#horus rising

[cav-core]

Do you think the Mournival ever explored each other's bodies.

#i do mean all of them #not just tarik and loken cause that's a much easier question #warhammer 40k #luna wolves #horus rising

[mournivaldisco]

Just Loken and Tarik horsing around ☺️🥺

#horus rising #astartes #black library #horus heresy

[teawithmagician]

I love him more than it's humanly possible

#tarik torgaddon #horus rising #horus heresy #horus lupercal #warhammer 30k #warhammer 30000 #warhammer

[dese-o]

I read Horus' Rising by Dan Abnett, thanks to the recomendadion of @flunkyofmalcador (seriously, thank you the book recomendations, I'm now starting to read The Great Angel) ...and I really enjoy it, mostly the Second part. It was rather a pleasent surprise how interesting Horus was a character here, and how much he shown his true self whenever his beloved brother was mention/on the scene. My favorite scene was pretty much when Horus explained to his children the meaing of his ring, trying to look so heroic to them, only for Sanguinuis to tell him it was all bullshit and throw fruit at him, I just loved that.

(Also...Yeah I changed Sanguinius' hair...again...but can you blame me? But after speaking to my art teacher about it, we decided that long black curly hair Sanguinius will be my go to from now on.)

And my opinion on Raldoron so far, he is a good boy.

#horus #horus lupercal #sanguinius #raldoron #horus rising #luna wolf #blood angel #horus heresy #wh 30k #warhammer 30k #warhammer 40k #wh 40k #black and white #ink #digital ink #fanart #my art

[that-random-chaos-entity]

Me listening to the audiobook of Horus Rising, and my reaction to the way Horus is portrayed is just like that line by The Great and Mighty Kevin in Hunter the Parenting:

"Such a stupid tool! But you're also stupid cool!" 😭

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #horus lupercal #Horus #Horus Rising #the horus heresy #nerd whinings

[spursthatjinglejanglejingle]

#ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh #OooOoOooOoO this line is making me insane #horus rising #come up with a good reading tag and replace this one with it later

[transmhyra]

I've been musing about different approaches in how to turn the Horus Heresy into a Series (not that that would happen in the forseeable future)

And what if, at least for the part of Horus Rising, you follow the remembrancers in terms on violence, until the Whisperhead Mountains you don't get to see the Astartes actually fight, only see their aftermath, perhaps dialogue during combat but what you get to see is greatly toned down, viewed through the lense of the average citizen getting a glimpse of the glorious Astartes.

But it is only at the Whisperhead Mountains you really see them fully unleashed, not through the lense of propaganda, similar to how the remembrancers present were previously held back from documenting combat and only there witnessed the terrible truth for the first time

#warhammer 40k #horus rising #horus heresy #great crusade

[leareadsheresy]

Horus Rising Parts 2 and 3: Brotherhood in Spiderland and The Dreadful Sagittary

This post contains spoilers for Brotherhood in Spiderland and the Dreadful Sagittary, the second and third parts (together comprising roughly the second half) of Horus Rising by Dan Abnett, first published as a novel on (as nearly as I can tell) April 6th, 2006.

Unlike the first half of the book, where I have reservations, I pretty much don't have anything negative to say about the second half. I think it's deft storytelling that does what it intends to do and effectively sets up a tragedy that False Gods will, if I recall correctly, fail to deliver on. There's one specific part that's a bit on the nose; I'll get to that.

Basically four things happen in the second half of the book. The 63rd Expeditionary Fleet go to (ultimately embarassingly pointless) war against a planet of giant spider-aliens to rescue a group of Emperor's Children who are themselves there to rescue a group of Blood Angels; Loken is introduced to the Davinite Lodge secret societies; Loken is introduced to the horrors of the Warp; and Horus meets and fails to make peace with a much more enlightened integrated human/alien society called the interex, testing out a tragic could-have-been version of rebellion against the Emperor, which also, I feel, clarifies his urge to rebel somewhat.

