Hubris Of Monarchia (Script) by Andy Smillie

Author:Andy Smillie [Reynolds, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Monarchia burned and I would see its end.

The Perfect City, the Word Bearers had called it. Perfectly arranged avenues of chapels, statues, and holy structures. A sprawling edifice in honour of the God-Emperor of Mankind. Except, he was not a god.

The inferno that we had wrought was something to be endured. A trial for mind and body. Many of my brothers had already pulled back to the city limits, I had declined to join them. We had to stand by the judgement we had delivered and not shirk in discomfort.

This once-perfect city had been leveled. A lesson of the cost of disobedience given as a humbling example of the Emperor’s wrath.

I looked on as rolling storms of fire rose to meet ash-choked clouds. The Word Bearers watched too; the granite-grey of their Legion – those who had built Monarchia – become the de-facto colour of mourning.

‘You should not look so crestfallen, cousin.’

Nivalus was sat on what remained of a palatial garden wall. The Word Bearer was hunched over, his attention fixed on the slithers of crushed glass slipping between his fingers.

‘You know nothing of what this place was. Of what it could have been.’

‘Lord Guilliman has done this for your own good. For the good of your Legion.’

‘There was no need for this punishment.’

‘If that were true, the Emperor Himself would not have decreed it so. He would not be here with the Sigillite and Lord Guilliman. Only your father, only Lorgar would disagree on this.’

‘And he would have the right to. He is the most devoted of all the Emperor’s sons. All of this was… this…’

‘Perhaps.’ I had not wish of seeing the Word Bearers broken. Humbled, yes. But not broken. Nivalus’ despair brought me no joy. ‘But it is not devotion to heap title where none exists. You should take it as a compliment that the Emperor has gone to this much trouble to set your Legion back on the right path. A lesser leader would not have shown such restraint.’

‘A compliment? Restraint? When you scar a man Ultramarine, when you leave him with a such a remembrance of his misdeed, you leave him to think on two things. His transgression and your transgression against him.’

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