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cool scene ,|| right after they get to the house of the Glaw family, the entire part about that familys house is probably the most james bond out of the trilogy||
the chracater that does that ||torute|| is actually responsible for one of Eisenhorn most caracteristic traits as a character
Everything can be more grim dark now that you can kill ten planets in one book as apposed to ten hamlets
I'm probably going to go through the rest of the Eisenhorn series(and adjacent series) again after finishing Xenos. But do any of you guys know any good Nurgle/containing Plague Marine books?
Read if you're through the whole Eisenhorn series: ||more like "was", after the events of magos||
Plus lots of cruel and violent things can be somewhat reverted thanks to high tech stuff. If you lose a hand, you get a new one. In fantasy you get a wooden stump and hope you don't end up like that seafarer dude from family guy. This allows more escalation with not that hard consequences
For the nurgle book: flight of the Eisenstein, but it was also the only plague mariny thing I've read so far lol
Thank you. Plague Marine are sickening!
I know right? They are doing such a good job being repulsive!
can confime. is great book
especially for nurgle superfans
Not entirely relevant, but I just read Riders of the Dead, good read. Like all the Tzeentch stuff in it
Recommend me a book that takes place in the world off Darktide.
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finished Steel Tread recently; very solid Imperial Guard novel focused on a Demolisher tank crew, with good nuance in the different regimental Guard cultures ||and how Cadians feel about losing their homeworld||. Well-written depictions of how terrifying heretical cultists can be for the average guardsmen.
Do you mean the setting or the specific planet?
Off as in not on atoma prime? You need to be more specific on what you want to read. If you mean on atoma prime, then there really is nothing so far as it's new stuff specifically made up for the game
There is none.
if you want to get the feel for the atmosphere of Darktide(hive cities and guard fighting chaos/traitor guard) read Eisenhorn trilogy for some Inquisition feeling and at least a couple of Gaunt's ghosts novels(get to at least Necropolis which shows fighting inside a hive city)
Read that too, found it very enjoyable. The details about how life is inside a Leman Russ were welcome touches and helped with immersion too. I also read Catachan Devils and Volpone Glory which are nice, recent Astra Militarum novels. From the three of them, I'd say Catachan Devils is the weakest, as I didn't find the immersion as good as in the two others. One thing I liked in Volpone Glory is how Nick Kyme described military operations, it felt very believable. Of the three books, Steel Tread had maybe the most unique voice, in the sense that Volpone Glory felt quite close to Gaunt's Ghosts (which is understandable) at times.
Why is there no book series about the Age of Apostasy/Strife (Goge Vandire) and the birth of the Sisters of Battle? Can that be the next thing after Heresy?
Primarch level of importance female character who spawns an entire militant order, plus the time someone almost declared themselves Emperor. I wanna read it.
It's been speculated that The Scouring and the Age of Strife will be next after the Heresy series concludes
i heard about Goge Vandire once and quite literally know less lore about her than i know about ratlings
Goge Vandire is a woman?
Wut? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA lol no, there is no primarch level of importance char that created a militant order... It was actually a very minor order at the start, just notable for its extreme zeal and fanaticism
And the leader was alicia dominica
If anything the history of the adepta sororitas is a super great joke more than an actual important event
yea the age of apostasy is bland
The whole joke is literally:
The Government: "You can't have men-under-arms."
The Church: "Ok, but how about women-under-arms?"
That is after the age of apostasy end
Not before
The passive decree that disband the frateris militia
But since the adepta sororitas weren't men they weren't affected
Which is also bullshit, but they used a english loophole in the setting
Love me some of them Low Gothic political loop holes
She effectively is the originator for all of the orders of the Adeptus Sororitas, is worshipped as a greater saint, and stopped the greatest threat to the Imperium since the War of the Beast or Horus
And the only other person who isn't a Custodes besides Guilliman to be allowed into the throne room with the Emperor.
She is kind of a big deal
And, what is more, in an era where Primarchs return, Imperial Saints are repeatedly reborn. Celestine has popped up repeatedly. THE Sister of Battle, Bride of the Emperor reincarnating for even one war or battle would be cool. Story beat like Terra itself gets threatened by Abaddon? Maybe SMs distracted by returned primarchs, both Daemon and their own? SoBs get to swoop in and pull a last wall, led by The Saint.
Remind SM of duty... Again... And get a real moment in the sun.
Remind SM to not be such selfish assholes and actually do their duty for once? I'm down for that
But at like the very end of the story while SoB get all the screentime
It's not like the SoB are somewhat more reasonable or rational. They are the female version of black templars...
Ye, and for whatever reason, high heel power armor
SM distracted by the returned primarchs? Maybe the inverse, hell, SM are know to act even without or against orders of the imperium as long they still uphold their perceived duty, Imperial fist and successors did so during the war of the beast, dark angels do that always for the search of the fallen, and all other chapters do similarly...
Also yes, celestine is returning, but not alicia weirdly enough...
Not really, she was the one in charge of the brides of the emperor, but she wasn't the founder of the original order, and the order she founded is the ebon chalice iirc, all other orders have different founders, which where her companions
And we also know that the custodes too see them as nothing more than a necessary evil, a tool so that mankind can endure until big E return and make things right
In fact, sob are an amazing tool for big E, and we all know how he is gonna use all the tools he can
Especially the willing one
I just read the Night Lords trilogy, i would never imagine the night lords crying. When they saw their primarch in a recording.
Reading Malleus been forever, completely forgot about the part where ||Neeve is completely unimpressed at Eisenhorn and his concerns about the Sons.|| Very funny.
What year does Penitent occur?
think it's mentioned in that book or the one before, somewhere around 500.M41 iirc
as in the reveal? In what way?
I mean the ending of the next book. But what you are referring to is what I am talking about. If the ending of the prior book is indeed about that guy then the ending of the next book can't really have any sort of bigger implications for the setting as it is set in the middle of the century and the current timeline is well past that.
anything can happen tbh
they can just say in the 'current' timeline that it was so after the fact we know it
or something along those lines
I don't follow
as in whatever the ending implies or how it will affect the major narrative can still happen without it being mentioned in the books that take place years after the event
Alright, but let's assume it has some sort of finality for that person then I dunno, feels a bit... Weird to just pave over them like that.
Especially since that person is as important as ||Malcador was||
I honestly think it may bring forth a whole new saga of stories when it's Abnett who is writing this
Perhaps. I just am sitting back and thinking about this deeply because let's say that that person was planning on something that could upend the entire status quo of 40k as they seem to be. Well, why did anything result from that in the intervening 400+ years from then and the current year?
and to anyone reading this who hasn't read the Bequin novels please don't research who we are talking about if you value a spoiler free experience 😄
maybe the plan is still ongoing
can't really say yet
we don't even know yet ||if it really is him||
Wouldn't be with the main characters. Well, not two of them. Regular humans don't really make it to those ages without a lot and a lot of help that would make them closer to robot than man.
True, hence I was thinking maybe a new saga of stories with that in mind with a new cast
how old is Eisenhorn anyways during Penitent
almost 300
damn
but he's in a bad shape too
Ye
I dunno. If that person isn't dead at the end then it'll be like opening a can of worms. Abnett neatly came up with an explanation for what they have been doing but you sort of... Force the question as to the years after that crossing of fates. I am just trying to reconcile them going back to doing nothing (status que wise) for half a millennium after the book ends and can't really make it work. Maybe Abnett does make some new stories with new characters but I can't see them involving that person.
why not?
Cuz the books make it sound like that person has a force that could completely upend the IoM.
So why would that person be confronted in say circa 500 m41 and then do literally nothing for five hundred more years
If I had to be cynical I'd say that the reason the books are taking so long is because he is trying to work out a compromise with GW.
Because let us be blunt.
well just getting this far with bringing in what be know had to be quite the conversation so I'm sure the ramifications of it were discussed back then already
If that person is still alive and that person doesn't die by the end of the last book then it's the closest thing to the ||Emperor coming back that we are going to get||
and settled on a direction they're going with it
all we know that person could go full on renegade or something
I highly doubt they brought that person back just to kill them in the next book, although it is very plausible
The only reason something like that happened in War of the Beast is because it literally didn't matter.
I've only read the first Beast novel so I'm not too well aware of all the events during that era
A certain ||Primarch of the Salamanders|| comes back for one book and then promptly dies but it doesn't matter because ||he's a Perpetual||
Yeah
Although some people will argue ||he didn't die at all because he shows up in full gear and then dies in a big explosion but we don't see him specifically die but he sort of implies that he is able to talk to Dorn somehow||
It's all sorts of convoluted and another reason why people didn't like those books
||sons||?
So, as a loyal follower of the Khagan, anyone got any good books/audiobooks on the White Scars to recommend? I did read the primarch book, and i have the Horus Heresy book 'Scars' ready to be consumed
The Last Hunt is a great one
Oooh thank you!
I like Khârn The Red Path because it starts with Khârn out-racing a White Scar
After the first chapter it has nothing to do with WC however
Is Shroud of Night any good?
YES, @thorn bison, am i right?
Short summary, is that an alpha legion squad went to a planet, after the loyalist won. Were trapped on a planet, that was covered by a warp storm. They thought it’s been a few years. When in reality, it’s been over 10,000 years since then.
Hell yeah alright. Needed to hit $32 to get that sweet sweet free shipping from GW so I bought that, excited to learn more about the Alpha Legion
Shorter summary: they spent 300 years on a death world and now they're pulling off a heist on a shrine world
It's one hell of a book
You are entirely correct
Really gotta ask Aqshy to turn it back at some point
the only reason it got disabled was due to ping spammers 💀
If it helps that I don't have to see a jerma gif in this channel, I'm totally OK with that 
Just a reminder the book discussion on Xenos is tomorrow, 12pm ET! Join, participate, and get a voucher towards your next Black Library read. 🙂
damn, didn't realize there was an actual scheduled book club going on
maybe this'll inspire me to actually read some of the novels
The final battle in Malleus is a bit rushed, but the duel makes up for it.
Makes me wonder why more authors don't show far stronger characters moving at those sorts of speeds.
I don't even think Abnett does it in his books dealing with Primarchs and such, lol.
Do we need to sign up anywhere, or are we free to just show up at the scheduled time?
just show up at the scheduled time. I'll write down who has participated and shown up and send out vouchers a week or so after the discussion 🙂
Awesome, thank you for hosting this!
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Very neat feature

