The warp is a vital tool to us, a means of communication and transport. Without it, there would be no Imperium of Man, for there would be no quick bridges between the stars. We use it, and we harness it, but we have no absolute control over it. It is a wild thing that tolerates our presence, but brooks no mastery. There is power in the warp, fundamental power, not good, nor evil, but elemental and anathema to us. It is a tool we use at our own risk.
By Warmaster Horus before his fall into Chaos.
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Nine Weeks Later,
William's fleet continued their travel through the warp for nine weeks. At first, the sensation of the warp travel made William's back chill as ice and vast souls within Warp made him paranoid. But as time moved forward, William adjusted to some normalcy to the point he didn't feel any issues afterwards.
Due to the continuous need of navigator's psychic sight, William forbade his librarians from using blank abilities as it would interfere with navigation itself. The ship and fleet in general is big enough to house everyone to have comfortable living spaces as well as enough food from ration packs to monster meat from the New World to feed the whole population for a dozen years (If rationed extensively.)
William's typical day is spent on managing fleet meetings and daily communication with the rest of the companies to make sure they are battle ready while preparing strategy when they reunite with Imperium.
Meanwhile, Rana spends her time with the fleet officers for daily operations for the fleet civilians such as food, medical and other essential things to make sure travelling through warp is livable. Sisters of Battle and Space Marines on every ship do their best to make their presence known as much as possible which makes potential security breaches as low as possible. After all, ship shielding, blessing of the holy oil, and water couldn't one hundred percent hold back the warp from making small breaches, leading to minot daemon attacking ship crews and personnel. Overall, William's fleet is making somewhat safe travel compared to horror stories where Imperium has to go through the warp.
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William and Rana's personal chamber.
"I swear, the daily meeting is becoming tiresome and repetitive. I start to think we barely have time for ourselves." William places his datasheet on the table while he turns around to see his wife, who just put down their son, Henry, into STC Pod. Even though Henry didn't show any signs of his blank or Primarch ability, William was certain that Henry is more powerful than himself, who is genetically engineered with Emperor's tissues.
"We have to be understandable, not just us but everyone is working hard to make sure we make the journey. Just yesterday, one of the Battleships went into lockdown due to rioting in the lower level. It seems the influence of the warp made people turn into a Chaos cult. Thankfully, Ship security forces and a few of my Sisters managed to cleanse them before they went out of control." Rana said as she fixed Henry's necklace pendant back into its original position and closed the pod. The pendant is made out of pure gold adamantium just like his outer layer of the pod is made out of.
"I just got updated on that. I was surprised that it was Sisters who handled the situation before Lord Creed or Cain did. Will the Sisters conduct the service for the loss of causality and blessing to reinforce the lower level of the ship?" William said as he poured two cups of wine and passed one to Rana. With grace, Rana accepted the cup and was about to speak when something unexpected happened.
Behind William, a tear in space ripped in force and before William, who was still in his power armor (Not terminator) could notice Rana's surprise expression, a massive boney hand with an eye attached grabbed the Chapter Master. Before the mysterious hand could yank William through the ripped warp portal, Rana cast a holy protection onto William, protecting him from madness which is the realm of warp. In William's point of view, his view went from Rana to darkness in a second as the only light source was the protection that Rana managed to cast before he got pulled into somewhere else.
'I know this sensation…' William thought to himself but it was pointless as the culprit revealed himself in front of Wiliam. Darkness slowly dispenses into dark and light blue as the massive hand that held William twists itself to face the owner of the godly hand.
"How? We are protected by a gellar field. How did you manage to break through the field?" William said to the owner of the hand. The beings who possess multiple hands and eyes spoke in multiple voices that followed one after another.
"You think minuscule things such as a gellar field would protect you? You are travelling within the warp itself and I'm the Warp! This is nothing but a small portion of what I can do." Tzeentch sneers mockingly and proceeds to shout in rage.
"You piece of shit. You cost me everything and for your action, I will teach you a lesson you will never forget." Tzeentch said in anger and irritation. For some reason after the closing look, Chaos God of Change looked worn out and exhausted as his body showed multiple cuts and was covered in feathers mostly likely belonging to birds. Tzeentch continues to speak.
