Gallant: Emperor Revenant Briefing

“We shall rise with the Emperor on the Last Day.” – Credo Mortifex

One of the Great themes an focuses of the Imperial Creed is the emperors bodily sacrifice, the great martyrdom by which he has preserved humanity and attained immortality. The sects and factions of the clergy that centre their dogma on this aspect of sacrifice and on-going life-in-death are known to the wider Minstorum as the cult of the Emperor Revenant. Although such beliefs are accepted as cannon by the Ecclesiarchy, its extremist proponents have been sources of schism, deviancy, and heretical practise, counting among their ranks numerous death cults, suicidal zealots and darkly mystical interpretations of the imperial creed. They vary widely in type and values from ashen-faced flagellants who vow to put aside any worldly concerns and live as “the blessed dead” to sacrificial cults and radical resurrectionist sects who strive to work towards the Emperor’s eventual bodily return to lead mankind to a new golden age.
The worst of such resurrectionist cults are outlawed Imperial fanatics who operate in secret to pursue dark science and sometime warpcraft to break the shackles of death, often with terrifying results. Pursued with the utmost vigour by both Ordo Hereticus and the Cult Mechanicus for their blasphemy, most remain true zealots who see themselves as ranking among the righteous, believing that the Imperium has lost the “true way” and only they hold the key to the God-Emperor’s will and humanity’s salvation.

There exist on many worlds legends surrounding hauntings, the spirits of the dead walking, vengeance from the grave, wraiths preying on those who disturb the dead or spectres who exact a terrible revenge on the living who have wronged them. Such superstitions are only natural, and they may be no more than an attempt to explain the unknown. However, in a universe where the things of the warp prowl and hunger beyond the veil of physical reality, the truth behind such tales may indeed have a cause rooted in otherworldly evil.

One of the oldest tales is that of the Night Cult”. A Congregation of false priests, evil spirits, vile sorcerers, damned souls and sinners doomed to hell. These souls guard over the graves of the fallen servants of the Emperor, or so the legend goes.  On most worlds it is just a story told to frighten children or a tale told around a funeral pyre, on some worlds however the Night Cult are a horrifying reality.

“The night is dark and full of terrors, but none so terrible as the wrath of the Risen God of Mankind. For the empty liars of the warp will be silenced and the false iron idols of the grave shall perish in turn. Death itself shall die, as a worm crushed under his heel.” - Credo Mortifex

*Additional Information:
Acolyte cabal Wroth composition
Inquisitor Gabriel Wroth - beta level telepath, Lord Inquisitor.
Witch Hunter Raphael Brabas - former cleric, now Ordos sanctioned witch finder.
Interrogator Ophelia Crow - biomancer, former courtesan and close quarters specialist.
Interrogator Abraham Sand - magos biologos and  adept, specialises in bio-mechanical hybrids
Interrogator Constance Vittel - adept and former chirurgeon, psyker minoris
Interrogator Sophia Deviro - former guardsman, "Officio Assasinorum Operative", Vindicare temple.




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