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Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought - Contemptor-Galatus Class Dreadnought: Similar to the Contemptor Dreadnoughts of the Legiones Astartes, the Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought is a markedly superior war machine. The unrivalled skills of the warrior entombed within its sarcophagus notwithstanding, the Contemptor-Galatus is stronger, faster and better armoured than the more common Contemptors used by the Space Marines.Designed to provide an anchor for a Legio Custodes battleline, the Contemptor-Galatus was armed in similar fashion to the Custodes Sentinel Guard -- wielding a huge Galatus Warblade with its built-in twin-linked Infernus Incinerator, and equipped with a vastly enlarged version of the Praesidium Shield. Already able to withstand heavy assaults with its thick armour and refractor field, the Praesidium Shield allows the Contemptor-Galatus to stand nigh impregnable, enduring the enemy onslaught and reaping a murderous toll with its massive Power Sword.
Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought - Contemptor-Achillus Class Dreadnought: At the time of the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, the most widely employed Dreadnought by the Legio Custodes was the Contemptor-Achillus Dreadnought, a general battle unit which combined phenomenal strength and speed with the echoes of the interned Custodes' own unmatched martial skill.A fearsome example of Dreadnought technology, this Achillus is armed with the massive Dreadspear, an enlarged Dreadnought-sized version of the Custodes' Guardian Spear.The Dreadnought is also armed with two wrist-mounted Storm Bolters, Infernus Incinerators or Adrathic Destructors.
Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought - Venerable Contemptor Dreadnought: The Venerable Contemptor Dreadnoughts of the Custodian Guard are revered relics of the Imperium's golden age. Each houses a fallen hero of the Adeptus Custodes, a warrior broken in body but not in mind who has opted to fight to his last breath. The pilot is shorn of all unnecessary flesh, rendered down to little more than a sack of organs and brain matter sustained within an armaglass amniotic tank.The Custodian becomes a god of war, able to stride unharmed through hails of fire and crush the Master of Mankind's foes with their hydraulic might. Articulated in the manner of a human warrior, the Contemptor fights with a deceptive dexterity for its size – onward it pushes, its heavy weapon system laying down a swathe of deadly fire.At close quarters, sweeps of its power fist crush infantry to paste and tear their war engines apart to leave naught but wreckage behind.
Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought - Thousand Sons Osiron Pattern Contemptor Dreadnought: The Osiron Pattern Contemptor Dreadnought, or simply the Osiron Dreadnought, was a variant of the ancient Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought used by the Thousand Sons Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy that allowed an Astartes psyker to continue to use his powers after being transformed into a cybernetic behemoth.For many solar decades the arts by which the power of an Astartes psyker could be maintained medically within the armoured sarcophagus of a Dreadnought eluded the Thousand Sons and any other Space Marine Legion that tried, with the occupant experiencing a lingering death, madness or malign psychic phenomena.The Osiron Pattern Dreadnought came about as the result of Magnus the Red himself applying his brilliant mind to solve the problem, resulting in the creation of a device known as the Osiron. This device takes the form of a crown of psychometric barrier lattice encasing the occupant's living brain. The Osiron device was difficult to construct and was barely understood by even the most learned psi-arcanists, though this did not stop the Thousand Sons from outfitting it to their Contemptor Pattern Dreadnoughts, with startlingly powerful results.Imperial records indicate that Magnus the Red, before the Council of Nikaea, gave the schematics of the Osiron device to all of the other Space Marine Legions, though it is likely that most spurned this gift entirely. It is unknown if the Osiron Pattern Dreadnought is still used by the Thousand Sons, or if any other Astartes Legions or their descendants made use of the Osiron.
Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought - Word Bearers Mhara Gal Tainted Dreadnought: The Mhara Gal Tainted Dreadnought is a variant of the Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought that was once used by the Word Bearers Traitor Legion during the Horus Heresy.The Mhara Gal was first encountered by Imperial forces during the battle for the city of Ithraca amidst the atrocity committed by the Word Bearers on Calth.The first of the Mhara Gal Dreadnoughts is believed to have been created from the barely living remains of a Gal Vorbak Dark Brethren and a battle-shattered Contemptor Dreadnought chassis, both recovered from the blood-soaked ground of Isstvan V.Fused together by unholy practices, they were then corrupted by a Warp-borne power, giving birth to a new monstrosity -- a living engine of war and hatred.
Contenders - Contenders: The Contenders is a Codex Astartes-compliant Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin. Almost nothing is known about this Chapter in the Imperial records, except that they were created some time after the Second Founding.
Contenders - Chapter Colours: The Contenders Chapter primarily wears dark grey Power Armour. This includes the helmet, torso, arms, shoulder plate trim, groin and upper legs. The power pack, shoulder plates and lower legs are a lighter grey. The red squad specialty symbol -- Tactical, Assault, Devastator or Veteran -- is indicated on the right shoulder plate. A black Roman numeral centred on the squad specialty symbol indicates squad number. The colour of the Aquila or Imperialis on the chest, indicates company number in accordance with the Codex -- i.e. White (1st Company), Yellow (2nd Company), Red (3rd Company), etc.
Contenders - Chapter Badge: The Contenders' Chapter badge is a stylised clenched red fist on a field of light grey. The fist symbol used is similar to that used by the Imperial Fists.
