Chagrined by his defeat at the hands of Jaghatai Khan, Mortarion abandons the pursuit of the White Scars and instead leads the Death Guard in a spiteful, punitive rampage across the systems of the Prosperine empire. World after world has fallen to this horrific onslaught, and yet the insular and secretive primarch seems preoccupied by some other unspoken goal. Finally, on Terathalion, the truth of Mortarion's sinister heritage will be exposed, and the future of the XIV Legion will be written The fragile peace of Imperium Secundus is threatened by traitor warbands left behind by the Shadow Crusade, and a new order of battle must be written.
After the destruction of Monarchia and the Emperor's reprimanding of the Word Bearers Legion, the primarch Lorgar spent many long years searching the stars for the universal truths of the cosmos - when he finally came to gaze deep into the Eye of Terror, with grim inevitability he found that the Eye stared back. As the Great Crusade sweeps across the galaxy, the forces of the Imperium encounter a world held in thrall by the alien eldar.
While the Iron Hands of Ferrus Manus and Mortarion's Death Guard battle against the hated xenos, it is the Salamanders who brave the deepest and most deadly jungles, encountering monstrous reptilian beasts and foul witchery along the way.
Ultimately, it falls to their primarch Vulkan himself to thwart the sinister designs of the eldar, if the Legions are to liberate this world and bring illumination to its inhabitants. Soon after word reached Terra of Horus' nascent rebellion, Mars fell. Rogue elements within the Mechanicum priesthood, stirred by the Warmaster's promises of independence and prosperity, turned against the Imperium and forced the primarch, Rogal Dorn, to order an impenetrable blockade of the Red Planet.
Now it has become clear that the corruption has spread too deep, and that more drastic measures must be taken if the Forge World Principal is to be reclaimed. Now they walk a darker, more dangerous road: the Eightfold Path. As word of Horus's treachery spreads to fully half of the Legiones Astartes, Terra looks to the remaining loyalist Space Marines to defend the Imperium.
One group, however, remains curiously silent in spite of apparent efforts from both sides to contact them - the noble Fifth Legion, Jaghatai Khan's fearsome White Scars. The book is excellent as part of the first collection. Warhammer 40k — False Gods Audiobook Stream. My trouble with it is the substantial adjustment in the personalities outlook, specifically Horus, from the initial publication. It is from the beginning that I felt the tone of them change and was just extremely slightly avoided to as why it might be.
It was tough to connect with Horus. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Horus Rising by Dan Abnett. The False Friend by Myla Goldberg. In the world, the Marines face heavy resistance from effective, spider-like aliens.
As the fight reaches its climax, the ships of a previously-unknown human interstellar realm, the Interex, arrive, exposing that they have eliminated the spider creatures to Murder, which the strange signals that the Imperium experienced entering the system were warnings from the Interex to keep away. Horus as well as his Wolves head to the globes of the interex to build a peace treaty.
Loken befriends an Interex guard, that asserts that the realm is wary of the Imperium out of fear of the taint of Chaos, which some are afraid haunts the forces of Terra. If you check out the first one you are going to need to add this to your collection as well. Horus Rising revealed the character of primary engineer that would certainly someday plunge the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Male right into its darkest hour. Graham McNeill takes over the composing duties for the second novel of the trilogy.
Tags: Martyn Ellis. Skip to content. Within the collection it is one of my the very least favorites Remarkably sufficient in publication 5, Fulgrim, additionally composed by Graham McNeill, I could completely get in touch with the title character.
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