The Crimson Fist

by John French

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Series: The Horus Heresy (novella)

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Roberts, Neil	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Timson, David	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Horus Heresy (novella)

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Black Library Summer Reading 2012 (day 1)

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Shadows of Treachery by Christian Dunn

The Horus Heresy Volume Five (The Horus Heresy Omnibuses Book 5) by Various (indirect)

The Horus Heresy 2014 eBook Collection by Black Library (indirect)

The Last Phoenix (The Horus Heresy Omnibus) by Graham McNeill

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Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

The Crimson Fist: Stone and iron

Original publication date

2012-07-23

People/Characters

Rogal Dorn (Primarch of the Imperial Fists, Praetorian of Terra)

Perturabo (Primarch of the Iron Warriors)

Sigismund (First Captain, The VII Legion 'Imperial Fists')

Amandus Tyr (Captain, 6th Company, Commander of the Halcyon, The VII Legion 'Imperial Fists')

Pertinax (Captain, 14th Company, Commander of the Hammer of Terra, The VII Legion 'Imperial Fists')

Important places

Imperial Palace, Himalazia

Iron Blood (battleship)

Important events

Battle of Phall

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Epigraph

'True strength is born in pain.'
– Ancient Terran proverb

'All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened'
– from burnt fragments recovered from the Alba archives, attributed to the ancient poet Elliot

'We are future memories. When our flesh is dust and our dreams faded we will be ghosts living in a land of legends, made real only by the memories of others. What we take with us into that realm of the dead, what we are remembered for, that will be the truth of our lives.'
– Solomon Voss, from The Edge of Illumination

Dedication

First words

Can I bear this?

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