Book · Horus Heresy · 2012
Know No Fear
Author: Dan Abnett
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- Year
- 2012
- Series
- Horus Heresy
- Place in the reading order
- 15 of 34
- Era
- Shadow of War
- Events
- 3 events
Plot (spoilers: many)
The best operational prose of the cycle: minute by minute, how a model Legion falls under a ritual. Calth here is not a “big battle” but the killing of Ultramar’s logistics and the ritual from which the Ruinstorm is born. Mandatory before any article on the Ruinstorm.
Events in the book
- Battle of Calth Pyrrhic loyalist victory
Having gathered the Ultramarines at Calth under the pretext of a campaign against the orks of Ghaslakh, the Word Bearers of Kor Phaeron and Erebus struck without warning and turned Calth’s orbital…
- Betrayal at Ithraca Pyrrhic traitor victory
As part of the Calth betrayal, the Word Bearers, Legio Suturvora (the “Fire Masters”) and the Ordo Reductor fell upon the loyalist Taghmata Xerxes of the forge world of Accatran and a stranded…
- Birth of the Ruinstorm Atrocity
Erebus’s ritual on the surface of Calth and the slaughter of Ultramar gave birth to the Ruinstorm — a gigantic warp storm centred on Ultramar, cleaving the galaxy in two.
Sources
- Black Library
- Know No Fear (D. Abnett)
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