Artein Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 http://imageshack.us/a/img842/479/9202.jpg Not sure whether I like it.... It's cool-oldschool but I was expecting something more awesome and breathtaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 It doesn't have any of the short stories in it, at least going by the cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artein Posted September 22, 2013 Author Share Posted September 22, 2013 The cover of Word Bearers also doesn't mention anything outside the original trilogy and there's one IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Aiwass Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 I don't like it. Static, awful, flat pose, ugly sword. I don't think is worth of a cover of that great trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the jeske Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Odd . why are the lightning painted on , the codex fluff tells us that it is actual lightning . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Because in the novels the lightning is painted on. EDIT: That and most Night Lord fans aren't a big fan of the real lightning being such a widespread thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quixus Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 The three covers of the original books of the trilogy were much better IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the jeske Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Because in the novels the lightning is painted on. EDIT: That and most Night Lord fans aren't a big fan of the real lightning being such a widespread thing. Well am and quite a few no fan of chaos happy family merc chaos everywhere , but the fluff says that chaos is like that . So if it says that the lightning are alive , they should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Heinrich Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Wow, someone doesn't know how to draw lightning lol. What did that guy reference, cartoons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Wow, someone doesn't know how to draw lightning lol. What did that guy reference, cartoons? They do kind of remind me of Black Lightning and Static Shock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A D-B Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Because in the novels the lightning is painted on. EDIT: That and most Night Lord fans aren't a big fan of the real lightning being such a widespread thing. Well am and quite a few no fan of chaos happy family merc chaos everywhere , but the fluff says that chaos is like that . So if it says that the lightning are alive , they should be. The book, like the lore, has both. The books are also now part of that lore (and have been for going on four years), so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Odd . why are the lightning painted on , the codex fluff tells us that it is actual lightning . Because Night Lords do not sparkle like Edward Cullen, old fluff be . That said, I have to agree about being underwhelmed by the cover art. It's not that it's "bad" per se, it's just that the it doesn't live up to the standards set by the paperback covers or even the fanart of Talos ABD posted on his blog. As someone who owns all three of the novels already, is there any compelling reason why I should pick this up? (Sorry ADB, I don't consider "It'll be your small contribution to me being able to build a tree house made solely out of bundles of cash" a compelling reason. Now, "It'll make Talon of Horus be published sooner", on the other hand...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 @Wade: lol but actually the warp lightning is new fluff from a tiny little blurb in the 6th ed Codex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 @Wade: lol but actually the warp lightning is new fluff from a tiny little blurb in the 6th ed Codex Not saying you're wrong, but I distinctly recall seeing that little factoid on Lexicanum a long time before the 6th Ed. Chaos Codex came out. It embedded so deeply in my mind that I actually started plotting out a Night Lords army based on the Cullen family that would counts as Blood Angels (Alice as Mephiston FTW!) but I chickened out when the time came to buy glitter for my guys. I might still go back to it, though. As the Night Haunter taught us, it's not just about winning, it's about completely crushing your victim's will to live when you do so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctus Cornix Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Man that cover is so bad.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 @Wade: lol but actually the warp lightning is new fluff from a tiny little blurb in the 6th ed Codex Not saying you're wrong, but I distinctly recall seeing that little factoid on Lexicanum a long time before the 6th Ed. Chaos Codex came out. It embedded so deeply in my mind that I actually started plotting out a Night Lords army based on the Cullen family that would counts as Blood Angels (Alice as Mephiston FTW!) but I chickened out when the time came to buy glitter for my guys. I might still go back to it, though. As the Night Haunter taught us, it's not just about winning, it's about completely crushing your victim's will to live when you do so... It's possible that I am wrong. I honestly don't recall seeing that little fact anywhere else but 6th Edition. I do recall a fanfic story from the BL forums forever and a half ago where a Raptor had warp-lightning, but then another had armor of creaming daemons and another had someother type of mutated armor. Huh. Have to find out where it came from just to satisfy my own curiosity now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noctus Cornix Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 It's in the 4th Edition Chaos Codex. page 70 just above the two painted Night Lord models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Huh. Well it's just as unimportant now as it was then. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Heinrich Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Once again, one of those matters of personal interpretation. I'm re-reading Soul Hunter right now and in it lighting coruscates across Vandred's armor, but it is just painted on Talos' and the the others. I would say the lighting actually dancing corresponds to the level of corruption in the individual. Basically at a certain point a Night Lord gets twisted by chaos enough for his lighting paint to jump up and start dancing around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Once again, one of those matters of personal interpretation. I'm re-reading Soul Hunter right now and in it lighting coruscates across Vandred's armor, but it is just painted on Talos' and the the others. I would say the lighting actually dancing corresponds to the level of corruption in the individual. Basically at a certain point a Night Lord gets twisted by chaos enough for his lighting paint to jump up and start dancing around.That is my view as well, although my personal preference would be to reserve it for very specific individuals, like sorcerers or a lord on the verge of daemonhood/spawndom. But yeah, bad sarcasm on my part in my last post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RolandTHTG Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I think the main problem is with the head. it is too pez dispenser or rock-em-sock-em robot. too far up and the neck is too elongated. There isn't any sense of ominous threat, like there should be with a Night lord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daboarder Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 thats a HUGE forehead...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the jeske Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 The book, like the lore, has both. The books are also now part of that lore (and have been for going on four years), so... But the books were always seperate , they have their own lore . Otherwise we would have huge fluff problems with old and new necron fluff , old and new eldar fluff because of how necron fluff changed . legions and csm being something totaly different depanding on who writes them . The whole long creation of marines would be thrown out of the window considering how many and how fast mariens die in BL books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beachymike123 Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 screw the cover, i can now finally get all 3 books in 1! my local independent GW retailer closed shop a while ago and there's another well known book retailer who has maybe a couple of 40k books in their store, but that's about it. finally, my patience has paid off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevak Dal Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 That's nice...but I got all three books already, and they have MUCH better cover art (no offense ADB) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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