title: Warhammer 40,000: The Emperor's Will
author: Jon Blanche
description: John Blanche is the legendary art director of Games Workshop. His unique style has been seen in a variety of subject from Games Workshop to Lord of the Rings
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  A WARHAMMER 40,000 NOVEL
  
  ONLY IN DEATH
  
  Gaunt’s Ghosts - 11
  
  (The Lost - 04)
  
  Dan Abnett
  
  (An Undead Scan v1.1)
  
  1
  
  
  It is the 41st millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has
  sat immobile on
  
  the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the
  gods, and master of a
  
  million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting
  carcass writhing invisibly
  
  with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the
  Imperium for whom
  
  a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.
  
  
  Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance.
  Mighty battlefleets
  
  cross the daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between distant
  stars, their way lit
  
  by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor’s will. Vast
  armies give battle in
  
  his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus
  Astartes, the Spa