Black Library Celebrations 2025

 Every year, Games Workshop hands out a little book with some short stories to celebrate their Black Library division.

 

And for the 2025 edition, I actually managed to pick one up...

 

This books contain 4 stories, between 30 to 50 pages long, and pulled from their various game systems.  In this volume, we get one from the Horus Heresy, two from Age of Sigmar (the second one actually being set in the Warcry game!) and a Warhammer 40k one, and I must say, three of the four have Chaos as the central theme, so I guess we know who will get big releases in the not so far future...

 

In the 30k story, Visage by Rich McCormick, we follow Erebus of the Word Bearers on a journey along all the Chaos Gods, and to see the future of the Word Bearers legion and the paths he might take.

 

The One Road by David Guymer is a short Gotrek story, and I must say I found this actually pretty boring, the drag being the result it took a couple of months before I finished the little book.  The other stories read far smoother.

 

Web of Ruin is our Warcry story, centered around a decimated Tarantulos warband who has to put it's faith in a grot to make sure they survive and go onwards, hunting a huge spider.

 

The final story, The Long Promise, is centered around a follower of the Alpha Legion, who must make sure her pact with the Legion and a relic she searches for can be reached, with the "aid" of a squad of the Deathwatch...

 

So a bit of a mixed bag for me this book.  I liked the first though not my Legion, found the second boring, the third was fun because of it being so different and the last story was well layered.  

 

But, for a freebie, nothing to complain I guess...