He is a slave to Nuceria and his jailers because of what they inflicted on him and his legion, in an attempt to be like him and to gain his favor, become as broken and mutilated as he is. The three black pages I mentioned before are Kharn getting the Butcher's Nails literally hammered into his brain and experiencing a violent psychotic break so atrocious we're not allowed to see what happens, and as the nails are installed and begin to rewire his brain the black pages start and end only when his slaughtering is complete. Angron’s empathy causes him pain, until the nails his enslavers drill into in his head replaces that hurt with rage. The issues I have with the book is the weak beginning part which seemed to drag on for a bit before going into the meat of the plot.

Like Corax and to an extent Mortarion, the Twelfth had been a leader of rebels, turned by his Creator into one who would instead go on to crush rebellions against the nascent Imperium’s tyranny. The book shows us how the imprint of gene seed effect the Legion on the emotional level and how will the majority of them took some really drastic way to understand their gene sire. It also looks more into Khàrn and what is the start of his fall but also gain a respect as in later Horus heresy books he seems to have his tendencies for blood almost in check outside of battle. The best apart about this shism is that we get some insight in the warhounds legion that preceded the world eaters. As I came close to finishing the book, I realized that Angron is just a lot more interesting after he falls to Chaos.Makea you wonder if the two lost primarch were doing, if being drooling retard with an anger problem is absolutely fine with, apparently, everyone. That's also without getting into the issue of how the hell they pinned down/kept confined a demigod who could likely slaughter entire stadiums with just his fists.

Angron: Slave of Nuceria is published by Black Library, available from tomorrow as a Limited Edition hardcover, and due in May 2019 in eBook and ‘regular’ hardcover. And this is the tale about how the XII Legion chose the path to damnation too, embracing their father’s path and hammering the Butcher’s Nails inside their skull. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Within a single second Angron had torn both of his arms from their sockets and sent them flying through the air, before he lifted the Terminator from his feet and broke his head open against the ground. The flashbacks to his past were touching and you can really feel the raw anger but even more so anguish and pain that this character embodies.I don’t doubt World Eaters go on perform some outrageous feats of savagery during the Horus Heresy arc, but St. Change for the legion; how going from the War Hounds to the World Eaters effects the minds of the legion and change for the primarch. This can work in a direct trilogy, but these are supposedly from seperate series in the same timeline. In general, the style St Martin chose for this story, action-heavy and dialogue-rich in equal measure, perfectly matches the spirit of the 12th Legion.

Granted, those reasons translate into monstrous flesh-ripping and wholesale murder of his own Legion brought on by psychotic cybernetic implants, which isn't good, but still. Theirs had been the true bonds of blood – blood spilt together upon red sands for decades and later in a meticulously-planned rebellion – while the former War Hounds are just a poor replacement, at best.For the Twelfth Legion, once the War Hounds and now the World Eaters, the line between strength and flaw is almost impossible to separate.

Takes a look at the angriest of all the primarchs and really makes a effort to in a way humanise him. Because Space Marines are just weapons and tools, nothing more, and their duty is to obey their Primarch, even if he is a broken one. His form of describing scenes is excellent when it comes to individual duels, and is best suited to moments of character drama or conversations.

We learn some very interesting details, notably where his name originated and potentially why he never utilises his surname (no, I can't reveal that due to spoilers). Anyone who always assumed Angron is little more then a drooling maniac will really be surprised when reading this book. Previous prototypes of the Nails had run the gamut of entry points for affixing the implants to the subject's brain. The former is pretty interesting, because it gives us a glimpse of what Angron was like before he was mutilated by the slave-masters and received the Butcher’s Nails himself — a surprisingly compassionate, empathetic being. Novel portrays in great detail the fall of World Eaters legion, proud battle hardened warriors, under dominion of Chaos for a simple reason of trying to be accepted by their gene-father.