{"id":729441,"date":"2026-08-06T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729441\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:54:10","slug":"pages-from-the-black-books-the-forge-world-of-zhao-arkhad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729441\/","title":{"rendered":"Pages from the Black Books \u2013 The Forge World of Zhao-Arkhad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week in our ongoing series examining the history of the Horus Heresy through excerpts from the Black Books, we uncovered the fate of the isolated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer-community.com\/en-gb\/articles\/spyj3dt5\/pages-from-the-black-books-the-xana-incursion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forge World known as Xana<\/a>. Today, we\u2019re opening the vaults of another, even more remote outpost \u2013 the enclave of Zhao-Arkhad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thh_blackbookslore27-aug06-image-gv6wczjpse.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Zhao-Arkhad would have been an unremarkable footnote from the fringes of the Great Crusade if not for its indelible link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer-community.com\/en-gb\/articles\/6na9napb\/pages-from-the-black-books-the-thousand-sons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Thousand Sons Legion<\/a>, who returned the world to Imperial compliance. The tumultuous history of the world did nothing for its relationship with the wider Imperium, so when the Warmaster\u2019s rebellion sent a shockwave across the galaxy, many forge fanes of the Mechanicum gladly followed the sons of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer.com\/shop\/Magnus-the-Red-Primarch-of-the-Thousand-Sons-Legion-2017?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=warhammer-community.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Magnus the Red<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s extract comes from Horus Heresy Book Seven: Inferno, first published in 2016, which dealt with the vicious Burning of Prospero and the many forces involved in that tragic campaign. It should come as no surprise that Zhao-Arkhad took part, given their friendship with the Thousand Sons, and their automata proved invaluable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week in our ongoing series examining the history of the Horus Heresy through excerpts from the Black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}