Transmuted From One Form Into Another
The great procession of the triumph passed under the Spatian Gate, and I marched with it, into the atrocity. That ceremonial arch, so splendid and massive, forms a threshold in the course of my life. I stepped across it and was remade, transmuted from one form into another.
Some have said that I was crippled beyond the measure of a man. I do not see it that way.
I believe I was liberated.
— Gideon Ravenor, preface to The Mirror of Smoke
— Ravenor, preface
“Gideon Ravenor…suffered crippling injuries during an [atrocity] on Thracian Primaris, and was confined to a suspensor chair for the remainder of his life. His confinement only boosted his already formidable psyker abilities….”
