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There are daemon princes who were not astartes in life however it's also true that most of the younger daemon princes are former marines. Probably because being a chaos space marine puts you in a favorable position to perform deeds for your patron and achieve daemonhood.
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I think it's Faith and Fire By James Swallow where some stupid rear end in a top hat finds a machine that he thinks the Emperor might have built that turns people into Apex psychers or whatever the top level grade is.
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I like the "psychic poo poo making faith literally move mountains" stuff in the recent lore, it's an interesting direction to take the setting without just retreading previous editions
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I don’t know if it’s outdated lore or not, but there is a daemon named “Doombreed” who is specifically cited as a human warlord from m1/m2 who became a Daemon Prince. Lexicanum posted:
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Mar 15, 2020 06:25
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Doombreed is literally Genghis Khan reincarnated as an agent of Chaos
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There was powerful chaos warlord in one of the Cain books called Varan the Undefeatable who was just a regular human Psyker. He could instantly brainwash anyone who heard his voice. (Though it has to be in person.)
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I finally read Magos It was tremendous. Abnet is by far the best of the bunch
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Arcsquad12 posted:Sek isn't exactly a daemon prince. He has reality warping powers that alter people's perceptions of his corporeal form, but he doesn't have the immense physical strength or warp connection that a full Daemon Prince possesses. Successful chaos generals tend to be endowed with exceptional power, and he was mutated enough to be extremely hard to kill. They had to shove an antitank mine down his weird giant mutant mouth to do the job.
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The thing about Sek is that I don't think even that was his real form. His appearance is reflected in what individuals want to see in him. Holofurnace saw the embodiment of an enemy. Mkoll saw something he could kill. One of the funny ways that the warp can bite you in the rear end.
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euphronius posted:I finally read Magos I think Wraight is a slightly better writer, but Abnett has more quantity and has kept his quality up over all of it so it depends on what metrics you want to define makes someone the best. As much as I love Abnett's work it is surpassed by Watchers and Vault of Terra series which I would consider the pinnacle of BL fiction out so far and they aren't even done. It's honestly splitting hairs though, especially when you throw ADB into the mix.
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I’ve started playing TW: Warhammer 2 and have started to get lore-curious  Anything good out there in the non-40k setting? Bonus points for involving Lizardmen somehow. I’ve read a couple of the Gotrek and Felix books and sort of enjoyed them, for reference.
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I've been re-reading gaunt's ghosts and man does abnett really want to make sure you understand the female soldiers are attractive, except for the one that's got a scarred face he wants to make sure you understand she is no longer attractive
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Mzuri posted:I’ve started playing TW: Warhammer 2 and have started to get lore-curious The Emperor's Armies omnibus is solid (Sword of Vengence and Sword of Justice), the Vampire Ulrika and Thanquol & Boneripper omnibuses are solid if you want to know what happened to those respective characters after Gotrek and Felix, and all three are good for "This is what life is like in the political world of X race". Blackhearts was pretty good, The War of the Beard omnibus is good if you want a reason to hate the elves even more, and the Nagash, Sigmar and Maleketh omnibuses were all pretty decent "Origin" trilogies for the Tomb Kings, Empire and Dark Elves respectively.
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Randalor posted:The Emperor's Armies omnibus is solid (Sword of Vengence and Sword of Justice), the Vampire Ulrika and Thanquol & Boneripper omnibuses are solid if you want to know what happened to those respective characters after Gotrek and Felix, and all three are good for "This is what life is like in the political world of X race". Cheers!
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I forgot to mention the Vampire Genevieve novels are good, and The War of the Beard is actually The War of Vengence omnibus (but is called the War of the Beard in-universe)
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I enjoyed the vampire wars collection, especially the last short story.
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D-Pad posted:I think Wraight is a slightly better writer, but Abnett has more quantity and has kept his quality up over all of it so it depends on what metrics you want to define makes someone the best. As much as I love Abnett's work it is surpassed by Watchers and Vault of Terra series which I would consider the pinnacle of BL fiction out so far and they aren't even done. It's honestly splitting hairs though, especially when you throw ADB into the mix. I’ll try those out Thanks (I like Abnett because of all of them he seems to understand humans the most. I don’t know Wright but I’m about two years behind the thread )
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Mzuri posted:I’ve started playing TW: Warhammer 2 and have started to get lore-curious Thulman: Witch Hunter is the poor mans Eisenhorne Waroduce fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Mar 23, 2020 |
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This fan made animation is from Sept. 2018 but just got put in my recommends thanks to the ALGORITHM. The Damocles Crusade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtrABZahvw
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MariusLecter posted:This fan made animation is from Sept. 2018 but just got put in my recommends thanks to the ALGORITHM. Huh, I saw this for the first time today as well. Weird how that algorithm works.
