The Greatest Lie

[Liquid_awesomes]

Deep at the heart of the Imperial Palace, hidden behind a statis vault, locked from the inside by a physic lock only one man can undo, lies a secret so terrible, a secret so horrifying yet vitally important to the Imperium of man that knowledge of its existence would tear the minds of men apart.

 

Six hundred and sixty six kilometres down; under eons of rock and stone, buried below the bones of lost empires and forgotten kings, something has been trapped since before the evolution of man, trapped in a cave of pure obsidian lined with diamond, the dimensions of which seem to distort and vary every second. Only a single passage leads to it; a rough, hand hewn spiral staircase, descending into the core of Terra itself. The passage is hidden where no man would dare tread, where only one soul has been for 10’000 years of history. It lies at the feet of the golden throne, at the feet of the one who calls itself ‘The Emperor’.

 

It came to the mewling world of Terra in its infant days, when immense volcanoes punctured the land and choked the sky with their ash, when seas boiled and burned, at a time when no life could survive. The secret plummeted into the newborn world, the impact fracturing the solid crust of Terra and releasing titanic amounts of energy into the tortured air. As the dust settled over thousands of years, and the planet cooled and calmed, the secret was covered, hidden and forgotten.

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New attempt at a story, focusing on a different angle this time.

As always, C&C is greatly welcomed. Part two coming soon

[Skirax]

I'm liking the look of this. More!

 

+EDIT+ Sorry Sig, didn't realise

[Monstra Sumus]

As Skirax said, give me more.

 

Posts for the Post God!

[Liquid_awesomes]

But it did not fall into this world by chance, for inside this impossible rock which fell from the sky, a geode of impossible dimensions, a being lay. It lay, and it waited, for it knew the importance of this planet it had come to, it could see the vitality of this world in millenniums to come. With the last of its strength, it nudged and pushed the minds of humans which walked the ground. In the empire of ancient Greece, they worshiped it as Chronos; in the empire of Egypt, it was worshiped as Osiris; in Romus, they called it Saturn. It fed on the souls of untold trillions which died through the course of human history, barley keeping it alive for over a billion years of wait.

 

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Just a short section squeezed in between alternating sessions of WipEout and revision

[Skirax]

One quick correction, if you're referring to the Empire of Alexander, it was the Macedonian Empire, Greece was a city state of Macedon.

[Liquid_awesomes]

The creature is a being of immense power, it has seen the universe from the very first second, and will see right to its end. It does not see the pathetic excuse for the future which the entity Tzeentch claims to see, while he can see the web of possible futures, the secret being knows that the history and future of this universe is written out like a script, and it will be adhered to to the last second.

It can see what will become of the Eldar, how their flame of existence will flicker and fade, with their black library ablaze, doomed to a slow demise.

It knows of the orks and their final WAGGH, which ends their race in the brightest fires ever known to be.

The fate of the Tau, the young and technological race, is as clear to him as a burning sun. Necrons, the ancient race, lead by all the re-born C’tan, will clash with daemons on an unimaginable scale, unleashing energies which lay waste to entire constellations.

The Tyranids will consume world after world, stopped only when they reach segmentum solar, by the largest gathering of humans ever to have mustered, crushed and robbed of biomass to create new creatures from.

 

And the Humans will go down fighting, as always, engaged in battle after battle, on all sides. The Imperial Guard will die in their billions upon the walls of the Imperial Palace. The Mechanincum will be victims of their own doing, unleashing the machine god from its shackles using forbidden technology only to have it call forth legions of Necron slaves, scouring the surface of mars of all life. The Titans, slaughtering unknown numbers of daemons and Xenos, will fall one by one, their history crumbling like dust. And the Space Marines will be the last, resisting to a man on the steps of the golden throne itself, defending ‘The Emperor’ with utmost loyalty from warp daemons and traitor marines as they pour into Terra. Never yielding, never faltering, and never once considering failure in the gaze of their master.

 

But most importantly, it can see the lie. A lie which holds all of man together; a lie which has signed the death of uncountable men, a lie which spurs unsung heroes into battle, a lie which fuels factories, planets, systems; a lie which causes rebellions and starts wars. A lie which has been on the tongue of every man, every woman, every human for over ten thousand years.

 

'’For the Emperor of man’’

 

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@skirax: was it? im not that hot on ancient history, my knowlage of Greece goes as far as 300.

 

Part 3 coming soon. Lets hear if you like the way this is going or not, I'm going out on a wild idea here.

[calgar101]

Woah i like; a lot.

[Skirax]

Oh well the Macedonian Empire was around roughly 370 BC - 320 as Alexander's Father ruled it with plans to conquer Persia, then he died and Alexander took up the reins, and acted out his dad's plans.

 

Overall, I'll say it's very good.

[Brother Captain Ming]

Alright, I'm hooked. :lol:

One thing: barley is used in beer, barely is I believe the spelling you're looking for, but that's just me nit-picking.

[Sons of Horus]

:eek The Luna Wolves demand more! ;)

[Liquid_awesomes]

To trace the history of the Emperor is to undo what holds the Imperium of man together. His past is written across the world in the blood of civilisations, penned with the bones of his people. He has appeared sporadically, often thousands of years between each sighting. One was the defeat of the Sky Dragon, in the year 1500BC. In the siege of Troy, a solider that it seemed impossible to wound was recorded in many poems. Another was the sacking of Citeais, 4698 AD. During the Helopian overthrow, 13288-13598, the sighting a giant figure who smote the tyrant’s guard at times of need was reported. In the fifth war of Europia, 15000-15894, a being with the power to reduce entire armies to dust is specifically recorded four times.

 

He is not a god, or a star child. He was not infused with magic, nor has he always existed. He was born to a world of hate and malice, a world of dark powers and hungry gods. This world had suffered the attention of the dread powers for longer than memory served, and the population had been forced to adapt to survive. For centuries they dabbled with technology far beyond their understanding. Draining suns to provide enough energy to make their last hope work, they aimed to create an army capable of fighting the gods on their own turf. Instead, they create a single soul. A failure, he was cast aside; fired into space to die an infant.

 

But his pod was seen by the being, who guided it into this planet, where it fell like a comet into the earth. The child inside could detect the being, and even in its infant mind, knew it must survive, for it was not a reject, but something far more important.

 

The being can see all of these events, and it can see what ‘The Emperor’ did to change the course of humanity, and it knows where he came from. And it knows how it must end.

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Part 4 up and running. Its going to get interesting from here, Im just unsure how to structure it.

[TauranBrother]

Just clicked on the link on your sig. You've got me hooked. Keep up the great work.