Grim Repast (Warhammer 40,000)

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Die Charaktere sind etwas chlichee und bekommen abseits vom Protagonisten auch nicht allzu viel Tiefe, aber darauf kommt es mir bei diesem Buch auch nicht an. We have a lot to talk about, so let’s jump right in – starting with all the Kruleboyz you’ve been waiting for. Alongside two issues of White Dwarf, you’ll find Imperial Armour Volume 2 added to the Warhammer Vault – it’s the definitive guide to the fighting vehicles of the Adeptus Astartes. Quillon Drask is a haunted man, wrestling with the daemons of his past. With a reputation that draws only the strangest cases, he is intimately familiar with the malevolent underbelly of Varangantua. Yet nothing that has gone before could have prepared the probator for the horrors which now blight the district of Polaris.

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Tormented by his past, Probator Quillon Drask’s reputation as the go-to detective for strange crimes has led him to the Polaris district of Varangantua. Warring families, corrupt officials, and a monstrous hunger stalk these streets, and Drask must overcome his own inner agonies to bring justice to the tormented city. Despite possessing a ruthless streak a mile wide and a burning hatred towards Gaunt, who he blames for abandoning Tanith to its destruction, Elim Rawne is nonetheless a highly capable commander and leads the regiment’s third platoon. An expert with a blade, Rawne’s handsome face hides a murderous glint in his eyes, and he always keeps his razor-sharp Tanith warknife to hand. Master Sniper Hlaine Larkin Early on it becomes clear that this is an enjoyably noirish story, with both a troubled protagonist whose tormented thoughts won’t let him rest or look aside, and a great sense of atmosphere. While this is a crime novel not a horror novel it is genuinely quite gruesome in places, and Collins sets the tone right away, opening the first chapter with a scene of eye surgery that’s enough to set the squeamish squirming. There’s nothing gratuitous though, with the darkness and violence – whether shown or implied – always in service to the plot, and reminding the reader that 40k is a fundamentally grim setting. Polaris is “cold and bleak and unforgiving”, and its mixture of dingy squalor and extravagant, if fading, grandeur – because this is 40k, where the contrast between the privileged few and everyone else is turned up to 11 – is perfectly suited to a Warhammer Crime story. Dieses Buch bewegt sich irgendwo zwischen den Reihen Warhammer Crime und Warhammer Horror. Offiziell gehört es dem ersten an, was aufgrund seiner Noir-Elemente auch korrekt ist, aber inhaltlich passt es auch in die letzte Sparte.However, what might drive someone to serve a particular part of Chaos? I could understand Slaanesh allowing you to live out your deepest, darkest fantasies without shame. Tzeentch could promise opportunities to actually change things for the better. Remember that it isn’t a competition, it’s an audition. What matters is that you make sure you follow all the guidance, bring your A-game, and above all make sure you’re writing something that you feel passionately about. Find that part of Warhammer that makes you happy.”

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Quillon Drask: Quillon possesses a 'gift', one that lets him place himself into the minds of the most demented of individuals. It gives him a morbid edge when pursuing and solving heinous crimes, a gift molded under the tutelage of his mentor Alexius: a mentor who he was forced to kill, after he almost murdered Quillon. Quillon drowns in his past, bearing the trauma of Alexius as he struggles to stay afloat in a city that pulls good men under. A detective through and through, Quillon takes on the worst cases out of moral duty, to hold its perpetrators to account. His sanity is the cost however, as despite choking down his own vomit, he cannot bare to look away from what he sees, and will come to see. Chris Wraight: Writing Warhawk was a real challenge, as I was trying to combine all the lore (both old and new) from the Siege of Terra series with a proper conclusion to the White Scars story arc in the Heresy. It was the most complex project I think I’ve ever taken on, but also, thanks to the amazing people I was working with, one of the most satisfying and exciting. This full-length novel sends Probator Quillon Drask into the Polaris District of Varangantua. There, he’ll encounter everything from warring families to corrupt officials, all while endeavouring to find the source of a malign hunger stalking the streets.Several of the stories in this anthologies were originally released as individual e-shorts (see below) before being bundled together here, alongside a further four stories.