The Death of a God

You feel it.

Everyone save the soulless feels it, the emperor is merely a few hours from death and even hundreds of light years away you can feel his final dying struggle to stay alive for just a little longer.

You waste no time and order all psykers be taken to safe blackrooms in the deepest levels of their cities ; you have no idea what the effects the emperor’s death will have on psykers but you do not want to take the risk.

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You are Zairnisa, a psyker living deep in the forest among the wild atlantean tribes. It is you who leads the tribe with your visions’ guidance . You have witnessed many horrors and wonders on this deathworld and yet none of them compare to what you see now as you gaze into the tides of the empyrean.

The realm of souls is changed, daemons and warp beasts are more widespread than ever before and the fiery eye has dimmed ; so much in fact that you can now gaze into it.

The currents of the warp lead you to humanity’s cradle : Terra in its final moments. You see titans of gold fighting furiously against crazed assassins as millions die in the crossfire. You see the titans triumph before fleeing offworld leaving the planet gripped in terror as thousands of ships follow suit .

All ships flee except one from which emerges a crimson eyed dark giant whose sheer force of will rallies the panicked mobs of the Golden World into an effective force that marches straight into the corpse god’s great citadel. Your visions do not speak of what the giant seeks to achieve but you know that he will fail.

You lay witness from afar as foul wave of baleful golden energy burst forth from the citadel, trapping anything caught into it in a state of petrification , followed by an endlessr tide of daemons, warp predators and beings of cold light and metal.

You witness as the materium collapses in humanity’s home system ; allowing the tides of the immaterium to claim it in an expanding sea of madness and chaos. You muster all your strength to flee it and only just barely make it with your life as a great storm to eclipse the eye of terror forms

(??? 3d100=276. Critical success for ???. Warp Storm engulfs all of segmentum solar )

Before your soul returns to your body you bear witness to a creature of great power arising amid the chaos, a being that was old before the stars were born : a great silver wvyrm who commands sentinels of cold metal against the insanity of the warp.

(Void dragon awakening : 3d100=176. Bare Success. Void dragon awakens but is trapped in the warp storm)

As your soul and body painfully merge back together you gasp in fear as the full implications of what you saw hit you

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As Zairnisa is having her vision, unknown to her millions of humans across the dominion and beyond witness the same thing and would lead to an upsurge of doomsday soothsayers and cultists in the coming year. But luckily the death of the emperor doesn’t cause any further damage.

Akhnajin Warp storm roll 3d100=119. Fail Planet remains accessible

Amet Warp storm roll 3d100=112. Fail planet remains accessible

Ansazia Warp storm roll 3d100=149. Bare failure. Planet remains accessible but travel times increased by 50%

Atlantis Warp storm roll 3d100=136. Fail Atlantis remains accessible to the dominion

Cocytos Warp storm roll 3d100=88 Failure. planet remains accessible

Forestrii Warp storm roll 3d100=120 Fail planet remains accessible

Hininouv Warp storm roll 3d100=122. Fail. planet remains accessible

Shiva Warp storm roll 3d100=117. Fail planet remains accessible

Fidea prime Warp storm roll 3d100=42. Failure . planet remains accessible

Plutus Warp storm roll 3d100=157. Success planet is now inaccessible

Arthurean Warp storm roll 3d100=201. Success planet is now inaccessible

Ouranos sector Warp storm roll 5d100=212. Failure . Most of the sector remains accessible

Tempestus Segmentum Warp storm roll 5d100=211 Failure Most of the segmentum remains accessible

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**Congratulations , you have defeated the imperium’s attempts to crush you and outlived the realm of the emperor. Now with the imperium removed from the equations it is time to claim your place as the new dominant power in the sector. Will you build a sprawling empire of a thousand worlds to last a thousand years or will your realm fall apart in this new chaotic galaxy? Only you can decide.**

**Arc 1 is now complete**