Father Isstvan
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This article is about the deity; for the Inquisitorial ideology, see Isstvanism. |
Isstvan, also called Father Isstvan, was the chief deity of the pre-Imperial human civilisation inhabiting the Isstvan system in M30, notably Isstvan III, having survived through the Age of Strife.[1a] Father Isstvan is depicted as a massive bearded sky-god.[1b] Prophecies of war, treachery, revelation and death suffused their mythos.[1a] The Warsingers were the priests of this religion whom told these tales as warnings to their people.[2]
Mythology
According to the Isstvanian mythological histories, Father Isstvan sang the world into being.[1a] He was an evidently fertile god who populated the stars in this first age of the world, his many children born from unnamed mothers.[2] The music being heard by his blessed Warsingers,[1a] whom interpreted his song of creation.[2] Isstvan had many children to inhabit the early ages of this new world. There are many subsequent legends of Isstvan's creation, day and night, ocean and mountain, and all other aspects of creation breathed into life.[1a]
Eventually some of his children would turn from their benevolent sire's light and lead their hosts to make war with their creator. These betrayers would become known as the Lost Children and be defeated in a great battle with their armies destroyed. Instead of killing his wayward offspring, he banished them to the black deserts and ashen wastelands of Isstvan V.[2] The Lost Children who forsook their father and were subsequently banished to the wastelands of the Isstvan system's fifth planet. Cast out from paradise, their former beauty twisted as they became mutated abominations and utterly revolting. They built cyclopean fortresses and dark towers from which they brooded on treacherous and hateful schemes. These Lost Children were prophesied to return and bring war and death upon Isstvan's magnificent city of the gods, Choral City on Isstvan III.[1a][2]
See also
Sources
- 1: Galaxy in Flames (Novel):
- 2: Fulgrim (Novel), Chapter Twenty-Two