Contenders - Sources: Adeptus Astartes: Successor Chapters (Limited Release Booklet), pg. 25Chapter Approved 2001 - Second Book of the Astronomican, pg. 117
Contingent - Contingent: A contingent, or tio've in the T'au Lexicon, is a large military unit of the T'au Empire's Fire Caste. A contingent is a grouping of several cadres, normally three to six in number, equivalent to an Astra Militarum regiment. The most senior T'au Commander is designated as Contingent Commander, and their own cadre is nominated as a headquarters guard. An Ethereal might be present in such a force at cadre level, but there is always at least one present when a contingent is formed.Ethereals often stay at the headquarters position, as it is a hub for incoming reports and their counsel can best be received there. Should an Ethereal wish a closer observation of a situation, they will attach to or even assume leadership over a given cadre.Unlike a cadre, a contingent is not a permanent formation, though efforts are made to preserve contingents that have served efficiently together through prolonged campaigns. Once objectives are achieved -- such as a breakthrough of enemy lines or the elimination of a foe -- the contingent is dissolved or reformed into another arrangement.
Contorted Epitome - Contorted Epitome: A Contorted Epitome is a daemonic construction in the form of a great mirror used by the Daemons of Slaanesh to unleash and deny psychic powers on the battlefield.Rivalry is common among the Daemons of Slaanesh, but those few that can abide each other's presence are often assigned as stewards of an ornate Mirror of Absorption.These semi-sentient relics are taken from the Pleasure Palace of Slaanesh in the Realm of Chaos and used in battle to absorb the psychic energies of the Dark Prince's foes, before turning them back with terrifying effectiveness.Each mirror holds an immense reserve of psychic energy and is also used by the Dark Prince's Daemons to manifest the Chaos God's power to aid its servants in combat.A Contorted Epitome can also deny Slaanesh's daemonic and mortal enemies the ability to use their own psychic powers.
Contrador - Contrador: The Contrador was an Imperial Legate-class Battle Barge that served as a capital ship in the immense warfleet of the Iron Warriors Legion, during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy in the late 30th and early 31st Millennia. At the Battle of Phall, the Contrador was captained by the Iron Warriors warleader Erasmus Golg, who was also the commander of the Legion's 11th Company. Typical of the warships of the Iron Warriors grand fleet, the Contrador 's already formidable sensor and weapon systems were heavily enhanced over many standard decades of service. What she sacrificed in speed and manoeuverability she more than gained in raw strength, as befitting the bellicose and stoic nature of the Iron Warriors themselves. Despite her extensive modifications, the Contrador conformed to a pattern that was coming to be used throughout the war fleets of the Legiones Astartes at the time of the Battle of Phall and which would become a familiar class of Battle Barge in the coming years.Ultimately Perturabo failed in his attempt to annihilate the entirety of the Loyalist fleet, due to the vigilance and foresight of Captain Alexis Polux, the commander of the Imperial Fists Retribution Fleet at Phall, who had kept the warships under his command at a high state of combat-readiness. Though they sustained significant damage, Captain Polux was able to launch a successful counterattack against the Iron Warriors' fleet and inflict significant damage as well as destroy or disable multiple capital ships. When the Retribution Fleet's Astropaths finally managed to make contact with Terra, they received a direct order from Rogal Dorn recalling the Retribution Fleet to Terra to prepare the defences of the Imperial Palace. Launching a bold counterstrike, the Imperial Fists drove off the embattled Traitor fleet and managed to break orbit and manoeuvre to their jump points, where they entered the Warp and made for Terra to prepare for the Traitors' coming assault upon the homeworld of Mankind. Alexis Polux himself managed to escape Phall only by commandeering the Contrador after abandoning his own crippled warship, the Tribune, and then making his way back to Terra aboard the Traitor vessel. The Contrador's ultimate fate during the Heresy remains unknown.
Convent Prioris - Convent Prioris: The Convent Prioris on Terra is one of the two convents of the Adepta Sororitas, which house half of its Orders Militant, Orders Dialogous, Orders Famulous and Orders Hospitaller.The Convent Prioris and the Convent Sanctorum were formed following the election of Sebastian Thor as Ecclesiarch of the Adeptus Ministorum, and his sweeping reforms in the wake of the insane High Lord Goge Vandire's tyrannical rule during the Reign of Blood.
Convent Prioris - History: In the wake of the mad High Lord Vandire's downfall, Sebastian Thor was declared Ecclesiarch, and instituted sweeping reforms to the Ecclesiarchy. The High Lords of Terra were fearful of a repetition of the Reign of Blood. and so the "Decree Passive" was issued, forbidding the Ecclesiarchy from maintaining "men under arms." Alicia Dominica, at Thor's order, formally founded the Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas, which adhered to the letter if not the spirit of the decree in that all its warriors were female.Following Thor's Reformation of the Adeptus Ministorum, the newly founded Adepta Sororitas were split between the Convent Prioris on Holy Terra and the Convent Sanctorum on Ophelia VII. Both of these Convents are massive fortresses housing tens of thousands of Sisters. Those sisters still residing at San Leor were transported to the new convents, and the foundations of the non-militant orders were laid.In time, the Orders Militant grew into larger and more powerful organisations and Sebastian Thor's successor, the Ecclesiarch Alexis XXII, decreed that the two Convents each be divided into two Orders Militant. The Convent Sanctorum was split to become the Order of the Fiery Heart, whose founder was Katherine, and the Order of the Valorous Heart, led by Lucia. In the mid-39th Millennium, Ecclesiarch Deacis VI created two more Orders Militant, the Order of the Bloody Rose in honour of Saint Mina and the Order of the Sacred Rose, founded in memory of Saint Arabella, based at the Convents Sanctorum and Prioris, respectively.
