Book · Horus Heresy · 2006
Horus Rising
Author: Dan Abnett
This page contains spoilers
- Year
- 2006
- Series
- Horus Heresy
- Place in the reading order
- 1 of 34
- Era
- Eve of the Storm
- Events
- 3 events
Plot (spoilers: few)
The entry point to the whole cycle: the Luna Wolves are still heroes, the Mournival is intact, the Imperial Truth rings with confidence. Without this book it is impossible to see what exactly breaks on Davin — not “the villain Horus” but the best son, the best Legion and the best lie of the Imperium. Read it before Isstvan, not after.
Events in the book
- Ullanor Triumph Loyalist victory
At the height of the triumph after the crushing of the ork empire of the overlord Urlakk Urg, the Emperor proclaimed Horus Warmaster — supreme over all the primarchs and expeditionary fleets — and…
- Battle of Sixty-Three Nineteen Loyalist victory
Already proclaimed Warmaster, Horus brought the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet to a world whose inhabitants styled their ruler “Emperor of Mankind”.
- Murder and the Interex · theft of the anathame Atrocity
Having wrested the prison-world “Murder” from the megarachnid xenos, Horus’s 63rd Expeditionary Fleet made diplomatic contact with the advanced human civilisation of the Interex, allied with the…
Sources
- Black Library
- Horus Rising (D. Abnett)
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