For the Emperor and Sanguinius!
In the war-torn world of the 41st Millennium the forces of the Imperium are feared throughout the galaxy, and none more so than the Adeptus Astartes – the Space Marines, gene-engineered super-soldiers, warrior-monks of the Emperor who live only to fulfill his commands. Among the disparate chapters of the Astartes are one cadre of Marines whose noble legacy hides a dark and bloodthirsty secret – a Red Thirst that conjures a name from ancient Terran legend, a name not spoken since the dark times – vampire. These are the Blood Angels, the Sons of Sanguinius, elegant and deadly, an unstoppable force for the God-Emperor’s ceaseless holy wars…
The world of Skylos, already wracked by war, is now host to a bizarre and terrifying threat – a threat that the Blood Angels have come to end.
The Axe Mortalis in hand, Commander Dante leads a host of Angels into battle against Chaos-tainted chronomancers, sorcerers who use his past, present and future as a weapon against him.
AUTHOR’S NOTES:
“Dante: Lord of the Host” is part of the Lords of the Space Marines and Black Library Advent Calendar 2013 eBook series. The story’s original title was “Mortalis“, after the Axe Mortalis, the master-crafted power axe wielded by Lord Dante.
This story was reprinted in the 2021 anthology Sons of Sanguinius: A Blood Angels Omnibus.
COVER GALLERY
