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The Horus Heresy is a series of science fantasy novels set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 setting of tabletop miniatures wargame company Games Workshop.Penned by several authors, the series takes place during the Horus Heresy, a fictional galaxy-spanning civil war occurring in the 31st millennium, 10,000 years before the main setting of Warhammer 40,000.
In 2018, GW released Adeptus Titanicus: The Horus Heresy, designed by James Hewitt, and set during the Horus Heresy, 10,000 years before the main Warhammer 40,000 storyline. Several expansions were released between 2019 and 2022.
In comparison to Warhammer 40,000, Horus Heresy-era units tend to be larger, to represent the epic extent of the conflict. Players are also required to declare their allegiance, whether they are loyal to the Emperor of Mankind (Loyalist), to the Warmaster Horus (Traitor), or occasionally, something else (Blackshields + Shattered Legions).
In Warhammer 40,000 The Horus Heresy is heavily influenced by Milton. The story of the Emperor's favored sons succumbing to the temptations of Chaos deliberately parallels the fall of Satan in Paradise Lost. A 2021 adventure game published by All in! Games was titled Paradise Lost.
In Warhammer 40,000, the Emperor of Mankind, immortal and perpetual ruler of the Imperium of Man, is worshiped as the deity of the state religion, although he waged a fierce campaign of strict state atheism until the Horus Heresy when the Emperor successfully defeated his fallen son, Horus Lupercal, but was mortally wounded and forced to be ...
Warhammer 40,000 comics are spin-offs and tie-ins based in the Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe.Over the years these have been published by different sources. Originally appearing in Inferno! and Warhammer Monthly (the latter renamed Warhammer Comic when it became a bimonthly publication toward the end of its run), the initial series of stories have been released as trade paperbacks by ...
The Outcast Dead, a 2010 novel in the science fiction series The Horus Heresy by Graham McNeill and based in the world of Warhammer 40,000 The Outcast Dead , a 2014 novel by Elly Griffiths The Outcast Dead , title of the prologue in the 2011 Cassandra Clare novel, Clockwork Prince
Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War is a turn-based strategy game based on the Panzer General 2 engine by SSI.It is set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. It was produced by Games Workshop in 1999, and concerns the invasion of a Tyranid Hive fleet and the Eldar and Imperial efforts to defeat it.