Long ago, Sigmar numbered Nagash among his allies, but the Master of Death betrayed the God-King, causing the great pantheon of gods to crumble as the Age of Chaos began. Now, Sigmar seeks to reform his ancient alliegiances - Tarsus Bull-Heart, Lord-Celestant of the Hallowed Knights, has been sent to the Vales of Sorrows with his Warrior Chamber to treat with the Great Necromancer. The Stormcast Eternals soon discover that Shyish is an unforgiving realm, and they are forced to accept aid from a vampire of dubious provenance, one whose name resonates throughout history: Manfred von Carstein. Tarsus and his Lord-Relictor Ramus both fear that there is more to their new guide than meets the eye, for it is well known that the dead cannot be trusted...

Author Biography

David Guymer is the author of the Gotrek & Felix novels City of the Damned, Kinslayer and Slayer, along with a plethora of short stories set in the worlds of both Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. He also wrote Echoes of the Long War, the sixth novel in The Beast Arises series. He is a freelance writer and occasional scientist based in Yorkshire's East Riding, and was a finalist in the 2014 David Gemmell Legend Awards for his Warhammer novel Headtaker. Josh Reynolds is the author of the Warhammer 40,000 novel Fabius Bile: Primogenitor, along with the Blood Angels novel Deathstorm and the White Scars novellas Hunter's Snare and Dante's Canyon. In the Warhammer world, he has written the End Times novels The Return of Nagash and Lord of the End Times, the Gotrek & Felix tales Charnel Congress, Road of Skulls and The Serpent Queen, and the Time of Legends novels Neferata and Master of Death. He has also written a number of stories set in Warhammer's new Age of Sigmar setting, including the novel Black Rift. He lives and works in Northampton, UK.