Likely I'll be on voice in a stage channel and people can request commentary just in case there's a large number of people.
Just finished Saturnine for the second time.
So fucking good
might be my all time favourite warhammer story
Finished Empire or Lies now to decide what to listen to next
Hey all, I've gotten some feedback that voice is a little intimidating for some, so we'll hold the book club chat in #xenos-book-discussion starting in about two hours! See you soon! 🙂
Are all the plague war books from loyalist perspectives? tbh I don't want to waste my time on primaris ultramarine books just to get more deathguard content when I've a list of books I consider having perspectives more worth my time to read.
also anyone have good suggestions for ork perspective books?
Prophets of the WAAGH is supposedly good
There's POV chapters for Kugath and Mortarion
Mostly Ultramarines, Ecclesiarchy, and Guardsmen tho
Brutal Kunnin
Or just be based and read nothing but Da Gobbos Revenge
re-reading the night lords trilogy again, don’t know how i feel about this part in Soul Hunter. ||Talos returns to nostramo after 20 years, for an honor parade. An old lady was yelling out for his name, grabbing his chest. One the guards blew her head, and Talos felt relief. After that, Xarl asked if he remembered the old lady. Talos said no, and Xarl said that was his mother.||
what about it
Typical grimderp moment
I think it perfectly displays how inhuman and soulless the process to make a Space Marine really makes them.
Many of them remember nothing but their duty to whoever they serve and in the eyes of those who made them that's enough
They don't need to be able to recall their past or family as their chapter/legion/warband is their family now
It’s nice having trigger memories for an Astartes. That recall of a life that feels like a dream.
Huh. Wonder if any psykers kinda weaponize that.
The trauma of bringing back regressive memories
I don't think you can get a trauma response from a fearless killing machine
But I could be wrong
the black rage in the sons of sanginius?
in that case no because they were literally made and trained to resist that
even if the training is bad they might not even have the capacity of fear
i guess that reinforces the point of that space marines are not brave if they have no fear to act against
guardsmen for the win
The Guard encompass 99% of the Imperial military
I love victory through sheer weight of numbers
and dumb luck at times
And dumb luck at ALL times
it's terrific, love it so much
i hear literally nothing but good things about that book
It's easily in my top 5 best reads
My previous experience with necron books is Severed which I also really enjoyed reading
Okay what are the best 40k audio books?
Johnathan Keeble has a good voice.... I'd recommend the night lords omnibus and Luthee first of the fallen.
Or ciphas cain for the emperor
Hey hey people Sseth here, quick recap, I was never really into Warhammer universe until TWWH1 and Vermintide, and now that Darktide is coming, I wanna start reading some 40k. So far, I know as little as some YouTube lore videos recaping the timeline and such. I have a very thin understanding of who the EMPRA is, some of the factions, what Primarchs and Marines (kinda) are...
What would you say is a good place to start so it doesn't overwhelm me from the bat (I know there are 300+ novels or so), maybe some that focuses on something small scale. I'd prefer if it was something Darktide related, if possible. Maybe same type of "enemies", not about Space Marines.
For no specific reason, even if it's not Darktide-like, if there's a good point to start related to T'au or the Mechanicus, those look appealing to me from what I've seen. On the other hand, Tyranids is something I'd rather avoid at the start as preference goes
Would be best if there's an eBook version
I usually recommend Xenos as an entry point (which is the book we just read for book club)
Ciaphas Cain - For The Emperor has Tau and is about baseline humans
then uhh Abnett's Titanicus novel has a good bit about mechanicus and titans naturally
If you don't mind Space Marines the Dark Imperium Trilogy has loads of marines, Guilliman, guard and nurgle
I don't mind them, no. They seem cool, although if there's an option more Darktide-like without them, I'd take it
it has a couple neat depictions of humans encountering nurgle hazards
I'm gonna do a list, thanks guys
Xenos is a series?
I see there are 3 more books related in Amazon
Xenos, Malleus, Hereticus
it's the first one in a series of 9 books of which 10th is coming in the future
The Magos is recommended to read after the others
First 3 Eisenhorn novels Xenos, Malleus, and Hereticus. Also Abnett's Gaunt's ghosts novels are good for getting to see how the Guard functions, read at least up to Necropolis(third novel) and after that if you like it you can read up to Sabbat Martyr because in my opinion the wuality kinda nosedives after that
I went in the order of
Eisenhorn trilogy -> Ravenor trilogy -> Magos -> Bequin
Is the Ravenor trilogy even sold in stores anymore?
I can't find it anywhere
I have the Bequin books and all Eisenhorn ones but not Rav
Don't know about printed, but I do see it listed for Kindle
Yea, printed aswell
For mechanicus, my go to is Titanicus
if you want a good human book that serves as an intro, is it cheating to say an Omnibus? The Macharian trilogy/omnibus follows the crew of a baneblade who gradually get to experience a lot more. Shows how various branches work together, Chaos, Dark Eldar, Orks, all from a fairly line level grunt point of view.
He gets to witness, and even be a part of, Inquisitor plots, Imperial Assassin operations, all sorts of skullduggery. Just hardly ever realizes it, or does so too late. Doesn't overburden the reader I think. Xenos is also a great jump in, but it is more high end. Ciaphas Cain definitely is fun, but it doesn't tonally match almost anything else (on purpose). Very light hearted, but has Tau and other things in the first book.
A pity I live in the small and unknown country of Sweden where this can't be delivered
I shall continue searching
Ebooks? If you dont have a reader your ohone may have an app for it
Nah I can't stand anything but physical copies
I don't know why
I just can't concentrate on digital ones
If I did read digital I could just download the book from a totally legitimate and legal site and get it immediately
But nothing good comes without effort
Thanks a lot! I'll put it on my list and will consider it for sure
I would recommend Baneblade and Shadowsword (they're a two-part series)
They follow a Baneblade tank crew who mess things up with big guns
It's got more than that in it of course but I don't wish to spoil it
I recall that book.... was enjoyable
Very good books
Does anyone know the story about an Ultramarine giving his thanks to a Legion of the Damned? I remember reading it, but it’s been a while.
The only book I recall with the legion of the dammned is the one with a imperial fists successor..... something to do with a shrine world and a red comet making everyone very angr-on.
what’s the book called? Because i’m trying to find an excerpt, where an ultramarine tried give them their thanks. But all he got was a silent cold stare.
It's other tip of my tongue but defintley wasn't ultramarine one mo
Okay but you may kick yourself with the name of the book xD
LMAO
Legion of the Damned - Rob Sanders
But I do recall the heavy ass foreshadowing of the legion and a comet making everyone be mad
All good, i’ll just have to read every source about them. Just to find that excerpt lol
I'm not sure if the main dude does thank them... last I recall he fell off a bike and a legionary looked over him.
When the extoriators came to reinforce only the captain remained with a very important Imperial fists relic
Also main said dude was crippled by the big sad Dorn depression coma
That's another person we can add to the list of people with good taste in books
For the perfect Order yes, but its totally understandable if you work your way throught eisenhorn->magos->Ravenor, the short storys then kind of foreshadow some events, some also work quite well as prequels to ravenor or end the arc of some side characters from the eisenhorn trilogy
i read eisenhorn a while ago so ill pick up magos next
oh its narrated by toby longworth still, awesome
Would you recommend it to someone who has no interest in Necrons as a faction? Is it just a really good book on its own?
(I don't hate them, just personally any skeleton horde doesn't turn my dial, didn't in Fantasy with the Tomb Kings either)
Yes
the characters and their actions carry it and them being necrons mainly allows for most of these events to occur
I'll have to give it a go then 🙂
It's very much worth it
if you fancy audiobooks, the reader does a stellar job with it
I think I do still have my monthly credit
Personally, I would, you dont really need to know anything about them to get into it.
Its not an "Ah, were immortal space skeleton" centric book, its plot with a side of necron.
Neat, I'll give it a go then.
@jaunty stratus https://i.ibb.co/yBhBxjz/Untitled.png
thank u will enjoy tmrw
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No problemo, enjoy. btw: there are some short stories, that made me think about them even weeks after, because they talk about topics or are written that good, that all the 40k stuff becomes just some sprinkles on the actual cake
yeah i think thats why i didnt get to it after the first three books - it seemed a bit disconnected, but after reading sci-fi short stories a while ago, shouldn't have missed it
looking forward to it
Cool thing is, especially after the magos novel and partly some ravenor books it felt like the puzzle piece now came together, pretty much every story has a use within the inquisitor trilogy of trilogies
i just dont want to let go of toby longworth yet 😢
wait, he doesn't voice the whole series?
so its the same as in german, had my one reader for the whole eisenhorn series, and then came ravenor around the corner and it wasn't the same dude anymore, was kind of a let down
toby does to ravenor it seems! sigmar bless these ravaged ears
but well, I really did not want to have a male voice actor for the bequin series, so it had to happen at some point
thats good, but I don't/can't say why for now
omg
no way
Helen Keeley does the Bequin series
and shes a VA for Darktide!

