There are several different types of Fallen. They have no unified outlook or goal. Many Fallen are non- Chaos renegades who seek the destruction of the Imperium in a continuation of their rebellion. Others serve the Chaos Gods and have fully succumbed to Chaos, yet still others realise they were mislead in their rebellion and once again fight in the Emperor's name.

Luther goes into isolation to deliberate, and only the Lord Cypher has access to him during that time. Roughly a solar week later, Zahariel converses with the Watchers in the Dark. The Watchers reveal that they are a xenos species that has kept Caliban's Warp taint at bay for millennia. Luther had brought with him a heretical book that taught him how to subjugate the Warp spirit by learning its true name. Zahariel initially objected to the use of such sorcery but ultimately relented to Luther's plan.Kirby, Tom; Wells, Mark; etal. (July 30, 2012). Annual report 2012 (PDF) ( Audited financial statement). Annual And Half Year Reports. Vol.2011–2012. Audited by PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Mark Smith, Senior Statutory Auditor. Nottingham, UK: Games Workshop Group. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 10, 2013 . Retrieved February 14, 2013. Blood Games" by Dan Abnett; "Wolf at the Door" by Mike Lee; "Scions of the Storm" by Anthony Reynolds; "The Voice" by James Swallow; "Call of the Lion" by Gav Thorpe; "The Last Church" by Graham McNeill; and "After Desh’ea" by Matt Farrer ( Kyme & Priestley 2009, §"Contents") a b Combined review of A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns CD-audio editions: Fortune n.d. (positive).

The Eagle's Talon: Imperial Fists storm a warship in Tallarn's orbit, resorting to unthinkable tactics to achieve victory. The Lion expresses his belief that Horus was chosen as the Warmaster only because he was the first primarch found, and that if he had been found first, he would have been the Warmaster.

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Flory, Graeme. "Graeme's Fantasy Book Review". graemesfantasybookreview.com (blog). London, UK: Self-published. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012 . Retrieved March 15, 2012. The Horus Heresy is an ongoing series of science fantasy set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 setting of tabletop miniatures wargame company Games Workshop. Penned by several authors, the series takes place during the Horus Heresy, a fictional galaxy-spanning civil war occurring 10,000years before the far future of Warhammer 40,000. The war is described as a major contributing factor to the game's dystopian environment. April 26, 2011). "Book Review: Mechanicum (The Horus Heresy, Book Nine) by Graham McNeill". Lifestyle: Blogcritics. Seattle Post-Intelligencer ( online newspaper). Hearst Seattle Media. ISSN 0745-970X. Archived from the original on October 26, 2014 . Retrieved March 8, 2012. In M42 during the Arks of Omen Campaign, Lion El'Jonson returned to defend the Imperium once more. Starting with the Fallen Angel Zabriel, he has begun recruiting willing Fallen Angels that have been deemed loyal and pure from the taint of Chaos. These new warriors are known as The Risen. [21] Known Fallen Angels A Word Bearers landing force touches down in the only area of wasteland on the planet and is met by the primitive tribespeople who live there. The tribespeople wear pelts of human skin, are tattooed with symbols that match the constellations of Colchis used as Chapter symbols by the Word Bearers and speak a language that Argel Tal identifies as Colchisian, though Vendatha, one of the five Custodes attached to the expedition, disagrees. Their leader, a girl named Ingethel, greets the Word Bearers with claims that their coming was prophecised and welcomes them to the planet, Cadia. Over the following week the Word Bearers learn about and document the tribes' society, finding many connections to the culture of old Colchis, but the Custodes attached the the expedition, led by Aquillon, are at a loss as to why the Word Bearers do not simply destroy the obviously deviant society which worships gods that reside in the Warp. Argel Tal, Xaphen and Vendatha join Lorgar at an underground ritual and are horrified to find nine tribespeople impaled on spears as sacrifices whilst Ingethel dances naked. Lorgar is promised that this ritual will reveal to him the truth about gods in the universe, but when he is told that he must choose the tenth sacrifice Vendatha demands that the ritual cease and attempts to arrest Lorgar. Violence breaks out and Vendatha kills Deumos, Chapter Master of the Serrated Sun, as well as two other Word Bearers before being gunned down by Xaphen and impaled through the mouth by Argel Tal. Tal implores Lorgar to stop before things get even more out of hand but he refuses and has Vendatha, who is still just alive, impaled on the tenth spear as his sacrifice. Vendatha's death serves as the catalyst for the ritual and Ingethel transforms into a hideous daemon. Ingethel the Ascended promises to show Lorgar the truth of the galaxy but demands that he sacrifice some of his sons so that they may be shown the truth first, and though reluctant Lorgar puts his mission before his sons' safety and chooses Argel Tal and his Seventh Assault Company. [1f]

