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
  
  
  
  
  
  SHADOW POINT
  
  
  
  
  
  Battlefleet Gothic - 02
  
  
  
  
  
  Gordon Rennie
  
  
  
  
  
  (An Undead Scan v1.0)
  
  
  
  
  
  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 Sp