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Misassignment "Salve. Colonel general Károly von Pflanzer-Nádas, commander of the Imperial and Royal Astro-Ungarian LXXXIII. Army Corps, noble servant of the Duarchy and officer of His Divine Majesty's Astra Militarum?" "Correct, protasekretius. Explain this ill-uniformed commotion at once...

Imperial Subject In the grim darkness of the far future, man grovels at the feet of man. On your knees! The words will be ring out like a whiplash. Harken, quickly! The barked command demands swift compliance. The audience of the order knows that their life depends on it. After all, if a...

Sectarian Strife In the grim darkness of the far future, pious man is slain by pious hand. Humans have always grabbed at any opportunity and justification for conflict and aggression. Comprehending this basic truth is vital to understand the heated strife surrounding religious belief and...

Befouled Birthright "Ancient Man committed the first sin when he cast off his fear of the dark, for his heart was eaten away by the marshlight promise of hope. And with hope came greed for gain and thirst for knowledge, and thus the shining road to damnation was paved. And Man sailed into the...

Crowning Glory In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only toil for the sake of toil. In the distant past of the misty Age of Terra, myths spoke of gods fashioning men and women out of clay to toil for their makers. To the eternal question of from where does we come, these stories...

Lessons For Imperial Operatives, by StaevinTheAeldari Do not miss the above linked stellar piece of writing by StaevinTheAeldari over on DakkaDakka. In it, he outlines crucial lessons which all Inquisitorial acolytes and Imperial operatives ought to learn if they wish to survive their perilous...

Shush! Sneak! Vicious Streak! Shush! Sneak! Vicious streak! Make not anee zingle creak! Shush! Stalk! Funny walk! Crawl up quiet when dey talk! Shush! Creep! Now dey sleep! Boyz an' gitz, let's make 'em weep! Climb da walls dat look so steep! Burzt through window wiv a leap! Gut da cattle...

Smoke Cover In the grim darkness of the far future, man hides from the gaze of heaven. Ever since the primordial forebears of man saw birds soaring above, man has dreamt of flying. That dream was realized by brilliant and brave pioneers during the misty past of the Age of Terra, and ever since...

Pushover "It was in that moment, of trying to push up the small rontree with the roots, when menial garden serf Tammuz Tsivkmlap realized that he had the spiked iron fence right under his throat." - Excerpt from Carolus Wrång the Elder's travelling journal Anecdotes of [Redacted] Stubbornness...

Dress Code Everyone is a barbarian to someone else. Quisque est barbarus alio. Thus reads a High Gothic proverb known to the well educated castes in the Imperium of Man, that dilapidated cosmic domain formally belonging to the Celestial Imperator of Holy Terra, a realm stretching across the...

Liber Chaotica: Hashut (Grimstonefire) Chaos Dwarfs Army Book (ThommyH) Chaos Dwarf Quest (Nicodemus) Khaozalid Dictionary (MadHatter) Raid: Art by Forgefire Chaos Dwarf Proverbs Chaos Dwarf Monumental Inscriptions Chaos Dwarf Quotes Chaos Dwarf Religious Texts Akin to their...

Sorcerer-Prophet Balhutti-Zhurekar the Decrepit: Art by Hunter Chaos Dwarf Songs In their mystic rituals, in monotone labour and in the rearing of their children the Chaos Dwarfs of Zharr Naggrund, and all its domains, sing. Be they doomladen dirges, rattling recitations of religious script or...

StaevintheAeldari has written an interesting piece of interest, The social classes of an Inquisitiorial Acolyte - a schizophrenic cross cut of imperial society, stitched together into an ill fitting rag of an Acolyte Cell. Check it out! Grav-Jack In a forsaken aeon of decay and suffering...

Skyhigh In the grim darkness of the far future, man is cast into heaven. One of the most fanciful dreams of primeval man was the ability to fly. Myths told around sparkling firesides spoke of winged deities, of gods riding chariots across the skyvault and of mortal men building fragile wings...

Warning Sign Take heed! What follows is a short collection of varied warning signs found throughout the cosmic domains of Our Lord the God-Emperor Himself. In each their own way, these mute objects stand as witnesses to the internal rot evident in the Imperium of Man, last strong shield of our...

Scrip In Fuse Box In the grim darkness of the far future, man is scorched by his own captive lightning. Most forms of mundane technological hardware during the Dark Age of Technology was characterized by multilayered safety features. Long experience with the unexpected cascade effects of...

Signpost In the grim darkness of the far future, man finds himself damned for missing a sign. It is said that the road to golden paradise is well signposted, but it is badly lit at night. Amid the soulcrushing misery that characterizes life for most people in the dour Age of Imperium, humour...

Kislevite Tzar Guard V "Make a fool pray to the gods and they will smash their own forehead." - Kislevite proverb - - - Kislevite Tzar Guard VI "Curious Varvara had her nose snatched at the market." - Kislevite proverb - - - Kislevite Tzar Guard VII "A bad dancer blames his...

Joke Piece on Subversion This fun thing emerged on Reddit. - - - Into the Flames In the grim darkness of the far future, man leaves man to burn alive for his sins. Fire! Listen. The warning cry will send shivers down human spines, a portent of suffocating doom and hellish tongues...