Talon of Horus

[Captain_Loken]

 

  in the same way the Horus Heresy is a conglomeration of BL's best and brightest?  

 

Sorry, but this made my laugh.

 

 

Edit:  I forgot to mention that you did have a good question.  One which I am curious about, myself.

[A D-B]

 

Have you got exclusive rights (for want of a better term) on this series?  I mean, anyone can write a book about Abaddon and the Black Legion (I think?) but could other authors be brought in to fill it out, in the same way the Horus Heresy is a conglomeration of BL's best and brightest?  But I suppose if such a thing were even possible, it'd have to be hugely successful for GW to throw more authors at it.

 

There have been novels about Abaddon during the time I was writing The Talon of Horus, and there'll continue to be novels about him if and when the series goes on. Different interpretations, different events, seen through the lenses of different authors. As it should be.

 

Talon is selling very well - almost Heresy novel well. But with the way the IP works, I don't think they'd need to draft in other authors onto the series. They can have anyone release anything about Abaddon, anyway. But they're also just as likely to ask me to write anything Abaddon-related that comes along because they know I'm familiar with it and I love doing it. So who knows? Not me. 

 

Would GW like me to speed the hell up and stop taking a year to write a novel? Yes. And so would I, because if I keep writing this slowly I'll have to get another job very soon, and call this whole full-time writing lark a failed experiment. That wouldn't be fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 in the same way the Horus Heresy is a conglomeration of BL's best and brightest?  

 

Sorry, but this made my laugh.

 

 

Edit:  I forgot to mention that you did have a good question.  One which I am curious about, myself.

 

 

Quick request! You fudged up your quoting there, and it looks like I said that. That's the kind of thing someone might get upset about if they thought I'd said it, so if you could fix it with a quick edit I'd be very grateful. Thanks!

[Firepower]

 

Would GW like me to speed the hell up and stop taking a year to write a novel? Yes. And so would I

 

And of course you know you've had (most of) the BT subforum impatiently holding in a giddy squeal of childish Christmas-morning-level delight all this time, too. ;)

 

Sure, your mortgage is probably important and all, but Sigismund v. Abaddon is clearly a much higher priority.

[A D-B]

Would GW like me to speed the hell up and stop taking a year to write a novel? Yes. And so would I

And of course you know you've had (most of) the BT subforum impatiently holding in a giddy squeal of childish Christmas-morning-level delight all this time, too.

Sure, your mortgage is probably important and all, but Sigismund v. Abaddon is clearly a much higher priority.

No mortgage. We may be dirt-poor, but we live in Katie's parents' little old farmhouse in rural N. Ireland, so expenses are low. Sheep are loud, though.

Anyway, as to the topic at hand, the Abaddon/Sigismund fight is probably the thing I've been messaged about most in the last year. I can't wait to write it, as well as Khayon's waxing reflective on just what the duel meant galactically-speaking. The fall of the last Great Crusader, who never abandoned the Emperor's vision even when the primarchs were brought to heel by Guilliman. The moment that the Imperium realised its wayward sons hadn't vanished, but were still out there in the cold, still so full of hate.

Khayon has a lot to say about all of this, a lot to say about Sigismund, and a lot to show about how Abaddon was affected by it.

[Marshal Rohr]

Would GW like me to speed the hell up and stop taking a year to write a novel? Yes. And so would I

And of course you know you've had (most of) the BT subforum impatiently holding in a giddy squeal of childish Christmas-morning-level delight all this time, too.

Sure, your mortgage is probably important and all, but Sigismund v. Abaddon is clearly a much higher priority.

No mortgage. We may be dirt-poor, but we live in Katie's parents' little old farmhouse in rural N. Ireland, so expenses are low. Sheep are loud, though.

Anyway, as to the topic at hand, the Abaddon/Sigismund fight is probably the thing I've been messaged about most in the last year. I can't wait to write it, as well as Khayon's waxing reflective on just what the duel meant galactically-speaking. The fall of the last Great Crusader, who never abandoned the Emperor's vision even when the primarchs were brought to heel by Guilliman. The moment that the Imperium realised its wayward sons hadn't vanished, but were still out there in the cold, still so full of hate.

Khayon has a lot to say about all of this, a lot to say about Sigismund, and a lot to show about how Abaddon was affected by it.

Goosebumps.

That quote alone shifts the very feel of the 40K universe in ways we've been missing for nearly a decade.

[Jareddm]

Would GW like me to speed the hell up and stop taking a year to write a novel? Yes. And so would I

And of course you know you've had (most of) the BT subforum impatiently holding in a giddy squeal of childish Christmas-morning-level delight all this time, too.

Sure, your mortgage is probably important and all, but Sigismund v. Abaddon is clearly a much higher priority.

No mortgage. We may be dirt-poor, but we live in Katie's parents' little old farmhouse in rural N. Ireland, so expenses are low. Sheep are loud, though.