okay well now i have 100+ hours of audiobooks lined up!
ye, thats the next book on my list, already in the libraray, but first have to finish the 4th cain book, death or glory iirc, don't know why they completely made up a new name for germany
will be interesting, if I can follow Keeley with my somewhat slightly over school level english skills
your english seems to be perfect dude i wouldnt worry about that!
writing and reading is ok I think, but speaking and listening, really another level, I tried to listen to longworth, that really needs my full attention
well as a native english speaker it did for me too! i think its because of the grimdark terminology and names
yes, that makes it harder too, because I'm like "did he just say something I did not understand, because accent or is it a sci fi word that really sounds like this?"
yeah exactly, you're not alone in that
was already funny googling names in the eisenhorn books, because most really are written like they are spoken, not like we actually would write them
or well, I think the Horus Heresy was way was with that, now that I think about it
It's a stellar plot that spans across the millennia from the perspective of a species who see centuries as we see days
It's really quite something
And they're both incredibly witty, petty and stubborn which makes for one hell of a story
Ppl probably have already asked this but Darktide is the first piece of 40k media I've actually taken interest in and feel a bit overwhelmed with all the lore; I've read a lot of Warhammer Fantasy (Gotrek and Felix, etc) and was wondering if there's a place I can go for a recommended reading list for an entry into 40k lore and literature 
Start with the Eisenhorn or Ciaphas Cain novels for a first voyage into the lore
40k lore seems overwhelming at first but you'll get the hang of it with more fluff you read and realise the setting isn't that massive as your first footstep into it
Just pick a faction and focus on the lore around them before exploring everyone else
I'd say just pick a somewhat short novel (300-500 pages) that strikes your fancy and then go from there but I'm just saying this because it worked for me
Everyone has their own way when it comes to these things
Thanks for the recommendations! Thankfully it seems both series' have their collection on audible which'll help keep my mind occupied until November 
So I finished Hellwinter's Gate. Decent story about the space Wolves, though I wish Audible had the first two books available as well so I could better connect with the various members of the pack.
I would like to add this, Andrew James Spooner who narrates the book makes everyone a member of the church sound French to me.
Harlon Nayl time
Listened to a bunch of Eisenhorn book 4, really enjoying it atm, but what I find sus is the first three stories feature someone urinating themselves 🤔
Shhhh, don't talk about Abnett's fetishes
They also left in a retake by Toby in
Caught me off guard had to rewind
Oi, Librarium Rejects!
A century after his recovery of the alien Necroteuch, Gregor Eisenhorn is one of the Imperial Inquisition's most celebrated agents. But when a face from his past returns to haunt him, and he is implicated in a great tragedy that devastates the world of Thracian Primaris, Eisenhorn's universe crumbles around him. The daemon Cherubael is back, and seeks to bring the inquisitor to ruin - either by his death, or by turning him to the service of the Dark Gods.
This month, the book club will be reading the second book in the Eisenhorn Trilogy: Malleus! You can purchase the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Malleus-Dan-Abnett/dp/1849709610
Or pick it up from your local library! We'll have a discussion August 31st, 6pm ET! Those who participate will get goodies! Complete a six month reading streak and get something super special (maybe even in-game when it releases? 👀 )!
Here's how this will work:
- Pick up the book and begin reading!
- You can discuss at any point in time in the server, but make sure to ||spoiler|| your SPOILERS!
- At the end of the month, I will schedule a "coffee chat" for the server to discuss cool parts, lore, and maybe give something special to those who participate (you gotta' read the book, though!).
Cheers; and let's begin turning those pages! 🙂
agreed
@jaunty stratusjust wanted to add we in germany usually only learn input english and litterally 0 output english 
like the worst way to learn a language
Yes, our education system is systematically still stuck somewhere in the end of 1800s.
The Nürnberg funnel is still a concept, our "masterminds" think will some day work
But it seems, that some concepts at least see some reformation in the last years. Maybe we can even see some 21st century concepts like internet somewhere around 2050
F
in the meanwhile i just learn english with my everyday routine of watching,listening and playing videogames in english
because guess what
thats the way i learned like when there was a clan war etc. :KEKW:
the italian education system sucks too
like far more than anything else
me, as a French, when I see people complaining about their education system
wait, why aren't gifs working?
Ça a probablement été désactivé, cher compatriote français !
yep, ils marchent sur les autres serveurs, étrange
The Swedish education system is actually pretty good but I still learned English from games and movies more than anything else
The fact that a lot of medias there are in english does help alot
Hey don’t the fallen/cypher have an audio drama?
Specifically about the fallen.... not that I heard of, but there's audio book on luther
who is that?
one of the greatest warhammer tubers
alrighty, will look into it
Has anyone listened to the watcher in the rain? Is it worth it for it being only an hour?
ABSOLUTELY
its a great goddamn story
passes by in a flash and has a great plot
the cover art is great at least
It’s like a play but audio only
Separate actors for each character and sounds effects etc
@here hello, I will be dming people who participated and read Xenos tomorrow to ask for emails to send your vouchers! 🙂
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DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES TOO ?!
im just here to riot
cope
The REAL Darktide
You really that supprised mate?
Imagine being mad about a ping from Aqshy
Ouh mama
Ah yes
"Elite gaming circles"
Get outta here man
wouldn't last a day being a CM, smh
sees ping: angery
it's aqshy: all forgiven
hey guys any good novel with vampires from AoS other then Dinasty of Monsters ?
What timezones are you people dear god
i dont forgive, its 3 am in the morning im trying to SLEEP.
Базированно
Who the hell pinged
💢 30 MINUTE SLOWDOWN WHAT THE FUCK
THATS FUCKED UP
the elite ones
🦀
30 MINUTE PING? HOPE IT WAS WORTH IT! >:C
Awesome

