Black Library Celebration 2025 by Various Authors

Author:Various Authors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FLS
Publisher: Black Library
Published: 2025-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

GODEATER’S SON

by Noah Van Nguyen

Heldanarr Fall just wants to be left in peace in Aqshy, but the gleaming golden warriors of Sigmar won’t let him be. So he fights back – and draws upon a more primal power…

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THE LONG PROMISE

MIKE BROOKS

The Unseen was a space hulk, a twisted mass of metal and other, stranger compounds thrown and blended together by the tides of the warp. The Alpha Legion of the Ultima Segmentum found it after it had been spat out again, and, once cleansed of the passengers such journeys left behind, used it as a hidden base. Now, many centuries later, these decks sat quiet. Serene. Peaceful.

Almost.

Tulava Dyne moved slowly between rows of oversized metal gurneys. Kazadin Yallamagasa, the biologis diabolicus, had been overambitious when furnishing his laboratory with equipment with which to mature the Alpha Legion’s new recruits, and the chamber was never full. There were currently only three occupants, and it was their twitches, ragged breathing, and occasional whimpers that disrupted the otherwise funereal silence. Tulava was no Space Marine; she had never even seen one until she laid eyes on the warriors of the Alpha Legion. Something told her that the practices of the loyalist Chapters were slightly more sanitary than what occurred here, but she doubted they were any less painful.

She stopped next to one gurney. It was in better condition than many, not that Yallamagasa cared. In his view, if an aspirant couldn’t handle a little rust then they were never going to survive the process in any case. The face of the youth on it stared up at Tulava – a face she recognised. Older now, of course, and already showing the distinctive signs of a Space Marine’s visage, but enough remained of the boy she had first met in the Aquilonis Porta Schola Progenium on Antimos.

‘Hello, Nazos,’ she said softly.

His eyes focused on her as a tremor shook one cheek. Nazos Zernas’ body was being altered in the same manner – more or less – as had occurred for ten thousand years: mysterious organs implanted and activated, bones fusing, muscle mass increasing. He wouldn’t be here were it not for her. She had pulled him out of that soul-destroying place and brought him into the Alpha Legion – the brightest and best of the Imperium’s youth turned against them.

‘Tulava,’ he rasped, his voice shaking and breaking between a natural, pleasant tenor and the sonorous baritone lent by his increased size and altered voice box.

‘Do you hate me for this, Nazos?’ Tulava asked. She was intrigued to know the answer, but would not be hurt by it. She had been called many things in her life: traitor, murderer, witch. All of them true, and yet also not.

‘No,’ Nazos managed. ‘I hate the Imperium.’

Tulava snorted. ‘You don’t. You resent them, yes. You hate the fact they lied to you. But you don’t hate the Imperium itself.’

She took a breath. Tulava Dyne was a sorceress, but that did not mean she was truly respected by the Space Marines of the Alpha Legion.

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