Fall of the Emberg-Aegnir Bloc
The Fall of the Emberg-Aegnir Bloc was a campaign fought between the League of Votann's Emberg-Aegnir Bloc and the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Leviathan sometime in M41.[1]
Overview
In truth, the League had been warned of the attack by their Ancestor Core centuries prior, which had one of its Forges spring to life and create a new suit of Bastium armour with an alien serpentine crest engraved upon it. The Ancestor Core never elaborated on its meaning to the Grimnyr.[1]
Years later, when the Hive Fleet's Bio-ships later attacked the Bloc's Hold that held its Votann, the League's Kindred held their ground to defend the sacred relic. High Kâhl Ugnÿr was chosen to lead the defense and donned the special Bastium armour. His first act was to cease the endless skirmishing with the outer elements and Vanguard Organisms and return those under his command to the Emberg Kindred to make their stand. As the battles raged for weeks, Ugnÿr fought alongside his Einhyr Hearthguard, which included Buri Aegnirssen. Meanwhile, the heavily outnumbered Bloc worked to protect their dead from the Hive Fleet, by placing them inside their Ancestor Core. This caused the bodies to be broken down and the dead's memories were collected by the Ancestor Core. The accumulated memories of the countless millions of fallen, blighted by pain and sorrow, overwhelmed the Core and eventually drove it mad.[1]
Soon, it became clear that the Kin could not stand before the endless Tyranid numbers. They fell back to their Fane-construct of their primary Holdworld and resolved to fight to the last. One by one, the Kin were slain until it was just Ugnÿr and Buri fighting side by side. At that moment a monstrous Tyranid creature entered the chamber, and in the ensuing combat Ugnÿr was impaled while Buri was swallowed hole, though he later miraculously survived and swore revenge against the Tyranids.[1]
Sources
- 1: White Dwarf 516, pgs. 77-79
