The Emperor’s Children have already begun to spill from the Eye of Terror from the Champions of Slaanesh army set, and that’s only the vanguard of an incredible new miniatures range. To prepare for the arrival of your rhapsodic overlords, you’ll want to read up on just what they’re capable of – a topic these novels from Black Library cover with aplomb.
Renegades: Lord of Excess
Lord of Excess by Rich McCormick is the second book in the Renegades series and a window into the mind of a full-bodied Emperor’s Children warlord, whose once-proud warband has reduced to petty raiding. When Xantine discovers a rich and bountiful Imperial world ripe for glorious rule, his attempts to ‘save’ it from its own failings are pure Emperor’s Children hubris writ large. The consequences of his tyranny – both on the world and his own Adored – are a classic Chaos pile-up of ambition and duplicity.
Fabius Bile Series
While no longer welcome among the Emperor’s Children, Fabius Bile is still indelibly a son of Fulgrim and his exploits across the 41st Millennium mark him as one of the most active and effective Chaos lords. He sees himself as the architect of Mankind’s future, using his peerless genetic knowledge – perhaps second only to the Emperor himself – to craft the next stage of human evolution, whatever the cost.
The series begins with Primogenitor by Josh Reynolds, dragging the former Chief Apothecary back into the galaxy when a sudden message from a former ally brings word of a prize hidden for millennia – one Bile can’t possibly ignore. He continues his adventures in Clonelord and Manflayer – also by Josh Reynolds – clashing with the Necron world of Solemnace and its light-fingered overlord before going head-to-head with the Drukhari haemonculi that tutored him in torture and flesh-shaping.
That’s not all for Fabius Bile, who co-stars in the ultimate meeting of minds when Belisarius Cawl gathers the Imperium’s foremost scientists in Genefather by Guy Haley. Both consider themselves the greatest thinkers of their age, and the clash of arms that follows is only eclipsed by an equally titanic clash of egos.
Fulgrim: The Perfect Son
This upcoming novel by Jude Reid, of Morvenn Vahl: Spear of Faith fame, coincides with the release of the stunning new Fulgrim miniature and brings the Daemon Primarch of the Emperor’s Children back into the spotlight. The Phoenecian has laid down a challenge to his scattered sons – to sunder an impenetrable fortress world and lift the head of its Black Templar protector – but the task may not be all that it seems…
Soon the competing warbands are surrounded by the fires of war and the guns of both ‘friend’ and foe. Champions desperate for their father’s favour must choose whether his illustrious gaze is worth the ultimate sacrifice, especially in a legion as proud and self-centered as their own.
This novel will be available soon in hardback, eBook, audiobook formats, as well as a glorious Special Edition slick with luxurious details. Keep an eye on Warhammer Community to find out when you can pre-order yours.