I was expecting another delay 
[you sense you have made a grave mistake]
use it wisely 🙂
honestly, just glad i didnt piss off the mods this time
🏓

Jokes aside we really should get a book readers tag or something, seeing these people constantly rage about a ping gets annoying after a bit

I don't mind the ping but why the hecc did the message get deleted so now I don't even know what the ping was about
edit: never mind it glitched onm e
who rang
it didnt
yeah hedge is still working on the bot since there's launch roles attach to it, but I also enjoy watching the carnage a bit, ngl 😄
Aqshy secretly worships Khorne, this just in!
the amount of people not suppressing here and everyone tho
aw shucks, a ping? for me? you honor me
Missed the first book discussion but keen to join the next, might even paint my Eisenhorn model while listening to the audiobook again 😊
I hope your fields are salted Aqshy
Here I thought I was important
time for cliffnotes
hehe
eh, 4chan does that for me 👈 👀 👈
I didnt realise this book club existed until this ping. I just finished Malleus a week ago and am halfway through Hereticus
you're in luck, Malleus is our book this month!
so true
You know, I really thought I had supressed this specific channel. Discord has like 5 separate mute and "don't notify me" options and I'm still getting notifications. Genuinely impressed at the apparent potency of this book club.
im reading gaunt's ghosts so i ignored this club 🖕
Who dares summon me ?
I still need to read Bequin's books
the twist is that Gaunt's a GHOST. That's why the first book is called First and only because it's the first and only one where he's alive. In the third book Necropolis they visit his tomb, the name kinda gives it away

You know what is the bane of Space Marine books? When you are multi tasking and all the members of the squad save 1 or 2 have very similar voices. Definitely going to have to revisit Hellwinters gate at some point so I can more easily separate them lol.
Yeah.... The books with similar names, ranks, and personalities make it really hard to care. A lot of SM books are plot character, human cast, enemy cast, and then other SM mooks who are there to die and I guess you are supposed to care?
Need more books about regular humans, or non-humans
who did what
people get so touchy about a single ping, if you got woken up by this or whatever then that's your own damn fault
I don't particularly mind these pings but its annoying getting pinged on the server for a channel I've muted, I half expected it to be news about the upcoming playtest.
Oh wow yeah, pinged 2 times in the last 4 weeks, what annoyance 💀
is there a w40k book club discord?
You can mute @here and @everyone too you know
Has the third Ciaphas Cain omnibus come out yet?
I feel like I already have, but discord has like 7 different ways to do it and none of them seem to be able to do anything. I really don't wanna leave the server or anything but it's genuinely annoying.
Got pinged

🏓
Tanks aqshy! Have a lovely day! 

why did i get pinged i hate books
actually it has! saviour of the imperium.
Oops, I meant fourth, forgot I lent one of them to a friend for a minute.
Pings everyone for a book club
Doesn't ping everyone for a playtest and delay announcement. Faith, destroyed
Bruh
they literally pinged people both for the delay and playtest announcement

lmao
I'm just stating what happened. You are the one mad over a ping 
XD
Hey that's common sense, we don't do that here. We practice only mindless thoughts here
Hivemind vibe every time there's a ping
When the angry lurkers ruin the fun 
Why can't they just be quiet and leave us to our literature reading?
puts down pitchfork and loudspeaker we read literature? Since when? Squint suspiciously
I just finished listening to the Titus Endor short story in The Magos
||Man... that was a bit of a difficult listen. 😦 How it was falling apart for him, dealing with memory loss that he wasn't aware of - the random details, numbers, recalling the same memories - and yet, he was diligently continuing his duty. I liked how at the start there was the passing comment about how Inquisitors don't take superstition seriously, but the way the story ends is almost an irony. It was also interesting to think about when this was even taking place - was it just the start of his dementia, or was he already in so deep he was stuck in an endless loop? In reality, was he in a medicae somewhere on life support, living out this long memory in just a few minutes? Also, in a way, I can see why people may think Inquisitors are predators, both literally and connotatively.
Poor guy... really wasn't his fault, just circumstance, being in the wrong place at the wrong time.||
pinging @here and @everyone just because, I hope the emperor forgives you because I won't 

