Did You Start Thousand Sons After Reading The Ahriman Books By John French?

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

Just curious if a lot of people started their TS armies that way? I read the Ahriman books last year and thought they were awesome books (a big fan of John French ever since). If I was to do an army for 40k that wasn't Imperial Fists, it would most likely be Thousand Sons, purely because of the books. 

[sitnam]

It was actually A Thousand Sons by McNeil that got me into the legion. I had always liked Chaos, but that book got me into Tzeentch. Conversely, my dislike of Space Wolves started with Prospero Burns. 

 

The Ahriman series is great however, and I could see myself getting into Tzeentch from those books. Ignis in particular is such a lovely character

 

I wish John French had been given the reins to the Iron Hands during the Heresy. His work was my favorite and I despise the route that was taken, it basically killed y interest in the series

Edited March 16 by sitnam

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

Ignis is cool. It would be nice if for a future BL model they did Ignis & Credence. 

[The Yncarne]

no.

[Ahzek451]

From my perspective, it was a long time coming waiting to hear more about Ahriman and was happy to read and finally get it. I started 1ksons as a primary army when I saw the old pewter lord of change/pewter static pose rubric marine and Ahriman back around late 2nd ed/early 3rd ed. 

 

The novel PAWNS of CHAOS was a book that helped back in the day. 

[Xenith]

On 3/16/2024 at 11:38 PM, The Yncarne said:

no.

 

I know you can be more articulate 

 

I started after the snippet of lore in the 3.0 Chaos Codex, and the cool awesome models with flames on. The tragic backstory, combined with my love of psychic'y things, and gorgeous models led me down that path, and I played exclusively Tzeentch chaos in 40k and WFB for a good old while (2000 - 2005?)

The Ahriman novels are great, and fitting for the Thousand Sons. I definiely want to convert up some of the characters from that at some point. 

Edited April 29 by Xenith

[The Yncarne]

I collected Thousand Sons before the Rubric was introduced into the lore. I had 30+ of the single-pose metal models along with RT-era Tzeentch touched marines. 

 

My Sectai Prosperine sect started at the beginning of 8th edition. There are some pics in the gallery here.

 

I've never read a Black Library book.