The Lion: Son Of The Forest (Warhammer 40,000)

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The Fallen are really keen to reminisce that they were the bestest, the firstest, and the most secretest, and that all other legions mimic what they pioneered, if they can even best them in that field they plowed first. Azrael isn’t the only Chapter Master given the Primaris treatment – Commander Dante has barely tied a bow on the apocalyptic invasion of Baal and he’s already off finding more enemies of the Imperium to destroy. Someone really needs to give the guy a holiday. Vashtorr the Arkifane One-Winged Angel: Seraphax transforms into a giant demonic form when it becomes obvious he cannot win otherwise.

In this midnight age, the dying embers of humanity are threatened on all sides by the hungry darkness. Alone, even the Lion has no hope of prevailing against such evil – but there are those who would aid him in his quest. Hunted to the edge of endurance, many among his Fallen knights have long-awaited the day their liege would return to redeem them. The Lord of Shadowed Paths must gather these lost loyalists to his side once more, and stride forth to vanquish a traitorous son and the twisted Chaos warband that calls him master. Brooks getting the writing job for Lion El'Johnson's 40k return novel reassures me this is going to be a ripping read, based off his previous work:Nothing the Lion can do will undo all the stuff the DA have done over 10k years hunting the lion, the sheer number of loyal souls they put to the pyre is insane. Hero of Another Story: Commander Dante, last seen in Darkness in the Blood trying to hold his section of Imperium Nihilus against the tyranids, appears in the epilogue to investigate the rumours of the Lion's return.

The Lion presents an opportunity to move on from that old story and to finally present the Dark Angels with an opportunity to take their rightful place as paragons of the Imperium, who lead, and who don't exist in the shadows, ever shrouded by secrecy and shame. The Primarch of the Dark Angels made his first appearance in 10,000 years at AdeptiCon. Awoken into the nightmare known as Imperium Nihilus, where humanity is beset on all sides by darkness and Chaos is on the rise, even the mighty Lion El’Jonson could not hope to prevail on his own in such a hostile environment. Azrael isn’t the only Chapter Master given the Primaris treatment – Commander Dante has barely tied a bow on the apocalyptic invasion of Baal and he’s already off finding more enemies of the Imperium to destroy. Someone really needs to give the guy a holiday. Games Workshop has attracted a lot of new fans thanks to the Horus Hersey series, and Son of the Forest is the best way for those in 30K to jump into the 40K lore. For long-time fans of the far future, the Lion’s return is everything you could have hoped for: a glimmer of hope that nonetheless respects the setting.

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move on from the past. Zabriel, a Dark Angels ally, is from the first-person past, showing how he is still shaped by what happened in the splitting of the legion but has integrated it. And Baelor is from the third-person past, showing that like Zabriel he's shaped by the past, but unlike him he still dissociates from it. The Lion awakens in Imperium Nihilus, the side of the galaxy cut off from the Emperor’s light and often represented as the grimest of grimdark (see Sons of the Hydra and Spear of the Emperor). With the Imperium shattered as an organization, we follow the Lion’s gradual reintegration into the broader picture, as the scope of the narrative steadily widens from single combat to system-wide void war. This unexpectedly makes Son of the Forest an excellent introduction to the universe; as the Lion learns, so too do we readers. Technique is deployed very well too, and in a way that advances the characters. The Lion's portions are told in the third-person present, showing his dynamism and focus, but also how he wants to The Lion. Son of the Emperor, brother of demigods and Primarch of the Dark Angels. Awakened. Returned. And yet... lost.