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# Information

33rd book in [[The Horus Heresy (Novels)]] by [[Laurie Goulding]] (Editor)

Précédé par [[📕 Deathfire]] by [[Nick Kyme]]
Suivit par [[📕 Pharos]] by [[Guy Haley]]
# Summary

_War Without End_ is an anthology of short stories.

- **The Devine Adoratrice** expands on the backstory of the Knight House of Devine on Molech, focussing on how the Knights of the Imperium work, and how they were so easily corrupted by Fulgrim during the Battle of Molech.
- **Howl of the Hearthworld** focuses on a pack of Space Wolves that are assigned to watch over Rogal Dorn on Terra. But they're not the only ones watching...
- **Lord of the Red Sands**: Angron has a heart-to-heart with one of his World Eater captains on Isstvan III (a Loyalist one), where his past and his reasons joining Horus is given detail.
- **Artefacts**: Set before the Dropsite Massacre, Vulkan and his Master of the forge discuss the nature of the Primarchs, how he tried to save Konrad Curze following the destruction of Nostramo, and how with Horus' betrayal now plain to all, he's going to deal with his secret vault of unique weaponry (hint: only seven will survive)
- **Hands of the Emperor**: The Imperial Fists and the Legio Custodes clash over the responsibilities of securing Terra in preparation to Horus' inevitable attack.
- **The Phoenician**: through the viewpoint of Iron Hand's First Captain Gabriel Santar's dying moments after his duel with Julius Kaeseron at the Dropsite Massacre, the death of Ferrus Manus and what immediately follows is observed.
- **Sermon of Exodus**: Across the desert wastelands of Davin, the followers of Chaos prepare to depart the planet. Prequel to The Damnation of Pythos.
- **By The Lion's Command**: Continuing his hunt for the infamous Typhon of the Death Guard following Perditus, Seneschal Corswain must decide the fate of an independent planet in a war where there can be no innocent bystanders.
- **The Harrowing**: A textbook Alpha Legion assault is conducted upon Callistra Mundi (which is anything but textbook).
- **All That Remains**: A group of shell-shocked/warp-shocked soldiers of the Imperial Army are given an offer by a grey-armoured giant that they simply can't refuse...
- **Gunsight**: Following the events of _Nemesis_, a surviving Imperial Assassin hunts down the Warmaster within the bowels of the Vengful Spirit. Unfortunately, he's not the only hunter inside the ship, and not all of them are flesh and blood...
- **Allegiance**: Following his rescue by the White Scars in _Scars_ ([Book 28](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horus_Heresy#book28)), Revuel Arvida of the Thousand Sons Corvidae must decide his allegiance in the unfolding civil war, amidst the trails of those Khans who were part of the Lodges.
- **Daemonology**: Following his disastrous mission to persuade Jagathai to join Horus, a weak and scared Mortarion of the Death Guard rampages across the remnants of Magnus' domain. On the library-world of Terathalion, he interrogates an archivist called Lermenta, but the ensuing discussion forces Mortarion to confront his history with father and Malcador, his own suppressed psychic potential, and his position of having to accept his place among the Lost and the Damned.
- **Black Oculus**: Serving as the connective between _Angel Exterminatus_ and _Tallarn_, this short story is told through the view point of the navigators of the Iron Blood, and what changes on the physical, mental and metaphysical level they undergo on their journey out of the Eye of Terror.
- **Virtues of the Sons**: Before the Heresy begins, a concerned Sanguinius organises educational duels for Captains Azkellon and Amit to understand the twin aspects of their nature, so that they will be ready for the coming trials of their Legion.
- **The Laurel of Defiance**: With the Shadow Crusade scattered and Imperium Secundus on the rise, an Ultramarines Captain reflects on his nature on and off the battlefield, and what might have been had the Heresy not happened.
- **A Safe and Shadowed Place**: Following the catastrophe of the Thramas Crusade, and with the Night Haunter and First Captain Sevatar missing, Gendor Skraivok plots his next course of action against the Imperium, with his gaze falling upon Sotha as a suitable target.
- **Imperfect**: Fulgrim with the aid of Fabius tries to find the possibility of Ferrus Manus joining Horus, involving regicide, metal gauntlets, clones, an increasing number of homicidal rages, and a secret sequestered in the depths of the Traitor Apothecary's laboratory...
- **Chirurgeon**: While conducting a confidential surgery, Fabius of the Emperor's Children reflects on the time before Fulgrim, when the Gene-Blight ravaged the IIIrd Legion, and of a deadly secret that the apothecary has tried very hard to keep buried...
- **Twisted**: A closer look at the Maloghurst, emissary of the Warmaster Horus as he navigates the changing nature of the XVI Legion where rivalry and personal ambition run rampant, and to contend with a daemonic plot thrown into the bargain, the Twisted is going to have to make alliances with factions more twisted in soul than in body...
- **Wolf Mother**: Following their escape from Horus' conquest of Molech, the Perpetual Alivia Sureka must ally with Knight-Errant Severian to finish off the malicious Serpent Cult once and for all to save her daughter.

Source:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horus_Heresy#book33
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