Anyway, as to the topic at hand, the Abaddon/Sigismund fight is probably the thing I've been messaged about most in the last year. I can't wait to write it, as well as Khayon's waxing reflective on just what the duel meant galactically-speaking. The fall of the last Great Crusader, who never abandoned the Emperor's vision even when the primarchs were brought to heel by Guilliman. The moment that the Imperium realised its wayward sons hadn't vanished, but were still out there in the cold, still so full of hate.

Khayon has a lot to say about all of this, a lot to say about Sigismund, and a lot to show about how Abaddon was affected by it.

Not to mention Rogal Dorn still being around (I think?). Can't wait to see his reaction to the 1st Black Crusade as well.

[Loesh]

Would GW like me to speed the hell up and stop taking a year to write a novel? Yes. And so would I

And of course you know you've had (most of) the BT subforum impatiently holding in a giddy squeal of childish Christmas-morning-level delight all this time, too.

Sure, your mortgage is probably important and all, but Sigismund v. Abaddon is clearly a much higher priority.

No mortgage. We may be dirt-poor, but we live in Katie's parents' little old farmhouse in rural N. Ireland, so expenses are low. Sheep are loud, though.

Anyway, as to the topic at hand, the Abaddon/Sigismund fight is probably the thing I've been messaged about most in the last year. I can't wait to write it, as well as Khayon's waxing reflective on just what the duel meant galactically-speaking. The fall of the last Great Crusader, who never abandoned the Emperor's vision even when the primarchs were brought to heel by Guilliman. The moment that the Imperium realised its wayward sons hadn't vanished, but were still out there in the cold, still so full of hate.

Khayon has a lot to say about all of this, a lot to say about Sigismund, and a lot to show about how Abaddon was affected by it.

It'll be interesting, I imagine that it would become the moment where Abaddon stops living in the shadow of Horus and becomes something of his own. At that point, crystallizing his ideology and vision for the Black Legion into the army that will end the Imperium so many thousands of years later.

And I bet once the first Black Crusade is over, the Imperium will stare wide eyed at the destruction and see just how much the game has changed.

[Marshal Rohr]

Dorn is dead ~400 years after the Heresy in an unspecified Black Crusade of a different Chaos Warlord.

 

 

According to FFG iirc.

[Scribe]

Dorn is dead ~400 years after the Heresy in an unspecified Black Crusade of a different Chaos Warlord.

 

 

According to FFG iirc.

 

Yeah this was my understanding. Cannot WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT for the showdown and most critically, the waxing philosophical. 

[Vesper]

Would GW like me to speed the hell up and stop taking a year to write a novel? Yes. And so would I

And of course you know you've had (most of) the BT subforum impatiently holding in a giddy squeal of childish Christmas-morning-level delight all this time, too.

Sure, your mortgage is probably important and all, but Sigismund v. Abaddon is clearly a much higher priority.

No mortgage. We may be dirt-poor, but we live in Katie's parents' little old farmhouse in rural N. Ireland, so expenses are low. Sheep are loud, though.

Anyway, as to the topic at hand, the Abaddon/Sigismund fight is probably the thing I've been messaged about most in the last year. I can't wait to write it, as well as Khayon's waxing reflective on just what the duel meant galactically-speaking. The fall of the last Great Crusader, who never abandoned the Emperor's vision even when the primarchs were brought to heel by Guilliman. The moment that the Imperium realised its wayward sons hadn't vanished, but were still out there in the cold, still so full of hate.

Khayon has a lot to say about all of this, a lot to say about Sigismund, and a lot to show about how Abaddon was affected by it.

The fallout of that event must be as huge as the volume of meaning it carries.

Can't wait to get my hands on all that precious Black Legion background.

[Scribe]

Its not soon is it? I'm guessing not...its about all thats keeping me interested, ADB books and HH from FW...

[Jarl Kjaran Coldheart]

as "unmanly" as it may be to admit, i just squee'd at another post from A D-B.

 

by the frozen balls of Russ, that guy can describe an unwritten event in an unwritten book that makes me toss aside what Im reading in anticipation.

 

WLK

[1000 Sons]

Hope we get some interesting character meetings, Khayon bumps into Ahriman at the library, Lheor trying to get Khârn to join in on a black crusade etc.  Some of the high ranked Black Legion getting some nostalgia for their old legion and betraying Abaddon.  A.B-D mentioned how there will be some failures when things fall apart for Abaddon, maybe we can get the Alpha Legion behind one of the defeats, some hints that maybe some of the Alphas are still working for the Loyalists at that time, or there own motivations.

 

Abaddon came out as a very sublime and wise man this book, the Heresy totally destroyed him from the angry, aggressive and dour legionary he was in the HH books.  I hope we get to see him breaking the bonds of loyalty he talked about as the black legion grows, watching him lose the zen warrior image he currently has as he finds the need to betray his own legion to get to the ends he demands.  Getting some internal strife with khayon and lheor and abby as each start wanting the legion to go in certain missions, and wanting revenge on certain loyalist legions for personal reasons (Khayon wanting the space wolves dead regardless of the method or cost).