It's honestly my favorite story, it's sad, ||but I like how it handles dementia, it gives an insight and a glimpse of how alzheimers might feel like. It's something I really did not expect from a Warhammer book and it's so damn good.
But yes, Titus really seemed to be a prick towards women in his more "healthier" times. Still felt sorry for him, he totally lost control and didn't even have a chance to realize it||
"The more elite gaming circles" xD What a joke
Any idea what the next book is gonna be?
Malleus
Oh! Thankee.
Yeah, well said!
||It felt quite respectable in how it approached dementia / alzheimers, and impressively from a first-person POV but also briefly showing how difficult it can be for an outsider too (his interrogator). For a while it felt like the grimdark faded into the background and it was something we could sympathize or even empathize with.
I think the repetition of "it wasn't his fault" and "it was just circumstances" and "it was just bad luck" may have been very comforting for those unfortunate enough to have dealt with this sort of thing IRL, because it is truly shit luck for anyone dealing with it.
I'll need to reread/relisten to the books 1-3 for the bookclub so I'm probably forgetting much about Titus - but I didn't feel like he was being bad in this story, just continuing to follow his duty passionately.
I didn't this from a 40K book but I think Dan handled it really well and gently and I respect him (even more) for that.||
Looking forward to seeing what everyone had to say about this story in particular when it'll come up in the book club : )
Yes, I hope aqshy sticks to the Eisenhorn series, especially for the short stories
has the twice dead king reign not released physical yet?
cause it released like January digitally
oh you're right
I'm pretty sure I saw it being on pre-order in january as well
they're probably making a reprint or something, or the supply chain is having trouble once again
theres like none being sold in the uk
much cheaper than the others
yeah, it isn't offensively bad
the book was probably £40 like ruin special edition
kinda wild to have it only be on second class royal mail
and not even first class
i gotta keep my eye out on special edition if they do a third book
this is like a reprint
well the ruin special edition went for £40
and it goes for like £150 now afaik
i could sell mine for that probably since i havent even read it yet
but i plan to
doesnt taste expensive - 
lmao
shame about second class postage
i might message and offer to pay them the rest for special by 1pm
cause i work at royal mail and i know how second class shit is treated lmao
Is Twice-Dead King Ruin the first one?
Cause I ordered it and I want to know if I should find the other one first
Alright thanks
did Aqshy already send the questions about emails for the book club vouchers?
aha, ok. Didn't also get anything so I just wanted to check. Book club's fun
on it now; sorry been slammed!
no problem, lots of work with everything
Okay, all sent! They were sent based on: Did you read the book > did you ACTIVELY participate in the conversation about the book in question
So i've been jumping into the 40k lore and have read the first 4 horus heresy books. I wanted to get a little up to date with the 'present' date, for instance learn about Cadia(since it always comes up). Is Ghost Gaunts a good path for that?
no, the Sabbat worlds crusade is 200 odd years before the 13th black crusade
hmm
Cadia Stands is a good one if you want specifically Cadia
Otherwise I would recommend the Dawn of Fire series
It follows the Indomitus Crusade which is the most recent large event
I guess I was also looking to get the vibe of the imperial guard, which is why folks seem to direct people to Ghost Gaunts. Do you think the Indomitus Crusade will pertain to DT?
I mean, there's Imperial Guard in the Crusade and they're featured in Dawn of Fire but I'm not sure exactly what you mean
Fair, I'm probably a bit vague about that myself.
The Indomitus Crusade is basically the Great Crusade from HH but in 40k
If that answers anything
Darktide happens at the very beginning of the Indomitus Crusade
It was confirmed in the iGN article back in 2020
Thank you, I wasn't sure quite when it played out
ill look it up and see if that's where I want to go. Thank you!
Also in the devblog we got VAs talking about the Destruction of Cadia, Gullimans return and the Indomitus crusade plus Moopshark said that one of the options for the planet you come from is destroyed Cadia
Good luck! I hope you find something that catches your fancy
right! thats why i was curious
thanks, yeah no shortage of that, first 4 novels have been a blast
Did I miss this months book club? I was just about to order it
No you could still be on time
awesome, thanks
I got a job were 90% of it is doing nothing but browsing the web, fortunatly I got the time
Nice, well I wish you good fortune with that
❤️
Just read through the entirety of Twice Dead King: Ruin and I found it to be an incredible read.
Would definitely recommend to anyone who is interested in necrons.
I'm happy to hear that! I've ordered it and it should arrive soon so I'm exited for it
Cant wait for my paperback copy of Reign in October, this book has me excited for how its continued.
Aw I wish I could have gotten my hands on Reign as well but I can't find it anywhere
I think I was too late
Reign is out as an audiobook, but the paperback for it hasnt been released yet.
At least on Amazon it hasnt.
it was released last winter but the pre-orders now are for a reprint I guess
Hello folks. Does anyone knows if Peter Fehervari will continue to publish his books? There was news about half of a year ago that he no longer works with black library, but recently his book Sins of my brothers was published.
Might be that was their last book then? As it might be a person leaving but they got a book in the pipeline
Just finished Anathemas and thoroughly enjoyed it
'Mud and Blood' was absolutely fantastic as was 'Skin Man' and 'The Secret Crown'
Pretty solid all the way through though
meme-virus
Skin Man was really good. That one stuck with me
Currently listening to the first bequin book ||and I am at the art community scene, where she gets attacked by those dolls. It's a bit funny because Keeley sounds quite melancholic the whole book and that specific scene also gets some drama too, while the fight she describes sounds like a mix of the army of darkness mini Ashes and a good portion of naked gun slapstick||
hows the narration? its on my list
do you mean the content itself or how its voiced?
the content itself really feels like a slowburn so far, but I'm currently 3 or 4 hrs in, buts very descriptitive in the narration, lots of thought processes of the protagonist are describred. Helen Keeley sounds very melancholic imo, she reminds me of disco elysium from time to time funnily enough
ah thanks it sounds quite good then 🙂 yeah looking forward to listening to Helen, just too used to Toby at the moment :x
yes, I too had like two narrators the last 7 audiobooks, its a welcome change, especially to listen to a female voice instead dudes the whole time, its also funny, how she voices male characters
Female narrators are always a breath of fresh air.
she does a great job so far, got to a very specific character yesterday evening it was just 🤌
So I finished listening to Buried Dagger... Jonathan Keeble deserves a bonus and a month supply of lozenges for his performance.
That man is to good at making Nurgle demon voices.
Now to go back and wrap up any storyline I care about and start the siege.
I want johnathan Keeble to have narration babies with me 😂
I finished Malleus, it was my first 40k book
you should start reading xenos now then, seeing as it's a trilogy
Yeah things are going to make a lot more sense when you've read Xenos as that is book one and Malleus is number two
I dont know about that, isnt there like a ~100 year diffrence? Eisenhorn overexplains everything to the point i never felt out of the loop reading Malleus. It felt fine as a standalone story, even if it felt like a OC self insert fan fiction
Ive been reading Xenos at work
just out of curiosity, what made you read the second book in a trilogy before the first one?
Monthly book club
fair
have alot of downtime at work so figured Id finally read a 40k book, starting with the monthly book club selection
Well it differs between people, I was just basing my statement of the fact that I read the fourth Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus first (since it was named part one) and when I realized and went back to read the other ones the story made far more sense
Ahh gotchu. I enjoyed the book, Inquisition is always neat
It is indeed
GG and Eisenhorn are connected btw
There's a character that shows up in both series
I won't say which one
Wouldn't want to spoil you
han solo dies
And it's chewbacca that kills him
He had Montey the mole as an accomplice in the act.
will this be on the test?
Yeah will there be a pop quiz on this at the end of the term?
Hello, if you were DMed about the last book club, I'm getting your vouchers sent out today! 🙂
These should all be sent now! If I DMed you and you don't get an email from GW about your voucher in 24 hours, please message me!
I got mine, so they're defi going out! 
yup, got one too, very cool
very cool
I finished Xenos as well, but should prolly wait till next month for the third book
Also got my voucher, thanks Aqshy!
What book should I get to add to my ever growing backlog
Unbiased opinion, clearly
Clearly
I still haven’t started Shroud of Night and I’m on and off reading Legion, so I don’t want to burn out on Alpha Legion content
You should get a book you want and not anything less.
wise words of wisdom from the corner
Those are wise words
Very good point
of course the best ever released black library novel: The Infinite & The Divine
get another one if you already have it
Damn was about to say I listened to the audiobook but you got me
I mean, are you talking book book, ebook or audio?
Have you read Baneblade by Guy Haley?
Not audiobook as I use my audible plus sun for the free credit once a month on 40k stuff
I have not
A good one is Lord of the Dark Millennium
What is your flavour of reading jam?
It'd be easier to tell you what isn't my jam lol
I'm open to read anything about any faction
But I think I'm going to use the voucher to tie up the third books in two series. Gonna get the new Vaults of Terra book that dropped last week, as well as Gods of Mars.
What are the previous Vaults books called?
Carrion Throne and Hollow Mountain
Do you think I'll need to read them before reading the third one?
You'd probably enjoy it more if you did.
I can say that they're very entertaining books
Really shines a light on how much of a dump Terra is
And how terrifying the opening of the Cicatrix Maledictum would be for your average joe
Yeah, The Regent's Shadow covers the opening from the Terran point of view as well
Though that's from a Custodian pov
I've heard that ties in with the Vault of Terra books
Haven't read that yet so can't personally attest
Their reaction can be summed up in five words: Well shit, this is bad
Well nvm to that plan cause the voucher doesn't work on the Black Library standalone site, only on the Games Workshop site
Damn
Guess you've got to buy a physical copy and feel like an intellectual while reading it
Sitting in a nice puffy armchair sipping some tea
Refined physical book enjoyer vs neanderthal ereader user
I did not foresee the consequences of buying exclusively physical copies of books
My room is small and I must shelf
Audio books 🙂
I just listen while working, walking or driving somewhere. It saves so much time. Emperor bless.
Any recommendations for e book sources?
black library website? i think they do pdfs
I think most of them are in e-Pub format rather than pdfs.
I do not know what others opinions on Lost and the Damned are for the Siege of Terra series, but it gets a pass in my books just from Dorn being so shocked by the casual reveal that Vulcan is alive that he repeatedly says "what?!" over and over again.
Potential ||think he already knows but malcador told him, then told sang and the Khan so Dorn faked shock as it was meant to be a secret||
I need to read the books.... I've read the solar war but I've done all of them on audio so far cause painting
So I've been through the first Bequin Book and have a question about the whereabouts of a person ||what happened to the interrogator who was with Gregor in magos, does he show up again in Penitent or was magos the only appearance of him?||
no this was genuine shock on Dorn's part, the only one that didn't seem surprised by the fact was Jaghatai
who?
can't recall anyone of that description that was introduced in The Magos
I don't know how his names was written and he kind of is not relevant enough for the wikis as it seems, something like ||voriid or vuriid. He was tasked by the ordos to keep an eye on Eisenhorn and to turn him in if he crosses another line or does something very stupid. He got his arm broken in the book, but made it out alive. Eisenhorn kind of dumped him afterwards, he later visited Druscher because he wanted to know where Eisenhorn was going to.||
I hope my spoiler edit arrived before I lost connection to the net... Traveling with public railway in Germany is... Special...
Can't actually recall that person at all so I suppose they were mostly a story device for that story alone, I could be wrong though and we'll see them later on or I've just forgotten about them entirely and they in fact reappear in some place already
I wouldn't say that per se ||he was with nayl to recruit Druscher, but this could've happened without him too, his true agenda was opened, where he was mostly useless because of his health condition and being stuck in a cage. At best the plot device he was portraying was the injured that slowed the group a bit down||
In the meeting with Sang, Jaghtai, Dorn and Malcador?
Spoiler: ||If its that part he is feigning surprise, he already knew and its mentioned later on or ij the next book||
Anyone around that finished Ravenor? I'm in the last 120 pages of the omnibus and have a question about something that happened.
whats a good book to start with raven guard and/or corax
I’ve read all of Ravenor but it’s been a few months since I’ve read it
For the part where ||they go through the portal door in the wych house. Is it Tyranid they are encountering and fighting? I can't tell because I'm not super up to date on all the 40k lore with the xenos races. It kind of sounded like they were describing them but they didn't say Tyranid. So I wasn't sure if it was like a little Easter egg or what.||
||Yes exactly. That is technically mankind’s first encounter with Tyranids. One of the doorkeeper people calls them the Great Devourer.||
Oh okay. ||I always thought the miniatures were like up to date when it actually came to lore in the universe. Like I didn't know the books were kinda like where we learn all the original lore. I guess I'm confused because here I was thinking Ravenor should have known about Tyranids like they're a normal thing in the universe. But I guess I don't have the right idea of how the lore works.
EDIT: God what am I trying to say. I guess I assumed like all the xenos in miniatures are normal things in the universe. Like an inquisitor would know all those races and such. But this is the second time in seeing a race hinted but not named. Earlier in the book they hint Tau. I didn't realize these were like "unknown" races to humanity. I thought since they're normal armies in the miniatures that they would be just like normal everyday xenos fighting in the books lol.||
The Corvus Corax Primarchs novel is good as well as Deliverance Lost and Corax which are Horus Heresy books
Of course there are others but these are the ones I have read
Certain xenos races are very local threats which only a portion of the Imperium deals with. Especially in detail. Most people in the USA in the 40s knew about the Germans, but how many know what their uniforms looked like, differences between fallschirmjäger and Heer, the different tanks, etc. If they saw a Heer trooper in winter overcoat, how many could tell him from a Soviet?
||Tyranids and especially Tau are only threats in the galactic east. An Inquisitor may be aware of Tyranids, but actually being able to identify one of the many, many strains on sight without it being their area of expertise would be hard ||
||Again I guess I just expected that what I see in the miniatures game is "normal" in the universe. I forget universes are big. And I guess I just don't know what timeline the books follow vs the miniatures game. I really only read the books and play the video games. The inquisitor series and inquisition in general are my favorite parts of Warhammer||
Even people in Europe in WW2 didn't know the difference between a Tiger and a Panzer 4
||The Ravenor books take place about 40 years before the first contact with the Tyranids, at Tyran. So that's why Ravenor and Co had no idea what they were.||
||Oh yeah, the book take place during like 380 M41, so well before the tyranids are a thing||
||Siege of Macragge, the end of the first big Tyrannic war wasn't until almost 400 years later||
I don't know the difference so it's understandable that they wouldn't
I have the knowledge of gods at my fingertips (the internet), the only thing they could do was ask their equally unknowing neighbours
i feel like asking about military equipment in wartime just leads to even more questions (for you)
(By the local police)
voluntold
If asking about the enemy, just say you are enlisting soon and trying to pregame?
(Tiger, big scary thing with 8.8 cm gun, 102 mm of armor, bane of early Shermans and T-34, Pz 4 was common line tank, got wrecked or equal to allies tanks depending on load out)
(almost exact same silhouette, similar appearance. Led lots of people to scream "Tiger! Retreat/I need backup!" When it was just a Pz IV)
Yeah. Tigers were actually super rare on the Western front/in Africa. Almost every time a "Tiger" got a kill on a Sherman it was actually a Pz. IV
Only like 1500 of the things were made, and something like 1000 were confirmed destroyed on the Eastern front. Leading to the infamous statistic "An American tank crew was more likely to die of heat stroke than from a Tiger"
people who want that mystery 6 month prize
yeah why read when you can listen
||the funny thing is, there is even a inconsistency with the ravenor books and the eisenhorn books. In one of the Eisenhorn short storys a Magos is well aware of the existence of Tyranids and even had their classified name at hand, while this event should be prior the ravenor books and somewhat in the same corner of the universe||
People who want to enjoy as many aspects of the hobby as possible
with that name, I think hes just a troll and a case for the mods
@toxic nebula
I have six days to read this book, so busy haven't even touched it 😳
not gonna get to grab my copy in time i don't think 
audiobook > deaf. 
I've got 2 dozen Audible creds and want to burn some. Anyone got reccomendations? Already binged most of the Ciaphas Cain books + Infinite & Divine.
the two black legion novels
depends, if you havent finished them already, hear eisenhorn, ravenor and bequin books
The Night Lords trilogy
Magos is WELL after the entire Ravenor trilogy. Better part of a century at least. Part of that "no more dates" dumb policy GW did, so hard to tell.
uh, no. Magos is prior/while ravenor happens.
No, no it is not. It is almost immediately before the Bequin books.
the short story "thorn wishes talon" is prior the ravenor books
"perihelion" is after the ravenor events
they both belong to magos
Yes. funny enough one short story in a collection, which includes at least one long BEFORE the Eisenhorn books, but the one you are referencing isn't.
The dead giveaway is ||When Ravenor and Eisenhorn meet in the Ravenor Trilogy, versus in the Bequin books. In the end stories of Magos, Eisenhorn gets both a power boost and regains the ability to smile. He does not have that in the Ravenor timeline||
||Plus he is still concerned with the Fratery in Ravenor, when that is referenced past tense in the Magos stories.||
ok, before we confuse something. Its Eisenhorn1-3 >[Magos Shorts]>Ravenor>Magos Novel>Bequin. Do you agree?
Yes
But the story with the magos Biologis is only 30 odd years before the magos novel
The one you were referncing ||about Tyranids||
||Yes, but the Ravenor books are happening somewhat 350 years prior the tyranids invasion, the the short story with Druscher establishes Tyranids as a very common thing. This does not fit very well||
||Ah, but the Bequin books were/are supposed to take place at the end of M41, in the current Indomitus Timeline||
||Yes, this makes Gregor over 700 years old. Somehow. And Ravenor 500ish||
||Because GW is great with timeframes.||
wait that can't be right, ||aren't they like a couple hundred years prior indomitus||
Yeah. GW bad at maths.
A case for the ordo chronos
there's no mention of ||indomitus or any of that stuff||
We have hard and fast dates in both the Eisenhorn trilogy, and the Ravenor Trilogy. Which WORK. They are contemporary to stuff they should be.
and ||nayl metions something about something happening in 450 which was "more than 50 years before" in the bequin books||
||so it would mean bequin takes place around 500-600 M41||
||I mean, the age of Eisenhorn is not that ridiculous. Thanks to the warpillness thingy, he kind of got the good youth-juice. But ravenor in his condition at the age of 500 is a bit much too||
||The last HARD date is original Bequin's casket disappearing. Right around 480. Which is still a long time from the Ravenor books, and doesn't seem to make much sense, over 100 years. If the Bequin books AREN'T contemporary, and took place in the past to the current timeline, it kind of robs the reveal of any punch or possibility||
Mega spoilers ||Unless Gregor, Ravenor, and Bequin somehow defeat Valdor, or stop his plan, or whatever entity has access to absurd Great crusade or golden age tech, plus all of these secrets, all without any ripples. Which would be.... lame||
||eh, 40k being 40k the ending still leaves a whole lot of possibilities open||
had a discussion about this topic a while back here if you want to go back and check, never named the person though
you mean potential sales
I found a reddit post with a timeline, but I am not that sure how credible it is || but it sorts the gershom events in 448 following, so not that far to ravenor too. So you are right, that it happened after ravenor, but still, even the hunter in that short story was talking about "the great devourer" which is a very specific term for something that is about to become a thing 300 years later|| @void stirrup
||Also, The Bequin books apepar to make no mention of the Great Rift, or the 13th crusade. So I think I am just wrong.||
but it's not like Abnett is free of mistakes, there was another funny thing that happened in gaunts ghosts ||where dahlin "forgets" that Kholea is is father, right a book after it was well established, that he knows, lol||
And that ||Yeah, it makes zero sense how a Magos Biologis knows what a Tyranid is roughly 300 years or so before they destroy Tyran. And earn the name Tyranids from Kryptmann||
||I mean, is that an error? or a setup to his retcon where the kids are actually Chaos Machines? Who knows.||
||there were sightings of them before as well right? And did they actually name them Tyranids in the story? Can't recall, could be for clarity's sake||
happy little accidents
||That Reveal ANGERED me. I re-read Necropolis IMMEDIATELY. It was 100% a retcon, not a planned story event. In a series he doesn't share with anyone||
||Nah, Genestealers and things were around in the timeline, but Tyranids literally got their name by devouring Tyran. In the 700s.||
||That naming thing I know, but as I said might be just for clarity for the reader||
So much spoiler text, and so much of it me admitting I am wrong 😅

