A sigil commonly used to represent the Kin of the Leagues of Votann as a whole.
The Emberg-Aegnir Bloc was a small, minor league of the Leagues of Votann located in the galactic core.
It was comprised of only a small number of Kindreds, which made it a vulnerable target. It was destroyed by an assault upon its primary Hold World by a tendril of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan.
History[]
The tale of the Emberg-Aegnir Bloc is considered a terrible tragedy among the Leagues of Votann. The Emberg-Aegnir found themselves in the path of a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan. Consisting of only a handful of Kindreds, the Emberg-Aegnir were forced to stand their ground when the Hive Ships closed in around their primary Hold World beneath whose surface resided their Votann.
Hopelessly outnumbered, these Kin fell to the last clone in its defence. Yet the bitterest irony was yet to come; the Tyranids ignored the Votann entirely, leaving it buried alone in its pit upon a now-Dead World.
The accumulated pain and desolation of those who had fought, died and been returned to the Ancestors -- to keep their bodies from the hungry maw of the swarm -- flowed into the machine mind of the Votann and drove it insane. The sorrowful tale of the "Mad Core" is still told amongst the Leagues, and all know not to sail by the wavering beacon of its tortured mind on their journeys into the Warp.
Sources[]
- Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition), pg. 15