[Forward Assist]

See, the thing to ponder isn't Abbadon and Sigismund facing off. It'll grow from the seed planted at the end of The Talon of Horus into something both epic and haunting. (No pressure.)

 

The thing to ponder is what little breadcrumbs ADB will leave us in the epilogue of The Black Legion.

[DarKnight]

That's amazing to think that Sigismund and Guilliman probably met at some point post-Heresy and Guilliman told him to chill, and Sigismund was like "sod off!" (isn't that what you guys across the pond say) and continued setting the galaxy ablaze.

[Karthak]

Would GW like me to speed the hell up and stop taking a year to write a novel? Yes. And so would I

And of course you know you've had (most of) the BT subforum impatiently holding in a giddy squeal of childish Christmas-morning-level delight all this time, too.

Sure, your mortgage is probably important and all, but Sigismund v. Abaddon is clearly a much higher priority.

No mortgage. We may be dirt-poor, but we live in Katie's parents' little old farmhouse in rural N. Ireland, so expenses are low. Sheep are loud, though.

Anyway, as to the topic at hand, the Abaddon/Sigismund fight is probably the thing I've been messaged about most in the last year. I can't wait to write it, as well as Khayon's waxing reflective on just what the duel meant galactically-speaking. The fall of the last Great Crusader, who never abandoned the Emperor's vision even when the primarchs were brought to heel by Guilliman. The moment that the Imperium realised its wayward sons hadn't vanished, but were still out there in the cold, still so full of hate.

Khayon has a lot to say about all of this, a lot to say about Sigismund, and a lot to show about how Abaddon was affected by it.

Given that I think you posted that the Black Legion didn't think anyone was going to be expecting them when they broke out of the Eye, please tell me that the Black Legion-Black Templar slugfest starts like this:

With Abaddon as the operative, a Black Templar Escort as the Serenity, and the rest of the Templar fleet as the reavers. :D

"Black Templar Escort charges Abaddon's fleet, hopelessly outgunned."

Abaddon: "Vessel in range, lock on."

Abaddon: "Bastard's not even changing course."

"The rest of the Templars warp in, led by the Eternal Crusader."

Bridge officer: "Sir?!"

Abaddon: "Target the Templars! Target the Templars! Target everyone! SOMEBODY FIRE!"

[Scribe]

I'm thinking it will be a reversed role in that scenario as the Black Legion Warps in, shocking the Galaxy with its existence. 

[Karthak]

I'm thinking it will be a reversed role in that scenario as the Black Legion Warps in, shocking the Galaxy with its existence. 

Can't find it now, but didn't ADB post here that the Black Legion was shocked to discover the Templars waiting for them? Paraphrasing from memory:

 

Khayon: "Didn't you say it would be easy to travel out of the Eye?"

Abaddon: "I...thought it would be."

[Scribe]

Ah fair enough.

[Kol Saresk]

Yeah, but it would still be the Black Legion coming out of the Eye and rushing the Black Templars.

 

And since all current background shows the First Crusade raising cain and havoc all over the Segmentum Obscurus until Abaddon takes Drach'nyen and just leaves for the Eye again, it actually is pretty accurate analogy. The Black Templars defend, and then they just get washed over by the charge of the First Black Crusade.

[Chapter Master Valrak]

 

 

 

No mortgage. We may be dirt-poor, but we live in Katie's parents' little old farmhouse in rural N. Ireland, so expenses are low. Sheep are loud, though.

 

Anyway, as to the topic at hand, the Abaddon/Sigismund fight is probably the thing I've been messaged about most in the last year. I can't wait to write it, as well as Khayon's waxing reflective on just what the duel meant galactically-speaking. The fall of the last Great Crusader, who never abandoned the Emperor's vision even when the primarchs were brought to heel by Guilliman. The moment that the Imperium realised its wayward sons hadn't vanished, but were still out there in the cold, still so full of hate. 

 

Khayon has a lot to say about all of this, a lot to say about Sigismund, and a lot to show about how Abaddon was affected by it.

 

 

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[HeritorA]

My dear A D-B you do understand, that after your tease in 'Talon of Horus' we can't simply wait for the First Black Crusade? For Sigismund to make his 'Conan on the throne' appearance? To Abby making a bow of respect - and Khayon being at the moment of greatness to witness it?   WRITE THAT PLEASE :) 

[Loesh]

As exciting as the Black Legion series is, what i'm really looking forward to is Zorbulon. Sadly that will likely be put aside for Master of Mankind.

 

....Unless Zorbulon is the Master of Mankind.

 

I'v cracked the code.

[1ncarnadine]

Pretty sure Zorbulon is actually AD-B's proof of concept writing for a Black Library second-person "choose your own adventure" story as an Ork weirdboy.

 

...please?

[HeritorA]

Zorbulon will rule the world eventually and we will get new painting masterpiece from A D-B. Or he will fulfill LetsYouDown prophecy