renegades: lord of excess

It’s a tantalising look into the gleefully twisted minds of the Emperor’s Children, as an arrogant warlord strives to ’save’ an Imperial world from its own imperfections.

Once a united Legion, the disparate splinters of the Emperor’s Children now eke out a violent, hedonistic existence between the stars, raiding and ravaging worlds to indulge their fathomless appetites.

Xantine, proud leader of the Adored and a true son of Fulgrim, wants more than simply pillaging backwater worlds. He soon finds what he has been searching for - Serrine, a wealthy but cruel planet festering under misrule and inequality, cut off from the Imperium by warp storms. It is too tantalising a prize to ignore, and Xantine sets out to bring perfection to his new world.

But perfection is an elusive concept, and as threats creep from the depths of Serrine and the ranks of the Adored, the rot at the heart of Xantine’s perfect rule is laid bare...

Rich McCormick is a writer and videogame producer whose love affair with the worlds of Warhammer began when he was handed a small plastic ork at a very tender age. He used to live in Japan, but now lives in Yorkshire, with his wife and son. His work for Black Library includes the Warhammer 40,000 novel Renegades: Lord of Excess and the short stories ’Knife Flight’ and ’A More Perfect Union’, as well as the Horus Heresy short story ’Visage’.