Convent Prioris - Orders Militant: Order of the Sacred RoseOrder of the Ebon ChaliceOrder of the Argent Shroud
Convent Prioris - Orders Hospitaller: Order of the Cleansing WaterOrder of the Torch
Convent Prioris - Orders Famulous: Order of the Holy SealOrder of the Sacred Coin
Convent Prioris - Orders Dialogous: Order of the Sacred OathOrder of the Lexicon
Convent Prioris - Orders Minoris: Order of the Blue Robe
Convent Sanctorum - Convent Sanctorum: The Convent Sanctorum is one of two convents of the Adepta Sororitas, where half of the Orders Militant, Orders Dialogous, Orders Famulous and Orders Hospitaller are based on the Cardinal World of Ophelia VII.The Convent Sanctorum and the Convent Prioris were formed following the election of Sebastian Thor as Ecclesiarch of the Adeptus Ministorum, and his sweeping reforms in the wake of the insane High Lord Goge Vandire's tyrannical rule during the Reign of Blood.
Convent Sanctorum - History: In the wake of the mad High Lord Vandire's downfall, Sebastian Thor was declared Ecclesiarch, and instituted sweeping reforms to the Ecclesiarchy. The High Lords of Terra were fearful of a repetition of the Reign of Blood. and so the "Decree Passive" was issued, forbidding the Ecclesiarchy from maintaining "men under arms." Alicia Dominica, at Thor's order, formally founded the Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas, which adhered to the letter if not the spirit of the decree in that all its warriors were female.Following Thor's Reformation of the Adeptus Ministorum, the newly founded Adepta Sororitas were split between the Convent Prioris on Holy Terra and the Convent Sanctorum on Ophelia VII. Both of these Convents are massive fortresses housing tens of thousands of Sisters. Those sisters still residing at San Leor were transported to the new convents, and the foundations of the non-militant orders were laid.In time, the Orders Militant grew into larger and more powerful organisations and Sebastian Thor's successor, the Ecclesiarch Alexis XXII, decreed that the two Convents each be divided into two Orders Militant. The Convent Sanctorum was split to become the Order of the Fiery Heart, whose founder was Katherine, and the Order of the Valorous Heart, led by Lucia. In the mid-39th Millennium, Ecclesiarch Deacis VI created two more Orders Militant, the Order of the Bloody Rose in honour of Saint Mina and the Order of the Sacred Rose, founded in memory of Saint Arabella, based at the Convents Sanctorum and Prioris, respectively.
Convent Sanctorum - Orders Militant: Order of the Bloody RoseOrder of Our Martyred LadyOrder of the Valorous Heart
Convent Sanctorum - Orders Hospitaller: Order of the Eternal CandleOrder of Serenity
Convent Sanctorum - Orders Famulous: Order of the KeyOrder of the Gate
Convent Sanctorum - Orders Dialogous: Order of the Holy WordOrder of the Quill
Conversion Beamer - Conversion Beamer: The Conversion Beamer, also called a Conversion Beam Projector, is an incredibly rare and deadly antimatter-based pre-Horus Heresy archeotech weapon most likely developed during the Age of Technology. It fires a directed energy beam of antimatter particles which cause a matter-antimatter explosion in its target. It is a powerful, long-ranged weapon whose beam intensity actually becomes stronger the farther the range to its target, up to a terminal distance point where the beam finally begins to lose coherence.In the 41st Millennium, a Conversion Beamer as a man-portable weapon is usually only wielded by a Space Marine Chapter's Master of the Forge or, in rare cases, agents of the Inquisition or the Adeptus Mechanicus. Upscaled versions of the weapon with greater terminal range and damage output are used by Imperial Dreadnoughts, Knights and Titans.More advanced variants of the same weapon are also available to the military forces of the Leagues of Votann due to the similar origin of the Kin's technology in pre-Imperial Humanity's STC databases.
Conversion Beamer - History: A Conversion Beamer is an esoteric weapon that is both difficult to construct and highly complex to use, needing skilled calibration to operate as well as dedicated Plasma Reactor core systems to power.As a result of this complexity, Conversion Beamers were primarily used during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy in the late 30th and early 31st Millennia for dedicated siege warfare or starship breaching assaults by specialised operators such as Space Marine Legion Techmarines and Mechanicum Myrmidon Destructors.Should anyone else attempt to use the weapon, its Machine Spirit might become greatly angered and turn its ire upon the wielder instead. More rarely, larger Conversion Beamer weapons were mounted on a vehicle chassis with advanced control mechanisms and an abundance of reactor power such as the Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought.In the 41st Millennium, Conversion Beamers are incredibly rare pre-Heresy artefacts, and their conservation and deployment is typically the responsibility of a Space Marine Chapter's Master of the Forge.