So! I really, really like Brotherhood in Spiderland, and not just because it's called Brotherhood in Spiderland. It's well-written bolter porn that serves as a critique of bolter porn. Blood Angels throw themselves at a death planet, which is so hostile that you can only get there by drop pod and then can't leave because of weaponized weather, botch it so badly they name the planet Murder, ask for help. Emperor's Children, who are largely arrogant assholes, show up and decide to help by throwing themselves into the exact same blender. We meet Eidolon, Lucius, and Saul Tarvitz, who accidentally clears a hole in the weaponized weather, then our 63rd Expeditionary Fleet shows up to save the day, Tarik Torgaddon arrives, and then Tarik, Saul, and Lucius get up some Big Soldierly Brotherhood Feels bits that would be familiar to anyone who's a fan of the Clone Wars series, with even notorious future villain Lucius getting a humanizing moment. We're then told they wage a pure glorious war of extermination against the spider aliens for six months, performing many awesome feats of glory and heroism… and then an interex ship shows up and goes "Hey, why are you attacking our nature preserve? Didn't you see the beacons we set up that clearly say not to go down to the planet we moved the spider-monsters to after taking away their space flight tech so we and they could co-exist peacefully?" The whole glorious six month war full of brotherly feels and tragic deaths and heroic accomplishments was all just the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet attacking a lion habitat at the space zoo because they couldn't read the sign, just stickin' a series of hands in a series of wild animal mouths because Imperial doctrine demands it no matter how pointless it is. Womp womp. This makes it sound silly but it's great and it serves the themes of the book, I don't really have critique here, it's all well-enough executed that I'm satisfied just kinda describing the events as they happen. Whatever the hell glorification of the Imperium would look like, this isn't that, no matter what YouTube lore shorts that describe the Megarachnids as terrifyingly deadly alien threats would have you believe. They're big spiders that want to eat you because they're big spiders, you can just not go down there and you'll be fine.

Meanwhile, Loken is inducted into one of the Luna Wolves' secret warrior lodges, which is… cool and chill and doesn't seem to be a cult. Maybe it's a bit love-bomb-y but giving these strictly regimented emotionally stunted child soldiers a place to just be people does seem like a good idea, even as Loken points out that their secrecy could make them problems even if they're fine right now. Again, this is set up as an effective tragedy -- we, the audience, know that the Davinite lodges will ultimately be the cancer that rots the traitor legions from within through secret chaos cult infiltraton, so the book sells them as something fulfilling a genuine social and emotional need as the buildup to that tragedy and as an implicit critique of how official Space Marine social organization fails them as people and forces their emotional lives into the closet where they can be victims of manipulation. Good section! Smart writing! Even here it's clear that the Heresy is going to go down not just because of the ambition of Horus and the machinations of the Ruinous Powers, but because the Emperor opened the way for them by refusing to recognize the Astartes as people. The only reason the secret warrior lodges are secret is because the Emperor doesn't like them, because they don't involve his soldiers spending all their time lining up in neat rows.

Also Loken gets pointed to an epic Unification-era war poem where he finds references to daemonic possession that match his experence with Samus and Xayver Jubal, and all I can think is, this is great, I wish the bit in Part 1 where Horus just explains what went down had been written not to make this superfluous. In the better version of the book where Loken is figuring out what happened on his own and Horus didn't just hand him the answer and tell him to keep it a secret, this bit is unchanged!

So, the interex. My read on how the interex situation goes down is that Horus, who has been given license to prosecute the Great Crusade as he sees fit via the Emperor bestowing him the mantle of Warmaster, wants to do it right and wants to do it his own way. He's out from the Emperor's shadow and wants to spread his own wings -- he wants to rebel. But… he doesn't actually want to kill the Emperor and take control of the Imperium by force, he just wants to prove that he has wisdom and authority to make his own decisions. And so we see him try to fix his mistake from 63-19 by making peace with this peaceful, functional human society, who he has no reason to war against despite the fact that they exist in a multi-species civilization, which is itself an abomination in the eyes of Imperial doctrine. Horus is like "I'll show my dad and not do a xenocide." That's a good idea! It also probably never would have worked, because the Emperor wouldn't have accepted that outcome, so there's that inevitable tragedy raising its head again. The interex themselves -- and this is not an original observation -- serve as a critique of the Imperium, proving that it's a lie to say the fascism of the Imperium is the only way to survive in the 30k galaxy. They visibly coexist with multiple alien races, from the peaceful to the openly hostile, and they deal with the threat of Chaos by educating everyone about how much of a threat it is so people don't mess with it. They were doing fine.

The bit where Horus screams at the sky "Father, why have you forsaken me?" is a bit much, but part of that is me being a bit allergic to Christian allegory in fantasy and science fiction. It's fine, I'll move past it.

