If you geek out about different schools of psychic power in 40K, this part of the book's for you, but I feel one of the main failings of 'A Thousand Sons' is the fact that the different cults (and, in fact, their members) aren't really fleshed out or given distinct characters. The elite Thousand Sons captains also have 'spirit guides' called Tutelaries who seem to be benevolent daemons which help them work their magic. Phosis T'Kar, the leader of the Raptora, seems to have telekinetic powers and can also make barriers to save his warriors from harm.

The Pavoni 'had a reputation for venality and spite'. A prominent Pyrae, Khalophis, is confrontational and brusque. The Pyrae are 'warmongering students of battle in its most brutal forms' and fond of 'showmanship'. This leads to a fair amount of competition and bitterness between cults. Fortunes of the different cults are governed by the tides of the Warp, which the Sons call 'the Great Ocean'. As the book starts (probably a few years before the events of 'Horus Rising'), we meet Ahzek Ahriman and his cabal of powerful sorcerors, and learn the Thousand Sons Librarians are split into different schools of magic like the Corvidae, Pavoni and Raptora. Confused? It's a book about Tzeentch's favourite pawn, so get used to that shit. Confusingly, the book ends with similarly italicised narration, but this time set before the introduction (but after the book's narrative concludes). The book starts with a bit of ominous narration, likely from Ahriman, set a long while after this book ends (perhaps even post-Rubric?). Time to see whether I still kind of dislike this HH classic (I'm guessing I'll probably love it this time round.) Then again, I read the 'horrifyingly bad and self-indulgent' 'Prospero Burns' before I read this book, so I probably ruined it all by reading them out of order. but less character development than I'd like, and not enough of anything to justify its 550 page sprawl. (This leads to twisted shit like negative 'Know No Fear' reviews.) My memory of 'A Thousand Sons' as I begin this re-read: after the frequently awful 'False Gods' and the torturously uneven 'Fulgrim', Graham basically does a 'Fulgrim' for Magnus the Red and his Legion, with a better plot and less horrendous Remembrancer-type characters. In fact, some people got so annoyed by the books after 'A Thousand Sons' that they approach every new HH book with cynicism and a bad attitude.

What is Ahriman pointing his giant candy cane at? For the answer, look at the cover of 'Prospero Burns'. MIXED fan reactions), it makes sense that a lot of fans think 'A Thousand Sons' was the last good Horus Heresy novel. Preceding as it does 'controversial' books like 'Nemesis', 'The Outcast Dead', 'Prospero Burns' and 'Fear II Tread: The Treadening' (all of which I like, but which received.

A thousand sons by graham mcneill