Angrath the Unbound led a death squad of eighty-eight Bloodthirsters and charged boldly toward the Avatar of Khaine, which was wantonly raining down destruction.
When he had first set out, Angrath had even harbored a sliver of hope: perhaps this Avatar of Khaine was merely all show, and after unleashing its first attack, its strength would decline sharply.
After all, in his eyes, this so-called Avatar of Khaine was nothing more than a monster created by fragments of that false god gathering together. There was no reason it could keep fighting without end.
But the closer he drew to Khaine, the more he felt the terrifying divine might emanating from it, so much so that he felt as if he were facing Khorne himself.
From any perspective, Khaine the Blood-Handed and Khorne the Blood God shared far too many similarities.
They both held dominion over war, blood, and slaughter. Both were short-tempered and lived for battle.
Perhaps the subtle difference was that Khorne did not possess Khaine's "humanity." He was closer to a conceptual entity born from the convergence of countless emotions.
Khaine, however, possessed a complexity far beyond Khorne's.
This Aeldari god of war had once been madly infatuated with Aisha, wife of Kurnous the Hunter God. He had made an agreement with Vaul, the God of the Forge, to exchange a hundred finest swords for leniency toward Aisha. He had developed the intent to exterminate the Aeldari after a warning from Lileath, the God of Prophecy, and had even bullied the weak by murdering the Aeldari leader Eldanesh.
It was precisely because Khaine had murdered Eldanesh that he crossed the bottom line of Asuryan, King of the Gods. Asuryan cursed Khaine's hands to bleed forever, reminding him of his past crimes. That was how he came to be