Developer Owlcat Games is back with a new lore article for the upcoming turn-based RPG Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy. It is dedicated to one of the incomprehensible phenomenons of the Calixis Sector, the Tyrant Star.
A monstrous, star-like object surrounded by unnatural darkness, it is a threat of immense proportions that remains a mystery even to the Inquisition. Appearing seemingly at random across the Calixis Sector, it immediately plunges everything around it into deep gloom and despair, often eclipsing that system’s natural star in the process.
As an acolyte of the Inquisition, you will have to face not only the Tyrant Star itself, but also the unsettling secrets of its true nature. With its sinister radiation and unpredictable movements, this gargantuan celestial body is a harbinger of doom wherever it appears. When manifesting, the Tyrant Star causes geological disasters, mass deaths, madness, warp anomalies, and other cataclysmic events. Any system unfortunate enough to be caught in its embrace is destined to suffer greatly.
“It all happened so quickly… Day turned into night, and a black sun shone in the sky. People started panicking and screaming. And then, one dreadful day later, they attacked each other, and themselves; some even tried to gouge out their own eyes and tear off their skin. I swear I even felt the ground shake. I— I hid in the sewers and didn’t come out for two days. When I did, starved and exhausted, the Star was gone, and the city streets were filled with blood and disfigured bodies.” – Survivor’s eyewitness testimony