Trail of Saint Evisser - History: The Trail of Saint Evisser spans a dozen inhabited star systems, winding its way around nebulae and asteroid fields and marking the lengthy pilgrimage of Saint Evisser. Little is known of the Trail's history and historical data before the Age of Apostasy is at best unreliable or at worst entirely absent. For all intents and purposes, the Trail had no real existence before the famed pilgrimage of Saint Evisser, which marked the beginning of the Trail's golden age. Born on the backwater world of Sophano Secundus, the tale of the future Saint Evisser began on Solshen XIX, a planet then only recently colonised and designated as an Agri-world. Kelkannis Evisser was a simple novice Adept of the Administratum, who toiled for most of his life in the small Administratum office on Solshen XIX until the planet was ravaged by an Ork WAAAGH! that killed most of its population.Virtually left as the lone survivor of a massacred world, the Administratum saw nothing special in Kelkannis, just a simple Adept to be reassigned elsewhere while the settlement on Solshen XIX was rebuilt. Many tales and mythologies have sprung into life around such individuals. To some they were portents of doom, men and women that had used up all their luck and that of those around them, figures to be shunned, for disaster would surely come in their wake. But for others they were lucky charms, protected by the Emperor's grace.Seeing the touch of the Emperor's Hand in his own survival, Kelkannis Evisser refused to be drawn back into the wheels of the vast machinery that was the Administratum. The fact that he succeeded made him special. Evisser was a nobody, and it was this single fact that made him immensely popular, for it showed the countless billions of Imperial citizens that even the lowliest of them could be touched by the Emperor, that He had a plan for them. Evisser saw it as his duty to remind the Imperium of this simple truth. Many thought him mad, but Evisser was careful to prove them wrong. Evisser was more than a simple messiah, he was hope itself, hope that even the single life of a humble man or woman was ordained by the Emperor and could have a part in the Emperor's grand plan for humanity.The populace of entire worlds called for Evisser to visit them, and every visit drew larger crowds to him. Both Planetary Governors and the Adeptus Arbites were powerless to disperse these crowds, and soon the simple folk began to talk of future Sainthood. When a virulent and unknown plague befell one of Treyptos' port hives, Evisser went into the heart of the quarantine zone and for six entire solar months, he prayed for those sick and abandoned citizens, easing their passing without contracting the disease. On the great Forge World of Magnos Omicron, the world's mutant slave-caste had risen up in arms to overthrow the Imperial yoke and threatened to take over the planet. Evisser walked unharmed through the firefight and upon meeting with the rebellion's leaders convinced them to lay down their arms and voluntarily return to work. These and many other deeds became Evisser's first miracles.Evisser's presence also affected the Warp itself, calming the tumultuous seas of the Immaterium and easing the passage of those starships that followed his pilgrimage. Wherever Evisser went, more miracles occurred. According to legend, the moment Saint Evisser set foot on Farfallen -- on the very same spot where the great Hall of Remembrance would be built -- every flower on the world suddenly blossomed. The voyages of Saint Evisser would last for many Terran decades and ultimately forge the Trail, from the dark towers and subterranean geothermal forges of Magnos Omicron, to the great oceans of Solshen XIX, the fertile fields of Vitrix Sorona and the great fortresses of Treyptos. In the wake of Saint Evisser’s pilgrimage, the Trail became a centerpiece of the Imperial Cult, worlds building gold-domed cathedrals, countless chapels and great museums in his honour. Yet, Kelkannis Evisser was never officially canonised by the Ecclesiarchy. The title of Saint that had been awarded to Evisser had been attributed by popular acclaim, but never fully recognized by Imperial authorities.So it came to pass that when Evisser eventually died, the Adeptus Ministorum secretly buried Evisser on Volcanis Ultor where he rested for thousands of standard years. Benefitting from the relative proximity to the Ecclesiarchy's powerhouses of Gathalamor and Chiros, the Trail became a shining beacon of faith, allegedly only surpassed by the relic-trail established by the legendary Sebastian Thor himself. Every settled world harboured cathedrals or shrines dedicated to the veneration of the God-Emperor. Each world competed in works of devotion until the festivals of the Adeptus Ministorum became week-long celebrations with processions that snaked around entire continents, but this golden age could not last eternally.By the time the Rubicon, a Strike Cruiser of the Grey Knights Chapter entered the region, the Trail of Saint Evisser was in a state of deep neglect. The signs of this neglect were many. For instance, the former Paradise World of Farfallen was by now overrun by deep forests, as were many of the Trail's Agri-worlds. The hive cities which had haboured the uncounted millions of the Trail's population were likewise deserted and now stood almost empty. It is estimated that by the 41st Millennium, the population of those worlds which comprised the Trail had decreased by 75%. The religious fervor which had once brought prosperity to its worlds had finally burned low, and even the name of Saint Evisser was now almost forgotten.