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Corvidaen Retrospective – Fragment Recovered from the Ruins of Tizca ++ Personal Journal of Ahzek Ahriman, Chief Librarian of the XV Legion ++ ++ Composed in the final months before Prospero’s fall ++ What century is this? What world do I walk upon? These questions plague me like half - remembered nightmares, drifting between what was, what is and what should never have been. And where, I ask the indifferent fates, are my companions of earlier endeavours—Jackalwolf and Augustus b’Raass, warriors steadfast and unyielding as the basalt fortress of the Aett? Where are Heinrich and Kizzdougs, brothers-in-arms who once stood beside me on the threshold of ancient knowledge? Where are KrautScientist and Dallo, fellow architects of possibilties, with whom I once debated the hidden geometries of the arcane? —gone / lost / scattered / unfinished— —they were never here / they were always here— —find them or follow them— These are not idle musings, but the symptoms of a mind fraying beneath too many futures. I feel unmoored from time, as though I drift between moments like a ghost lost in its own unmade death. Even now, as I set quill to vellum, I feel the shadow of fire licking at the edge of my thoughts. My brothers are absent. Some by distance. Some by duty. Some because I have pushed them away with warnings they do not wish to hear. —you spoke truth / you spoke fear / they chose silence— —all paths coil to the same ruin— Where laughter and debate once filled the air, now silence reigns. Dust gathers on tomes no hand will ever open again. The light through the colonnades feels thinner each day, as though the sun itself is preparing to turn its face from the land. I have walked these halls before, returned to them after long absences, but never have they felt so terminal. Never have they felt like a mausoleum for the living. The mundane burdens of the Imperium have stolen years from me—petitions, decrees, inquisitions thinly veiled as councils of unity. All of it empty noise that dragged me further from my studies, my brothers, my Legion. And as my duties grew, my works faltered. Projects abandoned. Visions unmade. Creation surrendered to the creeping advance of dread I dared not name. —name it— —name the truth— —the wolf with many faces, the doom with many teeth— But even in a dying fire, sparks remain. It was while poring through the cracked pages of the ancient Index Astartes records—those prophetic Terran works that speak of our doom with the certainty of history—that inspiration stirred once more. There, in ink older than many worlds, lay Prospero’s Lament. A tragedy written long before it occurs. A condemnation of Magnus. A betrayal penned in inevitability by hands that never knew us. How cruel it is to read the script of your own execution. —you wrote some of it— —you will write more— —all fates are circles— Still, I resolved to try again at the dawn of Heresy Edition Tertius—one final labour of creation before oblivion claims us. I would rebuild the Legion in miniature, not as others will remember us, but as we truly were beneath Magnus’s light. The vision has haunted me for a decade of Terran measure, mocked me with each failed attempt. Even the colour—the perfect red of our armour, the blood of Prospero’s proud spirit—refused to manifest beneath my hands. I followed every formula. Every ritual. Every instruction passed down from the artisans of Forge World. Yet the result was always flawed, as though the pigment itself knew the doom that approached and mourned it. —the flaw is in you— —the flaw is the future— —the flaw is the last act— It was only when I learned that the fault lay not in the paint, but in the final sealing— the last act— that I understood. How fitting. It is always the final act that damns us. Enlightenment came from an unlikely source—the discourse-lodge calling itself Powerfist, whose counsel resolved my frustration with a single undeniable truth. A spark of clarity. A moment of illumination in the darkness that grows thicker with each passing day. So I begin again. I will recreate the Legion as Magnus intended it. Crimson clad Scholar Astartes, replete in Prosperine panoply, The warriors of Sabretooth’s old illustrations made manifest. The heroes of Ancient Tizca standing alongside me once more in the pursuit of Knowledge . The stalwart Prospero Spireguard in their proud regalia, humble in spirit yet proud in their duty. The Psy-Automata bound in perfect symmetry, adherent to the sacred Numerological rites of a time before Old Night . Perhaps even the tutelaries whose whispers grow louder as our world’s end draws near. —we are here— —we have always been here— —you hear us now because the veil thins— There is tragedy in this work. Hope woven into despair. A monument built in the shadow of its own destruction. Join me, brothers— whether in spirit, memory, or the echoing silence that will soon follow. Let us imagine a future where Nikaea’s chains never closed around our throats, where knowledge was not feared, where we rose not as exiles and heretics but as guides toward humanity’s awakening. The Wolves are coming. The city dreams its final dreams. The ash has not yet fallen, but I can already taste its bitterness on the air. Before Prospero burns, let there be beauty. Before Tizca dies, let it be remembered. Before all is dust, let there be this one last act of creation. —all is not yet dust— —but soon— — Ahzek Ahriman Chief Librarian of the XV Legiones Astartes Keeper of the Book of Magnus Seeker of what yet may be, and what may yet be saved. All is not yet dust….. ++ End Transmission ++

Who manifested Tzaangor Robots? =][= MOD EDIT =][= Link to reveal https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/gsdzv0gh/chaos-ascends-with-new-units-and-codexes-for-khorne-tzeentch-and-nurgle/ I think we've all seen the adepticon previews by now, the Thousand Sons are getting a new robot/automata type unit, one rumoured through stories etc. I've attached the link and images below for your convenience. How do we think these will play in the game, and what's your overall impression of the models/unit idea?

Now we know what new unit we're getting in 10th edition, I'm making this thread so we can speculate on Next Edition's content for us without obstructing the 10th Edition Thread and 10th Ed Detachment predictions. To start us off, I'll post this wishlist: Rubric Havocs Probably not actually named Rubric Havocs, but as the main "Shooty CSM" it seems weird we don't have a dedicated "Heavy Weapons Infantry" unit. Sure, all Rubric units can carry a Soulreaper, but there's more options than that for a proper heavy weapon squad to use such as Missile Launchers since we only have 1 source of Anti-Vehicle in the whole army. Khenetai Occult The TSons Assault Squad from HH. Probably would be reimagined somewhat in a move to 40k, but the idea of a Slow but Tanky Assault Squad is an idea that already has a functional presence in 40k (see: All Melee Deathguard). A Marine tier Melee threat is something our army lacks, even tho any version we get probably wouldn't be Battleline to maintain our "Shooty CSM" status. Ammitara Occult This is a Scout/Sniper unit. Obv Scout Armour wouldn't work for our dusty bois, but it could be reimagined as a unit of Sorcerers using their Psychic power to enhance their Sniper shots (or we get floating Scout Breastplates with Sniper Rifles which would be very funny). Rubric Praetor A non-psyker character for TSons is an odd choice, but having a Chaos Lord Equivalent in the army would be a neat force multiplier and would be a decent chassis to get some variant of the old "All is Dust" rule back into the army in the form of an attached unit buff. Numerologist TSons Technomancer. Probably a bit less useful now that we're probably losing our Tanks (<- delete if this doesn't happen), tho Land Raiders, Rhinos and those Robots would all benefit from a Techmarine analogue. A dedicated Thousand Sons Terminator Character Basically a Termie Sorc variant that's not just the alt. build of a CSM unit. In terms of what to do to make them different, the existing Termie Sorc is an Anti-Vehicle character (the only source of that keyword in our army) so maybe a more Anti-Infantry character would be appropriate? Non-Tzaangor Unique Cultists Yep, it's this again. Ideally some kind of Psychic Cultist unit so they can be used with our army rule. If you have any comments on the above, or want to post a wishlist of your own, go ahead. Hopefully we can manifest a proper wave for 11th.