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Post by The Refined Gentleman (M.I.A) on Jan 30, 2008 15:04:41 GMT -5
its awsome, i'll explain to anyone not familiar with it.
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Post by Sappmer on Jan 31, 2008 17:02:02 GMT -5
what is it. Is it a role playing book of some kind??
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Post by The Refined Gentleman (M.I.A) on Feb 1, 2008 1:54:43 GMT -5
its a graphic novel, it tells the story of a blood angels captain leonatos, trusted with a holy relic, a sword weilded by the primarch sanguinius, he leads his marine company into action against ork raiders to defend a navigation station, they hold out for five days, many marines are killed. on the sixth day leonatos faces the ork warboss, he kills him but the greenskin knocks him unconcious in its death throws. when three whole marine companies come they find the orks have scarpered, only 10 space marines are left out of a full company of 100 marines and the holy sword stolen by the orks, who left leonatos for dead. leonatos succeded in his mission but at too much a price, he is banished, never to return until he finds the sword but he is joined by 3 scout novices, 2 veteran sgts (one of them is possessed by the red thirst, thats quite important later on), 2 normal marines, and a librarian. he finds it is now in the hands of an ork warlord, garshul the destroyer. he tracks it down but finds the ork is host to a deamon and that the orks are allies with the traitor marines. after getting several bolter shells, getting its heart ripped out and its head hacked off it still lives! after the head tells them that the sword is in the eye of terror. then the head is torn apart by a few bolter shell from leonatos. the chaos ship attemps to escape through a warp gate, leonatos ship follows it. and thats just the first book!
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Post by Sappmer on Feb 4, 2008 11:46:21 GMT -5
is there any other books, it sounds cool?
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Post by The Refined Gentleman (M.I.A) on Feb 4, 2008 23:56:55 GMT -5
it was a trilogy, i've read the 1st and 2nd book, i'm on a sacred quest to find the third, you wont find it on the black library web but you might fing ombnibuses and individual books of ebay, play.com and amazon (theres a limited edition diorama of 2 of the major characters at the end of book 2)!
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Post by Sappmer on Feb 5, 2008 2:41:04 GMT -5
...sounds....awsome....must find....blood quest.
Hey, they tried making a movie on that didn't they?
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Post by Cadian 117 on Feb 5, 2008 9:13:31 GMT -5
hmmm isnt it in the like 40k itself omnibus.....wait OMG my friend has all three!!!!  |
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Post by Cadian 117 on Feb 5, 2008 9:15:20 GMT -5
1st sorry fot he doubl post
2nd: I found the third book......its 70$ american.
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Post by The Refined Gentleman (M.I.A) on Feb 6, 2008 1:39:27 GMT -5
i've got a list of the warriors who accompany leonatos on his bloodquest-
Brother Cloten - a mighty warrior but touched by the Red Thirst
librarian furion-a librarian who is lost early in the quest.
Scout Novice Proteus - the most distinguished of his company he stowed away with the exiles in order to achieve glory for himself
scout novice menelius-another of the scout novices that accompany leonatos
Scout Novice Lysander - while his fellow scout novices swore themselves to Leonatos and his
quest, Lysander remained quiet and while a loyal companion and fierce fighter, his reasons for joining the Blood Quest remain known only by himself
Brother Palamon and valerius - fought with Leonatos in the Orkish defeat which lead to the loss of the Blade Encarmine
Veteran Sergeant Tranio - fought with Leonatos in the Orkish defeat and was overwhelmed when the Blade was lost, his shame at this led him to be the first to pledge himself to Leonatos' Bloodquest
While searching for the Blade Encarmine, Leonatos loses some of his followers along the way:
Menelius on the planet of Tarsis.
Furion on Tarsis, while fighting a Daemon of Khorne.
Valerius on a space hulk while he was holding the doorway so that his brothers could escape.
tranio is killed in the second book, he sacrifices himself to slay the champion of khorne.
palamons body is taken over by the champion of nurgel but emediately incinerated by a meltagun weilding lysander
proteus isn't "killed", in the city of the pleasure god (slaneesh to you and me) the champion of slaneesh lures proteus away from his comrades and gives him promise of great glory if he pleages himself to the powers of chaos which he accepts.
i'll post what happens in the 2nd story soon.