Tzeentch meanwhile, spoke to the most scrupulous and brooding of the Fallen. The Chaos God then weaved Luther's dark claims into a far larger tapestry of betrayal and deceit, while promising the Fallen all the intellect they would need to unravel it. As for Slaanesh, the Dark Prince whispered of indulgences beyond imagining, to those Fallen who had already opened their souls to depravity in the halls of Caliban's keeps. Other Fallen venerate Chaos Undivided instead, as they think themselves above servitude to a single God. These Fallen draw strength from the arcane currents of the Warp when they need to, but are blind to the many manipulations worked upon them in return. However those Fallen who embrace Chaos Undivided, are forever denied the ability to ascend to Daemonhood. Only those who pledge their soul to a single Chaos God, can attain such glories and the Fallen Daemon Princes are amongst the mightiest and most feared of all of Chaos' champions. They are natural leaders and besides other Fallen Angels, these Daemon Princes often command legions of daemons and lesser human followers. [20a] Although Luther tells the Dark Angels on Caliban that once they fulfill their mission they may return to the Great Crusade, he privately confides to Zahariel that he is lying: for them, the crusade is over. Anovel — Corrupted by Nurgle. Captured. Interrogated by Sapphon. Assassinated by Cypher. Died Unrepentant. Spartan • Fellblade • Typhon • Cerberus • Falchion • Mastodon • Lord of Skulls • Death Wheel • Plaguereaper • Plague Centurion

In conference with his advisers, First Chapter Master Kor Phaeron and First Chaplain Erebus, a despairing Lorgar finds solace in their explanation that the Word Bearers have been wrong to venerate the Emperor throughout their history as he is a flawed god, but is less pleased when they imply that the old religion of Colchis that they destroyed to make way for Lorgar's Imperial Creed may have been right after all, and seizes Kor Phaeron by the throat when he admits to allowing embers of religions that matched the Old Way of Colchis to survive on planets the Word Bearers have conquered. Placated by assurances of Kor Phaeron's good intentions and desperately seeking to learn the truth of gods in the galaxy, Lorgar is convinced by the pair to undertake the Pilgrimage, an ancient quest from Colchis's old religion to seek a fabled realm where gods and mortals meet. [1b] Tallarn: Witness Follows the internal musings of the new governor-militant of Tallarn following the campaign, surveying the graveyard left behind and the price paid for victory on the planet.The Buried Dagger is set immediately before the events of the Siege of Terra, and follows the Perspective of the "Death Guard" Legion. The book is divided into three distinct parts, the first is the narration of Mortarion, Primarch of the Death Guard, about his childhood on Barbarus, a planet with a toxic atmosphere and ruled by tyrannical warlords, and his attempt to liberate its people, culminating with meeting the Emperor, who kills the last Warlord, as Mortarion risks finally succumbing to the poisonous atmosphere. The second part, however, is set prior to the Siege of Terra, and follows Mortarion and the Death Guard slowly succumbing to debilitating diseases as their ships malfunction in a journey through the Warp. It is revealed at the end that Typhus, who Mortarion had known since Barbarus, had sabotaged the systems to become favoured of the Plague God Nurgle. This part of the story ends with a mirror of the first, as Mortarion swears loyalty to Nurgle, before he succumbs to the diseases that would otherwise condemn him to undeath. The third part of the story is largely unrelated to the Death Guard, and follows Garviel Loken and Nathaniel Garro, alongside several other characters, as they form the Grey Knights Chapter of Space Marines upon the eve of the Siege of Terra.