As the Emperor travels the galaxy at the head of his Great Crusade, few events are as important as rediscovering his scattered sons, the Primarchs, and bestowing them as the masters of their Legions. When they fail to do so and one of his commander speaks up against the punishment, no longer willing to spill the blood of his own men, Angron goes into a nails induced rage. Every XII Legion warrior, no longer War Hounds but now the Eaters of Worlds, who had undergone the procedure had died.

That the damnation of the World Eaters was an entirely human one, at least initially, and the angry god to adopt his legion later was really only formalizing what they'd been doing for decades. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. It’s also been interesting to follow the heated dispute of Centurions Mago and Khârn, regarding their father and the future of their Legion, both of them certain they know exactly which path would better suit their brothers. Kharn, even without citing any attachment to Angron himself, brings up a multitude of points in their favour. Like Corax and to an extent Mortarion, the Twelfth had been a leader of rebels, turned by his Creator into one who would instead go on to crush rebellions against the nascent Imperium’s tyranny.It makes us wonder what might have been… I think the author did a very good job of showing this side of Angron, using it to good effect in providing a stark contrast with the frothing, out-of-control berserker he was by the time the Emperor found him and united him with his Legion. Even if they are going to lose their mind and become bloodthirsty rampaging cannibals, blinded by neverending rage and putting the whole galaxy to flames, just for their wish to finally become accepted by their gene-sire.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Unlike Curze, Angron did not become psycho because he decided to (because you know, why not especially because there is no point in living at all and it is so difficult to be awake because you know) like Curze but because he was broken by the Nuceria slavers while very young.

Theirs had been the true bonds of blood – blood spilt together upon red sands for decades and later in a meticulously-planned rebellion – while the former War Hounds are just a poor replacement, at best.

Angron decides to kick his father Emperor into pulp and undo his work at first opportunity - which remained in domain of theory until finally Horus decided to provide Angron with the vent. Reading this novel, I was left with a niggling question: How on Terra did the Emperor not purge this Legion? At the same time, a group of legionaries desperate for their Primarch's acceptance are toiling to be as close to him as possible ala installation of the Butcher's Nails in the whole legion. This is no comfy, glorious gladiator area plotline, it was barbaric and vile how they treated their slaves and controlled them, you got a sense of their complete inhumanity and uncaring nature, it really made me root for their deaths.Unlike his brothers, the Twelfth Primarch is the only one who would not rise to rule over the world of his upbringing, and there was a very special reason for that. Discovered at last by the Master of Mankind, this former gladiator-champion suddenly finds himself attired in the full panoply of a Legion commander which he has absolutely no wish to become. It makes for the dynamic and downfall much more tragic, as it makes it clear that if any one of the things leading up to this had failed, the World Eaters would have likely avoided their fate. There is a lot more to discuss about the story, which is no wonder since the Primarchs and their progeny still face the same existential and moral dilemmas as the common humankind, only on a much greater scale.

Yet three of them blow themselves into space in the first twenty pages while homebrewing putting nails in their heads.

Granted, those reasons translate into monstrous flesh-ripping and wholesale murder of his own Legion brought on by psychotic cybernetic implants, which isn't good, but still. He even treats them as expendable fodder, and his restructuring of the legion is turned into a ludicrous act of self-destruction. Sadly, for me, this book did not have as much emotional impact as "Betrayer" had, but that was pretty impossible to beat, to be honest.