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Enuncia is an obscure, arcane discipline dedicated to manipulating reality and the warp via vocalizations. It is a "language" of sorts, but a language unlike any other known by humanity. It is described as sounding as though human mouths were not made to pronounce it. Enuncia is referred to in Dan Abnett's "Ravenor" series as "unwords."

Speaking these unwords can enable an Enuncia user to control daemons directly, without the usual bargaining, or it can cause be used as a weapon, causing severe physical damage ranging from uncontrollable vomiting to cranial rupturing. Enuncia can also be used as a potent weapon against daemons. It is not without its costs, however, as it takes a huge toll on the user, tearing their mouth and throat apart with every syllable.

History and emergence

Enuncia is very obscure, with only a few fragmentary references appearing anywhere in Imperial records. Even fewer of these references include any information on the use of Enuncia.

In the 400s, M41, on Eustis Majoris, a project to discover the workings of Enuncia was undertaken by an agency of the Lord Governor Subsector, who was later revealed as the infamous Zygmunt Molotch. Using the data processing equipment of the Administratum, and warp-tainted data engines recovered from a dead world that had been embroiled in a warp storm for centuries, the project, controlled by a group called the Secretists sought to (without the knowledge of the personnel involved in processing the data) extract pieces of Enuncia from seemingly random data.

The Capital of Eustis Majoris, the hive city of Petropolis, a dirty, polluted and overcrowded city was in fact designed as a huge "Psychic Resonator" by the infamous heretical architect Theodor Cadizky with precisely nine hundred and ninety-nine temples, the central one of which, called the Old Sacristy, being in the exact centre of the hive. All the others, the axial temples, formed lines from the Old Sacristy that give the entire hive an overall mathematical symmetry. The plot was foiled at the last moment by Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and his team¹.

Sources

• ¹Ravenor Returned,p. 138, 308, 309, novel by Dan Abnett