[Horus Heresy] News VO/UK

Sanguinius a écrit:En tout cas, il n'y connaissent pas grand chose en latin...

Roboutte Guilliman a écrit:Donc globalement : Peuple de l'Imperium...(quelques désagréments??) rien de bien préoccupant..

Juste deux titans qui se foutent sur la gueule....

Emperor a écrit:
Hop, on voit quand même mieux en négatif.



Ca a l'air d'être un mix Haut/Bas Gothique. (Dernier mot de la 4ème ligne : "lies !" )

Dernière phrase : "Hoc non est terrerae." => Approximativement : "Il n'y a pas lieu de s'alarmer."
Ah mais oui ! Y'a juste quelques Titans qui se foutent sur la gueule dans la ville, tout va bien !

Roboutte Guilliman a écrit:Le titan de gauche est un renégat de la légio des Warp runners si je ne m'abuse.. l'autre je connais ces couleurs mais j'arrive pas a mettre un nom dessus...

When the Word Bearers launched their surprise assault on Calth, it marked the beginning of their righteous campaign of vengeance against the hated Ultramarines Legion. But for one young acolyte of Kor Phaeron, it is not the sons of Guilliman that he seeks to bring low - through infernal pacts and daemonic power he strives to carve out a destiny for himself in the midst of the greatest war that the galaxy has ever seen. The name of Marduk shall be spoken with awe for millennia still to come...
A brand new Horus Heresy short story by Anthony Reynolds.
January 2013 • eBook, digital download - available in both 'epub' and 'mobi' formats. • ISBN 9781782510130

Back in 2006, I wrote the following lines for the prologue of my first Warhammer 40,000 novel, Dark Apostle:

The memories were fresh in his mind, and his anger, hatred and outrage burned within him stronger than ever. He wished he had been at the battle of the Emperor’s palace on Terra alongside the Warmonger and most of the warriors that made up the Grand Host of the Dark Apostle Jarulek, but he had not. No, in those days he had been but a novice adept sent to serve under Lord Kor Phaeron. It was a great honour, but while he fought the hated Ultramarines of Guilliman on Calth with passion and belief, he longed to be fighting the battle at the palace that would determine the outcome of the long war.

Originally, I’d included the detail about Marduk being at Calth and separate from the rest of his Host simply to make him a bit of an outsider, and to give him a chip on his shoulder. He didn’t get back to his Host to join in the battle for Terra, thus always felt like he missed something – and characters like Kol Badar would never let him forget it. In light of certain information in Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s wonderful Horus Heresy book Betrayer, well, let’s just say it adds an interesting question mark over all those who were sent to Calth – Marduk included – which adds a nice layer of depth.

While the prose above from Dark Apostle feels a little awkward to me now, this little footnote in Marduk’s background was always something that I’d hoped to come back to at some point. Six and a half years on, I was given the opportunity.

Towards the end of last year, Black Library’s Laurie Goulding contacted me to talk about a new Horus Heresy anthology titled Mark of Calth – an anthology that would act as a follow up to Dan Abnett’s brilliant Know No Fear. He thought it would be cool to have a story in there involving Marduk, since he was meant to have taken part in the battle, and wanted to know if I liked the idea and would write it. Hmm, let me think about that for a moment…

Needless to say, I emailed him back with an emphatic ‘YES!’ before he could change his mind. My story, Dark Heart, is the result.

I was very conscious of the fact that this was a Horus Heresy short story first and foremost, not a ‘Marduk’ story, and I hope that comes across. Including one’s Warhammer 40,000 characters in the earlier setting runs a risk of being self-indulgent, and that was something that I really wanted to avoid. Yes, the main character is Marduk, but I wanted this story to stand as a Horus Heresy story, regardless of whether you’d read any of his Warhammer 40,000 stories. There are some little nods in there for those of you who have read the Word Bearers Omnibus, however, that I hope you’ll like…

Dark Heart is one of today’s Digital Monday titles and is available to download now.

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