Aruna, chieftain of the first, also happily joins the venture, more dour than you remember him being, the weight of his survival from the last great war still a terrible, bleeding wound upon his warriors heart

"I must say, Lieren, it is good to be once more in your war party" Aruna, says, hiding behind a mask of gregariousness and mirth as he bites into a roasted cliff jumper leg "I wish more panther hunters would join, but alas, I hear they're busy tending their own nests"

"And mine, my children need good guardians. And who better than my valiant brothers" Scarred Feng answers with a wry grin, his eyes sparkling with the unique joy of a father "And one day, my first born shall join the greatest of my brothers as his son"

"He's already so strong for his age!" Akanksha declares, looking directly as Kanzeon as she holds up one arm of her new, feathered cloak she'd fashioned from the birds of Yushan "I'm sure he'll be the chief of Jinhai and Daiyu's brood, if their boy is courageous enough to seek giantdom!"

"Such adventures we've all had" Aruna laughs, eyes sad as he swings the poultry in his hand like a magistrates cudgel "For our paths to once again align! Those tiger faced kids...Avinash, Ananya and Sandip, I think they'd make fine chieftains. Our friends lost to the butcher, haven't left predecessors worthy of their name"

Akansksha frowns and nods "They died legendary deaths, but their replacements...weren't fit for the role. They're good for peace, but when war comes, we'll need war chiefs again. The Vishnu have not forgotten the kindness we've been shown"

"To our bright future" Aruna laughs as Feng nods and lifts his wine glass

"It has been too long since we've sat together for a meal, my friends" You say, bitter sweet memories lurking at the corners of your mind, but the cheerfullness and youthful vigor within you is not at all dampered by it "Though I wish those absent could be present"

"I too wish the brothers we've lost could still brighten our days with their laughter and smiles" Feng sighs "But, more of us have survived than we expected. Though it feels like the day the heroes of that war become nothing but history, grows closer"

"Old man Dai and Yin Lei are feeling their age" Kanzeon admits sadly "I've spoken with them, they hide it well, but they were old before medicine became more than salves and poultices of Shangrala. Lai Song, he's younger, but...I don't want to be a bitch but he's the most likely of the three to die before his time, even considering Dai's death wish and Yin's zeal"

"Lai Song will die upon horseback or bike saddle, in the heart of enemy lines and with a smile on his face" You predict, though fate is the salve of fools "Meixiu has been badgering to be made one of the four kings apprentices, I think she wishes to make a general out of herself"

"A general who could crush an enemy army with a wave of her hand? Sounds like a mystical rival to lady firestorm" Feng laughs, grinning in a very Vishnu way

>>6431428

"Speaking of war, how are you going to train those boys you're tutoring to become Giants, Lieren?" He asks then, turning as he refills his own glass with a Yushanian variation of Dragon's Spit, made from the highly toxic innards of a lamb eating frog that has become known as Green Jade Dragon Venom

"Didn't he already tell you he was training them with the xenos and abhumans?" Kanzeon asked "We're traveling to pick up a regiment of Squats, to join the effort"

"And he is also going to be training them in the art of the star flying" Akanksha shouted "Little Liberty told me, I think my warriors should learn it, or at least train to be able to pilot one of the Great Steel Giants"

"Aren't they preparing a second generation of those titans?" Aruna asked, trying to see if there was any truth to the rumors floating around Long-Jia, after Pan-An made a highly dramatized retelling of the battles the pilots of the Steel Giants had fought in the Butcher War. You're not sure where he got the idea of the cloned soldiers of Nitya Sinha's army could turn giant in the throes of battle, but it certainly made for an entertaining stage production, even if you thought that the youth's obsession with the ongoing series was at times more concerning than the friendly gangs of Skipping Cloud Modifiers, who had seen a renaissance as a safe form of rebellion against expectations and tradition

Though none of them could outpace you on the saddle of your own horse, when you took him from pasture and showed those kids what racing truly looked like.

"I have a number of challenges prepared for them" You explain, smiling over your own wine glass

"And me and my sisters are working to build a safe training ground for them in orbit of...Hell's Cauldron. Yin Delun will be partaking in the exercise, leading the attached forces from Terra" Kanzeon explains

"He'll become the next black general. The Relentless Lightning's Roar" Feng says approvingly "Many new officers in the army, wish to become one of his peers. The Star Kings of War, they'll call themselves, I think"

"Yin Delun is a good choice" Aruna also agrees, nodding "Not many men, untested, could pull victory from that acidic mire. Did you know, how many of my tribeswoman I had to talk down from seeking to steal him for their husband?"

"You vishnu never change" Kanzeon chuckles "But, before they're set against Delun and the Terran soldiers, the Aspirants do have one schedule training exercise. The rest will come afterwards"

Feng, Akanksha and Aruna all pause in their gossiping to look in your direction
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>>6431430

"It is best for them to be taught how to fight alongside our xenos friends, one species and breed at a time. With abhumans, we're all human at heart, so it will not be an issue, but with aliens? They'll need to learn the strengths and thoughts of their allies, so they may act in concert with them, and take inspiration from their own unique qualities. Like martial artists seeing inspiration in the clawing of the panther, stride of the night crane and shuffle of the tortoise, they shall too shall grasp great martial insights fighting besides our friends from the stars!

And which of xenos will your aspirants train alongside, before they train with Yin Delune and the terran friends of your Astartes in the void, Lieren?

>The Nosa Rubigin, whom will also learn how to communicate in battle with other species. It will be an exercise of group defense and chemical warfare, in the wilder ranges of New Varro

>The Sagit. A martial arts tournament, to teach the aspirants how to fight like the raptor like aliens and how to communicate with only feet stomps and body motions. They will train within Kanzeon's true body

>The Se'ah'in, teaching them how to fight in the water as adeptly as they do on land, mastering the savagery of the Se'ah'in. The lomb will also be joining

>The Merchants of Mirth. They shall learn from the primates how to disguise their thoughts and emotions and become as shadows, unseen by eye and mind.

>The Alf'Harim. Desert warfare, a new form of defensive fighting that makes use of tunnels and cloak and dagger counter strikes, combing offensive principles with defensive foundations.

