Editing Sortiarius

'''Sortiarius''' (roughly the Latin word for "Sorcerer"), also called the '''Planet of the Sorcerers''', is the [[Daemon World]] that serves as home and headquarters of the [[Thousand Sons]] Legion after the Burning of Prospero, which, evidenced by that battle's name, left their old home of [[Prospero]] destroyed by the [[Space Wolves]]. Sortiarius was a Daemon World in the [[Eye of Terror]], and Tzeentch had put the "Reserved" sign down on it when he first got his hands/feathers/tentacles on it.

The arrival of the Thousand Sons was more or less by accident ([[Tzeentch|but not really]]), caused by being chased from their old home by Loyalist allies after they faithfully did their duty to the Emperor ([http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Council_of_Nikaea but not really]). When driven from their home, Magnus had his surviving sons and what remaining humans they could take with them into the central pyramid, then he said the magic word, and the whole damn building and the surrounding districts were thrown through the warp and ended up on a strange new world. Once they set foot on the planet, the Thousand Sons found that their powers had expanded, increasing their psychic potential and finding that they now have access to powers outside of the domain their specialized cult. It also meant that mutation was a major problem. Until Ahriman took charge of the situation, but that's a different story.

When the Thousand Sons arrived, Sortiarius was uninhabited, but they eventually built up with materials and slaves taken in raids across realspace, now settled with a twisted mockery of their old home city of Tizca. And every Thousand Son who could be bothered now has his own Wizard's Tower.

The world is ruled by [[Magnus]], who has the [[Cards Against Humanity|biggest, blackest tower]], and it has a giant eye hovering above it. We would wonder if the writers were even trying, but this was written before the LotR movies, leaving only the more credentialed neckbeards to wonder if the writers were even trying. Back on topic, Magnus is like most of the other traitor Primarchs, who are the daemonic equivalent of the guy who rarely ever gets off of his couch except for when he really needs [[/tg/ gets shit done|to get shit done]]. He spends most of his time playing the Great Game, leaving him to plan and scheme and occaisionally yell orders to the Thousand Sons who've stayed on Sortiarius.

Not much is known about Sortiarius beyond that, but there is some known details. Want Wizard's Towers? They got those. Want mutants? They got those. Want a sky made of fire the color of a kaleidoscope on crack? Want ambiance made of the screams of the damned? No? They got that anyway. The planet even has a ring made of souls who died by deceit. Yeah. It's a pretty fucked up place. And there's plenty more weird shit to go around.

The main population is comprised of humans, the descendants of the original Prosperine humans, who still serve as the Sons's servants and occasionally in the Spire Guard auxiliaries, and the slaves that were taken  through raids into real space over the years (though calling any group but for the freshest of captives "human" is probably inaccurate). Sortiarius is likely holds quite a few treasure troves of knowledge, arcane artifacts, strange valuables, and lots of otherwise weird shit. They also do low key recruiting there, training any young, prospective psyker and weeding out all but the physically and mentally most capable, and elevating them into Sorcerers. It's also hypothesized that they resurrect fallen [[Rubric Marines]], [[Grimdark|keeping their dead from resting and shackled to the will of their former brothers]], but then there's always been as many Rubric Marines as long as the writers had Thousand Sons Sorcerers who needed minions, so take that for what it's worth.

Most of this is mentioned in passing by figures like [[Iskandar Khayan]] and [[Ahzek Ahriman]], or from a Thousand Son from short story: there's always been few references and only oblique descriptions of Sortiarius. Oh, and it's always been called "The Planet of the Sorcerers" until [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden|Aaron]] gave it a proper name in 2014.