Sanguinius and his Legion, now fully aware of the great betrayal and the reality of Chaos, race to the defense of Terra and the Emperor while buffeted by unprecedented navigational difficulties; it is hinted that these are related to the action in the Ultramar system of Calth Books 19 and Shadows of Treachery is a compilation that collects five short stories previously published in limited editions, art books, or other formats, and also contains two new novellas. Other Legions and Primarchs are also featured, while one short story takes place on Mars and illuminates an aspect of the Traitor Mechanicum's conspiracy.
One of the novellas is mainly about an all-out close-quarters space battle, between a Loyalist Retribution Fleet sent to punish Horus following the events of Isstvan III Book 3 and the Traitor fleet that ambushes it; the other new novella deals with the aftermath of another naval engagement in space that cripples the Night Lords Legion.
The narratives of all stories fill gaps in the series or add further details about the Heresy and its actors; they cover periods that range from several decades before the conflict to around the time frame of Book 18 one short story is a prequel to that novel. Angel Exterminatus covers a Traitor operation in uncharted and dangerous galactic space, that may purportedly decide the war in favour of the rebels.
The story provides further glimpses of disparate motivations and conflicting objectives among traitor factions as the Heresy campaign continues. It is taking place some time after the Dropsite Massacre Book 5 , shortly following the events described by two novellas Books 20 and However the core plot is set in motion by Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children, who share the spotlight. The embittered Iron Warriors have aligned with Horus out of frustration with the ignominious and unheralded role assigned them by the Imperium; before the story begins, they lash out in unforgivable genocide.
In the story, they are invited to the freelance operation which is unknown to the Warmaster by Fulgrim and his Legion, who have their own agenda. The operation's true goal is kept secret from Perturabo and his Space Marines, who come to realise that not all fellow rebels can be trusted. A side thread involves Fabius Bile, the chief medical officer of the Emperor's Children, and the Traitors' top geneticist; he is on a no-holds-barred quest to exceed the Emperor's genetic achievements.
Betrayer returns the series to the action in the Ultramar theatre; it starts around the time the events of Book 19 begin to unfold. In tenuous and fragile cooperation, the two very different Traitor Legions lay waste to worlds across Ultramar; it is a 'Shadow Crusade' meticulously planned by Primarch Lorgar of the Word Bearers, who deploys Abyss -class spaceships.
The campaign's strategic goal is the destruction or isolation of the powerful Ultramarines Legion, its home star system, and the system's considerable resources; removing Ultramar as a factor in the war is one of Horus' primary objectives. The scheming Primarch of the Word Bearers orchestrates genocide in unprecedented scale, as a way to summon the powers of Chaos. With their help, he hopes to generate the so-called Ruinstorm , an immense interdimensional disturbance that will create an impenetrable veil around Ultramar.
As the final piece of his plan, Lorgar engineers the 'ascension' into daemonhood of the increasingly unstable Angron: the event is to act as the conduit for the unnatural storm. Mark of Calth is the fifth compilation to appear in the series; it contains seven short stories and one novella, each by a different author. As of April , print editions were generally between and pages, though some mass market versions have rendered in more; total series length in first paperback edition was about 10, print pages 24 titles.
Durations of audio versions spread from about 6 hours for the abridged editions to anywhere between 11 and 19 hours for the unabridged editions; the total length of the unabridged edition was about hours, divided among 13 titles.
CD audiobooks were published in packages of 5 discs per abridged title; two unabridged titles were available on CD, with the longest packaged in 13 discs.
Outside the UK, series titles are published in several countries and languages by Black Library divisions or as co-editions with local associates. As of April , other-language renditions lagged the English-language series in the number of released titles, and had followed distinct publication schedules and release sequences.
Starting November , new titles have often been released simultaneously in multiple media; occasionally since then, new titles' digital or audio releases have preceded the print versions, in reverse of previous practice see table 'Published' above. Series stories have appeared in whole or in part in other Black Library publications, sometimes before the corresponding series books have become generally available; prepublications have included stand-alone releases of compilation stories.
There have been a number of special editions and bundles published in a variety of media; bundles have included the 'Horus Heresy Collections', which mix editions and media of the same or different titles. Certain special editions are available in limited distribution months before the release of the corresponding regular, or wider-release, versions. The books' cover art has been separately released, in poster and other formats.
Series bundles and special offers have also contained the separate artwork releases of the included titles. English-language series releases include publishing of the titles in special 'premium' editions: 'Premium Hardback' print and 'Enhanced Ebook' digital. These versions contain additional material and artwork, and are published several months before their general-availability or regular edition counterparts. The first title to appear in 'premium' editions, in October , was Angel Exterminatus Book The earlier catalogue of the series is also republished in these editions, again beginning October with the series-opening novel trilogy.