"Because of your action, all of my bird collections got destroyed by fucking Skarbrand! When you sent Skarbrand into the Crystal Labyrinth and not only he destroyed all my bird cages but he managed to eat half of them. Not to mention he shattered the majority of crystals when he attempted to find his way out from the Impossible Fortress." Tzeentch said in pure anger, half close to what Khorne goes through on morning traffic without his Recaf.
"When did I send Skarbrand to your… Oh, that's right." William quickly realised what Tzeentch was talking about. The three way battle between Khorne, Slaanesh and his own legion at the capital city. The mysterious warp signature that William ordered his Krieg to bomb the area after the knight body slammed the Skarbrand into the building. At least one mystery was solved for William's mind but this didn't help him as Tzeentch is now more furious.
"You are telling me you didn't know. You didn't know that you sent brute into my thoroughly organised realm this entire time? That's it, I'm going to make you pay not with blood but with daith itself." Tzeentch brought out his second hand to hold William. Just as Chaos God of Magic attempted to do something, a golden light shone behind William and Rana's spear pierced one of the Tzeentch's eyes.
"You will not harm my husband even if he is wrong. Only I'm permitted to do that." Rana, the Emperor's Living Saint ripped through the closing warp space in force and made her appearance into Tzeentch's realm. Fully armed from top to bottom, Rana brightens the Tzeentch's blue realm with golden light, which disturbs the Chaos God from acting his punishment unto William.
"Damn that Anathema's light. I can't see shit." Tzeentch cursed as the light of the Living Saint blind him. This only lasted a few seconds as Rana's initial light eventually died down and once again blue light of the Chaos surrounded everything including Rana and William.
'The light? It actually did something to him.' William thought to himself and quickly went into his inventory to find a certain item. Meanwhile, Rana recalled her weapon and went into an attacking position with her shield front while her golden wings expanded from her back.
"You are not from my reality or Anathema's so I don't know what you will do next but I can make a guess with this." Tzeentch summons another warp portal next to him and pulls out something metallic using one of his free hands. The moment Rana and William saw what was in Tzeentch's hand, they both panicked as Henry's pod could be seen.
"You son of a bitch!" William shouted in pure rage and pulled out his item he was looking for. The one thing that holds the light of the Emperor of Mankind, the Spark of Astronomican can be seen from William's right hand and with all his might, William throws it at Tzeentch's face. The moment the sphere of the Emperor's light hit Tzeentch's face, it exploded with gold and white light that blinded even Rana's vision temporarily.
For the second time, Tzeentch experienced pain and blindness. For the Chaos God of magic and change, the blindness blocked him from seeing all possible futures and paths he wanted to take.
"Screw all of these for once. You will suffer first just as I intended." Tzeentch spoke with madness in his voice and proceeded to grab William's left and right arm with both hands. Without any hesitation, Tzeentch ripped William in half and to everyone's horror, it wasn't a physical mutilation but rather separation of body and soul.
William's Astartes body begins to separate from each other but instead of two Astartes bodies, the second body appears to be different in physical size. The whole process only took less than nine seconds but due to massive backlash from Tzeentch's magic and abuse of force separation, William lost his consciousness while William saw his own body faint while he was in another body. A body of a mortal man and his original from the Earth before he was sent to the New World.
"What did you do to me? Did you, did you just Alpharius Omegon me?" William (Mortal) spoke in a panicking voice but this didn't help at all as Tzeentch smiled in the most sinister way possible to what he just did.
"Why, of course. I know of your origin and I decided to give you back what makes you a you. Just like Alpharius and Omegon who went from one body and mind into two, I simply separated your soul into two. One for Astartes and one for a puny mortal. In a sense, both of you are William, same memory and soul. Hahahaha" Tzeentch began to laugh but didn't last as Rana appeared and slash Tzeentch's hand that was holding Henry's pod with a fury.
"You will release my son and my husband! What in the Emperor's golden throne?" Rana demanded with rage and wrath of the Living Saint but she paused for a second as she saw unconscious William and a mortal man in hands of Tzeentch.
