A newcomer had arrived in the Eye of Terror.
Legend had it that he was a gigantic Ork who asked every daemon he met, "Where's Cadia?" His iron armor was as enormous as a Gorkanaut, his iron claws were large enough to pierce an entire corrupted tank, and his charge could send a furiously firing War Automaton flying.
No one had ever seen his body. Even when warriors tore open his Power Armor with all their strength, all they saw was a crimson abyss more warped than the Warp itself.
The rumor originated on Dark Kroxus Planet and drifted through the Warp to every world.
But when Evan first arrived here, all he could hear was the thunderous cheering of the Orks.
"Waaagh!! It's a planet welded out of sheet metal! Long live the Great Mushroom King!"
"I reckon the Great Mushroom King's the most Waaagh navigator boss!"
The Orks cheered. In fact, the journey before this had excited them just as much. When their warship flew into the Empyrean, vast banks of "high-altitude clouds" greeted them. Once they entered the clouds, only the faint radiance of the sun remained visible.
After they touched the "clouds," walls aboard the warship suddenly twisted and sprouted human faces, making the boyz jump for joy and shout, "Nothing's more exciting than walls you can fight!" Then they turned, saw Killa Kans suddenly sprouting flesh, and roared as they charged at them.
Evan, meanwhile, fought a heap of bizarre corrupted things with considerable peace of mind, reflecting that the Warp was still the same old Warp. Compared with those skinny Nurgle "farmers," this place felt much more familiar.
As they descended, a Forge World appeared before them.
Evan could not understand why the boundless, enormous plain they had taken off from had become