Book · Horus Heresy · 2017
Ruinstorm
Author: David Annandale
This page contains spoilers
- Year
- 2017
- Series
- Horus Heresy
- Place in the reading order
- 30 of 34
- Era
- Shadow of War — The Road to Terra
- Events
- 3 events
Plot (spoilers: many)
How the three primarchs of Secundus fight their way through the storm to Terra and why Davin is needed again. The political closing of the “second Imperium” and the operational meaning of the Second Battle of Davin (011.M31). Read it after “The Unremembered Empire”.
Events in the book
- 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.
- Guilliman Renounces Imperium Secundus Loyalist victory
Having received signs that the Emperor was still alive, Guilliman renounced the second Imperium and swore to help Sanguinius return to Terra.
- Second Battle of Davin · breach of the Ruinstorm Loyalist victory
Pressing through the Ruinstorm, the combined fleets of the Ultramarines, Blood Angels and Dark Angels shattered a daemonic host at Davin — the world where Horus had once fallen — and with cyclonic…
Sources
- Black Library
- Ruinstorm (D. Annandale)
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