How to Read Up on Warhammer 40k
I have seen this topic come up probably 50 times on various forums and Facebook Groups. "I want to learn more nearly Warhammer 40,000 and I don't know where to kickoff. What Black Library books should I start with?
Many times I see people recommend the Horus Heresy equally a starting point. In my personal opinion they couldn't be more than wrong. The Horus Heresy series is full of galaxy spanning reveals, which become spoilers if yous are unaware of where the Warhammer xl,000 universe timeline currently sits.
Then allow's talk virtually where I recollect you should start:
This book, now released in Double-decker format contains books i-3 of the Gaunt's Ghosts series by Dan Abnett. This is a fantastic series which I put off reading for manner too long considering I had no interest in Royal Guard (now chosen Astra Militarum - but Imperial Baby-sit is still appropriate) armies.
Boy was I wrong! This serial is absolutely fantastic and the first iii books, are in my opinion, some of the strongest Warhammer forty,000 writing out in that location. It will requite y'all a "grounds eye" view, from a very homo standpoint, of what information technology's like to live in a milky way where there is "only war".
Do Not miss out on the starting time three books of this serial. It volition suck you into the rest of them. Speaking of the rest of them, this series has something along the line of 12 books. Don't experience intimidated by that though - only read the starting time three and let it take you from at that place.
Again a series by Dan Abnett. This was one of the first pieces of Warhammer xl,000 lore I ever read and yet stands out in my memory as one of the best. Eisenhorn gives you a expect into the cloak-and-dagger world of The Inquisition. This is a group of incredibly powerful individuals who work to keep The Imperium gratuitous of the influence of Chaos, Xenos, and other things that would do harm.
With the power to literally extinguish planets at their command, The Inquisition in the Warhammer twoscore,000 universe is not to be trifled with. In fact many fear them. The Eisenhorn series volition show you how an Inquisitor operates and also demonstrate what information technology is like to exist just a person trying to scrape past and alive in the 41st Millennium.
Call back of the best spy novels you accept ever read, crossed with infinite travel and demons. You lot might have an idea of how cool this serial is.
And the best part? Once you finish the three Eisenhorn trilogy (now put in Omnibus format), you can continue the story with the Ravenor Trilogy.
Maybe Space Marines are your thing. Ok neat! At that place is a series of novels titled "Infinite Marines Battles Novels". These books focus on seminal events in Infinite Marine history. One of these, is called Rynn's World. This book is now sold with a couple of other related curt stories attached and is at present called "The War for Rynn's World".
Written past Steve Parker, who is sadly no longer writing for Blackness Library, Rynn's World details the invasion of the habitation globe of the Crimson Fists Space Marine Chapter by the Orks. This is a bang-up story, where the Orks are portrayed as fearsome every bit opposed to comical (which they had been in the past). The story is null but all out action and adventure. But you too learn quite a flake well-nigh the Crimson Fists Space Marines and their Chapter Main Pedro Cantor.
I was surprised at how much I really enjoyed this book and I retrieve you will too. It's a swell identify to start when learning about Space Marines and how they wage state of war.
Again, allow's talk Space Marines Battles Novels. Helsreach is much more that. While it does detail the boxing for Helsreach, a city on the world of Armaggeddon at state of war with Orks (once more), the novel is so much more than than that.
You get an idea of how the Space Marines of the Black Templars Chapter piece of work with each other, how their chain of command works, and more importantly, how they work with members of The Imperial Baby-sit and Planetary Defense force forces.
The Author, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, is considered by many to be the best of the Warhammer 40,000 Blackness Library authors at the moment, and his attending to details and power to develop characters equally well as weave intricate plots out of even the well-nigh bones stories is put on brandish hither.
Probably the best of the Space Marine Battle novels to date, and arguably i of the best pieces of Warhammer xl,000 fiction out there. Do Non miss out on reading this book.
Consisting of Soul Hunter, Blood Reaver and Void Stalker, if you are interested in learning more about Chaos Space Marines, this is the serial for you! The story follows a war band of Anarchy Infinite Marines known as the Night Lords, and depicts not simply how they operate during state of war merely also between engagements.
The struggle for power and dealing with the blessings of the Chaos Gods and other forces who seek to use them take center stage in this incredible series of books.
Once again, written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, this was his first series and information technology literally exploded onto the scene. The fans of Warhammer 40,000 Black Library books went crazy over this series and it cemented Aaron as one of the all-time in the business.
Afterwards reading this serial, if you want to delve deeper into the realms of Chaos and learn about the largest of the large bad guys - Abaddon, the principal of The Black Legion, read through The Talon of Horus. This is an astonishing novel (and my personal favorite Black Library volume), that gives you lot insight into the creation of the most powerful Anarchy Space Marine organization, is the start of a new series by Aaron and will see new books arriving shortly later this article is written.
Then there you have it. That'southward my listing of places to first in The Blackness Library. Once you have gone through these books, the sky is the limit.
I didn't even mention John French and his incredible Ahriman series, or Guy Haley and his Baneblade series. (Non to mention the latest.. Dark Imperium, which brings you lot up to date with the changes to the lore betwixt the 7th and new editions of Warhammer forty,000 the rules), or Graham McNeils Mars serial (The Forges of Mars Omnibus).
I could recommend a hundred different directions to become as at that place are so many books to be found at BlackLibrary.com, but this will requite you lot a solid foundation upon which to build. And and so, when you are done learning about the Warhammer 40,000 universe as it currently is and want to find out what happened in the past... So first in on the Horus Heresy series.
Source: http://theindependentcharacters.com/blog/2017/08/where-do-i-start-learning-about-warhammer-40000/
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