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I love the idea of Erebus. How do you even become the guy who is the worst guy in the universe when it's this universe? It takes a lot of goddamn work, that's how.
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Hopefully I'm not the only one with a sufficiently broken brain to have thought this. 
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The best part is he believably thinks he’s right !!
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Kylaer posted:Hopefully I'm not the only one with a sufficiently broken brain to have thought this. 
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Part 3 end spoiler Abnett says in the afterword that one important character did not get a name drop, any ideas who? Everyone I can think of rn got named. Except omegon I guess but idk if he counts lol. Oh, maybe kharn?
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Old Woman Island posted:Part 3 end spoiler Lilean Chase.
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uh doesnt sindermann drop that name as he is leaving?
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Jan 28, 2024 20:33
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Arc Hammer posted:Perturabo doing the 40K equivalent of sitting down and watching world shattering events unfold on TV broadcast didn't add much to the book but it was also really, really funny. He became the blue glow of his monitor, which he refuses to turn off and go touch grass.  Someone do a better job than me pls
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Jan 28, 2024 20:41
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:uh doesnt sindermann drop that name as he is leaving? Yeah that's the name the archivist gives sindermann as they part ways.
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Volume 3 chat Did Horus know E is a perpetual and also could not die ? It does not seem like he did
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:uh doesnt sindermann drop that name as he is leaving? Oh, I read it wrong. I thought he meant in the afterword. I'd say the Alpha Legionaire who got brain-jacked by Cyrene, whose name escapes me and I am too lazy to look up, and was last seen with a mine clamped to his armor in the tunnels below the palace.
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Mikojan posted:
It is already absolutely perfect 
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Jan 28, 2024 20:55
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I wanted to see what 1d4chan thought of the book but it looks like the site has been dead for awhile 
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euphronius posted:I wanted to see what 1d4chan thought of the book Why?
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Warden posted:Why? for real.
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Jan 28, 2024 21:01
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They have some good articles Some are really bad yes
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Jan 28, 2024 21:03
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In particular their articles will often talk about the history of the development of the fluff and include alternative viewpoints
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you dont have to wade into a pool of sewage looking for corn. you can just go buy corn at the store.
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euphronius posted:They
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Old Woman Island posted:Part 3 end spoiler Lucius and Eidolon. Nah, just kidding, Emperor's Children are not important at all
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Angry Lobster posted:Lucius and Eidolon. They were both mentioned by loken in the centaur fight 
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Barthusa Narek was missing, although I never really cared about him
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Old Woman Island posted:They were both mentioned by loken in the centaur fight As I said, no one of actual value 
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The 3rd volume It’s possible E rope a doped H on purpose to get him high on his own supply to make the E as Loken bit actually effective. If H at any point thinks he’s in danger of losing he would never give up chaos powers even for 1 second That’s how I’m reading it
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euphronius posted:Volume 3 chat Haven't read any of it, but surely it's within the power of all the Chaos gods working together that they can stamp on one guy and make it stick, even if it's the Emperor? Presumably that's what Horus would think if he knows about the Perpetual-ism of the Emperor. Furthermore, do the other Primarchs know that's Vulcan's special super power?
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perpetuals just even the concept of them are complicated not sure why they decided to add highlanders but welp
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wiegieman posted:Oh, I read it wrong. I thought he meant in the afterword. Pech or something
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Regardless of what anyone thinks of the book, I think we can all agree: gently caress Erebus. Also, lol at Abaddon making the exact same mistakes ASAP as his daddy did. Luna Wolves always did grow em dumb.
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habeasdorkus posted:Regardless of what anyone thinks of the book, I think we can all agree: gently caress Erebus. The Luna Wolves aren't exactly unique here, just look at Magnus and Ahriman.
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euphronius posted:I wanted to see what 1d4chan thought of the book but it looks like the site has been dead for awhile If you're morbidly curious then it's apparently back as 2d4chan. The website security license is however busted.
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I forgot to add that this is perfect.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Barthusa Narek was missing, although I never really cared about him It’s gotta be this as he was in one of the TEATD volumes super briefly while hunting for his idiot Dad to murder and then never mentioned again. Possibly the most important bit of TEATD3’s afterword for me is this - “One last note. Literally. One of the key and abiding notes I got from GW during the composition of this novel was ‘retain the mystery’. There is an enormous amount of detail and “specificity in this book, but by the end I hope there is still a significant degree of mystery about the lore and the warp and everything else. That’s just as it should be. Not everything should be explained, or this universe we all love is diminished.” Also lol @ him giving a shout-out to Henry Cavill in the acknowledgements.
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I'm sure Cavill got a author signed CE copy sent to him. Wouldn't surprise me if that happened.
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Cooked Auto posted:I'm sure Cavill got a author signed CE copy sent to him. "Congrats on casting as Horus. Good Luck! - Dan"
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Ok, I finished it. Hell of an ending, though like the whole Heresy and Siege, the finale was somewhat over-long / bloated.
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Warden posted:Ok, I finished it. I was thinking the other day that the HH/Siege series could probably win a Guinness for "biggest overshot in length of a narrative work", barring some obscure self-published author. But that led me to ask, what was the initial publishing plan for the Heresy, again? I've often heard the claim that it was supposed to be a trilogy, but that obviously can't be true 'cause the first three books came out within months of each other. Meaning GW had to know from the start that a trilogy would only cover up to Isstvan III. And already by books #5 and #6 they had committed to telling lengthy background stories from the Great Crusade, rather than just covering the Heresy itself. So it couldn't have taken that long for GW to decide "gently caress it, let's set our writers wild and see how long it can run". Maybe the fact that it was 2006 and the main 40K setting was firmly frozen at 999.M41 (and would stay there for another decade) suggests a similar mindset at work.
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NihilCredo posted:I've often heard the claim that it was supposed to be a trilogy, but that obviously can't be true 'cause the first three books came out within months of each other. Meaning GW had to know from the start that a trilogy would only cover up to Isstvan III. And already by books #5 and #6 they had committed to telling lengthy background stories from the Great Crusade, rather than just covering the Heresy itself. I've heard that they signed off on the initial trilogy and then waited to see how well it would sell before deciding how long it would go.
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Warden posted:I've heard that they signed off on the initial trilogy and then waited to see how well it would sell before deciding how long it would go. The version I've heard was for a trilogy focussing on Horus and his fall but it fast became apparent that there was enough 'meat' to the story and willing authors that they went for a New Jedi Order style plan - An overarching storyline with multiple different authors focussing on the bits they want to write about. I dont think they ever planned it to be the 60 odd books it turned out, but they were 100% working on Fulgrim & Flight of the Eisenstein before Horus Rising hit the shelves based on release dates alone. The sales definitely contributed to the length though. I dont think they would have ever pencilled in a book about Tallarn at the start.
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