Battle of Lorn V | Tournament

“In ice it slumbered. In blood, it shall awaken.”

Centuries ago, the frozen death world of Lorn V was the site of a brutal conflict. Imperial forces, Chaos warbands, Ork invaders, and Eldar raiders all clashed over the remains of a lost Warlord-class Titan—Dominatus Rex, buried beneath layers of glacial ice.

Though the Imperium claimed victory, the Titan was never fully recovered. The planet was deemed too unstable, too hostile. Lorn V was abandoned, its secrets left behind.

But now, everything has changed.

A sudden shift in the planet’s orbit—perhaps natural, perhaps not—has triggered a rapid thaw. Ice is cracking. Permafrost is melting. Swamps and rivers now flood old battlegrounds. And deep beneath the surface, something ancient and powerful is awakening.

Mechanicus augurs report unusual power surges near the Titan’s vault. Vox-signals long thought silenced now murmur across the void. The name Dominatus Rex has returned to high-priority threat lists. And the…