I looked it up, and found something about in Interview, where Abnett was like|| "ah, it was the stress from his first mission with the R.I.P., he forgot it"||
lol, what a lazy answer.
Can't just go "I goofed, it made it to print, so we live with it forever shrug"
I mean, its entertainment after all, not a law, so I can roll with it, but still I was like "wtf, thats not how the state of information, how I finished the last book"
Like, I forgive mistakes. Lord Knows Dan works on MULTIPLE big settings and series, juggling multi volume long series in those settings, that he would mess up a character or two here or there is understandable
oh, he admitted that he forgot it himself, it was just a funny approach to help the reader
oh confused something myself ||it was not the first mission itself, it was the mind meddling of soric||
Last count he was still doing Marvel stuff, some script work, HH, Gaunt's Ghosts, The Bequin Books, and like two other series? Plus some standalones?
I even found the time to do some lore work for Dartide too
"I"? Dan, that you?
shhh
The defense of the fortress, the ambiance is GREAT. Feel awful for Soric and try to forget the ending of that story.
No, meant I in, I told you not correctly up there, what he said to the fans in the interview
Oh well. Going to stop monopolizing chat. Peace out for now, it was fun 🙂
Yeah, I had some problems with the soric first, ||where he was just plain murdering people and then one of the "we aren't tanith, we are verghats and we separate us from the rest"|| but I really grew to like him and felt bad for him in ||the jago book||
oh and have a good day🙂 , need to return to my duties🥲
The one thing I especially liked about that story is ||that Gaunt gets captured and tortured to an inch of his life. Until that point he has seemed almost unbeatable. It just shows he is competent, has good people, uses them, and above all lucky. Makes the series feel more grounded. Except for Mkoll who is just... Absurd||
||Mkoll is a spirit of order sent by the emperor||
||Primarch? No, a dude with a knife||
||They should make him into a primaris primarch frfr||
||This just in, Mkoll is really a perpetual. Maybe even Ollanius Pious himself||
||He is gonna be King of the Ninja Guards, and use his magical flying cloud gifted to him by the Emperor to defeat the Chaos Gods||
||did he also get a extending stick too?||
||and why are we writing still with spoilers?||
Because y'all're nerds.
How else is he going to bonk Khorne on the head and convince him to be a righteous warrior, following the emperor and get him to help defeat the other chaos gods?
So I am on the third book of the siege of Terra series and... man it really does feel like the pacing is being dragged through the mud.
Good luck with Mortis

