Ben Counter
A direct continuation of the opening trilogy, moving from conspiracy into open betrayal.
005.M31 - 006.M31
range date, medium confidence
First published 2006
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Slaanesh's perfectionists, fallen from the pursuit of excellence into the pursuit of sensation. Long since shattered into rival warbands.
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Ben Counter
A direct continuation of the opening trilogy, moving from conspiracy into open betrayal.
005.M31 - 006.M31
range date, medium confidence
First published 2006
Graham McNeill
A faction-focused descent story showing how pride, art, and corruption reshape a legion.
005.M31 - 006.M31
range date, medium confidence
First published 2007
Josh Reynolds
A Chaos-focused character novel following Fabius Bile as old Legion ambition turns into a long, unsettling project of reinvention.
764.M34 - 764.M34
exact date, high confidence
First published 2016
Graham McNeill
A Horus Heresy novel following Perturabo and the Iron Warriors as they are drawn into a scheme alongside Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children toward a mysterious and dangerous prize. It deepens the characterization of two traitor primarchs and explores the corrupting pull of forbidden power. A strong entry for readers already following the traitor legions' arcs.
001.M31 - 014.M31
range date, medium confidence
First published 2012
Josh Reynolds
The second novel in Josh Reynolds' series about Fabius Bile, the renegade Apothecary and master geneticist of the Emperor's Children, as his obsessive experiments and creations draw the attention of rivals and former allies. Set in the late 41st Millennium, it blends grim body-horror with dark wit while exploring one of Chaos's most singular characters.
900.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2018
Josh Reynolds
The third novel in Josh Reynolds' Fabius Bile series, following the renegade geneticist deeper into his monstrous ambitions as old rivalries and his own creations threaten to consume him. Closing out a key arc of the trilogy in the late 41st Millennium, it leans into the dark humour and grotesque invention that define the character.
900.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2020
Marc Collins
On the eve of the Siege of Terra, the fallen Emperor's Children commander Eidolon finds himself marooned around an isolated world where the ghosts of his past torment him at every turn. Once a celebrated lord of his Legion, he is now a creature of excess and Slaaneshi obsession, beset by daemonic schemes that twist his every plan. The story is a dark reckoning for one of the Heresy's most arrogant and infamous warriors.
334.M31 - 666.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2024
Ian St. Martin
Lucius the Eternal, the deathless swordsman of the Emperor's Children, finds his warband worn thin by endless war and his own indulgences, forcing him to seek out a fellow renegade to rebuild his strength. Beset by treachery on all sides, the champion of Slaanesh confronts the one threat that even an immortal might have cause to dread. A horror-tinged spotlight on one of Chaos's most arrogant and dangerous swordsmen.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2017
Graham McNeill
In the aftermath of the Thousand Sons' tragic fate, Fulgrim and his Emperor's Children descend further into excess and madness aboard their fleet. A sinister presence aboard the flagship manipulates events, and certain legionaries begin to suspect that their primarch is no longer entirely himself.
000.M31 - 333.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2012
Graham McNeill
A character study of Lucius the Swordsman of the Emperor's Children, charting the duellist's bottomless vanity and his obsession with being the finest blade in the galaxy. As the Legion descends into excess under Slaanesh's shadow, Lucius's pride drives him toward the curse that will define his eternal existence.
334.M31 - 666.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2013
Nick Kyme
On a besieged world, Emperor's Children warbands seeking the ultimate sensation find their hunt for 'perfection' disrupted when the arrival of bloodthirsty World Eaters threatens to set the rival Chaos forces against one another. As Slaaneshi champions are murdered one by one, ancient enmities boil over into grotesque violence.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2012
Rich McCormick
A warband of the Emperor's Children cuts through the Imperium in pursuit of ever-sharper sensation, led by a champion whose appetites threaten to devour his own followers as readily as his foes. As rivalries inside the warband turn predatory, the distance between ambition and self-ruin narrows to nothing. A dark, character-driven Chaos novel about excess, dominance, and the price of serving Slaanesh.
000.M42 - 333.M42
era date, medium confidence
First published 2025