A teaser from A D-B

[Legio Draconis]

I was just on A-DB's blog and he has a small teaser for us. He let slip that in the forthcoming age of darkness anthology he will be doing a Dark angels Vs Nightlords story. I for one can't wait.

[chaplain mortis]

I was just on A-DB's blog and he has a small teaser for us. He let slip that in the forthcoming age of darkness anthology he will be doing a Dark angels Vs Nightlords story. I for one can't wait.

 

 

neither can i mate! as long as the dark angels come out on top :woot:

[Master Ciaphas]

Hail frateris

 

Well - this has brought me out of the woodwork, where I usually lurk.

 

A D-B writes excellent fiction. By far some of the best BL stuff I have read to date. Of the two books of his, which I have read (Soul Hunter, Helsreach) I have only stumbled across one (1) ONE typo. That is it. Considering the fact that most BL "litterature" is filled with typos, I am amazed.

 

Soul Hunter was great, Helsreach less so, but still a very good tale.

 

Back on topic - a story about the Dark Angels and the Night Lords will be good fun, but my money is already, alas, on the Night Lords coming out on top. A B-D is, after all, carrying the Night Lords torch, so I expect to have our Heresy-Era black armoured behinds handed to us in an unpleasant fashion.

 

But it will still be a good read.

 

In fact, A D-B ought to do one of the stories about the Dark Angels in the current era - I think he would be able to capture the spirit an élan of the Dark Angels in a magnificient way.

 

Regards,

Master Ciaphas

[chaplain mortis]

definitely agree with what your saying master ciaphas

 

for a relatively new guy he has exploded on to the black library scene with some right corkers

 

great writing style that really draws you in with out over doing things.

 

would be nice to see him pen a dark angels novel

[Rain]

Yeah A D-B is "the Night Lords" writer now, just like how McNeill is "the Ultramarines writer" and Goto is "the mulitlasers writer" so don't except the Dark Angels to win. Actually I must say that if it's similar stylistically to Soul Hunter the Dark Angels might just get mopped up as the Night Lords in the book kill pretty much all of their opponents including Blood Angels with relative ease. Some guys get wounded and a couple redshirts do die I think including the Night Lords navigator who is a withered human and I guess was killed in cold blood, but overall it's pretty one sided as the NL ambush and massacre the Blood Angels.

[Arioch]

YES!

 

The masters of fear against the masters of courage! So maybe the Dark Angels will lose, but that doesnt matter. More heresystuff with the DA. I have been waiting for this since I read Collected Visions- Horus mentioned to Curz that the Dark Angels would be in his area- so lets see if it has anything to do with that.

 

Any link bye the way?

[Legatus]

I got the impression that A D-B was not an author who just has his guys walk all over their opposition, and he has said on occasions that he is not interrested in making other parties or characters look weak or inferior. Personally I did have a few issues with

the Night Lords seemingly easily defeating the Blood Angels boarding party (including how the 100 year old NL cybot was not just completely anihilated by the 10K year old venerable Blood Angels dreadnought)

, but on the other hand

the Night Lords/Black Legion were not winning in the end of Soul Hunter, due to a couple of loyalist Astartes ships arriving.

I could imagine that in the DA vs. NL story the Night Lords will land a stinging blow against the Dark Angels (perhaps even achieving the goal they had when attacking them) but will ultimately be driven off by the Dark Angels.

[quiethood]

I hate to break the bad news, but the Night Lords in Sould Hunter were pretty well beat up. The onlly reason they won was the element of surprise. I think if A D-B is doing a novel w/ Night Lords vs Dark Angels (which he says he is) then I think the only one who knows who wins will be A D-B and us after it's released. They both obviously live on for 10k more years, so the battle between them may be irrelivent. If he keeps true to form, it's not the battle porn that's the focus of the story but sub-text and filler that make his stories so good. It will also greatly depend on perspective, too. If he writes it from the Night Lords, then it will seem as if they may win, and vice-versa. But no one in 10th company had any Dark Angel trophies. :P Either way, I'm glad to see more background hashed out that involves the Dark Angels.

[Rain]

How exactly were they beaten up?

The dreadnought was destroyed, though he also destroyed the BA dread that was technically much older, otherwise all of the BA were killed at pretty much no losses to the NL other than maybe that 1 guy from the squad that was fighting the titan earlier but he might have just been wounded, I can't remember anymore but none of "1st Claw" was even severely inconvenienced

 

 

That said, I agree that A D-B doesn't write bolter porn and I commend him for it, and I'm honestly looking forward to First Heretic as the extract was very good an in my opinion better than any of Soul Hunter other than the scene when Talos is speaking with Abaddon, but let's face fact, he's kind of the anti-McNeill is that while ol' Graham tends to kill all but one of his protagonists, A D-B's seem to have plot force fields but perhaps that will change, we'll see.

[Marshal Wilhelm]

That said, I agree that A D-B doesn't write bolter porn and I commend him for it, and I'm honestly looking forward to First Heretic as the extract was very good an in my opinion better than any of Soul Hunter other than the scene when Talos is speaking with Abaddon, but let's face fact, he's kind of the anti-McNeill is that while ol' Graham tends to kill all but one of his protagonists, A D-B's seem to have plot force fields but perhaps that will change, we'll see.

 

Are you a bit jaded, or washed out, Rain? :)

[quiethood]

Well, as for the Night Lords being beat up, they were practically hacked up and hardly an effective fighting force at the end. At least 1st claw was. 2 members were almost crippled and Talos himself was barely able to stand. If it hadn't been for their little trick there might have been one or 2 less members in the squad.

The Blood Angels almost managed to cripple the ship with huge losses to the civillian crew, and if it hadn't been for Octavia they would've been marooned.

They could've easily been destroyed without void capabilities. The series would've been pretty short if the Blood Angels entered the ship and mopped the floor with the Night Lords. Then they could've renamed the book Soul Sucker. Remember what the warsage says, "Victory at high price, is no victory at all."

That battle cost the 10th company greatly. Maybe First Claw at first glance doesn't seem so bad off, but it's in there. And as for the Night Lords vs. Dark Angels it's highly likely that both sides will take some pretty devastating blows. In one corner you have the consument stratigist vs the master of fear and improve battle tactics. Remember there's at least one or two references in the literature of the Lion being afraid of the dark, so I can see lots of psycology being implimented in the fight. I don't think that we'll see much of the primarchs themselves, personally. But, we may see other Night Lords like Malcharion and Vandred (before chaos takes ahold).

[Arioch]

What? The Lion isnt afraid of the dark :) in Fallen Angels we hear that he preferes to work in the dark and he has exellent nigthvison!

[quiethood]

It's in one of the books, and I think that it was Horus who says it. I can't remember when and where exactly, I just remember it being said. I know that the Lion has excellent night vision, he lived on his own on a feral death warp tainted world. You know when you put it that way Caliban really does seem messed up'd.