"You are still here? If you want this then you can have it!" With irritation, Tzeentch threw the baby pod directly at Rana, who quickly recovered and withdrew her weapon and shield to grab the pod.
Rana extended her golden wing of energy to stop the pod from going further but it was pointless as Tzeentch opened his third hand to open a warp portal right behind Rana and Henry's pod.
"Hahaha. Be lost in the warp forever with your son!" Tzeentch laughed and with that Rana and baby pod went into the mysterious warp portal. Meanwhile, William, who is in mortal body, quickly grabs one thing that could distract the Tzeentch while he figures things out. He needs to find Rana and his son, Henry. He also needs to merge with this other half if he wants to survive, that is if he can figure that out.
"Hey, bird nerd with optical issues." William shouted to get Tzeentch's attention which he did as one of the Tzeentch's eyes focused on William. William couldn't tell if he could make the throw as distance seems to be changing as if space itself was folding and expanding. But with no options available, William decided to make his gamble once and for all.
"Eat space bugs!" With that said, William once again threw an object towards Tzeentch but since he is now a mortal man, the throw wasn't that impressive as it was before. Still, the object William threw managed to open and from within a massive number of Leviathan hive fleets appeared from the Tesseract cube. All heading directly at Tzeentch's head.
"What the fuck is this?!" Tzeentch said in surprise as he didn't expect this kind of action coming from William. The hive fleet appeared between Williams and Tzeentch and due to warp space folding and expanding, Tyranid fleet managed to fully appear from Trazyn's Tesseract cube and ready to devour anything that was in front of them.
"Get them off of me! My magic, why can't I feel magic around me?" Tzeentch panicked for a second as he didn't realise that Shadow in the Warp from the Splinter Fleet of the Leviathan is preventing the very warp within Tzeentch's realm.
With Shadow in the Warp suddenly making its presence within the warp, Tzeentch's domain and warp itself began to degrade as Tzeentch's hand began to disappear into real space. Thankfully, Astartes William who is still unconscious reappeared into his personal chamber where he was pulled out from before. But for mortal William who doesn't have the original destination where he was pulled out from ends up travelling through the warp time and space.
Fortunately, mortal William still had Rana's holy protection to protect him from the warp itself but his luck was all out as he had no way of navigating through the Sea of Souls. In the end Tzeentch got his revenge as he managed to separate William into two individuals and separate his family through space and time, permanently.
As William travels through the warp as a mortal man, a mysterious being in the shadow smiles and laughs in chuckles. Using ability beyond black void, the being redirect mortal humans into different times within the warp. With laughter of his own joke in the making, the mysterious being just gave himself a new toy to play around and another opportunity to mess with four Chaos Gods.
[What makes a great story? A tragedy! Hahaha! Bazinga.]
Enjoy one of three epilogue and stay safe.
Erda smiled mirthlessly. 'So like all your kind – desires frustrated, and then quickly to the threats.' She placed her hands together, raising them up as if in prayer. The golden glow within the room intensified, and a strange harmonic began to thrum across the earth floor. 'But you should not have come here alone, monster.'
By Erda, Mother of Primarchs confronting Erebus
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A golden meteor flew through above the old world. At first, the mysterious light was just a dim light mixed among the stars but as time passed, the light gradually grew everynight to the point everyone native to the planet in question began to panic.
Many of the natives began to believe that it is the sign of the upcoming apocalypse, some believe it is the sign of hope as meteor emits golden light as well as meteor only have one string of tail, not two. On the other hand, few individuals who possess a great power and sight beyond common fear saw what the meteor truly was. A new contender for the position of ultimate power.
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Altdorf, Capital City of the Empire.
College of Magic
"By the Sigmar. The golden meteor could be the sign of the great omen but I can't determine if it is good or evil." An ancient wizard spoke in great concern as if he was talking to himself but in truth, he was surrounded by a dozen wizards of different orders of magic. The gathering of the wisest and most experienced wizards frowned as they couldn't determine the identity of the golden meteor or meaning behind the light.
