Throne Questoris - Victoria Hayward

[wecanhaveallthree]

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Though knightly scion Asrien Balateur is only moments away from claiming the throne that is their birthright, the land itself is being swallowed by mysterious snowstorms, and Imperial Knights are disappearing among shattered castles and ravaged realms. 

The petty squabbles of quarrelsome barons and pressures of a king’s court are no longer the biggest of Asrien’s worries. Madness rises from the planet’s murky past, and only the future king can hope to rally the land against debts long since forgotten.

The land moves, and the Winter Knight rides.

With a combination of posturing, intrigue, and action, Throne Questoris by Victoria Hayward offers fresh ways to explore the 41st Millennium.

 

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/cz327wys/imperial-knights-star-in-a-new-black-library-novel/

 

A thread to discuss the upcoming Imperial Knights book, Throne Questoris by Victoria Hayward.

 

Please remember the forum rules and do not engage in any sociopolitical commentary, or I will be obliged to inform the moderation staff (and Roomsky).

Edited October 15 by wecanhaveallthree

[TwinOcted]

I'm quite interested in this one, I like a bit of courtly intrigue with my big stompy robots.  For those who've read it, how was the preceding short story.

[Cactus]

They call it a novel, but make it sound like a gamebook like Fighting Fantasy. Maybe I'm just tired and imagining it.

 

"The new Black Library novel Throne Questoris puts you in the Throne Mechanicum of an ancient war machine on a quest to defend a dying world."

 

"Throne Questoris by Victoria Hayward offers fresh ways to explore the 41st Millennium."

[1ncarnadine]

12 hours ago, TwinOcted said:

I'm quite interested in this one, I like a bit of courtly intrigue with my big stompy robots.  For those who've read it, how was the preceding short story.

The Feast of St. Luthera? It's very good. It depicts a knightly court through a grimdark funhouse mirror and I'm definitely stoked for more. It managed to be both gruesome and a little raunchy (relative to BL, so very little but still more than 99% of BL works). It's short, but... the pigs...

To summarize, it's a knight house whose world employed a vast orbital weather control array, but at some point they pilfered materials from the array to keep the knights working, and then went ahead and lost most of their knight armours anyway. So now there are far too many nobles and not enough machines, and the world itself has gone to seed.

It's difficult to discuss more based on the forum rules and without giving the trolls ammo. I don't know, I'm hopeful we can remain respectful here. I'm not confident, but I'm hopeful.

Edited November 4 by 1ncarnadine

[hd3]

1 hour ago, 1ncarnadine said:

The Feast of St. Luthera? It's very good. It depicts a knightly court through a grimdark funhouse mirror and I'm definitely stoked for more. It managed to be both gruesome and a little raunchy (relative to BL, so very little but still more than 99% of BL works). It's short, but... the pigs...

To summarize, it's a knight house whose world employed a vast orbital weather control array, but at some point they pilfered materials from the array to keep the knights working, and then went ahead and lost most of their knight armours anyway. So now there are far too many nobles and not enough machines, and the world itself has gone to seed.

It's difficult to discuss more based on the forum rules and without giving the trolls ammo. I don't know, I'm hopeful we can remain respectful here. I'm not confident, but I'm hopeful.

 

I mean if it's difficult to discuss a text without doing that, doesn't that seem to suggest that it's not a 'non' event and actually some or the whole point the text exists? 

[TwinOcted]

4 hours ago, 1ncarnadine said:

The Feast of St. Luthera? It's very good. It depicts a knightly court through a grimdark funhouse mirror and I'm definitely stoked for more. It managed to be both gruesome and a little raunchy (relative to BL, so very little but still more than 99% of BL works). It's short, but... the pigs...

To summarize, it's a knight house whose world employed a vast orbital weather control array, but at some point they pilfered materials from the array to keep the knights working, and then went ahead and lost most of their knight armours anyway. So now there are far too many nobles and not enough machines, and the world itself has gone to seed.