>The Yushan. They've offered to teach your aspirants how to command the beasts of Yushan as living weapons

>The Aeldari. Carys has accepted your invitation and is happy to teach your aspirants some of the martial arts of the craftworlds

>Write in

>>6431431
>>The Sagit. A martial arts tournament, to teach the aspirants how to fight like the raptor like aliens and how to communicate with only feet stomps and body motions. They will train within Kanzeon's true body

non-verbel communication matters alot in a battlefield

>>6431431
>Alf'Harim

Their foundation is defensive/holding fighting, their grit is unmatched and their teacher's lessons are on the pragmatism and sacrifice of a soldiers life.
Communication is good, but counter strikes is better.

The legion already did trech/tunnel warfare on terra.

>>6431431
>The Alf'Harim. Desert warfare, a new form of defensive fighting that makes use of tunnels and cloak and dagger counter strikes, combing offensive principles with defensive foundations.
This seems like a natural expansion of our sons' defensive specialties, although the Merchants of Mirth and the Sagit could also be really good decisions. While not as immediately valuable, the Nosa Rubigin would also be nice for chemical warfare training, and learning from the Aeldari might give us an advantage against the Dark Eldar combat methods.

Thinking on it, I think the Alf'harim, Sagit, and Nosa Rubigin would be the most widely applicable to our troops while the Merchants would mainly benefit small scale spec-ops type actions.

>>6431431
>The Sagit. A martial arts tournament, to teach the aspirants how to fight like the raptor like aliens and how to communicate with only feet stomps and body motions. They will train within Kanzeon's true body

>>6431431
>>The Nosa Rubigin, whom will also learn how to communicate in battle with other species. It will be an exercise of group defense and chemical warfare, in the wilder ranges of New Varro

>>6431431
>The Yushan. They've offered to teach your aspirants how to command the beasts of Yushan as living weapons
Get the boys some Yushan war beasts.

>>6431431
>The Alf'Harim. Desert warfare, a new form of defensive fighting that makes use of tunnels and cloak and dagger counter strikes, combing offensive principles with defensive foundations.
"My sons you know how to stand your ground, the enduring shield of humanity, yet I am still named Hunter! The first step is turning the tide, shifting the scale... one must learn to stand thei ground before the strike back. To lay low their foe."
>Write in
While it is not specific training with the Aeldari this style of warfare is an apt time to encourage the use of 'How Kuronus strings his bow". In hit and run warfare, not only ideal for hunting but also defending their craftworlds. Let them train with us in this style to create a cadre of shadow looming snipers to protect their dwindling homes.after all.

is the Webway not the greatest of all tunnels.

>>6431431
>>The Merchants of Mirth. They shall learn from the primates how to disguise their thoughts and emotions and become as shadows, unseen by eye and mind.
Weird to see this guys wanting to join the military. They are pretty chill.

Excellent military developments for Long-Jia in this new age of peace and prosperity. Its a good thing there is enough numbers of our alien friends and our abhumans to join us has volunteers in the military. It means the futures of their peoples is safe now.

I am a bit worried for Avinash, Ananya and Sandip, and their other brothers and sisters. Mostly for the wars ahead, even if this is a peaceful time and probably the best time for them to earn more experience/guidance from us and Kanzeon. But it cant be helped, they wanted to join us.

Its saddening to hear even old Dai and Yin Lei becoming older, but its inevitable. They where great Kings of War. But we have a lot of rough gemes to be made in the new generations of great generals. Yin Delun was pretty great in that nightmarish place.

>>6431824
>Meixiu a King of War apprentice
Didn't see that coming. She wants to learn to lead and strategy then ? Well its not a bad development for her, Wanderers have fought in the army ranks in many wars anyway. Not really has military leaders though.

Good way for her to bond further with Liberty. And she could use some additional tutoring, beyond that I wouldn't be preoccupied. The promising "princes" going behind her are just a phase, no way any of those younglings start something with her. Or can they...


Teenage love aside, i was heavily considering two other paths for Mexiu tutoring actually. Especially if she wants to do said tutoring out of the Wanderers for a while.
- First : Tutorship under Carys, maybe has a plus a visit to Amatheon* for also integrate in her advance education, Amatheon thoughts.
- Second: I am thinking Elazar. He is a great knight and i think the tragedy that happened to him, might be an excellent lesson for Mexiu. Also becoming very proficient in martial combat is not bad either. Has a plus possible training with Nameless too ? Could be an idea. Our friendly magical wind of light wouldn't be bad to master for Mexiu. Just because I really want to slap chaos face, when they tried and make this kid an evil witch.


*Now that I think about it Amatheon might be an obligatory encounter for our genesons. If we can somehow arrange it, they would be able to learn a lot from him. Then again our friend really likes being an eldar journeyman so this might be difficult to arrange. Especially if Kabals are on the rise to hunt/enslave for sport journeymen eldar in the webway.

>>6431431
>The Merchants of Mirth. They shall learn from the primates how to disguise their thoughts and emotions and become as shadows, unseen by eye and mind.
Since we are something of an anti-chaos legion, this feels like the trait that will be most useful for that. Plenty of interesting choices though.

>The Aeldari. Carys has accepted your invitation and is happy to teach your aspirants some of the martial arts of the craftworlds

As aeldari culture is both divided and has highly developed traditions, this is chance to learn a highly refined martial style and an opportunity to learn how they might cooperate or defend against it.

The most likely to appear in quest future as both ally and enemy.

>The Merchants of Mirth. They shall learn from the primates how to disguise their thoughts and emotions and become as shadows, unseen by eye and mind.


>The Alf'Harim. Desert warfare, a new form of defensive fighting that makes use of tunnels and cloak and dagger counter strikes, combing offensive principles with defensive foundations

>The Yushan. They've offered to teach your aspirants how to command the beasts of Yushan as living weapons

>>6431985

Yes. Even if we aren't going to teach the boys about chaos any time soon that is not an excuse to avoid teaching them everything they might need to challenge it when it's their turn. Lieren can't always protect them because Lieren won't always be here. Lieren should be more self aware than most about that sort of stuff given that he written a book about it despite being biologically immortal and only ever experiencing fleeting nature of others so far.

