Inspirational Friday 2018: Artefacts of Chaos (until 3/16)

[Kierdale]

For those who do not know it, Inspirational Friday is a (generally) fortnightly event within its home in the Chaos Space Marines forum (but open to all members of the B&C), in which a topic is set for members to write short (or long if the muse takes you) fluff/fan-fic pieces about their war bands, characters and models.

In the past I have always made a new thread for IF Challenges when posting them in forums other than the main CSM one, but from now onward I’ll just update this one (changing the title, putting the most recent challenge in a new post, etc.).

And here begins our fifth challenge of Inspirational Friday 2018: Artefacts of Chaos

From the Axe of Blind Fury to the Burning Brand of Skalathrax and the Scrolls of Magnus many are the artefacts of Chaos, as powerful as they are corrupting. The fifth challenge of IF2018 is to write a piece featuring an artefact of Chaos taken from any of the Chaos codexes current or past. The Rod of Command from Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness, the Suppurating Plate from Codex: Death Guard, the Endless Grimoire from Codex: Daemons and dozens more...any and all are fine choices!

Tell us of a quest for the artefact (by pawns of one of the Chaos Gods? Or by the lapdogs of the Corpse-Emperor? Or Xenos even?), or a tale of the one who now wields it - or is cursed by it, for surely the possession of such a powerful item comes with a terrible price?

IF2018: Artefacts of Chaos runs until the sixteenth of March.

Let us be inspired.

The winner of IF2018: Artefacts of Chaos shall claim the Octed amulet and the honour of judging the next challenge (which they can forfeit to me if they so wish).

Please submit your entries (and any questions you might have) in the main IF thread linked to above.