While he is gone he appoints the first of his Primarchs, Horus, to lead his army as Warmaster. The Emperor has gathered his Primarchs and together they are conquering or reuniting the lost worlds of man but he has to return to Terra (Earth) for a great piece of work that is secret. It is soon after this that novels are set. There is a galaxy far, far away where a civil war rages, where the 'Emperor of Mankind', founder of the Imperium of Man the proponent of Order in the Milky Way Galaxy, fights against 'Chaos' and its forces. The Emperor then spends decades gathering them back together. We bring you a chronological list of Horus Heresy novels, which bring you the story behind the sci-fi universe, Warhammer 40,000.

He begins to re-conquer the galaxy and create an Imperium of man and in order to do this he creates the Primarchs, his generals.Īn accident scatters them across the galaxy before they can take control of the legions of Space Marines created from their genetic templates. In the darkness a figure emerges, mysterious and powerful he is known only as the Emeperor and he is a supreme almost deific being. Just before the events of the Horus Heresy, mankind is recovering from a dark age of technology brought about by a stagnation of new ideas.

It is the origins of the Space Marines that are the roots of this galactic story.

Horus heresy reading order