Conversion Beamer - Conversion Beamer Operation: A Conversion Beam weapon fires a beam of antimatter which induces a subatomic implosion in its target, with the beam itself gathering power over distance up to a terminal point of beam instability.By using the energy stored in atomic bonds, a Conversion Beamer can annihilate creatures, vehicles, or nearly anything its beam reaches, provided it is given time to build to critical mass.When fired, a Conversion Beamer expels a stream of neutron-bombarded antimatter particles, beginning an atomic chain reaction that converts any matter the antimatter touches into an equivalent mass of energy in a blazing beam that hurtles towards the target.As the escalating antimatter/matter reaction travels, more and more air molecules are converted into a deadly blast that finally consumes the target in an explosive release of pure energy.As such, the Conversion Beamer is equally effective against large targets as well as small ones. The further away a target, the more effective the Conversion Beamer proves as it is given more time to escalate in power.However, the antimatter beam is so dangerous that it has to be held very steady to achieve its effect without endangering allied troops, so the weapon cannot be used on the move.
Conversion Beamer - Conversion Beam Cannon: The Conversion Beam Cannon is a much larger and more powerful relic version of the Conversion Beamer that was deployed as the primary weapon of the massive Acastus Knight Asterius during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras.The Asterius was armed with two twin-linked versions of this weapon. They were used for long-ranged firepower and were particularly suited to destroying fortifications.
Conversion Beamer - Heavy Conversion Beamer: The Heavy Conversion Beamer is an ancient relic-weapon of incredible and poorly-understood power that only the advanced systems of the Horus Heresy-era relic Contemptor Dreadnought or a relic Deimos Predator Executioner can hope to accurately direct and control.As the Heavy Conversion Beamer is a scaled-up version of the standard Conversion Beamer, its beam can affect a wider area, possesses a longer range and can do more damage.
Conversion Beamer - Conversion Beam Dissolutor: The Conversion Beam Dissolutor, also called a Dissolutor Cannon, is an upscaled, Titan-grade Conversion Beamer that can be mounted on the arm hardpoint of an Imperial Warhound-class Titan or deployed as a carapace weapon on a Reaver-class Titan.A Conversion Beam weapon of this size is tremendously powerful and possesses an extreme range but the sheer power draw of the cannon can result in an intense strain being placed on the Titan's Plasma Reactor, though many consider this a small price to pay for such overwhelming firepower.
Conversion Beamer - Extirpator Cannon: An Extirpator Cannon is a massive, upscaled Titan-grade Conversion Beamer that can be mounted on the arm hardpoint of an Imperial Warlord-class Titan and is thus by far the largest known example of a Conversion Beam weapon.A Conversion Beam weapon of this sheer size is tremendously powerful and possesses an extreme range but the sheer power draw of the cannon can result in an intense strain being placed on the Titan's Plasma Reactor, though many consider this a small price to pay for such overwhelming firepower.When charged to its maximum settings, an Extirpator Conversion Beam Cannon's power surpasses even that of a Warlord Titan's standard Belicosa Pattern Volcano Cannon.
Conversion Beamer - SP Conversion Beamer: An SP Conversion Beamer is a hand-held, anti-personnel and anti-armour conversion beamer weapon used by the military forces of the Leagues of Votann that is very similar to its Imperial counterpart in operation and output.Like an Imperial Conversion Beamer weapon, with which it shares a common technological heritage from pre-Imperial Terra through the STC databases, the SP Conversion Beamer fires a directed energy beam of antimatter particles that unleashes a matter/antimatter explosion when it makes contact with its target. The strength of the beam increases with range until reaching a terminal point where beam instability results.However, Kin weapons like the SP Conversion Beamer are superior in almost every respect to those wielded by the agents of the Imperium, since the Kin employ superlative materials and methods in their construction and have no fear of further innovating on an ancient STC design. As a result, the SP Conversion Beamer and its variants often have even longer ranges and more stopping power than any of their Imperial equivalents.Among the Oathbands of the Kin, an SP Conversion Beamer is a favoured weapon of Brôkhyr Thunderkyn. The unstoppable lances of directed energy shot from the SP Conversion Beamers of the Thunderkyn can pierce their foes' heavy infantry. The Brôkhyr use these to lay down withering cover fire for their Oathbands and to pick off enemy armoured vehicles.
Conversion Beamer - SP Heavy Conversion Beamer: The SP Heavy Conversion Beamer is a hand-held, anti-personnel and anti-armour conversion beamer weapon deployed on the heavy armoured vehicles of the Leagues of Votann like the Hekaton Land Fortress. It has the same range as the man-portable SP Conversion Beamer, but can unleash a more damaging beam.Like an Imperial Conversion Beamer weapon, with which it shares a common technological heritage from pre-Imperial Terra through the STC databases, the SP Conversion Beamer fires a directed energy beam of antimatter particles that unleashes a matter/antimatter explosion when it makes contact with its target. The strength of the beam increases with range until reaching a terminal point where beam incoherency results.However, Kin weapons like the SP Heavy Conversion Beamer are superior in almost every respect to those wielded by the agents of the Imperium, since the Kin employ superlative materials and methods in their construction and have no fear of further innovating on an ancient STC design. This is particularly true in the case of the SP Heavy Conversion Beamer, which is an STC design whose damage output has been enhanced by the Brôkhyr. For this reason, the Imperium especially covets this technology.
