Cypher: Lord of the Fallen (Warhammer 40,000) [Hardcover] French, John

Product Information

At first, all went well – they successfully ran the gauntlet of Warp storms and emerged in realspace to bypass all of the Imperial stations. Perhaps the most famous of these instances occurred during the final battle of the Red Stars campaign. Meanwhile, the largest chunk of what remained of shattered Caliban was chosen as the new headquarters for the Dark Angels. They retrieve the lion sword (all of the fallen follow cypher wether they are chaos worshipers or not) as that seems to be a crucial token of cyphers office and they can’t leave terra without it. Thus far they remain indecipherable, and so nobody can truly know if indeed the Lord Cypher present at the destruction of Caliban was the same individual that had been ordained by the Lion.

After slaying the Overfiend Tyrannex, riddling him with holes and leaving behind bolt shell fragments and unique plasma burns that are the signature of Cypher's bolt and plasma pistols, he had the nerve to plant a Dark Angels homing device. These ancient records seem to imply that this last Lord Cypher is the last bearer of the title, and that therefore Cypher is not his birth name.When Belial is subsequently tied up by the massed wave attack of suicidal Cultists, Cypher makes good his escape. During the breaking storm, Cypher and his band of Fallen escape from the most secure prison in the Imperium. Yet what can be learned from such a paradox of information, other than the fact that he is apparently as likely to work with as against the forces of the Imperium? But it is obvious to those few Dark Angels Librarians who have studied the compiled data that Cypher's actions seem to follow some pattern or mission known only to himself. Transmissions to the Rock were patchy and unreliable, but the Fury of Caliban had reached the orbit of Cocytus I.

If the Dark Angels had admitted that some of their members had turned, their entire Legion would have been condemned. Although ultimately taken into custody by the Dark Angels, the robed captive mysteriously escapes and the Ophidium Gulf is lost. When the trail of clues Daryth was following led across the barrier of the Great Rift to the Imperium Nihilus, Daryth took command of the frigate Sol's Arrow and gathered his Shield Company and a cadre of Sisters of Silence to help him track Cypher down. As time in the Realm of Chaos does not flow according to any rules, the time in transit for the Fallen might have felt like it was mere seconds, although millennia would have passed. After their very first few encounters, the Dark Angels began to realise that this Fallen might be different.Sometimes, the cowled figure produced the psychic signature of a Fallen, evincing the blood of their Primarch, the Lion. M32) - The Dark Angels, along with successor Chapters the Angels of Vengeance, the Angels of Redemption and the Lions Sable, embark on the trail of multiple Fallen.