KeresAcheron
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Let's find out about the Interex, the Imperial Truth, the Morality of the Great Crusade, the ego of Magnus and the fall of Horus.
No Spoilers.
I am doing chapter by chapter blind and live. I also lack a an ebook so I can't really transcribe quotes. I've never really done a let's read or reaction video before, so this will be learning experience and give this site more content.
** The Seeds of Heresy are sown **
The opening screen on the Horus Heresy is very good reflection to that of the forty first millennium, showing the new age of hope and heroism.
It also boasts of legions of ten thousands of space marines, capable of besting "a hundred or more mortal men". Showing GW sense of scale.
Part One, Chapter One: The Decieved
The chapter opens with a cheap fake out, with Loken talking about being there the day "Horus slew the Emperor". We then quickly find ourselves post-Ulanor with a system being brought into a compliance, ruled by a tyrant claiming to be the only emperor exists, who guided humanity through the long night, rules from a golden throne, calls his state the imperium of man, and kills diplomats for suggesting that other emperors exist.
The Sons of Horus take system, but do manage to take actual casualties even with the Mechanicus giving them Titan Support.
Also Astarte cannot be matched, unless "the stars went out, and madness ruled, and lawful sense turned upside down. For a Sedirae had once said, 'The only thing that can be an Astartes is another Astartes '". Such subtle foreshadowing. As is the comparison of the Justaerin with "some other, black legion." that takes place on the same page Abandon talks about fighting a false emperor.
** Chapter Two **
Opens describing Astartes and how they're inhuman. Also handshakes still exist in as a Terran custom in this time period when a reporter tries to shake Loken's hand.
Also Loken doesn't like it when non-Astartes call Horus by his first name. Despite he himself still barely adapting to Horus's new title.
The not-Imperium has invisibility tech for it's super-elites, the Invincibles. And power-armour and weapons equal to those used by the Astartes.
The not-emperor is an old man who speaks with an antique accent, calls all dissenting opinions blasphemous and criticises the Astartes as being inhuman and amoral. If he didn't want for his not-imperium to just be left alone, he'd be just like his counterpart.
There's an exchange between the Astarte's on wether to show magnanimity, which Loken wants to show as that's what the Emperor taught, while Ekkadon counters with the Emperor not being there, leading Loken to pity the future of this crusade. Because foreshadowing!
The not-emperor wants to surrender to Horus personally. Horus teleports into the throne room and instantly shoots him, triggering the golden thrones self destruct sequence. Horus is described as a god by secular imperials. And he says this is how he will with deal with "All tyrants and deceivers.".
No Spoilers.
I am doing chapter by chapter blind and live. I also lack a an ebook so I can't really transcribe quotes. I've never really done a let's read or reaction video before, so this will be learning experience and give this site more content.
** The Seeds of Heresy are sown **
The opening screen on the Horus Heresy is very good reflection to that of the forty first millennium, showing the new age of hope and heroism.
It also boasts of legions of ten thousands of space marines, capable of besting "a hundred or more mortal men". Showing GW sense of scale.
Part One, Chapter One: The Decieved
-Lorgar Aurelian being an idiot.The difference between god's and demons largely depends upon where one is standing at the time.
The chapter opens with a cheap fake out, with Loken talking about being there the day "Horus slew the Emperor". We then quickly find ourselves post-Ulanor with a system being brought into a compliance, ruled by a tyrant claiming to be the only emperor exists, who guided humanity through the long night, rules from a golden throne, calls his state the imperium of man, and kills diplomats for suggesting that other emperors exist.
The Sons of Horus take system, but do manage to take actual casualties even with the Mechanicus giving them Titan Support.
Also Astarte cannot be matched, unless "the stars went out, and madness ruled, and lawful sense turned upside down. For a Sedirae had once said, 'The only thing that can be an Astartes is another Astartes '". Such subtle foreshadowing. As is the comparison of the Justaerin with "some other, black legion." that takes place on the same page Abandon talks about fighting a false emperor.
** Chapter Two **
Opens describing Astartes and how they're inhuman. Also handshakes still exist in as a Terran custom in this time period when a reporter tries to shake Loken's hand.
Also Loken doesn't like it when non-Astartes call Horus by his first name. Despite he himself still barely adapting to Horus's new title.
The not-Imperium has invisibility tech for it's super-elites, the Invincibles. And power-armour and weapons equal to those used by the Astartes.
The not-emperor is an old man who speaks with an antique accent, calls all dissenting opinions blasphemous and criticises the Astartes as being inhuman and amoral. If he didn't want for his not-imperium to just be left alone, he'd be just like his counterpart.
There's an exchange between the Astarte's on wether to show magnanimity, which Loken wants to show as that's what the Emperor taught, while Ekkadon counters with the Emperor not being there, leading Loken to pity the future of this crusade. Because foreshadowing!
The not-emperor wants to surrender to Horus personally. Horus teleports into the throne room and instantly shoots him, triggering the golden thrones self destruct sequence. Horus is described as a god by secular imperials. And he says this is how he will with deal with "All tyrants and deceivers.".