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102 TOMB OF AGROLEKH This tomb reeks of stale, dusty antiquity. Its once-stern architecture is littered with debris and tarnished with the patina of age. Here and there fissures in the structure cast feeble light over cracked and tarnished metal. The tomb was once brutalist and oppressive, as if designed to crush the spirits of its inhabitants. It is no less intimidating now, but instead of evoking a merciless guiding intelligence, it speaks only of decline and of death.
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104 TOMB OF UBJAO The first scouting maniples to enter are overwhelmed by the appalling stench. They walk straight into a charnel house. Biological remains plaster every wall and floor. Some are creatures indigenous to Silva Tenebris but others are unmistakably human, presumably from the former colonists of St Eckhardt’s Hope. Their decay begins instantly as the sealed atmosphere of the tomb is breached.
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106 TOMB OF MHELOB The first forays into this tomb reveal a sight equally magnificent and as dismaying. The tomb is a vast alien data-loom, its structure covered in columns of xenos data as if its very substance were composed of knowledge
107 Some parts of the tomb are more organised, like libraries of shimmering data-crystal. Others are lightless chasms where enormous pillars move constantly, like the elements of a gargantuan machine endlessly searching and sorting. Everywhere the air hums with the sheer volume of information seeping from every surface.
108 TOMB OF NEFTUSK A sense of monumental muscular power fills the tomb. It is a deafening industrial sprawl, echoing the Forge Worlds of the Adeptus Mechanicus but unmistakably alien
109 Its inner workings and architecture are laid open to see. Pipework and support beams span the spaces between hulking masses of machinery. The air is heavy and hot with steam, and tastes of leaking fuel. From everywhere comes the grinding din of huge engines underfoot while pistons hammer endlessly.
110 TOMB OF SZAREGON The magnificence of a long-vanished dynasty is perfectly preserved in this tomb, overwhelming in its aggressive grandeur. The halls are polished, grandiose marvels, adorned with the images of Necrons glowering down as if to ward off the eyes of the unworthy.
111 This place is a monument to the power and arrogance of the interred. Every surface reflects the assumption of total authority. The dark opulence boils over into obscenity, as if the creator thought of itself not just as a king, but as a God. To a human, the wealth contained within this place is astonishing, but such concerns wither in the presence of whatever the tomb was built to aggrandise. It is impossible for such a monument of power to go unguarded
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