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By Potent Art, Such Rough Magic by DSBlue
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game), Warhammer 40.000: Darktide (Video Game)
15 Feb 2026
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In Selpetua - a tomb-city on the Imperial shrine world of Hecate - the dead outnumber the living.
Glevedan Bulk is a clerk of the Ossuary of Viella Twice-Sainted, a quiet man with a quiet life, until a routine consignment bound for an offworld tithe ship arrives with a flaw too perfect to ignore. His small life of long days, tavern nights, and familiar faces collides with the outlandish, libertine cultural movement taking Selpetua by storm, and even the smallest choice may save a world, or damn it. The truth is right there in the ledger. If only the city would look.
By Potent Art, Such Rough magic is a slow burn story about the days and weeks leading up to the moment a world goes from loyal subject of the Imperium to bastion of Archenemy corruption. It explores the lives and struggles of ordinary Imperial citizens trying to survive not just in the face of oppressive empire, but the death of it as well.
An Aphelion Vantage story.
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The Quiet Hours by DSBlue
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors
19 Dec 2025
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EDITOR'S CHOICE SELECTION for the Cold Open Stories Fast Fiction XXIV Contest - The Enemy Within.
First published at Cold Open Stories, December 12, 2025.
In the drowned hive-city of Palast Vire on the world of Galanyre, Inquisitorial agent Rasia thought she knew the rules. Move fast, leave no trace, endure. In the shadow of the Great Rift, however, old loyalties falter, and survival demands sacrifice. Cut off from the light of the Astronomicon and Imperium Sanctus, the last survivors of the subsector Aphelion Ordo Hereticus must decide what their oaths are worth, or die in the dark.
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Without Troubling a Star by DSBlue
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Warhammer
28 Oct 2025
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On the far edge of Imperium Nihilus lies the Aphelion Vantage, a shattered realm of broken oaths and failing faith. Cut off from the God Emperor's light for generations by the Great Rift, its worlds teeter between Imperial loyalty and collapse.
When a freighter carrying a forbidden relic vanishes in the void, Governor Koldobika Subir seizes her chance to bind the Vantage beneath her rule, desperate to convince both her subjects and the Angels of Baal who have come to judge them that order still holds.
But when statecraft becomes stagecraft, there are consequences.
In the alleys, zealots whisper that the Blood Angels are not judges but heralds of the End. In the halls of power, nobles scheme to save their own skins. And in the Governor’s hands, a mask gleams — a relic of a bargain struck by the first Hakhan, a story left unfinished, a promise now come due.
To wear it is to rule.
To rule is to play a part.
And the play is older than the Imperium itself.