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Introduction. .......................................................................................... 5
Chapter I: Malleus
Protecting Souls. .................................................................................... 7
In the Service of the Hammer. ........................................................... 8
Puritans and Radicals...........................................................................10
To be an Acolyte ................................................................................ 12
Sector of the Damned . .......................................................................13
Enemies of the Askellian Daemonhunters. ......................................17
The Vaxian Sundering. ....................................................................... 21
The Daemonology Disciplines. ........................................................54
To Scourge the Daemon. ..................................................................60
Daemonhosts........................................................................................62
Daemonic Possession and Exorcism . .............................................68
Dark Pacts. ............................................................................................72
Chapter III: Terrors from the Immaterium
A Sector Cursed from Beyond. ........................................................ 77
Kul . .................................................................................................... 78
Nexum................................................................................................ 83
Ossuar. ................................................................................................ 89
The Emperor’s Song. ....................................................................................95
Tuchulcha. .........................................................................................99
The Daemonicon Askellios. ............................................................ 104
Warriors of Blood: The Pantheon of Khorne. ...........................105
Weavers of Fate: The Pantheon of Tzeentch. .............................. 111
Bringers of Decay: The Pantheon of Nurgle. .............................117
Masters of Excess: The Pantheon of Slaanesh. ...........................121
Daemon Princes. ............................................................................... 127
Using Daemonic NPCs.....................................................................132
The Warp and Realspace. ................................................................ 136
Malleus Investigations. .......................................................................139
Designing Malleus Adventures......................................................139
Malleus Clues and Leads. ............................................................. 142
Chapter II: The War for Souls
Banishing Daemons. ........................................................................... 25
New Home World: Daemon World. ............................................26
New Home World: Penal Colony. ................................................. 28
New Home World: Quarantine World. ........................................ 30
New Background: Exorcised. ......................................................... 32
New Role: Crusader. ........................................................................ 34
New Elite Advance: Astropath. ......................................................36
New Reinforcement Characters. .................................................... 38
Daemonifuge........................................................................................40
Daemonic Remnants........................................................................48
Daemon Weapons. ..............................................................................50
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ou are sure this is the room? Where the Daemon’s
trail began?” Isen droned from the vox-grill covering
his lower jaw. The Tech-Priest displayed a worn auspex
showing nothing but the glowing emerald icons representing the
three Acolytes, even as his primary mechadendrite continued to
shine a wide-beam stablight around the dark interior.
Nasi ignored him and the auspex. Her eyes followed the
beam in search of targets, twin bolt pistols still smoking from the
final clash that got them into Lord Kotromahn’s inner demesne.
Their initial search of the lavish state room had uncovered
only a pair of eviscerated servants amidst torn furniture; after what
the trio had witnessed earlier, no one batted an eye at the corpses.
The room itself seemed just as dead, unlit like the rest of this level
of Hive Desoleum and quiet save for the soft liquid sounds of a
silverfall curtain along one wall.
Sophronia turned, though, and glared at the red-robed Tech-
Priest. “As much as can be,” she snarled, golden fire quickly
forming a corona around her grey-haired head. “The Warp doesn’t
allow for the precious ‘certainty’ you worship.” She caught herself,
and gave a long sigh. “My apologies, Isen,” she said, pulling the
flames back within her. “It’s been a trying day.”
That was an understatement,
Nasi thought, but kept silent. They
were all in bad shape after fighting through a hive gone mad.
“Your intent was perhaps to insult, but your statement is still
accurate.” Isen’s mechanical voice continued, calm as ever. “As is
your reflection on recent events. We are indeed less than optimal.”
“Quite.” Sophronia even managed a slight smile. “But yes,
the Warp spoor is oldest in this room. Whatever emerged and
went downhive began its rampage from within this room.”
Nasi decided they needed more light, and tossed a glowglobe
onto a tall cabinet. Now the disarray was more apparent, a tiny echo
of the devastation that had ripped through Desoleum in just hours.
The slaughter-filled eruptions alone might have been ignored if it
were not for the other reports their Inquisitor intercepted. Shrines
dissolving into amethyst ooze, oath-cogs deforming into obscene
shapes, icons growing teeth and biting their bearers—and these
were just from within upper levels within the Apex itself.
Luckily (for whom, Nasi was not certain), the warband had
been still in the hive following up a lead on the arch-heretek
Somnius Halbrel. The local Sanctionaries were at a loss, but Isen
had quickly connected the curving vertical path of the reports.
