DarkChaplain

I already got it preordered via Amazon, so all I have to do is wait. For good measure, the official listing of contents and blurb from Amazon: Curious, that The Sins of My Brothers is so far up in the list, if we consider this the print order. Chronologically, it makes sense, but thematically, it's one that I'd put towards the end. Still a pity the WD story didn't get omnibus'd, too....

It's so, so, so funny to me that it took THE HERESY TO END and the SCOURING TO BEGIN for them to go back and patch up the biggest narrative hole in the early series with an actual novel dedicated to it, rather than just scattered sections in a half-dozen other books. And correct me if I'm wrong, but.... this is the first time the Forgeworld characters mentioned in the article actually showed up in the BL HH books, isn't it?

Uh...... Are they aware that Deathworlder and High Khal's Oath were released last year already, and you can already buy their ebooks and audiobooks just fine? Warcom, pls fix your nonsense. https://www.blacklibrary.com/new-titles/warhammer-40000/ebook-the-high-kahls-oath-eng-2024.html https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/novels/ebook-deathworlder-eng-2024.html

Can anybody remind me why THIS Night Lords novel isn't part of the Renegades series, when it followed pretty much the same pattern as Harrowmaster and Lord of Excess, first introducing the character via shorts and then putting out a character-focused novel? I swear, they forget their own series and imprints more often than they remember them....

.....that front choice for The Remnant Blade should be cause to get demoted from making font decisions.

The Pharisene Paradox was fun. Go read it.

So.... is anybody here, after reading the Siege of Terra, actually still interested in the Terminus Decree / unsure what it boils down to? Because it seems like the non-BL-reading community is up in arms about a few throwaway lines from the new Grey Knights Codex about it.... and nothing seems to be new, it's all stuff we've seen during the Siege, just codex flavored. I suppose we need this stuff handfed via a Scouring novel after all. Not that those parts of the fandom who get very upset right now will be reading it.

Ironically, the Red Angel is part of the old Collected Visions tome. Like, the original one. Right there on the big traitor host group picture that also shows Ingethel, Ahriman, Fulgrim and co, with Horus at the center. So it's not like the Red Angel is a new invention. It might even be that Angron got that title later, irl-wise.

As far as I remember (which could be badly, as it's been forever), as per the Andy Smillie books, Azkaellon is gonna be in a big slump after Sanguinius's death. He's not taking it well and supposedly very apathetic about the Legion-breaking. He's crushed. Basically the perfect sample of the Blood Angels' trauma after their Primarch got slain. Between him, Amit and Raldoron, they form a triangle of versions of coping and grieving, and it'd be a mistake to ditch him yet again. But damn, I'm still supremely pissed that they forgot about Azkaellon and instead Dan invented somebody new and uninteresting to be with Sanguinius aboard the Vengeful Spirit.

I just wonder if they remember Azkaellon exists, and that him, Amit and Raldoron were in a bit of an argument in the aftermath of Sanguinius's death about what to do...

....I'm so tired of the griping about 8th and the setting being progressed by about a decade (in this case) or two, all while establishing a new status quo for at least 4-5 years because the studio can't into following up on campaign supplements. Just look at how little has actually happened since Arks of Omen, or the Pariah Nexus, since they were introduced as the next thing. We're supposedly in the middle of a big tyranid invasion, but how many books have we gotten about that aside from the 10th edition box tie-in? Those novels set somewhere on the fringes? The're still there. They still happen. Heck, it's been HOW long for Dawn of Fire to wrap up with The Silent King? There's been a lot of books not related to ongoing meta storylines in the meantime, too. Sure, a bunch of them are intended to focus on special characters from the Tabletop (though often they are handled through the eyes of blank slates invented for that particular novel instead). You got an entire new Astra Militarum series going at a decent pace, Renegades, one-offs like Dominion Genesis, Elemental Council, Oaths of Damnation, Broken Crusade, The High Khâl's Oath or sequels to ongoing series and trilogies. Even stuff like Daemonbreaker is basically an original novel because the miniature launched with the book, rather than the book adapting a tabletop thing. That stuff is still here. What isn't here are authors who left because GW/BL didn't treat them well, paid too little, or got disinterested in BL commissions. What is missing is Warhammer Horror and Warhammer Crime, which painted exactly those horrific universe stories. And personally, I'll take one Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! or Fall of Cadia or The Infinite and the Divine over twenty Spears of the Emperor... Besides, Vaults of Terra is very much a companion trilogy TO the shift to 8th edition, with the plot being driven by Rulebook & Codex cliffnotes and set in the backdrop of the 13th Black Crusade and the Fall of Cadia, same as its sister hopefully-soon-to-be trilogy. It's very much concerned with the meta plot.

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.