A bronze Malifect is a profane device that appears as an ugly arrangement of bronze augmetic limbs infused with a murderous spirit of the Warp. This malefic machine was the result of a strange tech-heresy that gripped the Josian Reach Sub-sector of the Calixis Sector in the latter half of the 8th Century of the 41st Millennium. The Augmetic Scholae, Tech-priests who built and maintained cybernetic devices, became Warp-tainted in many diverse locations. The Hereteks built malformed machine altars and conducted corruptions of Mechanicus rituals. They succumbed to madness and mind-rust, engraved screeds of Warp-nonsense across every surface, and toiled upon twisted devices. The bronze autolimbs are plasma-welded together such that the mass is joined into one large device, capable of articulation and movement. When active and infused with the power of the Warp, a Malifect moves rapidly with purpose and malignant intent. The daemon-spirit within guides the machine beast and senses terrified victims through unknown means—the malifect incorporates no ocular components or processing devices capable of initiating movement. It is the Warp alone, clothed in metal, hungry for death and pain, that motivates the device.
