Last week, we announced three new Black Library books coming later this year, so we hope you’re making room on your bookshelves. We’ve got yet more books to show you today – this time of the Special Edition variety. These are revamped tomes with amazing art and premium treatments that will be looking to swagger in and take pride of place on your shelves. Check out the three new books you need to make extra space for.
Our first book undergoing the Enspecialisation Ritual – a mysterious rite involving many hooded acolytes, candles, incense, the whole esoteric works – is Assassinorum: Kingmaker by Robert Rath. On the Knight world of Dominion, a pair of Imperial assassins are tasked with preventing secession and rebellion by removing the king. They’ll need to navigate a knot of blood feuds and chivalric obligations to succeed, or risk the sector being plunged into disarray.
This Special Edition features screen-printed art on the cover, with blue page edges and a ribbon bookmark. Inside, the book is numbered and signed by Robert Rath – who also provides an introduction and additional short story, Assassinorum: Iron Sight.
Through the hallowed arch daubed with glyphs spelling arcane phrases like “tip in*” and “cloth bound” comes Saints of the Imperium. This slipcase collection contains three books detailing the most highly venerated champions of the Adepta Sororitas: Saint Celestine, Ephrael Stern, and Sister Avra. Celestine by Andy Clark is paired with his short story Celestine: Revelation, while the other two volumes are Ephrael Stern: The Heretic Saint by David Annandale and The Triumph of Saint Katherine by Danie Ware.
Each of the books in this collection is bound in a gorgeous red cover illuminated with bold graphic art of the stories’ subject, repeated in a liturgical triptych on the slipcase. Each book also has a bookmark, and is signed by the author.
The final book poised under the serpentine dagger dripping with ink, ready to transcend into its Special Edition form in an apotheosis of fancy covers and bookmarks, is Voidscarred by Mike Brooks. The Starsplinters – Aeldari corsairs who count Baron Myrin Stormdawn as one of their greatest leaders – are trapped in a running conflict with the Badskab Bukkaneers. Circumstances force them to pair up with the exiled admiral Taenar Leotharan, who just so happens to be from Myrin’s home craftworld of Ilmaren, and sparks fly as the pair clash.
Bound in a leather-effect cover, with screen-printed illustrations and featuring a yellow ribbon bookmark, the Special Edition of Voidscarred is numbered, signed by the author, and also contains the short story Invisible Chains.
Now we must extinguish the candles and draw the curtain on this consecrated chamber, its powerful energies temporarily sapped. No doubt we’ll be ushering the acolytes in and firing up the ominous chanting soon enough, in order to anoint some more Special Editions. Stay tuned on Warhammer Community to find out when the above books are available to pre-order – they’ll all be limited availability, so keep an eye out.
* Pedantry demands that we explain: a tip-in is a specially printed page added to a book after the rest has been printed, usually with illustrations.