Several [ clarification needed ] novels in The Horus Heresy series have appeared in UK and US science fiction charts, have occupied high positions in Nielsen BookScan genre lists, and since early have often charted in The New York Times Bestseller List for mass-market paperbacks.
Critical reception of individual titles has been mixed, yet the general tone of reviews has been mostly positive. Although the series overall has been viewed favourably, there have been complaints about its length, the multitude of characters and narrative threads, and the timeline jumps or repetitions caused by the nonlinear storytelling.
Early in its publishing history, the series became a sales success in its category. Horus Rising by Dan Abnett, the opening title, set the pace shortly after its release, topping Locus magazine's 'Locus Bestsellers: Gaming-Related' list of August ; as of Book 22 September , practically every title in the series had achieved the same or similar performance on this chart.
Abnett's Prospero Burns was next, reaching number 16 in January ; this title also topped a science fiction and fantasy book chart published by The Times London in March of the same year. Book 19, Know No Fear , again by Abnett, continued the trend: it appeared at number 21 in March It was followed on the List by the next series title, The Primarchs , a compilation edited by Dunn, which occupied position 29 during the week of 17 June ; in addition, The Primarchs had placed first in Publishers Weekly 's science fiction bestsellers listing for the week of 28 May Between the late—s introduction of the Horus Heresy and the start of this series publication in , Games Workshop and affiliates released Horus Heresy -branded products that expanded the concept's standing as Warhammer 40, background material.
Pre-series Horus Heresy literature and other related works may have been superseded or rendered obsolete, while other similar material may no longer be authoritative even as it remains in Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40, canons; [62] still other non-series Horus Heresy material has been eventually incorporated into the work. A significant development was the initial release of the Horus Heresy miniatures wargame expansion, which repositioned the concept as a foreground element within the Warhammer 40, gaming system — while highlighting the importance of the Horus Heresy to Games Workshop's product lineup and the related universe.
The Black Library and Games Workshop have released novels, game rulebooks, and other products not branded or classified as Horus Heresy , yet directly relating to story arcs or events described in the series. An example is listed in the section below. References may include multiple versions of cited works, published in alternate formats or media: these versions appear consecutively, are separated by a double semicolon ;; , and are listed by full date of release in ascending order displayed date may be truncated ; where applicable they are sub-listed by media type, in alphabetical order.
In such references, information common to listed versions may appear in a single instance only. Where 'originally published' appears in entries for standalone or self-contained works including compilations , it refers to the work's first release in the indicated media type.
Audio sources are listed by author s. April paperback November e-book January audiobook. June paperback December e-book July audiobook. October paperback December e-book January audiobook. March paperback December e-book December audiobook.
July paperback December e-book April audiobook. October paperback December e-book May audiobook. March paperback December e-book February audiobook. July paperback December e-book July audiobook. December ebook February hardback and audio September paperback. Search for:. January e-book, hardback and audio July paperback. March ebook, hardback and audio October paperback.
April ebook, hardback and audio November paperback. May ebook, hardback and audio December paperback. June ebook, hardback and audio December paperback. August ebook, hardback and audio January paperback. October ebook, hardback and audio April paperback. December ebook, hardback and audio June paperback. February ebook, hardback and audio August paperback. The timeline is a bit squiffy due to warp fuckery. Mortarion knows what daemons are and knows that he's fought alongside them, but doesn't recognize Ku'Gath.
Ku'Gath knows Mortarion, but also says that they haven't met yet. Morty himself doesn't know where he is or what's going on at first, but eventually his memories return, and he mutates into his daemon primarch form and captures his foster father's soul.
A Lesson in Iron: Ferrus Manus chases some orks into a warp rift and stumbles across an Iron Hands ship from a few thousand years in the future. The boarding parties he sends are attacked by daemons which fuck them up, and Ferrus himself finds a dead future Iron Hand whose bionics look like a shitty hack-job to him, so he gets pissy and orders everyone to leave.
When his Mechanicum adept points out that they might be able to mine the databanks for advanced technology and info on future events, he declares that he wants no part of this future. Also reveals that Ferrus had seen enough shit on Medusa to know that the Imperial Truth was a 'useful lie.
Forge World is producing a new line of books and models in addition to Imperial Armour and Warhammer Forge to allow players to fight battles from the Horus Heresy in Warhammer 40, This includes rules and models for the Primarchs both pre- and post-fall, for the Traitors as well as ancient vehicles.
No xenos, unfortunately. Still worth it, though. Forge World starts big, as their first book covers the battles on Istvaan III, in which Horus sent the remaining loyalist elements of the Sons of Horus, Emperor's Children, Death Guard, and World Eaters to the surface, ostensibly to rout the anti-Imperial resistance that had taken hold in the capital city, and then fired Exterminatus torpedoes of the life-eater virus bomb variety onto the city to wipe them out.
