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It is tidally locked in its orbit around [[Convenire]]. It is also the closest planet to that star, making the sun side of the world uninhabitable without heavy shielding from solar radiation. The dark side of the planet is a wasteland scarred with strip-mines, but containing great numbers of xenofauna. Though there is a relatively temperate equatorial zone, most human activity takes place underground in massive, heavily polluted caverns filled with cities, factories, and rivers of magma. These rivers fuel the world's forges, which belt out smog and acid rain as well as industry. Combined, the rivers and manufactorums make it uncomfortably hot for habitation, but still not to the level of the sun side of the surface. This is largely because of [[Dark Age of Technology]] relics known as the [[Eternal Engines]]. These impressive machines, located on the planet surface, provide ventilation, as well as power, to every underground forge city, but such is the pollution that these settlements produce, that it is almost considered taboo to be seen in public without a rebreather, such has it become the norm among permanent residents.{{Fn|2a}}
As the main manufactorum for the entire Gilead System, Avachrus is a vital resource for its survival. The forges create practically all technology in the system that is more complex than a [[lasgun]].{{Fn|2b}} Tens of thousands of [[Tech-Priest]]s and millions of [[Tech-adept]]s toil on the Forge World and across the system.{{Fn|5}}
==History==
The Archdominus of [[Explorator Fleet Tsuruoka]] quickly made the decision to colonize Avachrus once the Gilead System was rediscovered in 92.[[M32]], despite the harsh climate and dangerous xenofauna to be found there. The Explorator fleet's records of this initial colonization effort have been heavily redacted, which means most of the motivations for doing so and results of trying are lost to history. So too have the records regarding its moons, which additionally have had their surfaces ruined by thousands of years of uninterrupted resource extraction and industry (particularly Uru), thereby ruining any chance at successful archeological studies.{{CME}}
A century or so after the [[Mechanicus]] rediscovered the system, their forces in Gilead (then known as Halcyon) signalled signaled the Imperium that it had been infested by the forces of [[Chaos|The Enemy]] and a [[Gilead Crusade|crusade]] was raised to cleanse the system's worlds of taint.{{CME}}
Some time after the Gilead System had been freed from Chaos, one of the Eternal Engines failed, effectively killing the city of Illiarch. A new sect of [[Tech-Priest]]s Priests arose, calling themselves the [[Suspire]], whose lives are entirely dedicated to the maintenance of the remaining Eternal Engines. Despite their efforts, the Engines have become less and less efficient over the millennia.{{Fn|2d}}
Around a century prior to the formation of the Cicatrix Maledictum, Avachrus' governor, [[Princeps Ultima]] [[Gol Bessor]], took the [[titan legion]] stationed on Avachrus, [[Legio Kaurthos]], on a [[crusade]] to an unknown location with an unknown objective, and never returned. He did not leave an heir, which created a power vacuum that took a while to fill. Though Gol Bessor is still nominally in charge, an ambitious techpriest named [[Aexekra Vakuul]], managed to seize power and declared herself regent in Bessor's absence.{{Fn|3}}
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Wrath & Glory Core Rulebook (2nd Edition)]], pgs. 297-299 - ;;The Gilead System: The Heartworlds''
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Wrath & Glory Starter Set]], pg. 23 - ''The Varonius Flotilla: Ships of the Fleet''
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Wrath & Glory: Redacted Records 2]], pg. 47
[[Category:Forge Worlds]]
