Grand Cannon

The Grand Cannon is the heaviest artillery of the Celestial Empire, a vast bronze gun cast in the imperial foundries and graven with protective sigils and the coiling forms of dragons. Larger and more finely wrought than the crude cannon of the western realms, it hurls an enormous iron ball across the battlefield with thunderous force, punching through ranks, war-engines, and monsters alike in a spray of splintered ruin. A disciplined crew of Cathayan gunners serves each piece with practised precision, ranging their shots with a mathematician's care so that few rounds are wasted. The Grand Cannon is a weapon of the Empire's long defensive wars, positioned upon the Great Bastion and in the field alike to shatter the foe at range before the walls are ever tested. Its deep, rolling report echoes like the voice of the Celestial Dragon Emperor himself, and where its shot falls, even the greatest beasts of Chaos are laid low.