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Hey, SPOILERS for the third Eisenhorn novel, Hereticus! If you care about spoilers. If you don't... Uh, hey, is it gay to shove a demon you have personal beef with into the dead body of your best friend that just sold you out to your boss? IS IT?
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The Genius of Sharpness
After finishing Malleus, I decided to try and find a list of the different Carthae sword techniques of the Ewl Wyra Scryri which Eisenhorn used with Barbarisater. Thankfully someone on reddit was able to help out, seeing as my spelling of these was atrocious after just sounding it out from listening to the audiobooks lol.
ghan fasl: a figure of eight turn
uin: leftwards, back handed cross cut
tahn wyla: reverse form of uin, which is a rightwards, back handed cross cut
uwe sar: head-height horizontal parry
ulsar: left block stroke
uin ulsar: right block strokes
ura wyla bei: A "devastating" diagonal downslash
Ewl caer: the "deathstroke", which seems to be a plunge of the sword through the target
pel ighan: ??
uin pel ihnarr: ??
tahn asaf wyla: ??
Inquisitor - Savier
Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn from Warhammer 40k - Aluminum Foil Sculpture
Okay, finished Hereticus! Gotta say they do really cycle through characters rather quickly huh? RIP Aemos, it was indeed most perturbatory. And nail and every other character that got booted for The Plotβ’. Morally bankrupt Eisenhorn can still get some tho π, though currently he's got his sex demon from hell trapped in the body of a former friend to keep him occupied. Also I know there's books about Bequin, and I'm wondering when those are set given the state she was in by the end of Hereticus πππ
Also by far the funniest thing about this trilogy is that if I had a nickel for every time Eisenhorn basically triumphs over the bad guyβ’ by just... Tearing apart or Breaking some precious (and accursed) artefact, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's fucking hilarious that it's happened twice.
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Malleus
Just finished Malleus, and I absolutely *devoured* the audiobook whenever I had time to listen to it. Definitely understand why people recommend the Eisenhorn books as an introduction to Warhammer. I am after all a neophyte (am I using that right?) in the Wh40k fandom. Honestly all prev knowledge came from a couple of friends who paint figurines and some who play some of the games on the PC and sometimes tell me about it, so I am genuinely figuring out all this on the fly. Of course *some* knowledge has been aquired since I am chronically online and on Tumblr(TM), which means some of the terminology and very rudimentary understanding of the warhammer universe had been aquired through osmosis on this webbed site.
I quite liked the insight into the inquisition and poilitics when it comes to the empire of mankind that Malleus brought. I'll definitely read up on the internal structure and hierarchy within the Inquisition, because some of the politics were a bit above my head with no context or background. My one irk would be related to Carthae sword techniques of the Ewl Wyra Scryri which Eisenhorn used with Barbarisater. Especially in the form of an audiobook and with little to no elaboration on how any of the techniques actually work besides a one-liner (if that) to explain the movement, it felt a little forced to sprinkle in all these terms for the fighting technique from a character that dies basically the next chapter and then never mentioned again. And of course the way the novel is wrapped up in less than two chapters after building up to it for the entire novel felt a little... abrupt. But then again they introduced the whole side-quest of the Lith, which was an... sentient, daemon-infested crystal (?). Which apparently killed several thousand people and yet then was quickly banished by.... re-playing an exorcism I guess? (i can't get the image out of my head of Eisenhorn with some sort of 90's boombox over his head blasting the Emperor's Prayer of Abrogation Against the Warp)
Also, it did not feel like it suffered from middle-book syndrome, which is a problem I've sometimes encountered with a few other series. Quite often, the middle book is more of a transitory point between the momentous events of the first book, and the momentous events of the third. Malleus was pleasantly surprising in that works very well on its own and feels just as ....momentous, in some way, providing as it does the inevitable turning point that will likely prove all the events in the third book to be completely inevitable and unavoidable. Already have Hereticus qeued up, so I'll see if that holds up.
.... For people whose job it is to quite often interact with (agents of) chaos and/or the warp, Inquisitors sure do like to scream "heretic" at eachother when they're playing dirty politics huh? About 2/3 of the way through Hereticus, and Inquisitors Heldane and Osma are quickly making their way up my list of just straight up most annoying asshats in this trilogy. At least the bad guys have... Idk, aspirations and ambitions that are nice and evil in the grand scheme of things, whereas these two don't seem to go anywhere besides just being a pain in the ass politician/inquisitor.
(I mean they might not even necessarily be entirely *wrong* with how morally bankrupt Eisenhorn is at that stage, but you know, it's starting to feel like the boy who cried wolf, only it's the Warhammer equivalent of the inquisitor who cried heretic lol)
posting this here bc this is my fave apostle clip ever he's so cute i love his animations. and then jerma saying the saddest but probably truest thing i ever heard.... ππ
