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It was once the beating heart of the [[Mathenda Sub-sector]], until shifting trade routes, depleted resources and a string of incompetent [[Imperial Commander]]s, drawn from the noble [[House Habeyl|Clan Habeyl]], saw the world decline. This led to Garmesh's population languishing in poverty, while their indolent [[Noblenoble]] rulers hid in [[Hive Spire|hive spire]] fortresses and ignored their plight. In [[M42]] the resentment towards the [[Hive World]]hive world's current Imperial Commander, [[Habeyl VII]], led nine individuals of Garmesh' population to form a [[Seercult|cabal]], within its [[Underhiveunderhive]]. Each member was a [[psyker]] whose abilities manifested after the creation of the [[Great Rift]] and were drawn to each other by a voice heard within visions they received while dreaming. This voice bade them to pool their powers together to save Garmesh and led the cabal to believe it was the [[God-Emperor]] speaking to them and that he had chosen them to be his champions. All this made the cabal do as the voice commanded and shortly afterwards, a winged being of blazing light manifested in their midst. This entity blessed them, by magnifying their psychic abilities ninefold and told the cabal they had the power to change Garmesh beyond recognition - if they fully employed their newfound psychic powers. Blinded by faith and hope, the nine cabal psykers named themselves the [[Heralds of Change]], and set about mounting a sorcerous insurrection upon the Hive Worldhive world.{{Fn|1}}

Their powers allowed the [[Seercult|cabal]] to form a coalition of [[HiveGang|hive gangs]] gangs and zealous militia, which fought against Garmesh's [[Enforcer (Security Force)|Enforcers]] sent to destroy them. Later, as the faith of the [[Heralds of Change]] took hold throughout the [[Hive World]]hive world, many amongst the authorities and the manufacturers' guilds, and even some of Garmesh's [[Ecclesiarch]]al [[Preacher]]s, joined the cabal. [[Habeyl VII]] could not grasp the scale of their rebellion until it became an inferno and caused the fearful [[Imperial Commander]] to order [[astropathicastropath]] ic distress calls for aid to be sent out and for him to be evacuated off-world to safety. Habeyl and his fellow [[Noble]]s nobles would then hide out in their [[Hive Spire]] hive spire fortresses, where they demanded that their household guards hold back the Heralds' onslaught until help could arrive. Once the cabal learned of this, they became desperate and , with victory so close at hand, the Heralds beseeched the [[God-Emperor]] to aid them. However , it was not the Emperor, but the [[Lord of Change]] [[Tz'Keth'K'Zar]] who answered their plea. He had been the voice in the Heralds' visions the entire time and all had occurred as he had foreseen, when K'Zar had first appeared to his unwitting pawns and bestowed his gifts upon them. He was all too pleased to aid the cabal and once he manifested upon Garmesh, he had the nine Heralds consumed by raging pillars of [[warp]]fire, which quickly connected into a nine-sided [[Warp Gate]]. Out from that inferno spilled the [[daemonDaemon]] ic legions of [[Tzeentch]] and the Hive Worldhive world's skies soon filled with kaleidoscopic clouds that whirled faster and faster about the world until those who looked upon them were driven insane. This maelstrom swallowed the worst afflicted of Garmesh's population and its Hives hives weird extrusions and rearranged themselves no one could know where any doorway, crawlspace or processional might lead. As Tzeentch's power engulfed the Hive Worldhive world, gravity; time; relative position and causality - all melted away before the [[Chaos God]]'s might. Rebels and the Imperial Commander's guards alike found themselves lost in impossible mazes, trapped on stairways that never ended, or attempting to fight while standing upon sheer walls or arched ceilings. All the while the Daemons of Tzeentch advanced and changed everything around them as they did. Fortifications transmuted into brittle glass, while those behind them were driven mad or [[Mutant|mutated ]] beyond recognition by the Daemons' powers. And by By the ninth hour after the incursion began on Garmesh, all hope was lost. . .{{Fn|1}}

Sometime later, the [[Imperial Navy]] [[Frigatefrigate]] ''[[Hopeful Saint]] '' arrived at the [[Hive World]]hive world, to evacuate its [[Imperial Commander]] [[Habeyl VII]]. The warship was commanded by [[Shipmaster|Shipmistress]] [[Endara]], who had expected an easy job of evacuating a unctuous [[Noble]] noble fleeing from his mistreated subjects, but instead the bridge of the ''Hopeful Saint '' was painted with the riot of colors colours thrown off by Garmesh's now flickering weather systems. The bridge's vid-screen showed the [[Hive World]] and it was if hive world as though Garmesh was aflame and as her crew became increasingly nervous by the unnatural sight, Endara attempted to make [[Voxvox]] contact with Habeyl. What greeted the Shipmistress instead of the Imperial Commander, however, was an appalling confusion of babbling and screaming, threaded distinct pleas for help. Then the image on the vid-screen expanded and [[Daemon]]s Daemons of [[Tzeentch]] emerged from it and engulfed , engulfing Endara and her bridge crew in [[Warp]]fireWarpfire.{{Fn|1}}