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Moose-Alini posted:What book do they meet? They don't, it's a flashback. Grammaticus died again afterwards to something unrelated.
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wiegieman posted:They don't, it's a flashback. Grammaticus died again afterwards to something unrelated. Legion I do believe, or maybe it was later. He was talking to another perpetual.
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Immanentized posted:Legion I do believe, or maybe it was later. He was talking to another perpetual. It was Legion, yeah. He describes the Emperor as looking like an ordinary man if you could cut through his psychic illusions, which John could as a psyker, but that even so he radiated unfathomable power.
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I feel like I might have missed a lot of random culture genocides and perpetual hijinks by only reading the ‘good authors’ HH.
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Moose-Alini posted:I feel like I might have missed a lot of random culture genocides and perpetual hijinks by only reading the ‘good authors’ HH. Legion is by Abnett and was considered one of the best reads when the series was a lot younger.  .
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Moose-Alini posted:I feel like I might have missed a lot of random culture genocides and perpetual hijinks by only reading the ‘good authors’ HH. There is a valuable word-hoard buried deep in the pages of Battle for the Abyss. You should enrich yourself!
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Immanentized posted:There is a valuable word-hoard buried deep in the pages of Battle for the Abyss. You should enrich yourself! Ben Counter did nothing wrong...
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Waroduce posted:This pronoun poo poo is asinine. I thought it was good almost to the end but it didn't stick the landing. The way that The Chaplain is suddenly cool with trusting the Primaris, and the Primaris are suddenly cool with all the brain-washing and secrets based on one decision seemed entirely unconvincing to me. Also the whole lone Tau rampage and then miraculously surviving an orbital strike crossed that fine line from cool into 'Oh come on!' for me. On the other hand, can confirm The Magos is great.
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Some of the ideas were interesting, the writing was generally just ok. Primaris marines being used as hypnotized meat shields for the 'real' D.angels was lol. The tau inventing the warp drive but not the Gellar field was also lol with predicable results. Was the lone tau guy the one from that fire warrior game? I kinda got that impression. Old Woman Island fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Jun 29, 2018 |
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Jun 29, 2018 15:23
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Deptfordx posted:I thought it was good almost to the end but it didn't stick the landing. Was it Shas'vo Kais? (I gotta play fire warrior again, it was so abysmal)
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Didn't play it but he's called Kais, so probably the same.
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Immanentized posted:Was it Shas'vo Kais?
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Deptfordx posted:Didn't play it but he's called Kais, so probably the same. Holy poo poo, he's gotta be about 300 years old by that point. He's chaos corrupted as all hell.
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Jun 29, 2018 16:35
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So when do we get a trilogy about the Doomrider?
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Jun 29, 2018 22:00
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Only after GW confirms DoomGuy as the missing primarch in the crossover event of the century
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Jun 29, 2018 22:09
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Frantically  on Black Library 'Coming Soon' page.
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Jun 29, 2018 22:47
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Deptfordx posted:Frantically Re-re-release of Eisenhorn and early Horus Heresy books omnibus.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Only after GW confirms DoomGuy as the missing primarch in the crossover event of the century Doomguy couldn't be a primarch, there wouldn't be any daemons left. god that game was so loving good I am so loving  for the sequel
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wiegieman posted:Doomguy couldn't be a primarch, there wouldn't be any daemons left. Within the first two minutes Doomguy smashing the gently caress out of the monitor giving all the exposition sets the tone for the game perfectly. Loved it.
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new Carcharodons book, Outer Dark, was pretty good. can recommend if you liked Red Tithe
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Finished the first Night Lords novel and was a bit underwhelmed, especially coming off Helsreach. In a way it felt like the ending of Act One which I guess it is but I was also expecting more bang to wrap up 400 pages. I'm hoping you guys can sell me on Book Two since I'm still up in the air about a next pick. Although I'm also open to a different BL book. Still looking for bolter porn I suppose.
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^burtle posted:Finished the first Night Lords novel and was a bit underwhelmed, especially coming off Helsreach. In a way it felt like the ending of Act One which I guess it is but I was also expecting more bang to wrap up 400 pages. I'm hoping you guys can sell me on Book Two since I'm still up in the air about a next pick. There's no way I guess to sell you other than saying it has some of the best character growth and great payoff of any Black Library trilogy. I rate it as highly as Eisenhorn.
