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Vashtorr the Arkifane: An Inquisitor’s Analysis

February 2024·pp. 76–83

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Inquisitor Coteaz gathers evidence that Vashtorr’s influence extends far beyond openly declared Chaos worship. Reports connect the daemon world Wyrmwood, self-altering factories, violent servitor uprisings and machines turning against their users across Imperial and alien societies. Testimony from a devastated manufactorum and intercepted Kin and T’au accounts suggest that technical confidence itself can conceal the Arkifane’s foothold, while his search for a mysterious Lock remains unexplained.

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