#horus's boys trampled a whole bunch of civilians accidentally bc theyre too big. i dont think this behaviour is exceptional to the 'bad guy | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

gabrielsantar · 2 months ago

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done with mechanicum. i think it's pretty safe to say that graham mcneill circa 2008 was the weakest of the heresy writers so far at that point, but i like that he writes rogal dorn and ferrus manus as hunks and he's pretty funny (sometimes accidentally) so i will let it slide. i hope that i can see him improve i read books that came out in later years, but you can feel moments like this where it feels like he's trying to hit a word count.

“‘The labyrinth of the night?’ asked Caxton. ‘Are you sure that’s what he said?’ ‘Yes, absolutely,’ said Dalia. ‘The labyrinth of the night.’ ‘The Noctis Labyrinthus,’ said Mellicin, and Caxton nodded. Dalia looked at the pair of them. ‘Noctis Labyrinthus… what’s that?’ ‘The Labyrinth of the Night, it’s what Noctis Labyrinthus means,’ replied Caxton.”

#black library liveblog #it was a bit of a yawnfest though bc the emperor stuff could've been so interesting if it had been his future dying energy corpse trying t #to possess the bodies of psykers in the past in order to escape eternal darkness but instead its the dragon thing. okay. fine.#but he had malacor be a good grandpappy to rogal dorn (sort've) and he (mcneill) called mr. dorn handsome so... <3 #VERY funny when they try to make me think the dark mechanicum is superemly super evil bc they don't care about civilian casualties #as if im supposed to think any singular person in the entire imperium also cares about civilian casualties either dfkhfhdf #horus's boys trampled a whole bunch of civilians accidentally bc theyre too big. i dont think this behaviour is exceptional to the 'bad guy #sometimes i think some of the authors forget the 'good guys' in 40k are also super extremely evil also ddhdhshs

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