num_pages: 316
description: Book 1 of the Mephiston seriesA religious civil war brings the Blood Angels commanded by Chief Librarian Mephiston to a shrine world where they find a mystery that might help Mephiston understand how he survived the Black Rage  and perhaps cure the Blood Angels of their affliction.The shrine world of Divinatus Prime has become lost to the light of the Astronomican and no ship can piece its veil. Only the Lord of Death himself Blood Angels Chief Librarian Mephiston has any hope of discerning the fate of this once pious world. After enacting a powerful blood ritual Mephiston and an honour guard of his fellow Blood Angels reach the stricken shrine world to find it seized by religious civil war. Each faction fights for dominance of a potent artefact the Blade Petrific said to be wrought by the Emperor Himself. Yet there is more at work here than a mere ideological schism for Mephiston believes Divinatus Prime could offer answers to how he became the Lord of Death he who resisted the Black Rage and possibly even a way to end the curse of the Flaw in all Blood Angels.Read by Richard Reed.
language: English
title: Mephiston: Blood of Sanguinius
publisher: Black Library