The sorcerers of the Cult of Time hold that the passage of moments is no fixed river but a substance to be shaped, and they have bent their considerable genius to its mastery. In battle their powers manifest in ways that unravel the certainties of ordinary war. A Rubricae host may surge forward at impossible speed, crossing killing grounds in the space of a heartbeat, while enemy soldiers find their limbs mired in leaden slowness, their bullets crawling harmlessly through the air.
Most unsettling is the Cult's gift of foresight in the immediate. Its adepts glimpse the seconds yet to come and act upon knowledge no foe can share, sidestepping ambushes that have not yet sprung and countering strokes that have not yet fallen. Some among them are said to have looped brief spans of time entirely, reliving instants until the outcome pleases them.
Such power comes at a price familiar to all who serve Tzeentch. Those who peer too long into the currents of time grow detached from the present, speaking in riddles of events yet to pass and mourning the dead who still live. Yet in the patient, generations-spanning schemes of the Thousand Sons, no discipline is more prized, for a Legion that would master fate must first master the moments of which fate is made.
Order of battle
The Cult of Time field the units of the Thousand Sons, a detachment from the roster:
Other Thousand Sons formations
Cult of MagicThe Cult of Magic is the fellowship of raw arcane power, home to the most destructive battle-sorcerers the Thousand Sons can field. Where other Cults pursue subtlety and schemes, its adepts pursue the direct and overwhelming application of the warp, channelling storms of eldritch fire and bolts of unmaking that reduce armour, flesh and fortification alike to drifting ash. They are the burning heart of the Legion's armies, and where they walk the very air ignites with unleashed sorcery.
Cult of MutationThe Cult of Mutation is the fellowship devoted to the transformation of flesh, wielding the raw changing power of Tzeentch to reshape body and being at a whim. Its adepts twist the enemy into ruined horrors mid-battle, warp their own thralls into monstrous shapes, and study the flesh-change that once nearly destroyed the Legion, seeking to command the very curse that haunts them. Theirs is the most visceral and unsettling of the sorcerous disciplines, a mastery of transmutation that renders no form fixed and no body safe.
Cult of ProphecyThe Cult of Prophecy is the fellowship of seers and fate-readers, the eyes through which the Thousand Sons perceive the tangled futures of the galaxy. Its adepts divine the paths of destiny, unravelling omens and threading the Legion's centuries-long schemes through the chaos of what may come. In war they turn foresight to lethal advantage, anticipating every enemy stroke, and in the councils of their sorcerer-lords their visions shape campaigns waged across generations toward ends only they can see.
The Prodigal SonsThe Prodigal Sons are the warband of Ahzek Ahriman, a cabal of exiled sorcerers who followed him from the Planet of the Sorcerers in pursuit of forbidden knowledge. Cast out for the catastrophe of the Rubric, they wander the galaxy seeking the power to undo what he wrought.
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