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Endman posted:I think we all know why - not enough skulls I'd argue that skulls are necessary but not sufficient. Like, hams needs skulls but not all skulls are hams. But, provided hams, then I'd be willing to propose at least a linear relationship between the number of skulls and the goodness of hams.
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SPACE MARINE is a loving great book. Now someone convince Chuck Tingle to write 40k fanfic.
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Orv posted:If you read a Warhammer book in that bone church (thanks Wikipedia) you would just atomize into pure bliss.
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Orv posted:If you read a Warhammer book in that bone church (thanks Wikipedia) you would just atomize into pure bliss. I've been there. When my tour guide said there were no fewer than forty thousand skulls in there I drat near lost my poo poo.
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Gotta do something with those bones, may as well make art. I dig the bone churches. My wife was pretty creeped out by the Capucin ossuary but went in because she wanted to see the Caravaggio. I'm sure one of the primarch has that painting hanging somewhere and doesn't know what it is.
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Roller Coast Guard posted:Pounded By The Primarch Tyrannids Tyrannized My Taint
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Preechr posted:Tyrannids Tyrannized My Taint
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Fulgrim's Full Frontal. Actually, that one already exists.
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Sanguinius Sucks: Sadistic S&M
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The slightest hint of Chuck Tingle would shatter the Grim Darkness of 40k with the power of love and kissing.
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Pounded in the Butt by my Primarch's Butt
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In the Grim Dark Butt there is only Pounding.
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Sandweed posted:In the Grim Dark Butt there is only Pounding. But enough about the salamanders. Some like it hot.
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Wrt the Emperor and the Primarchs in MoM: the thing is "he views them as constructs, referred to by numbers" isn't really true. When you read through, yes, he overwhelmingly does do that. But not always. There are a few moments, and they are always key ones heavily laid with emotion between them, where he uses names. The big one is the start, when the gateway is disrupted. He refers to Magnus as Magnus. There are like one or two other blink-and-you-miss-them moments where he does the same. I think ADB was being subtle, and answering the question someone asked earlier, about "everyone thought it was going to be total victory for one or the other, why did no one predict the Emperor being stuck in limbo on the throne?" Everyone thought that both sides were more far gone, more divorced from their humanity, they they really were. The Emperor, as much as he portrays himself as on another level from humanity, isn't as far removed as he and everyone else thinks. He does care for the primarchs. He doesn't want to, he wants them to be tools, be being bound to mankind he has their emotions still and does love them. When the emotions are high between them the mask slips and he does feel. So against Horus he holds back until the end, surprising all and generating the stalemate. There are a few more moments that also hint "he isn't as far removed as he acts", his focus on the intended gift for his cousin when he kills his uncle, when e talks about the behavior of the priest-king on the steppes, when he hesitates and obfuscates when explaining the limits of his powers to Ra. In the 30,000 years he has either never severed the connection or has grown attached. And that is the difference that changes everything
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Just getting back into 40K after like a two year break. Just re-read Grey Knights, Lord of the Night, Dead Men Walking by Steve Lyons (which I loved), and I'm working on Book 1 of the Horus Heresy books. Has anyone read the first book in the new Primarch series?
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pubic works project posted:Has anyone read the first book in the new Primarch series? It's fine. It's completely unnecessary, it just covers the same characterization of Guilliman you see in all his appearances in the mainline Horus Heresy books. But as a standalone book, it's fine. Totally acceptable.
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So does Dalin know Kolea is his father or what? In Armor of Contempt there's a bit where he explicitly reflects on his relationship with Criid, Caffran, and Kolea all mentioned by name so I would have thought he did. But I just got to a bit in Only in Death where Dalin only has a vague recollection of Kolea as an uncle or family friend before the battle at Vervunhive and asks him if he knew his birth parents. These last few books have had some noticeable differences from earlier entries, some wonky continuity and changes in chapter length to pick some out, did Abnett pick up a ghostwriter or something somewhere along the line?
