Psychic Awakening - Ritual of the Damned.pdf

(47573 KB) Pobierz
‘“NOW IS OUR TIME.”
SUCH A PLATITUDE HAS FALLEN FROM THE LIPS OF LORDS, KINGS AND
EMPERORS SINCE MANKIND’S EARLIEST DAYS.
AND ALL WERE WRONG. EVERY FIEFDOM, KINGDOM AND EMPIRE TO THIS DAY
HAS COLLAPSED, NO MATTER HOW OPTIMISTIC AND MIGHTY THEY MIGHT
ONCE HAVE BEEN. THE GREATEST REALM IN ALL OF HUMANITY’S HISTORY
HOLDS ON TO THE VERY PRECIPICE, DANGLING OVER DARK OBLIVION. EACH
PASSING DAY SEES ITS GRIP WEAKEN. IT IS BUT MY TASK, MY PURPOSE, TO
TREAD UPON ITS DIGITS, AND IT WILL FALL.
“NOW IS OUR TIME.”
THOSE WHO USED THESE WORDS HAD NO IDEA WHAT ‘TIME’ REALLY MEANT.
THEIR ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE KNEW NO BOUNDS, AND FOR THAT
THEY WERE PUNISHED WITH DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. BUT WE KNOW TIME.
WE KNOW THE WARP. WE KNOW ITS CURRENTS, ITS WAVES, ITS FLOWS, ITS
TRIBUTARIES. OUR POWER IS ALMOST LIMITLESS, OUR KNOWLEDGE ALMOST
TOTAL.
BEHOLD THE SIGNS. THE GALAXY IS CUT IN TWAIN. SORTIARIUS IS A BRIGHT
LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS OF REALSPACE. PROSPERO, OUR HOME OF OLD, HAS
BEEN RECLAIMED AND IS BEING REBUILT. WE ARE IN ASCENDANCY, MY SONS.
NEVER HAVE WE BEEN STRONGER, NEVER HAS OUR FOE BEEN SO WEAK.
THOSE OF HUMANITY WHO HAVE AWAKENED, THOSE I KNOW TO BE THE
FUTURE OF MANKIND, CALL FOR SAVIOURS, LIBERATORS, LORDS THEY CAN
TRULY FOLLOW WITHOUT QUESTION OR DOUBT. WE WILL PROVIDE THAT
AND, IN TURN, THEY WILL DO WHAT IS NECESSARY. EVEN NOW I CAN SENSE
THEIR NUMBERS GROWING, THEIR YEARNINGS TO BREAK THEIR SHACKLES
STRENGTHENING AND THEIR ANGER AT THEIR FALSE OVERLORDS RISING.
I WILL CALL THEM TO US AND THEY WILL COME. WHEN OUR LABOURS ARE
COMPLETE THE GALAXY WILL TREMBLE AT OUR CREATION.
ONCE WE ARE UNLEASHED, NOTHING WILL STOP US. THE FALSE EMPEROR WILL
FALL AND HUMANITY WILL RISE.
NOW, MY SONS, IS TRULY OUR TIME, AND FOREVER SHALL IT BE SO.’
