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Ahriman languishes on the threshold of space and time, adrift in a sub-realm of unknowable dimension and aspect. He has found it at long last: the ancient device known to the necrons as the Key of Infinity. This should be his moment of triumph – but he is not the Ahriman he used to be. Betrayed and lost, he is a solitary sorcerer, bereft of allies, standing amongst the smashed and ruined ephemera of his grand designs.

Doom has come upon the Thousand Sons. A plague of fire and dust stalks the Legion across time and space, born from the sorcerous Rubric that saved them from annihilation and damned them for eternity. One by one, the spirits of the Rubricae are vanishing from the prisons of their armour—and one by one, living sorcerers are cursed to take their place. Driven by the obsessive need to save his Legion and find redemption, Ahzek Ahriman seeks the time-altering technology of the forgotten necrons to overwrite his past mistakes.

After seven years of bitter war, the end has come at last for the conflict known infamously as the Horus Heresy. Terra now lies within the Warmaster’s sights, the Throneworld and the seat of his father’s rule. Horus’ desire is nothing less than the death of the Emperor of Mankind and the utter subjugation of the Imperium. He has become the ascendant vessel of Chaos and amassed a terrible army with which to enact his will and vengeance. But the way to the Throne will be hard as the primarch Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian and protector of Terra, marshals the defences.

Als Prätorianer des Imperators werden Rogal Dorn und seine VII. Legion vom Großen Kreuzzug zurückgerufen, doch erst als der Verrat des Kriegsherrn ans Licht kommt, offenbart sich das ganze Ausmaß ihrer Pflicht. Zum ersten Mal seit Ausbruch des Krieges wird das Sol-System direkt angegriffen und viele der scheinbar unüberwindlichen Verteidigungsanlagen, die von den Imperial Fists errichtet wurden, erweisen sich als unzureichend.

Das Unheil ist den Thousand Sons auf den Fersen. Der Rubrica-Zauber hat einen Fluch aus Feuer und Staub heraufbeschworen, der sie über die Grenzen von Raum und Zeit hinweg verfolgt. Die Geister der Rubricae verschwinden aus den Kerkern ihrer Rüstungen, während die lebenden Hexer nach und nach ihren Platz einnehmen. Getrieben von der Not, seine Legion zu retten, und im Streben nach Wiedergutmachung sucht Ahzek Ahriman nach der zeitverändernden Technologie des vergessenen Necron-Volkes, um die Vergangenheit umzuschreiben.

Es hat viele Jahre und unzählige Opfer gefordert, doch letztendlich ist Ahriman, ehemals oberster Librarian der Thousand Sons, doch nun Exilant und Hexer, bereit, die bedeutendste und wagemutigste Tat seines ganzen Lebens zu vollbringen. Seine Suche nach Wissen und Macht diente einem einzigen Ziel, das nun zum Greifen nahe ist. Welches Ziel? Nichts Geringeres als die Wiedergutmachung seines größten Scheiterns, die Umkehrung des Rubrica-Zaubers, der seine Legion verdammte.

Ahriman, der größte Hexer der Thousand Sons und Erschaffer des Rubrica-Zaubers, der einst seine Legion zu Fall brachte, wandert weiter dem Pfad zur Erlösung oder zur Verdammnis. Auf der Suche nach einer Heilung für seine Legion wird er gezwungen, sich einer schwerwiegenden Frage zu stellen – war das große Ritual von Anfang an zum Scheitern verurteilt? Die Antwort auf diese Frage könnte ein mysteriöses Artefakt bieten: das Athenäum von Kalimakus, ein Grimoire vergessenen Wissens.

Staub und Asche... Von seinem Vater Magnus dem Roten und seinen Brüdern verschmäht, ist Ahriman ein heimatloser Hexer des Tzeentch, dessen Taten eine ganze Legion für alle Ewigkeiten verdammten. Einst war er ein vielgepriesener Bruder der Thpusand Sons, doch jetzt ist er ein Ausgestoßener und Abtrünniger, der sich im Wirbel des Chaos verbirgt. Dort schmiedet er Pläne, um seine alte Macht wiederzuerlangen. Er ist ein Architekt des Schicksals, ein Meister des Warp, der danach trachtet, seine Feinde zu zerschmettern.

As the Great Rift unfolds in the night sky above Terra and daemons walk upon the birth world of mankind, the Primarch Roboute Guilliman returns, heralding a dark new age. During the breaking storm, Cypher and his band of Fallen escape from the most secure prison in the Imperium. Now loose in the Imperial Palace, they are hunted by warriors of the Dark Angels, forces of the Adeptus Custodes, and Imperial Assassins. But what are Cypher’s intentions? Can anything or anyone be trusted?

