Cawl Inferior

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The Cawl Inferior is a communication device used by Ultramarine primarch Roboute Guilliman to communicate with Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl.

Description

The entrance to the Cawl Inferior starts in the personal quarters of Roboute Guilliman. Located in a hidden space within the quarters is a gene-locked elevator with built-in weapons primed to kill anyone, besides Guilliman who attempted to access it. A simple retinal scan allows him in into the elevator, but once inside, the security protocols are more extensive. Arcane devices on armatures extend from the walls to test Guilliman's body, mental state, and spiritual aura. Once confirmed, the arms withdraw into their recesses one by one. The elevator then descends two hundred decks. Once at its only destination, its rear doors opens onto a chamber lit by rubicund artificial light so dim that a normal man would be effectively blind. The chamber is hot, loud with the chatter of hidden machinery, and heavy with a sense of foreboding. On the far side of the chamber are a set of complex, three interleaving sets of doors made of metre-thickbonded hexsteel, protected by another set of tests. The doors open into a second and much larger circular space, lit with the same colour lighting. The inner chamber’s spherical exterior walls were similarly armoured to the doors.

Inside the inner chamber, the air smells of ozone, sanctified oil, curdled milkn and old blood. The room is twenty metres across, the interior space of the machine was modest by voidship standards. A grilledfloor was suspended over a pit full of humming machines, dividing the interior space into two. Quieterthan virtually everything Guilliman had seen in this benighted era, the machines nevertheless made theroom vibrate at a high frequency with the turning of their parts. Through the floor grille came the majorityof the red light, confusing shadow and highlight and breaking down any visual sense of the space.

that sensation would grow worse as Guilliman was exposed to the psychic circuitry of Cawl’s blasphemous device.
itself.Guilliman readied himself for the greater psychic pressure and stepped inside.His head throbbed.

Sources

• 1 Dark Imperium, Chapter 12: The Cawl Inferior