the biggest downside of the Siege books is them stretching out events/battles that could be covered in a few pages to 400 pages
but it's good still tbh
also Saturnine is before it which is one of my all time favourite warhammer books
yeah... I have heard a lot of things about Mortis... The one upside is the Sheban Khan carrying a dying man and a infant across no mans land. It's a silly thing to think about but damn it I love the White Scars.
Saturnine is the only Siege book I've read so far and holy hell it is good
Saturnine in a nutshell: ||Emperor's Children character is introduced Now I would like to present Rogal Dorn's massive chain sword||
Lost and the Damned is good in my books is good just on how they handled the painted counts "end"
Skraivok: "Blood Angel I challenge you, is that Raldoron I see?! The Warmaster will be pleased when I bring him your head!"
Skraivok: "I am Gendor Skraivok, known as the Painted Count. I am the Lord Commander of the Nightlords."
Raldoron: [thinks about it for a moment] Never heard of you. proceeds to manhandle Skraivok and make him look like an absolute joke
The biggest fuck you ever is for one famous warrior to tell another that they've never heard of them
I love those kinds of moments
Or: ||Tactical combat in the 41st millenium. That prepared underground ambush was bruuutal.||
||Oh yeah, I adore how they were like “But what if we bury them under the wall”||
Yeah... first wall was definitely a hit and miss book in the siege series.
||it really did nothing to make me care about 17 year old conscript and the reveal that they were in service of the warmaster came a bit out of left field, then again when they only consisted of about 6k and without a second thought killed 400 of their own I shouldn't have expected any less. The battle for the space port was interesting at least. Not sure how i feel about the plague ward of the palace city... indifferent I guess.||
Damn, I really do be like "Oh this is a spoiler for a book I haven't read, better open it and read the entire thing"
My ADHD is out here causing problems again
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As someone who also suffers from the curse that is ADHD; I truly feel that.
Siege of Terra from traitor primarch perspective:
Horus: takes multiple power naps in his warp fueled lazy boy.
Angron: causes massive property damage.
Fulgrim: high off his tits.
Mortarion: Throwing shit (literally) over the walls.
Perturabo: Carrying the whole damn thing on his back as does all of the heavy lifting.
I think the pacing is off because there is so much going on and so many stories to follow it can be a bit hard to track.
Well it doesn't help when there is story beats that lead to nowhere or is only barely connected to the rest of the story.
for example: why did I need to know about the daily lives of some port workers, just for them to be vented into space a few minutes in the chapter Gav Thorpe?
Because learning about the people who get vented/stabbed/shot/pulverized/eaten actually makes you care about it. Otherwise they're just numbers and nobody cares.
Ive only read the monthly book club book and last months and I cant talk about/ read anything posted here :p
That doesn't really matter considering how often 40k writers do it
after a while it just gets null
I don't want to cut away from main characters to some human character who has a bullseye on his/her back throughout the entire novel just to predictably die later
its cheap drama
eh I enjoy hearing from the less important point of view every now and then as well and it's not like it happens constantly
sorry, darktides intro will have marv the friendly reject get nurgled infront of you. press f to be sad

