The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)

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For the Lion, most of what he knew has gone and pretty much everything of what’s left is unfamiliar, so that largely wrote itself. He’s a man who defined himself by being the First – pre-eminent and utterly loyal – and now he finds that the Imperium he helped build is crumbling, his former Legion are distrustful strangers, and that pre-eminence makes him practically (and uncomfortably) divine in the eyes of the humans he meets. One-Winged Angel: Seraphax transforms into a giant demonic form when it becomes obvious he cannot win otherwise. Follow the Lord of Shadowed Paths as he gathers his fallen knights to vanquish a traitorous son and a twisted Chaos warband A solid book if you want an update on the Dark Angels. Even then its still pretty solid science fantasy stuff.

The second win for this book, is what it means for the Dark Angels. As someone who utterly hates the Dark Angels as a legion/chapter because of their absolute stupidity, this book has made me NOT hate this 'new gang'. I was not expecting to have 'hope' for the Dark Angels as an entity after finishing this story. This novel takes the Lion on a quest through the shadowed paths between stars to gather loyal knights to his side once more, though many have long since been hunted as members of the Fallen. Unsure of who to trust, and without the aid of his Legion, his father, and his home, the Lion will need to find his place in a galaxy even less forgiving than the one he left.Faced with these strange times, the Lion can be certain of nothing and no-one, except for himself. But in a galaxy without the Emperor, without the Imperium, without his Legion, and without Caliban… who is he? At the end of the book, he beheads Baelor to spare him a long, painful death from of Seraphax's poison. The way Mike Brooks has represented a 10,000 year old primarch, I think, is one of the best power scaling/balancing acts in all 40k novels up to this point. For this reason alone, this book is an instant S tier...shining example of how to properly portray a creature like the Lion, in my opinion.

Alone in Imperium Nihilus, without the Emperor, the Imperium, or his sons, the Lion faces a terrible challenge. He meets a formidable Chaos warband led by one of his traitorous sons, and must call upon every ally he can. He’ll even need to rally his Fallen knights, who have been hunted across the galaxy as they awaited the day their father would return. Technique is deployed very well too, and in a way that advances the characters. The Lion's portions are told in the third-person present, showing his dynamism and focus, but also how he wants to Not So Above It All: Due to spotting inconsistencies in its disguises (ex. Magnus punching too hard) and being skeptical by default, the Lion recognizes the shapeshifting Warp entity as the deadly, living test that it is. However, even knowing it's an impersonator, he relishes the chance to trounce Alpharius as he never got to do so while the smaller Primarch was still alive, and when it transforms into Konrad Curze, he takes the opportunity to have one final venomous conversation with the "Night Haunter", talking to him as if the creature was the real thing. The latest issue of White Dwarf magazine continues the story of the space hulk Herald of Misery , adding new rules for deadly laser grids to Boarding Actions games and two short stories concerning the forces fighting within. Meanwhile, a Tale of Four Warlords takes on its second challenge of the year, while Part Five of The Great Stomp introduces campaign rules for Warhammer Age of Sigmar games set in the Living Peaks.Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A one-sided, non-romantic version; the Lion spends no small portion of the book complaining about his brothers (particularly Russ and Guilliman), but by the end he admits to himself that he misses Russ and would love to speak with him again, and is overjoyed to hear that Guilliman has survived. Apparently, you can only use "they" and "ze/zir" to refer to techpriests in Warhammer 40,000 now. Out of the two tech priests that are in this book, one is referred to as "they" and the other is referred to using a neo-pronoun (although the former case has shown up in books like Mechanicum, but for a good reason). If you do not know what a neo-proun is... well... let's just say that even some leftists disagree with their existence. They are, essentially, a way to affirm someone's mental illness... The Old King, aka the Emperor, appears both as a fisher-king, and then the besieged figure holding out against the dark alone in his manse. Neither time is he communicative. The former, the Lion is not prepared for what the fisher-king is angling, the latter, it is that intervention that grants the Lion the Emperor's Shield, much as the Lion was guided to Excalibur Fealty. The book is written in POVs. The Lion's. The wayward Fallen son, Zabriel, whom to me is a stand-in for the everyday Fallen. The other wayward Fallen son, Baelor, whom exists in a state of grace, while balls deep in the bowels of heresy.