Warhammer 40,000’s fictional-historical series, The Horus Heresy, will finally come to an end with the sixty-fifth book in the series, Era of Ruin.
This eight-story anthology will serve as a coda to both The Horus Heresy and The Siege of Terra – two series of books that detail the ‘origin’ of the Warhammer 40,000. The series began in 2006 with Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising. The details of this galactic civil war between power-armoured trans-human killing machines, half of whom have fallen under the influence of hell-like supernatural force, has taken 18 years to tell, and in addition to the books, they have been board game, miniatures, video games, audio dramas and more produced.
Era of Ruin will feature the stories Angels of Another Age by John French, Fulgurite by Nick Kyme, Fragments (All We Have Left) by Dan Abnett, Ex Libris by John French, System Purge by Gav Thorpe, After the Dawn, the Darkness by Guy Haley, Homebound by Chris Wraight and The Carrion Lord of the Imperium by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.
In related news, a trailer for Astartes Two has been released. Astartes was a ground-breaking short film by Syama Pedersen. The first movie was an unofficial fan project that used stunning animation techniques to bring the grim, dark future of Warhammer 40,000 to internet denizens everywhere. Games Workshop (the owners of all things Warhammer) now host the completed project on their Warhammer TV service.
The sequel, now an official Games Workshop product, looks amazing. Check it out below.