Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 258 True Name and Authority

The concept of real names and related knowledge, among the many departments of the Empire involved in the Warp, probably belonged to the exclusive domain of the Gray Knights Chapter.

Other departments naturally have "lucky ones" who have come into contact with by chance, but if we really want to say that the only one who has consistently studied this concept for thousands of years is the Gray Knights.

These "lucky ones" are extremely happy about the knowledge they have acquired in various information asymmetric environments, but they don't know that this kind of knowledge that belongs to the gods is so vast that it can't see the end, and it has life in a certain sense , itself a curse to all who know.

They are destined to be unable to transform this knowledge into real power in their short lives, but because of the fragility of their souls, they are repeatedly polluted by this taboo knowledge, and they will not be able to repent until the end of their lives.

In contrast, the Gray Knights are much luckier. Their pure souls are born with the ability to control psychic energy, and the emperor's blood has solidified these souls firmly, so that the thickness and strength of their souls are finally barely enough. Reach the bottom line of touching it.

Calvin doesn't know the mystery of the real name for the time being, but like all warp knowledge, some concepts are alive.

When Calvin recalled the appearance of the sword of oath, the concept of real name also spontaneously took shape in his mind.

This abnormality immediately aroused Calvin's vigilance, and there was a clear explanation for this situation in the training he received:

When a certain concept itself has vitality, it will try to spread its existence all the time.

The fire of order ignited at Calvin's fingertips, and the psychic fluctuations that echoed throughout the dome hall swept across, but he did not perceive any hint of malice or pollution.

Well, the concept of neutrality, not malicious pollution.

Calvin made a cautious evaluation of this, then looked at the honor guard members in the hall, and said what he just said.

The Paladins belonging to the Hall of Victory are the core members of the Gray Knights, so they naturally have the authority to know some core secrets.

But this scope is also limited to the Lord of the Victory Hall - the leader of all paladins knows everything.

As for the other paladins guarding the Hall of Victory, while they themselves are candidates for the holders of the real names of the past, they can only know the name of that power after they have passed the test.

Therefore, when Calvin asked them about it, the paladins looked confused, but Gavins, the leader, hesitated to speak.

"Well, I see. You don't have to say it."

Casually saving Gavins from embarrassment, Calvin was immersed in his own thoughts again.

Yes, this kind of knowledge involving the nature of the warp, the Council of Grand Masters takes an extremely cautious attitude.

After all, with the lessons learned from the fallen primarchs in the Great Rebellion, it is understandable that the veterans Calvin grew up with a conservative attitude.

But Calvin also has his own thinking. As another attempt of the emperor, the Gray Knight has the mission of raising the dimension of the race.

Calvin became their Primarch by accident, and this mission naturally fell on him.

The veterans of the Grand Mentor Council have their own reasons for keeping it secret, but Calvin also has his own little secret.

His soul has no corresponding foundation in this universe, and naturally there is no corresponding real name.

And this special existence, in cooperation with the emperor's blood, cultivated a new generation of gray knights, which was also a product that veterans had never understood.

Yes, the relationship between the newborn Gray Knights and Calvin is far more than the relationship between the Astartes and the genetic blueprint that the veterans think can be described.

Due to the particularity of Calvin's soul and the special positioning of the gray knight's spiritual power, the souls of these newborn sons of Calvin also have an unimaginable close connection with him.

This is enough to prove a lot from the gray knights whose souls were housed in his spiritual world after the battle:
What Calvin and the new generation of gray knights can support each other in the legion mode is the power of psionic energy and the sharing of the cost after using psionic energy.

But when he was fighting against the Khorne Legion on the planet Marus, Calvin also added his power to the psionic power in desperation, and delegated it to the psionic power of the entire legion.

This kind of accidental attempt, in today's Calvin's recollection, clearly has the possibility of a more complicated operation on top of basic spiritual power sharing.

He has consulted some specific information on those ancestors with real names in the battle group.

In his eyes, all kinds of descriptions of being incredibly powerful when fighting against subspace are clearly an application of power.

Although he doesn't know the reason behind it, what Calvin can at least know is that these gray knights use this power called "true name" to achieve a function similar to the power he possesses in a certain sense!
The function of reciting the real name of the devil is the training that every Gray Knight undergoes.

He also understood the effect of this kind of exploration and capture of the foundation of the demon's power from the past records.

So what is the real name of the Gray Knight?
Is it also the same as the devil, the embodiment of the concept?
Considering Calvin's power of order to purify the opposite power of chaos, is there the same principle behind it?
Can it be considered that the so-called real name is to use the power of the corresponding concept to attack and offset the opposite concept?

Is this not a crude imitation of the power of order that Calvin possessed?

Yes, only this possibility is the closest to the truth;

Only in this way can those devil princes and princes who are essentially at the conceptual level be completely wiped out.

But it is a pity that they are different from Calvin. The mortal nature of their souls prevents them from having the uniqueness in the long river of time like Calvin. That's why they are left to the evil gods to resurrect them in the subspace after they destroy the demons every time. possible.

The doubts in Calvin's eyes gradually became clear. Once this kind of inference is established, many incomprehensible things will have reasonable explanations.

His most urgent task at this time is to really obtain a real name, so as to confirm whether his deduction is correct.

And if this inference is confirmed to be true, then a crazy idea appeared in his mind:

True Name is Power, True Name is Source;
The real name of the same kind is complete enough, which is the embryonic form of the authority of the gods.

This is most likely the truth of the way the gods of the Warp exist, so what about the other way around?
If Calvin divided his authority into sufficiently subtle and specific concepts, are these the true names of each one?
And what if he goes a step further and transfers these powers, which are subtle enough to be carried by mortal souls, to every son of Calvin?

Is that the newborn Gray Knight, just like the devil is to the gods, a manifestation of a certain aspect of his authority?
Cognition is also a kind of power. When Calvin's mind reached a complete logical closed loop about the relationship between authority and real name, the power of destiny began to undergo a huge change invisibly.

The occurrence of this change did not immediately appear in reality, but whether it was the ancient gods in the depths of the subspace or the existence in the direction of Terra, they all opened their closed eyes at this moment, looking towards the distant Er Puth looked.

　One update, I don't know if there is a second update.I have a terrible headache.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)