The Garunda Octagon

The Garunda Octagon is an impossibility, an abberration to the laws that govern the heavens. A sickly flickering green light pervades this region of space thanks to Garunda Prime, a pallid, epileptic star. Three planets of note together with a further five gas giants of little note orbit the star but not in the elliptical arcs that nature always degrees, but in rigid paths that describe octagons.

The veil betwen reality and the sea of souls is notoriously thin throughout the system and especially so on the Whispering World, Anguish and Delirium, the three solid worlds closest to the sun. For this and other reasons, the forces of Chaos have long sought domination here. However, recent developments such as the arrival of House Temporis and the explorator fleets of Forgeworld Bezoa have resulted in an ongoing, low-level conflict that is likely to turn into full-scale war once the forces of Chaos can muster in sufficient numbers. 

The Whispering World is rumoured to be a world blessed by the ruinous powers and a place of piligrimage for their servants. It is said that the Gods speak through the rushing whistling winds as they rush through the planet's rocky canyons and up from its numerous thermal vents. 

Anguish is a death world, completely covered in dense jungle, in which xeno-forms of all descriptions consume each other in a frenzied and unending cycle of carnage and predation. Every species of plant drips with poison and is covered in razor-sharp thorns. Humans dwell here in small tribal groups, their ingenuity proof agains the planet's primitive, crude, gesalt consciousness and its best attempts to extinguish them with plague, stampedes and megafauna. Throughout the sector's history, Anguish has often been used by traitorous astrates as a recruitment world. The planet is said to be home to a cult that venerates "The all-consuming one" - a daemon of some puissance, who may or may not be one with the planet's crude sentience. Strange stone tablets are strewn across the planet and those who attempt to mouth the phrases carved upon them regret doing so, their mouths filling with blood, their teeth shattering. 

Delirium is a world where the laws of space and time are hopelessly jumbled - symmetry is unknown here, even in the local flora and fauna. Here, a day can seem like a hour, a minute like a week. Xenos ruins abound here. The sole reason to set foot on Delirium are the Tetragates that connect the world through broken angles of space/time with Storm's End, the homeworld of House Temporis in the Calixis Sector, which in turn is located near the borders of the Ixanaid Sector.