- Race: Kin (Leagues of Votann)
- Hold: Vorthekal Ironbrood, known for experimental gravitic research and high failure tolerance.
- Role: Gravitonics Engineer, Fringe Theorist, Experimentalist
- Personality: Brilliant to the point of dangerous. Speaks in rapid, excited bursts, often ignoring risk assessments and safety doctrines. Ostracized by more conservative Kin engineers, but revered by a small cult of apprentices known as Grav-Seers.
Description:
Dorrik is a short, stocky Kin even by their own standards, with an unruly beard braided around wires and optical filaments. His eyes are permanently augmented with gravitic lens arrays that shimmer with distortions, always analyzing local field geometries. His armor is patched together from disected exo-suits and void-mining rigs, bristling with instruments and shielding coils. He smells faintly of ionized metal and burnt vacuum sealant.
Dorrik’s Declaration:
“No Kin in recorded history has seen beyond the event horizon — and I will be the first.”
“They call it madness. That’s what they said when we tamed the graviton flux and siphoned dark matter from the spine of the Charybdos Singularity. This? This is elegance! A grav-pod, layered with self-stabilizing inverse polarity shells, riding the curve of spacetime like a drop of oil in a whirlpool. Tethered — not by myth, but by a line of nano-carbon-threaded phase-fiber, a million miles long and thinner than your shame.”
“Anchored to the Vorthex Array, our deepest cloud-mining barge, rotating at relativistic speeds just outside the ergosphere. The tether vibrates with force differentials we can read as data, time, memory.”
“The pod will dive. And when I cross the horizon, the outside will freeze — but for me, the inside will bloom. I will scan, I will observe, I will return, dragging reality back through the cord like light through a cracked viewport.”
“This is not suicidal. This is science.”
Technology Involved:
- Antigravity Pod – Spindlefall
Encased in concentric gravitic bubble shells with dynamic field inversion. Equipped with:- Temporal recoil dampers
- Self-contained stasis AI module
- Event horizon telemetry pings encoded in gravitational lens pulses
- Nano-Phase Tether – Kleos Umbilical
Engineered from phase-interlaced Votann-forged nano-carbon.- One million miles long
- Contains quantum resonance tags every 10 km for data feedback
- Maintains temporal continuity signature, enabling retraction even after relativistic time distortion
- Mothership – Vorthex Array
A modified grav-mining rig stationed at the edge of the black hole’s accretion disk.- Gravitic stabilizers to maintain orbital lock
- Tachyon pulse system to monitor tether tension and structural stress
- Observation deck rigged with translation engines to interpret event horizon flux patterns
Project Goal:
To enter the event horizon, witness the internal geometries of the black hole, and return with proof — redefining Votann cosmology, and likely shattering what remains of Kin consensus on the limits of reality and his ingenuity.
Ignis Aeternus WH 40K campaign notes 