Horus Heresy Characters Reading Order

Chris Wraight

A Terra-era character study of Constantin Valdor and the early Imperial power structure before the Legions dominate the timeline.

Gav Thorpe

This book centers on Luther, the charismatic Dark Angels commander and one-time mentor to the Lion, charting his pride, his loyalty, and the slow corruption of his ambitions. It examines the bond and growing jealousy between him and his primarch that ultimately leads the Legion toward catastrophe.

John French

A character study of the first Emperor's Champion, tracing Sigismund's path from his earliest days in the Imperial Fists Legion through the trials that forge his unbending faith and martial dedication. The novel charts how the most renowned duellist of the Legiones Astartes is shaped into the living blade who will one day found the Black Templars. It spans formative episodes of his life set against the backdrop of the Great Crusade and the war for Terra.

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.

Rich McCormick

A Word Bearers Dark Apostle binds daemon and dogma into a single weapon of the Long War, carrying Lorgar's heresy to worlds that have not yet learned to fear the Crimson Apostle. A study of zealotry and sorcery on the traitor side of the galaxy's first civil war.