
MIDDLE-EARTH, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING and the names of the characters, items, events and places therein are trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Middle-earth Enterprises under license to New Line Productions, Inc. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES and the names of the characters, items, events and places therein are trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Middle-earth Enterprises under license to New Line Productions, Inc. GW, Games Workshop, Citadel, White Dwarf, Space Marine, 40K, Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, the ‘Aquila’ Double-headed Eagle logo, Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Battletome, Stormcast Eternals, and all associated logos, illustrations, images, names, creatures, races, vehicles, locations, weapons, characters, and the distinctive likenesses thereof, are either ® or ™, and/or © Games Workshop Limited, variably registered around the world. There have been several previous unsuccessful attempts against Horus' life, and this gives a high-ranking officer of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion the idea to field a Nemesis Weapon of his own (a highly specialised assassin) in an audacious scheme to kill the Emperor of Mankind.© Copyright Games Workshop Limited 2023. It deals with a plan by a secret Imperial organization, the Officio Assassinorum, to eliminate Horus using an Execution Force drawn from all the "clades" (predecessors of the Assassin Temples) that make up the Officio Assassinorum. Nemesis is set approximately two standard years after the events on Istvaan V described in Book 5, Fulgrim.

But what they cannot know is that another assassin is abroad already, with his sights firmly set on killing the Emperor. Taking readers back to the 31st Millennium, the books introduce Earth at a time when humanity has finally decided to conquer the galaxy, having deemed it to be the rightful domain of their race. Their plan is to send a team of assassins to execute the Archtraitor Horus and end the war for the galaxy of mankind before it has even begun. The Horus Heresy is the fictional civil war that crafted the bruised and battered world of Warhammer 40,000.

The epic tale is described in one huge tome with exciting text and masses of fantastic art.

In the shadows of the Imperial Palace, powerful figures convene. It tells the full story of this pivotal period in the history of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, in which the arch-traitor Horus betrayed Emperor of Mankind. Nemesis is the thirteenth volume in the Horus Heresy series of novels.Īfter the horrors of Istvaan V, Horus declares outright war against the Imperium.
