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This article, Rebellion of the Cleaved Skull, was written by Achilles Prime. Please do not edit or 'acquire' this fiction without the writer's permission. |
During the Alitos Crusade, located deep within the Tremdorma Sector bordering the Calyx Expanse of Segmentum Obscurus, Sub-Sector Alitos is embroiled in rebellion and heresy. At the corrupting hands of the Chaos Lord Gor' Kulma of the Khornate Warband of the Cleaved Skull, the Knight World of Dulva turns from it's oath to the Emperor and the Adeptus Terra and swears it's allegiance to the Dark God Khorne.
Falling victim to his own arrogance and violent temperament, High King Norvail aligns his Knight House to Gor' Kulma, bolstering the already prodigious force of renegades, heretics, and Traitor Astartes. Following this heretical union a grand tribute of blood and skulls is reaped throughout the Sub-Sector in the name of Khorne. As world upon world and the very stars that divide them fall victim to a host of barbarous and pitiless servants of Chaos. All Imperial defenders seemingly break and route at the might of Gor' Kulma's warhost, and entire worlds are crushed under the feet of the Daemon Knights of Dulva.
Upon the heavily fortified Ice world of Korsaiov does Gor' Kulma's Crusade reach a point of stagnation. With the Ice worlders offering surprising resistance to the Heretical force and the world herself also posing a considerable threat to the ill prepared traitor war-machines and Renegade Knights. These forces start to fall victim to thin ice stretching lakes, hidden crevasses and avalanches birthed from their own guns. After months of gruelling defiance the besieged regiments of the Korsaiov Wolf Born receive salvation.
A reclamation force of Imperial might answers the cries of the tormented Sub-Sector, amongst them being the Void Kraken's 1st Company and a force of Arcanaeum Acolytes, beginning what was to be known as the Alitos Crusade. What followed would leave a scar etched upon the world of Korsaiov for generations; brutal and unforgiving, the Knight House of Teldema answering the call from Terra sought to bring retribution upon the traitors of Dulva. Their warring sought to lay low entire sectors of hive cities in their titanic confrontations with many, traitor and loyal alike, falling to litter said cities with their corpses.
While the Wolves of Korsaiov, emboldened by the presence of foreign Imperial Guard regiments swore not to be cast aside when a counter attack to the heretics was called, though great was their loses, greater still was their fury; fury that came forth in the thundering cries from the regiments' Armoured Battalions. But it was to be a gruelling and hard fought conflict, with the presence of so many of the Void Krakens' Librarium, the berserkers of the Cleaved Skull knew a fresh rage and hatred, fighting with a fury unmatched in their need to claim the skulls of the 'cowardly' psykers they crashed upon the Sons of the Kraken akin to a great wave upon a floodwall.
Atop a great plateau upon the ice plains of Atri'kolow outside the Hive city Jormun'kiliv does the war for Korsaiov end, alongside the ambitions and tyranny of Gor' Kulma. With the plateau embroiled in fire and chaos and the felling of High King Norvail and his Barrons at the hands of the Wolf Born Shadowswords Ice Fang, and Storm Breath the entrenched renegades hold a desperate and defiant last stand against the righteous forces of the Emperor's Imperium, only to be ripped from their trenches by psychic tendrils of flame and crushed under armoured feet and treads at the Void Kraken's advance. Upon the bloodied and ashen snow beyond the broken heretic line, mighty and unflinching to the hell of battle surrounding him Lord Leviathan Talvin Bekalis clad in Cataphractii armour steps from the formations of the Son's of Alazath, uncaring as bolt shells scream to and fro close to him, and stares in open challenge to Gor' Kulma, a challenge the Chaos Lord eagerly meets. With his brothers meeting the Khornate berserkers with blade and bolter around him, the Lord of Krakens and Champion of Khorne clash in a roar of thunder and sparks as bloodied gore laced chainaxes meet the artificer craftsmanship of thunder hammer and shield. With the toll of hammer against breastplate and the quake of earthen snow and ice, the Korsaiov conflict is brought to an end, with the thunder hammer Tide Breaker embedded deep within Gor' Kulma's chest, he lays lifeless upon the reddened snow as the last of the Cleaved Skull warband to fall, with that the world falls silent and the winds of the arctic tundra reign over the world once more.