Unfortunately for Horus, not everything went as planned; not only did the loyalist Death Guard frigate Eisenstein escape to the Phalanx with word of Horus's betrayal, but loyalist elements on other ships were able to disrupt the bombardment and warn the loyalists on the ground that it was coming.
Between the disruption, the warning, and good old-fashioned Space Marine toughness, only a third or so of the landed force had actually died. Horus would have fired another bombardment, but Angron and his traitor World Eaters jumped the gun and made planetfall; the other traitors were left with no choice but to deploy themselves and destroy the remaining loyalists personally. Betrayal contains a Great Crusade Legion army list for which we have a tactica , and rules for special characters and units from the Sons of Horus, Death Guard, Emperor's Children, and World Eaters Legions, including their Primarchs even Fulgrim, who was not actually at the battle and several major characters from the book series such as Garviel Loken.
The books storyline is essentially just the first day of the battle, leading up to the death of Ferrus Manus. Massacre contains additional rules for special characters and units from the Iron Hands, Night Lords, Salamanders and Word Bearers Legions including their Primarchs and several more major characters from the book series make their debut such as Sevatar, Eidolon, Erebus and Kharn.
Lorgars psychic rules. The Legiones Astartes Crusade Army List is basically the generic 30k Space Marine 'codex', whilst the Isstvan Campaign Legions contains all of the collected rules for the legions from Books ; their units, characters and wargear in the previous three books.
Later came the Mechanicum Taghamata Army List, which contained all the Mechanicum units and army lists mentioned and rearranged them to keep everything on the same page, but lacked the Questoris Knight Army. Horus Heresy Volume Four is entitled 'Conquest', despite early hints from Forgeworld that it would be about the Battle of Prospero, it instead features Horus' conquest of the Imperium and the 'Major' battles of this time, which is to say some battle-zones that Forgeworld made up to fill time whilst they worked on the more well known events from the in-universe history.
And to be fair, their response as to why Prospero was delayed was because it included four major factions, two ofwhich have NEVER been represented on the tabletop, so required more time to do them justice. A large portion of the book is given over to running battles in the 'Age of Darkness' , which is a variant ruleset used as the default for Horus Heresy games where only Troops usually score, amongst other things and has rules and FOCs for Cityfight missions, rules for running ongoing campaigns, variant rules for mysterious terrain and objectives as well as including unique relics to be taken by the various army lists to add flavor to non-special characters.
The fifth Horus Heresy book covered the Battle of Calth. The rules for the Ultramarines including Roboute Guilliman himself as well as several warp-corrupted Word Bearer units are brought in alongside a few other new miscellaneous FW releases, including the Deredeo and the new Thanatars. There's also an Imperial Militia Read: PDF list that's super-customizable so you can make both loyalist and traitor lists.
It includes Legiones Astartes rules for the White Scars, Blood Angels and Dark Angels, so that players of those legions can start playing properly; however, it does not include special units, characters, or Primarchs for those legions. In Set to be book 3. For those Thousand Sons players, start saving up so you can play your space Egyptian sorcerers in all their 30k glory. Rules for the Sisters of Silence as an allied detachment and the Adeptus Custodes as a full army list will be present as well.
Well, it's come, and You'd think with such a long development cycle the quality assurance would have been more thorough. Didn't help that Alan Bligh was likely fairly ill in late , and his untimely death in May of means the Horus Heresy team now has a big hole in it. After the untimely death of Alan Bligh, this will be the first book with John French behind the wheel after two years of internal re-organizing. Covers the events of Signus Prime and the Chondax Campaigns.
Also included are 5 new consuls and two new squads that interact with Psykers and Daemons. Was originally to be called Angelus , though the current working title is said to be 'Crusade'. Set to cover the Thramas campaign with the Dark Angels vs Night Lords; but is teased to also include a full Dark Mechanicum army list, as well as ways to incorporate forbidden technology into your games.
Arguably the most anticipated Forge World book since the launch of our Horus Heresy supplements, Inferno is the campaign book that chronicles the epic battle of Prospero.
This is the saga of the Space Wolves and Thousand Sons Legions — two loyal ish Legions set upon each other by the machinations of Chaos and the traitorous Warmaster. It is one of the greatest tragedies of the era, but for Horus Heresy fans, one of the most awesome opportunities for games!
Even in an age of superhuman demi-gods, this force is elite, with access to loads of great vehicle support for their unequaled infantry. It was pretty much this. Gothic War M41 - The Macharian Crusade M41 - The Macharian Heresy M41 Wars for Armageddon M41, M41 and M41 - Damocles Crusade The Vaxi Atrocity M41 - First Tyrannic War M41 - Sabbat Worlds Crusade M41 Siege of Vraks M41 - Massacre at Sanctuary M41 - Badab War M41 The Vaxhallian Genocide M41 - Second Tyrannic War M41 - Third Tyrannic War The first edition of the novel was published in March , and was written by Dan Abnett.
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