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To beat a dead horse, it's got more going on than Death of Hope.
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MariusLecter posted:This fan made animation is from Sept. 2018 but just got put in my recommends thanks to the ALGORITHM. That's the guy who made the single best 40k fan made video ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-istquWjZ8M
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Saturnine came in today! I'm ~50 pages in and Abnett's already sucked me in. I've laughed out loud twice. Spoilered, but not a spoiler. Ice burn: quote:"There is work to be done,' he announced.
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In these Nurgle blessed times it would be nice if it got a early digital release...
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Are the Ahriman books worth reading? I've never read anything by John French before.
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Ego-bot posted:Are the Ahriman books worth reading? I've never read anything by John French before. They are ok. Nothing special. John French is a lot better these days though. His Horusian War series is very good.
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You are gonna want to stay away from Saturnine spoilers. We get some major lore about the emperor and primarchs. Like long standing debate settlers. Abnett you beautiful bastard.
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D-Pad posted:You are gonna want to stay away from Saturnine spoilers. We get some major lore about the emperor and primarchs. Like long standing debate settlers. Abnett you beautiful bastard. This limited early release poo poo is going to happen for all of the Siege books, eh? That sucks.
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D-Pad posted:You are gonna want to stay away from Saturnine spoilers. We get some major lore about the emperor and primarchs. Like long standing debate settlers. Abnett you beautiful bastard. goddammit i need an ebook of it asap
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I'm really struggling with The First Wall.. about 45% in.. does it get better? Or Gav Thorpe through and through?
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What's the list of "Need to read" Horus Heresy books before reading the Siege of Terra series? I know it's fairly short, but all I've read is... uh... Horus Rising.
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Ego-bot posted:Are the Ahriman books worth reading? I've never read anything by John French before. I really enjoyed the Ahriman books. I thought they had some really cool scenes and just the concept to me was super cool. I personally really enjoyed them even though there are some pacing issues. I would highly recommend reading. How do I get a copy of Saturine  PS: I can't get through The First Wall. I've started and stopped like several times and I usually kill most of the books in 2-3 sittings smh. I took Valdor all the way though the first time I sat down to read it and the previous Siege books I finished real fast Randalor posted:What's the list of "Need to read" Horus Heresy books before reading the Siege of Terra series? I know it's fairly short, but all I've read is... uh... Horus Rising. The First 3 Legion A Thousand Suns Prospero Burns First Heretic Know no Fear (I liked Fear to Tread but ultimately its not necessary) Betrayer Unremembered Empire Scars Path of Heaven Master of Mankind IMO Waroduce fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Mar 26, 2020 |
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ed balls balls man posted:I'm really struggling with The First Wall.. about 45% in.. does it get better? Or Gav Thorpe through and through? There's a decent payoff to the tedious armed convoy plot and that gets fewer pages in the back half of the book. Also it shows Sigismund growing a bit in his own way, but never gets great.
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Arbite posted:This limited early release poo poo is going to happen for all of the Siege books, eh? That sucks. Yeah they really need to just release them at the same time as the wider release. A lot of people end up reading spoilers, which don't always give you the context and reveals can seem lame that were cool in the books. It has to depress the wide release sales I would think. The turbo nerds like me are still going to buy them even if it doesn't allow us to read early. I really have a lot of work today, but I am probably going to end up finishing the book. It's real good. Abnett has always done battle scenes well, but he tries some new writing techniques he hasn't used before to convey how much more massive and bloody the SoT battles are and it works really well. I was not expecting the lore I mentioned in my previous post. I like it a lot, but holy gently caress is there going to be some salt in some corners about it.
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Just finished Watchers of the Throne: Regent's Shadow, and it's excellent, recommended.
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D-Pad posted:A lot of people end up reading spoilers, which don't always give you the context and reveals can seem lame that were cool in the books. It has to depress the wide release sales I would think. If these are real ... uh, maybe it works out to actually read. I did like this post from reddit though, quote:[The three month delay] produces myopic viewpoints in which people feel frustrated at a lack of the ability to actually read the book and are forced to form opinions around a mere few pages or even just bullet points. The more inflammatory passages float to the top, yes, but if they wanted fair judgement, they should've allowed us to actually judge the novel's merits and flaws.
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Galvanik posted:This is me. And after finding out that Saturnine was out, and was by an author I like, and had spoiler worthy things I immediately went to went to look these spoilers up. I just did that and I don't know what to think as well. I'll wait for the ebook release to judge properly.
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I haven't read a recent Black Library book since I think 2018. With quarantine, I want to read some 40k or AoS poo poo. Anything good come out in the past year or so that I might have missed?
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