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=== The Heartseeker ===

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In the late 40th Millenium, when the Tyranid Hivefleets again scoured through the Eastern Fringe, one of the first star systems hit was Felusa, a tropical jungle world settled by mostly humans but still contained a sizable population of Kinebranches. The world was deemed to be indefensible, the Hivefleet at that point still far too coordinated and numerous to be intercepted, and thus a convoy fleet was sent to pick up the civillians and deny the Tyranids a star system.

Unfortunately, due to a freak warp storm the rescue convoy failed to arrive. Fortunately, the SOS signal was caught by none other than Lord Inquisitor Boaz Kryptmann.

Hearing their desperate pleas for aid, something relived within the old Inquisitor's mind. His memories of the day he lost his world and his family, and he ordered his ship to full spead ahead to Felusa, on his mouth a constant chanting of a mantra consisting off 'Tyran', 'Nids' and 'Never Again!'.

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When they arrived, it was almost too late: the paltry PDF was swatted aside by the sheer bulk of the Hivefleet, the survivors retreated to one last city, the swarm of chitinous flesh and blood tightening up the noose further and futher by every seconds. Even through his crazed, raging haze Kryptmann knew he was outnumbered, yet he was not one to give up so easily. Pulling an extremely risky manuever, he managed to land his ship right above the bunker, his crews and retinue frantically loaded and crammed up as many people as he could before high-tailing it to the outskirt of the system and activate their warp drive (but not before leaving behind a lot of nasty gifts for the tyranids.)

Out of the 20 thousands that they managed to save, there was a young Kinebranch by the name of Wu-Ko-Gu, son and apprentice to Forge Master Wu-Ko-Ga. As the old Forge Master laid dying in his son's arms, he taught him his last and greatest lesson: to forge a Kinebranch Cursed Blade.

As the ship fled for the star system's border, the Hivefleet hot their tail, Wu-Ko-Gu began forging. The fire of his anger became the forge's flame, fueled by the searing memories of his burning homeworld heating up the fragments of his father's adamantite anvil. Guided by the words of his dying father, his fists turned into adamantite, hammering down his fury and grief, molding the molten metal into a blade with mono-molecular precision. As the final strike came down, and the old Master breathed his last breath, but the blade was still unfinished. With his fingers he etched on the name of the blade -and his Grudge- in the traditional Kinebranch runic letters that glows red with fury and blue with grief for all to see - Heartseeker, the blade that shall be plunged into the Heart and Mind and the very Soul of the Swarm.

The sword was finished. The Apprentice, now the Master Smith, looked up and met the eyes of the Old Inquisitor, finding a kindred spirit. Both had lost everything dear to them, both harboured an insatiable grudge to the swarm. Ever since that day, the Smith found his destiny - to forge the blades that will hurt the Hivemind. He will make them feel what he felt; he will make them pay. And Kryptmann will lead him.

As of 999.M41 Wu-Ko-Gu is very old now. A Kinebranch usually live long but not this long. He had lived for more than 1000 years, his body is old and tired and his hands weary and shaky, yet from his forge still came out both the famed Kinebranch Cursed blades, and the Apprentices that will continue to carry on his Grudge far on into the Long Night. Until the day when the Swarm is finally laid low, he shall not rest and nor will his blades or those who wield them.

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'''See Also:''' [[Nobledark_Imperium_Writing#Diary_of_a_Madman|Diary of a Madman]]