Emberg-Aegnir Bloc
History
It consisted of only a handful of Kindred, whose doom came when the Bloc's territory was attacked by a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan. When the Hive Fleet's Bio-ships later attacked the Bloc's Hold that held its Votann, the League's Kindred held their ground to defend the sacred relic. As the battle raged, the heavily outnumbered Bloc worked to protect their dead from the Hive Fleet, by placing them inside their Votann. This caused the bodies to be broken down and the dead's memories were collected by the Votann, until the Tyranids overwhelmed the Bloc.[1]
The relic was completely ignored by the Hive Fleet afterwards, though, and when the Hold's biomatter was consumed, the Tyranids simply departed from the world. The Bloc's Votann was then left alone with the absorbed accumulated pain and desolation of those who had fought, died and been returned to their Ancestors through the use of the relic. This drove the Votann's machine mind insane and the sorrowful tale of the Mad Core is still told amongst the surviving Leagues. All know not to sail by the wavering beacon of the Core's tortured mind.[1]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Leagues of Votann, pg. 15
