The Horus Heresy: Vengeful Spirit

Raeven Devine, First Knight

Albard Devine, Firstborn scion

Lyx Devine,Adoratrice Sybaris

House of Donar

Balmorn Donar, Lord-Knight

Robard Donar,Scion

Imperial Personae

Malcador the Sigillite,Imperial Regent, First Lord of Terra

Brython Semper,Lord Admiral of Battlefleet Molech

Tyana Kourion,Lord General of the Grand Army of Molech

Edoraki Hakon,Marshal of the Northern Oceanic

Abdi Kheda,Commander of the Kushite Eastings

Oskur van Valkenberg,Colonel of the Western Marches

Corwen Malbek,Khan of the Southern Steppe

Noama Calver,Medicae corps

Alivia Sureka,Larsa harbour pilot

Jeph Parsons,Dock worker

Miska

Vivyen

The Chosen of Malcador

Garviel Loken,Knight Errant

Iacton Qruze, ‘The Half-heard’,Knight Errant

Severian,Knight Errant

Tylos Rubio,Knight Errant

Macer Varren,Knight Errant

Bror Tyrfingr,Knight Errant

Rama Karayan,Knight Errant

Ares Voitek,Knight Errant

Altan Nohai,Knight Errant

Callion Zaven,Knight Errant

Tubal Cayne,Knight Errant

Banu Rassuah,Pilot of the Tarnhelm

Non-Imperial Personae

The Red Angel

‘And therefore is the glorious planet Sol

In noble eminence enthroned and sphered

Amidst the other; whose medicinable Eye

Corrects the ill-aspects of planets evil,

And posts, like the commandment of a king,

Sans check to good and bad: but when the planets

In evil mixture to disorder wander,

What plagues and what portents! what mutiny!

What raging of the sea! shaking of earth!

Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors,

Divert and crack, rend and deracinate

The unity and married calm of states

Quite from their fixtures!’

– attributed to the dramaturge Shakespire (fl. M2), cited in The Prophecy of Amon of the Thousand Sons (Chapter III, Verse 13)

‘Horus had called the dark and savage furies latent in the most ruthless, contradictory and ill-starred power of the Immaterium. He had conjured up the fearful idol of an all-devouring Molech of which he was the priest and incarnation. All his powers, hitherto dissipated and scattered, were now concentrated and directed with terrible energy to one terrible aim.’

– from The Age of Revolution: Suppressed Monographs of Choirmaster Nemo Zhi Meng

‘The line separating good from evil runs not between species, not between ranks and not between competing faiths. It runs through the heart of each and every mortal soul. This line is not stationary, but shifts and moves with the passage of time. Even souls ensnared by evil maintain a small bridgehead of good.’

– The Keeler Amanuensis (Volume II, Chapter XXXIV, Verse VII)

PART I FATHERS