PROLOGUE
"Segmentum Ultima, Mordant Zone, Planet Erichtho. It is a farming world with huge citys, the planets human inhabbitens are well known potential psy users. It is a favored place of the Black Ships, some Space Marine chapter liberian recrutments are from here and the most skilled Gray Knights were borned here. The psyes of this planet are strangly trained by their parents, they can resist the temptation of the warpspown chaos gods. Rumor has it that when the planet was first colonised, the first settlers lived in peace with the eldars who were also appiered on this planet time to time. Teached the human worms how to fight chaos and this teachings are in the traditions of a normal erichtoian household. It was only a legend so the Inquisition didn't cared much about it. The planet has 3 majer citys Drakenia, Helenios and the biggest is Erichtho Magna, and there are some smaller citys as well, airports and industrial settlements. The planets suface is coverd in cold liking forest. The avarage planet tempriture was zero celzius degree. The planet survied several times the rage of the ork Waaagh! and was raided by dark eldars. However the well trained guardsmen of the 707th Erichthoian Regiment, the "Sorcerers", defended the planet every time.
It is the 41th millenium and there is only war...
Its is the year 40351. Several month before, a strange plague brake out in Drakenia. It was spreding rapidly and there was no cure at all. Strangly the plague didn't killed the victems, when they reached critical state they fall into coma, but never awakened again. Almost at the same time a cult was organised inside the walls of the city, most likly they were immun to the plague. It wouldn't be a real problem, but the members of the cult started to act violantly and attacket the street partrols. The city was quarantined and all the escape paths was blocked by the local army. They belived that the plague is in connection with the cult, but there was not enough evidnece. To investigate this, the Inqusition sent Lord Inquisitor Magnus Karlsson with the company of two squad of Gray Knights and a number of Inqusitional Storm Troopers. They landed on the spaceport nearest to the city, the troopers joined the blockade at the borders of the city while the Gray Knights with the Inquisitor after reading the reports of the event made their way to the city core, where the Emperors Cathedral, they met the archbishop of the planet. On their way back to the borders their were ambussed, by an massive army of zombies led by the cultists. Suddanly the entire city was attacked, thousands of zombies risen and the blockade at the border of the city become the last line of defense. In the attack the two squadren of Gray Knights were separated for eachother, radio and psy communication was jamed, so there was no way to retreat to the spaceship. Brother Justicer Thorwald the leader of one of the squadrens thinked it is the best if they fall back to the Catedreal, as it turned out the archbishop was still alive and let them in. With no communication, they were ready to make their last stand. On the city's border, to aid the separated Inquisitional forces Sisters of Battle from the Order of the Bloody Rose landed..."
