Deliverance Lost: Ghosts of Terra (The Horus Heresy)

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Die Handlung knüpft endlich wieder an die direkten Nachwirkungen des Istvaan V Massakers an: Primark Corvus Corax und seine Raven Guard sind nur knapp der totalen Vernichtung entkommen. And don't get me started on the half assed attempt to give the Raven Guard a meaningful victory at the end in maybe a dozen pages max. His Warhammer 40,000 repertoire further includes the Path of the Eldar series, the Horus Heresy audio dramas Raven's Flight and Honour to the Dead, and a multiplicity of short stories. Die Verluste sind so schwerwiegend dass die Raven Guard nicht mehr effektiv gegen Horus und seine Verbündeten vorgehen kann. With Corax finally released, collecting the novellas and finishing the story arc begun with this novel, I figured it would be best to re-read the old novel in preparation for the new anthology.

Piling up erratic behavior through the Alpha Legionaries and certain characters and ramping up the tension of the infiltration, he provided a magnificent red herring for readers to follow. This stands in heavy contrast to the obsessed, blind figure Corax becomes throughout the book, caring less and less about his fellow Raven Guard and more about his own need for vengeance and the fastest ways to achieve it. This entry had all of those things - it even had a brief encounter with the Emperor, which is always exciting (so long as they keep them brief)! Mit diesem Wissen kann Corax in nur wenigen Wochen und Monaten nun seine Legion wieder aufbauen, wobei die traditionelle Erschaffung eines Space Marines ganzer Jahre bedarf. Corax's introduction is pretty interesting, particularly when juxtaposed against the recent massacre at Istvan.However, I personally don't think he's overly reflective about why things go wrong for him, for the story ends with him committing to an attack that he originally planned to undertake with far more of his Legion. I've been waiting to read this installment of the Horus Heresy for years, and it didn't let me down. And what do you know, it is far better than I remembered, and much better than the internet's denizens would have you believe. The plot itself and the Alpha Legion shenanigans were quite interesting and the conclusion was kinda cool but it was too little too late.

I like the Raven Guard, I like the entries that focus on the Legions themselves, and I like the entries that have less fighting and more macro-level developments. The Raven Guard recover from the battle against the tech-guilds and root out the Alpha Legionnaires in their midst by testing their DNA. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Omegon launches his attack on Ravendelve, the location of the secret gene-project on Kiavahr, and amidst the battle the three undercover Alpha Legionnaires reveal themselves, killing several real Raven Guard including Vincente Sixx.After his badass, but ultimately having to retreat, showing at the Dropsite Massacre there have only been scattered bits of Corax here and there about who he is and what is going on with his Legion, and most of that stuff was just rehashings of what we already knew. I'd like to thank Gav Thorpe for yet again delivering one of the most entertaining and unusual stories published by the Black Library so far. It is fitting for the Lord of Ravens in my eyes, and never done to the extent that it would reach into the comical. Throughout the book, Corax goes from contemplating self-sacrifice in a suicidal charge against Angron of the World Eaters to numb to angry and spiteful, before throwing himself at his father's feet to ask for his blessing in throwing his remaining sons away to hurt Horus anyway possible. It's known as the Corvus suit and the beaked helmet is an Imperial in-joke that the Primarch appreciates, even if his men don't.