>Alf'Harim
Strengthening our Legions already noted traits would be a good idea.
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Now a Tangent, I propose the development and advancement of the 'Lair Dogma' which I semi mentioned many a year ago and i'll explain.
Our Legion has a great history of being steadfast defenders, protectors and beachheads for both our fellow Astartes and baseline forces. Lieren is a hunter and lets be honest the Warp Threat Hunter. I propose we combine these traits into a cohesive battle doctrine which will have an immediately obvious use to the other Primarch but more importantly a hidden effect; Chaos suppression and containment. It is time we looked at the grander picture, long have we been a reactive force. It is time we tried a doctrine which works with our strengths
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Work with the Space Shrews to get used to mobile defensive warfare to expend our capacity to hold ground and more importantly confuse the enemy where our central base could in theory be. An enemy chasing shadows and delving into tunnels wouldn't know where our true centre of operations would be.
You'll have to forgive the parallel but we need to be the SCP Legion. We [S]ecure chaos or warp tainted locations or vulnerable areas [C]ontain the threats there-in or capturing some and taking them to our void bound strongholds. Then we can [P]rotect the people from those elements and preserve the secret until such a time comes.

The Crusade would need a garrison force, we can free the Iron Warriors from it by doing it and also serving our own purposes. Our ability to work with baselines, hold sites etc all help us. On the offense we're the ultimate beachhead securing force for others to follow up on, which means we get in there first to sucure the site but secretly we use it to secure hazzards.

Should be able to call the vote and get the update out later today/tonight or tomorrow

>>6432428
Update. burned the fuck out of my hand, chances of me writing anytime soon/ within thenext few hours have plummeted

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My burnt hand has stopped hurting like a motherfucker. Luckily the burn turned out to not be too serious, but that's also probably cause I treated it quickly

Anyways, calling the vote now. Sorry for the long wait, meant to do it quicker than my usual pace, but searing the shit out of the back of my dominant hand did delay me a bit

Sagit:2

Alf'harim:5
-My sons you know how to stand your ground..etc:
- How Kurnous strings his bow:1

Merchants of Mirth:3

The Aeldari:1

Nosa Rubigin:1

Yushan:2

So Lieren will have his aspirants train with the Alf-Harim before their void training

writing now

Total votes:12

Cao Yunru was the first to greet you upon one of the worlds claimed by the Alf-Harim citizens of Long Jia. Generosity, named after one of the virtues named in the Journey, was the furthest along colonization. You greeted him as an old friend, with cupped fist and a respectful bow, before hugging the now sun tanned scholar and laughing as you joked about his adoption of the Alf'Harim's fashions

"They have a most fascinating culture, excised from the greed championed by their mother nation" He tells you "And this is a combination of Zoroast styles and Alf'Harim fashion, I find it most comfortable underneath the generous rays of generosity's primary star. I might bring my wife and children here, when they're old enough. There's a beauty to this yet to be tamed world, isn't there?"

"The rolling hills of sand and sparse plains do invoke a certain, desolate grandeur" You answer, smiling as you walk to the head of the Alf'Harim here, a young female of the species who has not yet been given rights to become a mother, but who you can tell at a glance has grand ambitions to mark the beginnings of her own clan upon Generosity and thinks assisting in your aspirants training will give her the political clout and respect to be allowed to become a mother. A hold over from the Alf'Harim's traditions, but one that she undertook of her own free will. You'd actually discussed it with her at length, and she felt she had to earn the right, despite following the Journey like the rest of the Long-Jian Alf'Harim Settlers.

"Welcome " The slightly taller than a full grown astartes princess to be greeted, eyes glittering with delight as she wore bangles and jewels of fossilized coral upon her wrists and tail, her maturity and draconic leaning already apparent "Friend teacher Lieren, We are very happy to host you and your warrior sons. Our Matriarch has given strong strong sons for the exercise, and myself has personally overseen the construction of the training grounds, Clan is very very proud to be given this opportunity. Even some of her personal husband guards, are partaking"

"How is she doing? It has been awhile since we've spoken, I miss our talks and meditations on the Journey" You tell her, knowing she is talking about the young matriarch who you first met on the world now belonging to the Se'ah'in, Black Abyss,

"She is well, new clutch on new world" She answers with a smile, smacking her club tail on the ground in thought "Unity. You should visit, very lovely sand, weather is very tame, perfect world to raise a clutch. But, I am too fond in favor of the two suns of Generosity to make my home there"

A humble excuse for a girl who dreams of being worthy of the title Matriarch herself. She is a sibling to the matriarch on unity, you know.

"I will have to make time to visit my friend" You tell her with a grin "And I would like to know the numbers and training of the troop who'll take part in this wargame with the aspirants of my legion"
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>>6432787

"Ah, they're from a warrior line, mostly not related to our clan. Got tired of being sold, asked to be bought and freed when we left the Mother Clutch" She explains happily "Eh, term in your tongue...mercenaries. Very best good"

She nods rapidly as Dae-Hyun stepped down from the landing platform of the shuttle, studying his surroundings as he lead the Eight Princes of the Aspirants onto the world, this is the first time he or they or any of the Astartes or Aspirants have seen a Alf'Harim in person. And there are many, curious males skittering and observing from the landing platform, many having been in the middle of a break and others stopping their tasks of transporting and checking Cargo to observe you and your space marines

"And they've been told that they're to teach my aspirants and astartes how to wage a desert war, and to show them the traditional, tunnel based combat of your people?" You ask

"Yes yes, they were told by this one's older sisters, before they arrived, very very excited to train your warrior sons. Were asking all sorts of questions, very very curious" She titters, sounding more like a young, noble girl than the near dragon she was growing into "They've already dug tunnels, for the first trial. Er, you wanted your sons to be the attackers first, yes yes?"

"That is correct, young lady" You laugh as you see a great shadow move, knowing Kanzeon was very interested in getting a bird eye's view of the training ground before the exercise began "They've been taught how to hold the line, and hold it well. They're smart boys, quick to adapt. But they've not faced the Alf'harim in their natural environment. The first match, is to humble them and open their minds"

"Will I see those big iron turtles you humans send into war? My sisters have told me about them, shown me videos" She suddenly changes the subject, and you know she wants her soldiers to learn how to use tanks without even looking in her direction

"A future exercise. I want my sons to learn about your people, and how they fight, so they may better fight alongside them and hopefully find inspiration as they fight" You explain with a wry smile "Though if you are interested, I could ask the relative of one of the greatest of My Aspirants, the recently lorded Dai Gang to bring a parade of their iron turtles"

"Dai Nui is no longer lord of the Iron turtles?" She asked

"He passed some time ago, and while a brother of his had taken temporary leadership of their family, it was to give time for his son, Gang to mourn " You explain "Dai Shun, the aspirant, was one of his best and brightest pupils, in the twilight of his life. He adopted him into his family and named him Shun of the Golden Shell in his final hours. Gang is currently training tank commanders of New Varro stock, who am I sure would appreciate a taste of pomp and ceremony here at Generosity"
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>>6432789

The young princess of the Alf'Harim's eyes glow like sunlit jewels

And as your sons train with the Alf'Harim, how do you occupy yourself, Lieren?