War rages in the Caradryad Sector. Worlds are falling to madness and rebellion, and the great war machine of the Imperium is moving to counter the threat. Amongst its agents is Inquisitor Covenant. Puritan, psyker, expert swordsman, he reserves an especial hatred for those of his order who would seek to harness the power of Ruin as a weapon. Summoned to an inquisitorial conclave, Covenant believes he has uncovered such a misguided agent and prepares to denounce the heretic Talicto before his fellows.

It has taken many long years and countless sacrifices, but finally Ahriman, former Chief Librarian of the Thousand Sons, now exile and sorcerer, is ready to attempt the most audacious and daring feat of his long life. His quest for knowledge and power has all been for one purpose, and he would now see that purpose fulfilled. His goal? Nothing less than undoing his greatest failure and reversing the Rubric that damned his Legion.

The Great Crusade is ending. The Emperor has returned to Terra, while Horus remains among the stars to complete the unification of humanity. As the Imperial armies fight the final battles of the age, Remembrancer Solomon Voss seeks the answer to one question—why does Sigismund, First Captain of the Imperial Fists and greatest champion of the Legions, believe that war will not end? Granted a rare audience with the master of the Templars, the answer takes Voss on a revelatory journey to a time before Sigismund became a Space Marine.

After a long and gruelling conflict, the traitors at last close upon Terra. But time is dwindling for an attack. Both Guilliman and the Lion are returning with all haste, and their armies could turn the tide. The hosts of the Warmaster must unite, for only then can they attack the Throneworld itself. While Mortarion is sent on ahead as the fleet’s vanguard, it falls to Lorgar and Perturabo to marshal Fulgrim and Angron, both now elevated to daemonhood and perhaps beyond even the will of the Warmaster to command.

The battle for Tallarn rages between the traitor Iron Warriors and the Imperial Army. A carpet of armour covers the surface of the toxic planet: Dreadnoughts versus tanks versus Titans. But what secret purpose drives the Iron Warriors onwards to war?

Recalled from the Great Crusade after Ullanor, Rogal Dorn and the VIIth Legion were appointed as the Emperor's praetorians - but only after the Warmaster's treachery was revealed did the full extent of that sacred duty become apparent. Now, the Solar System comes under attack for the first time since the war began, and many of the seemingly impregnable defences wrought by the Imperial Fists prove inadequate. With all eyes fixed firmly upon this new threat beyond the gates of Terra, who in turn will protect Dorn from the enemy within?

After a series of victories, the Imperial forces are on the back foot once more. The power of Chaos is rising, the Traitors gain ground, and all hope seems lost. Can Terra endure?

As the Warmaster's campaign of galactic domination continues, his generals seek out fresh battlefields to conquer. After leaving the Crone World of Iydris behind, Perturabo strikes for Tallarn. A bitter, vengeful primarch, the lord of the Iron Warriors unleashes a deadly bombardment against the world, killing millions but entrenching the survivors. A brutal, all-consuming armoured conflict ensues, the greatest of the war and one that grinds down all combatants over more than a year of relentless battles.

The Horus Heresy is a civil war on a scale the likes of which the galaxy has never seen before. After the Great Crusade united the disparate worlds of humanity, the very warriors who made it possible turned on each other and tore it apart. Soon after word reached Terra of Horus's nascent rebellion, Mars fell. Set upon by the forces of the Alpha Legion before they had even recovered from the Razing of Prospero, the Space Wolves have been hounded to the edge of the Alaxxes Nebula. In desperation, Leman Russ called out to his primarch brothers for aid. None came.

Nearly a quarter of a million loyal Space Marines lost their lives on Isstvan V. The Dropsite Massacre lasted only a few hours, and yet the Iron Hands, Raven Guard, and Salamanders were slaughtered by those they had once called kin. Corax: Soulforge follows the defiant Raven Guard in the wake of Corax's failed plans to rebuild his Legion after the Dropsite Massacre.

In Chris Wraight’s Homebound, Ilya Ravallion must choose between the decimated White Scars and living out what remains of her life in peace. An embattled Ahzek Ahriman must race against time to learn what he can of the warp before its gates close to him forever in Ex Libris by John French. Featuring tales from Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Guy Haley and many more, this anthology follows mighty Custodians, scheming sorcerers, and the lowly footsoldiers of the Imperial Army as all negotiate the devastating aftermath of Humanity's greatest reckoning.