Ascendant: Lorgar, you're late, yours

Obtained by Nimrod

966.M30.

The Word Bearers licked at the humiliation and pain of Monarchia, and their fleets operated alone.

The 1301st Expeditionary Fleet arrived in a strange region of space in the galactic north.

That vast expanse encompassed hundreds upon thousands of star systems.

A Warp Storm appeared as a hazy fog that defiled the stars, coiling around a core formed of boiling energy.

It was like an eye in the void.

The fleet crossed the savage storm and reached a stable position.

The Serrated Sun Chapter spent three years destroying seven planets in the star system.

The Chapter's second-in-command, Argel Tal, captain of the 7th Assault Company, and his brothers became wolves, turning planet after planet to scorched earth.

Like the World Eaters, they slaughtered countless civilians.

They vented the shame suffered in the ruins of the Perfect City upon seven worlds with bitter fury.

The eighth world was not destroyed.

It was the twelfth world conquered by the 1301st Fleet, and the designation recorded for it in official Imperial records was 1301-12.

1301-12 was not destroyed because the language spoken by the inhabitants of this backward planet was the same as that of the Word Bearers' homeworld, Colchis.

Their faith was also similar to the religious beliefs of Colchis.

Lorgar Aurelian received the report, developed a deep interest in this world, and came in person.

After he arrived, he immediately summoned the fleet's senior officers to learn the situation.

Sosha Daviel, the leader of the Astropaths, spoke slowly.

"My lord, what coils around this region is no mere Warp Storm. It has raged for a long time, and has already seeped into realspace."

"This region is both reality and illusion. It is the Warp, and it is the material universe."

A light long unseen shone in Lorgar's