Ingo Pech

Many thanks @Tymell for your help and efforts. It's most appreciated. And @Tolmeus: thank you for the advice regarding the Black Books. It sounds very much like Curze but I didn't find the quote in "The Dark King" or "The Lightning Tower", the two short stories where their encounter is written. So perhaps it's from the Black Books. I will take a look. :)

Hi. I just have one question regarding "Now Peals Midnight". I'm just rereading all HH-books and writing a more or less short summary of every story, just for fun. And now I've stumbled over the words, Dorn remembers during the last hours before Horus arrives at Terra. Most of these are from Solomon Voss, Malcador, Curze, Sigismund, Archamus or himself and I remember them from "The Last Remembrancer", "The Dark King", "The Lightning Tower", "Praetorian of Dorn" or "Crimson Fist". But two of them I can't associate with a story. Can anyone help me out perhaps? 1. "The Imperium will not survive if it doesn't die, brother..." 2. "One night we shall look up and see the heavens burning" Thanks in advance and kind regards.

Mauro Belfiore has posted all of them on his Insta- and Artstation-profile.

Some of what was mentioned in the spoilers regarding Alpharius´ past comes more or less from the FW book "Extermination". So it´s not Brooks´ fundamental idea.

Regarding the "The Damnation of Pythos"-story arc: 1) False Gods (introduction of Tsi Rekh) 2) Veritas Ferrum (introduction of Atticus), short story in "Shattered Legions) 3a) Damnation of Pythos (continuation of the story arc of Atticus and Tsi Rekh and introduction of Khalybus, Madail and the Damnation Cache) 3b) The Noose (continuation of the Khalybus-arc), short story in "Shattered Legions) 4) Ruinstorm (continuation of the Khalybus- and Madail-arc) 5) Pandorax (back to Pythos and the Damnation Cache)

So, in some points, I have to agree with 2000AD. I live in Germany, so it´s not only the price for the book itself but the horrendous shipping costs, I´m forced to pay, if I want to buy it. That´s... ridiculous. I´ve bought clothes, books, blu rays and so on and so forth, via amazon.com/amazon.co.uk/facedown records in the USA etc. And never I was forced to pay such shipping costs for my goods. I WOULD like to buy the book, but I don´t see the point in paying the same price only for transport! And when I first saw the Salamanders-Limited Edition, I really was pleased by the look of the book. But the content was not able to match up with the exterior. The story is... well it´s OK, but with too many battles for the number of pages and with already known and somehow irritating illustrations: why the drawing of Mortarion (by John Blanche), the Primarch with the most irrelevant role in the whole book, and not a new and first image of Vulkan? HE is the main charakter in "Promethan Sun"!... I see the points in 2000ADs argumentation - and I understand ADBs position as well, but I really hope, that IF the BL will adhere to the idea of limited Horus Heresy-Novellas, they will give them some unique and new drawings and perhaps, someday, it´s possible to order this books for a less bold shipping-price... And sorry for grammatical mistakes. I´m no native speaker and it´s already late in Germany. ^^

Exactly that, what I´ve thought while reading "Rules Of Engagement". I´m really not a big Guilliman- and Ultras-fan, but I love the way, McNeill has portrayed both of them. Guilliman is one of the greatest minds in history, one of the mightiest generals of all times and he´s utterly loyal to his father or at least the Imperium of Mankind. If he´s not able to save his father, so it´s his duty to save his race at least. And he knows that Horus needs supplies in his battle for Terra and that he (and perhaps the Lion) is able to stop these supplies and to block off the way for more troops. Besides this, I think it´s interesting, that "Rules Of Engagement" and "The Last Remembrancer" are two pointers to the second war between brothers, when he fights Rogal Dorn after the Heresy. Because Guilliman is profoundly convinced that the Imperium Secundus needs new opinions and that they have to tread new paths if they want to survive... and Dorn is a keeper of the old ways, of the Imperium, how his father has built it. And hew wants to rebuild it the same way. And - what makes all of this more complicated: he is not as steadfast as afore. He has doubts about the Imperium and his own actions and the way, everything has changed and he struggles to find his place in the new Imperium... I really anticipate the next books and especially the Ultramarines-novel about Calth. Perhaps I will become an Ultramarine-Fan after all, who knows? :) I will adress a petition, that McNeill and/or John French (or James Swallow who has done an outstanding job with "Liar´s Due"!) should write an Iron Hands-Horus Heresy-Novel or at least one about Rogal Dorn and the Fists...