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
zlib_text: ![](images/00001.jpg)
  
  Shira Calpurnia
  
  BLIND
  
  Matthew Farrer
  
  For B&B
  
  Thanks to Philip Sibbering and Jon Green, for suggestions; to
  
  
  Lindsey Priestley, for patience; to Dan Abnett, James Swallow and
  
  
  Stephen King for trailblazing.
  
  Special thanks to Kim Newman and the Reverend Anthony William Jago, for
  inspiration.
  
  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 battleflects cross the
  
  daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route
  
  between distant stars, their way lit by the Astron