Author Archives: Gareth Lorn

I Am Reikonscian

Sometimes, under the darkness of the dead of night, beneath the wisps of hope cast off by the glowing moon, I think of home. The beautiful countryside, a crisp road cutting through the untamed hills. The twinkling stars. Reikonscia. When … Continue reading

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Death

For forty thousand years, I have slept. For forty thousand long years, I have laid dormant as the stars bled and died, as time crept by; as life came and went, as the very essence of being flickered and faded … Continue reading

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Inquisitor

I can smell it, the arid stench of Delo’s blood, dripping onto my brown jacket. It reeks of tainted putrescence, of an innocence long gone, of an unspeakable rot, and as I twist my blade free of Delo’s disfigured body, … Continue reading

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Bittersweet

Warmaster Evett Dimitri sat in his chair on the flagship Civil Unrest, gazing down through the viewport at the planet Arlon below. Arlon had been the site of a massive, heretical uprising, its inhabitants falling to the sway of Chaos … Continue reading

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Ten Minutes

The drop pod that contained Aether Squad hurtled through space towards the planet of Sepperus IV below. Thirty seconds later, it hit the death world’s atmosphere. There was an immediate reaction as the speed of the falling pod was halved and then quartered. Sergeant Verus winced as the inertia tugged on his body. His bolter – a special variant, modified with a silencer, like the one every member of Aether Squad bore – rattled, and the Veteran Sergeant grabbed onto it to keep it from falling. Then they made impact. Continue reading

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