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^burtle posted:Finished the first Night Lords novel and was a bit underwhelmed, especially coming off Helsreach. In a way it felt like the ending of Act One which I guess it is but I was also expecting more bang to wrap up 400 pages. I'm hoping you guys can sell me on Book Two since I'm still up in the air about a next pick. Honestly i think of all 3 as 1 book and always forget its an onmibus. I enjoyed where the characters and story went in the later parts.
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Finished The Magos. My head is full of gently caress. Gonna need to reread the last few chapters a few times and go back and reread Pariah. Some things from Pariah make better sense with more context, but I have even more questions now. Penitent when
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I am excited to tackle The Magos since it is apparently fuckoff huge instead of being 250 pages like your average abnett book will have to wait for a good window of time though!
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Ah. The bad news is the actual story 'The Magos' is a 250p-ish Abnett novel. It is about half short stories published previously. The good news is A)They're good, B) A lot of the stuff in there turns out to be important to the actual Magos Novella. Definitely worth reading.
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That's the full list of stories in Magos. The only ones I'd read before were the ones from the omnibus editions of Ravenor and Eisenhorn, so all of the others were new to me. Definitely worth it. For what it's worth, the actual novel The Magos is about the last 50% of the book, so it probably comes out to 300ish pages on its own.
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Deptfordx posted:Ah. thats fine, I haven't read most of the short stories in the Eisenhorn/Ravenor/Bequin milieu
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The only irritating thing about it is that in the paperback editions of the earlier books that match the style of Magos they already reprinted a few of the short stories they then reprinted in Magos.
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Zasze posted:Honestly i think of all 3 as 1 book and always forget its an onmibus. I enjoyed where the characters and story went in the later parts. HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:There's no way I guess to sell you other than saying it has some of the best character growth and great payoff of any Black Library trilogy. I rate it as highly as Eisenhorn. I went ahead and pushed on. Thanks for the motivation guys.
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I've read the vast majority of the good 40k books. What are the best books to get started with AoS?
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D-Pad posted:I've read the vast majority of the good 40k books. What are the best books to get started with AoS? Probably the new Soul Wars one. If not I believe the same author, Josh Reynolds, wrote a bunch of other decent AoS books and I believe is generally considered one of BLs better authors when it comes to that setting.
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D-Pad posted:I've read the vast majority of the good 40k books. What are the best books to get started with AoS? Cooked Auto posted:Probably the new Soul Wars one. If not I believe the same author, Josh Reynolds, wrote a bunch of other decent AoS books and I believe is generally considered one of BLs better authors when it comes to that setting. Yup. Anything by Josh Reynolds - Plague Garden, Spear of Shadows (I've read this, it's solid,) Nagash the Undying King are all supposed to be good. Soul Wars should be ok, since he wrote that too. Hammerhall and Other Stories is considered to be a good primer to AoS. I want to say that I heard City of Secrets is good too, but I can't remember. Same for Overlords of the Iron Dragon. Any books prior to these are from early AoS and suffer from a lack of direction and aren't considered very good.
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So just finished up the Magos. Are we to assume at the end there that Eisenhorn is possessed by a daemon?
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I read the Eisenhorn books forever ago and don't recall any of it. Am I good to read Magos or should I re- read the originals again?
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I just ordered it and am planning to re-read Pariah before I read it, though probably not the originals since I've read them about 5 times.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:So just finished up the Magos. Are we to assume at the end there that Eisenhorn is possessed by a daemon? I don't think so because we saw the other cognitae goon had people eyes from exposure to enuncia but wasn't possessed. I think Eisenhorn is tainted by contact with the warp but still treading the line of full blown corruption.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:So just finished up the Magos. Are we to assume at the end there that Eisenhorn is possessed by a daemon? He's just possessed of his own self-righteousness.
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MrNemo posted:I don't think so because we saw the other cognitae goon had people eyes from exposure to enuncia but wasn't possessed. I think Eisenhorn is tainted by contact with the warp but still treading the line of full blown corruption. I think its just warp exposure. Don't the Cadians have purple eyes as well due to their proximity with the Eye of Terror? Cherubael did mention that he's terrified of Eisenhorn now, which does make you wonder though.
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Yeah I read that almost as an self-exorcism because the one thing that won’t break is Eisenhorn’s will. Anyone figure out who the Yellow King is? I’m wondering if it isn’t Eisenhorn’s recruiter. VanSandman fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jul 7, 2018 |
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