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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
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In appearance the Shadowlight was a small, flat slab of dark stone that, nondescript though it was, gave off an unmistakeable erieness. It was apparently intended to be part of a larger machine, several parts of which were scattered along with it in "The Valley Of Daemons" on the planet [[Perlia]]<sup>2</sup>.
The exact purpose of the xenos machine was unknown, but the Shadowlight was able to influence the [[Warp]] and had a "side effect" that made it extremely dangerous: contact with the artifact could turn latent [[Psykers]] into active, and extremely powerful, ones. Non-psykers who touched it without protection died almost instantly<sup>2</sup>. Based on this, one Mechanicus [[Tech Priest]] theorized that it was designed as a combined antenna and storage battery, meant to draw on the energies of the Warp and use them to power the primary machine<sup>23</sup>.
The Shadowlight was discovered by agents of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] and the [[Ordo Xenos]], who established a secret Mechanicus Shrine in the Valley to study its properties. One of the Tech-Priests, [[Methius]], believed that the Ordo Xenos were blind to the Shadowlight's real potential, and shared its existence with [[Inquisitor]] [[Ernst Stavros Killian|Killian]] of the [[Ordo Hereticus]]. Killian believed that with the artifact, he could create an army of [[psykers]], powerful enough to finally overthrow and destroy the forces of [[Chaos]]<sup>2</sup>.
