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The Shriven - Warband Beliefs: The nature of the original Chapter cult that defined the Brazen Drakes is unknown, although they were a Chapter once known for their strength of will and resolute spirit.Upon Chapter Master Argento Corian's rebellion, the Brazen Drakes became convinced that they didn't deserve to die due to the development of their unexpected psychic powers, nor for what they came to see as the hollow, corrupt ideology of the Imperium.Instead, under Corians' command, they believed that they had a right to fight for their own destiny and to become the masters of their own future.Among the Greyshield Primaris Marines assigned to the Brazen Drakes, Captain Gerion violently protested Shield-Captain Tyvar's accusation of heresy, as he still considered himself a loyal servant of the Emperor, and he likewise refused to condemn his Primaris battle-brothers just because they had been assigned to a Firstborn Chapter that had turned against the Emperor before their arrival.It is not known how the majority of the Greyshield Primaris Space Marines assigned to the Brazen Drakes reacted to the news of the execution of Gerion at Tyvar's hands, but at least half a dozen of these warriors came to defend him on the bridge of the Lux-Imperatus.
The Shriven - Notable Brazen Drakes/Shriven: Chaos Lord Argento Corian, "the Enlightener" (KIA) - Also known as Corian the Enlightener, Argento Corian was the Chaos Lord of The Shriven and the last Chapter Master of the Brazen Drakes. It was he who led the rebellion of the original Firstborn forces of the Chapter against the Imperium. Corian possessed psychic abilities and was heavily augmented by the work of his untrustworthy ally Fabius Bile, and found himself increasingly addicted to Bile's various stimulants and alchemical drugs, which led to a slow loss of control over his warband. Corian was effectively slain by a Vindicare Assassin on Bairsten Prime when he was shot through the head, but Bile resurrected him using his Warp-alchemy as a vile Chaos sorcerer-golem. Corian was finally killed by an Eversor Assassin during the Death Guard assault on Dessah, who took the Chaos Lord's life by detonating his body with explosive chemicals.Chapter Master Kaslyn - Kaslyn was the last Loyalist Chapter Master of the Brazen Drakes before their turn to Chaos and Corian's direct predecessor in the position.Captain Cathal - Cathal is the captain of an unknown company of the Brazen Drakes. He supported Corian's decision to rebel against the Imperium to save his battle-brothers.Captain Gerion (KIA) - Gerion was the Primaris Captain of one of the two Greyshield companies sent by the Indomitus Crusade's Torchbearer fleet to reinforce the Firstborn Brazen Drakes Chapter. He refused to turn himself and his warriors in to Shield-Captain Tyvar and called upon them to resist and seize control of the Torchbearer fleet. He was executed by Tyvar soon after for this act of treason.Brother Kier - Kier was a battle-brother of Captain Cathal's company. He manifested spontaneous psychic powers, but was saved from execution for this mutation by Argento Corian's rebellion against the Imperium.
The Shriven - Warband Colours: The Brazen Drakes' Chapter colours are not recorded in current Imperial records.As The Shriven, the warband adopted the standard colours of the Black Legion, black and gold.
The Shriven - Warband Badge: The Brazen Drakes' Chapter badge is not recorded in current Imperial records.As The Shriven, the warband used the standard heretical iconography of the Black Legion.
The Sigillite (Audio Drama) - The Sigillite (Audio Drama): The Sigillite is the twelth audio drama for the Horus Heresy Series that was not originally released as part of an anthology or other release. The Sigillite was published online in March 2013 by the Black Library as an audio CD. The audio drama was later republished in prose format as an e-book in January 2016 as part of the Tales of the Knights Errant week. The Sigillite was also published as part of The Silent War main series anthology novel.
The Sigillite (Audio Drama) - Official Synopsis: The galaxy is divided, but while his armies prepare for battle the Emperor Himself remains curiously absent. In His place stands Malcador -- legendary Sigillite, First Lord of Terra and regent to the throne -- now arguably the single most powerful man in the Imperium. Imperial Army officer Khalid Hassan reports back to the Imperial Palace after a disastrous secret mission into the wastelands of Gyptus, but soon learns an awful truth about the destiny of mankind. Where do Malcador's true loyalties lie?
The Silent War (Anthology) - The Silent War (Anthology): The Silent War is the thirty-seventh volume in the Horus Heresy series of novels. The Silent War contains 13 short stories and a single novella length story.
The Silent War (Anthology) - Synopsis: Anthology of tales about the secret missions that underpin the entire Horus Heresy series.While loyalist and traitor forces clash on a thousand battlefields across the galaxy, a very different kind of war is being fought in the shadows. Rogal Dorn and his Legion prepare to defend the Sol System against the armies of Warmaster Horus, even as Malcador the Sigillite charges his many agents and spies with missions of the utmost secrecy. The future of the Imperium is being shaped by unseen hands... This Horus Heresy anthology contains fourteen stories by some of Black Library's top authors, including James Swallow, Chris Wraight, John French, Anthony Reynolds and many more.
The Silent War (Anthology) - Contents: The Silent War includes the following 14 stories:The Watcher by C.Z. DunnChild of Night, Grey Angel, and Templar by John FrenchThe Gates of Terra by Nick KymeLuna Mendex, and Wolf Hunt by Graham McNeillThe Purge (Novella) by Anthony ReynoldsArmy of One, and Distant Echoes of Old Night by Rob SandersGhosts Speak Not, Lost Sons, and Patience by James SwallowThe Sigillite by Chris Wraight
The Soul, Severed (Audio Drama) - The Soul, Severed (Audio Drama): The Soul, Severed is the fortieth audio drama for The Horus Heresy series that was not originally released as part of an anthology or other release. The Soul, Severed was first released as an audio drama in December 2016 as part of the Black Library's 2016 Advent Calendar, on day 9.
