Treachery
“And what of traitors?”
“Magnificent.” he spoke.
“Disgusting.” he also spoke.
“Perfection.” the Changer of Ways laughed, in unison this time.
“And what of forgiveness?”
There was no response.
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“And what of traitors?”
“Traitors! How delightful! You leave them to rot!” she singsongs, and the Dark Eldar was cruel, so cruel, and so gleefully so. “You repay them a thousandfold, with pain and needles and blades, you peck of their flesh with black knives and melt their skin like wax.”
“And what of forgiveness?”
Her eyes glittered with the tenderness of insects. “What of it? They must be betrayed, as you have been betrayed.”
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“And what of traitors?”
“You teach them.” He spoke, his voice rumbling in the thunder of stones, the sorrow of earthquakes. Have you ever felt hate? Raw, unadulterated rage, screaming, tearing and flaying against your ribs, crawling up your throat to roar and scream. That voice of anguish, of broken howls and half-mad sorrows, is his voice made incarnate.
“You rip away all they had to betray you for, you strip away all that made them loyal, and you teach them. You brand them, you scar them, you sear them beyond recognition. You do unto them as they wished to do unto you.”
“And what of forgiveness?”
His response was silence. Somewhere, in that silence, was his laugh.
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“And what of traitors?”
Even in all the gold, luxury could not disguise decay. The weight of the world was collapsed into His hollow voice.
“You obliterate them. Utter, endless and absolute. You send him to a fate beyond death itself, beyond oblivion, beyond even memory. For that is the death from which no soul can recover, that is the death the traitors deserve.”
“And what of forgiveness?”
A single tear traces its way down His skull. With infinite respect, the Custodes gather it, and stow it away.
“...forgiveness. It is not required.”
Atonement won’t close the wounds. Forgiveness won’t wake the dead.
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Favorite daemon with daddy issues =w=
@shaydh inspired me to this.
Quick sketch cause this is as much effort as i'm gonna put into a meme.
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Which 30k/40k characters absolutely have a mirror on the ceiling over their bed? (Not including Fulgrim because duh)
Magnus, though he uses it for psyker facetime calls with different people.
Erebus, because he likes to lay naked and run his Anathame across his nipples while calling himself "bad boy".
Perturabo, except he's got a caricature of Rogal taped to the mirror with the mouth part cut out, so he can line up with it and make Rogal insult himself.
Skarbrand, but he does the pet thing where he forgets how reflections work and keeps trying to fight his reflection. Tzeentch keeps fixing the mirror because he thinks it's funny.
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