"So we are still undecided as to what that light means. Without our answer, the people of the Empire are panicking and resorting to mass gathering to the cult of Sigmar. No one is working and there is chaos in the cities everywhere." One of the wizards in green robe reminds everyone what was on a stake at this moment. The Jade Wizard spoke true as commoners are panicking in fear which results in massive disruption of daily life and crime rate rises to new levels. On the other hand, nobles of all levels did what they are good at, petty revenge against each other to which wizards start to believe if nobles possess a certain book of grudge of their own.
"I believe that golden light isn't a menace to us but rather a hope of the Empire. I'm more concerned about the trajectory of the meteor as it is still coming towards our way and will be here around one month." Wizard in blue robe said as his deep understanding of the Lore of the Heavens calculated the heading of the meteor. After multiple consideration and calculation, the Astromancers under the leadership of the Celestial Order came to the conclusion that the Golden Meteor will hit the Known World, somewhere near the western border of the Empire.
"I will report this matter to the Emperor and have him decide. At this moment I will provide all the evidence that meteor is a good omen and advise the Emperor to organise an army to retrieve the meteor when it arrives. Let us all hope that the Cult of Sigmar doesn't cause another uproar…" The headmaster of the College of Magic couldn't finish his sentence as the wizard messenger burst through the office door with great urgency.
"I'm sorry for interrupting, but I have an urgent message from the royal palace. The Ostland is currently fighting the raiders of the North and because of this news the Cult of Sigmar assembled the army of believers of common background to go on crusade towards the northern legion." The messenger said in a panting voice and handed over the scroll with more detailed news. If this was true, then the Empire would have to step in by assembling the army of their own to provide support to the Cult of Sigmar. The reason isn't because the religion of Sigmar is the main religion of the Empire or duty to assist the cult members during the need but to make sure those damn peasants following the cult doesn't end up all dying.
"Those damn zealots and simple minded fools." The headmaster of the College of Magic shouted in anger as he knew the turmoil that could come after the action made by the cultists. Meanwhile, Church of the Sigmar and their priests gather the new recruits in the commoner district while praising the words of the Sigmar and how the Golden Light in heaven will guide their way to the northern legion.
"Praise the Sigmar! For we are the righteous and justice of his warhammer!" The priest shouted as he raised his own warhammer up towards the golden meteor. The men and women of all ages prey on their knees as if their words will reach the golden light shining ever bright.
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Ulthuan, Ten Kingdoms of the High Elves
Lothern, the Greatest City of the Ulthuan,
The twin High Elves met in a private room to discuss the dire news happening around the world. The Old World is in chaos as usual as the presence of the golden light in the night sky begins to shift the order of powers in every faction.
According to the spies and network of intelligence gathered all around the world provided the latest information related to the effect from the golden meteor that is heading to the Known World. And the news isn't good at all.
The northern tribes of savage men began to move in massive scale towards the south to raid in large scale never seen before. The Empire and Bretonnia are doing their best to counter the raiders but barely holding their defence against the pawns of Chaos.
While Empire and Bretonnia are fighting back the raiders, the Kislev are fidgeting their own war against Chaos as few of the Chaos Warbands make their move. Apparently, the sight of the golden light in the night sky gave them a signal of sorts to push their armies down south, towards the Ostermark as if they received some kind of message from their dark master. It is unknown whether or not one or all gods of Chaos decided to act but one thing was clear, the Chaos armies are doing everything they can to reach an unknown destination even if it leads them to death.
As for the dwarfs, they are as simple as they come. Fortifying their underground fortress and fighting their own battle against Greenskins and Chaos remnants after losing the battle. With a stone like mindset and willing to fight alone in the battle, the dwarfs of the Old World will do their own things until it is too late to save everyone.
"Typical dwarfs. Holding a grudge that no one cares or will remember when all that is good dies at the end." One of the twins, the older and strong built High Elf said to himself with a sour tone after hearing the news of the once ancient ally of the High Elf. Just because one of his predecessors decided to shave off the beard of the dwarf emissary as a joke led to overreaction from the Dwarfs which resulted in a broken alliance and hostile relationship that can't be repaired ever since.
