After Isstvan
The catastrophe at Isstvan and its immediate survivors. Several independent paths follow.
Start withDropsite Massacre ↗From Deliverance Lost to Corax’s later operations and Weregeld.
Start withDeliverance Lost ↗Vulkan Lives leads into The Unremembered Empire, then Deathfire and Old Earth. Nocturne, early campaigns and the Salamanders’ relics form the surrounding stories.
Start withVulkan Lives ↗Scattered forces, raids and the Sisypheum. Sons of the Selenar continues the story during the Siege.
Start withMeduson ↗A standalone story after Isstvan, not a required bridge between Corax and Vulkan.
Start withThe Damnation of Pythos ↗Ferrus’s formative years, the Iron Hands’ beliefs and early campaigns: the background of the Legion later shattered at Isstvan.
Start withFerrus Manus: The Gorgon of Medusa ↗Endryd Haar and his Blackshields: The False War, The Red Fief and The Broken Chain, alongside a separate Xana operation involving surviving loyalists.
Start withBlackshields: The False War ↗Campaign books and lore: The death of Canopus. Explore the sources without treating them as the next novel.
Open a sourceExemplary Battles of the Age of Darkness: The Death of Canopus ↗Campaign books and lore: Bodt and Tredecimmia. Explore the sources without treating them as the next novel.
Open a sourceExemplary Battles of the Age of Darkness: The Depths of Tredecimmia ↗