Angron: The Red Angel (Warhammer 40,000)

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He has written for Black Library, Marvel, Aconyte Books, Asmodee, Mantic Games, Cubicle 7, Creative Assembly, and Mongoose Publishing. Because it felt like the true point of this book was to make you understand how the nails feel and operate.

And I really liked how they use the "creature feature" rule of just giving glimpses of Angron here and there throughout until that final big juicy reveal. It's the most unreserved, honest critique of Angron in any text I've seen and it does not pull a single punch. Parts are easy enough to follow, others made me question whether the intention was to give the reader an impression of how the butchers nails feel. They’re more like an overwhelming destructive force, so rather than presenting scenes from his point of view, to ruminate on his wants and ambitions, it’s more about characters experiencing him, and how his presence affects their own lives.They're Imperial Thousand Sons, but with absolutely zero hubris: they know what they're doing and they haven't got a single speck of doubt about the horrible sins they commit. That became one of my favourite parts – in another world, I could have written a novel about that story alone!

WarCom: Did writing Ferrus Manus: Gorgon of Medusa and Lion El’Jonson: Lord of the First help explore how Space Marines interact with their Primarchs on a personal level? Naturally, Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s Betrayer was a big part of my preparation, being the seminal Horus Heresy World Eaters novel. I’m not suggesting that anyone should read sixty-plus books to understand one slim novel, but that kind of familiarity would doubtless help. The characters tended to blend together as they were almost all very similar, and I found myself losing interest as the story went on. David: I did enjoy writing about my renegade Leidis, and I think anyone interested in how a broken Legion like the World Eaters actually functions will like his scenes.It’s not so much about how perpetual anger affects Angron (because, quite frankly, he’s fine with it) but more about how other people are affected by Angron, both those who follow him, and those who oppose him. In the darkness of Imperium Nihilus, across half a million worlds cut off from the dim light of Holy Terra, a beacon is lit.

We have characters who’ve been trying and failing to bring their Legion back together for millennia, and the book zeroes in on their perspective when this incredibly important figurehead re-enters the limelight. I fully admit that I am biased, as Angron and the World Eaters are my favorite primarch and legion respectively.David: All of the veterans of the Long War have degraded since their time in M31, but you’d be hard-pushed to say any have fallen as far as the World Eaters.