There is something strange about the Knights of House Promethius.
The Feudal world of Groza lies on the edge of the Eye of Terror, perpetually lashed storms from the warp. These same storms seem to follow the knights as they charge into battle, cloaking their forms while they strike like lightning and annihilate defenders before they are able to respond. Survivors tell stories of strange war-horns that sound like the roars of great beasts blaring through the fog that served as the only warning of the coming onslaught. The survivors tell other stories as well but the inquisition is quick to detain any who have seen the Nephilim...
Lesser Lord Asim is a Mephrit slave of the Szarekhan. His duty: to use his dynastic cypher to discover, unlock, and defend Mephrit weapons caches until the Silent King’s followers can retrieve them. Though the reasons for his enslavement are lost to the corruption of time, the binding mental chains are intact on the simulated will of his engram.
The mysterious Cryptek Chisisi who accompanies Asim’s host specializes in subjugation protocols. While the eldritch engineer is useful, Asim is unsure if he is being served or observed. As Asim’s necron raiders entered the PU-5 system to plunder the tomb world vaults of advanced technology, something changed within him for the first time since his awakening. The chains binding his will have… shifted. Whatever power has caused this weakening of his bondage, Asim will stop at nothing to discover it and make it his. He will keep this subtle shift from his companion as he carries out his duty-bound filial piracy, but his new mission in this place is absolute: to win his freedom. And no one will stand in his way.
Even before the recovery of the craftworld Mymeara to the fringes of the Universe Mageira was lost. Visions of futures untold and histories long forgotten Mageira led a warband of outcasts ranging as far as they dared looking for any hope of survival for their kind. Bound to her service, the awakening of Ynead shook loose a latent psychic talent sending them down the path of the seer. Visions became hopes and dreams, a world to be shaped with just a little more foresight. Now joined by stranded Farseers and focusing their talents Mageira scours the known universe for the phoenix lords and powers long lost in preparation for Ranadandra and the death of the Aeldari.
The Astral Remnant are a loose coalition of Aeldari rescued and reclaimed into service of the Cult of Ynnead. Mostly outcasts they search for ancient relics and lost armor of the ancient phoenix lords and aspect warriors long fallen. Spreading far and wide they bring with them the preaching of Yvraine and tidings of Ranadandra. Those who are lost are of particular interest to the Remnant both for their added martial ability and the lore they may have retained over the millennia for the tales of forgotten things.
Nikephoros Doukas, Strategos Prime of the 3rd Herodian Excubitors, is a cold and calculating tactician and trusted agent of the Grand Inquisitor Lukas Pawlikowski. Although Doukas and his Excubitors notionally report to Segmentum Command, they often serve as the muscle for many of the Grand Inquisitor’s operations.
Doukas and the 3rd Herodian Excubitors have been dispatched to the PU-5 system following their grueling guerilla campaign across the Sulo sector and subsequent capture of the radical Inquisitor Dekker. Their objective: to bring to heel the system’s planetary governors who have failed to respond to recent Administratum communiques and so have been declared Traitoris Incommunicado. Segmentum Command has ordered the Excubitors to establish contact with several Inquisitorial assets within the system, gather intelligence on hostile strength, and eliminate the governors, regardless of the reason for their silence. No mention of mysterious signals anywhere in the briefings…
Tired of being the servants to a different caste, under the leadership of Commander M’on’t’an D’ew. These tau have leveraged their advanced technology and set themselves out to do the most least tau thing in the universe: Piracy.