Mossy Toes wrote:Well, Xisor, I may need to try a reread pretending as best I can to have a Beginner's Mind, approaching unsullied, to test out your hypotheses--you are certainly passionate enough in defending them that I think your side of things merits a shot...
Xisor wrote:@Morning Soul - absolutely! I think it's one of the things I love most about the 'best' bits of Horus Heresy, they're moments of loss, the start of the crumbling of a dream. In some places (PB especially, with Kasper's musings on Old Night), it's incredibly potent. Ah well, there's a lot more to come.
Xisor wrote:But the only thing lost assuredly avoided, in my esteem, is The Outcast Dead, Angel Exterminatus, Vengeful Spirit and The Crimson King.
Major Rawne wrote:Another book I would say to skip would be Master of Mankind. Though it's well written and has some really cool moments, it adds little if anything to the overall Heresy storyline.
Spoiler: This is why the Emperor is not directly aiding the fight against Horus, why the loyalist forces have not moved on Mars, why the Custodes seem to be virtually invisible.
It reveals the fact that not just daemons, but entire armies of Traitor Astartes and titans have joined this second war, it fills in several gaps in the background of various loyalist forces other than the Astartes, it involves us more in the internal politics and beliefs of the Mechanicum, and it lays the groundwork for one of the more horrific aspects of the Emperor in the later 40K era with the Unspoken Sanction.
Plus more insights into various aspects of the Emperor's character...
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