On one of the worlds of the Imperium—Eviksus—an ancient cruiser named “The Creeping Darkness” crashes. Few in the Imperium remember this name, and those who do would rather forget it. Ten thousand years spent in the warp left no mark—not on the ship, nor on its single surviving inhabitant. But before Zo Sahaal, the Captain of the Lords of the Night Legion, could return to the real world, he discovered that his ship had been looted in the most ordinary way. And among what was stolen is Zo Sahaal’s priceless legacy, bequeathed to him by the Legion’s Primarch, Konrad Curze. The legendary Crown of Nox. The loss deprives Zo Sahaal of what little peace of mind remains, but not of his lethal combat readiness. To retrieve his sacred relic, he will stop at nothing.