>Make it challenging for them, by fighting on the side of the alf'harim in these wargames

>Join them on the field, and practice a martial art inspired by the Alf'Harim, one which uses a rope dart or meteor hammer in place of their tail

>Plan ahead for the training with the other xenos races, and invite the imperial army to test the mettle of your aspirants, once they've mastered the Alf'Harim art of war

>Make friends with the head of the former Alf'Harim Mercenaries, and learn from them what other species sell themselves as soldiers in this region of space

>Write in


Realized I had forgotten Dai Niu had died when writing the first post of this thread, ignore that slight continuity error! Ignore it! IGNORE IT

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>>6432790
>Write in
Meditate and look inwards for once the Crusade arrives, when our father returns us to the fold of Primarhc we may find we have precious little time.

So we shall meditate here upon Generosity looking inward to see and understand ourselves for the self can be like a desert; a thousand thoughts as they were grains of sand forming sprawling piles the winds of emotion shaping them yet all are one desert, one DUNE

>>6432790
>Plan ahead for the training with the other xenos races, and invite the imperial army to test the mettle of your aspirants, once they've mastered the Alf'Harim art of war
Xenos have the keys to all the fun skill trees.

>>6432790
>make it challenging and fight against them

Harder the trials they overcome the better they will be

>>6432790
>>Make friends with the head of the former Alf'Harim Mercenaries, and learn from them what other species sell themselves as soldiers in this region of space
Lol ok mal

>>6432790
>>6432793
+1

>>6432790
>Make it challenging for them, by fighting on the side of the alf'harim in these wargames

>>6432790
>Plan ahead for the training with the other xenos races, and invite the imperial army to test the mettle of your aspirants, once they've mastered the Alf'Harim art of war

>>6432790
>Plan ahead for the training with the other xenos races, and invite the imperial army to test the mettle of your aspirants, once they've mastered the Alf'Harim art of war

>Make friends with the head of the former Alf'Harim Mercenaries, and learn from them what other species sell themselves as soldiers in this region of space

>>6432793
+1

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Calling the vote now, sorry for the long wait

Meditate and look inwards: 3


Plan ahead for the training with the other xenos races, and invite the imperial army to test the mettle of your aspirants, once they've mastered the Alf'Harim art of war: 3

Make it challenging for them, by fighting on the side of the alf'harim in these wargames:2

Make friends with the head of the former Alf'Harim Mercenaries, and learn from them what other species sell themselves as soldiers in this region of space:2

Total votes: 8

So Lieren, planning ahead, will invite the imperial Long-Jianese army to test the aspirants once they've mastered the Alf'harim arts of war and will meditate and look inwards while waiting for the aspirants to be ready

writing now

It will take time and many trials for the Aspirants to truly master the Alf'Harim method of waging war and the many methodologies and variations of it. The former mercenaries shall provide them with a wealth of wisdom, insights and hard fought and learned experience. However, they shall not be the only ones to benefit from these trials nor the only ones to learn. With a few messages sent across the void, Jinhai agrees to prepare a number of imperial regiments to travel to Generosity and the other worlds your Aspirants are scheduled to train with the xenos friends of Long-Jia, so they may test their new found mettle and further refine their talent of making war and committing battle.

And while you observe their training closely, while leaving the space marines to oversee and join in the exercises directly and you plan and break ground for new development projects on across the colony and give lessons public and private to the Alf'Harim settlers, explaining your philosophy and views to them directly and helping to create Alf'Harim based stories, koans and lessons to be shared amongst the Journeymen present, and also enjoy exploring the untapped wilderness still left untouched by even the gentlest brushing of industrialization and settling with Kanzeon, you spend most of your hours upon Generosity in deep, lonesome meditation. You're a social creature at heart, but meditation requires emptiness and clarity of mind. And the Dunes bring great isolation when one walks far enough from the buzzing electrical lights and communal bonfires burning and roasting cactus and wild game.

And it is in these lonesome, moonlit nights, that you reflect how the self greatly resembles the vast desert than surrounds you. Not just you personally, but all individuals. In a way, you too are made of thousands of grains of sand. Fleeting thoughts, concepts, emotions, plans, feelings, beliefs, sensation and many other things both named and nameless, known and unknown. All swirling together, forming the greater whole. The winds of emotion shaping every grain together, separately, yet they remain as one. All is but sand in different forms and motion.

The desert wind howls around you, whistling through fulgurite pillars and deep ravines as you imagine yourself breaking apart, piece by piece like the sand. Seeing which parts Giggling Maid reflects, which grains were the first to come together to form your character and personality and the oldest source of behavior and intent, programmed into the very genetic data within a lab on Terra. It is a greatly soothing exercises, one which you repeat for several days and nights, partaking of the minimal food and drink required to stave off weakness of the body and fraility of the mind.

It becomes an ascetics journey, a trial to obtain greater understanding and reach a further, more profound step of enlightenment.
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>>6434932

The sands and winds wash over you as you remain seated in the lotus positon atop a high dune, overlooking a "forest" of Fulgurite statues and a "Sea" of deep ravines, the only constant being the grit of the sand. Heat and cold become synonymous with the passage of time, and vanish entirely as you ignore them. The gentle wash of the breeze, and the whistling, chime like melody it brings, slowly soften and dull into nothingness as you enter a deeply profound state of meditation, brought about by a gradual practice much more subtle than your usual method of forcefully blanking your mind and emptying your heart of emotion, with each sensation that is blocked out fading slowly like the bleach of painted colors.

But the grit remains. Vaguely, you are aware, that at some point, that sandy texture ceases to be the sensation of sand accumulating and blowing against you, and instead becomes the perception of every individual "Grain" that composes your physical, mental and spiritual selves. And through touch, you can feel the lines drawn between them.

And the lines drawn from you to the others connected to you so closely, the thousand vessels filled by the golden sea that in turn fill that same sea. The great, gilded web of many connections, feelings and thoughts. Which you can more closely and accurately perceive through the golden sea, than you ever have while making use of that invisible connection before. But that is not the extent of your awareness across the sea of sands.

It is frightening. How much one can see, when they look so closely as to perceive the individual particles that. And with eyes like yours, re-merging from the dune of self, what is revealed through this change of view...

