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The don't have a sigil or such, which indicates their Dark Imperium status.

As for now, we're asking the authors if it is related to this certain era.

 

Right now, the following belong to the past Dark Imperium time (please add or correct me if I'm wrong):

 

- The Last Hunt

- Emperor's Spears

- The Alpha Legion novels (can't remember their name)

- a coming Ultramarine Primaris novel

- Carrion Throne (I'm assuming this one)

- Watchers of the Golden Throne (which occurs prior to Dark Imperium, right?)

Carrion Vaults (assume you mean Throne?) is set a bit before Dark Imperium (just listening to the Chris Wraight interview about it on Combat Phase) but I think will carry into the Dark Imperium.

Watchers of the Throne is set at the advent of the Dark Imperium if I understand things correctly but I could very well be wrong.

Rather than classify the books by Dark Imperium, which is at the end of the Indomitus Crusade, I'd mark The Gathering Storm as the turning point. That way we'd have

 

  • Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion (Gathering Storm Side:Terra)
  • Cadia Stands (Gathering Storm: Fall of Cadia)
  • Shroud of Night
  • The Last Hunt
  • Devastation of Baal
  • Ashes of Prospero
  • War of Secrets
  • Emperor's Spears novel
  • RobMac's Ultramarines
  • Dark Imperium and Guy Haley's supposed follow-ups
  • Eye of Night (Audio)
  • Hand of Darkness (Audio)
  • Ghost Warrior: Rise of the Ynnari (+ short story)
  • Sons of the Hydra
  • The Horusian Wars: Resurrection (the new warp rift is addressed)
  • Castellan, the Warden of the Blade sequel

Not bad for the time being. I wish WHFB had gotten this much support during the End Times.

Rather than classify the books by Dark Imperium, which is at the end of the Indomitus Crusade, I'd mark The Gathering Storm as the turning point. That way we'd have

 

 

  • Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion (Gathering Storm Side:Terra)
  • Cadia Stands (Gathering Storm: Fall of Cadia)
  • Shroud of Night
  • The Last Hunt
  • Devastation of Baal
  • Ashes of Prospero
  • War of Secrets
  • Emperor's Spears novel
  • RobMac's Ultramarines
  • Dark Imperium and Guy Haley's supposed follow-ups
  • Eye of Night (Audio)
  • Hand of Darkness (Audio)
  • Ghost Warrior: Rise of the Ynnari (+ short story)
  • Sons of the Hydra
  • The Horusian Wars: Resurrection (the new warp rift is addressed)
  • Castellan, the Warden of the Blade sequel
Not bad for the time being. I wish WHFB had gotten this much support during the End Times.

Isn't Carrion Throne also set in this part of the timeline also? Pretty sure on Twitter Wraight and French hinted at their books being contemperaneous?

 

Isn't Carrion Throne also set in this part of the timeline also? Pretty sure on Twitter Wraight and French hinted at their books being contemperaneous?

 

 

I think they'll converge but in Wraight's interview with @veterannoob he said it was a little before.  Presumably Crowl will be involved but not yet.

The Carrion Throne doesn't feature the Warp Rift or the fate of Cadia yet. I mean, sure, it took Terra a good while to learn about it, but Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion makes it appear like Navradaran couldn't yet have been that invested in collecting Sisters. I'd wager there are at least a few months between the two books.

 

You can see the Gathering Storm from there, it borders closely on the events timeline-wise, but as an individual novel, it doesn't group up. Sequels? Most assuredly.

Eye of Night and Hand of Darkness? They're good productions with plenty of effects and dialogue and I'd say well worth the listen. One I finished while cooking (which was a bit more distracting than painting, I'd wager, with dishes clattering and pans sizzling), the other while cleaning. They're around 70 minutes each, so not too taxing all things considered.

 

I have to admit though that I liked Hand of Darkness a tad less than Eye of Night (maybe because it stars Yvraine and the Visarch primarily, and I didn't have a great grip on the Ynnari lore yet, whereas Greyfax and Inquisition nonsense was very familiar and flashy).

 

If you're so inclined, I'd also recommend the Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion audiobook. I picked it up on Audible when BL launched there, and it has been pretty neat. It follows three PoVs, one per chapter, and each has a distinct narrator (Gareth Armstrong, John Banks and Emma Gregory), and all are narrated in first person, so that works perfectly.

  • 8 months later...

Any updates to DarkChaplain's list below...as of July 2018?