Interesting anachronisms: There's brief mention of a massive Space Marine "in gold Custodes armour." Didn't know they ever wore that.

Also, not an anachronism, but there's a delightful bit that stuck with me where Loken and Torgaddon are walking down a hallway and Torgaddon runs ahead and jumps to slap some pipe work on the ceiling, just for the joy of it, and then brags about being able to do the same in another part of the ship where the piping is twice as high. Space Marines are just people.

#horus heresy #warhammer 30k #Horus Rising #lea reads heresy #read along #spoilers

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

WOTN: Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

Horus Rising: The Beginning of the Horus Heresy Horus Rising is the first novel in a series known as the Horus Heresy. It comes from the world of Warhammer 40,000 and thus is a widely known event by many fans. Having heard so much about it, I’ve decided that I’m going to dive in and tackle the entire series, one novel at a time. Yes, I know how intense that goal is – you don’t need to remind…

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#40K #Black Library #Book #Book Review #Books #Fiction #Horus Heresy #Horus Rising #Literary #Literature #Review #Warhammer 40k #Word of the Nerd #WOTN

[mulletzombie]

I'm about a quarter into Horus Rising and I'm really liking it so far. the action packed opening hooked me in and Loken is a likable guy so far. also totally knew bad shit was going to happen to that one remembrancer after he went off on his own though I was surprised just what exactly happened.

so. Horus. he hasn't been in it too much yet and I know he goes all traitor and what not, I mean it's called the friggin Hours Heresy lol, but like something about him rubs me weird? like he's almost TOO charismatic and personable. maybe it's just my meta knowledge coloring my view of him and raising my hackles. unlike Rogal Dorn. I like that dude. seems very down to earth, serious but not untouchable I guess. I liked his little talk with Loken.

anywho just wanted to write down some thoughts before heading into work.

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #horus heresy #horus rising #mullet rambles

[magicalmrmephistopheles]

the whole murder campaign would’ve gone better if torgaddon and eidolon had simply fucked

#horus rising #horus heresy #tarik torgaddon #lord commander eidolon #luna wolves #emperor's children #warhammer 30k #warhammer 40k

[cav-core]

The Great Angel has the vocabulary of a 90s soccer mom apparently.

#warhammer 40k #horus rising #sanguinius #the actual full quote is heartbreaking dramatic irony but why did he start off Like That

[mournivaldisco]

This lil forehead kiss always surprises me 🥹 I wish we saw more of the protective big brother vibes that Loken had with Euphrati.

(Also, we were clearly robbed of a Loken/Mersadie forehead kiss 😆)

#horus rising #garviel loken

[teawithmagician]

Never have I ever seen a man flirting so furiously in my entire life. The whole Horus Rising book is soaked with semi-erotic, at times blatantly sensual admiration of men before men and I think it's beautiful 🥲 I wish them people would write men feeling the same way about women at least sometimes.

#horus rising #horus lupercal #abaddon #warhammer 30k #warhammer 30000

[return-of-the-trinidude]

6!

6. Biggest surprise - Horus Rising by Dan Abett. Everyone told me that Warhammer was grimdark, so I was thoroughly surprised to find that this book, my first venture into the universe, was clearly a tragedy. You can see the protagonists start off with the best intentions (as best as you can get for a genocidal crusade) and slowly fall apart in ways that they had no power to prevent. The very end of the book made my chest hurt. Definitely interested in Warhammer now.

#warhammer 40k #warhammer 30k #horus rising

[ladymirdan]

Unhinged Review 1 Horus Rising

It was... Good?

It is kind of hard to be unhinged here. It's a decent book. Nothing special, if it hadn't been a 40k book I probably wouldn't have remembered it after finishing it.

I've never been a fan of the “bland main character”-trope, but I guess its sells well.. 🤷‍♀️. Does Loken get more interesting in the future?

Why didn't they make Abbadon, or even Horus the main character? Give it some spice you know.

It also suffers from “authors writing about authors”-syndrome. I dont give a fuck about remembrancers and I definitely didn't want to read about one fucking 😂 (all I want is Space Marines and I will physically fight you if you say that they are boring)

Book highlights: Dorn saying that Sigismund bruises easily. Get a room you too 😳😅

And bonus points for making me scream” FUCKING EREBUS!” at the end. Good times.

#warhammer 40k #40k #horus rising #book review #fucking erebus