The Soul, Severed (Audio Drama) - Official Synopsis: As Lord Commander Primus, Eidolon leads the Emperor's Children in the absence of his Primarch -- who even knows where the Daemon Prince Fulgrim resides, now? But a challenge from within the Legion forces Eidolon to confront one of his rivals, the ambitious Archorian, a capable officer and tactician who would see the Legion returned to glory. Dissent is unacceptable. It is time for the Kakophoni to be set against their erstwhile brethren.
The Tainted - The Tainted: The Tainted are a large warband or vectorium of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the Death Guard Traitor Legion who are dedicated to the Chaos God Nurgle in his aspects as the god of despair and the Mortifier of the Flesh.The Tainted supplement their numbers on the battlefield with a large number of disease-ridden Chaos Spawn called "Plague Spawn," mutated Plague Ogryns and other horribly mutated beasts who are collectively known as the "Rotted Circus." The most powerful of these beasts was a massive Chaos Spawn riddled with Grandfather Nurgle's plagues who was named "Jibberjaw."The Tainted were one of the 11 Chaos Space Marine warbands to participate in the Siege of Vraks, seeking to aid the forces of Chaos in the defence of the Imperial Armoury World of Vraks that they had seized from the rule of the Emperor under the leadership of the Apostate Cardinal-Astra Xaphan.Since that war Ordo Malleus researchers believe the secrets of creating Plague Ogryns have been refined further by The Tainted, deep within the Eye of Terror, and they now trade these vile beasts among the servants of the Lord of Decay in return for fresh subjects on which to practice their twisted fleshcraft.
The Tainted - Notable Campaigns: Siege of Vraks (813.M41-830.M41) - The Tainted were one of the Chaos Space Marine warbands that answered the call of the Chaos Lord Arkos the Faithless of the Alpha Legion to support the defence of the forces of Chaos entrenched on the Armoury World of Vraks from the assault of the Imperium. After the Siege of Vraks ended with the fall of that benighted world to Imperial forces after a horrifically costly military campaign in 830.M41, The Tainted fled off-world. After their arrival on Vraks during that long conflict, The Tainted's Chaos Champions began to sway the members of the Vraksian Traitor Militia to the worship of Nurgle. The most powerful of these converts were the Apostate Cardinal-Astra Xaphan's chief aide Deacon Mamon, who had long been a devotee of Chaos Undivided, and several of the members of the elite cadre of Vraksian officers called the Disciples of Xaphan. Mamon, who was ultimately elevated to become a Daemon Prince of Nurgle because of his success as the architect of the fall of Xaphan to Chaos and the damage wrought on the Imperium by the Siege of Vraks, would fight alongside The Tainted until the end of the siege. After the end of the campaign, Mamon and the remaining Chaos Space Marines of The Tainted fled off-world. During the terrible years of the siege, The Tainted often released their Rotted Circus upon the Imperial forces assaulting the Chaotic lines, and used their mastery of sorcery to mutate many of the Ogryns who fought for the Traitor Militia, creating the first mutants known as Plague Ogryns.
The Tainted - Notable Warband Members: Mamon, Arch-Corruptor of Vraks - Mamon was the principle agent provocateur behind the uprisings against the Imperium on Vraks Prime which eventually initiated the Siege of Vraks. He was a corrupted Imperial deacon who found favour within the Apostate Cardinal-Astra Xaphan's staff. It was Deacon Mamon who first sowed the seeds of corruption and turned the inexperienced cardinal's religious ambitions against the Imperium. It was he who brought the Alpha Legion warband of Arkos the Faithless to the planet. This has been taken as evidence that the deacon may have already been an Alpha Legion sleeper agent, and that Vraks was his (and Arkos') intended target all along. Eventually the war turned against the ambitions of Mamon and Arkos, as Lord Zhufor of the large Khornate warband known as the Skulltakers led a bloody coup against the Apostate Cardinal to place the Chaos forces under the indirect control of Zhufor's own master, Abaddon the Despoiler. Hunted by Zhufor's bodyguard, Mamon was lucky to escape with his life. Seeking refuge with the Nurglite warband of Chaos Space Marines known as The Tainted, Mamon offered himself to Grandfather Nurgle. The Plague God granted the corrupted deacon the "gift" of Daemonhood for all he had accomplished on Vraks, granting him the exalted rank of Daemon Prince of Nurgle. Mamon was soon possessed by the potent spirit of a Great Unclean One. Transformed into a corpulent, festering Daemon Prince of Nurgle, Mamon was unleashed upon Vraks, to turn the Imperial Armoury World into a new Plague Planet dedicated to Nurgle. In his new, horribly bloated form, Mamon fought alongside The Tainted until the end of the campaign when he and The Tainted escaped off-world after its fall to the Imperial forces. Since then his whereabouts and those of The Tainted remain unknown.
The Tainted - Warband Colours: The Chaos Space Marines of The Tainted are all members of the Death Guard Traitor Legion, which means their power armour is often defined by the decayed greens, browns, and beiges preferred by those devotees of Nurgle.Many, if not all, of the corrupted Heretic Astartes of The Tainted are Plague Marines.