And what is it your eyes look upon, as you end your mediation to test the mettle of your aspirants, Lieren?

>A greater understanding of the golden sea and the connections formed between yourself and others through it

>How to manifest and separate the three "Selves" that makes your whole personage

>Biomancy, having mapped out the particles of yourself and meditated deeply, you've grasped that most tricky of psykerist arts

>How to force separated grains to join together and for joined grains to separate, allowing you to turn the intangible tangible and the reverse

>Write in

>>6434933
>How to force separated grains to join together and for joined grains to separate, allowing you to turn the intangible tangible and the reverse

trickmaxxing

>>6434933
>>How to force separated grains to join together and for joined grains to separate, allowing you to turn the intangible tangible and the reverse

being a tricker fighter then Alphurius Omegeron

>>6434933
>Biomancy, having mapped out the particles of yourself and meditated deeply, you've grasped that most tricky of psykerist arts

Lets go Biomancyyy

>>6434933
>A greater understanding of the golden sea and the connections formed between yourself and others through it
With our aid, even common laborers and militiamen might become the stuff of legend.

>>6434933
>A greater understanding of the golden sea and the connections formed between yourself and others through it
It's not as flashy as some of his other tricks but the Sea is probably Lieren's most powerful ability.

>>6434933
>A greater understanding of the golden sea and the connections formed between yourself and others through it
It is such a core part of ourselves we must amster it. Twas this that first led us down this path.

>>6434933
>The golden sea

>>6434933
>A greater understanding of the golden sea and the connections formed between yourself and others through it

Malcador slowly walked through the familiar dungeons, past the black clad Custodians, beyond uncountable wards and esoteric locks. The Black Cells were not young but some of their more recent additions were.

He was here to speak to one such being now, it had been a man once, then an Astartes and now... a thing. A thing dressed in the flesh of man honed into a weapon now the host and wielder of a Greater One. Plasma coiled vented and hissed as they depowered letting the red hazed force field drop in a splutter of static.

The cell should be as one would imagine, black, lightless and had nought in it but its captive. Yet it was not so, the cells reinforced walls were flaked with blood and ice runes and archaic script all about it. Yet the captive was bound in chains of Auramite unable to rise from his knees.

The script appeared without the mans needing to pen it, beneath his palms both pinned tot he floor by great manacles was a sword standing as tall as a mature Astartes, it was a magnificent work of artifice. Once it had been a simple power sword of the legion, its' wielder Captain Eino Juhaninen a rising talent in the Second Legion... whose time would be wasted here.

But not the first of the 'Legio Chimerai'.

“Captain” Malcador's voice was even even as his psyker senses pushed into the room and felt the additional mind presant within the room.

“Lord Sigillite” the marine responded his voice as flat as Interrogator's, the mind which lingered in the blade.

“Has your...friend seen fit to answer the questions I left you last time?”

“Some, but others Ensilupaus will only answer in the presence of my father.”

“That will not happen”

“it is willing to wait, it says you may be old but his Mistress is older. He will get his message to my father with or without your consent.”

Malcador's eyes flared with light and a whirlwind swept the chamber but the daemon in the blade did not quiver.

“it asks why you bring pain and a waling wind? I ws born of this, shed blood, ice and promise. What can you a liar do to such honesty?”

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>>6435468
“Tell me what answers it granted you”

“It's name I have already said. It's purpose it to deliver a message to my father and a proclamation for all life-”

The marine suddenly stopped and jerked, the restraints pulled and tore at flesh even as the mans hands were left behind torn from muscle and bone, the Astartes stood eyes burning with warp light and a voice roared.

“You will not stop the Great Reclamation Servant of the Denier! Heaven shall weep once more yet in joy, the great circle shall be complete and the Garden of Creation will expunged of it's infestation!”

The voice was a tearing blizzard, it was the promise of seasons turning and the echoing depths of icey oceans. The posessed marine took a step forward fighting the sigillites own power even as more and more flesh was torn away.

“I am born of the promise, I am born of the shed blood, I am the Blade of Mercy to end the suffering of a garden trapped in summer! And I-”

The blade was inexplicably free now held in hands of bone and pointed towards the Old Man.

“-WILL-”

The last of the marine was blown away with a strained thought, the blade of part is and part machine shattered but faded into light.

A whisper.

“-Forgive you at the end.”

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Because of the Brand i can see our sons being prefered hosts to spirits, good thing we grafitti everything. But until we get there? Hold on boys!

>>6434933
>A greater understanding of the golden sea and the connections formed between yourself and others through it
Still much mystery

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Going through some serious family drama IRL rn, so the wait could be pretty long this time. Just fucking exhausted, mentally.

>>6436204
take as long as you want Malal. We will be here.

>>6436204
Sounds shit. Good luck with that, Malal.

>>6436204
We love you Malal and will be here when you can come back. Don't feel rushed. Remember the path of the journey

>>6436299
>>6436416
>>6436626
Thank you for your kind words and patience, still going through it and am nearly losing my mind from stress, but it is slowly calming down at least on my end. Might be able to end the wait earlier than I anticipated, but I can make no promises cause it might go to shit at any moment and I am still in a bad way, personally

>>6436779
There is no need to rush or worry Malal, Real life will always come first including mental relaxation. We will be here no matter what.

>>6436779
Np we can wait malal

>Proposed Legion Reformation

>Recruitment
Each world the legion is granted recruitment privileges upon will have an Academy where those whom wish to serve in the Forces of the Primarch may go to train from a young age. Those whom are in the top percentage will be gene tested and if deemed viable offered the chance to not serve with Baseborn humanity but to undergo the Legion Trials. They may refuse and serve with the rest of humanity should they will it serving with others.

[This method is chosen as it will provide a wide number of recruits whom will grow and serve together bonding Astartes and Base Humanity. It will also allow for early stress teting to preserve lives otherwise lost in rushed recruitment.]
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>The Trials
Once per year the Legion will take those whom wish to join their ranks away to the closest ''Proving Ground” (Ideally one per system). In these places the Aspirants will be put through harder and harder trials gradually given the surgeries to rise as an Astartes. At this point they will begin serving in lesser roles alongside full fledged Astartes and Baseborn forces.

