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* AnyoneCanDie: And an awful lot of people do. To name: [[spoiler: uhh I'll be back]]
* BadMoonRising: Almost name-dropped. The Bad Moon, uhh something somethign

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* AnyoneCanDie: And an awful lot of people do. To name: [[spoiler: uhh I'll be back]]\n
* BadMoonRising: Almost name-dropped. The Bad Moon, uhh something somethignMoon whips the Moonclan grots into an apocalyptic frenzy, and leers over the city as they wreak their havoc.



* {{Lunacy}}: The light of the Bad Moon drives the Moonclan Grots to manic uhhh
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: At the

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* {{Lunacy}}: The light of the Bad Moon drives the Moonclan Grots to manic uhhh
into madness, it's hideous light mutating and warping them and the city.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: At thethe feast to celebrate the [[TemptingFate end of the cities woes,]] the Gits [[spoiler: poison the wine served, causing the unfortunate mayor to projectile-vomit clouds of spores that turn any partygoers they touch into ravenous, flesh eating beasts. They then convert other survivors into more of these creatures by vomiting similar spores in their faces.]]
*PosthumousCharacter: The book opens with the Swords of Sigmar having to kill Valen Saul, Hendrick's brother and their [[TheAce very capable]] leader, after he is mutated by a cursed crown into a rampaging monster. The groups attempts to give meaning to his death by acting on his prophecy directly leads to the rest of the book.
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*AnyoneCanDie: And an awful lot of people do. To name: [[spoiler: uhh I'll be back]]
*BadMoonRising: Almost name-dropped. The Bad Moon, uhh something somethign
*BrownNoteBeing: The Bad Moon gradually eats away at the sanity of all who look at it or stand directly in it's light, and strange fungal growths sprout from wherever that light shines... including [[BodyHorror human skin.]]
*CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: At the halfway point of the novel, the horror/mystery element is dropped, ushering in full-on apocalyptic madness... during which almost all of the characters horribly die.
*{{Lunacy}}: The light of the Bad Moon drives the Moonclan Grots to manic uhhh
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Published in 2020, the novel follows two Necron lords, Trazyn the Infinite, [[TheCollector a collector of ancient artifacts]], and Orikan the Diviner, [[{{Seers}} a powerful chronomancer]]. Trazyn and Orikan have been enemies for millennia, but when Orikan steals the Astrarium Mysterios from Trazyn's collection, believing it to be the key to unlocking an ancient power, the two are dragged into direct conflict. Over the course of ten thousand years, they go from competing over ownership of the Mysterios, to working together to unlock its secrets, to stabbing each other in the back over it. Their feud reshapes timelines, dooms planets, and threatens to either destroy or restore the entire Necron race.

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Published in 2020, In the novel follows two Necron lords, Trazyn the Infinite, [[TheCollector a collector of ancient artifacts]], and Orikan the Diviner, [[{{Seers}} a powerful chronomancer]]. Trazyn and Orikan have been enemies for millennia, but when Orikan steals the Astrarium Mysterios from Trazyn's collection, believing it to be the key to unlocking an ancient power, the two are dragged into direct conflict. Over the course of ten thousand years, they go from competing over ownership dark corners of the Mysterios, Mortal Realms, the mysterious Gloomspite Gitz go to working together war, following the trail of their abominable deity. Nowhere is beyond the sight of the Bad Moon, not even those places under Sigmar's protection, like the city of Draconium, sweltering beneath the scalding rain of Aqshy. In this boiling pot of tension, the regent prays to unlock its secrets, to stabbing each other Sigmar for guidance while Captain Helena Morthan puts out fires: blades drawn in the back over it. Their feud reshapes timelines, dooms planets, streets, heretical doomsayers preaching the end of days, and threatens to either destroy or restore insects eating watchmen alive.

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the entire Necron race.grieving warrior Hendrick and his warband arrive at the gates with a prophetic warning, Captain Morthan sees a way to save her people. But with Skragrott the Loonking plotting underneath Draconium, and the Bad Moon looming in the sky above, will there be a city left to save?
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[[caption-width-right:664: ''It comes now rising high above, it's heard your hue and cry. [[BadMoonRising The Bad Moon]] fills the velvet dark, and beady is its eye. Those naughty children that it sees, no, Sigmar cannot save. Grobi the Blackcap comes for all, a-squirming from his cave."]]
''Gloomspite'' is a ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' novel by Andrew Clark.

Published in 2020, the novel follows two Necron lords, Trazyn the Infinite, [[TheCollector a collector of ancient artifacts]], and Orikan the Diviner, [[{{Seers}} a powerful chronomancer]]. Trazyn and Orikan have been enemies for millennia, but when Orikan steals the Astrarium Mysterios from Trazyn's collection, believing it to be the key to unlocking an ancient power, the two are dragged into direct conflict. Over the course of ten thousand years, they go from competing over ownership of the Mysterios, to working together to unlock its secrets, to stabbing each other in the back over it. Their feud reshapes timelines, dooms planets, and threatens to either destroy or restore the entire Necron race.
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