Chris Wright. Warhammer 40,000: Child of Chaos (№ 441164)

Today, among those who still pretend to keep records and tell stories, it is fashionable to believe that the Testament was supposedly a kind of piety forerunner of the later fundamental religion. Perhaps somewhere it was. Perhaps in Varadesh they did everything as it should be. However, the priests had already begun to acquire a characteristic reputation in proncia. They drank and gambled. They were cruel - and used it to accumulate wealth. Even the believers knew that the tithes they paid were not entirely used to decorate temples. The system was like a rotten pool, its cold and oily heart closed off from the inquisitive light of the sun.