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Chaos Merchant and dealer of fictional arms
Clause flew back, rolling to his knees. For a moment his mind ran wild with emotions, thoughts. Strings of logic battled the malignant taint of the warp emanations of the blood god that set them selves upon his mind.
Blinking the blood out of his eyes and wincing at the pain as his own warp touched body fought off the assault of his brother's taint.
Elsewhere.
The bubbling, popping, smoking wreck of the daemon engine as Oldwain powered down the C-beamer, the screech of the helldrake circling over head caught the elder dreadnought's attention and he tilted his frame up. Letting his targeting auspex do the math, he raised the auto cannon and fired. A stream of heavy caliber slugs streamed out at the beast, impacting it mid turn, with direct hits tearing in to its hide while the near misses detonated near by, their proximity fused warheads making sure it was showered in puffs of shrapnel and smoke.
Mean while, the Twins were putting good work in with their father's war-chariot. The line of Defiler dreadnoughts fell as they attempted to charge, titan scale weapons felling the half mad blood beasts before they could muster an answer, before Diocletian's Fist rumbled along to aid the defenders at the Primarch's boulevard, its timely arrival to anchor the defense along side the reinforcing tanks.
Back upon that dark tower...
Clause stood. His mind, for the first time in ages. Was Calm. The malignant whispers of his brother's patron, banished from his mind. The Rampant emotion that he had let trace his movements, gone, quieted.
Locking his gaze on his brother, he swiped the blood out of his eye and let his hand fall to the hilt of his sword. "There was a time when I would have offered you absolution, in every sense. I now know this to be a mistake. You are my brother no more, and I deem you beyond all hope. I deem your sons the same. As for your patron...I renounce him now, and for always."
With a flash he drew the blade, its black edge reflecting no light. The weapon gave a banshees wail as it was reviled, its form oozing the same aura of the anathema as had the one who forged it for him. For Clause, it was an almost comforting feeling, an echo of some one he cared greatly for. For those around him, it radiated pure malice.
He gave no further words. No further sparing of spite. No further emotion. He readied the blade and charged towards Paragon, sword at the ready.
Blinking the blood out of his eyes and wincing at the pain as his own warp touched body fought off the assault of his brother's taint.
Elsewhere.
The bubbling, popping, smoking wreck of the daemon engine as Oldwain powered down the C-beamer, the screech of the helldrake circling over head caught the elder dreadnought's attention and he tilted his frame up. Letting his targeting auspex do the math, he raised the auto cannon and fired. A stream of heavy caliber slugs streamed out at the beast, impacting it mid turn, with direct hits tearing in to its hide while the near misses detonated near by, their proximity fused warheads making sure it was showered in puffs of shrapnel and smoke.
Mean while, the Twins were putting good work in with their father's war-chariot. The line of Defiler dreadnoughts fell as they attempted to charge, titan scale weapons felling the half mad blood beasts before they could muster an answer, before Diocletian's Fist rumbled along to aid the defenders at the Primarch's boulevard, its timely arrival to anchor the defense along side the reinforcing tanks.
Back upon that dark tower...
Clause stood. His mind, for the first time in ages. Was Calm. The malignant whispers of his brother's patron, banished from his mind. The Rampant emotion that he had let trace his movements, gone, quieted.
Locking his gaze on his brother, he swiped the blood out of his eye and let his hand fall to the hilt of his sword. "There was a time when I would have offered you absolution, in every sense. I now know this to be a mistake. You are my brother no more, and I deem you beyond all hope. I deem your sons the same. As for your patron...I renounce him now, and for always."
With a flash he drew the blade, its black edge reflecting no light. The weapon gave a banshees wail as it was reviled, its form oozing the same aura of the anathema as had the one who forged it for him. For Clause, it was an almost comforting feeling, an echo of some one he cared greatly for. For those around him, it radiated pure malice.
He gave no further words. No further sparing of spite. No further emotion. He readied the blade and charged towards Paragon, sword at the ready.