First Captain Ezekyle Abaddon interrupts the pair, angrily rebuking Karkasy for impugning Erebus's reputation and scorning Loken for keeping company with remembrancers.

Remembrancer Ignace Karkasy reports back on the meeting to his sponsor, Captain Garviel Loken, revealing that Erebus manipulated Horus into becoming enraged at Temba and must have an ulterior motive for wanting Horus to go to the moon. Enraged, Horus orders an immediate attack on the moon. A War Council is convened on Davin's surface where Erebus reveals his reason for summoning the Warmaster to the planet: its planetary governor, Eugen Temba, has turned against the Imperium and betrayed Horus after taking his forces to the planet's moon to put down a rebellion by the Davinite tribes there. They are joined by Petronella Vivar, scion of a Terran noble house who becomes Horus's documentarist. The 63rd Expeditionary Fleet under the command of Warmaster Horus Lupercal rendezvous with elements of the Word Bearers Legion under First Chaplain Erebus on the planet Davin, which their Legions jointly brought into compliance six decades ago. With all the temptations that Chaos has to offer, can the weakened Horus resist? Horus is still battling against the jealousy and resentment of his brother primarchs and, when he is injured in combat on the planet Davin, he must also battle his inner daemons. Yet all is not well in the armies of the Imperium. The Emperor of mankind has handed the reins of command to his favoured son, the Warmaster Horus. The Great Crusade that has taken humanity into the stars continues.

2.3 Part Three: In the House of False Gods.

It was later included in 'The Novels: Volume 1' e-book collection, and it was included as part of the Crusade's End omnibus, released in paperback on March 8, 2016. Each print run is distinguished by a different colour for the titles: the first edition was gold, the second in silver and the third in bronze. The novel was first published in June 2006, and has been reprinted three times. A direct continuation of the plot of Horus Rising, False Gods details Horus's fall to Chaos.

False Gods is a novel by Graham McNeill and the second book in the Horus Heresy series.

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