Published in 2004’s long out of print anthology What Price Victory and strangely never subsequently reprinted, Simon Spurrier’s short story Elucidium offers a chilling, complex exploration of a Genestealer Cult secreted at the heart of an Imperial world. When the sinister Cardinal Arkannis arrives on Garial-Fall, the structures and certainties underpinning the world begin to change, from the heights of the ruling Plureaucracy to the depths of the long-hidden Underchurch. For G’Hait, the Cardinal’s arrival turns his entire world upside down and challenges everything he thought he knew, about himself and his place in the world.
