The Warp Engine of the Ignis Aeternus
The Comatose Psyker
Beneath the engine, behind hexagrammic grates and rites-locked hatches, lies the Veilwatcher—a sanctioned psyker wired directly into the engine’s Gellar Field induction matrix. He is no longer truly alive, nor truly dead. Suspended in a neuro-casket, he floats in a tangle of fluid-filled tubes and psi-reactive cables, his skull bristling with augmetic crowns and data-spikes.
His skin is pale, parchment-thin, tattooed with warding glyphs and darkened by years of exposure to warp energies. Thick cables pierce his spine and cranium, connecting his soul to the beating heart of the engine.
And still, he murmurs.
- “…bones of gods… it turns again…”
- “…the eye stares from behind the stars…”
- “…light burns backwards now…”
- “…every psyker lies…”
His lips twitch constantly, muttering incoherent prophecies, and his limbs jerk in strange rhythms—dancing to music only he can hear. During warp travel, the crew say you can hear him screaming softly beneath the engine’s thrum, and on rare occasions, his eyes roll open—black and empty, staring into nothingness.
And when the engine roars to life, tearing through the veil of realspace,
the psyker twitches, and his dreams are unsettling… and whispers better left unheard.
Ignis Aeternus WH 40K campaign notes 