Conversion Beamer - Uses: Man-portable Imperial Conversion Beamers can be used by:Space MarineMasters of the ForgeOrdo Xenos InquisitorsAdeptus Mechanicus Myrmidon DestructorsGrey Knights TechmarinesDeathwatch AstartesHeavy Conversion Beamers can be used by:Contemptor DreadnoughtsDemios Predator Executioners
Conversion Beamer - Sources: Codex: Grey Knights (5th Edition), pg. 55Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition), pp. 98-99, 101Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 70Dark Heresy: Daemon Hunter (RPG), pg. 66Deathwatch: Core Rulebook (RPG), pp. 88-89, 152-153Imperial Armour Volume Nine - Badab War - Part One, pg. 167The Horus Heresy Book One: Betrayal (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 230Warhammer 40,000: Wargear (2nd Edition), pg. 49Forge World - Contemptor Heavy Conversion BeamerForge World - Decimator Heavy Conversion BeamerForge World - Deimos Predator Pattern Predator ExecutionerAcastus Knight Asterius Forge World RulesForge World Acastus Knight AsteriusWarhammer Community - This Ain't Your Ancestor's Land Train – Take a Closer Look at the Hekaton Land FortressWarhammer Community - Speedrun Engine Kills With Massive Adeptus Titanicus Conversion Beam Weapons
Conversion Field - Conversion Field: A Conversion Field is a moderately powerful energy shield that surrounds the user who wears a Conversion Field emitter as a form of personal protection.The field's effect is to convert the kinetic energy of an impact into harmless light. When the field stops a shot, a blinding flash of light is produced as the energetic conversion occurs.The Conversion Field is normally used by important members of the Inquisition, Ecclesiarchy, Administratum or powerful Astra Militarum general officers as a last line of protection, particularly against assassination.The most infamous person in Imperial history who made use of a Conversion Field was the mad Ecclesiarch and High Lord of the Administratum, Goge Vandire, who used a Conversion Field to trick the Daughters of the Emperor (now known as the Sisters of Battle) into believing that he was the embodiment of the Emperor's divine will.Vandire ordered his bodyguards to shoot him, to prove he was blessed by the Emperor's holy protection and they reluctantly agreed.Unknown to both the Daughters of the Emperor and the bodyguard was that Vandire was wearing a Conversion Field and the field absorbed the laser shots that might very well have stolen Vandire's life.
Coranin - Coranin: CoraninDaemon WorldHadex AnomalyJericho Reach
Coranin - History: When the Hadex Anomaly appeared in realspace, Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways, claimed the Feral World of Coranin as its own. The changes the will of the Chaos God wrought were subtle at first. Trees would sway when there was no wind, roads no longer had the same endpoint, and other such small differences.The superstitious Human tribesmen of the planet turned to their mystics and soothsayers for answers, but the only responses they got were to accept the changes as a sign from their god. Over a period of several standard years, children born to the tribes were mutated. Some would have an extra limb, others would merely have eyelids that closed from the sides.In an effort to appease their god who protected them from the angry red scar in the sky, the people of Coranin venerated these changed ones and made them the leaders of the tribe. It was not until two full generations had passed did the tribes finally receive an obvious sign from their deity.When a Daemonic avatar of Tzeentch finally revealed itself to the people of Coranin, it did so with a flair for the dramatic. Shrubbery grew into a maze that followed the seemingly random steps of the Daemon. The leaves on every tree that the Daemon passed fell from their branches and were replaced with perfect replicas made from unholy Warpfire. Rivers switched the direction that they flowed every time they were crossed.It wasn't until the Daemon reached the largest tribal settlement on the planet that the people truly understood what their god was capable of. The Daemon looked upon its worshippers and pointed to a small boy.This boy had escaped the corrupting touch of the Warp and was physically sound and unmarred. The boy strode up to the daemon and kneeled before it. The daemon placed a single claw-like hand upon the boy's head and said a few words in an unpronounceable language. With a flash of violet fire, the boy was changed from a perfect Human specimen into a Horror of Tzeentch. From that day forward, the people of Coranin heaped offerings and prayers onto the avatar of their new master, the Changer of Ways.
Corax: Soulforge - Corax: Soulforge: Corax: Soulforge is a novella in The Horus Heresy series of novels, released as an exclusive in hardback format. The novella has since been reprinted as a non-limited hardback, an ebook, and an MP3 audiobook. The short story The Shadowmasters is included within the limited edition novella's dusk jacket. Both Corax: Soulforge and The Shadowmasters were later included in the Corax anthology novel.
Corax: Soulforge - Synopsis: In spite of the corruption of Corax's plans to rebuild his Legion after the Drop Site Massacre, the surviving Raven Guard remain defiant. Happening upon a stricken Word Bearers vessel far behind the front lines, they find evidence of a new alliance between the Traitors and the Forge World of Constanix II –- with rumours of terrifying new war machines stalking battlefields across the sector, it is a threat too great to ignore. The Primarch Corax must infiltrate the heart of the Dark Mechanicum priesthood on Constanix II if he is to win any allies for the war to come, though he will likely be forced to confront the truth of his own mysterious nature along the way...
Corax: Soulforge - Raven Guard Series: The following is the chronological order of the Raven Guard Series story arc set within the Horus Heresy:Corax: SoulforgeThe ShadowmastersRavenlordThe Value of FearRaptorWeregeldThe Raven Guard Series begins shortly after book eighteen, Deliverance Lost. All of the Raven Guard Series is included in the anthology novel Corax.
Corax (Anthology) - Corax (Anthology): Corax is the fortieth volume in the Horus Heresy series of novels.
