Chronicles of Ursh

The God-Emperor of Mankind&nbsp The Chronicles of Ursh''' were a massive tome written by an unknown author in the time of the techno barbarians. The techno barbarians were the result of the Age of Strife, when humanity was stranded on earth due to fearsome warp storms. They were humans who had no knowledge of the workings of technology, who yet warred ceaslessly for the last scraps of forgotten tech.'''

The Chronicles documented long and the long and bloody events leading up to the Unification Wars, where the Emperor took control of humanity's destiny. The chronicles were excessively bloody and described scenes of utter destruction wrout by the techo barbarians.

Authors often competed to make the most gory saga of all, exaggerating and inventing the 'truth'. Some wars apparantley made the seas run red with blood, and rent the sky with 'forgottyn majyks', and 'daeymons most foul woulde prowle the earth and tear the land asunder'. It is suspected that these daemons were humanity's first encounter with the chaos gods.

The Emperor eventually won the Unification Wars, with his genetically modifyed human warriors, created from the techno barbarians, and were the precursor to the Adeptus Astartes, the space marines.

In Dan Abbnet's 'Horus Rising', Kyril Sindermann, an iterator accompanying the 63rd expedition of the great crusade, lends captain Loken of the Luna Wolves a copy.