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Enuncia is an ancient language that was capable of manipulating reality through speech or writing alone, without requiring psychic ability. It was rarely documented in Imperial records. Two known historical uses include a Space Wolf using a word of Enuncia to injure a daemon during the Horus Heresy, and corrupting machine code during the Word Bearers' attack on Calth. In the 41st millennium, the heretic Zygmunt Molotch attempted to reconstruct Enuncia through logic engines and recovered data engines to assemble its codex. He aimed to combine this with psychic energy channeled through a hive city's temple layout to make himself virtually godlike, but was interrupted by Inquisitor R

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Enuncia

Enuncia is an ancient language that was capable of manipulating reality through speech or writing alone, without requiring psychic ability. It was rarely documented in Imperial records. Two known historical uses include a Space Wolf using a word of Enuncia to injure a daemon during the Horus Heresy, and corrupting machine code during the Word Bearers' attack on Calth. In the 41st millennium, the heretic Zygmunt Molotch attempted to reconstruct Enuncia through logic engines and recovered data engines to assemble its codex. He aimed to combine this with psychic energy channeled through a hive city's temple layout to make himself virtually godlike, but was interrupted by Inquisitor R

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ENUNCIA

Enuncia is an ancient language, but instead of communication, the language was used as a tool or a
weapon: when spoken aloud or written, Enuncia was capable of manipulating the very fabric of reality,
a power beyond even the most potent psykers. It was incredibly dangerous, especially since it
required no natural psyker ability, and could potentially be used by any one.

History and emergence

Enuncia is very obscure, with only a few fragmentary references appearing anywhere
in Imperial records. Even fewer of these references include any information on the use of Enuncia[1].
One theory states that Enuncia accounts for ancient human legends concerning the use of "magic";
another says that it was one of the tools of creation itself[1].

The few effects of Enuncia observed can include the control of daemons (without the usual
bargaining), or as a potent weapon against enemies, causing physical damage to the target ranging
from uncontrollable vomiting to cranial rupturing. However, the reality-warping effects can also
damage the speaker, many of whom suffer wounds to their mouths and throats when speaking the
words. Likewise, machines attempting to process written forms of the language can suffer spontaneous
breakdowns.[Needs Citation]

Two known cases could be extracted from the archives concerning the Horus Heresy. In the first, use
of a single Enuncia "word" is attributed to the Space Wolves Skjald Kasper Hawser. He successfully
employed the word during the Battle of Prospero, to fight against a Nurglite Daemon which revealed
itself to be the entity Russ thought used Hawser's body to spy on the Space Wolves. Hawser, although
mangling the demon, suffered injuries to his throat and teeth after employing such a word of power.[2]

In the second case, Enuncia was used to introduce corrupted machine-code into the defense network
of Calth during the Word Bearers' attack on Ultramar.[3]

In the 400s M41, Zygmunt Molotch, a product of the heretical Cognitae institution, was attempting
to reconstruct Enuncia by examining several ancient archaeological sites on varying planets. Molotch
was presumed killed by an air strike summoned by Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor, while examining his
latest site[4].

However, Molotch survived, and, after allying with a fellow Cognitae "graduate," Jader Trice,
approached the problem from a different angle. He attempted to reconstruct Enuncia from scratch,
using an enormous array of logic engines and cogitators to combine letters and phonemes in all
possible combinations. To do this, he set himself up as Lord Governor Subsector on Eustis Majoris,
using the resources of the Administratum, and several warp-tainted data engines recovered from the
lost Mergent Worlds, which had been embroiled in a warp storm for centuries. The project,
controlled by a group called the Secretists, gradually extracted fragments of Enuncia from seemingly
random data[Needs Citation].
Molotch and Trice were close to assembling a complete Codex of the language, when they had
another breakthrough: the capital of Eustis Majoris, the Hive City of Petropolis, was in fact designed
as a huge "Psychic Resonator" by the infamous heretical architect Theodor Cadizky with precisely
nine hundred and ninety-nine temples, the central one of which, called the Old Sacristy, being in the
exact centre of the hive. All the others, the axial temples, formed lines from the Old Sacristy that give
the entire hive an overall mathematical symmetry, creating a focal point for psychic energy that, when
combined with the completed Codex, would make Molotch into a virtual god[Needs Citation].

The ritual was interrupted at the crucial moment by Ravenor and his team, though not before Molotch
had absorbed a tremendous amount of psychic energy and healed his body of the disfiguring wounds
suffered during the air strike years ago. Molotch was able to escape the planet

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