Angron is a fascinating yet tragic villain and this is the perfectly detailed pseudo-origin story he deserves. hours, the World Eaters have 31 hours to conquer a planet before incurring the wrath of their newly rediscovered Primarch. The lack of the part of the story when the Emperor arrived in Nuceria as well as the weak depiction of the supposed good guy of the story ‘Mago’ was rather lackluster.

Makea you wonder if the two lost primarch were doing, if being drooling retard with an anger problem is absolutely fine with, apparently, everyone. One in ten of the warriors who had survived, who had fought and bled for each other, for him, would yield their throats as punishment. Initially, there was some odd brutal logic behind it, but now he keeps saying "You have 24 hours to conquer the entire world.

This book tells both the story of how the XIIth legion fell to the butchers nails, and the story of how Angron gets his own infamous implants. He's a furious rage monster, but lacks many of the more human quirks which he supposedly lost over time. Novel portrays in great detail the fall of World Eaters legion, proud battle hardened warriors, under dominion of Chaos for a simple reason of trying to be accepted by their gene-father. The combats in the novel felt almost meaningless (I won’t go into too much detail as it will spoil certain aspects) but every conflict just felt like a ‘nothing conflict’ and I found myself trudging through the pages rather than flipping through them with gusto.

If you know the story of Angron there won’t be too many surprises but its nice to get it from his pov. However, the massive battle scenes fall somewhat short, and he tends to skim over key details in places.The majority of the focal characters among the legion help to examine this evolution as they favour their lives as the War Hounds, as it more accurately depicts their nature as a legion inspired by the Spartans or Greek hoplites than the berzerkers that they would become. Angron's tragic descend to madness and his wish to die upon battle was really well done upon, knowing that he dwells upon guilt, hate and rage just adds upon the misery of Angron and ultimately his legion in the pursuit of resembling him. 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. Much like Mortarion and - to a lesser degree - Vulkan he is one of those figures who ultimately has shown up in no shortage of books, but has often been left playing second fiddle to other characters.