[opening music playing]
[atmospheric music]
[footsteps approaching]
[match burns]
[running feet]
[Sister Agatha's footsteps]
[candlestick picked up]
What are you doing?
My duty. The candles must be lit for night prayers.
[match burns]
[Sister Elena sighs]
[panting]
I believe you will be forgiven for not attending your duties this day.
I have lit these candles every day for over thirty years.
[Agatha] This is the tomb of a saint.
We must be saintly in our undertakings.
Tell me again, the story of our martyr.
It’s all here. Her glory surrounds us.
[Agatha] This chapel is where the martyr Saint Josephine made her last stand.
Cornered by the foul beasts of the abyss
she was weary, and with little hope.
Yet Josephine knew
that if she could not stem the tide of the creatures then and there
the entire convent would be overrun.
And so in her final moments
as the beasts stole the last of her breath
she called on the Emperor to guide her hand.
And the Emperor answered her call.
[music crescendos]
[Agatha] In the ages that have followed
she has risen again to protect the convent
in its most dire times of need.
Inhabiting the form of true martyrs
[grunt of pain]
[Agatha] to fight their cause and smite the enemies of the faith.
And so it shall ever be.
Until she shows herself once more
I will keep the candles burning to light her way.
And what of you? When your work here is finished
what shall you do?
Finished?
Hm.
I should like to make a pilgrimage to Antioth,
the birthplace of our order.
They have great libraries there, so tall they scrape the sky,
so full of knowledge that it would take
a thousand lifetimes or more to appreciate.
How do you know? Have you seen them?
No. I always hoped to.
I’ve read of them in the archives of the convent.
I even spoke to Sister Georgia, who once made the pilgrimage herself.
[Agatha] And she affirmed the tale?
She said
the sight of those halls was worthy of even the Emperor’s eyes.
Just the thought of it brings a tear to my eye, Agatha.
I can almost imagine it...
The time will come. You shall walk those halls.
How can you know?
I have faith.
[running feet]
[screams]
And you? What shall you do?
I shall see to my duties.
You have given your life to this place.
No, sister. This place has given me a life.
[distant shouting]
Final duties.
We are in Saint Josephine’s hands now.
She is with us.
[battle cry rising to crescendo]
[whip cracks]
Argh!
[cackles]
[chanting] -Blood for the Blood God! -Skulls for the Skull Throne!
[loud battle cry]
[running feet]
[blade whoosh]
[Laspistol falls]
Arggggh!
[running feet] [grabs throat]
Khorne demands we look our enemies in the eye as we cut them down.
[growls]
Argh! Argh!... Argggggh!
[breathing heavily]
[drum plays slowly]
[chanting] -Blood for the Blood God! -Skulls for the Skull Throne!
-Blood for the Blood God! -Skulls for the Skull Throne!
Raargh!
For the Emperor and his saints.
[boltgun fires]
[cultist charge]
For the Order and our lost.
[boltgun fires rapidly] [cultist scream]
[drum music playing]
Sisters, be with me.
[cultists chanting]
[boltgun jams]
[sword scrapes]
Argggh!
[sword slices]
[running feel]
[boltgun fires]
[screaming]
For all who would hold back the darkness. [headlock tightens]
[cultist charge] [boltgun fires]
[cultists chant]
Saint Josephine, be with me.
[cultists] Rargggh!
[sword swings] [blood spurts]
[boltgun fires]
[sword swings] [blood flows]
Argggggh!
[sword swings] [blood flows]
[sword withdraws] Argh!
[flail rattles]
[sword hilt jabs] Argh!
[kicks head] [body falls]
[crushing windpipe]
Emperor, be with me. [choking]
[final splutter]
[cackle]
[body part discarded]
[corpse moans] [boltgun fires]
Argh!
[footsteps approach]
[metal clinks]
[footsteps]
Still, your duty?
Still my faith.
[flame crackles]
And so we are blessed with a moment’s respite.
[reloads gun]
I might yet walk in the libraries of Antioth, after all.
I believe you shall.
[sword clinks]
[wiping sword]
Soon, our sisters will arrive to lend us their strength.
Soon, this shrine shall be returned to peace and solitude.
[thunderous explosion]
Ugh!
[war cries]
Agatha?
[running feet]
[hard kick] Argh!
Argggggh! [chainsword revs]
Ugh!
[chainsword on flagstones] [Elena stabs]
[cultist screams]
[boltgun fires rapidly]
[shell explosions]
[breathing heavily]
[sword clinks]
[sword slices]
Argggggh! [blood splatters]
[sword whoosh]
[head lands]
[dagger whoosh] Ungh!
[sword stabs] Ungh!
[Agatha stabs] Argh!
[head falls and rolls]
[sword pierces] Ungh!
[blood drips]
[gasps]
[sword pierces]
[cultist falls]
[breathing heavily]
[Agatha] I see the light.
I am blessed.
[heavy footstep]
[sword pierces]
[body crashes down]
[candlestick knocks over] [flames whoosh]
[fire crackles]
[sword falls]
No!
[boltgun fires indiscriminately]
Sisters be with me!
[running feet]
[club strikes] [Elena] Argh!
[punch lands]
[cultist] Rarggggh!
[sword whoosh]
[cultist punches] Ungh!
[sword handle strikes]
[Elena punches]
[bone breaks]
[breathing heavily]
[sword breaking]
[sword pierces] Ungh!
Khorne accepts your skull!
[cackle]
Ungh! [broken blade stabs]
[Body falls]
[gasping]
[falls to knees]
[falls over]
[breathing heavily]
Unh?
[dying breath]
[gasps in pain]
Sister Josephine...
...where are you?
[wincing] [blood drips]
[coughing]
[feet running]
[pained breathing]
[atmospheric music]
[sword clinks]
[echoing] Be still child.
I am here.
I am with you, Elena.
But now is not your time.
Martyrs...
I see the truth of it.
[wincing]
[atmospheric music]
Rise, sister.
You have one more act of faith to perform.
Saint Josephine is with you.
Be her vessel. Be her wrath.
[running feet] [war cries]
[sharp intake of breath]
[running feet]
[gasps]
[dramatic choral music]
Argh!
[war cries]
In duty do we find ourselves.
And in faith do we find meaning.
[cultists screaming]
[echoing] For it is we who deliver the Emperor’s mercy.
And all who oppose him
shall burn.
[cultists scream]
[dramatic music]
[sword clinks]
[atmospheric music]
[sword clinks]
Ungh! [sword clinks]
[candlestick picked up]
[match strikes and burns]
[body falls softly]
[atmospheric music]
[footsteps]
[atmospheric music]
[candle fire crackles]
[footsteps]
[fire crackles]
[atmospheric music]
[Elena] There, sister.
Our duty is done.