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I asked them to try and get Jameela Jamil for it. That'd be perfection.

June, I think.

No wrong answer, though it's unlikely he'd be a Paragon, as they're outside the Warhost hierarchy. Though, even then, it's possible if it's a Chapter banner rather than the specific Warhost banner. More commonly: A Veteran Sergeant that outlived his squad or a Sergeant that was sideways-promoted out of his squad to this new duty? Cool. A Captain that stepped down from his officer role in favour of another commander? Totally. A battle-brother that displayed great courage or ingenuity in a campaign and was granted the honour of the Warhost's banner? Absolutely. Every Warhost likely does it their own way, so don't feel too constrained. The Exilarchy (and specifically the Pure) collects Adeptus Vaelarii war banners though, so it's one of the most dangerous jobs in Elara's Veil.

I knew it was on the boards SOMEWHERE. I just couldn't find it in this thread Okay, so transverse crests are the ones like on the Mark IV and Mark III marines, longitudinal are the ones like the Primaris Captain, Sternguard Sergeant and Centurion Sergeant. That's helpful. Some of that stuff is from my notes and either never made it into the novel or changed over time, but the crests are still dead on. Colours for them are still dead on as well? 'cause I just got merself one of those Primaris to test paint jobs on. Yep! EDIT: Mostly.

I knew it was on the boards SOMEWHERE. I just couldn't find it in this thread Okay, so transverse crests are the ones like on the Mark IV and Mark III marines, longitudinal are the ones like the Primaris Captain, Sternguard Sergeant and Centurion Sergeant. That's helpful. Some of that stuff is from my notes and either never made it into the novel or changed over time, but the crests are still dead on.

Nope. I read out loud every night for the most obvious of reasons (I have two smaller versions of me in the house) and I have a weird thing where it makes me yawn a lot. I was so weirded out by it that I Googled it, and it's actually a thing. Who knew? I've yawned twice just typing this. That's how weird/bad it is. Anyway, yawning isn't cool. So I'll leave it to Dan.

Which is a shame, as it's moronic.

Pretty sure he's already started the sequel to Spear of the Emperor, with BL3 (probably) following afterwards Spear II, Black Legion III, and... ..then probably that.

They were described as such repeatedly at the Weekender; Aaron gave that reason for his being on the Ultramarines panel. Also, Yep. They're a lesson/reminder of the scale of the setting. 60% of Space Marine Chapters are from Ultramarines gene-stock. That doesn't mean 60% of Chapters are just Ultramarines-lite, or even similar to the Ultramarines. I've never liked it when Chapters are shaped purely by their genetic code, or that being their defining trait. Homeworld, culture, and actual experience over the course of centuries/millennia have a far, far greater role. EDIT: See also - the Celestial Lions, Executioners, and Black Templars. They're not just Imperial Fists. I get the feeling you're the only writer I've seen who does that. Because all I've seen of Ultramarines successors, barring the Mortifactors or Iron Snakes are "Ultramarines, but a different colour". Same with the Imperial Fists (barring the three you've mentioned) and Dark Angels Good to know you've tried to change that with your writing. Haley's Novamarines and his BA successors to a degree, pretty much anyone who writes Flesh Tearers stuff, Kearney's Dark Hunters was pretty apart from WS with a different flavor. Unfortunately DA successors on the rare occasion they do appear get pigeon-holed into being super similar to DA, but I think the problem is a lot less that successors are the same as their parent chapters, rather that we really just don't see a lot of Successor fiction. It's good to see something like Spear of the Emperor coming out to kind of provide alternatives to the Big Few, as it were. There's probably some kind of sales/marketing justification for the majority of works being about First Founding Chapters, but whatever. That's a very good point. Visibility, not a setting-wide statement. And there's safety in the lore, too. Plenty of Successor Chapters are very similar to their parent Chapters, like the Genesis Chapter or plenty of the Blood Angels and Dark Angels' Successors, f'rex. "My" Chapter, the Angels Numinous, are more or less the Blood Angels with their serial numbers filed off, and slightly meaner. So I do it as much as anyone, and it's totally valid. But yeah, it's definitely a marketing deal, at times. And not necessarily in a money/mercenary way, but in the sense that a lot of the time, the books promote the lore people like and are familiar with, because they're the audience. That's what they expect and want, and are familiar with from years of the lore. Anyway, I'm going back to being too scared to read any opinions of the novel for another, say, 5-6 weeks. The book release ritual demands nothing less.

They were described as such repeatedly at the Weekender; Aaron gave that reason for his being on the Ultramarines panel. Also, Yep. They're a lesson/reminder of the scale of the setting. 60% of Space Marine Chapters are from Ultramarines gene-stock. That doesn't mean 60% of Chapters are just Ultramarines-lite, or even similar to the Ultramarines. I've never liked it when Chapters are shaped purely by their genetic code, or that being their defining trait. Homeworld, culture, and actual experience over the course of centuries/millennia have a far, far greater role. EDIT: See also - the Celestial Lions, Executioners, and Black Templars. They're not just Imperial Fists.

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I'm allowed to post the Introduction / Preface on my blog in a couple of weeks, so that might narrow it down a bit. I asked specifically if I could, because it's an odd duck of a book in some ways, and I thought I actually had some interesting stuff to say on its creation.

I went from squirming at the price and worrying no one would buy it, to being blown away when I saw the real deal. You can likely imagine my naked relief at that emotion. My personal highlight might be the Jes Goodwin-approved multi-layered diagram of a Space Marine's armour coming away in layers, which was a huge deal internally, as it's the first time GW has ever shown it in anything like that detail. He did and he didn't, in that order. He went with Ye Olde Imperial Armour 9 and 10's style of presentation, mixed with Ye Evene Oldyer Index Astartes articles. I have no idea, but if I ever find out, I'll make sure the answer is as widely known as possible, for the sake of convenience. I don't know exact dates, but the Limited Edition will be grabbable in 2-4 weeks, I think. Warhammer Community will make a bit of a big deal out of it (I think they're even considering a real unboxing); this pre-release was purely for the Weekender's superfans, etc. So it won't be too long now.

Can I just say, when I got the email about them getting rules, it was quite an unexpected tick on the Bucket List.