The Tainted - Warband Badge: The Tainted make use of a badge that is a geometrical variation of the standard tripartite Mark of Nurgle, centred on a field of various decayed greens, browns, and beiges depending on the condition of the individual.
The Tainted - Sources: Imperial Armour - Apocalypse II, pp. 66-67; 74-75Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three, pp. 142, 159, 170, 186Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen - War Machines of the Lost & The Damned by Andy Hoare with additional material by Alan Bligh & Neil Wylie, pg. 30
The Tenebrae - The Tenebrae: The Tenebrae are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin, Founding and allegiance.Very little is known about the Tenebrae in current Imperial records other than that they fell to the service of Chaos in the centuries following the end of the Horus Heresy and that they are the rare band of Heretic Astartes that still maintains several Fellblades in active service.
The Tenebrae - Warband History: The earliest surviving records of the Heretic Astartes force known as the Tenebrae name them as the hand behind the infamous "Hour of Shadow," which plunged the Hive World of Lorin Alpha into murder and madness in 118.M33, and whose anniversary is still marked by sorrowful mourning seven millennia later.These records, culled from the archives of the Black Wings Chapter whose own Chapter Master was slain there, speak of the Tenebrae as already hated and reviled before this atrocity, but frustratingly the Inquisitorial eye of the present day offers no further leads to trace their origins further back in time.The Tenebrae appear again and again, scattered through history, at the Luxor Drift Genocide, the Fall of Yun, the Plague of Madness and the Kharthah-Iconoclasm, right up to their most recent sighting during the Orpheus Crisis of 998.M41.Always they appear during times of terror and discord, always their presence is a herald of suffering and the nightmarish distortion of reality as a wave of suicidal despair and insanity going before them like a baleful shadow.Their dusk-purple armour bears little to indicate their true allegiance or origin, and their company is fled from even by others devoted to the Ruinous Powers less they become infected by whatever dark malignance has swallowed the Tenebrae and made them its own.Where they go, light is consumed by darkness, a darkness which hungers for life and whispers blasphemies to eat at the sanity of the most righteous man. So insidious is this attack upon the will and the soul that when the Tenebrae attack in full force, for theirs is also the full panoply of war known to the fallen Adeptus Astartes, including many ancient relics of battle and daemon-tainted engines.Little resistance can be offered against their onslaught and Fortress-Worlds and bastions thought secure against the might of armies fall in mere hours of dark butchery.
The Tenebrae - Notable Campaigns: The Hour of Shadow (118.M33) - After the Chapter Master of the Black Wings is murdered during the world of Lorin Alpha's Hour of Shadow, the Chapter chases a band of Tenebrae Heretic Astartes into the Veiled Region. Three standard centuries later, a single damaged Astartes Strike Cruiser returns bearing only a handful of survivors. They will speak with none save the agents of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus and swear an oath of vendetta against The Tenebrae.The Death of the Witching Moon (013.M41) - The Forge Moon of Keziah, in the strategically vital Agathon System, fell into an unnatural eclipse when its population is driven to murder and madness in an endless night of horror. The dread forces of The Tenebrae and the Company of Misery reign as dark kings amid the nightmare, and the baleful light of the "Witching Moon" that Keziah has become spreads calamity and Warp-tainted phenomena wherever it now falls, threatening the entire star system. The first Imperial attacks by the Astra Militarum, squadrons from Battlefleet Ultima and the Inquisition are hurled back in tatters by the madness of the black light and the Warp-fuelled savagery of the defenders. It is only by the unexpected arrival of the Charnel Guard Chapter, accompanied by a sacred band from the Adepta Sororitas' Order of the Black Sepulchre bearing the holy relic known as the Book of Tears before them, that the imminent loss of tens of billions of lives on Agathon Prime is prevented, and the insanity-inducing radiance of the Witching Moon is held back. The Charnel Guard lead a fresh assault as further Adeptus Astartes forces, including the Iron Hands, Storm Lords and Angels Porphyr, and Adeptus Mechanicus reinforcements arrive, fighting a brutal battle of tank and gunship clashes across the soaring metal canyons which crease the moon's surface and chamber-by-chamber Zone Mortalis actions to purge Keziah of the shadow that has befallen it. The Traitor Marines inflict fearful losses on their besiegers before they are driven into the deeper darkness of the Warp. In the wake of their retreat, all life is purged from Keziah before it is given back to the hands of the Machine Cult for tech-exorcism and eventual reclamation.
The Tenebrae - Warband Colours: The warband colours of the Tenebrae are dusk-purple.
The Tenebrae - Warband Badge: The warband badge of the Tenebrae is unknown in current Imperial records.
The Test of Faith (Short Story) - The Test of Faith (Short Story): The Test of Faith by Thomas Parrott is a Warhammer 40,000 short story published in 2019 and collected in the anthology Nexus & Other Stories.
The Test of Faith (Short Story) - Synopsis: To be a Dark Angel is to be honoured as the Ist Legion of Space Marines created by the God-Emperor of Mankind. While this secretive Chapter bears an unsettling mien, with its warriors shrouded in myth and insinuation, the sons of the Lion know no fear, for these grim Angels of Death will never accept defeat.In The Test of Faith, Thomas Parrott explores the strained relationship between the Dark Angels and their new Primaris brethren in a tale of brutal battle and shocking betrayal.
The Third Wise Man (Short Story) - The Third Wise Man (Short Story): The Third Wise ManIron SnakesDan AbnettNik VincentThe Third Wise ManBlack Library
The Third Wise Man (Short Story) - Synopsis: The senior officers of the Iron Snakes unite in judgement of one of their number. As his victories and failures are weighed up, his fate will be decided.
