We were again summoned by inquisitor Tyburn Graves. A request had arrived from the planet Locanthus for help in investigating strange occurrences around a new cathedral at Stearn hope settlement. we were tasked to travel to there, meet Arasticus the seer and ensure the cathedral was completed. Locanthus is an archaic fudal world. Its only export is ghost pollen which is used in psycho active drugs. The governor is Veral skull.

We travelled to Locanthus. The locals were called pilgrims of Ashleen and had blue and white tattoos. When questioned all they said was “Crowfather has come again”.

We met Arasticus and got some equipment. We then drove to Sterne hope.

When we arrived Arasticus pleaded exhaustion and retired to his room. We questioned some of the locals and learned of Esher Rain, also called death singer. She was some special local woman. We headed into the desert to find her. On the way we were hit by a sandstorm which I sensed was in some way being directed directly at us. Immediately after the storm we were attacked by a flock of birds which we killed.

We found Esher high up in the mountains. She believed a dark evil called dancer at the threshold or crowfather had returned. Its one weakness was a fear of the agony he liked to inflict. We thought this could be blinding due to the way the birds tried to blind us. We travelled back to Sterne hope where we saw lights in the nearby mountains. We climbed into the mountains where we were attacked by some corrupted dusthounds. We killed them all though myself and Severus were badly injured in the fight. It was strange really as Severus's mechanical arms seemed inactive during the fight, almost as though he had forgotten to turn them on. I am sure they could have deflected some of the blows against him if they had been working. After the fight we searched for the lights but they had vanished.

The next day was the ceremony to complete the cathedral. I spent some time questioning the locals but they were all uncooperative. I am not really sure why the inquisition was wasting resources helping them. During the ceremony the compound was attacked by 'voysers of warlord Seth'. Their main attack seemed to rely on a vehicle with a battering ram to break through the gates. I called a firestorm down on top of it and killed everyone on board. The rest of the attackers could not then get inside the Sterne hope and were easily defeated. The attackers were corrupt and mad.

We returned to the cathedral. Inside the High priest and Arasticus were summoning the crowfather. Arasticus seemed under the influence of something. We killed the high priest. As the summoning was disrupted there was a huge explosion which killed Arasticus. On his body we found a burnt data slate and tarot card made of xenos tech which we took so the inquisition could investigate further what could have corrupted a powerful inquisition psyker.

After the mission we went through 6 months of decontamination to ensure we were not affected by what had got Arasticus.