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As a custodes fanboy I am in two minds about this short.

 

My first contact with custodes was in a bit of fluff text when the emperor and 1000 custodes teleport down into the modest of an Ork horde than was in the verge of brekaing two legions, and shattered it in half an hour losing three men, and their names were then enscribed into the emperors armour.

 

Since then scores have been lost in the heresy series's, with this book having the largest lost count (though most were form blind devotion to following the emperor).

 

The other part of me loves this story.

 

It takes it back to the tradegy of the first trilogy, a son betraying a father he loves.

 

I think the heresy has lost this spark. It is all grumpy old men with grudges, almost 49k with primarchs. We forget that it is a family tearing itself apart and the love and anguish they must feel.

spu00sed i agree with u on the latter bit (trilogy missing some of the family pain stuff) - think the last one to do that well was know no fear (betrayer i dont count because its the development of an arc that begins with TFH. which was awesome ofc)

 

as for custodes: a few have died in some questionable ways (need i mention Outcast Dead?) but then 3 dying where a legion or 2 failed is perhaps a little bit overkill on their powers. It's also fluff from a much older time.

I know carach, but it made them so much cooler. I do accept their lower power levels

 

I'm also intrigued by this terentius bloke, a traitor possible killed by the mournival.

 

Also seeing the emperors kill your soul power unleashed was cool, as was him absorbing the energy of the Orks he killed, the chaos gods were right to abbadon Horus at the last moment before they became snacks for the big E.

One wonders why, if the Emperor could casually soul kill the Chaos Gods, he didn't just Draigo walk through that hole Magnus tore in the basement, perform said soul killing, and then go "Problem, Horus?"

 

Instead of what actually happened.

 

Of course, this tale does flow from the pen of Graham "Isstvan

V: Before Prospero? After? During? Ehh, Who Cares?" so maybe we should just be happy he didn't have Gorro occur during the Battle of Calth or the 13th Black Crusade and leave it at that.

Where does it say he could just kill Gods?

 

As far as I can tell, this is supposed to be what he does to Horus, no?

 

I think its supposed to highlight that this fight was so bad he had to this just survive, imagine how much worse the fight was with Horus that he did it and didn't survive.

 

But as you said, Graham McNeill.

Kol:

 

I may be spewing vitriol where none is needed, as I don't see the jump from "Offed a Titan sized Warboss" to "Could Eat The Chaos Gods" myself.

 

I do wonder why Ye Soul Killing Supernova Eye Beams were busted out on the Ork, since IIRC Horus got zapped by them so the Chaos Gods couldn't resurect him, and that's not how Gork and Mork operate, but whatever.

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