The Thirteenth Wolf (Audio Drama) - The Thirteenth Wolf (Audio Drama): The Thirteenth Wolf is the thirty-eighth audio drama for The Horus Heresy series that was not originally released as part of an anthology or other release. The Thirteenth Wolf was first released as an audio drama in November 2016. The title has since been released as part of The Burden of Loyalty main series anthology.
The Thirteenth Wolf (Audio Drama) - Official Synopsis: For more than two hundred years, the armies of the Emperor of Mankind fought to reconquer the galaxy -- led by the superhuman Primarchs, the Space Marine Legions brought countless worlds back under the rule of ancient Terra. Now Horus, once honoured Warmaster and favoured son of the Emperor, has been corrupted by the whispered promises of Chaos. At his command the Imperium is torn apart by a terrible and bloody civil war, the likes of which the galaxy has never seen... At the Emperor's command were the Wolves of Russ unleashed, but it is by the will of Horus alone that Prospero now burns. The VI Legion has stormed the world of Magnus the Red, with venerable warriors of the Thirteenth Great Company always to be found where the fighting is at its most bloody, seeking to write their own names into the sagas of Fenris. But the Thousand Sons are far from defeated, and their foul sorcery may yet be the doom of all, deep within the maddening heart of the Portal Maze.
The Tizcan Host - The Tizcan Host: The Tizcan Host is a thrallband of Heretic Astartes of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion. The Tizcan Host is known for its shared delusion. Every one of its sorcerers believes he passed from mortality entirely at the time of the casting of the Rubric of Ahriman, and that he has been reborn as an avenging angel.The host still believes it has but one duty -- to rain the righteous fire of the Crimson King Magnus the Red upon the Imperium that once dared cast him out. Though they pretend to superior, otherworldly goodness, the Tizcan Host is perhaps the most warlike thrallband of all.The mortal followers of the Tizcan Host are known as the "Choir of Eagles." This is a term that dates back to the Great Crusade, when sweet music echoed through every Thousand Sons processional. The harsh squawks and cries of their current mutant Beastmen followers, the Tzaangors, are a grotesque mockery of the songstrels that came before, yet they still wear the same colours as their predecessors.
The Tizcan Host - Warband Colours: The Tizcan Host thrallband's colours are azure trimmed in gold. Members of this thrallband often wear the colour white, which was associated in the culture of lost Prospero with purity and soundness of spirit. These are claims that grow more dubious with every passing Terran year, for that sacred white has been stained red with blood countless times over the millennia. The Tizcan Host are also known to incorporate aquamarine, the colours of the enlightened seer.The Rubricae of this thrallband, known as the "Seraphya," stand in silence as the icons of their masters are scorched into their armour and tabards before each battle. The sorcerers of the Tizcan Host tell themselves the uncanny stillness of the Rubricae is because of their vow of secrecy and their stoic demeanour, but the truth is far more disturbing.
The Tizcan Host - Warband Badge: The Tizcan Host thrallband's symbol is a yellow sigil of the Cult of Magic -- known as the "Horned Crown" -- that is a reference to the circlet worn by the ancient Prosperine deity known as the King of All Angels.
The Tizcan Host - Sources: Codex Heretic Astartes - Thousand Sons (8th Edition), pg. 21War Zone: Fenris - Wrath of Magnus (7th Edition), pp. 128-129
The Traveller (Anthology Short Story) - The Traveller (Anthology Short Story): The Traveller is a short story published in The Horus Heresy series that was originally part of an anthology. The Traveller was first published as part of the Mark of Calth main series anthology in April 2013. The cover image used is that of Mark of Calth, as The Traveller has yet to be published separately.
The Traveller (Anthology Short Story) - Synopsis: A survivor of the Word Bearers' initial surprise attack on the orbital defences of Calth finds that he may not be alone.
The Unburdened - The Unburdened: The Unburdened is a novella in the Horus Heresy Series, released as a Black Library hardback. The Unburdened is part of a duology, the other being The Honoured, and both were released together in a limited-edition box-set called Betrayal at Calth. Both books are also available as non-limited hardbacks, paperbacks, ebooks, and as audiobooks (MP3).
The Unburdened - Synopsis: Long considering themselves persecuted by the rest of the Imperium, the apostles of the XVII Legion have courted sedition, betrayal and even open heresy for decades. But for Kurtha Sedd of the Third Hand Chapter, the Word Bearers' assault on Calth has proven...troubling. Drawn into the haunted shadows of the planet's underworld, the Chaplain and his devout brethren must now put aside all other concerns and continue to wage war against the Ultramarines, no matter the ultimate cost.
The Underworld War (Anthology Short Story) - The Underworld War (Anthology Short Story): The Underworld War is a short story published in The Horus Heresy series that was originally part of an anthology. The Underworld War was first published as part of the Mark of Calth main series anthology in April 2013. The cover image used is that of Mark of Calth, as The Underworld War has yet to be published separately.
The Underworld War (Anthology Short Story) - Synopsis: Seven standard years after the Battle of Calth, a war weary Vakrah Jal, Kaurtal, journeys to the blasted surface of Calth and remembers his rebirth at the hands of Argel Tal.
The Unnamed - The Unnamed: The Unnamed are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and a successor of the Dark Angels, created solely from Primaris Space Marines during the Ultima Founding of ca. 999.M41.
