What more is that the book gives an idea of their motives and their ideas and you can really see how they were good guys caught up doing the wrong thing for the right reason. Though there is not alot of background given to them there is enough to give the reader an idea of where they came from. In this book we explore the Legion that is the Thousand Sons and its Primarch Magnus. Second of all I just want to say that this was a great read. The overall plot line could've been shorter, but the additional material is worthwhile.įirst of all I just want to start out that I have been playing 40k on and off again for the better part of 13 years so I know a bit of the background story. But the story is solid, characters are fleshed out fairly well, and the politics balance against the constant combat nicely. But when you change the group of characters, the view from the outside paints the same people as bloodthirsty, psychotic monsters who have more compassion for their bullets than any facet of diplomacy.
Maybe its the perspective of the characters, but the problem that seems to arise in every book is that the characters are always rational, lucid, and compassionate, in at least the way life long soldiers can be. The problem continues to be the split between noble warrior and monster. Against the Emperors edict, they continue in their studies, hoping to avoid an even greater calamity. And despite an impassioned plea from Magnus, the primarch of the Sons, psykers are banned. The thousand Sons, struggling under a startup plagued by mutation and psychic developmental powers, is shoved into the political arena when they are accused of witchcraft.
Despite juggling these knives already, McNeil manages to deliver on all accounts and tell a great story at the same time. The bar continues to be raised on these HH books, despite the seemingly growing pressures to maintain canon and still not violate any of the prescripts concerning 40K. If you love space marines get this, if you love chaos space marines get this, if you don't know what a space marine is - go read EiEisenhorn (A Warhammer 40,000 Omnibus) to get an introduction into the mythology of the warhammer 40k universe. This is a Horus Heresy book so it takes place 30,000 years in the future not the world of Warhammer 40K.so this establishes and explains some of the mythology for W40K gamers. For me, it was an interesting story but I didn't feel that I "had" to read this.since I have not connection with the Thousand Sons.
If you're a Thousand sons fan or gamer, this is must-read material. This also really makes you see why you'd support the Thousand Sons. Basically, the Thousand sons use psychic abilities to warn the Emperor of Horus' treachery and in response, the Emperor sends an army after them (that makes no sense and.makes you really wonder what the Emperor is thinking). There's something very consistent about most of these stories regarding chaos space marines: most chaos space marines had a very good reason to hate the emperor.