Corax (Anthology) - Synopsis: An anthology containing Gav Thorpe's Raven Guard Legion Novellas and Short Stories. Corax as a whole is the sequel to Deliverance Lost (Book 18).After Istvaan V, after Deliverance, the Raven Guard Legion still endures. Their Primarch, Corvus Corax, has rallied countless warriors to his banner, striking back at the forces of the Warmaster Horus on every front –- from the degenerate Hereteks of the Dark Mechanicum to the cruel Legionaries of the Sons of Horus themselves, none shall escape his wrath. But although Corax has managed to stall the physical corruption of his own Space Marines, what of their spirit? And what sinister end must await those who dwell forever in the darkness?
Corax (Anthology) - Contents: Corax includes the following 6 stories:Corax: Soulforge (Novella) by Gav ThorpeRavenlord (Novella) by Gav ThorpeThe Shadowmasters (Short Story) by Gav ThorpeThe Value of Fear (Short Story) by Gav ThorpeRaptor (Short Story) by Gav ThorpeWeregeld (Novella) by Gav ThorpeCorax features the prose version of the audio drama Raptor as well as the first publishing of the novella Weregeld.
Corax - Lord of Shadows (Novella) - Corax - Lord of Shadows (Novella): Corax - Lord of Shadows is the tenth novella in the Horus Heresy - Primarchs series. The novella was released on February 19, 2019.
Corax - Lord of Shadows (Novella) - Synopsis: During the Great Crusade, it falls to the primarch Corax of the Raven Guard to humble the immense void-cities of the Carinae. Determined to bring these worlds into Compliance, he unleashes the might of his Legion and a massive war host of the Imperial Army. But the lords of Carinae are well defended and without remorse.At the height of the conflict, at the void-city of Zenith, a dread bio-weapon from an ancient time is unleashed. At once, the Imperial force is brought to its knees, as allies are turned against each other and the Raven Guard left to face almost insurmountable odds. As the campaign teeters on the brink of failure, Corax's desire for vengeance is severely tested against the need for a swift and certain resolution to the war.
Corbulo - Corbulo: Corbulo is the Sanguinary High Priest of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter. He thus serves as the leader of the Chapter's Sanguinary Priests (Apothecaries), the wielder of the relic Chainsword Heaven's Teeth and the Bearer of the Red Grail, the Chapter relic that was used to preserve the blood of their Primarch Sanguinius after he was slain by the Warmaster Horus aboard his flagship Vengeful Spirit during the closing days of the Horus Heresy.The sacred chalice is used by the Sanguinary Priests and all Aspirants of the Chapter to drink the blood of their Primarch as part of the Insanguination creation ritual for all Blood Angels Astartes. As sometimes happens with Blood Angels Battle-Brothers, Corbulo bears a striking physical resemblance to the Chapter's lost Primarch as a result of a specific expression of his gene-seed. Brother Corbulo shares the Great Primarch's far-seeing eye and deep wisdom. He currently leads his brethren in the ancient quest to eradicate the genetic Flaw that afflicts their Chapter.
Corbulo - History: Corbulo is the Sanguinary High Priest of the Blood Angels and the keeper of the Chapter initiation mysteries for Neophytes. He is charged with the wardenship of the Red Grail, the artefact in which the blood of Sanguinius was preserved after the Primarch's death.This vessel is a key part of the induction mysteries of the Sanguinary Priests, but it is also a potent relic upon the field of battle, exhorting the Scions of Sanguinius to greater deeds. Blood Angels in the presence of the Red Grail find themselves reinvigorated, the physical and psychological aspects inherited from their Primarch enhanced in some unknowable way.The physical resemblance borne by Corbulo to the Blood Angels' lost Primarch is uncanny, as his piercing eyes and noble aspect reflect the nature of the Blood Angels at its most pure. In the centuries since his investiture, it is perhaps this perfection that has driven the Sanguinary High Priest to work ceaselessly to isolate and neutralise the Flaw in his Chapter's gene-seed. This sacred quest has taken Corbulo across the width and breadth of the galaxy, traveling to numerous Apothecarions from other Space Marine Chapters, as well as to forgotten backwater worlds in search of forbidden archeotech related to the legendary genetic sciences of the Dark Age of Technology.Corbulo's resemblance to the fallen Primarch is not merely physical. His deep wisdom and canny insights are legendary, and his counsel has proven invaluable time and again. More tellingly, Corbulo shares Sanguinius' gift of the far-seeing eye, and can discern the patterns and shapes of a future yet to come -- a gift of the gene-seed that has manifested only sparingly through the many generations of Blood Angels. Those scant hours not claimed by duty or in search for the Flaw's cure, Corbulo spends poring over the Scrolls of Sanguinius, seeking to combine knowledge from the Primarch's ancient prescient visions with the fleeting insights distilled from his own. Corbulo's travails in this regard have borne fruit many times.That the Blood Angels arrived so swiftly on Armageddon following Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka's initial invasion -- and at full Chapter strength -- was due in part to Corbulo's divinations. Similarly, without Corbulo's guidance, the Blood Angel's Chapter fleet would never have known the hour and location at which M'kar the Reborn's world-breaking Daemon-Cruiser would enter the Baal System, and could thus never have ambushed and obliterated the vessel before Baal itself was laid waste.Yet these successful predictions have not been without cost. In recent years, Corbulo has grown ever more withdrawn and taciturn, and his eyes have taken on a haunted look that he cannot easily conceal. Though the exact detail of what Corbulo has learnt remains a closely-guarded secret, it cannot be doubted that the very blackest of times lie ahead for the Blood Angels -- events so dire that even foreknowledge is of no protection.
