The last contraption that the scatterbrained Talabheim alchemist Jurgen Bugelstrauss ever made nicknamed the Sunmaker, for it fired specialist phosphoric rockets that burned with a blinding brilliance. By attaching silken canopies to these projectiles in order to slow their descent, Bugelstrauss had lit up the night sky above the Talabec for hours at a time. Karl Franz and his diplomatic escort had been able to see the other side of the river as clear as day, even in the dead of night.
Unfortunately, the alchemist had met a grisly end a week later in an incident involving a barrel of gunpoweder, a twelve-foot length of Cathayan bamboo, and a badly castrated boar. His experiments were sealed away in the Talabheim dockhouses the day after his funeral, a deafeningly memorable occasion that culminated in the firing of no fewer than six Helstorm rocket batteries and three dozen counts of indeliberate arson.
Source
- Sigmar's Blood
- pg. 41