![]() ![]() The Chapter had recently fought back a massive Tyranid incursion into their home sector of Aurelia, only a year had passed. Together, they were set to strike at the very heart of the Blood Ravens. Eliphas then joined forces with the Chaos Lord Araghast the Pillager. Eventually, the former Chaos Lord made a pact with Abaddon the Despoiler himself, to restore his body in exchange for service in the Black Legion. Several years then passed and Eliphas' soul drifted in the Warp. Tell Captain Thule that his old friend Eliphas is anxious to see him again." " So good to see you all again, Blood Ravens. For his second failure, he was judged by a Daemon Prince to death and damnation, his body turned into pulp before the Blood Ravens' eyes. Leading his warriors, Eliphas fought against the other powers who sought control over Kronus until he was ultimately defeated by the Blood Ravens 4th Company, led by Captain Davian Thule. He and his Warband were summoned by a cabal of heretical cultists to the world upon which Eliphas had once failed the Dark Gods. Thousands of years hence, Eliphas had rose in the ranks of Chaos and gained favor with the Ruinous Powers, becoming a terrible and mighty Chaos Lord and Dark Apostle among the Word Bearers Legion. " The only madness is in failing to see the power of Chaos." It is unknown if Eliphas was present during the Siege of Terra, where Warmaster Horus was slain by the Emperor of Mankind. Yet, for his failures, Eliphas was damned to the " Basilica of Torment " - a prison where those who have failed the Dark Gods are sent to suffer. Eliphas was then recalled by his Primarch Lorgar as the Shadow Crusade ended. Despite the terrible bloodshed, the loyalists emerged victorious. While there, he led his forces against the Ultramarines present on the planet. Having become a Champion of Chaos at the outbreak of the Heresy, he was sent to the planet of Kronus during the Shadow Crusade to build a mighty temple to the Chaos Gods. Once named Torquill Eliphas, he was enrolled in the XVIth Legiones Astartes, the Word Bearers, and followed his brothers and Primarch into worshiping the Gods of Chaos. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.Eliphas the Inheritor's history traces as far back to the days of the Horus Heresy and Great Crusade tens of thousands of years ago. While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. Then what am I – the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization, this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation? There are moments when the two appear inseparable, and others when they could be cut apart by the merest flash of light. ![]() It needs no plane, no engine, no instruments, only the release from flesh which circumstances I've gone through make possible. This essential consciousness needs no body for its travels. Louis, while the weightless element that has lived within it flashes through the skies and views the planet. Why have I troubled to bring it here? I might better have left it back at Long Island or St. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.įor unmeasurable periods, I seem divorced from my body, as though I were an awareness spreading out through space, over the earth and into the heavens, unhampered by time or substance, free from the gravitation that binds to heavy human problems of the world. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. “On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. ![]()
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