Corbulo - Devastation of Baal: It was Corbulo, also, who foresaw Hive Fleet Leviathan's attack on Baal. It was he who -- seeing no other choice -- authorised the pillaging of Aspirants from the Baalite tribes, and the abandonment of their peoples to their fate. He fought the invading xenos during the Battle of Baal with remarkable fury, wading knee-deep through their corpses with his relic Chainsword howling in gory arcs, and many believe that in his reckless butchery the Sanguinary High Priest sought to make amends for the innocent lives he so callously sacrificed for victory.
Corbulo - Khovan Incident: Fascinated by the newly-inducted Primaris Space Marines -- or more specifically, their potential to advance his research into a cure for the Flaw -- Brother Corbulo made it his business to accompany them into battle wherever he could in the days after the Devastation of Baal. Thus Corbulo was on hand during the final attack on the Alpha Legion's Fortress of Lies on Khovan. Spearheaded by Vindicators and Repulsors, the Blood Angels' attack breached the immense fortification, allowing squads of Intercessors to pour inside. Yet the Alpha Legionaries drew out the fight, baiting their enemies and striking to wound and goad the Primaris Blood Angels wherever possible.Though victory was eventually secured, the violence unleashed by several of the Primaris brothers to achieve it was extreme, with Traitors torn limb from limb. No official censure was applied to the Battle-Brothers in question, but Corbulo sought audience with Dante shortly afterward. His deep disquiet was evident, for the Primaris Astartes may not be as immune to the ravages of the Red Thirst and Black Rage as Belisarius Cawl had believed...
Corbulo - Wargear: Artificer ArmourBolt Pistol - A Bolt Pistol is a smaller version of the Bolter in standard use by the Space Marines and other Imperial forces. It is a powerful sidearm that fires explosive kinetic rounds colloquially referred to as bolts.Heaven's Teeth - This Chainsword is a treasured and irreplaceable relic of the Chapter from the time of Sanguinius.Frag Grenades - A Frag Grenade is the standard anti-personnel grenade commonly used by the military forces of the Imperium of Man, including the Astra Militarum and Adeptus Astartes. It produces a blast of shrapnel that can shred unarmoured infantry troops.Krak Grenades - The Krak Grenade is a type of explosive device used by the military forces of the Imperium of Man. Krak Grenades use a shaped explosive charge capable of punching holes in armoured targets such as vehicles or bunkers, and its charge can even rip armour plating apart.Narthecium - A Narthecium is a tool of a Space Marine Apothecary's trade, containing implements specially designed for treating the Astartes genetically-engineered physiology and for performing first aid without having to remove the patient’s Power Armour.The Red Grail - This ancient and highly revered artefact is the most sacred of the Blood Angels' holy relics, said to contain the blood of their slain Primarch and used in the Ritual of Creation of all Blood Angels Astartes by the Chapter's Sanguinary Priests. On the field of battle, the presence of the Red Grail is said to reinvigorate any Blood Angels in its presence, somehow enhancing the physical and psychological strengths these Astartes inherited from their Primarch.
Core Theta - Core Theta: Core Theta is one of several Imperial vassal Forge Worlds of the Adeptus Mechanicus located within the Askellon Sector in the Segmentum Obscurus. This Forge World is notable for its Magos Biologis whom are devoted from an early age to the mysteries of the flesh. Many of the Tech-priests of this extreme Forge World work on the edge of tech-heresy. In some cases, it is concerning the limits of the organic and not the technological. Constant experimentation on the rigours of flesh and the limits of life have made many of Core Theta's Genetors excellent physicians as well, a practice some disdain, but that others have come to rely on.
Core Theta - History: Unfortunately, the early history of this Forge World has been lost down the long millennia. Askellon is host to many Forge Worlds of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the greatest of which is Cerix Magnus. It exists in the Mechanicum's own empire that coexists with Imperial authority within the sector. Despite this, Cerix, and to a lesser extent its sister Forge Worlds Selvanus Binary and Core Theta, are as reliant on the sector as it is on them, for without raw materials from elsewhere, their forges would sputter and grow cold.
Core Theta - Xenos Weapons Cache D-216-98: Discovered in the 39th Millennium by a team of Askellian Explorators on a Dead World rimward of Aventine, the cache designated D-216-98 began as simply another collection of scarcely understood xenos weaponry. In the solar decades since, Adepts on Core Theta have received reports of similar caches scattered across the sector. The weapons's creators remain a mystery, though Tech-magi and xenos scholars now believe they are the work of an alien species ancient and malevolent beyond compare. Inquisitors with Eldar contacts are especially concerned, as more and more of these items are found in raids against Faceless Traders, and whisper of the dead race that might awaken to destroy Askellon -- the Necrontyr.
