"Blood bounds sons tread the path of old night, lost of purpose. Yet in black fire, abound an emerald sea, an abiding spark does rest, beacon for the undying host. For in ash all is reborn as day and night sever. To the heart, the broken jewel does call."

—Set Oschea, part of a prophecy from the fissuring, said to detail the ultimate fate of the chapter

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A few centuries after the Third Founding (c. 300-450.M32.) the Mythril Lords Chapter was growing in power and size. There was one among the Chapter, that was to become more than all others, Oschea Set. He had earned the title of "The Fate Seer" due to his prowess in discerning and changing how events were meant to unfold. He quickly ascended the ranks from a scout to battle brother to veteran and then to captain. Many thought that one day he would take the mantle of Chapter Master, still at the time the chapters first Nyarlathotep Roshaun.

Oschea although was always trying to delve deeper into the future, to know the fate of the Imperium and how to best serve man. He saw a fate though that caught his attention, he saw the death of an entire world. He felt every single life become extinguished in a single moment, Exterminatus. His heart filling with sorrow and he began to look for some way to change the world's fate. What world this was is still debated to this day by the warrior scholars of the Mythril Lords. Many however have come to the belief that Oschea witnessed the death of his birth world. If this is true none can actually say, all that can be said though as it broke the Astates like nothing had affected him before in his lifetime of war.

Oschea began to glimpse into the future of the Imperium and saw all that it would become. It horrified him to his very core. He proclaimed that mankind would slowly destroy itself, piece by bloody piece. They say it drove the Mythril Lord mad, for a month the pysker isolated and fasted in search of a fate that could save mankind. He found what he was looking for in time, yet the fate he saw was treason. The Imperium would have to fall and the children of man would have to hide through the coming age of darkness.

Oschea would come out of his self-imposed isolation in time, bring forth the visions that had been haunting him. The ramifications of his words startled much of the Chapter. Oschea 's reputation for foreseeing the future was well known even outside the Chapter, his visions had helped save the lives of many brothers within the Mythril Lords. It made his words resonate with much of the chapter in a way that few others could. A gap between the Mythril Lords grew over time between those who thought the Imperium was mankind's only hope and those who thought that the Imperium was not suited to protect all of man.

This growing tensions accumulated into little more than philosophical debates for a time. Chapter Master Nyarlathotep thought that crushing such debate would only validate the beliefs of those against the Imperium. He saw that so long as the ideals of both groups were that mankind had to be protected than they would still fight as one even among disagreement. For a time it was so, the chapter united more by their love of man than their ideas on how it had to be done. Azoth and Nyarlathotep had to strength to quail any aggression between the two parties if they ever arose, which was rare. Oschea himself even working to keep civility among his brothers.

The peace within the Chapter was maintained for some time, but eventually, it broke. The conclusion of a campaign to assist failing Imperial forces in the galactic north against a Word Bearers force sparked debate between two zealous brothers. A shouting match quickly turned into a battle of minds and fists. The tensions that had been growing under the surface began to splinter forth into open conflict. Some tried to intervene but there was little that could be said to calm either side once they came to blows. A psychic storm war brewing as they fought. Ideas and emotions clashing in the warp and serving as a beacon to what was to come.

Nyarlathotep and Azoth Roshaun, the captain of the first company and the chapter masters' twin. took a step to stop the conflict, but they were too late as such a clash of powers does not go unnoticed by the denizens of the warp. A creature used the already weakened barriers to push into the materium. The creature was able to kill several of the Lords, before being banished back into the warp by Azoth and Nyarlathotep. The two brothers were able to bind the creature, though in the throes of its death it released its power in a singular explosion.

The bothers were able to hold the daemon's tide of psychic power, but at the cost that they were broken from the effort, they exhumed. Both sides of the conflict stopped at that moment as they saw their leaders fall. Brothers on both sides of the conflict fell down and wept at the sight. Azoth stood on the edge of death, while his brother was broken of body. Neither of the sides had wanted this to come to conflict, let alone the death of their chapter master and the captain of the first company.

The two parties turned on each other as quick as the began to grieve. It was only by an intervention that bolters were not fired. Nyarlathotep, using the last whispers of his life, commanded the Lords to let those that followed Oschea to leave, no more death among brothers would be spilled this day. Thus Oschea and his Seers disappeared from known space. The chapter master with the last of his strength passed his life onto his brother, saving Azoth at the cost of his own. Azoth was then entombed into an Osiron Contemptor Pattern Librarian Dreadnought, a work of almost impossible replication though they could see no higher honor for the first captain. What the chapter did not see through was that this state left Azoth filled with grief and anger. When he was first awakened he went on a rampage and it took great effort to stop only a young scout, one implanted with former Chapter Master's geneseed several years before, managed to calm the beast. Such an act has almost only ever been done by direct geneseed descendants of the first chapter master. From that day on the first captain was known as Azoth The Sleeping One.

The Fate Seers, to this day, are searching for a way to convince their brothers what must be done and see that man is freed from the binds of the Imperium. The Chapter for a time was torn asunder and the blame was put to Oschea. The Chapter aswell has hunted Oschea and his Seers ever since. While Oschea has made motions to do what he thinks will protect those who reject him by manipulating The Imperium into self-destruction.

Been in a bit of a Warhammer 40k click as I have been working on one of my stories. So I thought to add a bit more to the fictionpress codex on my Chapter. Yes, that is a Lovecraft reference, in all my lore a lot of my favorite author's are referenced.

Check out the main Warhammer story I have been working on, Lost To The Warp, or one involving the Mythril Lords, As The Flame Burns In Shadow.

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