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However, at the same time Horus Rising stablished the Imperial Truth, it also introduced the Lectitio Divinitatus and the worship of the Emperor as a honest underground cult of common people. An obvious callback to the rise of Christianism in Imperial Rome and stories like Quo-Vadis, Ben-hur, etc

This becomes one of the main HH plotlines, with characters like Euphrati Keeler, a remembrancer, and future first Imperial Saint, already banishing daemons with her faith in False Gods (2006) by Graham McNeill. Yes, the same author of The Last Church (2009).