[While Blood Angels or Space Wolves will pump out an Astartes in a year from an Aspirant the Second Legion will take a little longer than the average of 5-10 years. However those Astartes will come out in greater numbers due to minimising losses and far wider recruitment base. Scout marines more used like the 40k Black Templars do, on the job training.]
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>The Meditation
The final implant being the Black Carapace will happen in one of the Legions 'Halls of Stillness' where they will enter a pod and not only receive this implant but also have their bodies grafted with Memetic Sigils. It is also during this time the Astartes will meditate upon the Legions tenants and be welcomed into the Company Dedicated to their System.

[Each System we hold shall have three Companies dedicated to it, they shall cycle all crusade. One on Active deployment, one on recovery and assisting in training of the new bloods then finally one on defence of the system and rearming. The men will constantly bring in new training and information new experiences and serving stories!]
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>The Hunt Companies
An Astartes may join a Hunt company at will but it will mean stepping outside of the System Companies. They will join the forces of the Primarch serving him more directly, but they will not be so free to cycle home for many hunts are long and take you far.
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A Company will be around 800-1000 Marines, Three Companies make 1 Grand Company (A System Company).

The Hunt Companies will be founded and led by Astartes granted the rank of Hunt Master and will be greatly shaped by the Hunt Masters preferred way of war, their sizes as such will greatly vary. It could be considered the grandest Ambition of a General to be granted command of a Hunt Company.

>>6437313
>Only testing those that are in the top percentage
>limiting the already limited number of numbers

Crazy and made me stop reading right away.

>>6437444
Yeah, Genetic compatibility is the first thing to test and everyone with potential needs to be put through the wringer.

>>6437313
Engaging properly with the proposal.

The first thing we have to do is scan for viable compatibility.
This is the first test, so we don't waste time and effort. You MUST be ABLE to be a Spacemarine before we proceed through space marine training.

to expand upon the idea, to have space marines bonded with baseline warriors, Consider having them do placements with local imperial guard training/pdf facilities. Their age will be balanced by the physical capability through which they can get comfortable with eachother.

About your idea of rotating companies. . . There are WAAAAAAAAAAAYY too many marines in system in your proposal.
You propose 3 companies per system, between 3000 and 2400 marines, with a permenant station of 2000 to 1200 marines.

500 to hold the fort and secure the next generation is already sufficient, let along double that number.
The purpose of a crusade fleet is to always be rearmed and healing on the frontlines of exploration.
Cycling between the companies is logistically a nightmare.

>>6437313
>Recruitment
>Academy idea
Should be based on the Chen Academy creating the general institution model, with an addition to look at the monk order Guozhi was part of and the schools of journeymen.

I would only accept volunteers, and I wouldn't put anyone in harm's way to become an Astartes. Any family or any tutor who presents a child should present a willing youngblood, the proper legal procedures, and medical records to be seen by the Legion human assistants and by medics of the local hospital of the White Lotus. This will include further health and genetic scanning for the safety of the child, and also the family that presents him. If the child presents obvious psychic powers, the colony should immediately contact the Wanderers of the Fog for preliminary tests and be brought first and foremost inside the psykerist order. After a time period to ensure the child understands their powers and can use them/live with them with responsibility and no fear, if the child's genetic testing is fine, and if he volunteers, he can join the Legion as an aspirant.


>The Trials
I would start with 2 years of education, training, and learning about warfare. Depending on the child's skills, I would also have their teacher personalize their 2-year path to follow to see if they are suited for a particular type of sphere of science/craft/warfare specialization. After this period, I would move to active trials, alongside academic and philosophical tests, and lastly, coordinated training exercises with the forces of the Long-Jia Star Empire and its allies.

This may include: Hunters of the Brotherhood of the Panthers, Knights of the Flaming Order of the Progenitor, soldiers of the Long-Jia Army (from regulars to specialist troops like, say, a Lai Skyrider, a Vishnu Screamer, a Kang Charger, etc.), Psykers of the Wanderers of the Fog, New Varro gunslingers. Or the abhumans like the Tigerfolk, the Angra, Oracle Breed, the Lomb, the Relieved, and last but not least the Squats. This will include even the xenos species that entered the army, like Nosa Rubigin, Sagit, Se'ah'in, Merchants of Mirth, Alf'Harim, and Yushan. Any training/education with Eldar or Eldar Journeymen, we will either have to organize it with Eldrad for the first or more easily for the second with Carys and Amatheon.
I would wait to make any other modification to this because Lieren and Kazeon are doing right now, as we speak, an educational/training process for the first aspirants Lieren decides to take in. Which will give Lieren a far better idea of how to go about modifying/reforming the Legion. Besides the obvious stuff.

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Okay, finally calmed down enough to write. Wasn't doing well this last week, but things have settled on my end, mostly.

How to force separated grains to join together and for joined grains to separate, allowing you to turn the intangible tangible and the reverse: 2

Biomancy, having mapped out the particles of yourself and meditated deeply, you've grasped that most tricky of psykerist arts:1


A greater understanding of the golden sea and the connections formed between yourself and others through it: 5


Total votes: 8

So Lieren will look upon a greater understanding of the golden sea and the connects formed through it to himself and others

Writing now.
>>6437271
>>6436897
Thanks again

'>>6435468
>>6435469
Also, took me a week to read this in the right head space, its excellent. Really liked the descriptions you used, Malcador's POV and especially “it is willing to wait, it says you may be old but his Mistress is older. He will get his message to my father with or without your consent", and how you wrote the child of Arianka possessing Eino to be so...imposing. Also really liked the whole blade of mercy to end summer and forgive you in the end, really top tier stuff!

Was the most complete view of the existence, the concept of the "Golden Sea", the term you used to refer to both the golden flames every scorching, consuming and reinvigorating and rebuilding your soul from its very roots as well as the invisible web that allowed the spiritual energy or "Qi" produced from the cyclical burning of your soul to be used to empower, strengthen and nurture the spirits that have formed a connection with you, and to in turn take the excess soul stuff created from this transfer to be used as further kindling upon the golden sea. A process that does not reduce, and only expands. A paradox born of the first step you took towards real enlightenment, during your struggles prior to your visit to the celestial incarnation palace, the death of the yan princes and the hunt for Huli Jing. And now that you gazed upon it, saw it with your own eyes rather than merely imagining it or describing it in prose or poetry.

