"What is that book on your armored appendage?"
Though Lorgar's shape-shifting weapon was astonishing enough, Corvus was more curious about the book.
Because every time this clone brother of his did something to a book, everyone else became strange.
Just like how those Grey Knights had seen Lorgar's face yet acted as though they had lost their memories, asking who it was they had seen.
Or how that Grey Knight mentor had said, "Minor characters, come with me," then taken everyone away.
"This is no secret. I can tell you about this book."
"It is called the Book of Ages."
Lorgar looked around as he moved forward, speaking of something that greatly interested clone Corvus.
"After I learned a great many things and realized what torment faith, that Warp-born spiritual energy, had inflicted upon our father, I suddenly discovered that the Ecclesiarchy's faith was actually harmful."
"For example, if our Father-Emperor were to rise from the Throne ten thousand years from now..."
"It would be one thing if humanity followed the Eldar down their path, but tearing a second massive wound into the Real Universe would be far worse."
Though what Lorgar said had little to do with his book, Corvus listened patiently.
Once one's expectations of someone had been lowered enough, nothing that happened to them was beyond acceptance.
"I thought, since my Lectitio Divinatus had become study material for the Ecclesiarchy, could I refute the thing I had created?"
"So I wrote another book, called the Book of Reality. This won the favor of that C'tan, and it bestowed the Book of Ages upon me as a treasure."
"The Book of Ages can peer into the threads of fate attached to the Veil. It can even alter the course of those threads, thereby affecting reality."
Upon hearing the