#Guy Haley

[suzanna-polixena]

Drew the scene from memory and it looks like I have very conveniently compressed a few paragraphs into one fresco scene, yay!

This style brings me emotional comfort 😇

[like-tears-in-rain-storms]

You know, regardless of how many heroic and worthy sons the other primarchs were blessed with, only Curze had Sevatar for his son, so imho he's the winner there

[nevesmose]

Curze grinned at the First Captain suddenly, transforming his visage into a death’s head rictus lit by febrile eyes. ‘Now you have met my brother, you must surely prefer crows to ravens.’

That was a joke, thought Sevatar. He did not understand jokes. ‘My lord, are we finished?’

For some unfathomable reason, that made Curze cringe, and he nodded like a rebuked child.

Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter by Guy Haley.

[barpsy-abaub]

Taec Silvereye comprehends his grim fate

[warhammersnippets]

His flesh was as necessary to him as an overcoat, nothing more than that. He kept it mainly for sentimental reasons. (...) By any definition of human, Cawl was a monstrosity

From: The Great Work, Guy Haley

[minweber]

You know, I really don't think that Guy Haley had the whole Cawl/Qvo dynamic fully planned out even as he was finishing up The Great Work. Well, either that, or he is one of the funniest motherfuckers on the planet. Because going by how Qvo-89's awakening went in Genefather, Qvo-88's must have been something like:

"Hello, dear Friedisch... Yes, yes, okay, Qvo. Please listen. Please get up and listen. No, stop crying. Qvo, please. I really, really need you to go over to Felix's ship and explain to him what the fuck has just happened. Better make it sound good too, Qvo, because that mountain is gone. Try not to mention the loose C'tan. Make something up. Be a dear and do it Qvo. Okay? Good, the shuttle will pick you up in fifteen minutes."

[ladymirdan]

So I just finished Avenging Son by Guy Haley and I'm screaming!

I have so many emotions! It's so good! It's so fucked up! Guilliman is such a bad man! Is alpha primus Alpharius? Messinius is such a sweetheart! Guilliman is such a calculating, bad, very bad man! I want to hit Cawl with a stick until it breaks and then get a new stick! The Blackstone thing is really cool! Guilliman is so fucking shady! No wonder Horus and Big E didn't trust him! Im fine with the Primaris, I dont get the hate at all anymore. The Inquisitor is pretty cool, and im concerned over the fact that I now like two inquisitors. The Horus Heresy books are canon in universe! This book is so meta I can't, but not in a bad way. I hope the next book is half as good and I will be happy.

Overall, a good book 10/10 - Will listen to it again.

[plagueplanethq]

Cover of Guy Haley’s Godblight. Hunting for the name of the artist.

[pattern-53-enfield]

relistened to The Night Haunter and all i can think of is this panel whenever it mentions Curze snatching people out of the dark while doing his I AM THE NIGHT bits

[polarity-of-the-stars]

Second book of 2025 I read, little different from what I normally read but I wanted to try it out because the world of Warhammer 40k has always been interesting to me and the new lore in recent years as the story starts to move again is something I’d like to keep up with. (Also I found a new warhammer shop in my city so I have access to all the books now 😅).

This book is fun because it tells the greater story of the new era, which is the start of a massive crusade to retake the stars for mankind lead by the god emperor of humanity’s last loyal son (hence the title), but it tells this story by looking at the perspectives of many different characters, from a simple scribe to a imperial navy captain to even the avenging son’s right hand. In all, the book shows you through these viewpoints the grim state of the galaxy and how humanity is, despite this grand conquest and the greatest moment of hope in 10,000 years, utterly lost but still willing to sacrifice everything for the imperium of man. These are Sacrifices that are both incredibly noble on an individual level but on all other levels are harrowing and full of despair. It shows how despite the ideals of certain leaders, the only thing people can hope for is that the afterlife might be kinder and far more peaceful. “For in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war”.

Also mild spoilers below the cut.

But at one point they are going to use this alien device to destroy another and this one solider is covering them and wondering how they are going to make it work only to look back and see them just chuck it like a bag of potatoes into the heart of the machine. Like a whole military operation to stop this machine and it all comes down to two guys throwing another rock at it. 40k has the strangest sense of humor to break up all the darkness and it just hits different. Like the one admiral being great at her job but is like on drugs the whole time like a madwoman. It’s the little moments of levity where the setting laughs at itself and embraces the inherent contradictions and hypocrisy that compose some of the more satirical elements of the universe. 

[paniwarhamauser]

By some warp shenanigans I got Guy Haley's Genefather today, a week before the release.

Shipping mistake probably. But I like to think some isoteric powers (Pater Mutatis himself?) thought that a madperson who buys both limited and regular edition(and has several versions of Bile trilogy) must be very excited for the book, and made sure I got it before everyone else 😁

The problem is... I am reading it and want to talk about it, but it IS a week early. So it is very unfair to everyone else.

