Mortarion: The Pale King (Volume 15) (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs) [Hardcover] Annandale, David

Product Information

Readers will almost certainly have come across Morty at some point in the past, but possibly not as we see him here in his pre-Heresy days as a newly-enlegioned Primarch looking to make his mark on the galaxy and impress his father and brothers. Annandale does incredibly well is the introspection and reflection on the motives of his characters and the events that unfold. It’s a primarch book, but we learn absolutely nothing about Morty that isn’t soooo much better described in the burried dagger, which is a shame considering that one is half death guard half grey knights. Then one of the "units" appears and while afraid tells Mortarion how she finished her allotted corpse counting. The fifteenth instalment in The Horus Heresy Primarchs series, The Pale King tells of the atrocities committed by the Reaper in the name of justice—and the consequences of challenging his methods.

Such easy alterations, in my mind, prove there is a better book buried within the one that was published, but perhaps Mr. To be fair, the morality discussion that played out between Mortarion, Sanguinius, and Horus was a very interesting read. It is, quite like the death guard themselves, brutally to the point and embodying the "arriving precisely when it needs too when it comes to pace. Mortarion shows the reader his innermost beliefs and values, that will eventually turn him against the Imperium. Or maybe this series wasn’t a great idea to begin with, especially given how long in the tooth the Horus Heresy has become.

Non-chronological telling of a brutal compliance (and Morty being knocked by Sanguinius and Horus for said brutality, which may or may not have been justified). The other two tell him that because of his methods and brutality the people dont know what to do with their freedom and his body counting decree made it so he just replaced another tyranny with another. Most of the book follows the Death Guard as they fight through the hallways and wider rooms of the arcology that contains the seat of power in the Galaspar system.

Why does a primarch so vehemently opposed to oppressors side with a chaos god who is not only brutal in his efficiency (you might say he’s … contagious? H. Right after they merge the two factions of the Dusk Raiders and Death Guard, so we see how Mortarion thinks and acts as a leader and savior. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. I believe that he’s capable of more than this novel represents, and if this story had been focused more on the character of Mortarion than recounting a conquest it would likely be one of my favorite Warhammer books. In a lot of ways, Mortarion is to Corax as Konrad is to Corax—a dark mirror lacking the optimism of the Raven Guard.