Broken Crusade
Warhammer 40,000
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Narrated by:
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Alex Lanipekun
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By:
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Steven B Fischer
About this listen
A Black Templars Audiobook
The Black Templars of the Second Dornean Crusade attempt to join the rest of their fleet to relieve a siege on the shrine world, Tempest. Thrown off course by a warp storm, and beset by doubt, can they cling to their faith and come to their brothers’ aid?
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This story offers insight into the relationship the Black Templars have with faith, and their sense of destiny. Plus, there's always plenty of action when the followers of Khorne are involved.
THE STORY
On the fringes of the Cicatrix Maledictum, the Black Templars of the Second Dorean Crusade tear through the void to join the crusade fleet on the sands of Tempest – an ancient, storied shrine world. Assailed by the murderous warbands of the Blood God, the crusade has come to burn the planet clean of the Ruinous Powers once and for all.
But when a violent warp storm scatters the fleet, the Dauntless Honour is left battered and alone in the void. Besieged by doubt, Castellan Emeric and his brothers must cling to their faith and carve a way to Tempest. For it is there that their battles will truly begin, and the cost of victory may be more than even they are prepared to pay.
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a charcuterie
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The story of the company commander
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than the main story.
not the worst and not the best I've listened too.
not bad.
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Unreal narration.
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A quick note on the writing : overall good, but far too many 'heroic monologues', they fell flat after a while.
On the story : for some reason the importance of the Templars mission is never felt. I believe the author wanted the feeling of hopelessness to emerge, which is clearly felt throughout, but the drive and purpose of the Templars feels hollow.
In character design, I have the impression that the author read Helsreach and wanted to duplicate it, it didn't quite work. I will expand on this more below as I think this is what didn't sit well with me most of all.
The good is the relationship between the humans and the Templars. The author is able to demonstrate the limits of humanity and provide some good insight into life on-board a templar vessel. I also think he captured the world eaters tragedy well, who I think he wrote better than the templar characters. Now for the bad - The author tried to make the Templar protagonist relatable and deep, however the juxtaposition of superior human with mortal concerns did not work for a space marine, the character comes across as weak and out of character. How can he be a castellan of the Templars with such doubt? He comes across as a petulant emo child at times. In the flip side a side character, also a templar is so single minded he is a caricature. The Chaplain was very well written though. Overall I did not recognise the templar traits I love so much from other templar books and short stories. It made me sad.
Not bad, but not amazing
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