The Lower Shrine: Saint Beneath Iron
Deep in the underdecks, near the corroded manufactories and whispering coolant ducts, the Scar resurfaces—less adorned than above, but no less potent. In a warped compartment left half-melted by the ancient beam, the crew once raised a lay-shrine to an unnamed Imperial statue, now known only as:
The Saint of the Beam
The statue is crude yet reverent: a figure assembled from forged scrap and twisted cabling, seated at the terminal point of the beam’s path. Its arms stretch upward, in an eternal act of shielding—touching the scorched bulkhead where fire once tore through steel.
Around the base lie tokens of old devotion: rusted cog-rosaries, wax-dripped servitor skulls, prayer-scraps written in oil-chalk, and coin-sized votives etched with ship crests and crew names long forgotten.
Forgotten Faith
In centuries past, this shrine was a place of devoted reverence. The crew from the hold would come to appease the Saint, offering breath to prayers and sacred flame to ward off what lay beyond.
But in the centuries since the Ignis Aeternus has remained orbit-bound, her warp engines cold, the practice of veneration has withered. The shrine remains—but abandoned, dust-thick, and silent. The Saint of the Beam sits alone, still shielding.
Ignis Aeternus WH 40K campaign notes 