The Unnamed - Chapter History: When the senior elements of the Unnamed learned from Supreme Grand Master Azrael of the Dark Angels' secrets, they felt the weight of their genetic ancestors' guilt heavily on their shoulders.They refused to a take a name for their Chapter, deeming themselves unworthy, and refused to take a homeworld, determined that they would never cease to ply the stars until the blight of the Fallen were eradicated from the galaxy forever.
The Unnamed - Chapter Colours: The Unnamed primarily wear yellow power armour with the exception of their helm's faceplate, which is black. Their armourial trim is orange. The Aquila or Imperialis worn on the chest plate is also orange.The black squad tactical specialty symbol -- battleline, fire support, close support, Veteran or command -- is indicated on the right shoulder pauldron. A white High Gothic numeral prominently displayed upon it indicates a battle-brother's assigned squad.The left shoulder pauldron displays the Chapter's iconography.It is unknown how the Chapter indicates a battle-brother's company assignment.
The Unnamed - Chapter Badge: The Unnamed' Chapter badge consists of a black feathered quill centred upon a field of yellow.
The Unremembered Empire - The Unremembered Empire: The Unremembered Empire is the twenty-seventh volume in the Horus Heresy series of novels.
The Unremembered Empire - Synopsis: The unthinkable has happened -- Terra has fallen to the Traitor forces of the Warmaster Horus! Nothing else could explain the sudden disappearance of the Astronomican's guiding light at the heart of the Imperium, or so Roboute Guilliman would believe.Ever the pragmatist, he has drawn all his forces to Ultramar and begun construction of the new empire known as the Imperium Secundus. Even with many of his primarch brothers at his side, he still faces war from without and intrigue from within -- with the best of intentions, were the full truth to be known it would likely damn them all as Traitors for all eternity.
The Unspeaking - The Unspeaking: The Unspeaking was a chapter of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion that took part in the notorious Calth Atrocity during the opening years of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. This chapter was under the command of the so-called "Crimson Apostle" Zardu Layak and his Ashen Circle destroyer units, who were charged with enacting some of the worst civilian massacres of the opening solar hours of the battle.Both the Unspeaking and the Graven Star Chapters were known to have largely retreated from the planet's surface during the final solar hours of the battle, and would go on to further infamy in the Shadow Crusade.
The Unspeaking - History: The chapter of the Word Bearers Legion that came to be known as "the Unspeaking" was once known as the "Ochre Gate." Its fate was tied to its master, the Dark Apostle known as Zardu Layak, a former officer of the Ashen Circle. A devout destroyer of all that pertained to false superstition and errant creed, he oversaw the burning of a hundred temples and countless tomes of lies in the Emperor's service.But following the Word Bearers' brutal censure on Monarchia at the hands of the Emperor and the Ultramarines, Layak became soulsick and lost. Following Primarch Lorgar's pilgrimage into the Eye of Terror to commune with the Primordial Annihilator, Layak fervently converted to Erebus' and Lorgar's new teachings.But even this did not fill the terrible void within him. So it was that when he began to receive visions in which he believed his primarch spoke to him directly, he kept it concealed from others. These visions instructed him to reconsider his work, not to burn the books and lore he encountered, but to read them, covet them, to search in them for the hidden truths that the Emperor had not wished His sons to know.Soon the former Ashen Circle warrior named himself from the Book of Lorgar as Zardu Layak, "Eater of Wisdom," but who came to be known more swiftly by his Legion as the "Crimson Apostle" for his fiery raiment and the scalding blood in which he daubed his armour.Assigned to the chapter of the Ochre Gate as its Dark Apostle by Erebus, who sought to channel his fervour in service to the Chaos Gods, Zardu Layak quickly proved more than a mere voice of the First Chaplain of the Word Bearers. Soon the chapter began to seek missions of its own, away from its parent Legion for long stretches, and each time it returned it was further changed.Like a cancer, Zardu Layak had embedded himself deeper into its carcass, so that after a time, the Ochre Gate was no more and now the chapter of the Unspeaking stood in its place, with Zardu Layak its de facto master.Though Kor Phaeron was disquieted by the Crimson Apostle's growing power, much of which he would keep hidden until the battle on Calth, Lorgar pronounced himself pleased by Zardu Layak and his devotion to the word of the Primordial Truth, assigning the Unspeaking and their master to command a key assault at Calth during the Battle of Ithraca, though so changed had they become by their devotion to Chaos and the "gifts" of the Warp that complete concealment was needed for them until the hour came to strike.
The Value of Fear (Short Story) - The Value of Fear (Short Story): The Value of Fear is the twenty-first short story published in the Horus Heresy Series that was not originally part of an anthology novel. The Value of Fear was the twenty-second item released as part of the Black Library's 2014 Advent Calender. It is also now included in the Corax anthology novel.
The Value of Fear (Short Story) - Synopsis: The Raven Guard under Corax continue to gather all leaderless Loyalists to their banner, determined to take the fight to Horus and his Heretics. In the industrial nightmare of the underhive, the XIX Legion receive a lesson in terror tactics from the most unlikely of allies –- the Night Lords...
The Voice (Anthology Short Story) - The Voice (Anthology Short Story): The Voice is an anthology short story published in The Horus Heresy series that was originally part of an anthology novel. The Voice was first published as part of the Tales of Heresy main series anthology in April 2009. The cover image used is that of the unabridged audiobook version The Voice which was released in November 2015.
