The journey they go on, especially Loken, is a very human one, despite the Heresy being a conflict caused fundamentally by the Astartes. Horus himself – powerful, otherworldly, inspiring.
The remembrancers – Euphrati Keeler, Ignace Karkasy, Mersadie Oliton.
The senior Captains of the Legion – Abaddon, Torgaddon, ‘Little Horus’ Aximand. We’re introduced to the characters who are going to shape the story of this series early on – Captain Loken of the Luna Wolves’ 10th Company, honest and unbending, the rising star within the Legion. Not to mention the opening sucker punch, the famous “I was there the day…” line, which in itself is a notice to the reader saying ‘this is new, forget everything you think you know’. With a dramatis personae stretching to forty-two named characters, some familiar (to a point) from 40k but most brand new, there’s a lot to take in here even for experienced 40k fans. Hope is still preeminent, but change is in the air. Along their path are set two long-lost human civilisations, each wildly different, who react to being reunited with the rest of humanity in contrasting ways. A year after the Triumph at Ullanor, after the Emperor returned to Terra, the newly-elevated Warmaster Horus commands the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet and his Luna Wolves in the continuation of the Crusade and the promulgation of the Imperial Truth. It’s the start of the 31st millennium, and the Great Crusade is almost complete. This is where it all started, back in 2006 – Horus Rising by Dan Abnett, the first novel in Black Library’s ever-growing Horus Heresy series.
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