That sets it firmly in the current timeline of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, meaning this is more of an exploration of character rather than an origin story. And really, despite my want of something more, you can’t fault the book for taking the route it does. The story we get is a relatively straightforward quest narrative, with Helbrecht striving to retrieve a relic of Dorn, the Primarch founder of his genetic line. These are all fairly short novels, released exclusively as snazzy little hardbacks, that highlight significant figures from the setting. Yes, we can seed this questions in the reader’s mind, but the focus here is killing heretics and saving history.

High Marshal Helbrecht is back in the action after his meeting with Roboute Guilliman, doing what he does best – questing for a sacred relic with a handful of his best troops. This book is definitely a step in the right direction so far as Warhammer fiction is going, but ultimately a short novel like Helbrecht: Knight of the Throne just isn’t the place for deeper ruminations on the nature of faith. Forged in the fires of the Scouring, Hevaran is sacred in its desolation, condemned to never rebuild… Yet hidden upon its barren surface is a sacred relic. And because they’re quite short and self-contained, there’s less of a problem if you don’t get on with any of the above. Helbrecht: Knight of the Throne begins in the Era Indominatus, with Guilliman chastising Helbrecht for his actions.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Had to do a couple of minor surgeries and then I hit the ground running in a tough summer college course.

But when faith and duty are no longer in alignment, Helbrecht must make a quest of pilgrimage to recover a relic of his chapter, and perhaps to recover his own sense of identity as well . Faced with a Guilliman who disagrees, the question that arises is wether duty and faith are always the same thing. Forged in the fires of the Scouring, Hevaran is sacred in its desolation, condemned never to rebuild… Yet hidden upon its barren surface is a sacred relic.

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