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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Khorne's berserkers, enslaved to the Butcher's Nails and the endless tally of skulls. What discipline they once had bled out long ago.
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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
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
A defining World Eaters and Word Bearers Heresy novel, strong for readers who want the emotional and brutal heart of the traitor-legion arc.
001.M31 - 014.M31
range date, medium confidence
First published 2013
Ian St. Martin
This novel charts the brutal origin of the World Eaters' primarch, from his upbringing as a gladiator-slave on Nuceria to the betrayal that shaped his fury. It explores the Butcher's Nails implants that warp his mind and the seething hatred he carries toward the Emperor who took him from his doomed fellow slaves.
000.M31 - 333.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2019
David Guymer
With the galaxy torn by the Great Rift, the daemon primarch Angron returns to the materium, and his scattered World Eaters heed the call to slaughter. Warlords who have struggled for millennia to reunite the broken Legion must reckon with what their gene-father's coming truly means, while an outsider seeking to join their ranks witnesses the savagery up close. David Guymer captures the Red Angel as an unstoppable force of nature around whom his sons orbit in blood-soaked devotion.
000.M42 - 333.M42
era date, medium confidence
First published 2024
Gav Thorpe
After the catastrophe of the Dropsite Massacre, the shattered remnant of the Raven Guard fight to survive amid the mountains of Isstvan V, hunted by traitor legions. As their primarch leads a desperate bid for escape, a loyal officer on their home world is tormented by visions urging him to mount a rescue.
000.M31 - 333.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2010
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
A Horus Heresy audio drama giving the first deep look at Angron and his World Eaters, dispatched on a covert task alongside the Word Bearers. As the legion's berserk savagery erupts, it draws unwelcome xenos attention to the primarch's escalating fury and the doom that hangs over his fate.
000.M31 - 333.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2012
Anthony Reynolds
This tale charts the descent of Kharn of the World Eaters as the Legion spirals deeper into bloodlust and the worship of the Blood God. It captures the savagery of Angron's sons and the making of one of the Heresy's most infamous berserkers.
334.M31 - 666.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2013
Josh Reynolds
The first installment following Endryd Haar, a disgraced World Eater turned Blackshield, who leads a warband of renegades loyal to no legion as the galaxy burns. Cast out and pursued, Haar fights his own brutal war on the fringes of the larger conflict. An audio drama that introduces one of the Heresy's most compelling outcast figures.
334.M31 - 666.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2017
Josh Reynolds
Endryd Haar and his battered warband of Blackshields raid a tithe-world in search of warriors and plunder, only to uncover something there that forces a fateful choice. Courted by Malcador the Sigillite to serve as a weapon against Horus, the conflicted renegade must decide what path to walk as Terra's hour approaches. The second audio drama in the Blackshields saga.
334.M31 - 666.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2018
Anthony Reynolds
In the war-torn aftermath of the Horus Heresy, the World Eaters give themselves wholly to slaughter as the bonds of the broken Legion fray. Driven by Khorne's hunger and the madness spreading through their ranks, the warriors descend further into bloodshed. A brutal snapshot of the Legion's fall into Chaos during the Heresy's dying days.
667.M31 - 999.M31
era date, medium confidence
First published 2015
Anthony Reynolds
Deep within the Eye of Terror, a berserker champion of the old World Eaters summons his former comrade Kharn the Betrayer to help forge a vast war host in the Blood God's name. But Kharn is far more cunning than his reputation suggests, and his own agenda will always come before any alliance.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2012
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
Chris Dows
Khârn the Betrayer leads a warband of frenzied berzerkers on a relentless trail of slaughter as Abaddon's Thirteenth Black Crusade convulses the galaxy. The Warmaster wants to bend Khârn's fury to his own designs, but the Champion of the Blood God bows to no one, carving a bloody road that pits him against the Imperium and the Black Legion alike. Originally released as a serialized run of short stories.
667.M41 - 999.M41
era date, medium confidence
First published 2016