Stephenls posted:

I've been working on the assumption for years now that the Horus Heresy novels are the equivalent of fictionalized historical dramas about a hypothetical "real" historical period that we have no direct access to, the fictional equivalent of the Black Books' biased, half-informed in-character historical nonfiction. Some of the novels are probably really close to accurate; some of them are about as accurate as Braveheart. Which ones are which? Who knows!

(But then I'm a weirdo about this; I also like the take that Fury Road is a later populist retelling of a real road war perpetrated by the rebellious Imperator Furiosa against Immortan Joe into which "Mad" Max Rockatansky has been anachronistically inserted by the teller as a folk hero, because it's a cultural convention that Mad Max always shows up in stories of that sort from around that era, where "that era" sprawls further forward and backwards from Max's probable lifespan as time goes on.)