For the Emperor!
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.
On the world of Gathis, atop the Ghostmountain, sits the Eyrie, fortress-monastery of the Doom Eagles.
Here they memorialise their honoured dead, then forget them.
But what to do when one of those dead comes back to life?
Returning home to the Eyrie after years of captivity, Brother-Sergeant Tarikus wants nothing more than to rejoin his Chapter.
But suspicion and mistrust await him at every turn as he strives to reclaim his place…
AUTHOR’S NOTES:
“The Returned” was originally published in Legends of the Space Marines; this story follows on from the events of the novel Black Tide. This story is reprinted in There Is Only War and Space Marines: The Omnibus. Sergeant Tarikus also appears in the short stories “Crimson Night“, “Relics” and “Vigil“.
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