W A R P R I E S T
I HEAR THIS VOICE KEEP ASKING ME
IS THIS MY BLOOD OR IS IT BLASPHEMY
L O C A T I O N | Paecian Chapel
W A R G E A R | Glyphscript Anvil | Starfang | Warhawk | Gjallerhorn | Warpriest Beskar'gam
The preacher's silhouette shimmered in the haze. Ash, smoke, and divine radiance twining into one as she rose from the molten fissure like the embodiment of a dying star. Five burning eyes, alien and deliberate, tracked every motion, every vibration in the trembling bones of the Eol Sha chapel. The earth quaked beneath her heel as if the planet itself recoiled in reverence; the thorns that bloomed in her wake crawled along the stone, whispering a thousand hymns of ruin.
Starfang dragged behind her, its crystalline edge shrieking against the floor, carving lines of light into the broken marble as she walked. Then, a hum, a breath, a flash.
The sniper
For a heartbeat, she did not react, then the azure veins in her scales flared, a sudden halo of violent green light from
And out of that haze came her true challenger however.
Lord Mettallum, machine of creed and chrome, a prophet of circuitry and wrath approached with that weaponized piety of the old world. His words clanged like hymns in her ears, his invocations of code and voltage ringing so close to her own litany that for a moment, Dima laughed. Not a laugh of mockery, but of delight.
She rose from her crouch with languid grace, tail coiling behind her like a serpent of living metal. The first volley from his blaster seared through the air, plasma flaring, bolts scattering as she pivoted, the ribbons of her cloak snapping in the wake. Her tail swept up, the scales glimmering as they deflected two shots in radiant sparks, the heat kissing her flesh but doing little more than leaving a dark polish where plasma met divinity.
When his glaive came for her, then she moved.
Starfang's crystal edge ripped free from the floor in an explosion of dust and light, meeting the droid lord's glaive with a clang that echoed through the chapel like the tolling of a god's bell. Sparks cascaded in a waterfall of molten orange as they locked together, the clash so bright it painted both in holy silhouette, one of beskar and faith, the other of directives and circuitry.
Their eyes met, five burning coals against the cold, mechanical gleam of his visor. Dima's grin unfurled, slow and wicked.
"Ahh..." she purred, her voice a low vibration that carried the hum of a forge, the whisper of liturgy. "A prophet of steel, how precious. Come, show Prime the might of your god."
She pressed forward, the weight of her body and faith alike pushing against his guard as molten dust rained between them.
"Let us see whose divinity bends first, little machine," she whispered, her voice honey and blade. "May the one true god be the one still standing when the fire fades"
And with that, she pushed, their locked weapons sparking into an arc of radiance that swallowed the chapel in divine flame.
And so it began~