It is one thing to have a character planned out to die and follow their story to the end. It is another to have a character exists for 2-3 minutes at best that in the long run mean nothing to the story.
Maybe it has something to do with they were written to exist just to add more to the body count.
would you rate it... malleus?
I think it’s a useful technique but it stops being surprising or meaningful if overused
Well I asked this a long time ago and no luck. I am searching for a book. What I have from the description is this: Orcs (person was sure it's orcs) invade a small almost insignificant planet in the Imperium. Some legion of Astartes (not sure which) sends in a small team to deal with this. Farmers first start off scared shit-less and basically cower in fear and let the astartes handle the orcs. At the end of the book some of the farmers come out to aid the astarte(s) and the astarte(s) knowing that they will survive but the farmers will surely die say something along the lines of, "when I return to my ship I shall carve your names into our hall of heroes among the fallen of my chapter" Any tips would be appreciative
got to the part in the 2nd Bequin book ||where Bequin tries to forge an alliance with Ravenor, and he talked with her about the state of the Imperium. That was kind of fun, how he made clear, that the Imperium is pretty bad and evil. Reminded me of the "are we the baddies" meme, but it was also a surprising moment of reflection, that I did not expect from an Inquisitor||
well in all fairness, an inquisitor would know
Reminds me a bit of a question asked in Legacy of Kain. Does one choose selflessness even if it means the eventual damnation of the world, or selfishness if it means the world is damned now but gives the possibility for its redemption through an unknown third option.
||Eisenhorn for example "decided" to ignore that idea. I'm like 4 books into Ciaphas Cain. Amberley Vail isn't that blunt either, she's even more ignorant of the grand perspective, while she's actually pretty pragmatic. ||
||we can hardly take gregor eisenhorn as being the smart one either||
||that is not entirely fair. Hes quite smart, I would say one of the brightest. But his stoicism and stubborness makes him quite dense too. best example the keeler image short story||
||but i wanna keep making heretic jokes!||
He is a heretic after all 
okay I finished Saturnine, man ||listening to Abadon weep as he softly begs to be sent back after the failed spearhead assualt as he was denied the a perfect warriors death is depressing.||
still not a fan of Erda to be completely honest. Her whole plan was really fucking stupid for someone who has lived as long as she has and knows what she knows.
like the stuff she did early on? I can sorta buy it|| given how well the emperor had to have them guarded and secured like it had to be the only way to do it or something, although it was not that deeply discussed or explained iirc||
Why are Omnibuses 3, 4 and 5 of Gotrek & Felix entirely unavailable on the internet and in actual stores?
Why did GW suddenly decide to erase one of their best series
And no, before anyone says it I do not want them as audiobooks or in any digital form whatsoever
I require them in physical form which is why it's so unnecessarily impossible
many of the black library books get cycled so to say, some are printed for a while and not printed for another while until they're in print again, I'd wager it's partly because how expensive printing (and especially shipping from china) has become. They'll return at some point quite certainly
like the next couple HH books after the 4th one were out of print for many months but they were relisted again a few weeks back
Alright, I suppose you're correct, it's just weird that they have 1, 2 and 6 available but not the ones in-between
it's just what happens to be sold out from the earlier patch I suppose
I'm assuming it's rarer for series that don't get updated anymore to get reprints
So if it ever happens it'll definitely take a while
could be
After 6 I think they reprinted volumes 1 and 2. They were out of print for awhile. S'okay, I have a complete set 😜
As long as they sell, they will reprint. Could be years between though.
Do you guys think Sevatar is dead?
to be honest, I would be terrified if he was still alive after all this time.
I only want him back, so he can bring together the 8th legion again. This guy was the very few, Konrad Curze respected in his legion.
Aside from his more prominent lack in social skills compared to the other supersoldier manchildren, he was also pretty brutal and cunning. He should get a Ork Klan
How does Sevatar lack in social skills? Talking down to Word Bearers is practically the mark of a cultured individual
Don't realizing jokes and don't understanding the concept of empathy I would say. But I'm not sure if it's just hinting towards aspergers or, well the circumstances he grew up and such. But yes, bullying the book boys of lorgi is funny, I give him that
Ngl I think most night lords lacked what society considered sociable etiquette sorely lacking xD
This^ Sevatar didn’t understand jokes lol, plus he had a hard time understanding human emotions. Besides anger and fear
ye, thats why I'm not sure if its just because how he "grew up" on nostramo or really just a form of aspergers
oh no, I have a typo in the malleus discussion and can't change it, it will be there for eternity and laugh at me
I am laughing at you. Not with you.
ye, thanks android for changing moral to more. Machine uprising has already started
He was also just kind of a dick who didn't have a code of honour or leadership like many other first captains did
He was the kind of warrior who was not above kicking you in the balls if it gave him an advantage
but he is an amazing warrior. Few who can take on sigismund, as well maybe abaddon
too bad we never see him properly use his psychic powers
Yeah, wasn't he the only warrior (except for Abbadon) who actually beat Sigismund?
He did do it in the most dishonourable way possible but he still won
yeah, he head butt the shit out of him. But Sigismund gave credit for that one which i was surprised. The guy does fight fight well
but like you said dirty
He also came up with the phrase "Death to the false Emperor" if I remember correctly
Props to him for being iconic
Yeah bro, the first man to ever say it.
plus i hope we see him again, it’s very unlikely he died.
I'm still betting he's working for the Inquisition or something
Working to fuck everyone over
and then horus died 
Nvm lol that caught me off guard

I aim to please
also more alpha legion books when 
the EC, and the fists has been getting it non stop lately
I need that sweet sweet subterfuge

that reminds me, i need to read The Serpent Beneath
Something about Omegon infiltrate the core of their legion
Oh yeah I have that one
Haven't read it though
It's collected in "The Primarchs"
i’ll have to read it tomorrow after work
that was a cool heist story
I will not. That's basically what you would find on the back of the book cover
Plus a quote of a critique like "yes" - Rogal Dorn
huh, the alpha legion doing a heist with Omegon. Ngl that sounds crazy
"||redacted||" - Alpharius
-Omegon
Checking out some of the audio drama collections for the HH so I can put off listening to Mortis a little bit longer.
I really do like Templar, and it makes me really sad how dirty Jubal got done
Used my monthly audible credit on The Talon of Horus
Only like a half hour or so in but damn it’s pretty good
@jaunty stratus just finished reading The Serpent Beneath. I should’ve seen that ending coming but, ||Omegon wasn’t Omegon, and therefore was Omegon||
||it was a a bit sad, because I just learned to know Ranko from the book Legion and now he's already a goner. Still a cool short story imo. Also they introduced the Demiurg||
is the new book announced yet?
which new book? 😄
book club book
ah, no. But if I were to wager a guess it's probably Hereticus
Yeah. That doesn't even require a wager, lol.
Wager? Put me down for 20 thrones
Yup it's Hereticus. When I'm waiting on my plane I'll add the announcement
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bro its 4 am
lmao 6pm here 😛
you only have yourself to blame for not fixing your notification settings. 🙂
go to bed then
time zones are different dumbass
you're still up tho 💀
Not sure I will re-read it, but I think I remember it well enough to participate
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Hi friends
1pm on god
4pm Texas.
Heretical timing
no don't mute it it's entertaining to watch everyone flip out
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It's like 10am
my shit is set to nothing. it still pings...
Eisenhorn lets go! It was my first read.
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