You understood. How these spiritual connections formed, not only through shared experiences and bonds, but shared purpose. It was a manifestation of the ideal of unity, shared burden and joined cause. The very embodiment of the spirit that allowed a single province to overthrow the tyrants that had exchanged the mandate of heaven for the rule of excess and conceit, and to go further to defeat the other tyrants and thralls of powers born of the darkest corners of mankind's heart. That took a people, once hopeless and allowed them to join hands with those born oppressed beneath different stars, to spread the lessons learned across the stars and strive, ever forward, to a kinder, brighter future. It was, the first glimpse of the new dawn that so many poets and philosophers had used to describe the end of the Yan Dynasty and Kingdom, the hopeful dream shared by thousands. The will to endure and strive towards a better future even though the past was grim and dark and the journey one filled with strife and troubles.

And it was more than that, it was a reflection of the true, pure love you felt for every soul that was touched by the golden sea. All thousand and more of the vessels it filled and was filled in turn by. A monument against the cruelty of the universe, sparked and begun by the kindness of one man's heart and his devotion to his fellow man. It was a seed that had grown, from the moment you had first dragged a Fog Panther to the outskirts of Nothing, when in the chill of winter and beneath the shadow of famine, you chose to save and teach your fellow man.

It was.

You. Lieren. At your very core. The concepts and purpose of the Golden Sea, reflected your truest desires and deepest wishes. For all to be joined in comradery and friendship, for all to understand that together they could accomplish so much more. It was the incomplete promise, the hope that rippled forth from a simple act of generosity, a shared journey that connected all who had opened their hearts to you and in turn knew yours as closely
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>>6438162

A sea that reflected countless faces, some long dead, some you knew only in passing, and of course those most familiar and intimate. The brightest stars gleaming in the sea, mostly closely held and treasured, your own care and love reflected in the invisible weave of golden threads like threaded sunlight. And you understood where the bonds, the friendship, the love had first began with every soul that your own spirit reach out to and tightly held and protected with a ferocity greater than any wildfire or storm. And you understood. Understood all of it.

Like reading a record of your own life, the diary of your life journey, penned by a distant, detached observer. Perhaps, the purely logical, mechanical side of yourself, that showed you the most efficient way forward even now. What you had been, at your birth. Perhaps. You could see where Giggling Maid had emerged from, where the silver moonlight swirled and mingled with the golden sea. Every shared pain, every scar, every loss. Every shared joy, every smile, every victory. Within the Golden Sea, was a record, a scripture detailing your journey and how it intersected and joined the journeys of others. You understood. It was beautiful. A pure expression of Compassion, Comradery and Humanity. A distillation of Empathy. A reflection of the world as you, and so many others wished it to be. Willed it to be.


It stretched before you, vast and seemingly without end. A sea made of countless golden threads. A conflagration of a soul that burned itself to benefit others, warming and safeguarding them in its own flames, bearing the burden but not alone. Protecting and protected in turn. Healed and in turn healing. Strengthening and in turn strengthened. A river that connected to its own mouth. The dragon that bit its own tail. The sea that was filled by the vessels it had filled. A sun that was lit and formed by a thousand torches. A light that inspired and cultivated the potential of others, while being inspired and taught by them. You understood it. It had first burned outwards from your self immolating soul, and thus it was a reflection of your truest, self chosen purpose. The belief and ideals that drove you to accomplish so much, to push others and encourage them to strive to the greatest of heights.

It was beautiful. Truly resplendent. Like a pure lake catching, a for a few moments containing the brilliance of the setting sun in a golden blaze.

You understood, so much, it made you begin to weep in joy.
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>>6438163

And what else did you understand, Lieren?

>How to refine your control of the technique of "Reality flickers before the approaching storm" and create branching techniques

>Greater ability to use the "Mien of the companion loyal and true" and "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"

>How to turn the golden flame into a wind like Hysh, improving your ability to wield it as warpfire and especially the "Cloak of the every burning will" and "Spirit Subjugating blade"

>How the innocence of your spirit, as represented by Giggling Maid, can be used in pyskerism and spread to others

>Write in

>>6438164
>>How the innocence of your spirit, as represented by Giggling Maid, can be used in pyskerism and spread to others

Thank you Malal, I don't know how you do it but every post you make is a masterpiece.

>>6438164
>Greater ability to use the "Mien of the companion loyal and true" and "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"
Though the Giggling Maid option is pretty good too.

>>6438164
>Greater ability to use the "Mien of the companion loyal and true" and "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"
We'll probably use these quite a bit once we go on Crusade.

>>6438164
I do want to come up with some much better write in options, but. . . Innocence is so good.

>How the innocence can be spread

>>6438164
>Greater ability to use the "Mien of the companion loyal and true" and "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"

>>6438164
>>How to turn the golden flame into a wind like Hysh, improving your ability to wield it as warpfire and especially the "Cloak of the every burning will" and "Spirit Subjugating blade"

>>6438164
>How to turn the golden flame into a wind like Hysh, improving your ability to wield it as warpfire and especially the "Cloak of the every burning will" and "Spirit Subjugating blade"
Good options all, methinks.

>>6438164
>>Greater ability to use the "Mien of the companion loyal and true" and "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"

>Greater ability to use the "Mien of the companion loyal and true" and "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"

It seems like the viable candidates should be in the planetary population range by now, but every time it's mentioned it's only personal friends of lieren.

>>6438164
>Greater ability to use the "Mien of the companion loyal and true" and "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"
This one my favorite can't wait using it on our brother

>>6438164
>How to refine your control of the technique of "Reality flickers before the approaching storm" and create branching techniques
One of the best tools we have against chaos and psykers.

>>6438164
>>How to turn the golden flame into a wind like Hysh, improving your ability to wield it as warpfire and especially the "Cloak of the every burning will" and "Spirit Subjugating blade"

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Calling the vote now, sorry for the wait

How the innocence of your spirit, as represented by Giggling Maid, can be used in pyskerism and spread to others:2

Greater ability to use the "Mien of the companion loyal and true" and "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels": 6

How to turn the golden flame into a wind like Hysh, improving your ability to wield it as warpfire and especially the "Cloak of the every burning will" and "Spirit Subjugating blade"
How to turn the golden flame into a wind like Hysh, improving your ability to wield it as warpfire and especially the "Cloak of the every burning will" and "Spirit Subjugating blade":3

How to refine your control of the technique of "Reality flickers before the approaching storm" and create branching techniques:1


Total votes: 12

So Lieren will attain a deep understanding of "Mien of the companion loyal and true
and "The Ggolden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"

Writing now

You think the highest of those you call friends and family. Your image of them, can become a boon in of itself. Through conscious effort, you can strengthen your companions loyal and true and in turn, borrow and refine their own excellence. In a way, this exchange allows these mortal men and women to become as legends, and for you to embodied those same legends. This in now way lowers their own abilities or achievements, but by pouring the golden sea more heavily into the vessels that fill it, they can be raised beyond their natural limits. You've used this technique to strengthen agents sent on missions or to empower armies under your command, and have in turn used it to switch your presence and fighting style with those whose mien you wear into battle.

