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|quote = '''Gods of the [[warp ]] strike me down if I ever return to that place. Oh we landed hard and well armed; a score of us—killjacks and pirates [[pirate]]s every one. We took the cutter down to where the tip-off said the deal was happening… happening...empty, nothing but rotten shacks… shacks...nothing! Then that devil fog rolled in and all hell broke loose. I made it out running blind—the screams and the laugher and the awful mocking things all around me! Could have been days, could have been hours, I don’t know… know...it was the old hag that dragged me out of the fog, and my left eye she took in payment, but at least I was gone from that haunted place!'''''|source = '' — The Heretic “Captain” [[Gadred Bayle]], Interrogation Testimony Vol. 17'''{{Fn|2a}}
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'''Dusk''' is an [[Imperial]] [[Feral World]],{{Fn|1b}} on the very edge of the [[Halo Stars]].{{Fn|2a}} It is seen as accursed{{Fn|1a}} and is known for the extreme hostility of its native creatures. Amongst certain [[Rogue Traders]] and [[Chartist captains have captain]]s ''“A walk on Dusk” '' has become a byword for horrible and painful death.{{Fn|1c}}
==Overview==
Dusk is a place of trackless fens, mist-drenched forests, and moss-shrouded wooded swamps. Theoretically a prime candidate for conversion to mass agriculture, but each attempt (going as far back as the days of [[Angevin Crusade|Angevin’s crusade]]) has met with disaster, suffering and death, making the world’s very name synonymous with ill-omen, sinister mystery and folly.{{Fn|2a}}
Dusk was visited by [[Elana the Unshaken]], an Imperial [[Missionary]] who made it her lifelong goal to bring the word of [[Emperor of Mankind|the Emperor]] to the dark places of the Imperium. It is said that she bore a scar for each world she visited, and that upon Dusk she was savaged by predators whilst travelling in the wilderness.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2h}}
Confirmed incidents of the [[Psychneuein#Maran_psychneuein|Mara Strain]] [[Psychneuein]] have occurred on Dusk.{{Fn|1f}}
While [[Inquisitor]] [[Erya Nephthys]] was on Dusk she suffered terrible events and had to spend a full year convalescing after that.{{Fn|2g}}
===Known Flora and Fauna===
*[[Boraxis]]: A bio-toxin; a controlled [[Xenos]] substance that is not allowed off-world.{{Fn|3a}}
*[[Ration Grubs]]{{Fn|2f}}
*'''Galactic Position:''' 144269/CS/SW.{{Fn|1g}}
==The Dusk HagContact With Other Worlds==The There are no stable [[Dusk Hag]] is a local [[Warp]]-entity that people can make [[Dark Pactwarp route]]s with. The legend say that if you should risk the journey into the deepest, most trackless swamps with hatred between Dusk and desire burning in your heart, you might come to the black hollow where she dwells. It is said that her price is paid in flesh, sinew and bone, but her curses can strike death and terror worlds away, and all the secrets that men whisper in other planets of the night are hers. Just a legend perhaps, on a world shrouded in countless dark fables, but still petitioners seek her out and some return, maimed and mutilated, but filled with dark purpose.{{Fn|1a}} The [[Rogue TraderCalixis Sector]], though [[Erasmus Haarlock]], would seek out the Dusk Hag to find an answer to how he could return his murdered family from death. After paying an unknown price to the Dusk Hag, she would reveal that only by travelling to the heart of [[KomusMalfi]] is the Tyrant Star via his [[Blind Tesseract]]'s portals could he put an end to his desires, but warned that he would be utterly destroyednearest major planet.{{Fn|41g}}
==See also==
==Sources==
*1: [[Dark Heresy Core Rulebook]]:
**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 244
**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 288
**{{Endn|1f}}: pg. 353
**{{Endn|1g}}: Cover interior map
*2: [[Dark Heresy: The Inquisitor's Handbook]]:
**{{Endn|2a}}: pg. 22 - ''Chapter I - Advanced Character Creation - Unique Worlds of the Calixis Sector''
**{{Endn|2b}}: pg. 62
**{{Endn|2i}}: pg. 226
*3: [[Dark Heresy: Purge the Unclean]]:
**{{Endn|3a}}: pg . 25**{{Endn|3b}}: pg . 73
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Dark Heresy: Dead Stars]], pg. 8
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080203053653/http://www.blackindustries.com/?template=CX&content=calixis-dusk Black Industries' Calixis Sector: Dusk] {{Archive|20080203053653|14:36, 9 July 2024 (UTC)}}
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