Warsinger
The Warsingers were the group of rogue psykers[1a] who were the priests of the Isstvanian religion. They were said to have been able to still hear the echoes of the music from the dawn of creation, the music of Father Isstvan.[1b] The Warsingers were powerfully destructive combatants who could easily kill a Space Marine with their psychic powers of sound.[2a]
Overview
The Warsingers were deadly combatants who had a variety of powerful abilities that took the form of sound and music. They could emit destructive songs via sonic shrieks of discordant notes, bursts of pure sound, and supernatural unmusic. able to blast away flesh, peel ceramite and pulverize stone. These waves of force could also act as a opaque barriers of light that shielded against projectiles.[2a] They also had the power of flight, able to soar and levitate with elegant grace.[2a][2d] They could manipulate reality, such as singing entire trench systems of a battlefield into existence.[2b] The Warsingers bolstered the will of their people. Singing songs of murder and mayhem that could turn civilians into a rushing swarm of fanatics.[2b] Acting as empowered conduits of the psyker's songs, their mouth might be agape whilst conveying the cadences of the psyker's song.[2c] While these songs could bolster the strength, speed and will of their forces, if killed the Warsinger's peoples might retreat or worse. Some face a wave of indolent distress, momentarily disabling those the Warsinger fought beside.[2a]
History
The Warsinger were believed to have been wiped out during the Raven Guard's conquest of Isstvan III, nearly a decade prior to the Isstvan III Atrocity. The Warsingers were instrumental in the Isstvan system's rebellion from the Imperium, working with Vardus Praal and possibly corrupting him in some way that lead to his seeming madness.[2a] When the loyalist elements of the Death Guard, Sons of Horus, Emperor's Children and World Eaters landed upon Isstvan III, the Warsingers opposed them tenaciously as they defended the holy Choral City. The psykers were interspersed throughout the Choral City's defenders.[2a][2b] When the Life Eater virus was unleashed upon the world, some Warsingers tried to comfort their people's agony with their hymns, but they too quickly fell to the rapacious bio-weapon.[2d]