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bango skank posted:So does Dalin know Kolea is his father or what? In Armor of Contempt there's a bit where he explicitly reflects on his relationship with Criid, Caffran, and Kolea all mentioned by name so I would have thought he did. But I just got to a bit in Only in Death where Dalin only has a vague recollection of Kolea as an uncle or family friend before the battle at Vervunhive and asks him if he knew his birth parents. These last few books have had some noticeable differences from earlier entries, some wonky continuity and changes in chapter length to pick some out, did Abnett pick up a ghostwriter or something somewhere along the line? Dalin and Yoncy got aged up so that Dalin could be thrown into the RIP detail. He's had his suspicions that Kolea is his father but it isn't until Salvation's Reach that Kolea truly admits it. The first short story in Sabbat Crusade deals with Kolea reconnecting with his children.
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Dalin has known since Criid went off to Gereon. A big part of the second Gereon book is Dalin's internal conflict about his two dads. Edit: Specifically when Dalin is passed out in the church he has a dream about Caffran warning him about danger and throughout his ordeal he gears Caff's voice keeping him out of danger. After the next book it's heavily implied that it was Soric keeping him safe through his memories. Demiurge4 fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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Finished reading up to and including Prospero Burns which was rad as all gently caress and by far the best Heresy book so far. A Thousand Sons is for some reason not available in Kindle format so I had to skip it. Just started Know No Fear and so far it's way good. I'm starting to sense a trend here
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Huh? Thousand sons has always been available as an ebook, I'm pretty sure it's still on my kindle in fact
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Skarsnik posted:Huh? Thousand sons has always been available as an ebook, I'm pretty sure it's still on my kindle in fact When I try to buy it it's only available as mass market paperback, audiobook or hardcover 
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Where from? Look on blacklibrary.com
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Biplane posted:When I try to buy it it's only available as mass market paperback, audiobook or hardcover Depending on where you are it won't be on Amazon Kindle until next year.
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Just read Josh Reynolds 'Fabius Bile : Primogentior'. Not sure what prompted me to pick it up, my hopes weren't especially high. Turns out it's pretty good. I actually enjoyed it more than any Warhammer book I've read for ages. (NB. Saving Master of Mankind till i'm away over Xmas).
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This going to be kinda vague but does anybody know of the Warhammer book (It might be 40k or fantasy) that had a giant chaos mutated tree/trent thing that was needed to construct something? I think it was called a trollwood or something. The memory has been bugging me and I can not tell it was real or not.
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Demiurge4 posted:Dalin has known since Criid went off to Gereon. A big part of the second Gereon book is Dalin's internal conflict about his two dads. I figured that it was actually Caffran warning him from beyond, through the Emperor's grace of course. Caff is killed while on moping up duty days after the invasion. Dalin was stuck in that nightmare for weeks.
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I still lean towards my theory because of how heavy that theme is in Hinserhauz. Abbnet has a habit of foreshadowing things, for example he alludes to Sanian's importance to Milo two books ahead of the Saints return.
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Telsa Cola posted:This going to be kinda vague but does anybody know of the Warhammer book (It might be 40k or fantasy) that had a giant chaos mutated tree/trent thing that was needed to construct something? I think it was called a trollwood or something. The memory has been bugging me and I can not tell it was real or not. It's in Warhammer fantasy, the book is Wulfrik the Wanderer, and it owns. (Also, the trollwood is probably the original Treant, based on size and location.)
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So I finished reading Only In Death. Hey, abnett wrote a good, non abrupt ending! Sucks for the ghosts that it cost them half the regiment to get a satisfying conclusion though.
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Only In Death is good as all hell but I still hate Abnett for taking Milo away like fifteen fuckings books ago. Anyway, skipped directly from Betrayer to Master of Mankind and though good, man, what a profoundly loving depressing story. I know it's the Heresy and all and we all knew how it would end years and years ago, but literally watching all of humanity's hopes go up in flames and the Emperor himself not knowing what to do about it and in fact outright telling Diocletes we're all hosed kinda threw me. The Webway is closed to humans and that was it. Last and only hope and no matter what happens, the warp will eat everyone. What the gently caress, I know it's 40k and all but drat, that's some grimdark.
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