num_pages: 800
description: A Black Library Getting Started bookThe 41st Millennium and the Mortal Realms are filled with heroes – in this anthology, you'll discover many of them in action-packed tales that will thrill and delight you.READ IT BECAUSEDiscover some of the greatest heroes of the Warhammer worlds in an epic collection of short stories that encompass incredible deeds and phenomenal heroism.DESCRIPTIONIn the grim darkness of the far future, and in the vastness of the Mortal Realms, there are those characters who stand out amongst all others.Within these pages, and collected for the first time, are stories of some of Black Library’s best-loved and well-known heroes and villains. On deadly battlefields, Commissar Ibram Gaunt leads his regiment, the Tanith ‘Ghosts’, in a desperate battle for survival; on Ultramar, Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris stands as a bulwark against the forces of Chaos; in the shadowy underbelly of the Imperium, Inquisitors Crowl and Covenant ply their clandestine trade. Throughout embattled lands, the realm of gods and monsters, Vampire Queen Neferata seeds dark plots to secure her power, whilst Lord-Celestant Gardus Steelsoul is a paragon of virtue and honour, and drives back the pestilent hordes of the Plague God. These are just some of the legends, the light and the darkness – the icons of the Warhammer worlds.CONTENTSEndurance, Blood Guilt and Argent by Chris WraightExecution by Rachel HarrisonThe Battle for Markgraaf Hive by Justin D HillThe Smallest Detail by Sandy MitchellOf Their Lives in the Ruin of Their Cities and Thorn Wishes Talon by Dan AbnettMercy by Danie WareThe Wreckage, Eclipse of Hope and The Dance of the Skulls by David AnnandaleRite of Pain and Veil of Darkness by Nick KymeChains of Command by Graham McNeillRedeemer by Guy HaleyExtinction and Shadow Knight by Aaron Dembski-BowdenProdigal and Ghosts of Demesnu by Josh ReynoldsFireheart by Gav ThorpeThe Absolution of Swords by John FrenchOne, Untended and Gods’ Gift by David GuymerThe Old Ways by Nick HorthHunting Shadows by Andy ClarkShiprats by C L Werner
language: English
title: The Hammer and the Eagle: Icons of Warhammer
publisher: Black Library