Cold Blood (Short Story)
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| Author | David Guymer |
| Publisher | Black Library |
| Released | July 2013 |
| Editions | July 2013 ebook ISBN 9781782511588 |
Cold Blood is a short story by David Guymer, a tie-in to Games Workshop's Apocalypse game. It was published online on July 22, 2013.
Cover Description
A deadly threat lurks above the prison moon of Ixus IX... But what dwells on the surface of the airless planetoid may be deadlier still. As the Bloodlords Chaos Space Marines fall upon Ixus, intent upon slaughtering the prison inmates to fuel the hideous daemonic power of a Lord of Skulls and bring glory to the Blood God, they find a very different foe, one with no flesh to rend or blood to spill...
Plot summary
After taking Lord of Skulls as a prize in battle against World Eaters. Bloodlords leave the Eye of Terror, making their way to the penal world of Ixus IX. After a few skirmishes and getting their Light Destroyer Bloodhammer shot down from orbit, they discover that Necrons have already purged the moon of all life. Lord of Skulls is unleashed, and it goes on to purge the Necrons but also massacre at least part of the Bloodlords to satisfy its bloodlust.
Characters
- Sabaktes - Chaos Lord of Bloodlords of 5000 years.
- Navarch Ladon - Warpsmith and captain of the Bloodhammer.
- Circios - Assault marine veteran of Abyssal Crusade.
- Agon - Assault marine veteran of Abyssal Crusade.
- Pallas - Assault marine.
- Skeiron - Assault marine.
- Homadus - Assault marine.
- Polemarch - Marine made with severaly degreded gene-seed described as little more then feral beast.
