In last week’s walk through the annals of the legendary Black Books – the Horus Heresy tomes that expanded the world of the 31st Millennium in exacting detail – we saw how the dour and dutiful Iron Hands Legion came to be, and how they conducted themselves in the Emperor’s Armies. Now, it’s time for their most hated rivals – the Emperor’s Children, against whose sublime blades the X Legion almost met their end at the Dropsite Massacre.
The warriors of the III Legion sought perfection in all things, and their obsession with excellence in combat, tactics, and organisation made them some of the most effective of the Emperor’s legionaries – even earning them the right to bear his personal standard - the Palatine Aquila - after they defended him to the last man in the Proximan Betrayal.
This pursuit of perfection turned to dark obsession as time went on and the influence of their corrupted Primarch seeped down into the Legion proper.
The Emperor’s Children
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This week’s extract comes from the first of the Black Books, Betrayal, released all the way back in 2012. Next week, we’re staying on the Traitor side of the Dropsite Massacre and getting familiar with the grim warriors of the Death Guard.
