Magnificent beings of awesome and terrifying power, they are the pinnacle of the Emperor’s genetic manipulation programs. Gleaming statues of marble and gold are erected across a million worlds to celebrate the Emperor’s many conquests, the spreading of the Imperial Truth and the victory of science, logic and reason over superstition and religion.įirst amongst the legions of mankind are the Primarchs: super human beings who have led their armies to victory after victory. The vast armies of the Emperor of Mankind have conquered the galaxy in a great crusade – myriad alien races have been destroyed by his warriors and wiped from existence.Ī new age of supremacy beckons for humanity. Now I didn’t want to just copy the official introduction, so I have used it as a base to write the following… I wondered how I would cover this and then realised this has been done for me.

Honestly, with the setting there is quite a lot to unpack. I’ll cover some basic setting information and which books I think are ‘must reads’.

So, what will I cover in this ‘beginner’s guide’? Well, that is a good question dear reader. And that seems like a perfectly good reason to write this.

It is more books than I would read in a whole year!īut why make this post? Well, some people have asked about how they would go about getting into this series and which books would I recommend following my reviews. Now, that is way too many for most people to have read realistically. So, I mentioned in my review for Flight of the Eisenstein (link here) that there are a lot of Horus Heresy books – 54 in fact.

The horus heresy book order