They just have to have every single teensy tiny detail nailed down and unequivocally canonized, and I never really understood why. The problem is every time a universe gets popular, some people just can't stand ambiguity. The whole point was it was a mystery, that there are things unexplained and in all honesty shouldn't be explained.
We're already to the point of minor Horus Heresy factions having more lore than currently sold plastic armies like Genestealer cults and Dark Eldar, that's insane. It's a miracle the 2nd and 11th primarchs are still unknown. Not to mention the heresy books go into ridiculous amounts of details to explain every little thing, which just makes the problem worse. Some of the Primarchs are so moronic it makes you question how they could ever conquer a planet, let alone run a legion. The more they try and explain his methods the more he sounds like a fedora wearing teenager who's just discovered atheism. It's incredible how good authors are at making these characters look like morons, especially the Emperor. Think of it like how Jedi were described in episodes 4-6 of star wars, only to then go to the clone wars and the prequels and we get every little detail hammered out, down to literally meeting the embodiments of the force (God I hated that episode.)Īfter reading the heresy books I wouldn't trust any of the Primarchs to watch a kid for 5 minutes, heck I wouldn't trust them to make a cheese sandwich. We knew they had crazy advanced technology compared to the "modern" 40k, and that helped as well because there were devices that bordered on magic (and potentially were) to explain the weirder and more esoteric mysteries. That let us fill in logical gaps ourselves. Their deeds were steeped in myth and legend, and other than the most basic of things like Sanguinis dying to protect the emperor and Horus mortally wounding the Emperor which led to his internment on the golden throne, we didn't really know what happened. Sadly this sort of thing isn't limited to 40k or 30k, similar stuff has been going on in star wars for example and I hate it there for the same reasons.īefore the heresy, it was easy to believe the Emperor and primarchs were these demigod like beings of unmatched intelligence and charisma.
#Everything in horus heresy novels canon series
Don't get me wrong, there are good books in the series that stand on their own merit, but as far as the setting, it's done irreparable damage to the 40k universe. The heresy series is the perfect example of screwing this up. You'd think 40k players of all folks would understand this when the whole selling point of the universe is an age of regression and lost knowledge. Removing mystery in settings is a great way to kill a lot of the magic and interesting potential of it. There’s quite a few of them I would have bought had they been out a few more months (most annoying I was intending to get the Carmine dragon lady for Xmas before she went OOP with little warning in like Nov) What is more annoying to me tbh though is the really awesome models made alongside Tamurkhan and Monstrous Arcana going OOP without warning so FW could focus on HH.
This stopped around the time HH came out (though tbh WFB being imminently destroyed should have had much to do with it as well)
#Everything in horus heresy novels canon plus
They had started previewing the next of these (Blackfire Pass) and even started releasing models for it (mostly goblin stuff, plus some dwarfs). I'm not being snarky btw, I'm a 40k/30k main, and Fantasy was at the end times shortly after I started WH.įW were planning more WFB books in the vein of the (pretty awesome) Tamurkhan book. Was FW planning on making more WHFB models in 2012 when the HH game was released? Or do you mean there were more WHFB novels planned in 2006 when the HH book series was released?
Gert wrote: I'm not sure what you mean with regards to the fantasy content.