Rememberancers are among the most important and memorable characters in the book. They can focus on any ‘discipline’ they wish but the end results of their work are being sent to Terra to act as Imperial propaganda. The closest comparison is a mix of photographers, poets, painters, writers and journalists all in one. Rememberancers are an odd concept to explain. Rememberancers are being added to the legions. He has begun the long process of returning home to Terra for unexplained reasonsĪnd that isn’t the only change. Loken and the rest of the men are having to get used to continuing the Expedition without the Emperor’s involvement. One of the most highly regarded legions in the entire Imperium! But things are beginning to change. The Lunar Wolves are the 16 thLegion of the 63 rd Expedition.

Horus Rising focuses on the main character of Garviel Loken, Captain of the 10 th Company of Horus’s personal legion The Lunar Wolves. Horus Rising is still one of my favourite Warhammer books I own and I’ve bought quite a few since I listened to the first three books in The Horus Heresy series. Warmaster Horus the favourite son is in the ascendant. One of the Emperor’s many sons or Primarchs. The men are a band of brothers much like any well led military group is supposed to be. An attempt by the Imperium of Man to reunite all the dispersed humanoid groups across the galaxy under one banner once again and to destroy any alien xenos races they encountered in the mean time. The beginning of the end for the Emperor’s Great Crusade. So now we are here in the 31 st millennium.

They don’t shut up about the Skull Throne Skulls are kind of their as you would say…thing. Yeah…Khorne worshippers went through here recently. …Ah! That hurts! Why are there so many skulls over here!? Behold as our tale opens with the greatest champions of man striking down this false Emperor… The time of the Imperium’s Great Crusade, the reunification of man. I trust your journey wasn’t too unpleasant? But here we are. But there must be a suitable core to start their growth.” – Attributed to the Remembrancer Koestler, M 2 “Myths grow like crystals according to their own recurrent pattern.

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