It’s going to be a hot summer’s day as I post this – my cover for the Horus Heresy novel “Deathfire”, released in 2015, although my signature says I finished it in 2014.
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I’d always wanted to see Salamander troops literally wreathed in flames, spitting fire and hammering & beating their way through their enemies. This was the perfect chance to explore those ideas!
THE STORY
Vulkan lies in state beneath the Fortress of Hera, and yet many of his sons still refuse to believe that he is truly dead. After a seemingly miraculous rescue by the Ultramarines, Artellus Numeon, once captain of the Pyre Guard, urges the other Salamanders on Macragge to leave Imperium Secundus and return their primarch’s body to the home world of Nocturne – there to be reborn in the flames of Mount Deathfire. But Numeon grapples endlessly with his doubts and fears for the future of the Legion, while their foes seek to carve out new destinies of their own…
