Your thoughts on the soul drinkers book

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**Necroshea**

I'm going to be up front here and say everything I've read so far about this book makes me angry.

Spoiler:

Before going into this book, I was told it was about rogue marines who still followed the emperor but didn't fight for the emperium. about 1/3rd of the way through the book (they are about to go to a planet the hulk was bound for) I feel I've been lied to. This book seems like the story of how a space marine chapter falls to chaos while worshiping tzeentch without knowing it.

Soooo yeah, does this book ever start making sense, or light forbid, start getting good? The ultramarines omnibus was so much better than this one.

Edit - Fixed the blood drinking part.

**purplefood**

They carry on fighting for the Emperor... they rject chaos and the Imperium (because it's corrupt) and simply try to help the citizens of the Imperium.
The duel is a tradition in the chapter.
Other than your last point the rest is pretty much as is and getting annoyed about it is on a personal level.

**Soladrin**

Night lords sometimes do the blood drinking shenanigens...

**Necroshea**

Soladrin wrote:Night lords sometimes do the blood drinking shenanigens...

Ah, I stand corrected, this I did not know. I guess I meant to say loyalist chapters don't do it. I can see chaos doing it, I doubt they care what kind of horrible thing they ingest.

**purplefood**

Necroshea wrote:
Soladrin wrote:Night lords sometimes do the blood drinking shenanigens...

Ah, I stand corrected, this I did not know. I guess I meant to say loyalist chapters don't do it. I can see chaos doing it, I doubt they care what kind of horrible thing they ingest.

Some loyalist chapters drink blood.
Blood Angels, Flesh Tearers etc...

**Necroshea**

Huh. Do they do it for the same reason? Drinking some possibly warp laced blood seems like a good way to warp the gene seed.

**Jimsolo**

I bet money some of the more off-color Chapters do it. (Space Wolves, Flesh Tearers, Carcharadons)

But on a related note, I agree totally with you, buddy. You've made it farther into that book than I ever did. The malignant abuse of the English language was too much for me. Someone dropped the ball on that book in a serious way. Author, editor, somebody's head needs to roll.

**Soladrin**

I liked it actually, but who am I eh?

**Tarkand**

All Space Marines have an implant that allow them to eat the flesh (and one would assume blood work just as well) of a dead foe in order to gain access to a part of deceased's memory btw. I'm not even sure the foe needs to be dead at that, it might work just fine on a live subject.

Yeah, every single one of them. From the most pious Ultramarine to the most demented Khorne Bersekers. It keeps with the standard implants of being a SM. The implant is called the Omophagea.

It's something many author tend to conveniently forget, as it makes writing a story based around subterfuge and mystery a bit difficult when you can just have the Astartes character shoot someone and eat them to figure out if they did or didn't do something. It certainly was a pain to deal with in my Deathwatch RPG game... had to put some limitation on it because things were getting a bit out of hand.

Now I haven't read Soul Drinker, I'm not saying it's a good book... but the whole drinking blood to gain info is not a break from 40k lore in any shape or form.

As from drinking blood/eating flesh from xeno or possibly tainted individual... it's probably not recommended true, but SM are extremely resilient to toxin and warp corruption (compared to normal human) so it may or may not have any effect on them really. Depends on the degree/type of corruption.

**Soladrin**

The books aren't good or well written, but I dare say, they are fun.

It also has the most OP CCW ever.

**Necroshea**

Soladrin wrote:I liked it actually, but who am I eh?

Your opinion is just as valuable as mine. I see no reason to think less of you because you don't see things the way I do.

All Space Marines have an implant that allow them to eat the flesh (and one would assume blood work just as well) of a dead foe in order to gain access to a part of deceased's memory btw. I'm not even sure the foe needs to be dead at that, it might work just fine on a live subject.

Maybe that's why sgts don't like to wear helmets? Without a helmet in the way they can just take a nibble out of someone to help them to better assess the situation.

**purplefood**

Soladrin wrote:The books aren't good or well written, but I dare say, they are fun.

It also has the most OP CCW ever.

The one with blades made of unreality?
Yeah that's a touch OP...

**Soladrin**

It's a vortex blade, as in, imagine a vortex grenade, now make that happen in a blade form, permanently.

You could cut a titan's leg off with that.

**Talarn Blackshard**

I enjoyed the books but then I just took them as I read them, they could've been better but I enjoyed them.