The Great Crusade swept the galaxy heralding the Imperial Truth, which denied the existence of daemons and warp entities, and in today’s instalment of our ongoing lore series, we’ll learn just how much of a lie that Truth really was.
Every human culture from every hidden corner of the galaxy, since time immemorial, has felt the shadow of daemons across their hearts – the dark reflection of Humanity’s strongest impulses and emotions. Even as the fires of Horus’ rebellion swept across the Imperium and the veil guarding the Immaterium thinned, few knew just how corporeal these forces could become, but as time went on and the Warp was churned by endless destruction and death, more and more daemons began to manifest in the material world.
Today’s extract is a bumper-size compendium covering the nature of daemons and their manifestations, the myriad ways the Imperium sought to combat their influence, and how many came to accept their power through bargains of the darkest sort. It’s a fascinating peek behind the curtain of the galaxy’s rational facade, and undoubtedly one of the most important chapters of the Black Books for lore fans.
The Hidden War
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This extract was first published in 2019’s The Horus Heresy Book VIII: Malevolence, which covered the greater influence of the Ruinstorm on the ongoing civil war as well as the campaigns of the White Scars and Blood Angels. You can read all about one of the most devastating daemonic incursions of the Horus Heresy in Journal Tactica: Prospero Burns – The Judgement of Valdor, available to pre-order from Saturday, and next week we’ll be looking at the sombre Sisters of Silence who fought alongside the Captain-General’s golden legion.
