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2016/05/06 23:39:39
Subject: My thoughts on Josh Reynolds Fury of Gork (In-Progress)
What I feel this book does is that it fleshes out the new orruk character Gordrakk the fist of gork. It also has some tid bits from the other novels and it does show that sigmar is concerned about the effects of the reforging hence why he has started to make the various stormhosts fight together. Here is one of my favorite parts of the book. It shows that stormcasts are still human at their core and that they are pretty much the order version of chaos warriors instead of "fantasy" marines.
Spoiler:
This is a small extract from the new novel fury of gork Two lord Celestant's talk about Fear and what it means to them this whole conversation just shows that sigmar is trying to do something about the reforging effects. Zephacleas was a Chieften when he was mortal the second lord Celestant is Greel who got owned by a Tzeentch chaos Lord Sorceress and had the souls of his men trapped within her armor. This conversation happens after Zephacleas fell back and trapped the orruks for a moment instead of fighting head on since he also has been tasked to meet with the orruk god for sigmar and gain an alliance. Since the orruks are being led by Gordrakk.
Greel views this as weakness and fear Since greel wants to kill the sorceress since he feels that his weakness cost them the battle and had the souls of his warriors trapped and now she is searching for a weapon that has 15 greater daemons sealed within it. Obviously his death at her hands and the reforging process effected him hence why sigmar wants him to fight with Zephacleas to awaken some part of what he was before.
Greel:That's your plan - to simply sit and wait?
Zephacleas: My plan is to beat them. But to do that we must weather the coming storm. If we move, they'll swamp us. So we must stay and throw them back until we know the limits of their strength. I know orruks they're stirred up now, and we can't simply bull through them. ( The previous battle from Gordrakk point of view the ironjaws pretty much shattered their shield line and wrecked a lot of storm cast)
Greel:You sound as if you're afraid of them.
Zeaphacleas: And you know about fear, do you?
Greel: I knew fear... Just for a moment. An instant but it was enough and then I knew nothing save the storm. I was weak. I failed and the witch escaped. How many warriors died because of my weakness? HOw many have suffered since the fall of the three Duchies? I remember I can smell the charnel pits still. Hear the crack of my cousins bones. I can hear the screams of my chamber as they fell around me. I will not be weak again. We will meet these orruks and we will break them.
Zephacleas: Fear is not a weakness, brother. It is a part of being mortal, like courage or sadness. Joy, rage. Among my people - when I had a people(got wrecked by chaos) it was said that a man who had never felt fear was one who had never truly lived. The fear of facing a sabretusk, with only a spear between you and it. The fear of starvation(stormcast can die of starvation funny enough. ) or daemons in the night. The fear of pain, as your enemy's blade draws close. The fear of... surviving, where others died.
Greel: I was told you were a warrior, not a philosopher
Zephacleas: Hardly a philosopher. I was a chieftain, Iron-side. Not a hunter or a warrior, or even a tender of the sick, but a ruler. And I have had this talk more times than I can remember. You still know fear, brother but now you fear faliure rather than death.
Greel: And is that better or worse?
Zephacleas: Only sigmar can say.
That conversation there is one of my favourite parts of the book my other favourite part is this.
This occurs after Zephacleas duel with Gordrakk and they are "somewhat" on the same side now. Zephacleas take's a close look at Gordrakk's back banner and he see's a stormcast helmet it belongs to the lord celestant Davos Sliverclaw from the lions of sigmar this conversation then occurs. I recall a poster before wondered if the stormcast was looking for his helmet. XD The book as answered this question.
Spoiler:
Gordrakk:Good fighter, him. Took two chops with Smasha to take his head off!
Zephacleas: I'll let him know you said that. And that you have his helmet. He's been looking for it. *The book notes he says this with a forced cheerfulness * bless orruks.
Oh and there is a small tidbit about the first audiodrama volume dealing with nagash.
Spoiler:
They note that majority of the souls that came back after nagash wrecked them were actually too sundered to be reforged and they do note that Tarsim/Tarsus soul is missing.
Honestly can't wait to get to the end the book is great and the chaos sorceress has some good development also.
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2016/05/07 00:11:22
Subject: Re:My thoughts on Josh Reynolds Fury of Gork (In-Progress)
Yeah just finished the novel it was quite interesting and fun to read. Zephacleas was a great character and so was Gordrakk the ending was pure gold and fit the tone of the book.
2016/05/07 00:15:42
Subject: Re:My thoughts on Josh Reynolds Fury of Gork (In-Progress)
I also think the novel was pretty good. It does a good job of explaining the not-depth of Orks (now Orruks) and also shows the deeper side of Stormcast that's been seen elsewhere. I have noticed a reoccurring theme in the novels of the effect of multiple deaths (like 3+) on Stormcast being unknown and almost feared. Despite them being Immortal once a Stormcast sees what happens to their friends from reforging they become almost afraid of death because they fear losing themselves.
NinthMusketeer wrote: I also think the novel was pretty good. It does a good job of explaining the not-depth of Orks (now Orruks) and also shows the deeper side of Stormcast that's been seen elsewhere. I have noticed a reoccurring theme in the novels of the effect of multiple deaths (like 3+) on Stormcast being unknown and almost feared. Despite them being Immortal once a Stormcast sees what happens to their friends from reforging they become almost afraid of death because they fear losing themselves.
Agreed and it seems that even sigmar is starting to make moves to find a solution because in the recent books I found it kinda strange how sigmar was telling the stormhost to fight together and learn from one another. This can all be fixed by sigmar stopping the immortality aspect but considering how useful it is in the war effort I don't see him doing that so nagash will keep grasping for their souls.
2016/05/07 02:49:10
Subject: My thoughts on Josh Reynolds Fury of Gork (In-Progress)
A fellow on Spacebattles.com also shared some cool parts like how Orruks mount heads on spikes as a sign of respect so their late enemy's ghost can watch the fights.
Love hearing more about what's behind the Stormcasts. They're really just large armored humans with a little extra power from Sigmar. They panic, starve, feel pain, fear, hatred.
Shame most just take them at face value and label them space marines. :( It's like knights being called robots.
Nice they addressed the helmet issue.
Also, the three duchies had my Bretonnian senses tingling.
2016/05/07 10:36:35
Subject: Re:My thoughts on Josh Reynolds Fury of Gork (In-Progress)
This, combined with the new lore for the Flesheaters (who somehow are in the illusion that they are noble courts?...) and Orruks really changes my outlook on the lore we know from Age of Sigmar.
2016/05/07 11:58:41
Subject: My thoughts on Josh Reynolds Fury of Gork (In-Progress)
Baron Klatz wrote: Shame most just take them at face value and label them space marines. :( It's like knights being called robots.
I don't blame people, much of the introductory fluff does a poor job of showing depth for the Stormcasts, and for someone who isn't all that interested in the first place it isn't enough to motivate a closer look.
This, combined with the new lore for the Flesheaters (who somehow are in the illusion that they are noble courts?...) and Orruks really changes my outlook on the lore we know from Age of Sigmar.
I cannot wait to see what the Aelfs are going to be like.
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) or daemons in the night. The fear of pain, as your enemy's blade draws close. The fear of... surviving, where others died. 
