Deliverance Lost: Ghosts of Terra (The Horus Heresy)

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Corax is deeply disturbed by what he and his Legion went through but throughout the book he is a very uneven character. Sometimes the only thing that sets these books apart is the level of descriptive talent that evokes the mood and brings the horror to an eye-peeling visceral level. The best Warhammer books combine gripping, adrenaline-infused action with quiet, character driven moments. And don't get me started on the half assed attempt to give the Raven Guard a meaningful victory at the end in maybe a dozen pages max. The Raven Guard recover from the battle against the tech-guilds and root out the Alpha Legionnaires in their midst by testing their DNA.

Kenntnisse von 'Mechanicum' und des Hörbuches 'Raven's Flight' sind nützlich, aber nicht unentbehrlich.

His Warhammer 40,000 repertoire further includes the Path of the Eldar series, the Horus Heresy audio dramas Raven’s Flight and Honour to the Dead, and a multiplicity of short stories.

In the aftermath of the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre Primarch Corvus Corax of the Raven Guard is on the run with roughly 3000 survivors from his Legion. I similarly wished a bit more storybuilding on the relation between the "fallen or flawed" raptors and their other battle brethren who at first are kept secret but overnight become an accepted part of the legion. The intrigue part is pretty good and actually this is as much an Alpha Legion book as it is a Raven Guard book. I have a better idea of Corax as a leader now, and can relate to wanting to be as great as a leader as him, even if he is fictional. Corus, nicknamed "Corax" which means "saviour", was found on a prison planet where he was adopted by the prisoners and raised not in hatred and fear, but in understanding that his people are being oppressed and he is the only man who can actually do something about it.Only one thing really bothered me here: For being a primarch that supposedly has exceptional patience (which one has to have to wage the type of war that the Raven Guard excel at), Corax seemed to be overly impetuous and prone to sudden outbursts.