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The [[Emperor]] is enraged. [[Primarch]] [[Magnus the Red]] of the [[Thousand Sons]] Legion has made a terrible mistake that endangers the very safety of Terra. With no other choice, the Emperor charges [[Leman Russ]], Primarch of the [[Space Wolves]], with the apprehension of his brother from the Thousand Sons home world of [[Prospero]]. This planet of sorcerers will not be easy to overcome, but Russ and his Space Wolves are not easily deterred. With wrath in his heart, Russ is determined to bring Magnus to justice and bring about the fall of Prospero.{{Fn|3}}

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On the planet [[Fenris]], the [[Ascomanni]] tribe come under attack by their rival tribe the [[Balt]] for harbouring a 'bad star' that fell from the sky, in reality human Conservator [[Kasper Ansbach Hawser]] whose craft was accidentally shot down as he arrived in Fenris airspace en route to join the [[Space Wolves]] [[Legion]] as a cultural observer. Four Ascomanni warriors flee their settlement with Hawser but one is killed when their craft flips on sea ice and another dies defending him from a massed attack by the Balt and [[Hradcana]]. Hawser's last two defenders are about to be killed when a lone Space Wolf arrives and massacres the attackers. The Astartes, [[Bjorn the Fell-Handed|Bear]], was the one who accidentally shot Hawser's craft down and thus was responsible for rescuing him. Hawser demands that Bear take the surviving Ascomanni Fith and Brom with him and all four board Bear's craft before Bear gouges out Hawser's right eye and he passes out from the pain.

Throughout the novel flashbacks reveal details about Hawser's past including his childhood at a desert orphanage, his career with the Conservatory and his efforts to preserve its independence from the [[Administratum]]. One flashback describes an encounter between Hawser's archaeological team and Fifteenth Legion Astartes sent to secure the area where Hawser's team were investigating, during which the Astartes took a strange interest in Hawser's name. His decision to travel to Fenris late in life is explained as the product of academic curiosity and frustration at Terran bureaucracy sabotaging his vision for the Conservatory, but other characters cast doubt on this and imply that someone else may have planted the idea in his head.

The Space Wolves are summoned to [[Prospero]] to bring [[Magnus]] to justice for breaking the [[Edict of Nikaea]]. Leman Russ uses Hawser as a conduit to give Magnus a last chance to surrender but receives no reply. The Space Wolves invade the planet and Hawser makes his first kill against one of the [[Prospero Spireguard]]. While fighting in a temple he suddenly finds himself in the room from his dream, where a [[Chaos]] entity masquerading as Horus appears and Hawser realises that it was the being from the dream. It confesses that it manipulated him into going to Fenris and framed the Thousand Sons for the act by appearing as Amon on Nikaea while the real Amon was elsewhere, all as part of a bigger plan to turn the two Legions against each other. Fith, Bear and Aun Helwintr arrive but the entity overpowers them all using their names bar Bear whose arm it sets alight. Hawser cuts off Bear's arm to save the rest of him just as two Dreadnaughts and a cohort of Silent Sisters arrive, led there by the Wolves to kill the being. Its powers sapped by the Silent Sisters, the Chaos entity is helpless as the Dreadnaughts shoot it to pieces. Bear's real name is revealed as [[Bjorn]], imperfect language imprinting by the being led to errors in Hawser's speech where animals were concerned and meant it could never use the name Bear against him as it was wrong. The Thousand Sons are defeated and the Space Wolves depart Prospero. After the battle Kasper Hawser has one final conversation with Leman Russ before voluntarily going into indefinite stasis so he cannot be used against the Wolves again.

==Sources==

*{{Endn|2}}: [http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/Prospero-Burns-Update.html Prospero Burns Update at Black Library Blog] (site accessed 08/07/2012)

*{{Endn|3}}: [https://www.blacklibrary.com/the-horus-heresy/novels/prospero-burns-ebook.html Black Library]

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