It's difficult to discuss more based on the forum rules and without giving the trolls ammo. I don't know, I'm hopeful we can remain respectful here. I'm not confident, but I'm hopeful.

Thanks for letting me know, I'll keep an eye out for this one.  Mind you, I'll probably need to get the PB next year thanks to BL's miniscule HB print runs.

 

[Ubiquitous1984]

Asking this in good faith as I don't follow this author or the politics of this website - what's the drama with this book and author?

[Roomsky]

1 hour ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

Asking this in good faith as I don't follow this author or the politics of this website - what's the drama with this book and author?

The protagonist, knight pilot Asrien Balateur, uses they/them pronouns based on Warhammer Community's plot description.

EDIT: This is consistent with the short story The Feast of St. Luthera that Hayward's published already.

Edited November 5 by Roomsky

[Lathe Biosas]

6 minutes ago, Roomsky said:

The protagonist, knight pilot Asrien Balateur, uses they/them pronouns based on Warhammer Community's plot description.

 

But not the email sent by Games Workshop. So it's a bit confusing.

[wecanhaveallthree]

Fraters, if you could contain yourselves to discussing the upcoming book Throne Questoris by Victoria Hayward rather than sociopolitical commentary, that would be much appreciated.

[DarkChaplain]

  

5 minutes ago, wecanhaveallthree said:

Fraters, if you could contain yourselves to discussing the upcoming book Throne Questoris by Victoria Hayward rather than sociopolitical commentary, that would be much appreciated.

 

That's the thing. It's all one and the same at this point, since some folks got offended over something utterly trivial and made it a sociopolitical discussion. Funnily enough, in my experience, it's usually been the folks who talk about leaving politics out of media (games especially, as if they've ever not been political) who forcefully drag it into the discourse, causing it to overshadow whatever the piece of media actually has to say for itself.

 

Which, one could argue, is often the point, I suppose. If they can't silence the author, they'll derail and overshadow what they have to say, poisoning the discourse.

 

Personally, I wish I was more interested in Imperial Knights to begin with, but a unique take might just help me getting there...

 

Edit: Would you look at that, somebody proved my point even while I was still typing my reply.

Edited November 6 by DarkChaplain

[darkhorse0607]

I edited my comment because @Nagashsnee and @DarkChaplain have done a better job at making the case than I have and quite frankly its alarming me how namaste @wecanhaveallthree has been lately. Seriously, being the peacemaker? Proud of you

 

But

 

Can I just point out the sheer amount of irony from being concerned enough about what a character is referred to (or refers to themselves) to continue to derail a thread while having the Alpha Legion of all factions as a profile picture

[Adeptekon]

Is this topic about the author or the work which isn't out yet? It's become common place to take down the source for xyz beliefs these days so this thread could be bait. 

 

That said I'm not interested in Imperial Knights so I'm in before the lock.

[hd3]

1 hour ago, Adeptekon said:

Is this topic about the author or the work which isn't out yet? It's become common place to take down the source for xyz beliefs these days so this thread could be bait. 

 

That said I'm not interested in Imperial Knights so I'm in before the lock.

 

A bit of both.

1 hour ago, darkhorse0607 said:

I edited my comment because @Nagashsnee and @DarkChaplain have done a better job at making the case than I have and quite frankly its alarming me how namaste @wecanhaveallthree has been lately. Seriously, being the peacemaker? Proud of you

 

But

 

Can I just point out the sheer amount of irony from being concerned enough about what a character is referred to (or refers to themselves) to continue to derail a thread while having the Alpha Legion of all factions as a profile picture

 

I'll have you know I identify as an Ultramarine.

 

In an attempt to try and get this back on track I read the Feast of St Luthera over my lunch break. It's.....fine? Everything was a bit over telegraphed though. I didn't  really want to know what happened next because it was pretty obvious. Asrien was a bit jarringly out of place for the broader society. The ending was quite abrupt too.

 

Edited November 6 by hd3