- Magnus the Red
RITUAL
OF THE
DAMNED
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Infiltrator Squad.......................................................44
Incursor Squad.........................................................45
Invictor Tactical Warsuit
.........................................46
Suppressor Squad.....................................................46
Eliminator Squad.....................................................47
Repulsor Executioner..............................................48
Impulsor....................................................................49
Angels of Death
..........................................................50
Stratagems
...................................................................51
Obscuration Discipline..............................................54
Vanguard Warlord Traits
...........................................55
Deathwing and Ravenwing Warlord Traits
.............56
Relics of Caliban
.........................................................57
Special-issue Wargear
................................................58
Litanies of Battle
.........................................................59
Dark Angels Name Generator
..................................60
Dark Angels Points Values
........................................61
Introduction
...................................................................3
Fate of the Damned.......................................................4
The Planet of the Socerers
.................6
The Prosperan Rift War
................................................8
Sons of Titan
...............................................................10
Sons of Caliban
...........................................................12
The Emptying of Tizca...............................................14
The Plunging of the Sword
........................................16
Knights and Angels
....................................................18
Echoes of Awakening
.................................................20
Missions
...........................................22
Theatre of War: Daemon World
...............................24
Theatre of War: Planes of Glass
................................25
Echoes of War: Break the Ritual
...............................26
Dark Angels
.....................................28
Sons of the Lion
..........................................................30
Master Lazarus............................................................31
The Unforgiven
...........................................................32
Abilities
........................................................................34
Updated Weapons and Datasheet Amendments....35
Datasheets....................................................................36
Master Lazarus.........................................................36
Interrogator-Chaplain
.............................................37
Primaris Chaplain....................................................38
Chaplain....................................................................38
Interrogator-Chaplain in Terminator Armour
....39
Master in Phobos Armour......................................39
Lieutenants in Phobos Armour
.............................40
Librarian in Phobos Armour
.................................41
Asmodai
....................................................................41
Primaris Master........................................................42
Intercessor Squad.....................................................43
Grey Knights....................................64
Brothers of Sanctity....................................................66
Datasheet: Chaplain
...................................................67
Stratagems
...................................................................68
Dominus Discipline
...................................................70
Relics of Titan
.............................................................71
Litanies of Purity
........................................................72
Grey Knights Name Generator.................................73
Grey Knights Points Values
.......................................74
Thousand Sons.................................76
Sons of Magnus...........................................................78
Cults of the Legion
.....................................................79
Stratagems
...................................................................84
Thousand Sons Name Generator..............................85
Thousand Sons Points Values
...................................86
PRODUCED BY THE WARHAMMER STUDIO
With thanks to the Mournival and the Infinity Circuit for their additional playtesting services
Psychic Awakening: Ritual of the Damned © Copyright Games Workshop Limited 2020. Ritual of the Damned, Psychic Awakening, GW, Games Workshop, Space
Marine, 40K, Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, the ‘Aquila’ Double-headed Eagle logo, and all associated logos, illustrations, images, names, creatures, races, vehicles,
locations, weapons, characters, and the distinctive likenesses thereof, are either
®
or TM, and/or
©
Games Workshop Limited, variably registered around the world.
All Rights Reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
British Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Pictures used for illustrative purposes only.
Certain Citadel products may be dangerous if used incorrectly and Games Workshop does not recommend them for use by children under the age of 16 without adult
supervision. Whatever your age, be careful when using glues, bladed equipment and sprays and make sure that you read and follow the instructions on the packaging.
Games Workshop Ltd, Willow Rd, Lenton, Nottingham, NG7 2WS
ISBN: 978-1-78826-723-6
games-workshop.com
INTRODUCTION
Magnus the Red has returned to the galaxy. This embittered demigod sees the winds of fate as they howl across
the Imperium. He believes that Humanity must reach its true potential, regardless of the monstrous cost.
Within his twisted lair he schemes, but the Emperor’s servants would see his foul works undone.
The Emperor’s domain has been
cut in two, plunged into a level
of disorder it has not known in
thousands of years. An ever-
fluctuating belt of warp storms
lies across the galaxy, so that it
resembles the eviscerated stomach
of a mortally wounded prey animal.
Though the Great Rift is a terror
to Mankind, to some of their
foes it represents opportunities
unbounded: for vengeance, for
power and for the completion of
goals set ten thousand years in
the past.
After devastating the Fenris System,
home to his old enemies the Space
Wolves, Magnus the Red brought
the Planet of the Sorcerers into
realspace. Were this threat not dire
enough for the Imperium, Magnus
also reclaimed his old home world
of Prospero, ruined millennia ago
by Leman Russ and his sons.
The Space Wolves did not fight
alone against Magnus and his
Thousand Sons. The Grey Knights
and Dark Angels Chapters fought
by their side, although millennia-
old enmities nearly brought the
would-be allies to blows.
Despite their differences, the
defenders of Humanity prevented
Fenris’ total destruction and, with
Magnus’ hand revealed, the threat
he poses is now at least visible to
the beleaguered Imperium. The
Grey Knights and Dark Angels
stand ready to counter any moves
the Cyclops makes. The Dark
Angels suffered more than any
others know fighting Tzeentch’s fell
servants and are eager for revenge.
The Grey Knights remain vigilant,
knowing that the Crimson King
no doubt has in motion plans to
bring about his insane visions for
Humanity’s future.
Introduction
IN THIS BOOK
This book is part of Psychic
Awakening, an ongoing series set
in the aftermath of the Great Rift.
It contains an overview from the
perspective of the Grey Knights and
Dark Angels – elite champions of
Humanity – and a terrible enemy,
the Thousand Sons.
