Deliverance is the moon homeworld of the Raven Guard, orbiting the Forge World of Kiavahr in the Kiavahr System. It’s a barren, airless mining rock, and it matters because it’s where Corax freed a planet’s worth of slaves and where the Chapter’s fortress-monastery, the Ravenspire, still stands.
What and where is Deliverance?
Deliverance is a moon of Kiavahr in the Kiavahr System, sitting in the Forsarr Sector of Segmentum Tempestus. It’s classified as an Adeptus Astartes homeworld and a mining world, and it holds a tithe grade of Adeptus Non, meaning it owes no regular Imperial tithe.
The moon is mineral-rich but barren and airless. People live and work under force domes, and the surface is covered with massive mining structures. Deliverance and Kiavahr together churn out ordnance and war machines on a scale close to a Forge World.
Gravity on Deliverance is about 0.5G, which is worth remembering when you picture how its defenders and mines operate.
From Lycaeus to Deliverance
The moon started out as Lycaeus, a mining colony worked by exiles from Kiavahr: slaves and criminals who toiled in the mineworks under overseers from the world below. They lived in crude force domes that kept the vacuum out.
Everything changed when the Primarch Corax arrived. He united the oppressed workers and led a revolution against Kiavahr’s ruling Tech-Guilds. After they won, the former slaves renamed their moon Deliverance.
Soon after, the Emperor reached Deliverance. The moon was folded into the Imperium and became the homeworld of the XIX Legion, the Raven Guard.
The Ravenspire and the Blackchine Redoubts
The Raven Guard’s fortress-monastery, the Ravenspire, occupies the huge black tower that once belonged to the moon’s overseers. It’s a nice bit of symbolism: the masters’ seat became the liberators’ keep.
On the moon’s dark side, the Blackchine Redoubts form a linked network of trench liners, anti-ship batteries, and fortresses encircling the mining complexes and spaceports. PDF troops man them, but they’re built and fought in true Raven Guard style.
- Ravenspire: the Raven Guard’s fortress-monastery, built into the old overseers’ tower.
- Blackchine Redoubts: a defensive ring of hidden strongpoints, secret approaches, and false ramparts on the dark side.
- The redoubts let defenders outmanoeuvre attackers without revealing their own positions.
Deliverance in the 41st millennium
Deliverance doesn’t sit safely at the edge of things. In 996.999.M41 it lay directly in the path of Waaagh! Garaghak, which put the moon and its defences squarely in the firing line.
That’s the ongoing tension of Deliverance: it’s a fortress and a factory, so it’s both a target worth hitting and a place built to make attackers pay for every step. The Raven Guard’s whole approach to war, stealth, ambush, and hitting from where you aren’t expected, is baked into how the moon defends itself.
Key facts
- Deliverance is the Raven Guard’s moon homeworld, orbiting Kiavahr in the Kiavahr System, Segmentum Tempestus.
- It was originally called Lycaeus and was worked by exiles and slaves mining under force domes.
- Corax led a revolt against Kiavahr’s Tech-Guilds, and the moon was renamed Deliverance after the victory.
- The Ravenspire, the Chapter’s fortress-monastery, sits in the old overseers’ black tower.
- Gravity is roughly 0.5G, and the moon holds the Blackchine Redoubts on its dark side.
- In 996.999.M41 it lay in the path of Waaagh! Garaghak.
FAQ
What is Deliverance in Warhammer 40k?
It’s the moon homeworld of the Raven Guard, orbiting the Forge World Kiavahr. Originally called Lycaeus, it was renamed Deliverance after Corax led a slave revolt there.
Why is Deliverance important to the Raven Guard?
It’s their homeworld and the site of their fortress-monastery, the Ravenspire. Corax freed its people and the Emperor later made it the base of the XIX Legion.
What is the Ravenspire?
The Ravenspire is the Raven Guard’s fortress-monastery. It occupies the huge black tower that once housed the moon’s overseers.
Was Deliverance always called that?
No. It was known as Lycaeus until Corax’s revolution succeeded, after which the freed workers renamed it Deliverance.