Core Theta - Armoury Mechanicus: Adaptive Logis-Engine - Many heretically advanced alien species use arcane encryptions and mechanical systems far beyond the understanding of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Nevertheless, Explorator Tech-priests of Core Theta have recovered archeotech devices from Askellon's past that can defeat the alien and show the superiority of the Omnissiah. The Adaptive Logis-Engine uses intrusion Machine Spirits, chem dispensers, electromagnetic pulses, and other forceful means to break into alien Cogitator networks and make them accessible to the agents of the Imperium.Ghostblade - In the aftermath of Imperial Compliance, Core Theta's Magi took it upon themselves to create a facsimile of the mysterious phase swords of the Callidus Assassin Temple. Never able to truly replicate the design, and lacking an example to study, the final weapon is dangerous to both its user and victim.Graviton Hammer - A somewhat unusual melee device, this weapon is the result of near-heretical experimentation on Core Theta to incorporate graviton technology into personal combat. Many are passed down from Inquisitor to Inquisitor as a rite of ascension for Acolytes within the Askellon Sector.Integration Cannon (Theta-Pattern) - Another of Core Theta's eccentric designs, the Integration Cannon uses the principles of Graviton Weaponry, but with a wildly different effect. It projects a pulsing orb of gravitic energy that shatters on contact. A second later, the rapid mass increase draws anything nearby towards the centre, crushing it in a gruesome manner.Tempus - Completed many standard years after its owner's death under a cloud of suspicions concerning its desired purpose, Tempus contains a rare stasis device that generates pulsing waves of anti-chronal energy. The Core Thetan Magi that created the pattern consider it so dangerous that there is a large bounty for the return of any working example, yet so few exist and there have been no sightings in decades. Some within the Askellon Conclave of the Inquisition fear that the Tempus weapons have followed the first Illyricum Hammer into the hands of the Ruinous Powers.Theta-Pattern Shock Bolts - Another attempt by the Tech-Adepts of Core Theta to marry more advanced technology with the primitive nature of crossbows, these bolts embed several micro-electrical capacitors within a tungsten tip, creating a non-lethal charge designed to incapacitate anything up to a Grox in size.
Core Theta - Notable Personnel: Magos Kiralon Burla - The head of the Martian Priesthood's presence on Dark Echo (a.k.a. Research Station P3482XW) is Magos Kiralon Burla, a xenoarchaeologist based on Core Theta who has been studying lost civilisations for Terran centuries. Burla has been responsible for uncovering secrets of many of the long-dead species littering Askellian space. When the first investigators set foot on the planet, the tales of the ruins spread quickly. Burla's network of informants soon returned word of their findings to the Magos, and he had a full team dispatched toward the planet within a solar month. Burla quickly established the Mechanicus Research Station on the surface. The Magos left all of the details of the set-up of the base to his underlings and immediately entered the ruins to begin his analysis of the cryptic symbols and glyphs covering the ancient detritus. Not a day goes by without Burla venturing deep underground personally with a team of Servitors to study the mysterious symbols. It has become more than a quest for knowledge to him; it is now an obsession.
Corien Sumatris - Corien Sumatris: Corien Sumatris, called the "The Tyrant's Champion" and "Warden of Piraeus," was the mysterious captain of the Astral Claws' 2nd Company.Sumatris rose swiftly to prominence first as one of Lufgt Huron's honour guard. His fierce savagery paved his way up the ranks, and by the the outbreak of the Badab War, he had not only been made captain of the 2nd Battle Company but had been granted the wardenship of the world of Piraeus within Huron's demesne.Sumatris was believed to have been killed in action just before the final siege of Badab Primaris by the Loyalists, although his body was never identified.
Corien Sumatris - History: Corien Sumatris was a mysterious figure, even within his own Astral Claws Chapter. He swiftly rose to prominence as one of Chapter Master Lufgt Huron's honour guard after slaying the Chaos Reaver Lord Scora Pleasuremaw in single combat during the Crusade of Wrath.He later spearheaded the deadly assaults into the nightmare realms of the Flesh-Haunters of the Howling Gyre.Corien Sumatris' bloody reputation helped pave his way up the ranks of the Astral Claws Chapter.Renowned for his fierce savagery and utter contempt for his enemies, by the outbreak of the Badab War he had not only been made captain of the Astral Claws 2nd Company, but also awarded the wardenship of the world of Piraeus in the Badab Sector.Sumatris won the coveted title of the "Tyrant's Champion" after slaying the Chapter's 1st Company captain in ritual combat in order to attain the honour.Captain Sumatris was one of Huron's most trusted officers, as his master trusted him implicitly to achieve his strategic goals no matter the cost, often placing him in command of the Chapter's initial strike forces.Rumours abounded amongst some within the Chapter who distrusted Sumatris, that he was a "lost son." This would imply that he was a scion of the lost Tiger Claws Chapter, given a new identity and concealed amongst the Astral Claws' ranks prior to the outbreak of the Badab War to increase the Astral Claws' numbers beyond what was legal under the Codex Astartes.This may have explained his unique physical characteristics such as his amber-coloured eyes and grey-skinned countenance.Corien Sumatris was believed to have been killed in action leading the defence of the fortress space station of Sentinel-Sigma on the edge of the Badab System just before the final siege of Badab Primaris, although his body was never conclusively identified afterward by the Inquisitorial forensic conclave.
Corien Sumatris - Wargear: Power ArmourStorm ShieldGoldenfang - Sumatris utilised a master-crafted Power Sword that possessed a shimmering blade of deadly efficiency.Spectre Pattern Bolter - Sumatris also utilised a master-crafted Spectre Pattern Bolter, crafted for him by the Astral Claws' Master Techmarine Armenneus Valthex. This compact weapon was fitted to a servo-frame allowing it to be aimed and fired via a mind-impulse link, leaving his hands free to wield his deadly blade and Storm Shield.Digital WeaponsFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesIron Halo