The End And The Death: Volume I (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra Book 8)

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Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar • Leman Russ: The Great Wolf • Magnus the Red: Master of Prospero • Perturabo: The Hammer of Olympia • Lorgar: Bearer of the Word • Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix • Ferrus Manus: Gorgon of Medusa • Grandfather's Gift • Perturabo: Stone and Iron • Malcador: First Lord of the Imperium • Konrad Curze: A Lesson in Darkness • Jaghatai Khan: Warhawk of Chogoris • Vulkan: Lord of Drakes • Sons of the Emperor • Corax: Lord of Shadows • Angron: Slave of Nuceria • Scions of the Emperor • Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter • Ghost of Nuceria • The Passing of Angels • The Abyssal Edge • Mercy of the Dragon • Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First • Illyrium • The Revelation of the Word • Morningstar • Will of the Legion • Embers of Extinction • Alpharius: Head of the Hydra • Blood of the Emperor • Loyal Sons • Mortarion: The Pale King • Rogal Dorn: The Emperor's Crusader • Sanguinius: The Great Angel • Heirs of The Emperor

The book is written in the present tense and there are several POVs. The war is mostly over, everyone left outside the Eternity Gate when it was sealed knows they've been left to die and group themselves into haphazard units and formations. Titans are being crucified along the Palace's walls, the World Eaters have been tearing the turrets off of tanks and building a graveyard of tank-skulls, the White Scars holding the Lion's Gate Spaceport are being battered by fire from the Traitor fleet. The End and the Death is the eighth and final novel of the Siege of Terra series. [1] It will be split into an unknown number of parts. [2] Ahriman alone can kill a dozen Custodes without breaking a sweat. The Loyalists will need a lot of Librarians to delay him. Same with Typhus. Anyway, the book has quite a number of basically superfluous battle scenes that do nothing to advance any plotlines, only show that Choas is bad and evil - which might be ok if we haven't had to muddle through 60+ books establishing that fact. Also, Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith would be proud with the sheer amount of mind-breaking, sanity-blasting eldritch vocabulary thrown at us readers. Especially when it comes to Choas, which faction, it bears repeating, is Eeeeevil. We have seen an almighty void war ravage the heavens as Horus Lupercal’s fleet punched through Rogal Dorn’s defences in The Solar War . Battle lines met on Terra, and traitor Primarchs unleashed their unnatural powers in The Lost and the Damned . Perturabo commanded a battle of bloody attrition in The First Wall , making it his mission to undo the Praetorian of Terra’s impregnable defences.A few thoughts of a spoliery nature: Samus is ridiculous, but I didn't mind the final scene with it and Loken and I am glad to be done with it (for now), I'm glad Dorn is free of the wall that held him, and while I saw the Emperor being the Dark King coming a mile away I wasn't anticipating him casting off the power to become the Emperor once more. Of course, he sends a little bit of himself out into space, which I feel like could have some really interesting implications, so is this really the same Master of Mankind? I honestly did not expect the most artistically impressive book I read this year to be a 40k one, yet here we are. Now, Dan Abnett has been kind of the father of the language of the Imperium for decades at this point, going all the way to the Eisenhorn novels where he introduced a lot of the strange-but-familiar terms that have come to define the Imperial side of the setting since then. My issue with the Siege has always been bloat. Erda is a prime example: did we need another Perpetual, especially such a prominent one, parachuted into the narrative? Do we need all these characters flouncing about on all their individual sub-plots, still dangling as we move towards the sharp end? My praise of Echoes is that it's an incredibly tightly-focused book. It is, in short, a fantastic addition to the ethereal concept of what the Siege series should have been. The construction of the book is killer. It drives home its core concepts, it's sharply-edited, it is focused on giving the audience a brutal contrast and comparison of two Legions and their Primarchs at the very end of the war. In a perfect universe, that it ends as the shields go down, is genuinely a perfect place to end. We don't need to know how, or why, only that the final assault is about to happen, the last, desperate gambit for the last, final book of the series. In a perfect universe, every Siege book would have been like this, sharpening the narrative edge down to a singular point, giving us a whole book that could deal solely with the Vengeful Spirit. Discussion thread for the first instalment of the two-part finale of the Siege of Terra series. The Garro novella will be released in January.

There’s no substitute for experiencing the Siege of Terra series yourself because it’s a tale of such epic proportions, but before we reveal the final chapter in this story, let’s briefly catch up on the story so far.

There is no climax because the events are so spread out there is no impact to them there is no building to a crescendo as too often nothing is happening the events you are reading have no impact they have no meaning too much of the book is simply happening rather than building the story. The third book in the Vaults of Terra series arrives in French and German. The Dark City by Chris Wraight follows Luce Spinoza as she searches for the now-missing Inquisitor Erasmus Cowl, tortured by a decision between finding her mentor and protecting the Throneworld from untold dangers. First and Only – Print on Demand Maybe this book would benefit from being split even more. Two large books and one smaller (Knight of grey, Fury of Magnus style book) to relief main story a bit. The POVs of Malcador and the Primarchs are somewhat interesting (no mean feat after 60+ books), and at least we do not get any new out-of-character revelations or derailings on that front. That at this point Horus has devolved into a delusional, almost mindless husk doesn't help the series either. Horus was such an effective antagonist because he was brilliant, while his fall is handled badly in the Heresy, he was supposed to be an individual that initially raised valid concerns and was pushed over the edge by the involvement of Chaos.

Sindermann sub plot a bit weak though surprisingly I didnt mind the perpetuals this time round. At least their story is finnally getting there. The Emperor's forces are all split up when they teleport. Dorn is teleported to a desert where he spends centuries surrounded by tens of thousands of dead Imperial Fists. he slowly forgets of the Siege and begins to be tempted by Khorne who promises an end to thinking and plans and the life of a simple warrior who only needs to kill his enemies. Warhammer Community: The (Beginning of the) End Is Nigh – The Final Siege of Terra Story Is Revealed (posted 31/8/2022) (last accessed 31/8/2022) In one of their most famous tales, the Ghosts intervene in the fractious civil war on Verghast in Necropolis by Dan Abnett. Two hive cities – one loyal, one traitor – wage a never-ending war across the surface, and rivalries within the Astra Militarum threaten to derail the Tanith First and Only’s efforts. V1 was a tome of prose where Dan Abnett got to use his English degree. V2 just simply has too many characters you do not give a crap about.The End and the Death is the final, torturous step on the road the Great Crusade began. With the empire contracted to a single planet, the dream of the great work lying in ruins, the full fury of the Space Marines exhausted and turned inward to purge and scour the homeworld itself, you can’t help but see the beating heart of the novel as Dan Abnett. Not the Emperor, not Horus, not Malcador. Dan. It's fair to say there is a lot going on, and this wouldn't be the book you would start with, but it's got some great things to recommend it. I really like the way that Malcador is in the first person - and Horus Lupercal in the second... with all other stories being in the third person. It takes a bit of time to get used to, but its a great way of telling the reader which protagonist is currently centre stage.