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Post by The Refined Gentleman (M.I.A) on Feb 10, 2008 6:41:40 GMT -5
the 2nd book-
leonatos and the exiles find themselves on a deamon world in the eye of terror, they are in the middle of a apocalyptic battle chaos things fighting pointlessly with chaos titans all over the battlefeild. they jump into it, trying to cut through the carnage they narrowly miss a blast from a titan cannon, leap onto its leg, climb up to the leg joint and topple it by blowing its leg joint with meltabombs and krak grenades. while the hordes swarm over the titan theycarry on, they travel to a port on the edge of a sea of blood. they meet a renegade dark angel who tells them that the sword is on this world, that they must travel through four terretories each controlled by one of the four gods of chaos and defeat the various deamon champions of the realm and finnaly that the forces of the warp have brought them here for a reason... after commandering a ship they set off into the sea of blood where they find themselves in the thick of a massive naval battle between loads of ships, they fend off numerous boarding parties when they are boarded by the champion of khorne, palamon is injured and triano sacrafices himself to kill the champion by shoving a krak grenade down its throat. they moor up on the shores of the next deamon realm, the city of the plague god nurgle. they venture into the quiet, deserted city where they encounter the champion of nurgle accompanied by its bodyguard. the deamon doesn't want a fight, it just wants to inhabit the body of palamon as payment to allow the exiles safe pasage through its realm. the response is a hail of bolter shells from their bolters, they are then assailed by hordes of deamons. they try to hold them off, leonatos and proteus fill nurgles champion with bolter flavoured death, but in the eye of terror a deamons sould doesn't go spiraling into the warp, it just inhabits the body of another, as palamon has a deamon infected wound it comes back up in the form of palamon, it is satisfieed by the payment but the exilrs arn't and lysander promtly incinerates the deamon. they then venture into the wastelands between nurgles realm and slaneeshes. they bypass a caravan of slaves en route to the city of forbiden pleasures. lysander gets into single combat with a trader and breaks his spine. they venture into the city where proteus is sudduced by the gifts offered by chaos and is lost to the exiles while they venture out the city. leonatos, cloten and lysander, the only 3 left make their way through a swamp of horrors where lysander is almost draged down by the creatures but saved by brother cloten. they venture into the realm of tznech where the renegade dark angel informs them that walking the paths of this realm will mean walking the paths of their own destiny and that they must walk seperate paths through the great maze. nothing realy happens in leonatos's journey through the maze. cloten encounters the only thing he has ever been afraid of, his future self, fully scumbbed to the red thirst and nothing better than a beast. he fights for a new reason entierly, possesion of his own soul, it quickly comes to a brutal and bloody end... lysander is alone for the first time, he has always been with his comrades, first in the scout company then as part as leonatos's crew, he doesn't have leonatos to guide him, or clotens strength to protect him, he soon encounters proteus, given into the pleasures of chaos, proteus tries to draw lysander in, but lysander remains loyal (i have no idea wheather he fights him or not).leonatos finds himself in the chapter hall of the blood angels, another deamon trick, the blade encarmine at the other side with the renegade and mephiston (its not mephiston, its the champion of tznech "dressed up". the renegade reveals that he is one of the fallen, after the destruction of caliban and the slaying of their primarch he swore service to the deamon prince of tznech 10,000 years ago and tries to pursuade leonatos to take his place as his masters servant. leonatos must slay him in order to claim the blade. but reveals that he must fight alone, then lysander and cloten step out of the shadows, cloten has had his entier arm torn off. a mighty duel is fought, leonatos's chainsword is broken and he is injured, he then remembers a myth that the blade encarmine has the gene code of those who weild it in battle, the blade then flies into his hand and slays the dark angel. a warp gate is opened at the end of the hall that leads out of the eye of terror. but leonatos must reach it first. a crack in the floor apeers and deamon pour out of it, leonatos desperately tries to fend them off and throws the sword to lysander and tells him to return it to baal. cloten and lysander exit through the warp gate, leaving their captain... they arive at baal twelve years later, with makeshift armour and cloten has a cool chainsword arm. they present the sword to chapter master dante and are given permission to return to their respective companies, but they refuse, leonatos's quest is over but that of cloten and lysander is not, they leave baal, they go back to retreive their captain, as they have left him behind in the eye of terror...
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