 

Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion (Gathering Storm Side:Terra)

Cadia Stands (Gathering Storm: Fall of Cadia)

Shroud of Night

The Last Hunt

Devastation of Baal

Ashes of Prospero

War of Secrets

Emperor's Spears novel

RobMac's Ultramarines

Dark Imperium and Guy Haley's supposed follow-ups

Eye of Night (Audio)

Hand of Darkness (Audio)

Ghost Warrior: Rise of the Ynnari (+ short story)

Sons of the Hydra

The Horusian Wars: Resurrection (the new warp rift is addressed)

Castellan, the Warden of the Blade sequel

Do they, though? Because right now, all those books are either Space Marine Conquests or the Dark Imperium book where the new Primaris stuff is introduced for the first time. The Conquests books are all set early during the Indomitus Crusade to begin with, where Primaris are literally new to the Galaxy and Chapters adopt their first dudes as Guilliman makes his way across the Imperium. Anything but books about Chapters dealing with a sudden flux of new, better dudes would be pretty silly and out of place during that timeframe.

 

The further we get post-Indomitus, the less we will see of it, but right now, we haven't advanced the plotline significantly in a while, with the novels that do follow on from Dark Imperium scheduled for release over the coming 6-12 months. I'd say we should wait and see how this develops, especially as the books so far were exactly supposed to show how various Chapters adapt to suddenly getting Primaris. Dealing with the drastic changes to the galaxy post-Gathering Storm for a few books during the first year, and highlighting some of the more eccentric Chapters and their reactions, can hardly be considered a trope.

I think the inter-generational friction between SM 1.0 and SM 2.0 should be a great source of tension.

 

Yeah...they're not that different, but the older generation views the newer generation as outsiders and possibly usurpers.

 

 

And we've had that story several times. Playing up the otherness of Primaris marines isn't a solid foundation to build on. There should be no more daylight between the two a hundred years later. 

Any updates to DarkChaplain's list below...as of July 2018?

 

 

Cadia Stands, The Battle for Markgraaf Hive, Titan's Bane

Blood Guilt, Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion

Eye of Night, Our Martyred Lady, Celestine: The Living Saint (by Andy Clark)

Hand of Darkness, Shadows of Heaven, Ghost Warrior, Fireheart, Wild Rider

Ashes of Prospero

The Last Hunt

War of Secrets

Shroud of Night

The Devastation of Baal, The Assassination of Gabriel Seth, Hunger

Castellan

Horusian Wars by John French (too many to name)

Of Honour and Iron

Crusade

A Brother's Confession, Blood of Iax, Blood and Bone

Spear of the Emperor

Endurance, The Lords of Silence

Imperator: Wrath of the Omnissiah, By Your Command

In the grim Darkness, Dark Imperium, Dark Imperium Plague War (should be released in October)

Mephiston: Revenant Crusade

 

I think the inter-generational friction between SM 1.0 and SM 2.0 should be a great source of tension.

 

Yeah...they're not that different, but the older generation views the newer generation as outsiders and possibly usurpers.

 

 

And we've had that story several times. Playing up the otherness of Primaris marines isn't a solid foundation to build on. There should be no more daylight between the two a hundred years later. 

 

 

I sincerely doubt that is enough time for every old marine be completely okay with the fact that they have been made obsolete.

 

For that matter, I am not okay with every old marine being made obsolete. I find it immensely unsatisfying, as far as narratives go.

 

Pah. I thought that GW's handling of moving the narrative forwards was poor at best, so I'm going to shut up, before I devolve into a little angry ball of rants.

Oooh, Dark Imperium Plague War? What do we know about this book?

 

I've been anticipating the sequel for some time.

 

The following is from the Amazon UK listing:

 

'Intent on rebuilding Ultramar, the returned primarch Roboute Guilliman wages war on the treacherous Death Guard - but the intervention of a greater power threatens all he works for.

In the void and upon the worlds of Greater Ultramar, the battle for the Imperium continues.

 

Intent on rebuilding his home realm and using it as base to reconstruct the ravaged stellar empire of mankind, the returned primarch Roboute Guilliman proceeds with his war to drive Mortarion and his Death Guard Traitor Legion from the domain of the Ultramarines.

 

But when Guilliman brings his brother to battle upon the diseased plains of Parmenio, the intervention of a greater power in their fraternal struggle threatens to upend the Imperial Regent's understanding of the galaxy, and his place within it.

 

Primarchs and ideologies clash in this second, thrilling part of the Dark Imperium trilogy.'

 

Cover art is here.

Wow this has me hyped. Dark Imperium had some flaws as a book but was absolutely fascinating at the same time. I can't wait to see how the story progresses.

 

Also, this book might give us some hints towards the future of the Marine line.

 

Who will be this Greater Power?

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