Hiveworlds: The Psyker Saga

To view the evening as anything less than a date would have been crass, but to assume we were a couple, well, that would have been worse. A wayward psyker finds himself under a microscope.

The war on Aegea V comes to an unexpected end. The Warmaster isn't pleased.

Paric meets an old friend in the oddest of places.

Backed by an Astartes company, Five makes his final move against the Bloodthorn. Infiltrating Dembele Prime, he goes all-in against Chaos.

Taking refuge in the shadowy underhive, Five lays a trap, while two inquisitors and an Astartes captain arrive to see what he has wrought.

I had become the most dangerous person on the planet, and the conversation with Inquisitor Mantiserra made sure everyone knew it. That fact left me in quarantine, waiting for Sarkyss or the Imperial Guard to respond.

Kill Aetor first. That had been the Inquisitor’s impossible plan.

In search of the Bloodthorn, Five tracks the Bloody Herald’s trail to Hive Quartus.

One didn’t approach a Warp witch, druid, or daemonhost directly and expect success. You moved sideways, lighting up their night or ruining their day, giving them a reason to chase you. Whether they viewed me as a trap or a challenge, I would force them to respond.

Knowing that Aetor the Bull and the Bloodthorn await, Five must sort the fates of others first.

“Lieutenant Paric Kilhaven reporting.” Five claims his rightful name, and the negotiations begin. A glimmer of hope dawns in the theater of Gall.

Delving into Gall Secundus, Five runs into another primaris—one that's gone rogue.

We had a Valkyrie to catch an hour before dawn, and a fast trip up the Great Rift to Hive Secundus. With a chance to stifle the Bloodthorn's grip on Gall, Five fights his way into another fallen city.

"The Inquisitor may be insane, but at least she earned her standing and had the inspiration to improve our position in the theater.” Agrimunt didn’t seem offended by my remark. “Young man, what would you know about insanity?” “Everything.” She knew I spoke the truth. A contentious meeting in Gall Primus leads to Five's next mission.

Chain of command be damned. Five witnesses an execution in the overhive of Gall Primus, followed by a kidnapping that ignites a war with the inquisition.

Having returned the Guard's trenches around Gall Primus, Five reconnects with those that thought him lost.

They say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but we weren’t standing still.

Cut off and left for dead, Five must fight his way out of a fallen city. On the way, he meets bounty hunters and one lost little surprise.

A harrowing escape from an overrun hive city leaves Five in the most dire of straits.

Having fought his way to the underhive of Tertius, Paric finds that he isn't the only psyker in play.

Five and commissar Passingan take the longest of walks, infiltrating a fallen hive city.

Inquisitor Agrimunt was too smart to bite on my sour tone. “Five, you speak out of turn.” “Whose turn is it, if not mine?” I harbored the folly of youth, the rage of battle, and the cloying stale scent of blood. To me, it was a method more than a state of being.

A bolt pistol round at a point-blank range will ignore even the best body armor. Five ignores the wishes of a commissar and deals with the consequences on the Imperial Guard's front lines.

A Fell Guard encounter on the front lines turns deadlier than anyone can imagine.

Place your bets. Commissars and generals collide with a not-so-stable psyker in his first war.