2/12/2024 0 Comments Warhammer quotes death![]() That’s where the book ends, with the major players drawn to the Vengeful Spirit where the final drama will unfold in part two. So the simple summary of the plot of the End and the Death is just that. Working out the story he wanted to tell must have been the most difficult part of writing this for Dan Abnett, because we know what should be in this book and can even guess what should be in part two – the shields of Horus’ flagship are lowered, the Emperor, Dorn, Sanguinius and his Custodian Guard teleport aboard. ![]() Warning: This review contains (very) mild spoilers for the end and the death The Death I can’t promise this will be spoiler free, but we’ll give it a go. ![]() We’re not going to go into every little detail of the plot here. It isn’t, however, all that we could have hoped for. You’re probably going to read it, if you’re here, whether now or in months or years time if you’re still working through the Heresy. It has catharsis and triumph and tries nobly to tie everything we’ve seen so far together. ![]() It has fighting, secrets, chaos and horror. The End and the Death is a fine Black Library novel, a worthy end to a saga of impossible length and mind-bending complexity. When the author and name of the final book was announced, was it a surprise? Abnett must write the End and the Death. Many of us had this conversation in schoolyards – how will the final battle go? – and now, decades later, have it again, sometimes with the same people, in game stores – how will the final battle go and how’s that back trouble doing? Our shared experience amounts to an incomprehensible tangle of stories and hopes, and now, somehow, Dan Abnett has to bring it to an end. It’s in a thousand different tabletop skirmishes, a mass collective creation of expectation, built by untold millions of tumbling dice. It comes from 40 years of background lore in a dozen different sources. How we think this story should end is not just from the Siege of Terra, or the impossibly lengthy Horus Heresy series. ![]()
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