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Book · Horus Heresy · 2012

Deliverance Lost

Author: Gav Thorpe

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Year
2012
Series
Horus Heresy
Place in the reading order
14 of 34
Era
The Isstvan Massacre — Shadow of War
Events
2 events
Plot (spoilers: moderate)

What happens to a Legion after 95% casualties: Corax, the gene-seed, the Alpha Legion’s sabotage. On the map the XIX after Isstvan is not “recovery” but a wound that the enemy has also poisoned. The key to reading the Shattered Legions.

Events in the book

  1. 006.M31 Drop Site Massacre on Isstvan V Atrocity

    Terra sent seven Legions to crush Horus on Isstvan V.

  2. 007.M31 Deliverance Lost Pyrrhic loyalist victory

    After the slaughter on Isstvan V the surviving Raven Guard returned to Deliverance, and the Emperor presented Corax with primarch gene-technology for the rapid restoration of the Legion.

Sources

  1. Black Library
  2. Deliverance Lost (G. Thorpe)
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