The immense, soaring, tube-ridged throne resembled some fossilised, metastasised sloth crafted by some mad master of the Adeptus Titanicus. Squads of Emperor’s Companions who guarded that vast hall, a mob of tech-priests ministering to the machinery, a gaudy Cardinal Palatinate and his entourage, a red-robed High Lord of Terra and his staff – not to mention great clusters of astropaths, chirurgeons, scholastics, battlemasters: all were motionless. The holiest battle banners, icons and golden fetishes flanked the arena of dedication where psykers were soul-bound. The air was spiked with crisp ozone and bitter myrrh, and ointmented with balmy, somewhat greasy fragrances. The muscles of the room were thick power cables feeding stegosaurian engines. THROBBING PIPES RIBBED the walls of the vast throne room beyond. And still the lustrous arrow impaled the tissue of time. The arrow had accumulated a charge at its point until that point could transfix the fabric of time itself, pinning time temporarily like a moth with a needle through its spine.ĭid he and his abnormal family flit like hummingbirds which seem to flicker directly from one point in space to another, passing in and out of existence? Afterwards Jaq believed they must have darted thus – across the static, time-stopped Chamber of Glory, past the frozen Companions, and through the Titan Archway between the motionless menacing colossi. To his senses that path now appeared to be the track of a phosphorescent arrow through twisted geometries. Not Jaq, hitherto.īy no daemon, certainly. Some psykers of the highest level could distort time thus. He sensed how the time stream itself was being negated and annulled. The power used his mind as its conductor. Here is the full quote if you want to see.Īn eerie silver power flowed through Jaq, as though he had invoked it by those words. The Emperor's worldview in two sentences. IF THE HUMAN RACE FAILS, IT HAS FAILED FOREVER. NOTHING THAT SAFEGUARDS HUMANITY CAN BE EVIL, NOT EVEN THE MOST STRENUOUS INHUMANITY.
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