But this is just the surface level of this technique, and the bond between yourself and those who you are proud to call your companions, loyal and true. Power. the crudest and most simplistic exchange that can the golden sea can accomplish. These twin techniques, two sides of the same coin, mirrors of the other, can be further refined, further improved. For they are based on character. That of yourself and those you adopt the mien of. But it is also based off of, and determined by belief. Yours, theirs and others. It is based on knowledge and understanding. The masks you don, reflect your own image of your companions loyal and true. It is like embodying a legend, partially penned by your own hand. An ideal of great men who you are proud to call friend and comrade. And realizing this, truly understanding this, enlightens you of the true extent of the twin techniques.

Numerous aspects determine the outcome of the technique, those who are granted a portion of your own power, subconsciously shape it to match their idea of Lieren as the mystical mien you borrow is shaped by not only your vision of them, but how they are known by others, both widely and personally. Refining the technique, will allow for greater accuracy, control and the ability to adjust and adapt the exact shape of the powers reflected by the mien and granted temporarily to the vessels of the golden sea. And while this would, say, allow you to wear the mask of Jinhai the carp danger, Emperor Jinhai, and Youngest King of War Jinhair. Or Unkillable Feng, Peer of one Hunter Feng, and The Chief of VIshnu Feng, and so on and so on for every one who you are close enough to call them a loyal and true friend and companion, it does not stop at a refinement of the technique's form which you had already grasped and mastered.

If the base power, is determined mostly by your own idea of whom you are channeling, at the evolution would allow you to separate them into aspects and access hidden sides of the reflections or different roles they've lead. Then what is stopping you, from only wearing the masks of the real? Reality is what you create, and nothing else is real.

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>>6439735

A harrowing train of thought, but who is to say you cannot day dream of the life Cui Fu may have lead if you'd made his acquaintance a few years earlier, or to wear the mask of one of your false, assumed identities? Or exaggerate the story you tell beneath the mien of another? If it is a reflection of your companions, and what you see is what you know and believe of them, then the initial technique was greatly limited. It would return with expected results, but now, if you perform the technique and focus it differently, you will be able to, without changing targets of the channeling and mantling, adopt a number of miens all based on the different faucets and "selves" They all embody.

And you could probably extend the technique, in its basic and new, more complex forms, on people whom you had been unable to do before.

And while exploiting your deep understanding of your loyal and true companions, the truths hidden even to their own hearts revealed by your golden eyes' sight, you also realize. That "Lieren" isn't the only source of power they can be empowered from. You can, of course, perform the reverse of focusing and favoring a certain aspect of your mantle target to grant them a boon based on one of your own numerous aspects. But if they are vessels, filling and being filled by the golden sea. Can't you connect their streams and exchange their waters? Can't you connect and grant skills and prowess from one vessel to another. Can't you connect, say, a strike team and boost their cooperation and grant them all a share of the others talent? With careful micromanaging, you can do more than grant an army under your command a renewed spirit and resolve born from your soul's own fire, you can link them together via the golden sea. Improving cohesion and sharing any spiritual or mental strain they may encounter.

And reflecting upon this, reviewing your bonds with others, has enlightened you greatly. And reminded you just why you have called so many your friend, you companion, and your comrade.

But reminiscence and new found understanding of how the golden sea functions, are not the only boons you're meditations have brought. By sheer accident, you've realized you can, while meditating, accurately astral project to the location of any of the souls connected to the golden sea. And this ability you realized by happenstance, proves there is still much to understand about the "Golden Sea" within your soul.

Like the fact, that with with the newfound understanding and improvements to the "Mien of the companion loyal and true' Technique, combined with "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes" technique, allows you to become as a mirror to any counted amongst the vessels of the golden sea.

There are many more possible expressions of your new found understanding of these techniques and the sea they're borne from, but testing them all, safely, will take time. And many you believe can only be proven in the crucible of battle.
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>>6439736

But further meditation and refinement can wait, since you're aspirants are ready. And while you have a whim to prank Kanzeon by wearing her appearance and jumping out at her while she's distracted with some sub routine of her true body or another, you restrain yourself as the imperial army is arriving to test your space marines to be and measure what they have learned of the Alf'Harim art of war...

And as their mettle is tested, what do you do, Lieren?

>Prepare for the next steps in their training, the most immediate being their lesson in void fighting

>Ask Kanzeon to help you practice your two newly improved techniques, by acting as an anchor and comforting presence while you do...and then prank her. And probably get slapped.

>Give your aspirants more of a challenge, by joining the imperial army's side and using "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"

>See if there is any limit to how far you can travel across/through the "golden sea"

>Write in

>>6439737
>See if there is any limit to how far you can travel across/through the "golden sea"

>>6439737
>Give your aspirants a challenge

I want every war after their training to be "well at least it's easier than the Primarch's training!"

>>6439737
>>Ask Kanzeon to help you practice your two newly improved techniques, by acting as an anchor and comforting presence while you do...and then prank her. And probably get slapped.

>>6439737

>See if there is any limit to how far you can travel across/through the "golden sea"

>>6439737
>>Give your aspirants more of a challenge, by joining the imperial army's side and using "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"

>>6439737
>Give your aspirants more of a challenge, by joining the imperial army's side and using "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"
If they can perform well or even win against an army led and psychically empowered by a primarch then they'll be some of the finest space marines in all the legions.

>>6439737
>Give your aspirants more of a challenge, by joining the imperial army's side and using "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"
Can't wait at their completion

>>6439737
>>Give your aspirants more of a challenge, by joining the imperial army's side and using "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"

>Ask Kanzeon to help you practice your two newly improved techniques, by acting as an anchor and comforting presence while you do...and then prank her. And probably get slapped.

>Give your aspirants more of a challenge, by joining the imperial army's side and using "The golden sea's aura fills a thousand vessels"

yeah...improve the technique and turn the imperial army into individual warriors of legend.

and then connect them together so these legends all possess the talents one among them has and make them capable of co-ordinating at the speed of thought.