The Voice (Anthology Short Story) - Synopsis: The Black Ships are a mysterious and fearful sight -- unmarked vessels that scour the distant reaches of the galaxy, ever watchful for latent psykers and witchbreeds for the monolithic Adeptus Astra Telepathica. When one such ship, the Validus, is found drifting unpowered in the nightmare realm of the Warp, it falls to the Sisters of Silence to uncover the reason behind it. As pariahs capable of blocking even the most potent psychic energy, Amendera Kendel and young Leilani Mollitas ready themselves for the worst...
The Waning - The Waning: The Waning was a relatively undefined era of the Age of the Imperium that lasted from early in the 38th Millennium until ca. 744.M41.It was characterised by a slow degradation of the Imperium's stability, power and peace as new Chaos and xenos threats assaulted the Emperor's worlds.With the Imperium's military forces in every branch utterly exhausted by the continuous Imperial Crusades of the prior Age of Redemption, star system after star system fell to Ork invasion, Chaos insurgence, xenos infestation or sheer rebellion.It came to an end with the start of the greatest period of turmoil and strife in Imperial history since the Horus Heresy, known as the Time of Ending.
The Waning - Notable Events: Anarchy throughout many sectors of the Imperium was rife during a dark period in Imperial history that is now called "the Waning."Ever more star systems were turned over by the Administratum to direct rule by Space Marine Chapters to preserve stability as only the Astartes possessed the inviolable military strength required to restore Imperial control in the more lawless regions of the galaxy.To combat the spreading anarchy, the Adeptus Terra imposed ever-stricter rules, doling out ever-harsher punishments. Portents of doom were both incessant and relentless. The prescient foretold of great ripples in the Warp, like a swell in the water disturbed by some colossal but unseen menace.
The Waning - 9th Black Crusade: The 9th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler and his Black Legion launched out of the Eye of Terror in 537.M38. Intending to bring about the demise of the naval fortress of Cancephalus, Abaddon led his forces against the heaving populations of the nearby world of Antecanis.The seventeen-standard-year-long war that ensued robbed both Antecanis and Cancephalus of their most precious resource -- manpower. Without the fleets of Cancephalus to stop him, Abaddon was able to ravage the rest of the sector at will , and his Sorcerers were free to conduct the rituals required to weaken the walls of reality in that region of space with impunity.
The Waning - Grim Harvest: During the "Grim Harvest" in 666.M38, a great armada of misshapen space hulks drifted out of the Warp near Terra. Some of the twisted and fused starships could still be identified as transports carrying pilgrims from the Lost Crusade.The Lost Crusade had begun in 754.M37, when, on thousands of planets, menials rebelled against their dreary drudgery with wild-eyed leaders espousing a better way of life -- a galaxy of tolerance. The movement had been especially popular amongst the youth of the Imperium, earning it the title of "Children's Crusade."Billions of earnest pilgrims were lured to seek transport to Terra; some were waylaid by pirates, but the majority disappeared into the Warp. They became known collectively as the "Lost Crusade."The Inquisition worked feverishly to cover up the Grim Harvest fleet's existence and its cargo of mutant and daemon-possessed abominations.
The Waning - 10th Black Crusade: The 10th Black Crusade, also known as the "Conflict of Helica," was a joint campaign of the forces of Chaos that was led by Abaddon the Despoiler and the Daemon Primarch Perturabo of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. Launched out of the Eye of Terror in 001.M39, both the Black Legion and the Iron Warriors struck against the Helica Sector.While the Black Legion attacked the capital world of the sector, the Hive World of Thracian Primaris, the Iron Warriors focused their own assault against Medusa, the homeworld of the Loyalist Iron Hands Chapter, to fulfil an old blood debt. In a series of bitter sieges, the Iron Warriors assaulted the Medusa System's worlds and pushed the Iron Hands to the brink of destruction.Only when the Loyalist Chapter received heavy Imperial reinforcements did Abaddon and the Iron Warriors retreat back to the Eye of Terror, taking with them valuable information about the world of Medusa and its defences to be used at a later and more opportune time.
The Waning - Mausolean Cataclysm: In 103.M39 the Mausolean Cataclysm struck the Imperium.
The Waning - Redemption Crusades: In 131.M39, the so-called "Redemption Crusades" began. In each of the segmentums of the Imperium a great hero emerged. Like unto the Primarchs of old were these warriors, and the combined efforts of their Imperial Crusades push back the borders of the Imperium further than they have been for nearly 500 standard years.And then, 50 Terran years later, the five heroes vanished without a trace, spurring Ecclesiarch Inovian III to declare them Imperial Saints returned to the Emperor's side.
The Waning - 11th Black Crusade: In 301.M39, Abaddon the Despoiler launched his 11th Black Crusade, also remembered as the "Doom of Relorria," out of the Eye of Terror. In an attempt to break through the cordon of Warp Storms surrounding the Eye into Imperial space, he employed a captured daemon to navigate for his Black Fleet.The effort proved fruitless, and instead the daemon warped the Black Legion's Black Fleet directly into the path of the Orks of WAAAGH! Murgor. In the ruins of the Cardinal World of Relorria, the Black Legion brought the Orks to battle, Bolter rounds and Chainswords tearing into the green-skinned xenos.After solar months of bloody warfare, Abaddon decided to leave Relorria to its fate and the Black Legion returned to the nightmare realm of the Eye of Terror -- but not before the Warmaster of Chaos filled the holds of his Black Fleet with a multitude of captured Ork Weirdboyz.In conjunction with a coven of his most powerful Sorcerers, he used the volatile psychic energies of the Greenskin abductees in a daemonic hybridisation ritual that weakened the fabric of reality across the Relorrian System, part of a wider plan to find ways to break down the barriers between the Immaterium and realspace and so aid Chaos' assault on the Imperium.
