The High Kahls Oath - Black Library

[TrawlingCleaner]

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After their long absence from the galactic stage, the Leagues of Votann have returned to Warhammer 40,000 with millennia of knowledge stored in their hyper-advanced Votann cores, armed with powerful STC weapons lost to the Imperium during the Age of Strife. 

 

Due Later This Year (tm)

 

 

[VanDutch]

Wow, they pulled that title font right out of the 90s didn’t they. 

[Casual Heresy]

About time Black Library! 
 

it was a complete mistake not to have a novel out with the first wave but at least we got there. 
 

I’ll definitely aim to get the standard edition, but I’m with @VanDutch, the typeface is a bit dated. Always happy to experiments with cover design to keep things fresh but it’s not the choice I would have made. 

[Lord Marshal]

12 minutes ago, VanDutch said:

Wow, they pulled that title font right out of the 90s didn’t they. 

 

THIS SUMMER...

 

In a galaxy where there is... *Drum Beat*

 

Only War(tm)...

[Indy Techwisp]

Once again, it's not the Greater Thurian Leagues being represented here, but the Trans-Hyperion Alliance again.

 

While it makes sense with Killteam to paint the LoV teams as the orange and black Sub Faction rather than the "main" one, it's interesting that it's THA stealing the spotlight once more.

[phandaal]

Bold choice to put a beardless dwarf on the cover of the first Leagues of Votann novel!

[mecanojavi99]

That excerpt of the book is literally reversed Space Hulk, nice.

[Noserenda]

Ooof that font! 

Nice to see Black Library remember the Votaan exist after only a couple of years?

[grailkeeper]

Gav Thorpe mightn't be BL's best author but he isnt the worst. He has come up with a lot of background for a lot of races so he is a solid choice for this. 

 

That being said, I'd have preferred ADB or Abnett.

[Jareddm]

My standards for Thorpe these days are Our Martyred Lady and Lorgar. If this can match either of them, I'll be happy.

[Gamiel]

1 hour ago, phandaal said:

Bold choice to put a beardless dwarf on the cover of the first Leagues of Votann novel!

Don't see the problem

[Lord Marshal]

2 hours ago, TrawlingCleaner said:

 

It just occurred to me...

 

Edited August 6 by Lord Marshal

[01RTB01]

2 hours ago, phandaal said:

Bold choice to put a beardless dwarf on the cover of the first Leagues of Votann novel!

Even bolder to have Thorpe write it.

 

He may have written one or two good books but he's produced more poop than our dog after she's found leftovers for eating. 

 

Someone said he's not the worst writer. I'd be curious as to who is.

 

Sorry for the negativity but he really is a woeful writer.

[Petitioner's City]

23 minutes ago, 01RTB01 said:

He may have written one or two good books but he's produced more poop than our dog after she's found leftovers for eating. 

 

I don't know, this feels a bit rude/ott?

 

Anyway, while I agree not my first pick, I still have a lot of love for Gav trying experimental things (that don't always land but sometimes do) and also of course for Gav the games designer of our youths (ie Inquisitor, Digganob, and many things in wfb and 40k). He also lives and breathes dwarfs, so makes sense for the Votann too. 

[Orange Knight]

Ahh. Votann finally get a book...

 

...Written by Gav Thorpe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It could be good?

[01RTB01]

9 minutes ago, Petitioner's City said:

 

I don't know, this feels a bit rude/ott?

 

Anyway, while I agree not my first pick, I still have a lot of love for Gav trying experimental things (that don't always land but sometimes do) and also of course for Gav the games designer of our youths (ie Inquisitor, Digganob, and many things in wfb and 40k). He also lives and breathes dwarfs, so makes sense for the Votann too. 

I had no issues with him on the game design front or codex writing, but the novels I've read by him have been really awful. Going from ADB in the heresy series to one of his books... the contrast was so stark. The indomitus book was also really badly written.

 

Sorry if it feels rude but I find his writing to be dull and nowhere near the likes of McNeil, ADB and co.

[phandaal]

1 hour ago, 01RTB01 said:

Even bolder to have Thorpe write it.

 

He may have written one or two good books but he's produced more poop than our dog after she's found leftovers for eating. 

 

Someone said he's not the worst writer. I'd be curious as to who is.

 

Sorry for the negativity but he really is a woeful writer.

 

Money's Paw for sure.

 

I really like his codex work. His long form prose though... Let me just say those books were a slog.

 

And don't even get me started on the lore with Azrael and the Chalupa.

 

2 hours ago, Gamiel said:

Don't see the problem

 

You cannot tell me that dwarf would not be cooler with a beard, or even a sick Magnum PI mustache.

 

Edit: see? Even Black Blow Fly agrees with me. Wait. Even... Black Blow Fly...

 

Nevermind, I'm on Team Hairless now.

Edited August 6 by phandaal

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

10 minutes ago, phandaal said:

You cannot tell me that dwarf would not be cooler with a beard, or even a sick Magnum PI mustache.

 

Being afraid of facial hair on their girlboss dwarves is a weird line for GW to draw.

[TrawlingCleaner]

7 minutes ago, Lord Nord in Gravis Armour said:

 

Being afraid of facial hair on their girlboss dwarves is a weird line for GW to draw.

 

How'd you figure? 

[phandaal]

19 hours ago, Lord Nord in Gravis Armour said:

 

Being afraid of facial hair on their girlboss dwarves is a weird line for GW to draw.

 

That is a lady? I honestly couldn't tell from the picture.  Just figured GW did the whole "no beards to get in the way of the helmet seal" thing.

 

Edited August 7 by phandaal

[Scribe]

Man, a few monkey paws to go around it seems.

 

Let us hope that the great potential of the faction and its place in the setting is not squandered. 

[Nephaston]

To be fair, even Gav will struggle to character assassinate a faction that just got out. He will try though.

[TrawlingCleaner]

8 minutes ago, Nephaston said:

To be fair, even Gav will struggle to character assassinate a faction that just got out. He will try though.

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

3 minutes ago, Nephaston said:

To be fair, even Gav will struggle to character assassinate a faction that just got out. He will try though.

 

We ARE talking about a guy who managed to murder the one bit of existing lore for the Dragonspears chapter by making them a pre-Ultima chapter simply so that they could meet  with Krom DragonGAZE in a scene immediately prior to the Primaris Marines showing up.

 

Reason #23552151 that I suspect the closest thing Black Library has to an actual editor is the spellcheck function.

[Nephaston]

35 minutes ago, TrawlingCleaner said:

 

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Those are still Eldar, those get special (read; worse) treatment.