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Warhammer 40,000
The Corpse Road
An Iron Warriors story
After his failed assault on Ultramar, Warsmith Honsou of the Iron Warriors makes his way back to the Eye of Terror… on an Ultramarines vessel?
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It continues Honsou's story after the momentous events of The Chapter's Due and teases what may be to come for the wily Warsmith…
THE STORY
Plying the slow, ponderous void-routes through the backways of Ultramar, the funeral ship Shendao heads for a cemetery world with its cargo of the dead. Recent wars have left the warp in an eerily calm state and yet, inexplicably, an intruder emerges from the shadows of the vessel’s undercroft. What could a renegade Iron Warrior like Warsmith Honsou want from the Shendao, enough to face the Space Marines of the Ultramarines Chapter alone?
After his failed assault on Ultramar, Warsmith Honsou of the Iron Warriors makes his way back to the Eye of Terror… on an Ultramarines vessel?
READ IT BECAUSE
It continues Honsou's story after the momentous events of The Chapter's Due and teases what may be to come for the wily Warsmith…
THE STORY
Plying the slow, ponderous void-routes through the backways of Ultramar, the funeral ship Shendao heads for a cemetery world with its cargo of the dead. Recent wars have left the warp in an eerily calm state and yet, inexplicably, an intruder emerges from the shadows of the vessel’s undercroft. What could a renegade Iron Warrior like Warsmith Honsou want from the Shendao, enough to face the Space Marines of the Ultramarines Chapter alone?
- GenresScience Fiction
14 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
About the author
Graham McNeill
327 books973 followersHailing from Scotland, Graham McNeill narrowly escaped a career in surveying to work for Games Workshop as a games designer. He has a strong following with his novels Nightbringer, Warriors of Ultramar, Dead Sky, Black Sun and Storm of Iron.
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December 23, 2025
Honsou showing up the function:
June 15, 2026
Quite boring.
January 23, 2017
Graham McNeill’s short story The Corpse Road picks up after The Chapter’s Due to show us what Warsmith Honsou did next. While Ventris went off hunting orks, Honsou took an unusual route out of the Ultramarines’ domain…in a corpse-hauler.
Clearly a linking story that sets things up for what’s coming next, it's short but nicely self-contained. Honsou is a villain for sure, but in his blend of brains, brutality and cynical wit there’s a compelling character who’s great fun to watch.
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Clearly a linking story that sets things up for what’s coming next, it's short but nicely self-contained. Honsou is a villain for sure, but in his blend of brains, brutality and cynical wit there’s a compelling character who’s great fun to watch.
Read the rest of the review at https://trackofwords.wordpress.com/20...
May 28, 2020
It was ok. Very brief, and I wouldn't recommend reading it in isolation. However, it adequate as an epilogue for the Iron Warriors Omnibus.
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