40K Source

The link below is from the website of an Irish author named John Connolly. He wrote a book called the Dark Angel which features a 15th Century Boheimien Monastery called Sedlac (Pronuonced: Said-Leh-ch). In Sedlac there is an ossuray - place where bones were collected at the time - in which various "artists" (of sorts) have created structures, sculptures and other decorations and artifacts using the bones of the dead. Some might find the idea sickening or sacreligious, I personally find it maccabre but fascinating at the same time, but it make for a very effective atmosphere.

There is a video also on the page that I've linked to (it's right at the top) in two different formats so you should be able to view it. Although the book "The Black Angel" is fiction Sedlac is real.

I thought that your mappers might want to have a look at it for some inspiration for a church or a chapel of some kind. It just seemed to fit in with the whole atmosphere and background of the 40K universe.

http://www.johnconnollybooks.com/journalism_sedlec.html

On my trip to Serbia I saw the skull tower as well.

The only one of it's kind, it is a simple square tower of bricks, but inserted with skulls from top to bottom.
It had originally 952 skulls, but only 58 remains today, as the rest have been stolen, burried or destroyed by the weather.

The tower was build by the Turks after a Serbian uprising, to scare the serbs from attempting another revolution.
Something I could picture the imperium of man in the 41st century do to a revolutionary planet as well...  :wink:

sounds more the work of chaos to me, imperium just has you whipped or execute din full pblic view.

You can see alot of skulls beeing displayed by imperial forces aswell.. =) so not only chaos

Yes, look no further than the Inquisitor Throne of Judgement...