Message from the Gods
“You still question how and why you are here, don’t you, Bahl’al? I know, I have seen in your dreams. The pursuit of an answer that forever lies upon the horizon no matter how fast you run to it. But you are oblivious to the fact that the answer lies within you and has struggled over the past millennia to free itself from the chains you call your heritage, the blasphemous will that fuels your defiance to its call. You somehow emerged from that void you threw yourself into so many years ago. You believed it was your past life, your heritage that saved you from death, but in truth it was your future, perhaps your destiny that saved you. The god Eablis put up one last fight in the void in an attempt to drag you, its bane, into oblivion with it, but the moment you threw yourself into the void with Stone of Eablis, you did the other Chaos Gods a great favour. Since the beginning of time the four great powers of Chaos have been striving to destroy Eablis once and for all, and with your sacrifice you did it. When all hope and will power deserted you in the void, the Gods of Chaos came to your aid and protected you from the fallen god’s wrath.
Not
only did they see fit to spare your life, but also to acknowledge your possible
destiny, that perhaps you were their chosen champion they had been looking for.
And so with the shadow of chaos looming ever greater over the lands of mortals,
the gods have given you this chance to prove yourself, before the final throw
if dice.
As Archaon bides his time in the northern
wastes, gathering his forces, the time has been laid forth where by someone may
find himself to be the new chosen one, and take control over the hordes of
Chaos that Archoan now commands.
The twin tailed comet you can now see on the
night sky marks the beginning. Between this event and the eventual eclipse that
will take place when the moon Saeris comes between this planet and the sun, a
new chosen of Chaos may emerge. The gods have laid forth a ‘test’ which they
believe will destroy the weak and preserve the strong
Four hearts. . . . . . . four hearts from
four daemons which are destined to become the chosen of their patron gods.
Their names: Oz, SlythRa, Pantaphrak and Zegroth.
He who rips the beating hearts out of these
daemon’s chest and cuts them open upon the shrine of ultimate darkness at the
time of the eclipse will be marked as the new chosen one. Along with the four
hearts themselves, a knife and a book must be found and used. The sacrificial
dagger of Khaine must be plunged into hearts for the ritual to work. And the
book. . . . . . .the book will be used to bind me to the bearer’s will. Upon
the eve of the eclipse, the bearer must speak the incantations from the book to
summon me from my prison and force me to wield the dagger and sacrifice the
hearts upon the altar.
Such is the nature of my punishment so do
not question my message for you know I am compelled to speak these words by the
gods themselves. I have been spared my
torment in the realm of filth and now I exist
in a grey limbo, seeing all, waiting to be called upon when the times
comes.
In the land of men, somewhere within the great city of Altdorf, you will find the book. The book of Omazidahn. The dagger, at this moment in time, rests in the hands of Druchi noble.
By now you may be pondering over one paradox in my message. If all four of the Daemons concerned are destined to be their god’s champions, it must mean that they all fail in their quest for the hearts and yet somehow survive. In which case the gods are wasting their time giving you this chance because you are destined not to triumph over the Daemons. Ponder over this. If the gods have now made it plain to you what your destiny is, then doesn’t that give you power to change it?”
Amon Chakai
