Soul Drinkers · Book 5
Hellforged
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 409
- ISBN-13
- 9781844166916
- Type
- novel
About this book
Hellforged, published in 2009, runs 409 pages -- just short of the 416-page streak of the three books before it -- and carries Sarpedon and the Soul Drinkers further into the series' escalating war against Imperial and Chaos forces alike.
Its place in Soul Drinkers
Hellforged is book 5 in the Soul Drinkers series. It follows Chapter War. It is followed by Daenyathos. See the full Soul Drinkers reading order.
Soul Drinkers is Ben Counter's own contribution to Black Library's roster of Space Marine chapters -- unlike many Warhammer 40,000 series built around a chapter already established in Games Workshop's tabletop lore, the Soul Drinkers were created for the novels themselves. The chapter, led by the psychically mutated, multi-limbed Chapter Master Sarpedon, prizes art and culture as proof of the humanity it exists to defend -- an indulgence the wider Imperium regards with deep suspicion. When that suspicion hardens…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781844166916