The Waning - Gothic War (12th Black Crusade): In 139.M41, the 12th Black Crusade, better known as the "Gothic War," was a vast campaign launched by Abaddon that engulfed the Gothic Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus after that sector was cut off from Imperial reinforcements and communications by a series of massive Warp Storms produced by the will of the Ruinous Powers.It consisted of hundreds of planetary invasions and naval battles spanning the time period 139.M41 - 160.M41 and only ended when Abaddon and his Chaos Space Marines, Renegade Chapters, daemonic hosts and rebellious Chaos Cults were forced to retreat into the Immaterium with the arrival of Imperial reinforcements as the Warp Storms that had provided cover for their invasion finally dissipated just as mysteriously as they had begun.On the Imperial side, dozens of Space Marine Chapters, nearly 100 Astra Militarum regiments and the better part of three Titan Legions took part, along with every naval vessel the Battlefleet Obscurus could muster.The conflict saw the destruction of several planets and four of the six irreplaceable ancient alien artefacts known as the Blackstone Fortresses as well as the deaths of millions, if not billions, of Imperial citizens.Most significantly, the events of the Gothic War revealed the true nature and purpose of the ancient spaceborne alien artefacts known to the Imperium as the Blackstone Fortresses, which had been created by the Old Ones to be used against the Necrons and were capable of destabilising stars and destroying entire solar systems.Most importantly, Abaddon and the forces of Chaos were able to escape back into the Eye of Terror with two of the Blackstone Fortresses, their future purpose unknown.
The Waning - Macharian Crusade and Heresy: This period saw the Macharian Conquests (also called the Macharian Crusade) of 392-399.M41 during which Lord Commander Solar Macharius, the Lord of the Segmentum Solar, mustered the greatest human army the galaxy had seen since the Great Crusade.In only seven standard years, Macharius reconquered a thousand worlds on the western reaches of the Imperium and his glory carried him into the darkest sectors, places where the Emperor's light had never been known.Upon his death, the whole Imperium wept for the lost commander, but Macharius' conquered territories soon collapsed into rivalry and civil war. The Macharian Heresy, as this time is now known, lasted for seventy standard years and was only ended through the combined efforts of one hundred Space Marine Chapters.
The Waning - Tears of the Emperor: In 500.M41, in an event known as the Tears of the Emperor, the Imperium was swept by visions of the Emperor's tears.From backwards Feral Worlds to the most densely populated Hive Worlds, a million versions of the same story are told by holy men, street agitators, shamans, priests, and mystics. Primitives point to storm-filled skies, claiming that the drops falling from them are the tears of their mighty god.Upon Ecclesiarchy Cardinal Worlds, Arch-Deacons to lowly pilgrims claim to have seen statues of the divine Emperor shed tears. Chapter Masters and hive city urchins alike have visions of the Emperor stirring upon His throne, tears running from His empty sockets.Although the dreams take myriad forms, all know that the Emperor weeps not for Himself, but for the plight of Humanity.
The Warmaster (Novel) - The Warmaster (Novel): The WarmasterGaunt's GhostsDan Abnett
The Warmaster (Novel) - Synopsis: After the success of their desperate mission to Salvation's Reach, Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the Tanith First-and-Only race to the strategically vital Forge World of Urdesh, besieged by the brutal armies of Anarch Sek. However, there may be more at stake than just a planet. The Imperial forces have made an attempt to divide and conquer their enemy, but with Warmaster Macaroth himself commanding the Urdesh campaign, it is possible that the Archenemy assault has a different purpose -- to decapitate the Imperial command structure with a single blow. Has the Warmaster allowed himself to become an unwitting target? And can Gaunt's Ghosts possibly defend him against the assembled killers and war machines of Chaos?
The Watcher (Audio Drama) - The Watcher (Audio Drama): The Watcher is the twenty-eighth audio drama for the The Horus Heresy series that was not originally released as part of an anthology or other release. The Watcher was published in December 2014 by the Black Library as part of the Black Library's 2014 Advent Calendar, on day 24. The title was later published in prose format as part of "The Horus Heresy Quick Reads Subscription" week on February 26th 2016, and again as part of The Silent War main series anthology novel.
The Watcher (Audio Drama) - Official Synopsis: A shuttle returns to the Sol System bearing the sole survivor of a Traitor attack -- however, delirious and so close to death, his tale remains untold. Ison of the Knights-Errant, formerly a Librarian of his Legion, delves into the mind of the warrior, and the truth of it will chill him to the core...
The Wolf of Ash and Fire (Short Story) - The Wolf of Ash and Fire (Short Story): The Wolf of Ash and Fire is the fourteenth short story published in the Horus Heresy that was not originally part of an anthology novel. The Wolf of Ash and Fire was originally released as a free exclusive e-book with every copy of Macragge's Honour. It is also now included in the Eye of Terra anthology novel. The Wolf of Ash and Fire is one of only a handful of short stories that has its own artwork, which is used as the cover for the Eye of Terra anthology.
The Wolf of Ash and Fire (Short Story) - Synopsis: Horus Lupercal, ever the favoured son of the Emperor of Mankind, stands ready to lead his Legion against the Ork-held planetoid of Gorro. After nearly two centuries of warfare in the name of the Great Crusade, the many victories of the Luna Wolves have become the stuff of legend. Still, nothing could prepare them for the singular honour of fighting alongside the Emperor Himself once more...
