“Why do I still live?“ Warhammer 40K Chant

Thumbnail artwork by Christian Schwager () Extended version: 1 Hour Loop (of extended version) “What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they’ve made of our dream. This bloated, rotting carcass of an Empire is driven not by reason and hope, but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus’ ambition than lived to see this.“ -Roboute Guilliman- This quote by the primarch of the Ultramarines had me thinking about the sad state that the Imperium of Man is in. As I pondered on that, I thought of a melancholic melody and the sorrows of a man lamenting his lost species, his suffering people, struggling for survival within the vast universe. The chant I used is a derivative of “Puer natus est nobis“, a medieval gregorian cha