Inside you will find:
• The story of the Dark Angels’
and Grey Knights’ daring raid on
Sortiarius.
• Theatre of War rules and a
mission echoing the narrative of
Ritual of the Damned.
• Updated rules for the Grey
Knights, Dark Angels and
Thousand Sons, including
datasheets, Relics, psychic powers,
Stratagems and more.
• Rules content for the Thousand
Sons’ nine dreaded cults, including
Relics and Cult Powers.
Fate of the Damned
FATE OF THE DAMNED
The emergence of the Great Rift, whilst inflicting untold misery on the Imperium, was a boon joyously
welcomed by many of the Emperor’s enemies. Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons were no exception, and
the Crimson King wasted no time in formulating new schemes and strategies to bring about his evil ends.
THE THOUSAND
SONS
In the wake of the Great Rift’s
opening, the servants of Chaos
enjoyed a freedom that had hitherto
been unfathomable to even the
most ambitious, fanatical and
twisted amongst them. Daemons
ran rampant on Imperial worlds
and entire systems were cut off from
the rest of the galaxy, as vulnerable
as a sea creature beached alone
upon the shore. The winds of the
empyrean had never blown more
strongly, and the followers of the
Chaos god Tzeentch imbibed them
deeply and hungrily.
Upon all of this Magnus the Red
smiled, his mind working over
every exciting possibility brought
about by the new reality. Sorcerers
in their hundreds carried out his
will with a new level of vigour,
whether they knew it or not. They
raised vast armies and hunted down
treasures older than the Imperium
itself. They sought out lore
forbidden, hidden and suppressed,
a terrifying amount of which lay
practically unguarded amidst the
mayhem and disorder that beset
much of the galaxy.
After ten thousand years of absence,
Magnus returned to Prospero, the
world upon which he had been
raised. Though the planet was in
utter ruin following its devastation
ten millennia ago, Magnus began
the process of restoring it to a level
of magnificence beyond anything
the masters of old, who mentored
him as a youth, could have
dreamed. He started with its vast
librariums, collating knowledge and
wisdom both old and new in towers
that glowed with brilliant, ever-
changing colours. He rediscovered
treasures that had evaded even the
most skilled of those who scoured
Prospero for relics and caches of
hidden texts, and with these he
planned to grow the strength of the
Thousand Sons to levels impossible
for any foe to overcome.
Even as this great work of
reconstruction continued apace,
Magnus turned his cyclopean eye
upon the wider galaxy and beheld
a phenomenon he had long wished
for. The Cicatrix Maledictum
heralded an unforeseen growth
in human psychic potential –
something Magnus had wished
Humanity to explore without
restriction since the Great Crusade.
With the Imperium on its knees,
Magnus knew that this was his time.
Nothing would stop him.
cataclysmic invasions, contained
explosions of unreality and cast
incalculable numbers of Daemons
back into the hell from which
they came.
Never, at any point in the Chapter’s
long and noble history, had their
home world of Titan been so
thinly garrisoned. Virtually all of
its military might was dispatched
on campaign in a valiant attempt
to restore and maintain order
across the Imperium, making
haste from one world to the next
without thought of recovery or
rearmament besides that which
could be achieved on the move. The
cavernous halls and long corridors
of the Chapter’s fortress monastery
were as silent as the grave. Training
weapons gathered dust on racks,
untouched for months or even
years. Maintenance chambers,
normally alive with activity, were
almost entirely dormant.
There was but one part of the
Citadel of Titan that did not
appear completely abandoned. In
the Chamber of Trials, home of
Chapter recruitment and training,
more neophytes than ever before
underwent the incredibly arduous
processes of becoming a Grey
Knight. As the number of people
with emergent psychic abilities
grew across Humanity’s galactic
realm, so did the Grey Knights
recruitment pool expand. It was a
phenomenon of which they took
full advantage.
Never before had new recruits
been more needed, for the Chapter
fought across many war zones and
their casualties mounted upon
dozens of battlefields. Though the
threat was great, the Grey Knights
were determined to meet it.
THE GREY KNIGHTS
Few in the Imperium were as aware
of the new threats that assailed
Humanity as the Space Marines
of the Grey Knights Chapter. No
force that had ever been raised
by Mankind could meet the
threat of the Daemon in the way
the Grey Knights could, and in
their millennia of existence they
had saved countless worlds from

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika:

Zgłoś jeśli naruszono regulamin