The Trail of Three Patriarchs and a Saint

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I am monkeying about with some lore for the currently named "Astra Rust-arium" cult. So here is what I have right now. 

Long, long ago an unknown hive fleet sent some of the spores out into the eternal darkness of space. Generation after generation of humans passed. The Great Crusade was raised, the Heresy happened, WAAAGHs! You know tomb worlds work and slept. Point being a long time happened. The seed finally took hold on a an Argi-World known as Villendion. It is a part of the Trail of Saint Evisser. 

Great, so a single patriarch? Nope. Three. 

A competition rose on the world as three seeds were passed onto the world. So rises the Cult of the Rusted Claw, the Cult of the Four-Armed Emperor, and the Hivecult. All on the same Imperial backwater. 

Unlike other times where Patriarch v. Patriarch and cult v. cult battles are commonplace all three of the cults have come together with a plan long in the making. They want Elysian Drop Troops. They want them for tactical flexibility. They want them for ship-to-ship combat so incredibly common in the Elysia system. And most importantly, they want it as a little known back door into the Sol system. 

Now, they claw their way not only towards Armaggedon but towards Sol and ultimately Terra. 

So that's where I am at with lore. I am still weighing things out. There is the slight problem that GW Brood Brothers are clearly Cadians and that GW hates cool things (a thousand space marine lieutenants for everyone!) so the Elysians live on in a color and one Forge World model that all of the militarum can take. 

Whatever, we're taking drop troops so I can deploy ridgerunners, acolytes, and brood brothers from the sky like a goddamned maniac. 

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