Inquisitor Karlzan commandeered a squad of Arbitrators to follow
the trail downwards, where the instances were freshest. The three
Acolytes had gone upwards, following the trail of deaths and worse.
As they moved uphive, each new level revealed new horrors,
nightmares of flayed skin, barbed flesh, and melded bones. The
worst, though, were the crazed hivers still alive, and the excessive
force needed to bring them down. The further up they went,
though, the drier the blood and the colder the bodies. Now they
were at the origin of it all, if Sophronia’s Warp-senses were true.
Thousands dead, ten times that ruined. All from a single Daemon.
“Interesting. So this is her parlour,” Isen noted. They all
looked as he indicated the huge portrait dominating one wall.
Lady Cassia Kotromahn, infamous first daughter of one of Hive
Desoluem’s rulers, as perfect, elegant, and deadly as the xenos
blade held in one velvet-gloved hand. Even they had heard the
hive tales of her many duels. She never lost, she never repeated
the intricate scars she sliced into her opponents, and she always
ensured each new scar she left was more memorable than the last.
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Nasi turned and found herself staring at the silverfall curtain.
She hadn’t seen one of these rare archaeotech devices since she’d
abandoned her own Apex life here for downhive excitement and
then service to Karlzan. It was entrancing as it flowed like soft
fabric, and even more so as she thought of the elaborate power
fields needed to liquify and guide the metal.
Wait a second. Power?
“Power’s dead on this level,” she said worriedly. “How is this
silverfall still working?” Her reflection in the liquid mirror stared
back at her, then suddenly broken into a smile and shifted into a
face Nasi had only seen once before, moments ago. On a portrait.
Nothing human could have emerged intact from the terrible
stress of the power fields driving the silverfall, and nothing human
did. Its purple-hued flesh flexed under thin strips of cloth that
dripped like magenta rivers, and twisting horns tangled with
amethyst masses of hair that swayed as if underwater. One hand
was a huge serrated claw, while the other melded with the xenos
blade, the flesh gnawing along the alien material and the weeping
gems along the hilt. The liquid silverfall metal stretched around
it as it sinuously came forth, as if repelled by the unnatural flesh.
“Playthings,” it said, each syllable rippling through the air like
a lash. “I saw you from within. How nice of you to come to me.”
Any other day, the Acolytes might have collapsed or run, but
not today, not after what they had faced earlier. Sophronia brought
her arms up, weaving auric flames into a protective shield. Nasi
and Isen fired as one, her heavy pistols and his massive hand
cannon disgorging chunks of rubbery flesh with each hit.
The creature only laughed, a horrid melody that tore at their
ears. It moved in a blur, and an arc of the blade sent Isen’s arm
sparking to the floor, still gripping his gun. A powerful backhand
from its clawed arm hurled Nasi and Sophronia into a far wall.
Nasi raised herself up, dazedly seeing the scene reflected in
the silverfall curtain, but then noticed there was something missing.
“In the mirror…” she uttered. “The thing casts no reflection!”
“She is elsewhere,” the creature said, gliding forward and
smiling again with too many daggered teeth. “My own reflection
emerged from my favourite silverfall for my ultimate duel. We were
perfection together, and such was our dance that my Prince gifted
me with a new form to enter the mirrored lands. I, in turn, gifted
my new sister with a hive to dance with.” It made ready to leap.
“Not dancing any more.” The words came from the doorway.
Inquisitor Evangelyne Karlzan’s normally impeccable attire was a
ruin, revealing cracked and ichor-stained power armour, but her
thrice-blessed power sword still gleamed its purity. Her voice was
hoarse, and Nasi knew it must have come from the draining rites
of daemonic banishment. That their Inquisitor was here, though,
and another Daemon was not, made Nasi believe for the first time
today they might actually live through this.
“My thanks, Acolytes, for leaving the trail of bodies,” Karlzan
continued. “It always makes it easier to find you.”
The creature spat something that burned into the floor, its
perfect face growing contorted. “I know of you, lackey-pet,” it
hissed. “They whisper of you within the mirror. Yours will be a
very slow, very exquisite end.”
“Brave words, little Daemon,” Nasi said strongly, surprising
herself—and Karlzan, she imagined—with the conviction. She saw
Isen remove the hand cannon from his severed arm to ready it, and
Sophronia glow with the Emperor’s Light. Her Inquisitor strode
to her side, power sword crackling with energy, and Nasi drew her
chainsword. “Last duel for you. Nobody messes with my hive.”
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