Assassinorum: Kingmaker

Assassinorum: Kingmaker (Special Edition). From Warhammer 40k.
A Black Library book.
Release Date: 13 September 2025.
A Warhammer 40,000 Novel

On the Knight World of Dominion, a Vindicare and a Callidus assassin are tasked with eliminating a seditious leader and safely steering a pro-Imperial candidate to the throne.

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Kingmaker explores the fascinating relationship between two very different temples of the Assassinorum as two agents navigate the complex social hierarchy of a Knight World. The stakes are high and the pressure is on, for an Imperial war effort hinges on them executing their duty before disaster strikes.

THE STORY

The Officio Assassinorum safeguards the future of Humanity. Its agents are the bloody-handed, secret saviours of the Imperium, killers charged with achieving the impossible... and Vindicare assassin Absolom Raithe has just been handed the most difficult assignment of his career.

The Knight World of Dominion is on the verge of seceding from the Imperium, its court riven by factionalism and ruled by an increasingly unhinged monarch. With the aid of the shapeshifting Callidus assassin Sycorax, Raithe must remove the king and safely steer a pro-Imperial candidate to the throne through the brutal succession crisis that will inevitably ensue. His team will need to infiltrate a world steeped in chivalric codes, where every move risks discovery, and every threat pilots an adamantine monster... for if the assassins fail, and Dominion falls, the entire sector will be plunged into darkness.

Written by Robert Rath.

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