Here though, we have a whole moon full of warp spawn that is oh-so-similar to the Death Guard and Nurgle Daemons that I’ve become full-on fascinated with. Certainly, I’d seen what happened at the Whisperheads in Horus Rising, but that felt like a mindless monster. False Gods was my first taste of the powers of the warp. Needless to say, there are some great action scenes but it is what takes place outside of battle that pulled me so deep into this Universe. After riling Horus up, the legion converges on the planet’s moon to ‘illuminate him’.Īnd I’ll leave the main hook of this novel there. And this all starts at Davin, where he convinces the Warmaster that one of the planetary governors (Eugen Temba) has rebelled and forsaken the Imperium. He becomes the linchpin that pushes Horus towards his inevitable conclusion, twisting and controlling events to play out as he wants. He was set up during Horus Rising but we get a much better look at him in this book. One of the major players in False Gods is Erebus, First Chaplain of the World Eaters. Let’s dig into the second book in the opening trilogy of the Horus Heresy. It’s a story paved with good intentions and does a remarkable job building up the sequel (Galaxy in Flames) and setting up this entire conflict. False Gods shows us how Horus, the Warmaster, slowly falls from grace towards his inevitable conquest to Terra to battle the Emperor. The more I step into the world of Warhammer and explore it’s stories, the more I realise how fascinating some of its tales are. It was the second Warhammer book I read and remains one of my favourites. False Gods by Graham McNeill, is the second book in the Horus Heresy and follows on immediately after the events of Horus Rising.

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