False Gods

About “False Gods”

False Gods (2006) by Graham McNeill is a novel in The Horus Heresy series that chronicles the pivotal events leading to the Warmaster Horus's fall to Chaos. The story follows Horus after he is mortally wounded by a Chaos-tainted xenos weapon during a Crusade mission, and his subsequent survival through a forbidden healing process at a Chaos cult's temple, which ultimately corrupts him. The novel explores the growing influence of a forbidden religious cult within the Imperium and the deepening fractures among the Primarchs and their Legions, all manipulated by Chaos to further its agenda.