow of Uriel:** The primary weapon used by the Luminarch, Uriel. Once used in action, She can create an arrow out of pure Void light and fire with impeccable speed and accuracy. Once a target is struck, the victim is engulfed in a brilliant white light and rendered to nothing but ashened dust.

* **The Basilisk Grimoire:** Uriel has been seen using this Tomb since her discovery, its contents have been highly guarded by the Luminarch. But it is said that within its pages are a myriad of Void Sorceries, and Magicks.

* **The Leviathan Cuirass:** Uriels’ unique suit of Power Armor was believed to be as much a thing of intense tangible psychic force and Empyreal energy as it was a physical construction, shifting form and appearance as she willed, and the means by which it protected her was proof against the most savage ranged and melee weapons despite its often beastial appearance. The bearer of Arcane Litanies was protected from the powers of the Void and the denizens that dwelled within.