Magnus Warning and Wolves despatched timeline question

[Beaky Brigade]

Minor spoilers

 

I've just been reading through Inferno, and the official in universe Imperial Narrative is that the Censure force was not assembled until AFTER the psychic storms rocked Terra. Now that's what everyone originally thought about the timeline anyway until The Outcast Dead was published and messed everything up by having the Censure host leave before the storms rocked Terra and the Emperors proclamation. This was then rationalised by the suggestion that Magnus' intrusion had a delayed action effect, and it was not until the protective wards were finally breached that the storms rocked Terra, but Magnus had already been judged by the Emperor some time before this.

 

Now I always thought that this was a slightly poor get out for what may have been an oversight, but I'm not really sure what the long term opinion on this piece of fluff is, or its implications as I have lapsed from reading the novel series regularly. Is this still the 'Actual' story?

 

Now I appreciate the Forge World HH books are not written from an omnipotent point of view, but I feel this could have been hinted at or cleared up a bit. Given the Imperial writer does not know about, or chooses not to explain the nature of Magnus' crime beyond 'sorcery' it makes sense to have an official timeline, I just feel it's a bit unhelpful as a reader trying to understand events.

[Iron Lord]

The Outcast Dead never really made sense in the context of Galaxy in Flames, which has Erebus reporting Magnus's use of sorcery to escape the Fall of Prospero - with the survivors - before the Istvann III Massacre.

 

Wolf King tried to fix it, I'm told - but I've not got it so don't know the exact wording of the fix.

 

 

Inferno pushes the fall of Prospero back a bit - the whole thing takes place in 004.M31. Horus even dispatched a contingent of Marines as part of the Censure force. And a point is made of how he wasn't seen on Terra much after the incident.

 

By implication, he was seen on Terra a little bit.

 

By contrast, in Galaxy in Flames, the Istvann III massacre reveals Horus's treachery very soon after the Fall of Prospero. No time for Horus to return to Terra there.