Avenging Son
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The things I have seen and done…
They do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery./b>
Age is a matter of perspective.
Farewell, tetrach,' said Guilliman. 'Fight well, rule better. I leave a great number of my people in your hands. Try to save them. And, if you can, remember this - although the aeldari seer helped plot the course to our victory, our plan would have failed had I not had a little faith. Perhaps we all should have.
Come on, I mean it, tell me, how does it work?' said Maxentius-Drontio. 'I am interested, and not just because I am bored.' 'Hmm, calculating potential for targeted, induced social embarrassment.' The magos stopped, stock-still. Something clicked in his chest. 'Risks acceptable. Bond with me. Pass me that size nine molecular manipulator, please, in order to initiate emotional pairing,' said Fe.
Nothing is impossible until the moment for it to occur has passed.
You brought us here to ask if the Emperor is a god, for that is where this conversation is going, but the questions you should be asking yourself are, "Am I a god?" and "If I am a god, am I free?
We are talking here not of sorcery, or what you refer to as psychic power, but of faith. Faith is the most powerful force in this galaxy. It requires no proof to convince. It grants conviction to those who believe. It brings hope to the hopeless, and where it flourishes, reality changes.
The Emperor would brook no cult but that of reason.' Guilliman laughed. 'To think I believed it all.' 'My lord?' asked Maxim, cautious now of Guilliman's rancour. 'Do not worry yourself, Donas,' said Guilliman. 'I merely mean that reason is a faith of its own, with its own traps and heresies.
Ultramar is important for all sort of reasons. But we must take politics into account, and politics do not speak the same language as logic.
As individuals, people are intelligent creatures, but as a group, they are animals, and animals need a firm hand.
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Avenging Son
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Book 3 of the Dark Imperium trilogy
The destinies of primarch and Imperial Regent Roboute Guilliman and his traitorous brother Mortarion come together for the climactic battle of the Plague Wars.
READ IT BECAUSE It's the throwdown you've been waiting for, as Guilliman and Mortarion work out ten thousand years of pent-up resentment in a clash for the ages.
THE STORY The paths of Roboute Guilliman and his fallen brother Mortarion bring them inexorably together on Iax. Once a jewel of the Imperium, the garden world is dying as the plans of the Lord of Death to use it as a fulcrum to drag the stellar realm of Ultramar into the warp come to deadly fruition.
While Guilliman attempts to prevent the destruction of his kingdom, Mortarion schemes to bring his brother low with the Godblight, a disease created in the Cauldron of Nurgle itself, made with the power to destroy a son of th
Book details
- First published
- 2021
- Author
- Guy Haley
- Genre
- Science Fiction
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- 4.26 (2k ratings)
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