DarkChaplain

The Unburdened was so good especially when read right after the utterly lackluster The Honoured. You basically need to read both for the full picture of the rivalry between Ultramarine dude and Kurtha Sedd, but it says a lot that I can still clearly remember Kurtha Sedd's name (and am ticked off about how he was done dirty in an Aeonid Thiel audio drama by Kyme) but not that of his rival.

I'm actually interested in seeing where things in this Dawn of Fire era are going to go from here on, because DoF has finished its spinal work of the first decade, plus Dark Imperium right after, and we've got plenty of branches to go off on, even in addition to those it already connected back to the tree as it went. Like, can we finally have the gap in the Space Wolves' Ragnar Blackmane arc told? And connect with the 13th Great Company? Kor Phaeron is also up to no good, and the Anathame has been reforged. They finally remembered the Pariah Nexus being a thing and can actually turn it into an interesting section of the galaxy. I want to see what comes off it's rejigging of the timeline, and slotting in works that were published before, and what plotlines it'll revitalize in the long run.

From the Prologue: From Chapter One: Greyloc replaced "Oja Arkenjaw"

Damnation of Pythos was fantastic. That's all I've got to say.

Once again, I am dismayed at the lack of Crying and Angry reaction icons....

Kor'sarro must be feeling jealous now...

The Green Tide Omnibus is funny. It includes the Catachan Devil Astra Militarum-branded novel because it's got Orks in it. You'd think an AM novel would be in one of the AM Omnibuses instead, particularly as part of a series....

Amazing. Another dead week to follow the last. That is, unless you want to read the reprint of the middle section of a novel that overstayed its welcome in 2024.

They sure haven't learned how to pace their releases, that's for sure. They just dropped two new novels and three audiobooks this weekend, have the Dawn of Fire finale, another new anthology, another audiobook on top and the re-issue of the Ravenor Omnibus all up for preorder, with The Silent King having been delayed to hell and back, and then follow that up with a dead week. Go figure.

....leave it to WarCom to post an article about Guy Haley talking about The Silent King.... and forget to un-private the embedded Youtube video Haley talks about it in.

Now I feel really bad for the Grey Knights collectors. Black Templars already had their major refresh and now they have not one but two new characters, while GK apparently have to wait til next edition for anything worthwhile.... and WarCom decides to reaffirm this on the same day the unexpected second BT model gets revealed. Insult to injury, that!

Archaon: Everchosen audiobook, fyeah! ....that being said, do you think they remember that it's been, like, over 18 months since they published the first Malus Darkblade novel in audio? Would be nice to be able to buy the second, third, fourth and fifth at long last, BL.

While reading this, my mind immediately jumped to Sevatar in Prince of Crows. Real bad daddy issues, trying to be good, going against his own nature, having had a dreadful childhood, suffering abuse time and again.... and then in the audio drama The Long Night he even gets to bond with a young girl, if you want to do the bingo. As you say, it need not be a bad thing at all. I enjoyed Sevatar, Khârn and Lotara or Argel Tal and Cyrene (though the Siege even managed to mess HER up majorly, too! Thankfully it looped back around somewhat by the very end, albeit clumsily), a great deal. Not so much the bloke from Emperor's Spear, though.... But it's pretty much a pattern ADB falls into, one way or another. And they always seem to regret being what they are. Most of them are big on melancholy in general. And frankly, the sheer amount of times this has been a thing makes me inwardly groan with every book of his it happens in that actually sees the light of day. Not that there've been many of those lately, I'm afraid.

Finished Fulgurite. Wanted to post since around noon, but internet problems happened and then B&C bugged out on me as a result. Oh well. I generally liked it, but....

I'm only about a third through Fulgurite, myself, but so far I'm enjoying it. It's doing far more for me when it comes to the character than the throwaway Fragment in TEATD, that's for sure. It's also funny to have him go "Oh, God-Emperor" when commenting about how it's all gone to hell. But hey, at the very least