So, do I post my thoughts into the draft and then post this unedited stream of consciousness next week(no way I'm going back to edit it all!), or post it as I read, with massive spoiler warning?

[like-tears-in-rain-storms]

Without discounting in the least the "terrorizing people with punitive justice alone won't lead to any meaningful change" and "fear must be fed constantly in order to be effective and can't sustainably structure a society on its own" and "Konrad take your goddamn pills" conclusions we're meant to draw, I must say if my grandparents brought me up with tales of people getting skinned in public for stealing candy bars and the sewers clogging with body parts, I wouldn't assume that the same superpowered guy, being still around and now agent of imperial authority, would have changed his ways and taken up yoga and thus it would be totally fine to do the same crime once more - in fact, I would keep being scared shitless and be trying to give as little a cause for him to pop back as possible, on account of not being suicidally and irreversibly stupid.

Rip to Nostramans, but I'm different, and probably rank higher in the Darwin scale of survival, along with almost everyone else in the entire universe.

[nevesmose]

Strategy boards occupied much of the hall’s space. These were thronged by Iron Warriors arguing how best to represent the hrud in their simulated battles. Their recent setbacks had exercised their minds as much as their anger, and ambitious warsmiths could see the glory to be won if they concocted a winning strategy. In truth, all warsmiths were ambitious, and they all had different ideas. In the first place, they could not agree how best to test their theories. Those that favoured the purity of wood block formations and outcomes decided by the casting of ten-sided dice argued bitterly with the proponents of cogitator-assisted hololith battle simulators.

Perturabo: The Hammer of Olympia by Guy Haley.

[boardgametoday]

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: More Warhammer 40K 10th Edition incoming

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: More Warhammer 40K 10th Edition incoming #warhammer40k #warhammer40000 #warhammercommunity

With the Warhammer 40K: Leviathan box coming out next weekend, the upcoming Games Workshop pre-orders continue the 40K releases for those that missed or didn’t want the box set. Kicking things off, you can get your Warhammer 40,000 Core Book. The 280-page hardback book contains everything you need to start your journey into the grim darkness of the far future. It contains dozens upon dozens of…

[warhammersnippets]

Stand, Qvo-87,’ said Felix, eventually. The tech-priest stood. ‘I am not Qvo-87, my lord,’ he said. ‘My designation is Qvo-88.’ ‘I should have guessed. The one who died within the Pharos was your clone-predecessor. Is there no carry over of personality?’ ‘Not quite,’ said Qvo. ‘We share a common origin, but we are individuals.’ ‘Then Qvo-87 is truly dead.’ ‘Everything can only live once,’ said Qvo-88 From: The Great Work, Guy Haley

[minweber]

Have been once again retreading what limited official Cawl content we have (cursed as I am to ever do so), and noticed how much of Cawl-like little shits Qvo iterations tend to be, once they had chance to run about for a bit.

In "To Speak as One", when Qvo-87 is having sort of a solo adventure, he appears both smartass and prone to theatrics in his scheming against the inquisitor - a downright Belisarius Cawl in miniature. Whereas Qvo-89, upon his awakening, is much more like Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo we meet in Cawl's flashbacks - a somewhat timid, pious man, a "straight man" and an exasperated witness to Cawl's antics.

This, of course, can be explained as a result of each iteration getting closer to the original, with Qvo-89 being a particularly close copy, as Cawl smugly notes. But at the same time it does not seem like that much of a radical breakthrough - Cawl navigates their initial conversation like one he already had dozens of times, suggesting that most iterations of Qvo at least start out this way.

Which, to me, suggests two, not necessarily contradictory explanations:

First one is that, not originally having the entirety of Friedisch's mind to save, Cawl had to "fill in the blanks" with something - his own ideas of what his friend was like, perhaps? And wouldn't it have been nice if poor Friedisch, ever so serious, always stressed and sweating the unimportant details, could, over time, learn to relax and enjoy himself a little?

But second is that Cawl's reconstruction of him has nothing to do with this. Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo was actually always like that. A man who acted indecisive and skittish as an unappreciated low ranking adept at the bottom of a paranoid, schism-torn priesthood in the middle of an apocalyptic civil war, suddenly finds himself as essentially immortal right-hand man to a messianic genius at the head of one of the most powerful human institutions in the galaxy. Wonder if it's going to help him shed some self-confidence issues and express himself more freely?

I guess what I am saying is that for every bit of "opposites attract" that defines Cawl and Qvo's relationship, there seems to be a non-insignificant bit of "birds of a feather" dynamic to tag along. That is to say, that they were two glorious little gremlin shits against the galaxy from the very beginning - one of them just had a little more self-preservation instinct about the whole thing.