GWS-BL3144 Games Workshop Black Library Warhammer 40,000 The Lion: Son of the Forest

About This Book

Lion El'Jonson comes back after ten thousand years and finds nothing he left behind. The Emperor is a corpse on a throne, Caliban is gone, and the Legion he built has fractured into an order that keeps secrets from itself. He wakes in a forest in Imperium Nihilus, half the galaxy cut off behind a wall of warp storm, guided by a small robed figure who tells him only as much as it feels like telling.

What follows is less a war story than a question. Without the Emperor, without the Imperium, without his Legion and without the world that made him, who is the Lion? He gathers a handful of the Fallen, knights hunted to the edge of endurance who have spent millennia waiting for their liege to come back and decide whether to redeem or condemn them, and rides out against a traitorous son and his Chaos warband.

Mike Brooks writes him as someone genuinely lost rather than as a returning legend, which is what makes the book work.

Who It's For

Dark Angels collectors above all, since this is the novel that resolves what happens when the primarch actually returns and what it means for the Fallen. Also anyone following the current Warhammer 40,000 narrative, where the Lion's return is one of the larger recent developments.

It works as a standalone. If you have never read a Dark Angels novel and only know the chapter as the secretive ones with the robes, everything you need is explained here.

Reference Numbers

BL3144