Came across this article talking about hundreds of kids being sacrificed in Peru in the 15th century.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49495167
I don’t care about how far back in time this took place that’s absolutely horrific and any external power that could step in a stop this happening is a great thing. Even ISIS doesn't practice this sort of systematic and deliberate slaughter of children. I'm aware how horrible the Spanish were too, but as far as I known Europeans didn’t practice this sort of barbaric child sacrifice since the Neolithic era.
Njal Stormcaller, head Rune Priest of the Space Wolves, has dead, prefall Thousand Son Izzakar Orr stuck in his head. Stormcaller has made landfall with Majula, navigator of House Belisaurius, has navigated to Prospero and made landfall with Stormcaller. They were immediately set upon by Chaos cultists, and their Rhino knocked out of commission.
> Njal looked at the Rhino and knew instantly that it would be going nowhere until it had been tended by the Iron Priests. In the distance, he could see the gunships moving back and forth against the blaze of psychic light. Whatever was happening in central Tizca was more important than his predicament and he held off voxing one of the pilots to collect him.
> +The Pyramid of Photep is several miles away.+
>‘I have run the ice fields of Fenris for days at a time. It will take a few minutes, that is all.’
>His gaze fell upon Majula and his confidence waned a little. She could not hope to keep pace.
>‘Leave me here, I will rejoin you when I can,’ she told him, guessing his thoughts. Though her eyes flitted to the mounds of corpses and the shadows in the ruined buildings. ‘I will find my own way to your brothers.’
>‘It is not safe.’ Njal considered the problem and then took a step towards the Navigator, his empty hand held out. ‘If you do not mind your dignity being a little bruised, I will carry you.’
>‘I do not wish to slow you down, Lord of Runes. Something fell occurs in Tizca and you must be quick to counter it.’
> ‘You shall be no burden at all,’ he assured her, gesturing for Majula to approach. ‘We shall run as swift as the hunting wolves.’
>‘I am young but I am not a child. I do not think this paternal attitude is appropriate.’
>‘You misunderstand,’ said Njal. ‘You are the Navigator and if I wish to return to Fenris I have to keep you alive.’
>+Well done, wolf-son! Finally you show some perspective.+
>‘I see.’ She pressed against the wolf pelt that hung from his waist and he lifted gently, holding her to his chest. More carefully than when he had attacked the cultists, he allowed the warp to trickle into his thoughts, to flow gently through his veins. His hearts stirred at the power, his blood coursed, and a sweat stood out on his skin.
>‘Like the wolf,’ he told her again and broke into a run.
>***+It is hard to believe that a people famed for their sagas make such repeated use of trite metaphors.+***
> His first strides were slow and lumbering, the
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Also meaning he eventually finds out what has happened over the past 527 years.
