In the north of the world the forces of Chaos gather, awaiting their moment to strike. At their head is the Everchosen, the warrior who will lead the final, cataclysmic assault that will usher in the End Times and the reign of the Ruinous Powers. But he was not always thus - he was once a man, a devout servant of the warrior-god Sigmar. What could cause such a soul to fall to the worship of the Dark Gods? What dark events could have put a knight of the Empire on the path to becoming the harbinger of the world's end? And just who was the man who will become known to all as Archaon?

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It's the first half of one of the most epic tales in Warhammer history, delving into the past of the Chaos champion known as Archaon and exploring what can make a devout Sigmarite warrior fall into the service of the Dark Gods.

Led by the fearsome Major Mortensen, the Redemption Corps is a regiment of ultra-tough storm troopers sent to the deadliest warzones on missions of mercy and destruction. But when Mortensen comes to the attention of the deadly sorority of the Battle Sisters, he not only has an ork invasion to contend with but these fearsome warrioress-fanatics too. Caught between the xenos and the fury of the Imperium, can the Redemption Corps fulfil their mission and survive into the bargain?

For an age, the Realm of Life has languished in the grip of Nurgle, the god of pestilence and decay. Overcome with despair, the goddess of life, Alarielle, fell into a state of dormancy, seemingly leaving her children, the sylvaneth, to a dark fate under the oppression of Chaos. No longer. Now, the Queen of the Radiant Wood has awoken in her war aspect, and the sylvaneth heed her call to reclaim their forest kingdoms in all the Mortal Realms. Now is the season of vengeance.

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It's your one-stop guide to the warriors of the woods. Malevolent forest spirits, dangerous spites and Alarielle herself, with stories from top Black Library authors.

In the hostile universe of the 41st millennium, where allegiances are ever fickle, few of the Emperor’s sons are more difficult to understand or predict than the Alpha Legion. Branded traitor since the Heresy, their motives and actions have always been shrouded in mystery. Alpha Legionnaire Occam the Untrue leads his warband out of its hunting grounds in the Maelstrom on an epic quest for salvation, not just for himself, but for his whole Legion. With the forces of the Inquisition snapping at their heels, Occam and his followers must use all their guile and considerable martial prowess as they make their way to the cold heart of the galaxy, to a confrontation that no one, least of all Occam himself, could have foreseen.

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It's a novel about the sneakiest and most oblique of traitors, written by Rob Sanders, master of the twisty-turny tale. It's sure to make your head spin…

The Heresy came to Calth without warning. In just a few hours of betrayal and bloodshed, the proud warriors of the XIIIth Legion – Guilliman’s own Ultramarines – were laid low by the treachery of their erstwhile brothers of the XVIIth. Now, as the planet is scoured by solar flares from the wounded Veridian star, the survivors must take the fight to the remaining Word Bearers and their foul allies, or face damnation in the gloomy arcology shelters beneath the planet’s surface. In this all-new collection of stories by authors including Dan Abnett, Aaron Demsbki-Bowden and Rob Sanders, witness the untold tales of the Underworld War. In the novella-length ‘Calth That Was’, Graham McNeill highlights the fateful encounter that will alter the destiny of Captain Ventanus and shape the face of the Ultramarines Chapter for ten thousand years to come. The battle for Calth is far from over.

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Some of Black Library's best loved authors tell dark and twisted tales from the battles in the caverns beneath Calth and continue plot threads from Know No Fear. David Annandale summons daemons, Rob Sanders gets into the heart of the darkness and Graham McNeill continues the story of Remus Ventanus, the Saviour of Calth.

The eBook edition includes integrated illustrations of characters and events from the story, and an afterword that places the story in context within the series.

A pair of novels telling an epic tale of the priests of Mars.

SKITARIUS: A discover of ancient technology send and skitarii legion under the command of Haldron-44 Stroika into battle on a world overrun by Chaos. When a cataclysm cuts him off from his tech-priest overseers, Stroika must rally his forces and battle corrupt machines and Chaos Space Marines if he is to achieve victory.

TECH-PRIEST: Magos-Explorator Omnid Torquora of the Cult Mechanicus orchestrates war against the Iron Warriors for control of a long-lost forge world. With mighty Titan Legions, skitarii, and maniples of battle-servitors and robots at his command, victory is within his grasp...until treachery threatens to end his dreams of conquest.

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It's a truly epic saga that brings all the forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus – from the humble Skitarii Rangers to the towering Titan God-Machines – into a massive conflict with the fate of worlds in the balance. And there's a scene involving robots and a Thunderhawk that has to be read to be believed.

