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# Information

31st book in [[The Horus Heresy (Novels)]] by [[Laurie Goulding]] (Editor)

Précédé par [[📕 The Damnation of Pythos]] by [[David Annandale]]
Suivit par [[📕 Deathfire]] by [[Nick Kyme]]
# Summary

_Legacies of Betrayal_ is an anthology of short stories.

- **Brotherhood of the Storm** is a precursor to [[📕 Scars]] (Book 28). It focuses first on the budding friendship of Shiban and Torghun featured in [[📕 Scars]], as they wrap up the Chondax campaign. It also sheds light on Targutai Yesugei's psychic awakening on Chogoris and how he joined Jagahtai's khaganate. Finally, it records how Ilya Ravallion, the logistician from the Departmento Munitorum, came to join the White Scars.
- **The Serpent** features a Davinite priest, Thoros, who overthrows a nascent Chaos cult, presumably on Davin itself in preparation for the coming age of darkness.
- **Hunter's Moon** reveals the fate of the small pack of Space Wolves assigned by Malcador to guard Alpharius—or to slay him if he proved false.
- _**Veritas Ferrum**_ is a precursor to [[📕 The Damnation of Pythos]] (Book 30), in which the _Ferrum_ arrives at Isstvan while the battle is raging and then retreats in the face of certain annihilation.
- **Riven** centers on the Iron Hand representative to the Crusader Host, Crius, who is tasked by Rogal Dorn with finding the remnants of the Iron Hands and bringing them back to defend Terra. Ultimately, Crius stumbles upon a band of Iron Hands who have employed cybernetic resurrection to bring back dead, near-mindless Iron Hands to fight in machine bodies. Joining them, Crius pledges to return to Terra when summoned.
- **Strike and Fade** features four Salamander survivors fighting a guerrilla war on Isstvan V in the wake of the Dropsite Massacre.
- **Honour to the Dead** depicts Titan warfare on Calth in the moments immediately following the Word Bearers’ treachery.
- **Butcher's Nails** coincides/is a precursor to [[📕 Betrayer]] (Book 24). It follows Angron and Lorgar's actions immediately prior to the launching of the Shadow Crusade. Notably, an Eldar assassination force attempts to kill Angron before he can become a Daemon Prince of Khorne.
- **Warmaster** is a soliloquy given by Horus to the skull of Ferrus Manus.
- **Kryptos** follows Nykona Sharrowkyn and Sabik Wayland as they conduct a mission on Cavor Sarta to capture a Kryptos, a bio-engineered coding device that will allow the Loyalists to intercept and decrypt Traitor communications.
- **Wolf's Claw** sees Bjorn One-Handed (soon to be Fell-handed) commandeer Terminator armor from the Legion armory during the fighting in Alaxxes against the Alpha Legion.
- **Thief of Revelations** sees Ahriman attempting to unravel the mystery behind the flesh-change of the Thousand Sons. Magnus refuses to help Ahriman in his pursuits, instead taking Ahriman on a journey through space and time. Magnus shows Ahriman the final battle of the Thramas Crusade, the Blood Angels' battle against the demons in the Signus Cluster, and the burning of Calth. Magnus says the time will come when the Thousand Sons must choose a side.
- **The Divine Word** takes place two and a half years after the Raven Guard assault of the Perfect Fortress. Imperial Commander Marcus Valerion is having dreams again, this time of a hydra. His dreams lead him to victory in battle on Eusa. Feeling the emptiness of the war engulfing him, he finds solace in the Lectitio Divinitatus.
- **Lucius the Eternal Blade** finds Lucius inexplicably alive after being killed on Iydris by Nykona Sharrokyn of the Raven Guard. In search of answers, he travels to the Planet of Sorcerers to face Sanakht, the best swordsman of the Thousand Sons. Just before Lucius lands the killing blow, however, Ahzek Ahriman intervenes.
- **The Eightfold Path** references the World Eaters turning from the Crimson Path to a darker path. The Daemon Primarch Angron's howls trigger a killing frenzy in Kharne during what should have a been a duel only to first blood.
- **Guardian of Order** centers on Zahariel as he revisits the Northwilds Arcology with Lord Cypher years after the events of [[📕 Fallen Angels]] (Book 11) to determine whether the area is a suitable location for a new fortress. However, something stirs deep within the once-purged tunnels. Fleeing the tunnel, Zahriel must raise the alarm: The Ouroboros is returning.
- **Heart of the Conqueror** features the sacrifice of Nisha Andrasta, Navigator of the World Eater's flagship, Conqueror. On board, the Daemon Primarch Angron warps the machine spirit of Conqueror and infects the entire ship. While connected to the ship and sailing through the warp, Nisha ends her own life, tearing the Conqueror from the warp in a cascade of screaming, tortured metal.
- **Censure** follows Aeonid Theil's guerrilla war on Calth and his attempt to escape the dead planet and return to the war at large.
- **Lone Wolf** previews Bjorn the Fel-handed's climactic duel against his daemon nemesis, Arvax.

Source:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horus_Heresy#book31
# Notes