The End and the Death: Volume II (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra)

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The situation in the last hours is simultaneously confused and confusing, characters and plots stuck in an endless loop of death and murder that they seem powerless to escape or effect. Volume two of The End and the Death is coming later this year, but as we revealed last week in an interview with Dan Abnett , there is a third volume coming – and today we can unveil the cover. The Emperor stole this fire from the Chaos Gods once before and now unrestrained from the Throne can harness the Warp unabated. When the last-chance play is made, we get chilling horror (Dorn gets one of the best bleak horror sections the BL has put out), the terrifying majesty of the emperor, convoluted gothic description breathing insane life into the world and some good old fashioned rooty-tooty-point-and-shooty, all set in the seconds after the teleport flare dies away. When that happens, it’s rarely in the way you expect and Abnett subverts, expands, surprises with foreshadowing or provides new – and better – explanations of exactly what’s going on as the final gambits play out.

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With Terra besieged, and the defenders scattered and broken, the Warmaster’s victory seems to be in sight.

The End and the Death: Volume II is the second part of the eighth novel of The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra series. Others, unfortunately read like some of the early attempts to establish the Stormcast Eternals as viable protagonists, all nounverbers at the placenames against the adjective verbnouners. For the Horus Heresy, he is the author of the Siege of Terra novel Saturnine, as well as Horus Rising, Legion, The Unremembered Empire, Know No Fear and Prospero Burns, the last two of which were both New York Times bestsellers. The Emperor and Oll Persson once conquered the Tower of Babel when Oll was his Warmaster because it was dedicated to learning Enuncia. This isn’t to say the book doesn’t come together, but that the focus has become too large, and there are too many stories that have to come together when it would be a better book to leave some to the imagination.

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That’s one hell of an achievement because while the plot summary of what was expected to be in this book is two lines long, the book itself is much, much longer and deserves (nearly) every one of those pages.

He also scripted Macragge’s Honour, the first Horus Heresy graphic novel, as well as numerous Black Library audio dramas.

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The first person sections are tragic stuff, Horus the bright and arrogant discussing his ascension to Warmaster, a sad and somewhat sinister reminder of what could have been and the story Abnett started with all the way back in April 2006. And weirdly, I found an enormous sympathy with Abaddon and the situation he finds himself in – where he’s obviously completely committed to doing terrible things. There is a sense of history, pivoting in the most dramatic sense, and a lot of very important loose ends come together.They’ve rarely all stood and interacted in a single space, and the sections describing their journey to the Emperor and the decisions made in his presence are compelling stuff that capitalizes on the years of build up to the moment the plan comes together.

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Malcador begs the Emperor to talk to him multiple times but gets no response, the Throne is overwhelming the Emperor with pain but he is doing a thousand things at once on the throne, inspiring individual soldiers on Terra, soothing civilians, directing the webway. He revels in the genre to a luxurious and occasionally gloriously preposterous extent, particularly in the Malcador sections where the Sigillite-as-author-proxy takes great pains to speak, act, think and describe in high gothic style. While not announced in the Twitch stream, a few more things will be available as part of the Black Library celebration. They lay the groundwork for the big revelations, they drive the plot forward and they allow Abnett to draw up Horus as a worthy enemy of the Emperor. But at the whim of a Warmaster fallen so far from grace, the Dark Gods will not make Sanguinius’ task an easy one, and as the war edges towards its explosive, bloody conclusion, events are about to unfold that could either save humanity, or plunge it headlong into an eternity of darkness.He’s on his way to becoming something even more dreadful yet, but he almost alone among the Traitor forces is aware of what they’re sacrificing and he hates it!