A New Play Begins

The Aeldari also needed to split up. Yvraine needed Alaitoc and Iyanden's Craftworld Aeldari to travel through the galaxy as messengers, gathering the scattered Aeldari for a meeting of the Phoenix Lords.

The gathering place would be a star system owned by Lin Fan.

Yvraine had yet to pull the Cronesword embedded in Biel-Tan's Wraithbone. She knew that once the sword was raised, Biel-Tan Craftworld would fall apart.

"Settle the people first, then consider gathering the five swords." Yvraine voiced her thoughts to Biel-Tan's young king.

In the Warp, according to the precious records written in blood and time by the Imperium's astropaths and Navigator Houses, they had never seen the Warp so calm and peaceful.

The stench carried through the cosmos by the winds of Chaos had diminished greatly, yet uprisings by dissatisfied populations still broke out across Imperial worlds. Their fury swept over entire planets, killing every noble and Imperial official cowering in their palaces.

Yet in the Inquisition's subsequent investigations, no trace of Chaos daemons or instigation by cult members was found in these incidents.

It was simply an ordinary popular uprising.

To be honest, many Inquisitors were handling such an excessively clean incident for the first time. Once the threat of Chaos was removed from rebellion and suppression, they did not know what standards they should follow to carry out The Emperor's will.

"Brand them traitors! Even if they look normal now, their corruption will reveal itself in the future!" Some older Inquisitors had suspicions renowned even within the merciless Inquisition. Again and again, they roared in meetings and swore in The Emperor's name, "There must be a scheme of Tzeentch behind this!"

"We must handle this cautiously. The political and economic problems on these planets need to be resolved. This is a good opportunity