Black Library

  DESCRIPTIONFollowing the Age of Strife, with Humanity teetering on the brink of annihilation, the Emperor of Mankind unleashed a weapon of unimaginable power. His Space Marines. These mighty warriors, forged in the furnace of war, were marshalled together into the twenty Legions known as the First Founding. In the Era Indomitus, nine of the warrior brotherhoods remain true. Once Legions, now Chapters, they stand defiant as mankind's bulwark against the heretic, the xenos and the daemon.This art and background book explores the iconic loyalist Chapters of the First Founding in depth, bringing to life their distinct identities, cultures, and doctrines of warfare through more than thirty specially commissioned illustrations, including nine phenomenal double-page artworks.Within its pages, you'll find detailed lore, background information, and stunning artwork for:– Dark Angels– White Scars– Space Wolves– Imperial Fists– Blood Angels– Iron Hands– Ultramarines– Salamanders– Raven GuardWritten by Guy Haley, Nick Kyme, John French, David Guymer, and Callum Davis.

Read more less

  THE STORYDa Mad Dok Grotsnik, creator of Ghazghkull Thraka, is a painboy beyond legend. What – and who – he harbours in his formidable brain is a mystery to every ork but himself, and an army of orderlies provides him with a constant supply of flesh with which to tinker.When Grotsnik comes to the aid of Beastboss Bakmun, whose rampage on Hive Prome teeters on the brink of going out not with a Waaagh! but with a whimper, Bakmun can't believe his luck.Following a series of increasingly unlikely accidents, however, it soon becomes apparent that the Mad Dok is working on something in the depths of his colossal Painwagon. Something big. Something that could change the fate of ork-kind forever, surpassing Grotsnik’s own forging of the Prophet of the Waaagh!…Written by Denny Flowers.

Read more less

  CONTENTS– Introduction by Jacob Youngs– Angels of Another Age, by John French– Fulgurite, by Nick Kyme– Fragments (All We Have Left), by Dan Abnett– Ex Libris, by John French– System Purge, by Gav Thorpe– After the Dawn, the Darkness, by Guy Haley– Homebound, by Chris Wraight– The Carrion Lord of the Imperium, by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Read more less

  THE STORYThe isolated forge world of Diamantus faces a threat of apocalyptic proportions – a warped and mutated space hulk infested by the forces of Chaos, commanded by the monstrous datagnost Voldire, disciple of the dread demigod Vashtorr the Arkifane. As the battle-weary Carcharodons make their stand alongside the Adeptus Mechanicus, horrors and nightmares raining down around them, the Space Marines must confront their place within this new Imperium, and destroy the hulk before Diamantus is lost.Written by Robbie MacNiven.

Read more less