Opposing these characters' gradual descent into perversion are token loyalists Ostian Delafour, a human sculptor whose ignorant detachment parables the Emperor, and Solomon Demeter, second captain of the Emperor's Children. Thankfully Graham McNeill explores a number of other ways that the minds of both Astartes and mortals can be corrupted by Slaanesh: first captain Julius Kaesoron is swayed by hedonistic philosophy, third captain Marius Vairosean simply follows the example of his superiors and artist Serena d'Angelus's mental illness makes her easy prey. Fulgrim's corruption differs from Horus's in that Fulgrim has fewer if any personal reasons to betray the Emperor and is turned by an external force, and that Fulgrim's mighty mind barely seems to question the voice inside it makes his fall to Chaos seem easy and cheap. Unbeknownst to the Imperials a daemon of Slaanesh is housed in the pommel of the alien blade and it begins to assert its will over Fulgrim, whispering lies and temptations into his mind. The Laer's floating coral cities are a suitably outlandish setting for a race enthralled by Slaanesh, and when Fulgrim leads his men to victory after months of brutal fighting and claims a sword from the Laer temple as a trophy the fate of both primarch and Legion is sealed.
However, Fulgrim remains a masterpiece of operatic resonance.Ī long novel spread over five acts, Fulgrim begins amidst the Great Crusade with the Emperor's Children making war on the alien Laer civilisation. The acts of depravity carried out by some of the characters are graphic and brutal, and for this reason Fulgrim is one of the few Black Library novels that younger readers are warned against.
It captures the tragedy of the opening acts of the Horus Heresy through the eyes of the Emperor's Children, a proud and vainglorious Legion whose pursuit of perfection degenerates into amoral decadence and horror by the novel's end. It chronicles the tragic fall of the Emperor's Children and their primarch Fulgrim into worship of Slaanesh and betrayal of the Imperium.Īt the time of its release, Fulgrim was the longest and most ambitious Heresy novel to date. Fulgrim by Graham McNeill is the fifth installment in the Horus Heresy series.
0 kommentar(er)
