Author's Note

This is my first Canon/Non Canon Omake of The Four returning to the greater 40k Galaxy and the 'Chaos' they bring back with them.

does this have hints as to what they should expect in the future? who can say?

also if I screwed up with anything involving lore or how the Knights try to learn a daemon's true name, please let me know so I don't make an idiot of myself.

Shoutout to Draskos as it was his comment in the previous chapter that inspired this idea of 'how the New Four tackle True Names'.

Omake: New Security System.

“My Lord! We have managed to acquire one of the new Daemons, it is of Slaaneshii ilk.” One of the two Grey Knights spoke as they reported to their Grand Master.

The man was none other than Aldrik Voldus, a powerful psyker without peer in the chapter, Leader of the Third Brotherhood, Warden of the Librarius, and devoted servant to the Emperor. His brothers had been set out on the borders of Imperial Territory by the Ordo Malleus after a sudden resurgence of Daemonic Incursions into realspace, something never seen since the disappearance of the Dark Gods and the emergence of a new major Aeldari Faction dubbed ‘The Fallen’ which resulted in the Craftworld Aeldari becoming even fewer in number than they already were. It didn’t take long before the Knights and the Ordo by extension learned that the Four had returned, worse still, that they were united and dragging along a new Daemon World with them that had granted them as of yet still not understood powers.

But the tide was stemmed before it could surge, and the Grey Knights were able to fight off even the newest monsters formed by the Gods of Chaos. It was a difficult ordeal however, new daemons had meant new names, and with the witness of one of the new ‘Honour Guards’ attacking and slaying a Bloodthirster, the old Daemons were being removed. This development meant that the Book of Names that Ordo Malleus had written was now useless and they would need to find the names of these creatures from scratch.

But the Knights were one step closer, they now had one of them.

Aldrik nodded and silently followed the two knights to a chamber, where the caged Daemon struggled in its binds. From the description it was a Greater Daemon that had been given the disgustingly ironic moniker of ‘Embrace’ by the newly dubbed ‘Goddess of Pleasure’, most likely for its disposition of squeezing their victims like the serpents its lower body takes after.

The fact the tendrils that made up its ‘hair’ were blue only told Aldrik that this thing was a wretched half-breed of the Puppetmaster Tzeentch as well. The creature itself was held down within the cage by holy chains that burned at the parts of the body they were clasped around, the blasts it had attempted to throw at its captors halted by the attuned nature of its prison. The only oddity was that the monster seemed to recoil and writhe from the pain of its searing flesh negatively, as though it despised the sensation.

“It is of no use, Warpspawn,” One of the Justicars working to divine the abomination’s name spoke in response to the Daemon’s struggles. “Those chains have been blessed by the Emperor himself and anointed with the blood of his most devoted followers of the Sisterhood. You shall not break them so easily.”

“Oh yes, and I’m sure your dear Emperor loves it when you slaughter his people in his name, and you wonder why there are humans that aren’t as gung-ho about your faith as you are—GHK!” it gags as one of the knights tugged on the chain wrapped around its neck so as to silence its deceptions. “Hey, watch it! I’m not into Choking, you’d need to see one of my sisters for that kink!”

“Enough!” Aldrik declares. “Your ‘Goddess’ holds no power in our sacred temple, Warp Filth, it would do you well to reveal your name soon so that you may receive the Emperor’s mercy.”

“Oh, I’d be all up for being at your Emperor’s ‘mercy’, dear, oh I can just imagine what he’d do to me in his righteous fury, throwing me to the ground with that strength and forcing me to submit to his rippling muscular form~, mmmm, Harder Daddy~.”

*BOOM* The thundering blast of a bolter erupted, and impacted the ceiling, one of Aldrik’s brothers rather justifiably having attempted to put a round through the bitch’s head before another stopped him, lest he damage the cage or chains and release it.

The Daemon only giggled in amusement at their actions before its tone became serious. “And you are welcome to try and find my true name, but Mother Slaanesh and her siblings have gotten a bit more creative in protecting our identities since you last saw them.”

“Brother Aldrik I have pierced the vei—... what is this…?” the Justicar spoke slowly.

“Justicar Michael, what is it?”

“It… it says it’s a ‘Captcha’.”

“What the hell is a Captcha?” a fellow Justicar asked.

“I don’t know, but it blocks my vision, it won’t allow me to pass until I prove I’m not an Abominable Intelligence. Yet all it gives me is a strange image and a box.”

Aldrik pondered before asking. “Is there anything strange about the image, Brother?”

“There appear to be symbols within it, a letter ‘A’, some numbers, and an Ampersand.”

“Attempt to imprint those symbols into the box in order, it is clearly a code of some kind.”

“...yes! I am through Lord Aldrik! And I believe I have found a clue to the beast’s name!”

“Speak it aloud.”

“Yes, the clue appears to be some form of riddle ‘to reach the answer, you must learn of Ligma’.”

The other Justicar seemed to flinch in shock, and moved to speak before the Knight watching over the chain to the daemon’s neck absently asked. “What is Ligma?”

“BROTHER! NO!”

“Ligma Balls~,” The daemon answered after the knight asked, the Justicar too late to stop it.

“AAAAA—” and the knights all watched in horror as the one who asked was just instantly vaporised in agony, not even his armour was left.

Aldrik stared at where the man had stood and involuntarily exclaimed:

“WHAT THE FUCK?!”

The daemon remained in captivity for five more days before the Brotherhood decided to just slay the creature instead of sacrificing more time and brothers to it.

They never learned Estallia’s True Name.

They didn’t even manage to get around the third defence, by the sheer fact that said third defence was an image of Estallia in a ski mask with the caption ‘Seduce Me’.