Thanks to different video games about WH40k ( Dawn of War for Jen, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine for Keri), they delved deep into the rich lore and haven’t looked back since. But then, he is also using those aspects to achieve his goals in the hunt for Curze, which ended with a very cool showdown that feels like a natural conclusion to their rivalry that has been going on for far too long now.

Gav does a good job of bringing all of these characters into focus, as well as expanding upon the early Terran background of the I Legion with some fascinating details of some of the Wings – seeing the Dreadwing in action is particularly fun.Maybe then he wouldn’t have been so welcoming to Typhon when his Death Guard blundered into the Caliban system. It sets the tone for the Lion’s conduct later in the novel and helps provide some more context for Luther’s own conduct and the “little cuts” that later magnified and turned him away from his adopted son and the First Legion. I love Thorpe writing the Dark Angels and I cannot wait to see the eventual cataclysmic confrontation between Lion El’Jonson and Luther. ANGELS OF CALIBAN takes place 10,000 years before ANGELS OF DARKNESS, during the Horus Heresy, and fills in more of the details of the I legion’s shameful past. Sanguinius frustrates me a bit in this as he just takes an apathetic stance on the whole issue and lets his brother’s fight it out instead of stepping in with his power as Emperor.

The Dark Angels Legion go to war, but their primarch's brutal actions threaten to tear apart the fragile alliance of Imperium Secundus. Some of this is down to ForgeWorld's plans for the Legion in the Horus Heresy tabletop game, which added more info about the different Wings (we knew about some, the Ravenwing and Deathwing most prominently, but now there are six total), and new armaments for the First in general. The Lion would snap at Guilliman and push him too far, but then reflect on how that was probably way too harsh and he didn’t mean it the way Guilliman took it. According to Luther, Caliban possessed a vicious intelligence that extended to its "living" forests and beastly wildlife.While this book does reveal a few things that fans were wondering and theorizing about for years, it also opens up more questions. Titles in italics are by other authors but are directly related to the events and characters in my stories.

That has changed here and though I cannot argue that there has been some great stuff as a result the split in the narrative has been noticeable. The conflict between the three brother-Primarchs is disheartening for we as readers can see just how much they are being pushed and prodded by circumstance to go against each other and how they struggle to eliminate this conflict.

Once more we see the good intentions of the Calibanites, while also seeing the tragedy their actions summon to their world.

Ten millennia later, Vashtorr the Arkifane corrupted the ruins of Caliban with his techno-sorcery, transforming it into a mobile planetoid dubbed Wyrmwood. I enjoyed this, but probably would have liked it more if the events on Caliban had been less prominent. The chronicling of the Horus Heresy began over ten years ago, with currently 54 books in total, not counting The Primarchs series or the various short stories. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report.It actually makes me want to go back and read Angels of Darkness again because I want to see how far we’ve come in the last fifteen years and how Astelan has changed in that time. The opening scene of the book is particularly brutal for the adoptive father of The Lion and it really makes you feel for him and dislike the Primarch. He is aware of his failings, but also alone in bearing them, with no one to trust or turn to in earnest. You could have said some of this to Luther at Zaramund instead of leaving him to sulk with his buddy Typhon.