Archaon - the former templar of Sigmar now dedicated to the Ruinous Powers - continues his quest to claim the six great treasures of Chaos and bring death to the world as the Everchosen of the gods. As he travels the world - from the southern Chaos Wastes to the verdant lands of Bretonnia - Archaon faces unimaginable perils and devastating betrayals. And all the while, Be'lakor, the first daemon prince, plots and awaits his chance to destroy the would-be Everchosen and claim his mantle as Lord of Chaos and harbinger of the End Times.

Archaon really knows how to put on a show. And that show is the End Times. He's got killer weapons and an attitude to match. Astride the steed of the apocalypse, and at the head of the army to end all armies, it's no wonder that he's the ultimate Warhammer villain.

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This is where Archaon truly becomes the ultimate Warhammer villain. As he faces the darkness within himself and the forces that seek to shape his destiny, Archaon's struggle provides as compelling a portrait of a Chaos champion as has ever been written.

THE STORY
One of the earliest victories of the Tanith First was the capture of Sholen Skara, a magister of Chaos and servant of the Great Archon in the Sabbat Worlds. Now, more than a decade later, this dangerous heretic has escaped captivity and fled to the world of Valens 160. Sent to retrieve – or kill – him are warriors of the Iron Snakes Space Marines. As Squad Orpheon hunt their prey, they find that Skara's powers to turn men against the light of the Emperor have been at work on Valens 160 – and to defeat their enemy, they may need to sacrifice an entire world…


Written by Rob Sanders



This story is also available in the Sabbat Crusade anthology.

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A Sabbat Worlds story



Tasked with retrieving or killing an escaped heretic, Squad Orpheus of the Iron Snakes find a trail of tragedy and ruin the traitor has left – and face the horrors that Chaos wreaks on the souls of men.




It's part all-action Space Marine story showing the superhuman Adeptus Astartes in battle, and part rumination of the ruinous nature of Chaos and the corruption of all it touches.

A horror is loose on the holy shrine world of Sanctus Shibboleth. Xenobia Nox – witchbreed, monster, deadly rogue psyker who has cut a path of destruction across three worlds – is tearing down the temples to Saint Jeronimus. But her time is numbered for the Battle Sisters of the Order of the Ebon Chalice are in pursuit. But the capture of the witch may just be the beginning of Palatine Adrianna Verlatz's problems, as the Red Corsairs circle, awaiting their moment to strike…

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It shows the lengths to which both the Emperor's warriors and the forces of Chaos will go to capture a powerful rogue psyker – and the very different uses to which they might be put once in custody.

Der Cult Mechanicus, die Jünger des Maschinengottes, steht an vorderster Front der Suche nach WIssen. Tech-Priests führen ihre Streitkräfte augmentierter Krieger in die Schlacht gegen die Feinde des Omnissiah, um Seine Geheimnisse zu bewahren. Magos-Explorator Omnid Torquora arrangiert einen Krieg gegen die Iron Warriors, um ihnen eine vor langer Zeit verlorene Fabrikwelt zu entreißen. Mit mehreren Skitarii-Legionen und Maniples von Kampf-Servitors und Robotern unter seinem Befehl – nicht zu vergessen die mächtigen Gottmaschinen der Titan-Legionen – liegt der Sieg in greifbarer Nähe … Bis ein Verrat droht, seine Eroberungsträume zu zerstören.

A silent star-fort is an ominous sign… But when Chaplain Rhaddecai and his Excoriators board the Semper Vigilare to investigate, they find something far more disturbing as the dead rise, human and Space Marine alike. Beset by rotting horrors and trapped in the star-fort’s depths, the Space Marines must find a way to survive, or to die with honour.

His body broken by the fall of the Schadenhold, the Iron Warriors warsmith Idriss Krendl is nonetheless far from defeated. Now commanding two of the mighty siege guns stolen from the forge world of Diamat, he seeks to redeem himself in the eyes of his primarch by bringing down the Great Selenic palace on Euphorus, and gather invaluable tactical data for the eventual assault on Terra. His plan? To utilise a strategy of his own devising - the glorious Ironfire protocol.

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Follow the continuing adventures of Iron Warriors Warsmith Idriss Krendl as he attempts to take down a giant palace with a pair of the enormous siege guns. We last met Krendl in the story The Iron Within, where he went head to head with the loyalist Dantioch. After that humiliation, he's trying to recover his reputation with an audacious plan.