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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 although one researcher theorized that it was able to influence alter the fabric of reality itself, created by the Ancients as a weapon of last resort in their war against the [[WarpC'tan]] and . The Shadowlight had a "side effect" that made it extremely dangerous: contact with the artifact could turn awaken the powers of latent [[Psykers]] into , and boost the powers of activePsykers, and making them extremely powerful, ones. However, not every psyker, latent psyker or otherwise, survived contact with the artifact, and 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>3</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, [[Metheius]], 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>.
