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'''''False Gods''''' is a novel by [[Graham McNeill]] and the second book in the [[Horus Heresy Series|''Horus Heresy'' series]]. A direct continuation of the plot of ''[[Horus Rising (Novel)|Horus Rising]]'', '''''False Gods''''' details [[Horus]]'s fall to [[Chaos]].

===Part Two: Plague Moon===

Advancing through the swamp, the Sons of Horus find the corpses of Temba's men which [[Plague Zombies|suddenly animate and attack them]]. The Legio Mortis Titan ''[[Dies Irae]]'' is blinded by the thick fog and, sensing an incoming aerial object, shoots it out of the sky. The object, Petronella Vivar's skiff that she took to the surface against Horus's orders, crashes in the swamp. Vivar's bodyguard [[Maggard]] holds off attacking plague zombies as long as he can but the pair are only saved when the skiff's burning wreckage acts as a beacon for the Sons of Horus, who marshal around it and slaughter the undead. Moving forward they discover the wreck of Eugan Temba's crashed flagship the ''Glory of Terra'', suffering from extreme rot and apparently the source of the unnerving broadcast. Despite Loken's objections Horus decides to enter with 1st, 5th, 13th and 19th companies, leaving Loken and Torgaddon's companies to defend the entrance. Once inside, the Sons of Horus are scattered by a shift in the ship's position and Horus is separated from his men. Advancing alone, he encounters a horde of plague zombies whilst a simultaneous attack begins outside the ship. Fighting his way to bridge Horus finds the bloated monstrosity that was once Eugan Temba armed with the [[anathame]] and sitting over the corpse of [[Verulam Moy]]. Engaging Temba in a fight, Horus is wounded in the shoulder before mortally wounding the traitor governor who repents as he dies, confessing that he gave in to the promises of [[Chaos]]. Horus destroys the machinery powering the broadcast, causing the army of plague zombies to revert to inert corpses just in time to save Loken and Torgaddon's companies from being overrun. The Sons of Horus find Horus on the bridge, mourning the loss of Temba and bleeding freely from his shoulder wound. They carry him outside, where he suddenly collapses to the ground.{{Fn|2c}}