"Well, that's a sail ship and I doubt dwarfs will see their end that easily. You know as I, they don't stay down even if a mountain collapses on top of them." The other twin High Elf spoke with a gentle tone as he is used to being more mature in the room due to his weak physique since he was little. Due to this, the younger brother of the twin decided to pursue the wisdom of the magic and expand his point of view more than his older brother.
The report continues through the night as twin brothers of great influence in the Ulthuan share the news and plan for the future of their race. Tyrion the Heir of Aenarion and the greatest warrior of the High Elf and Teclis the High Loremaster of Hoeth and Warden of the White Tower gather their intelligence from both Old and New World as golden light shines above the night sky.
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Somewhere in the Known World,
Under Empire, Underground City of Skavenblight,
The Council of Thirteen gather to discuss the impact and influence of the strange light above the night sky. This ruins the plan they've been making for years as strange light begins to interrupt certain flow of warp stone magic and machines of Ratmen. Many of their talented engineers reported strange malfunctions of warp-warmachines and weapons that led to many of their warriors in their untimely death.
These events led to many of the Skaven clans to clash against each other. Blaming others for an 'accident' to happen and even fight among clans due to feud of old. In the end, the Council was called and warlords of all twelve clans gathered resolve this issues including this mysterious light in the dark sky.
"I say, we must kill all troublemakers and feed their meat to our slaves. Yes, yes." One of the Skaven warlords said with a vicious smirk on his face. His reasoning is simple, his clan lost major food storage due to warp fire a few days ago by warp ammunition storage explosion. Usually, the ammunition and food storage should be separated as a common sense but Skaven tend to work things as simply as they can and having food next to weapons somehow make sense to them (Assuming that having these things together will provide easy access when needed are the reason why).
"I agree. Yes, yes. We should use this opportunity to purge the weak and fortify our number with strong clan warriors." Another warlord agrees with his counterpart as he also has a reason of his own. This warlord wishes to reduce the population so that he can breed more of his bloodline as he sees himself as strongest among his clan. Not considering the fact that certain weak Ratmen have useful skills such as engineering and smiting.
"That decision can be done through your own clan leadership. We are here to discuss the issues of that hideous light in the sky." The Seerlord of the Skaven religion spoke with anger as council was going off the subject once again. It was hard to assemble the council first of all but now each of the members are going on their own as they start to shout problems of their clans. In short, there is no unity among Skaven clans and goals of the Horned Rat are yet to achieve.
"Yes, yes. The light in the sky is making things much more difficult for all of us. We must do something now. I say, we should launch our biggest rocket towards the light so we can break it." The clan leader of the Clan Skyre said with pride in his face. Everyone knew Skyre was working on some kind of secret weapon involving warp rocket fuel but they didn't know about actual rockets that could go above the clouds. There was one problem.
"Did you just say moments ago that warp related machines are unstable and explode without any warnings?" The Warlord of the Clan Mors said with an insulting tone as this revelation came to light to all council members.
"Well, yes but we are working on stabilising the warp fuel and reconfiguring the rocket injection. My engineers just need more time and… more warp stones, that's all." The true goal of the Clan Skyre made everyone furious as this meant that Clan Skyre wanted to possess all remaining precious warp stones from the rest of the Skaven Clans.
"Typical. You Clan Skyre doesn't discipline you to use the warp stone properly at all. Nothing but a waste of resources for the 'rocket to the sky' scheme." Warlord of the Clan Moulder said with most insulting musk coming out from his fur. The masters of mutation and surgical alteration saw Clan Skyre's scheme miles away the moment the rocket was mentioned.
"I'll say, we should seek our answer from the Horned Rat. We should go out and gather all the meat we can get and make the sacrifice to our Under-Father. He will tell us what to do." The Great Seer, the member of the Council of Thirteen said with a musk of excitement coming out from his fur. This idea was agreed upon by other leaders as it was something they all can do.
