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Cover of The Burden of Angels by Nick Kyme

The Burden of Angels

Setting
Warhammer 40,000
Type
Short Story
First published
7 Nov 2016
Length
23 pp · ~25m
Reader rating
★ 3.86 from 28 ratings
ISBN-13
9781785721984
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Synopsis

To honour their past victories and the bond between them, the Blood Angels and Salamanders meet on Hecatomb to exchange trophies of war. So august a gathering is this that both Dante and Tu'Shan, the respective Chapter Masters of their Space Marine brotherhoods, are present. But what begins as a fraternal exchange of cultures turns nightmarish as the Blood Angels unwittingly unleash something they had thought long vanquished and their darker natures with it. Read it because It's a look at the nature of the Salamanders through a very different lens, as they are contrasted with the secretive and cursed Blood Angels – and it brings two Chapter Masters to blows!