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Book · Horus Heresy · 2016

The Path of Heaven

Author: Chris Wraight

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Year
2016
Series
Horus Heresy
Place in the reading order
24 of 34
Era
The Road to Terra
Events
3 events
Plot (spoilers: many)

The price of the Khan’s breakthrough to Terra: Kalium, Catallus, the Dark Glass, the death of Yesugei. Operationally it is the only loyalist corridor from the east to Sol in the window of 011.M31. Read it immediately after “Scars”.

Events in the book

  1. 011.M31 Battle of the Kalium Gate Traitor victory

    In the desperate “Path of Heaven”, Jaghatai Khan ordered Qin Xa, master of the Keshig, to lead a massed assault on the ancient Warp Gates of Kalium in Khan’s own armour — a ruse to convince the…

  2. 011.M31 Battle of Catallus · the Dark Glass Pyrrhic loyalist victory

    In the Catallus Rift the White Scars found the “Dark Glass” — a prototype of a Webway access device from the Dark Age of Technology.

  3. 011.M31 The Path of Heaven Pyrrhic loyalist victory

    When the Ruinstorm severed long-range warp transits, the White Scars waged an exhausting war of manoeuvre, seeking a road to Terra through traitor-held space.

Sources

  1. Black Library
  2. The Path of Heaven (C. Wraight)
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