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==Chapter Homeworld==
Urassa's Watergourd was once a water-rich jewel among the stars, a tropical paradise envied throughout human space as a vacation destination and hub of utter luxury during humanity's golden age. As the worlds of men fell during Old Night, Urassa's Watergourd was drained of its life-giving water supplies to feed the thirst of dying Hive Worlds, sold piece by piece as the starlanes slowly withered and died in agony. Now it is a blasted planet, barely clinging to habitability. The sand has consumed nearly everything, and everywhere ancient ruins of mankind jut from the ever-shifting dunes in silent memorial to what once was. Men yet eke out a living here, carefully husbanding what little groundwater they can inside any available shelter, growing meager crops year after year. 

The Stone Prophets worship their homeworld, seeing signs in every crumbling cliffside, every drifting eddy of wind-blown sand, and every scavenger's death-agonies. The people see the Stone Prophets as omens of death, for they only approach when a man is to die, or a boy is to be taken. At all other times, the populace catches but short glimpses of giant figures wading through the howling dust storms, purpose unknown and unknowable. And yet the Prophets are also unseen givers of life, doling out supplies to the people without being observed according to their inscrutable whims. In their own strange way, the Astartes do care deeply for the planet they call home, and its people. All are part of the unity, all reveal truth in dissolution.