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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: Arks of Omen reading paused, as I’m ploughing through The Lion, Son of the Forest first.
About quarter of the way through, and it’s really rather good!
ok, does it answer how the flip he woke up? or is it "somehow, the lion returned?"
To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
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He starts off in the Weird Forest Realm alluded to in the teasers, with no real memory at first. But it all starts coming back to him.
It seems the doing of The Watchers In The Dark though.
It’s a pretty spiffy novel, definitely leaning into Arthurian archetypes, and not being as lazy as King Arthur In Spaaaaaaaace.
He has changed though. Not just aged physically, but…I want to say matured. He’s not as dour as he once was, considering his previous actions flawed, if well intentioned.
I’m nearly done reading it, and it’s been ages since I demolished a book in a day.
Mysteries remain, but not in an unsatisfying way. YMMV of course!
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He starts off in the Weird Forest Realm alluded to in the teasers, with no real memory at first. But it all starts coming back to him.
It seems the doing of The Watchers In The Dark though.
It’s a pretty spiffy novel, definitely leaning into Arthurian archetypes, and not being as lazy as King Arthur In Spaaaaaaaace.
He has changed though. Not just aged physically, but…I want to say matured. He’s not as dour as he once was, considering his previous actions flawed, if well intentioned.
I’m nearly done reading it, and it’s been ages since I demolished a book in a day.
Mysteries remain, but not in an unsatisfying way. YMMV of course!
Extremely spoilerific for The Lion: Son of the Forest and probably other 40k books (Cypher: Lord of the Fallen, Bequin: Pariah, perhaps others)
Spoiler:
They're laying it on pretty thick with the Fisher King character:
The Fisher King is a figure in Arthurian legend, the last in a long line of British kings tasked with guarding the Holy Grail. The Fisher King is both the protector and physical embodiment of his lands, but a wound renders him infertile and his kingdom barren.[1] Unable to walk or ride a horse, he is sometimes depicted as spending his time fishing while he awaits a "chosen one" who can heal him. Versions of the story vary widely, but the Fisher King is typically depicted as being wounded in the groin, legs, or thigh. The healing of these wounds always depends upon the completion of a hero-knight's task.
Most versions of the story contain the Holy Grail and the Lance of Longinus as plot elements. In some versions, a third character is introduced; this individual, unlike the hero-knight archetype, is ignorant of the King's power, but has the ability to save the king and land, or to doom it. Variations of this third party give us divergent legends.
Well. Nazdreg may be dead. And Farsight has a near-Khorne experience, but honestly? That’s about it. No bug revelations.
Arthas Moloch may have been cleansed though. Farsight set off the Daemon Portal deliberately to enable his forces to withdraw. But the Wurrboyz destroy the portal, and with it the Great Star Dais.
Farsight returns to the surface in the Epilogue, only to find the corpses and wrecked equipment in an advanced state of decay - and green shoots growing. The description of the decay doesn’t strike me as Nurglesque either.
Right. On with The Lion!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Finished The Lion.
Oh my!
Spoiler:
Against my predictions, Vashtorr and Abaddon pulled it off! The Key is assembled. And we now know what The Key is.
It’s…it’s a Reality Drill. Kind of. Basically it’s a Daemon World able to drill into the Webway. A relic of the Old Ones reassembled, granting Abaddon and Vashtorr a whole new suite of options.
However…their plan can still be foiled. For The Key is not the whole of the thing. It fits a specific lock - but even Vashtorr is unsure where that lock lies.
The epilogue is intriguing, as we meet Inquisitor Coteaz as he sees a report on what happened. As he speculates….why didn’t the Eldar intercede? He turned away their offer of help previously, but it’s not like the Eldar to just take that as an end to the matter.
Indeed, the Eldar as a whole are conspicuous in their overall absence in this unfurling narrative. There’s mention of piratical fleets taking advantage of the chaos and destruction, but precious little about the Craftworlds and Seers.
Arks of Omen may have now concluded…but this doesn’t feel like an end to things.
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I just read in arks of omen: the lion, that they go to vashtorrs lair and it’s caliban. But the rock is the remains of caliban after a severe orbital hammering.
So is this caliban taken from another reality or time, or had vashtorr made a facsimile of caliban and if so why? Just to annoy the dark angels? And how did azreal recognise it?
mrFickle wrote: I just read in arks of omen: the lion, that they go to vashtorrs lair and it’s caliban. But the rock is the remains of caliban after a severe orbital hammering.
So is this caliban taken from another reality or time, or had vashtorr made a facsimile of caliban and if so why? Just to annoy the dark angels? And how did azreal recognise it?
It's the real Caliban - the story so far is that there are/have been three old (as in vastly pre-imperial old, pre-humanity old, possibly contemporary or even older than the Old Ones old) entities that play a role in that particular story: the Tuchulcha, which is sentient and was used by the Lion and the DAs during the Heresy, the Plagueheart, and the Ouroborous, which was imprisoned on Caliban. During recent events it was discovered that due to the Actions of some people (Astelan and Typhus among them) that involved combining these Artefacts, the Dark Angels have a serious case of timey-wimey stuff on their hands: their attempt to use the Artefacts to change the past and prevent the destruction of Caliban is what caused the destruction in the first place - Azrael and Ezekiel resolved that in the most Speeehs Mehreeen way possible and destroyed the time-warp-rift, thus sealing Caliban's fate for now, but the psychic resonance of all this warp-fuckery is probably how they recognize the revenant planet.
Caliban broke into a load of chunks. The Rock was the largest that was then repurposed into a new mobile Fortress Monastery for the Dark Angels. Vashtorr found other chunks of Caliban and rebuilt the planet.
Remember when it comes to Chaos rituals, having something with an intense emotional anchor is a huge boon.
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Gert wrote: Caliban broke into a load of chunks. The Rock was the largest that was then repurposed into a new mobile Fortress Monastery for the Dark Angels. Vashtorr found other chunks of Caliban and rebuilt the planet.
Remember when it comes to Chaos rituals, having something with an intense emotional anchor is a huge boon.
The planet was also scattered through time and space, not just the dudes that happened to be on its surface.
In terms of the outcome here, with The Lion redeeming wayward sons, I’m in two minds.
On the one hand, I really do like it. Son of the Forest demonstrate that whilst Caliban did fire first, not all those planetside were aware of Luther’s treachery. They genuinely believed the Fleet fired first, and that The Lion had either turned traitor himself, or their seeming exile had all along been part of a plan to exterminate certain elements. Some are of course genuine Traitors. But far from all.
On the other? We don’t get to see the main Chapter’s full reaction. Which is a shame, and I feel mildly cheated by that.
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Heck, it wasn't even Luther that gave the order to fire either it was Astelan. In fact, Astelan and Zahariel caused a load more problems than Luther did.
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