Mortarion: The Pale King (Volume 15) (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs) [Hardcover] Annandale, David

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The development of this story felt visceral and intense, and the city itself being used as an antagonist was reminiscent of a TTRPG dungeon crawl. The other two tell him that because of his methods and brutality the people dont know what to do with their freedom and his body counting decree made it so he just replaced another tyranny with another.

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. It’s also interesting to see that while he’s a tactical genius he’s still very conventional and favors frontal attacks and straightforward techniques. At least the Night Lords, distasteful or not, are different in their approach and bring a perspective worth arguing about.I was expecting more about Mortarion's character, his past, his relations with the other primarchs and the Emperor, etc. However a big part of the novel is action which I think might make some people enjoy it less and I think the fans of the Death Guard will enjoy it because it all pretty awesome. They are so strict everyone has allotted size of living space, proscribed number and quality of clothes, food, bed size, job and slaves. The minuscule amount of character study that does exist in the novel may as well function as a prologue and epilogue, bookending a drab play by play of how a horribly ran star system gets invaded by an equally horrible primarch who lacks any sort of strategy.

Overall, I felt this was simplistic and lacked the swagger and punch other titles being to the series. After his force gets wrecked while he crawls back to the surface he meets some psyker mutant in the sewers that taunts him how he is in denial about a psyker himself. Some good insight into Mortarion’s character, through the lens of his first campaign and “compliance”. Conocer más a fondo al personaje fue un punto a favor del libro, porque te muestra muy bien sus motivaciones y su forma de actuar antes de la herejía.

It does not wallow in endless repetitions of combat yet nor does it strand in long high minded dialogues. In a lot of ways, Mortarion is to Corax as Konrad is to Corax—a dark mirror lacking the optimism of the Raven Guard. I felt he did an excellent job on writing the Death Guard, Mortarion and especially the antagonists. They need to disable it in one day because millions of reinforcements are arriving from all the world in a day to save the center. Meet Mortarion - the immortal demi-god with an intense hatred of brutal, oppressive regimes but who also really, really enjoys scything his was through enemies who are inevitably weaker than he is.