Cypher: Lord of the Fallen (Warhammer 40,000) [Hardcover] French, John

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Cypher weaves through the anarchy, his trail highlighting the many Fallen that have taken positions of power during the uprisings in Segmentum Pacificus. After following such a labyrinthine trail to find them, there is seldom anything of value to be learned from those whom Cypher enlisted to aid his hidden agenda.

For their part in the campaign, the Dark Angels are awarded many honour badges and campaign ribbons for their actions by the High Lords of Terra. In this paranoid atmosphere, the surviving Dark Angels debated their options even as they paid tribute to their lost primarch. In no more than a handful of their datascroll records, there are even mentions of Cypher in particular -- although he is not always identified by name. Ravenwing troops on bikes have picked up Cypher's trail and pursue him as he attempts to gun down the Inquisitor before escaping.This is the terrible secret borne by the Dark Angels these last ten millennia; that the incorruptible I st Legion fell to corruption when the Legion's second-in-command, Luther, corrupted many of their brethren through the foul lure of Chaos. The Space Marines descended from Lion El'Jonson have always been known for their well-crafted and flawless war plans, and the assault upon Brigia's best-defended fortress was no different. So began the Forgotten Wars – a raging battle upon Cocytus I that drew in half of the Dark Angels and the Angels of Redemption, three companies of the Angels of Vengeance, and the entire Chapter of the Lions Sable. The clash of Terminators was at first evenly matched, but the Unforgiven were driven by righteous fury, and in the end that proved decisive. There are several missing documents in these collections, which is largely due to intervention of Cypher himself.

Rival noble factions were using private armies to enforce their ownership over the richest veins of mineral wealth. Running through the collusions and inter-planetary trysts was a coherent and sinister thread that bore many of the hallmarks of an elaborate plot by the Alpha Legion –- although that group of traitors had, at the time, erroneously been declared destroyed by the Inquisition. In the wake of Cypher's escape from Terra at the start of the Era Indomitus, he is once again being pursued by the Dark Angels. Once, he subverted an Inquisitorial death squad –- for only in the aftermath of the action was it determined that it had been Cypher who had slain and replaced the cowled Inquisitor Arnuldus.Some of the Unforgiven have speculated that the blade is none other than the famed Lion Sword -– the blade of their Primarch that was lost when the Lion disappeared. An elderly human Lord Cypher, who advised Luther and Lion El'Jonson during the campaign against the Great Beasts. The world of Lemnos was embroiled in a bitter war over mining rights –- a battle of greed, rather than ideology. That region was notoriously unstable and dangerous, and to enter it they would have to navigate around temporal eddies, space anomalies and perhaps Chaos Space Marine battle fleets.