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Black Library Advent Calendar 2018 #7
Acts of Sacrifice
Advent Calendar 2018: Day Seven
The Order of the Ardent Star are dying. Their master has fallen, their numbers are few, and their last hope is a desperate flight to a distant redoubt – can they marshal their courage and brave the gauntlet of Khorne worshippers that stands in their way?
READ IT BECAUSE
It's a tale from the Age of Chaos, showing one of the small acts of desperate heroism that took place in those dark times, as brave warriors held out against the seemingly unstoppable hordes of the Dark Gods.
THE STORY
In the chapel of the Order of the Ardent Star, Sir Aenea prays to the warrior goddess Myrmidia for guidance. And with an army of rampaging Khornate warriors outside, she has never needed her deity's guidance more. Her master is dead at the hands of the Chaos warleader, her comrades brought low by the seemingly unstoppable champion of the Blood God. With fewer than a hundred of their number left, the only hope for survival lies in a desperate sally forth from their fortress, seeking the indomitable redoubt of the distant Drakenount.
The Order of the Ardent Star are dying. Their master has fallen, their numbers are few, and their last hope is a desperate flight to a distant redoubt – can they marshal their courage and brave the gauntlet of Khorne worshippers that stands in their way?
READ IT BECAUSE
It's a tale from the Age of Chaos, showing one of the small acts of desperate heroism that took place in those dark times, as brave warriors held out against the seemingly unstoppable hordes of the Dark Gods.
THE STORY
In the chapel of the Order of the Ardent Star, Sir Aenea prays to the warrior goddess Myrmidia for guidance. And with an army of rampaging Khornate warriors outside, she has never needed her deity's guidance more. Her master is dead at the hands of the Chaos warleader, her comrades brought low by the seemingly unstoppable champion of the Blood God. With fewer than a hundred of their number left, the only hope for survival lies in a desperate sally forth from their fortress, seeking the indomitable redoubt of the distant Drakenount.
- GenresFantasyShort Stories
21 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 7, 2018
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December 10, 2018
A tale set before the Age of Sigmar, this takes place during the Age of Chaos, as the Order of the Ardent Star faces total destruction at the hands of a horde of Khornate ravagers. With the Order’s fortress besieged and its Master dead by the blade of the horde’s champion, Sir Anaea leads a handful of her remaining knights out in search of a more defensible holdout.
Straightforward but satisfying, this avoids the pitfall of focusing too much on the fighting and instead takes a bleak look at the inevitable outcome of heroism and sacrifice in the Mortal Realms. In short, it’s much more interesting than the rather generic cover suggests!
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Straightforward but satisfying, this avoids the pitfall of focusing too much on the fighting and instead takes a bleak look at the inevitable outcome of heroism and sacrifice in the Mortal Realms. In short, it’s much more interesting than the rather generic cover suggests!
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2018/12/...
June 15, 2019
Read as part of Advent Calendar 2018.
November 3, 2022
I always enjoy stories set during the Age of Chaos as they bring some nice worldbuilding to the setting, and this one is no exception. The plot itself is a good survival story with a good main character in Sir Aenea. While she doesn’t get too much screentime, I also like the warlord leading the Bloodbound army in this story as she has a somewhat atypical fighting style for a Khornate Lord. The battle scenes in the story are entertainingly written and the ending is pretty good as it sees the main character sticking to her convictions.
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