Eclipse of Hope (Short Story)

This article is about the short story; for the ship, see Eclipse of Hope.

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Eclipse of Hope
Author	David Annandale
Publisher	Black Library
Released	July, 2012
Collected in	Space Marines The Hammer and the Eagle: Icons of Warhammer
Editions	2012 eshort ISBN 9780857877543

Eclipse of Hope is a short story by David Annandale, published online in July, 2012, as part of Black Library's "Summer Reading" promotion.^[1]

Cover Description^[1]

When Mephiston and the Blood Angels discover a world slain in a massacre that defies reason, they must unearth the cause of this mass killing but risk their own sanity to do it.

Characters

Blood Angels

• Castigon - Captain of 4th Company
• Mephiston - Chief Librarian
• Stolas - Epistolary of 4th Company
• Dantalion - Chaplain
• Markosius - Standard Bearer
• Gamigin - Tactical Squad Sergeant
• Ipos - Helmsmaster
• Albinus - Sanguinary Priest
• Phenex - Techmarine
• Orias - Pilot of the Bloodthorn

Trivia

The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here.

• The events of this story lead into the events of Mephiston: Lord of Death (Novella)

See also

• List of Short Stories

Sources

• 1: Black Library (last accessed 6 December 2018)