DarkChaplain

I'm sort of miffed about him actually getting a preorder and seemingly sticking around, while the AoS Chaos Warrior guy is While Stocks Last and would seemingly have me visit a GW store in person for the first time in forever...

I just love that these are XV26 Stealth Suits, while the old kit are XV25 - and were an upgrade to the ancient XV15, which was a completely different design. This here seems like a logical evolution of the XV25, so the smaller step in series numbering makes sense, too.

He accepted more work for Aconyte and such in recent years, probably because their offers were better and less restrictive. His Yarrick stories were great, imo. Chains of Golgotha was fantastic, and it guts me that he got to set up Yarrick for the 3rd War, but then only got to write up to the 2nd War, before the series got axed. Also: Crossover to Setheno, who appeared in the Black Dragons novel.

....because commissioning David Annandale to write the third Yarrick novel would be too difficult, let's just recycle the old books that have already been omnibus'd anyway. Typical GW/BL move, and no less infuriating than usual. At least there's some other Astra Militarum novels coming, too.

Darkness Eternal includes a Peter Fehervari novel. The question is: Which? Maybe the one from WD, which would be great, or a new one, which would be fantastic?

They removed it, no longer available, which would indicate Antilochus Calgar and co are going to arrive sooner than we might think.

....I hope I'm misinterpreting Haley's words, and he's not actually not going to wrap up Fabian Guelphrain's storyline. The bloke is fantastic and I want to see more of him, particularly post-Godblight... BL just keeps killing my darlings, be it Warhammer Heroes, Time of Legends, the Malus Darkblade sequel series, Warhammer Horror, Warhammer Crime, anything by Josh Reynolds....

I loved these sorts of Q&As. Josh Reynolds used to respond to a LOT of those things back in the day, before the legal team slapped him for the sin of giving people closure on canceled projects and forgotten plotlines, particularly during the End Times...

GW/BL not doing anything to establish the Iron Hands as an interesting, engaging faction -> "oh no, our first two novels about them aren't selling as gangbusters as Ultramarines do with their dozens! let's axe the third book and destroy what engagement we were generating and blanket the faction in negativity for the next 10 years!" I just... Urgh. Same thing with Phoenix Lords, Ynnari, and so forth. Also, since Yarrick and Armageddon were namedropped up there: I think Yarrick's part of Armageddon 3 was planned. Having read all of David Annandale's Yarrick books from back in the day, it's pretty clear that he was setting things up for the Big One. Pyres of Armageddon dealt with the 2nd War, how he got the Power Klaw and so on, while Imperial Creed was a foundation for the character's legend in general. The first non-short was the Chains of Golgotha novella, which was clearly aiming at the rematch between Yarrick and Ghazghkull in a future novel. But then there never was a follow-up to Pyres of Armageddon, and all that setup discarded. You had another duology building towards it, and they just.... axed that trilogy/series, too. Thanks to plenty of short stories, they were still able to fill an omnibus with what they had, but... Come on, I even did my part and bought those books in hardback, all of 'em, despite their nutty premiums even back in the day. Throw me a bone.

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.