richard can you give me a good short/semi-short synopsis of wh40k
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emp of man exist in many form for millenia on proto earth thing
warhammer fantasy exist
then in the 21st century or something Emp decides to stop trying to rule humans from the shadows and crowns himself boss of humans
he destroy religions, makes tech awesome, and begins creating his babies
his babies get stoled by CHAOS GODS and sent across galaxy because sending them across universe is too hard
eventually Emp creates try hard marines out of his dna and terrible terrible boot camps on humans and uses them to take over planets
as he takes over planets in GREAT CRUSADE he finds his babies and makes them CHAPTER HEADS of his marines
Horus is his favorite son even though he is found late in the game
Horus is corrupted by CHAOS GODS and maybe some OTHER CHAPTER HEADS and leads a REBELLION against his DAD
Half the chapters go to CHAOS. EMP kills his favorite son Horus after being mortally wounded and the GOLDEN THROWN is utilized not as a beacon of web ways but as his life support. HE becomes ZOMBIE GOD. After 10 thousand years no one remembers how to build COOL STUFF and tech becomes religion, in huge smack to emp's memory. Some say if you let emp die, he becomes fabled STAR CHILD and will come back and destroy CHAOS for good.
more or less
gg
warhammer fantasy exist
then in the 21st century or something Emp decides to stop trying to rule humans from the shadows and crowns himself boss of humans
he destroy religions, makes tech awesome, and begins creating his babies
his babies get stoled by CHAOS GODS and sent across galaxy because sending them across universe is too hard
eventually Emp creates try hard marines out of his dna and terrible terrible boot camps on humans and uses them to take over planets
as he takes over planets in GREAT CRUSADE he finds his babies and makes them CHAPTER HEADS of his marines
Horus is his favorite son even though he is found late in the game
Horus is corrupted by CHAOS GODS and maybe some OTHER CHAPTER HEADS and leads a REBELLION against his DAD
Half the chapters go to CHAOS. EMP kills his favorite son Horus after being mortally wounded and the GOLDEN THROWN is utilized not as a beacon of web ways but as his life support. HE becomes ZOMBIE GOD. After 10 thousand years no one remembers how to build COOL STUFF and tech becomes religion, in huge smack to emp's memory. Some say if you let emp die, he becomes fabled STAR CHILD and will come back and destroy CHAOS for good.
more or less
gg
read wikipedia articles then never read the books gg
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orks discovered space travel when mork trick his brother gork to throw his axe as hard as possible at distant star in sky after sneakily tying axe to gork's ankle. gork throw axe so hard it fling him into space
true story
true story
great toad ones create orks to combate NECRONS who are SCURGE OF UNIVERSE before emp was born 40 thousand years ago
NECRONS are retconned worshipers of the great deceiver or devourer or something, one of the ctan that broke the great toad ones and ruined the galaxy. he lives in a sun now.
the toad dudes made elves and eldar and even me and you
orks have DNA implants to let them make shit without knowing shit
and if they believe in something hard enough, its true
orks truly are the heirs to the galaxy god bless them plant creatures
NECRONS are retconned worshipers of the great deceiver or devourer or something, one of the ctan that broke the great toad ones and ruined the galaxy. he lives in a sun now.
the toad dudes made elves and eldar and even me and you
orks have DNA implants to let them make shit without knowing shit
and if they believe in something hard enough, its true
orks truly are the heirs to the galaxy god bless them plant creatures
Ben Counter soul drinkers series has lots of what you want
he isn't as good a writer as abnett (but then WHO IS), but i remember kinda digging that particular series.
if you haven't read all of abnett's other 40k books you should read those instead though:
Eisenhorn books, Ravenor books, Pariah, Ghosts books + Double Eagle + Titanicus, Brothers of the Snake, Horus Rising, Legion, Know No Fear...those are the must reads, he has done a few other bits and pieces too, including a non-40k generic sci-fi novel called Embedded which is decent
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you should do legion first and then pariah imo.
legion is like book 7 of the horus heresy series but it's pretty much fine to read it out of sequence
and it has some kind of bearing on Pariah, which is the first book in the Bequin series...following on from Eisenhorn/Ravenor
ya
legion is like book 7 of the horus heresy series but it's pretty much fine to read it out of sequence
and it has some kind of bearing on Pariah, which is the first book in the Bequin series...following on from Eisenhorn/Ravenor
ya
its short for Dick
And prospero burns which is my fav abnett wh40k book tied w traitor general (well discounting Eisenhorn/rav books which are in a class that transcends warhammer fluff stuff).