Weapons issued only to the Adeptus Custodes.
Togon Khan reunited with his Moonlight Brotherhood and found that fourteen battle-brothers had been lost.
He led the brotherhood south with the Third Legion, toward the main continent.
Vaneskrey, the highest point in the Shetanswal Archipelago, was the castle of Muspel's ruler.
The swallowtail-like sealed ornaments of Bal's statue streamed in the wind, every section covered in battlements and gun batteries.
Its foundations sank deep into the rock of the headland, with rings of guns crowding the cliff's edge.
Waves battered the rocks, and flames crackled.
The treads of the Land Raider clattered over the ash-black floor tiles. Its weapon units began to warm up, and its turret gave short metallic clicks as it rotated in search of targets.
Vaneskrey's massive wall-cannon from the Dark Mechanicum Era opened fire.
The entire wall shuddered. A huge shell blasted out with a roaring boom and smashed into a Land Raider.
Boom!
Black steel burst into a heap of wreckage, and waves of fire scattered from the ruined tank.
Togon raced along the trapezoid slabs of prefabricated rockcrete, over the piled artificial headland.
Around Vaneskrey lay strata of veined rock, and a hissing moat rose and slapped against them.
A Neutron Lance tore through the air, stabbed into a black Rhino, and melted five warriors in Mark IV Power Armor.
Wherever the molten beam swept, skin like marble statues was cast into prisms.
The sea wind rode the waves into Togon's nostrils.
He ducked low into cover. As a magazine chambered, he signaled two o'clock.
Togon stepped out of cover and advanced along the maintenance passage, his Bolter roaring as it fired at the Servitor-operated gun turrets.
Crimson, orange, and yellow beams suddenly lit up across the city wall.
Togon was just about to throw himself