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The Watcher in the Rain is a mysterious and insidious warp entity. It appears as an ever-present, shadowy figure at the edges of one's vision, haunting those guilty of evil deeds.[1]

Overview

Its first known appearance is on the Imperium Administratum world of K4, when a nearby warpstorm appeared and threatened to engulf the planet. With the storm's approach came intense and unending rainstorms threatening to drown the planet's cities. Over the course of a year, it stalked a data scribe named Greta Vern, as well as Imperial interrogator Stefan Crucius. It also made itself known to a cult of mad asylum-dwellers who revered it as their deity. Despite the scribe and interrogator's escape from the planet, the Watcher followed them aboard their shuttle and set its eye on the crew of an approaching Imperial Navy vessel.[1]

The Watcher's main known ability is that it acts as a mirror to the blackest deeds in one's soul: it is drawn to human sins and stalks those who have committed heinous acts against their fellow man. Its physical presence is subtle at first, always just barely out of sight, but it brings with it an inescapable dread. Patient and sadistic in its pursuit, it steadily comes closer, causing paranoia, fear, and madness, It will urge its victim to look at it; if they comply, the victim will be confronted with the full weight of their crimes and their sanity will completely break. The Watcher will then claim its mentally shattered prey.[1]

Aside from its psychological powers, the Watcher also has great power over its environment. It can cause apocalyptic rainstorms capable of drowning entire cities and even taking over machines such as servo-skulls. It even seems able to be in multiple places at once, stalking numerous victims.[1]

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