Capt. Tates Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 I'll elaborate, on the spine of each novel their is a stripe of a certain colour at the top horizontily. What does this represent? Legion has a Purple stripe so thats kind of obvious, but others have a random colour like BftAbyss, it's a dark green, darker than Descent or Fallen which is a lighter Green. Can anyone ease my curious side? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kharloth Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 easy identification from a distance most likely Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2056864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Subtle Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 ive always wondered that! are books matched to other books? my mechanicum book cover must have been cut wrong, it has no coloured band?! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2056998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Tates Posted July 22, 2009 Author Share Posted July 22, 2009 Thats the thing i would presume the colours would match the main Legion involved.... weirdness. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2057570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_inquisitor Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 to add to the general discussion, the first three books all had the same colored stripe. Coincidence? maybe...dunno... Its a heretical comspiracy. ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2057699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solid Zaku Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 No no. The reason some books have different colorings (such as when the first book went from gold-trimmed to silver) just denotes their printing edition. Horus Rising has two, I believe. Â For the rest of them, it's just the publisher's aesthetic choice, thusfar there's no official pattern to the coloration of the embossing. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2060866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verythrax Draconis Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 I would guess that the green ones are supposed to be read in order, and the read ones are chapter-specific narratives that can be read in any order. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2066798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokunator Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 Fallen Angels is green-striped though... and the events happen before the Dropsite Massacres covered in novels published a long time ago. Â The original trilogy was red, Eisenstein, Mechanicum, the two DA novels and Tales of the Heresy are green and Fulgrim and Legion are purple. Can't really see a pattern here. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2067099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Subtle Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 i sense the alpha legion's involvement here! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2067163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother Hastatus Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 I remember seeing an interview with Dan Abnett, in which he said he didn't have a clue what they meant either, and had come to the conclusion that they were random... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2067397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Tates Posted August 1, 2009 Author Share Posted August 1, 2009 Thats what i was originally getting at guys! There's no pattern it's so random. It annoys me. Well i guess Solid Zaku kind of answers the question, printing editions and what not but i'd really like to know what BL were thinking with such random colours. I'm getting a bit OCD on this i think. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2067402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Payton Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 ive always wondered that! are books matched to other books?my mechanicum book cover must have been cut wrong, it has no coloured band?! Â Not Necessarily. The colour of the band could just be black- the colour of the robes of the Dark Mechanicum...... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2231781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artein Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 sorry. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2232523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazardousZERO Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 If it will help you get a black marker and color it in so you don't have too look at them anymore. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/173986-the-heresy-books-what-do-the-colours-mean/#findComment-2232530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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