The Missions of Sister Augusta

A full list and reading order, plus links to the stuff you may not have

The Rose in Darkness, cover art by Jan Drenovc

Starting with the original short story, ‘Mercy’, (a great opener if you’re playing Sororitas for the first time) the on-going adventures of Sister Superior Augusta form a single continuous narrative, though each can be read alone.

And, following the publication of The Rose in Darkness, her first full-length novel, the Black Library have collected all her previous missions in one, truly holy Adepta Sororitas package, available on the website ‘til 26^th September – and an absolute steal at fifteen quid.

Image from the Black Library website

In case of any timeline confusion, though, I thought I’d list her stories in order, both the ones leading up to The Rose in Darkness, and the scatter of ‘young Augusta’ flashbacks, which tell the tales of the newly Ordained Sister, and her very first missions.

The tales of Sister Superior Augusta Santorus, in order:

• Mercy 

• The Bloodied Rose 

• Wreck and Ruin 

• The Rose in Anger 

• Da Big Mouf 

• The Sisters of Death 

• The Skull Forge

• The Rose in Darkness

The ‘young Augusta’ stories:

• Forsaken 

• The Crystal Cathedral 

• Sacrifice 

• The Moon Mines of Sciara Lone 

• Blasphemy of the Fallen 

The first collected edition, The Rose at War, contains Forsaken, The Crystal Cathedral, Mercy, The Bloodied Rose, Wreck and Ruin, The Rose in Anger, Da Big Mouf and The Sisters of Death.

The full, collected Adepta Sororitas bundle #1 contains the contents of The Rose at War, plus The Moon Mines of Sciara Lone, Blasphemy of the Fallen, The Skull Forge and The Nature of Prayer.

If you’d like the running order for the whole lot, it goes like this:

• Forsaken

• The Crystal Cathedral

• Sacrifice

• The Moon Mines of Sciara Lone

• Blasphemy of the Fallen

• The Nature of Prayer

• Mercy

• The Bloodied Rose

• Wreck and Ruin

• The Rose in Anger

• Da Big Mouf

• The Sisters of Death

• The Skull Forge

• The Rose in Darkness

And don’t forget, you can read any of them by themselves!

I’ve written other Adepta Sororitas stories, as well, including the The Martyrdom of Sister Laurelynn, found in The Book of Martyrs (also featuring novellas from Alec Worley and Phil Kelly), and the short novel The Triumph of Saint Katherine, accompanying the tabletop mini of the same name.

Both of these, along with Rachael Harrison’s Mark of Faith and James Swallow’s original Sisters of Battle collection, can be found in the Adepta Sororitas bundle #2, also available until 26^th September.

I’ve also written some bits and pieces of other factions:

·      The Rage of the Mountain (Beastgrave), Direchasm

·      The Book of Change (Inquisition), standalone

·      The Bracelet of Bones (Warhammer Crime), Sanction & Sin

·      The Devouring Void (tyranids), standalone

And you can find the whole lot under my name on the BL site, obvs.

I’m kinda proud of Augusta – not only is she in her fifties (something of a raity), but she and her squad have always had a narrative in my head, and it’s one that still continues. She’s fronted the Adepta Sororitas, the Order of the Bloody Rose, and the cause of women in Warhammer everywhere. She’s holy, she’s fierce, she’s human, and her story is one that her readers can really feel and understand.

I look forward to her continuing adventures, and I hope that you do likewise!

Reading: Just finished S F Said’s Tyger, which I can’t recommend enough, and am now going back to my Manga with Priest’s light novel Guardian.

Watching: Still working our way through Red Dwarf, with so many, many memories of watching it in the Nineties. My lost and carefree youf, to be sure.

Playing: Finally getting to grips with Baldur’s Gate (tho’ I’m still finding it very clunky and counter-intuitive, and the maps are driving me NUTS). And when I say ‘grips’, I mean literally, with Astarion with his teeth out (spoilers) and his kit off. Who knew he got that frisky??