This codex disappointed me greatly. Not because it was terrible, but because it was genuinely good!

I got these older codices to laugh at the over-the-top “I'm soo cool, fuck you”-attitude, but there was nothing cringe about this codex despite being from 1998 (that isn't present in modern-day Blood Angels too)

I genuinely think this is some of Gav Thorpe's best writing. And the models are gorgeous too. Reading this, I understand their popularity.

Inquisitor

(art by: John blanche, written by: Gav Thorpe

guys. guys i need ur help

on the one hand i really like imperium secundus. 12-ft tall blondes yelling at each other and then flouncing off while konrad goes on a killing spree in the background. peak hilarity, what more could you want. and the next book, angels of caliban is supposed to contain some of the highlights of the arc.

on the other hand angels of caliban is written by gav thorpe. i have read precisely one book by gav thorpe (ghost warrior) and it was so bad that i swore off of gav thorpe for the rest of my life. partly out of spite, but mostly out of fear. i can't put myself through that again. i can't. if i have to read him summarizing A Cool Thing instead of actually showing it one more time i will go to a crossroads and sell my soul to the nearest devil just to get away.

so. here i am. stuck. at an impasse.

is angels of caliban readable? is it worth getting or should i just try to find certain pieces online? help me. please.

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Rogal Dorn’s Primarch Book

Finally finished it, and it was OK, I guess. It wasn't what I wanted out of a Rogal Dorn book: nothing about his life on Inwit and and nothing addressing the pain glove or masochism. Hell, we didn't even get Dorn's point of view, at least not to any signficant degree.

But that's all very predictable for Heresy books about Rogal Dorn, sadly. (I blame BL's squeamishness about the masochism, and I'm kind of OK with them just avoiding the subject if they'd otherwise try to erase it altogether.)

It did really underline Dorn's self-objectification as an obedient extension of the Emperor's will, though, and that's always fun. Plus Sigismund getting into being (in turn) just an extension of Dorn's will. Resonated well with the rant Dorn gave Sig in The Crimson Fist.

There was some decent Primarch interactions, though, and the implication that Horus and Fulgrim were just doing so much politics that the Imperial Fists were completely oblivious to was very IC and very entertaining. Young Lion was also pretty fun.

Most of it was just a lot of Great Crusade battles and maneuvering and such. It didn't really shy away from just how awful the Great Crusade was -- we got the phrase "population restocking" from a remembrancer side-character, which was an excellent dystopian touch. (Although it did skip over most of the details of the genocides. As a reader, I'm not really objecting.)

The story was framed by a conversation Malcador was having with Sigismund and Fafnir Rann about why Dorn was chosen as Praetorian. (Answer: because he's the most unquestionably obedient of the Emperor's sons.) Unfortunately, the story didn't make any real attempt to answer the question of why Dorn is like that.

I do wonder if we're supposed to conclude it's a defense mechanism against accepting moral responsibility for the horrible things he's done for the Emperor? But if so, it's a defense that was already firmly in place by the beginning of the narrative given.

...On the bright side, since this is a complete wash in terms of New Information About Rogal Dorn, none of my headcanons have been contradicted.

Title: Shadow of the past (2018)

Author: Gav Thorpe

Vote: 6/10

A story that I found confusing. Lorgar has ascended, but I don't really understand if this has changed him in any way, physically or spiritually since he is forced to flee from Corax, who was perhaps more influenced by the Warp than his clerical brother. The only interesting thing about the story is that after a long time we see two primarchs again but otherwise it is a story without particular merits.

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Gav Thorpe did some writing for Realms of Ruin.

Interesting.

Gav, why?

I'm not getting over his choice when to show or when to tell. Mostly to tell, because that happens so often.

Like when a Marine notices another half buried under an Ork he tells us that Telemenus (Marine 1) calls his brother's name instead of showing us. Considering that Telemenus could be construed to be too focused on his Marksman Laurels in the whole fucking novel and was suppossed to guard his brother's back you might want to make a bigger deal out of it, Gav.

The other Space Marine was fine, btw, if you ignore the earlier injury he got.

Also... Why are there Orks in the first place? It's a Space Station manned by renegades and pirates. Do you get paid in Ork teeth?

Me: “I can read this book quick, its only 190 pages.”

*2 chapters in and I realize that it is a Gav Thorpe book and that the flow is jank as hell and it feels like ive read 300 pages and not 30* 😅

*its still good though.

His Wall Name is "Defiance", you say?

So I'm reading Rogal Dorn's Primarch book and so far it is... objectively terrible: it's not from his POV, it doesn't take place on Inwit and so far does not cover his past at all, it barely has a plot to speak of, what plot there is has zero stakes at all because it's set at a time in the Crusade where we know that literally every pre-existing named character is going to be fine and the ones we get to know are like deliberately designed to be meh (to be fair, this is not a flaw unique to this book), Rogal gets more character development in the average five page short story where he's undergoing some kind of insane psychological split because of the whole Repression Machine Does Not, In Fact, Go Brrr thing, but.

But.

However.

It is now officially, absolutely, 100% right-there-on-the-page canon that Rogal Dorn is a Wine Dad.

Do they even make non imperium books

Depends what you mean. Chaos? Quite a lot. Xenos? Not many, but moreso in recent years, once GW slowly started wrapping its head around the fact people actually liked xenos stuff.

You've got the Path of the Eldar and Rise of the Ynnari stuff by Gav Thorpe. These are uh, not great contentious amongst Eldar fans. You have the T'au stuff by Phil Kelly. Genuinely overall bad. The Path of the Dark Eldar books by Andy Chambers are good and fun. Necrons have Robert Rath's The Infinite and The Divine + War in the Museum focused around Trazyn and Orikan. They also have the Twice-Dead King duology, which is an exquisite look into the social and psychological aspects of the Necrons. He also did the novella Severed, which is about Obyron and Zahndrekh being tired and gay. Genestealer stuff is a mixed bag, but Day of Ascension by Adrian Tchaikovsky is an incredibly good look at how the awfulness of the Imperium allows for GSCs to proliferate. Brutal Kunnin by Mike Brooks and Ghazghkull Thraka by Nate Crowley are phenomenally fun Ork books.

There are other books and anthologies, of course, but these are the main ones, in my mind.

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You know, I never played Gav Thorpe’s old Inquisitor game. I got the living rule book PDF, and a couple of fun supplements, but it’s still one of the few old 40k games I never got to play.

The art design is perfect. It seems so darned fun, but this particular set of rules looks to have only been used for this game.

The stats are interesting! Similar to the d100 Warhammer rpg games, but shifted a bit towards tabletop combat rather than full Roleplaying. I’d like to give it a go one day. I do tend to enjoy these older games like Mordheim and Gorkamorka, so I’ll probably enjoy this too!

Has anyone on here played Inquisitor? What did you think of it?

Title: Suffer Not the Unclean to Live (1990) Author: Gav Thorpe Vote: 6.5/10

Story with a good structure and a protagonist who would have deserved at least a series of stories. A devout but realistic man about his chances of caring for his parish in a cruel and merciless universe. Not the story that best encapsulates the Warhammer 40k universe but still nice to read.