Within the Redemption, the worship of false idols is a grievous heresy, and the word-keepers are swift to punish those who see the divine in sanctioned places. This of course does not stop members of Clan Cawdor from making effigies to the God-Emperor from hive detritus or building shrines beneath particularly auspicious looking gunk-stains. Then there are men like Rattus Tatterskin who hear the Emperor’s voice in the incessant squeaking of his rats.
Tatterskin claims to have spoken with the spirit of the Emperor, who he says inhabits the body of a gigantic rat deep in the depths
