Malus Codicium



Malus Codicium was a proscribed grimoire, which detailed a large number of powerful warp rituals. The book it self was said to be thousands of years old and in the wrong hands it could devastate entire worlds.

History

Like most occult text, the codiciums origin is shrouded in mystery. It’s existence and danger was apparently known in quite vide circles, since the imperial inquisitor Helgrund chose to spend the first three decades on finding it. When he finally managed to trace the book to the library of Othella on Zandrini prime it had already been stolen by The Mystic path, a cabala of warp dabblers in the service of the radical inquisitor Quixos. In the following confrontation Quixos destroyed Helgrund utterly, and took therby an important step on the road of damnation.

With the grimoire and his other proscribed information sources Quixos came to the conclusion that by recreated one of the Necron pylons of Cadia on the planet of Farness Beta, he could “pacify” the warp and destroy the Eye of terror. Since to pylons original purpos was to separate the matrium from the immatrium this experience would probably resulted in the destruction of all souls in the Cadia sector.

Quixos experiment was foiled by the imperial inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn, who killed his rouge colleague and took the Codicium. With the knowledge he gained from the book he bound Quixos daemonic servant Cherubael in a dungeon on Gudrun, as punishment for the daemons attempts to manipulate Eisenhorn. Eisenhorn spent much of the following decades studying the cursed book and in time he came to see it as his only chance to defeat his enemies. With the book as his teacher, Eisenhorn learned how to create daemonhosts, undead thralls and explosive Warp vortexes, among other foul products of Chaos. In the end the now radical inquisitor destroyed the Codicium, but at that time he knew much of it by heart. The dark knowledge came to be his main tool and the daemon cherubael his only ally.