Angron: Slave of Nuceria: Slave of Nuceria (Volume 11) (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs)

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No, seriously, as Kharn is lost to the haze for the first time, the bloody rage literally blots out his initial reactions over three pages. The description of the first Butcher's Nails surgery in the prologue had me floored, and the introduction to the Xenos on Ghenna was pretty sick too. This book gives a glimpse into Angrons past, showing how he was before the nails poisoned his mind: Kind, calm, and it seems he might have even had some latent psychic abillities.

This books doomed cause was a legionaries quest to stop the butchers nails from being implanted into the World Eaters.Furthermore, we have viewpoint characters who can directly contrast their thoughts with those of their more bloodthirsty kin. The war the World Eaters fight hardly resembles warfare at all, to the point the World Eaters themselves are commenting on it, and it really only serves as a frame for what true marrow of the horror: the Butcher's Nails.

When they fail to do so and one of his commander speaks up against the punishment, no longer willing to spill the blood of his own men, Angron goes into a nails induced rage. Makea you wonder if the two lost primarch were doing, if being drooling retard with an anger problem is absolutely fine with, apparently, everyone. It's interesting to see that at Angron loathes the tactic of the pre-Nails World Eaters with their slow advancement as he prefers them to attack with sheer rage and fury. This serves to compare and contrast each state of the legion, but curiously it is left up to the reader as which was truly better.Even though the quality of its individual stories may vary slightly, Horus Heresy: Primarchs – the ongoing set of tales about the greatest of the Emperor’s children forging the fate of a whole galaxy – is one of my favourite Black Library series. The flashbacks of Angron’s childhood in the gladiator pits are truly awful and so upsetting to see how he was broken by the abuse he suffered. That the damnation of the World Eaters was an entirely human one, at least initially, and the angry god to adopt his legion later was really only formalizing what they'd been doing for decades. Unlike his brothers, the Twelfth Primarch is the only one who would not rise to rule over the world of his upbringing, and there was a very special reason for that.

At the same time, a group of legionaries desperate for their Primarch's acceptance are toiling to be as close to him as possible ala installation of the Butcher's Nails in the whole legion. Change for the legion; how going from the War Hounds to the World Eaters effects the minds of the legion and change for the primarch.Since very young, Angron was captured by the noble houses of the planet he landed on and was enslaved as a gladiator for the entertainment of the masses. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. But still, whether Angron wants it or not, he is his Legion’s gene-father, the sire they all look up to with utmost deference and trust, and anyway he is not to be blamed for what had been done to him – which is, I suppose, one of the most poignant tragedies of the entire Horus Heresy.

What could a creature that only knows violence and carnage have much to offer in terms of backstory. Other events, meanwhile, take place but lack the further descriptions in Betrayer which makes them more impactful. Bled dry and losing ever more of their number to his mass cullings, some among them question if their gene-father is a creature broken beyond repair. It also looks more into Khàrn and what is the start of his fall but also gain a respect as in later Horus heresy books he seems to have his tendencies for blood almost in check outside of battle.

And that's the greatest tragedy about Angron and what’s left of the War Hounds, they really had no chance once the Nails were driven into the Primarch skull, making him slaughter in blind frenzy old gladiator Oenomaus, much more a father to Angron than the uncaring Emperor who left his comrades in arms dying without him, and unleash a bestial howl for days after coming back to senses. Having failed to capture the planet in 31 hours, the legionaries are subjected to Decimation upon declaration of Angron, at which the Centurion of one of the company objects, which throws Angron into a frenzy which require psychic intervention to calm him down. One of Batto's arms crashed at Mago's feet, the fingers twitching around the chainglaive they still held.