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Cover of The Returned by James Swallow

The Returned

Setting
Warhammer 40,000
Type
Short Story
First published
15 Jul 2011
Length
43 pp · ~47m
Reader rating
★ 3.93 from 40 ratings
ISBN-13
9780857872333
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Synopsis

On the world of Gathis, atop the Ghostmountain, sits the Eyrie, fortress-monastery of the Doom Eagles. Here they memorialise their honoured dead, then forget them. But what to do when one of those dead comes back to life? Brother Tarikus returns from years of captivity and must contend with suspicion and mistrust as he strives to reclaim his place in the Chapter. Read it because Returning home to the Eyrie after years of captivity, Tarikus wants nothing more than to rejoin his Chapter. But suspicion and mistrust await him at every turn.