"Yes, Yes! We should praise the Great Horned One for our salvation. If he approves of our hard work, he would solve our light problem once and for all. Go! Assemble our forces and gather all the meat you can get from the surface." The council unanimously agreed to the new plan without a second thought and dismissed the meeting. As each warlord of twelve clans went their own ways, their ambition started to emerge as the council's plan turned into an individual's plan and ultimately sabotaged against other clans.
Skaven's true nature once again steps out from the shadow as their ambition to be top against each other will ruin whatever the plans they have. In the end, Skaven will be Skaven even if the world comes to end.
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Month later,
Over the month, natives in the Known World saw the golden light in the sky turned into one of the small moons as it was approaching closer and closer. During the cold night sky, the meteor provided a small light that shines even the darkest forest that not even moonlight couldn't reach. During birght daytime, the golden meteor didn't really help the natives of the Known World as golden light represents different meanings to every faction and more. The wind of magic changed dramatically as magic became more wild as if the meteor itself is causing the changes that not even Lord of Change can predict.
The Cult of the Sigmar made their presence known when they reached the northern legion. Their effort, supported by the two armies of the Empire brought successful victory against the Northern Raiders known as Norsca but that was short victory as Norsca reinforcement arrived in post-battle with a full force of war mammoths and chaos frost dragons.
The Empire only managed to secure their second victory thanks to the arrival of three Bretonnian armies. The battle of the northern legion took close to a month and countless dead but in the end the humans of the Empire and Bretonnia came through as victor. With this victory, the forces of Chaos pawns return to the wasteland of the north to lick their wounds while humans of the Old World secure their lands from raiders.
Kislev also came through their battle against forces of Chaos. By securing the only northern border that led to the wilderness of Chaos wasteland, the Kislev army conducted hit and run tactics and cut the Chaos armies one at a time. In the end, the remaining Chaos forces couldn't withstand the full might of the Kislev armies as Ice Queen herself marched her forces to wipe out the invaders once and for all.
Dwarfs on the other hand endured inside of their fortress while two different factions attempted to siege the dwarf holds. By the command of the High King himself, the kings of the mountains held their holds and countered the Greenskins and wandering Chaos soldiers. Using the advanced technology of gunpowder and forged steels, the dwarfs' armies made their move when enemies were about to make their retreat. To fulfil the book of grudges, in the end, dwarfs made their check mark on their books as mountains are soaked with the blood of their enemies.
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The golden meteor finally arrived in the Known World. Making the entrance with booming noise, the golden light burned brighter than the sun itself as night sky turned day for a few seconds before once again turning to dark night. The radiant light of the meteor and sudden change of day and night disrupt the creatures of the night while certain beings died due to day like light burning their skins.
After the sound and light, the meteor is visible to the naked eyes. The golden light passes the land of Sylvania and Mootland. Shortly after, the meteor made its landing at the territory of Karak Angazhar. A small dwarf kingdom in Black Mountain located west of Black Fire Pass in the Border Princes, a known human faction not affiliated with the Empire or Bretonnia.
The first to arrive at the impact zone was the dwarf scouts who happened to be patrolling the area for potential enemies such as goblins. The dwarf scouts were expecting a small chunk of metal ball on the crater but to their surprise something else was discovered. A human female who is in golden full plate armour and holding a small metal rock as if it was the most important thing in the world.
Rana, the Living Saint of the Emperor arrived in the Known World with her son inside of the pod she held for more than a month. Nothing but sheer willpower of motherly instinct to prevent loss of her own son, Rana endured the unimaginable pain and struggle by casting a protective shield surrounding herself and her son while travelling through the warp.
The stress of void travel and landing finally break Rana's endurance as she lost her consciousness and the pod of her son was lost from her grip. When the pod rolled away, the sensor of the pod recognized the breathable atmosphere and activated the emergency release in which opened the hatch itself.
Henry Bassilo Nullinanis, the son of William Nullinanis and Rana Bassilo Beckett, took a deep breath from the Known World and opened his eyes to see the clear night sky. The natural born and next generation Primarch begin his journey at this moment as dwarf scouts holding lanterns approach them with curiosity.
Sorry for the long delay as I was doing some research of old fantasy. I hope you guys enjoy the new chapter and stay safe.
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