Themiskon Point - Themiskon Point: Themiskon PointDead WorldJericho ReachPart of the Canis Salient of the Achilus Crusade, the planet is currently contested between the forces of the Imperium and the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Dagon.
Themiskon Point - History: The servants of the Adeptus Mechanicus believe that Themiskon Point once harboured a rich and diverse ecosystem, for the substrata of its surface are rich in organic fuels. For eons, Themiskon Point must have been host to planet-wide forests, yet today, no trace of life remains on the planet.As far as most records indicate, this has been the case since the earliest days of the Imperium's presence in the Jericho Reach, though a few scattered writings suggest that the transformation to its present state took place at around the time of the Great Crusade.Other crumbling archives suggest that the world was host to an advanced alien civilisation which destroyed itself in the face of Human conquest, submitting to the fires of planetary devastation rather than allowing a single Human to set foot upon their world.A mystery at least as great as the world's past is to be found in its present, for the world has come under the dominion of a host of Tyranid vanguard organisms. Countless Lictors stalk the bleak, cratered surface, as if seeking a prey they know must surely exist but they cannot locate.Several theories have been put forward to explain this phenomenon, including the notion that some trace of the original masters of Themiskon Point might still exist, perhaps waiting out the millennia far below the surface of their world until the day when Mankind recedes and they can reclaim and reseed their once paradisiacal world.The forces of the Imperium rarely have cause to enter the inner reaches of the Themiskon System, for although it lies at the terminus of a well established stable Warp conduit, there are no worlds of any importance to the Imperium beyond it.To date, the Imperium has yet to commit to cleansing the world of the Tyranid presence, but the Watch Fortress Erioch's Chamber of Vigilance has debated the matter on three separate occasions and a Deathwatch reconnaissance mission is likely to be launched in the near future.
Theodora von Valancius - Theodora von Valancius: Theodora von Valancius, formally Theodora von Valancius Massimo af Scarus, was a Rogue Trader and the leader of House von Valancius, one of the three largest Rogue Trader dynasties operating in the Koronus Expanse of the Segmentum Obscurus, and the mistress of the interstellar trade empire her house maintained there.After many solar decades in command of the dynasty, Theodora was assassinated while in her quarters during a Warp incursion on her flagship, and the leadership of her dynasty passed to a distantly-related heir she had met only scant solar hours before her death. That heir would go on to shape not ony the destiny and fortunes of House von Valancius, but of the Koronus Expanse itself.
Theodora von Valancius - Wargear: Power SwordRelic Bolt PistolAugmetic Eye
Theratryx - Theratryx: The Theratryx are a species of sleek, reptilian bipeds native to the Feral World of Aurum in the Jericho Reach. Aurans use them as mounts and beasts of burden.However, much like the Aurans themselves, you can take the beast out of the wild, but you cannot take the wild out of the beast. Powerful talons and scales make them able combatants, whilst their charge is strong enough to knock over even a fully armoured Space Marine.So strong is a given Theratryx that they can even be ridden by the same Astartes. This strength can be seen in their fleetness of foot, their every step silent despite their bulk.
There Is Only War (Anthology) - There Is Only War (Anthology): There Is Only War is a 2013 anthology edited by Christian Dunn, Nick Kyme, and Lindsey Priestley.
There Is Only War (Anthology) - Synopsis: Across Mankind's Imperium, battle rages.  From the lowly troopers of the Imperial Guard to the elite Space Marines, Humanity's defenders are ever beset by threats. Alien races encroach on the edges of Mankind's realm, bringing worlds to ruin with blade, gun, and claw. On countless worlds, mutated servants of the Dark Gods seek to do their masters' bidding and bring ruin to all that the Emperor sacrificed Himself to build. And in the nightmare realm of the Eye of Terror, the Arch-traitors who tore the Imperium apart ten millennia ago still lurk, plotting their revenge...Contains the following short stories:One Hate by Aaron Dembski-BowdenKraken by Chris WraightThe Iron Without by Graham McNeillDeus Ex Mechanicus by Andy ChambersPestilence by Dan AbnettTorment by Anthony ReynoldsCold Trade by Andy HoareThe Relic by Jonathan GreenFaces by Matthew FarrerBeneath the Flesh by Andy SmillieEven Unto Death by Mike LeeOrphans of the Kraken by Richard WilliamsBlack Dawn by C. L. WernerUnforgiven by Graham McNeillShadow Knight by Aaron Dembski-BowdenSurvivor by Steve ParkerEmperor's Deliverance by Nick KymeThe Last Detail by Paul KearneyMaster Imus's Transgression by Dan AbnettThe Long Games at Carcharias by Rob SandersHelion Rain by George MannEchoes of the Tomb by Sandy MitchellVoidsong by Henry ZouWe Are One by John FrenchBitter End by S. P. CawkwellApostle's Creed by Graham McNeillMistress Baeda's Gift by Braden CampbellFlesh by Chris WraightTwelve Wolves by Ben CounterSuffer Not the Unclean to Live by Gav ThorpeThe Lives of Ferag Lion-Wolf by Barrington J. BayleySnares and Delusions by Matthew FarrerGate of Souls by Mike LeeThe Wrath of Khârn by William KingThe Returned by James SwallowA Good Man by Sandy MitchellHell Night by Nick KymeAt Gaius Point by Aaron Dembski-BowdenMidnight on the Street of Knives by Andy ChambersThe Carrion Anthem by David AnnandalePlaying Patience by Dan Abnett