Omphalos Daemonium
The Omphalos Daemonium was an ancient and powerful Daemon Prince, a servant of the Blood God Khorne, and existed only for slaughter. It was defeated by a rival daemon, the Heart of Blood, and trapped in torment within a Daemon Engine; bound to the service of the Iron Warriors, it served as the dread chariot to a vast Iron Warrior known as the Slaughterman. After the Siege of Hydra Cordatus, the Slaughterman was defeated by Imperial forces and driven into the furnace of the daemon engine, setting the Omphalos Daemonium free. The daemon then possessed the body of the Slaughterman, and planned its revenge on the Heart of Blood, which itself was imprisoned by the Iron Warriors on their homeworld of Medrengard.[1x]
The daemon captured two exiled Ultramarines, Uriel Ventris and his former Sergeant, Pasanius Lysane, and charged them with the task of retrieving the Heart of Blood. Upon the Heart of Blood being set free by the Ultramarines, the Omphalos Daemonium arrived to take advantage of its rival's weakened state from its imprisonment. However, in the climax of the battle, the Heart of Blood conjured up a bloodstorm which strengthened its abilities to their former glory. Upon restoration of its powers, the Heart of Blood was the more powerful of the two daemons and ultimately defeated its enemy once again. The Omphalos Daemonium was beheaded and its essence was drunk by its mortal enemy.[1x]
Uriel and Pasanius escaped Medrengard in the Daemon Engine.[1a]
Description
The Omphalos Daemonium ferries passengers through the Warp via routes known as the bronze blood-tracks. The Omphalos Daemonium is a daemon engine in the form of something that was once a akin to a steam-driven locomotive, now wreathed and malformed into diabolical majesty. This brazen juggernaut is driven forward by vast bone-pistons. Bloody steam leaks from every skull-faced rivet of its iron and steel flanks, wheels of tortured souls feast on the blood pools it trails. The Omphalos Daemonium is followed in tow by a procession of dark iron boxcars, their timbers stained with aeons of blood and torture, rusted with gore. Millions had been carried to their deaths in these hellish containers.[1x]
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