Peter Fehervari’s Dark Coil

[The Scorpion]

55 minutes ago, sitnam said:

Is Fehervari the most underrated author in BL?

Obviously. There is glaze, for sure, but not as much as there should be.

[hd3]

On 6/11/2026 at 11:52 PM, The Scorpion said:

It may, because the order in which you read things affects the reveals.

 

When I first read Requiem Infernal, I completely missed that Asenath's backstory was the Imperium's conquest of the Providence system!

Agree on Crown of Thorns. It is the best "Angels Penitent" story in the coil, even moreso than The Sins of my Brothers. The reason I prefer 13th Psalm though, is that has more internal pieces and was my first introduction to the layered take on the warp and corruption that Fehervari has. The only other author which I have seen treat the warp with such nuance is Chris Wraight, but to a lesser degree.

 

Fire and Ice also has the most Based depiction of Farsight. He feels buddha-like at times. The inquisitorial mind games are great, but the Calavera has some 300 IQ plays going on.

 

I thought at first that he might be Czervantes returning from his lost Crusade, but this Tzeentchian plottery doesn't fit Varzival's character. Then I started to think he might be Satori, because as far as we know we have never seen Satori wearing his battle armor.

 

 

My theory is that calavera is actually Xoren Castaneda himself. It would explain why he abandoned the angels resplendent, to fight chaos, why none of his apprentices can find him etc. The only argument against that is Fehrevari allegedly said "if he could write a Horus heresy book, it would have calavera in it" which would pre date xoren. Though I've never been able to find the source quote for that and of course whether it counts given it's him talking about what he might've done is questionable.

Edited Wednesday at 10:52 PM by hd3

[The Scorpion]

Maybe he meant it in the sense that Calavera has time travel.

 

But it would probably be a blunder on the GOAT's part, mixing a coil character with 30k.

 

We saw that even Abnett was led astray by his attempts to connect the two settings.

 

I still think that Calavera is Satori, because Xoren was said to "ascend" which makes me think of Nirvana and the abandonment of the physical world.

Edited 8 hours ago by The Scorpion