Radiant Wrath
Radiant Wrath is the Metalica Forge World's code name for a Skitarius Vanguard named Skitarius-Luminor 000011, who emits radiation capable of scouring a world of its population and infrastructure.[1]
The Wrath also gives off streams of tumorous logoscripts, which can infect nearby Noospheres with a replicating and mutating virus. It is not known how the Wrath came about these powers, but the Skitarius was wielded in millennia past by the forge lords of Metalica. The Wrath aiding them in Metallica's Quest for Knowledge, by wiping out Mutants, Xenos and Daemon Engines. It was said to have saved and purified the Forge Worlds Thoromest, Fardell Majoris and Stele Lex, yet no one knew where they lay or if the worlds still existed. However after an unknown crisis occurred, the Wrath was hidden aboard the space station Fylachor Terminus, supposedly at Mars' insistence. There the Wrath remained forgotten for several millennia, in a heavily sealed chamber protected by numerous heavy-turrets, until the Psychic Awakening, when a Magos' discovered its location. Trichine Jorrdeth and Logicus Dunal Rovarrin, two low ranking Tech-Priests, where chosen by the Magos to free the Wrath, but they were not told of how dangerous it was.[1]
Using a hexaclavus signal-key the Magos learned would disable the Fylachor Terminus' defenses, the Wrath was freed and brought aboard the Tech-Priests' Forge-barque, the Iambic Khorulam. The barque then joined the Magos' Reclamation Fleet M4-Huy-Ω as it traveled to the Chaos invaded Forge World Skorifex. While traveling there, the Wrath's radiation began to damage the Iambic Khorulam, causing the Reclamation Fleet to give it a wide berth. Jorrdeth and Rovarrin were affected as well and the Magos was forced to have supplies delivered to the Tech-Priests in order replace rotting mechanical and body parts. Once the Fleet reached Skorifex, the Magos deemed it unable to be saved as the Psychic Awakening had caused untold number of Rogue Psykers to emerge from the world's slave population. These Psykers had lit Skorifiex aflame and had drawn forth Daemons, that were now rampaging across its surface. The Magos, though, ordered that the Radiant Wrath, be sent to Skorifiex in order to scour the taint from the world. Once it succeeds, however, Skorifiex will be stricken with deadly radiation for hundreds of millennia.[1]
Source
- 1: Warhammer Community: Psychic Awakening: The Cleansing Light (Posted on 03/03/2020) (Last accessed on 9 March 2020)
