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Black Library Advent Calendar 2013 #3
Torias Telion: The Eye of Vengeance
As the daemon lord M’Kar and his forces assault Ultramar itself, the warriors of the Ultramarines muster for war. As the Third Company prepare to take the battle to the enemy, a threat is revealed upon Macragge itself and only the renowned sniper Torias Telion can stop the devastation that will ensue if the foe’s plan comes to fruition.
34 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 3, 2013
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Graham McNeill
343 books940 followersHailing from Scotland, Graham McNeill narrowly escaped a career in surveying to work for Games Workshop as a games designer. He has a strong following with his novels Nightbringer, Warriors of Ultramar, Dead Sky, Black Sun and Storm of Iron.
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December 25, 2023
Really good short story
December 5, 2013
I may not have finished the last two Ultramarines novels to date (Courage And Honour and Chapter's Due), so I have not seen the Bloodborn or M'Kar's assault on Macragge in detail, but I knew enough of it to know the context of the story.
This one plays after the Eye of Vengeance audio drama (and bloody hell, even with the Telion: prefix, they shouldn't have picked this title for the eShort as well), and Telion acts just like we've heard (or read) him in that story.
Now, I think the story was fine, but I felt like the twist was... too abrupt? Too convenient?
I know what McNeill tried to convey with this Telion-centered story, and how he picked up on post-Chapter's Due-Macragge, but I felt that the way Telion's instinct in the story worked was just... too much of raw instinct, with not enough words to describe what triggered it, or rather, the trigger described is quite... unimpressive. A significant lack of detail in the described situation brought the story down for me.
Considering that this story is the longest so far, at almost double what other shorts took up, I feel there was a big missed opportunity here.
If you enjoyed Graham McNeill's Ultramarines up to this point, I'd recommend the read regardless, as I am sure it sets the stage for novels to come. However, I won't urge you to pick it up until then.
This one plays after the Eye of Vengeance audio drama (and bloody hell, even with the Telion: prefix, they shouldn't have picked this title for the eShort as well), and Telion acts just like we've heard (or read) him in that story.
Now, I think the story was fine, but I felt like the twist was... too abrupt? Too convenient?
I know what McNeill tried to convey with this Telion-centered story, and how he picked up on post-Chapter's Due-Macragge, but I felt that the way Telion's instinct in the story worked was just... too much of raw instinct, with not enough words to describe what triggered it, or rather, the trigger described is quite... unimpressive. A significant lack of detail in the described situation brought the story down for me.
Considering that this story is the longest so far, at almost double what other shorts took up, I feel there was a big missed opportunity here.
If you enjoyed Graham McNeill's Ultramarines up to this point, I'd recommend the read regardless, as I am sure it sets the stage for novels to come. However, I won't urge you to pick it up until then.
August 1, 2015
I don't really read much Warhammer 40k books but this was not bad not a preachy as some of the space marine books
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