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Post by Walrus on Jun 23, 2011 5:35:40 GMT -5
WARNING! SPOILER ALERT! THIS THREAD WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE EISENHORN OMNIBUS! READ ON AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Oh... My... GOD!!!!!!
That was absolutely AMAZING! In case you haven't figured, I just finished the Eisenhorn omnibus. I am a changed man...
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Post by cheminhaler on Jun 23, 2011 14:38:43 GMT -5
Great stuff, Inquisitor Walrus. You've learned many important lessons in safeguarding mankind from the xenos, the traitor and the heretic.
But wasn't it just a quality read?
His descent into radicalism is tragic, but I feel he had no choice in the matter. Or did he?
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Post by Walrus on Jun 23, 2011 18:36:07 GMT -5
As Ravenor said, 'All Inquisitors walk the path of the radical eventually'. Eisenhorn did the right thing, destroying the Codus Maledictum (or however it's spelled  ) |
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Post by cheminhaler on Jun 24, 2011 15:04:04 GMT -5
Well Ravenor is a radical himself. His use of wraithbone pendants clearly violates Imperial edicts, as they're xenos in manufacture.
Anyway rumour has it Abnett is working on a new series in which Ravenor hunts down (and eventually kills) the great Gregor Eisenhorn himself. How tragic would that be?
More to the point would Gregor be the same after all his experiences. Would he have become a monster himself, just like Quixos, who he himself hunted down.
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Post by Walrus on Jun 24, 2011 20:16:50 GMT -5
Well obviously Gregor would be changed. However, I don't think he would turn out like Quixos. Quixos was well and truly insane, and relied on the power his dark pacts gave him. Gregor used his knowledge in complete necessity. I doubt he would have bound Cherubael if he knew he would never be played by the abomination for the rest of his life. Same with when he used the Cherubael to destroy the Titan. Gregor didn't try and gain power through the book like Quixos, only protect.
To have Ravenor hunt down Gregor would be horrible, but at the same time fascinating.
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Post by cheminhaler on Jun 26, 2011 6:07:19 GMT -5
Makes you wonder if he actually goes through with it, or makes a compromise with him. I reckon he'll change..
Yeah the bit with them trapped by the bloody titan. They are sooo dead, and then he pulls out his Ace card... One of the best bits in the book, really. That and the rise and fall of Pontius Glaw.
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Post by Walrus on Jun 26, 2011 6:31:40 GMT -5
I'm curious at how Glaw managed to escape with barely the capability to walk...
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Post by cheminhaler on Jun 27, 2011 14:55:21 GMT -5
Well I reckon mechanicus Magos Bure was conned/ sweet-talked by the arch heretic. Gregor told Bure to give him 'limited motion' but Bure gave him a super adamantine robot body, built around his special memory device.
The mad bit is that when you find out Glaw escaped from Bure you kind of think : what? How can an MP-3 player escape from anyone?
That's all Glaw was until Bure gave him a body..
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Post by Walrus on Jun 27, 2011 18:32:00 GMT -5
I suppose Glaw sweet talking Bure would have been rather easy for him...
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Post by cheminhaler on Jun 29, 2011 11:23:20 GMT -5
Well for an arch-heretic's personality captured into a digital media storage device, Glaw was really charming.
Bure was probably over excited at the prospect of making a working machine body for the Glaw device and just let his guard down. Glaw was just the ultimate opportunist.
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Post by Walrus on Jun 30, 2011 4:53:11 GMT -5
Glaw was just the ultimate opportunist. Understatement if I ever saw one... Glaw is by far the most opportunistic character I have ever read, in any book ;D |
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Post by cheminhaler on Jul 1, 2011 10:08:02 GMT -5
What about his network of operatives - like Bequin, Midas Betancore and Godwin Fischig : who did you like?
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Post by Walrus on Jul 1, 2011 21:51:47 GMT -5
I think Aemos was my favourite. It was a shame he died like that...
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Post by cheminhaler on Jul 4, 2011 13:49:39 GMT -5
Ah, Uber Aemos - the techno savant. A walking computer brain!
Mine was probably Esw Sweydyr : the swordswoman.
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Post by Walrus on Jul 4, 2011 18:33:20 GMT -5
Her sword was crazy! Even before Eisenhorn 'modified' it...
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Post by cheminhaler on Jul 13, 2011 11:45:08 GMT -5
Indeed - modified it without returning it to the order.. :/
It was just one little bit of heresy after another, then a major leap, and before you know it you're a radical!
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Post by Walrus on Jul 17, 2011 3:57:43 GMT -5
That about sums it up I think...
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Post by cheminhaler on Jul 21, 2011 7:52:40 GMT -5
The bits in the book with Cherubael were pretty awesome. It's a shame daemonhosts aren't all that in the real game.
Although with the new GK dex you can make a couple of squads full of them at least.
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Post by Walrus on Jul 21, 2011 9:42:22 GMT -5
Say what now?!
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Post by cheminhaler on Jul 25, 2011 16:56:35 GMT -5
In the new GK 'dex you can have daemonhosts in inq henchman squads. In the old daemonhunter dex they were an elite choice in their own right. Well Inq hechmen squads are still elite, but now you need an inquisitor in the same squad, unless you take Coteaz.
Also to pepper further confusion onto the matter in Coteaz's fluff he insta-executes anyone who trucks with daemons, so if you're making a Coteaz daemonhost super army, you're murdering that fluff bunny with a chainsaw.
Unnerstand??
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Post by Walrus on Jul 28, 2011 8:08:40 GMT -5
It's GK, murdering the fluff with a chainsaw will be helping it.
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