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The Ravenspire[3]

The Ravenspire is the fortress-monastery of the Raven Guard Chapter on Deliverance.[2]

History

Black Tower

Before Deliverance was freed by Corax, The Ravenspire was a tower inhabited by the guards of the guilds and was known as the Black Tower. It is noted to have a special torture floor called the Red Level and was banned by Corax sometime before the Horus Heresy. It is said that not even a Legionary could survive the punishments it holds.[Needs Citation]

Heresy

After the Massacre at Isstvan V, Corax used the Ravenspire as as place to rebuild his legion with the Emperor's Gene tech. However, the gene tech would be lost in the Battle of Ravendelve against Alpha Legion Operatives and Tech-Guilds from Kiavahr.[Needs Citation]

Post-Heresy

The Ravenspire is still the home of the Raven Guard chapter and while indomitable in its defences has reduced in splendour. The structure now seldom harbours more than a few hundred. Whole sections of the Ravenspire lie shrouded in dust, or else are sealed away, patrolled only by robed servitors whose bionic limbs scrape through the corridors like a warrior’s death rattle. However, the Raven Guard care little for pomp and glamour, and the fortress is still fully functional.[2]

Notable Locations

  • The Eyrie - The tallest tower of the Ravenspire, it was once the roost of Corax himself. The stasis fields of the Eyrie are only deactivated during times of grave emergency, when members of the Chapter hope to communicate with the spirit of Corax. Of what guidance they do receive, no supplicant speaks. Nor do they recount the contents of the parchments scattered about the Eyrie’s main chamber, saying only that they are inked with a thick black scrawl that becomes increasingly illegible as the verses themselves grow less coherent in meaning.[2]
  • The Forbidden Apothecarion - A vault that exists beneath the Ravenspire, secret from all save a few venerable battle-brothers. Access to the vault is forbidden save on order by the Chapter Master. It was here that Corax’s attempts to expedite the regrowth of his shattered Legion reached their full horror, birthing mutated abominations bereft of reason. When the Primarch at last realised the terrible depths of his hubris, he ordered the Apothecarion abandoned and forbade all further experimentation. Then he entered its forbidden reaches alone, and personally brought the Emperor’s Judgement to each and every twisted failure therein. While the vault has since been cleansed and purged, it is said the spirit of the Primarch's deeds still echo within. On Farmoon Night, when Deliverance reaches its yearly apogee over Kiavahr, bestial howls echo through the tunnels of the old Apothecarion, and Veterans of the Raven Guard 1st Company guard its doors.[2]

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