So I was looking for something in the core book when I came across this, and something jumped out at me...
AtWoSE wrote:
Over the millennia, what would be known as the First Imperium of Man flourished and reached over almost every corner of the continent, and even to worlds beyond this one. But like all things, they eventually became decadent and indolent, searching for new and ever more bizarre and deviant behavior to entertain their jaded tastes Until finally, amongst a group of soldier-slaves known as the val’Virdan, there rose a man known as the Sword of the Heavens and
with religious fervor, he brought down the Imperium of Man stone by stone.
"soldier-slaves"? The val'Virdan? Why were
any val considered slaves during the 1st Imperium? Am I forgetting something?