++ ARCHIVE EXTRACT · WARHAMMER 40,000 · THE LECTORUM ++
WORKDARK IMPERIUM
READING ORDER · Dark Imperium
The threshold. Everything before this was the world’s texture — its weapons, its soldiers, its scale. Here, for the first time, its true shape is named. Ten thousand years ago the Emperor was betrayed by His own and broken; He endures only as the half-dead master of mankind, enthroned and entombed upon the Golden Throne. This book is the present that betrayal left behind: after the Thirteenth Black Crusade, a vast warp storm — the Great Rift, or Cicatrix Maledictum — tore the galaxy in two, leaving half of it (the Imperium Nihilus) cut off in darkness. The resurrected primarch Roboute Guilliman, one of the Emperor’s own sons, now leads the Indomitus Crusade to hold back the night. This is roughly when the recent games are set — and the point from which you may choose to learn *how* it all came to pass.
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