Warhammer 40K Darktide Review - Left To Shred Little resistance can be offered against their onslaught and Fortress-Worlds and bastions thought secure against the might of armies fall in mere hours of dark butchery. So insidious is this attack upon the will and the soul that when the Tenebrae attack in full force, for theirs is also the full panoply of war known to the fallen Adeptus Astartes, including many ancient relics of battle and daemon-tainted engines. Where they go, light is consumed by darkness, a darkness which hungers for life and whispers blasphemies to eat at the sanity of the most righteous man.

Their dusk-purple armour bears little to indicate their true allegiance or origin, and their company is fled from even by others devoted to the Ruinous Powers less they become infected by whatever dark malignance has swallowed the Tenebrae and made them its own.Ī Chaos Relic Sicaran Battle Tank of the Tenebrae Renegade warband this vehicle, the Suspira Mortis, is believed to have taken part in the silencing of the fourteen beacon-worlds of the Argentus Sub-sector. The Tenebrae appear again and again, scattered through history, at the Luxor Drift Genocide, the Fall of Yun, the Plague of Madness and the Kharthah-Iconoclasm, right up to their most recent sighting during the Orpheus Crisis of 998.M41.Īlways they appear during times of terror and discord, always their presence is a herald of suffering and the nightmarish distortion of reality as a wave of suicidal despair and insanity going before them like a baleful shadow. These records, culled from the archives of the Black Wings Chapter whose own Chapter Master was slain there, speak of the Tenebrae as already hated and reviled before this atrocity, but frustratingly the Inquisitorial eye of the present day offers no further leads to trace their origins further back in time. The earliest surviving records of the Heretic Astartes force known as the Tenebrae name them as the hand behind the infamous 'Hour of Shadow,' which plunged the Hive World of Lorin Alpha into murder and madness in 118.M33, and whose anniversary is still marked by sorrowful mourning seven millennia later.

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