Fallen Angels (The Horus Heresy Book 11)

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French, John (2018-02-27). Praetorian of Dorn. Games Workshop. ISBN 978-1-78496-642-3. Archived from the original on 2016-09-23 . Retrieved 2016-09-03.

Virtues of the Sons: Before the Heresy begins, a concerned Sanguinius organises educational duels for Captains Azkellon and Amit to understand the twin aspects of their nature, so that they will be ready for the coming trials of their Legion.Wolf's Claw sees Bjorn One-Handed (soon to be Fell-handed) commandeer Terminator armor from the Legion armory during the fighting in Alaxxes against the Alpha Legion. Early in the 31st millennium, the Galaxy is in the throes of the Great Crusade. Originating from Terra ( Earth), it is an interstellar crusade that claims the galaxy as the rightful domain of Humankind, and aims to reunite the multitude of scattered human colonies remaining from earlier space exploration under the domain of an "Imperium of Man". Organised in numerous expeditions, the Crusade fields huge fleets and vast armies; at its forefront, led by the Primarchs, are Legions of Space Marines– genetically enhanced supersoldiers numbering in the millions. Over the course of two Terran centuries, the Crusade has reached star systems more than 50,000 light years away from its original staging point in the Sol ( Solar) System, has assimilated millions of worlds into the Imperium, and has given Humankind a dominant position among the galaxy's species. Its grand mastermind is the "Emperor of Mankind", a mysterious superhuman of unknown origin. [3]

Legion focuses on the "Alpha Legion", the 20th and last of the Space Marine Legions. Characterised in earlier publications as clandestine and inscrutable, the book constitutes a major development of the entire canon of the setting with the revelation that the Legion's Primarch is actually a pair of twins, Alpharius and Omegon. The book also features the Imperial Army, the regular unmodified human fighting force of the Imperium, covering several officers and their units. Lastly, the novel introduces a new organisation to the setting, the enigmatic and ancient Cabal– an interspecies organisation opposed to Chaos. The human John Grammaticus is introduced as a prominent Cabal member. The story takes place over roughly a 6‑month period, about two years before the Heresy starts; it describes the events that eventually lead Alpharius and Omegon (publicly a single figure named Alpharius Omegon) to support Horus. Lord of the Red Sands: Angron has a heart-to-heart with one of his World Eater captains on Istvaan III (a Loyalist one), where his past and his reasons joining Horus is given detail.Allegiance: Following his rescue by the White Scars in Scars ( Book 28), Revuel Arvida of the Thousand Sons Corvidae must decide his allegiance in the unfolding civil war, amidst the trails of those Khans who were part of the Lodges. In the one-hundred-and forty-seventh standard year of the Great Crusade, Luther and roughly five hundred Dark Angels are reassigned to Caliban after just one solar week into their first tour of the Great Crusade. Reputed continuity problems introduced in the series by story elements in The Outcast Dead have been the subject of discussion among the Warhammer40,000 fan community ( Antigonos et al. 2011); see also Dembski-Bowden (2012a, §"Author's Note", p.9)