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Nurglitch wrote:
I think it helps to read Primogenitor first, as several threads lead to Bile's actions in Clonelord and help inform them.


This.

Clonelord follows almost immediately after the climax of Primogenitor and there are characters and events referenced in the second one that are only in the first book (and vice versa. I'm rereading them again in prep for Manflayer and just noticed Skalagrim is name dropped in book 1 yet does not appear until the second).

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pm713 wrote:
Now I feel dumb because I think I missed almost all of them when I read the first one.


Spoiler:
Bile's ship is called the Vesalius. A reference to Andreas Vesalius, aka the guy that literally wrote the book on human anatomy.
Igori is obviously a reference to Igor as Bile is something of a Dr Frankenstein (yes, I know Igor is not part of the novel Frankenstein... )
In the first book we meet the Castellan of Castle Sublime- Mordrac, who is more than likely Count Mordrek the Damned from WHFB. I'm 99% sure of this as Bile goads him by asking if he has elevated his title to "King" instead of "Count".
Bile has been hunted by a group called the "Lernian Proxies"- no other info is given, but the name implies something associated with the Alpha Legion.


They're the ones I can remember off of the top of my head.

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 Grimtuff wrote:
Be warned (or prepared), the books are chock full of easter eggs and IRL references that will make you chuckle (such as the name of Bile's ship) that you might need to keep the 40k and normal Wikipedia pages handy for when something comes up. I found myself pausing reading and looking up whatever it was numerous times in those books.


Are the molecular biology terms used correctly in the book or is it some sort of catastrophic mumbo jumbo?

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