Reading paths

Three stories from the siege of Vraks, told from inside a single company of the Death Korps of Krieg. Commissar Halbrecht, field medic Brenn and their men take one bastion after another — and learn that on this world, counting the dead weighs more than taking ground.

Five stories of the 331st Cadian Shock Troops after the fall of their home world: survivors without a world, recruits who know the motto only by hearsay, and a phrase no one can say as easily as they once did.

Four stories from the forge of the Iron Veins, held together by Brother-Techmarine Kael'dun. They begin with a discovery in the Sixth Shaft and ask what a Chapter that is more metal than flesh preserves — and what it gives up to do so.

The Chapter most stories on this site revolve around: heirs of Vulkan who refuse to book civilians as the price of victory. Five stories, from the siege of the Chainkeep to knowledge the priesthood has condemned. To read on afterwards, the reading path “The Witnesses” continues Captain Bre'kar's story.

A Chapter you almost never see. Two stories, first from the outside, then from within — in this order, because the mystery of the first is what carries the second.

Forty days before Hollbrunn: the Fire Wardens hold a besieged salt city, and the enemy at the gates does not want to storm it but to persuade it. Five stories, each from a different vantage — the wall, the canal, the enemy camp, the infirmary and the chronicle.