Volentia is eager to solve the riddle she encountered during her Interrogator training. Chaos Lords and rogue traders alike are fascinated by the mystical treasure of a fortress in the cursed sands. The eerie power that resides inside has turned mad most of those who are attracted to the backwater world from their haunted dreams.

The Adeptus Mechanicus are never open about their business, especially when more relics and strange things are being discovered by adventurous tech-priests. Volentia is sent to investigate massive data clearings on a forge world only to find herself amid even bigger mysteries and threats.

This is the beginning of the story of Inquisitor Volentia who starts her career with a seemingly trivial accident that nevertheless leads to events of a much larger scale. Accompanied by a retinue of misfits, she ventures out to the bigger world on the edge of inevitable change. Disclaimer: there are canon liberties, some details of background lore have been altered.

Runoff of the story of Commissiar Cain in the Traitors Hand, but from the eyes of a Guardsman...