The Warhammer multimedia franchise has been witnessing a meteoric rise in its popularity for quite some time now. So naturally, its prequel series and the most historic event in the universe, titled The Horus Heresy, has been attracting the same attention.
Although it was the most pivotal event in Warhammer history, its literary series author, Dan Abnett, revealed that it was created because Games Workshop was still struggling to create new models for the tabletop game. In an interview with SciFiNow, the author said:
I think it was red and blue, the same models of Space Marines and everything, but some were red and some were blue, and they had to come up with a reason for why they’d be fighting themselves, so somebody went ‘Oh, it’s a civil war!’ And somebody else went ‘Let’s call it the… oh I don’t know… Horus Heresy!’
Since the…