Book of Magnus

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The Book of Magnus is sometimes called the Book of the Thousand Sons. It is a monumental tome of sorcery compiled by Magnus from the arcane lore he gathered from across the galaxy during the Great Crusade. This book still exists within the library of the Daemon Prince Magnus, of the Planet of the Sorcerers, and a copy is said to reside in the Black Library of Chaos.

Before the Heresy, Ahriman, as Chief Librarian of the Thousand Sons, sharing his Primarch's obsession with arcane knowledge, had come to be keeper of the book.

Quotes

"The ancient knights' quest for the Grail, the alchemists' search for the Stone of the Philosophers, all were part of the Great Work and therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Such a task is eternal and its joys without bounds; for the whole universe and all its wonders...what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing heirs of the galaxy and eternity, whose name is Mankind?"^1a

Sources

• ¹:A Thousand Sons
  • ^1a:p.8
• Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned, 1990