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It was the first arc of X-Men Legacy. I always flip back and forth between different series so I haven’t read the other 20 something issues, but the first arc was excellent. Crossed looks really good too, gonna have to give that a go. Spurrier seems to have a few interesting comics series. Abnett of course is an even more prolific comics writer, astounds me how much that man does. Abnett and Lanning’s run on Marvel Cosmic is worth reading on the off chance you haven’t yet.

Was planning to read all Fehervari’s shorts since they connect to his novels, I’ll toss Elucidium in with the lot. Thanks man!

I think I flipped through a scan of xenology a long long time ago. Great illustrations! I should go back to that as well. So many books, so little time.

Fantastic excerpt. I’ll have to skim over the books and find some more. Not sure I have time to dive into reading them right now though.

Well, Ulysses S Grant's brutal strategy ended a war that had killed around a 20th of the US population, ended slavery, and kept the entirety of the south under US control and while he was president tried much harder than any other president afterwards (until the Civil Rights movement) to ensure the rights of African-Americans. I would read A Life of Ulysses S Grant and Ron Chernow's Grant to understand the more positive view of him being developed by current historians.

Genghis Khan is interesting, his penchant for rape and murder is well known, however he was able to unify the previously desperate mongol tribes into an army and eventually an empire that conquered: China, Russia (in the winter because screw everyone else who tried), Central Asia, and parts of the Middle East. Genghis' empire ultimately improved trade across Eurasia, his bureaucracy was strong and his movement of skilled people to where they were needed is considered a pretty smart move. The mongols were also very culturally tolerant this is why Han Chinese, Muslims, and others could all live under his rule. So basically awesome empire, not so awesome conquering of empire.

Other guys are harder to defend but I will say for Georgy Zhukov and Douglas MacArthur that they developed working strategies for defeating an ideology that could have very well changed the way life is in our time. Also MacArthur basically turned Japan into a democracy and helped end the fanaticism there that helped cause WW2 in the first place.

How you view historical figures and whether you see them as heroes depends a lot on perspective and your values. The Hague and great deal of the world's humans see human rights as an important part of their values today and will attach a great deal of negativity to the actions of many of the figures mentioned above. However evaluating these figures just by human rights I think ignores a great deal of nuance in their actions and their improvements to the human condition. What I also try to remember nowadays is that heroism and progress doesn't negate violence and terror, but violence and terror don't negate heroism and progress and ultimately we have to each, for ourselves, evaluate historical figures based on what we believe in.

You could always read Fire Warrior if you can track down a copy. The video game was garbage but the novel is pretty good. Other than that, there's Farseer, and the Path of the Eldar trilogy, neither of which I have read, so I can't comment on the quality. I'm pretty sure there are others, but those are what I could think of off the top of my head and find with a quick search. I know I read a short story somewhere from the perspective of an Ork, too.

There isn't a dedicated lore-book for 40k unfortunately.

My suggestions:

• Look on ebay for the Dark Millennium (the the lore section of the 7th edition 40k rulebook). I don't see anything currently listed, but "sold listings" show they usually go for around $10
  
  
• Grab the 6th edition 40k rulebook. Unlike 7th edition, the hardback has the rules, lore, and hobby sections combined
  together. Because it's outdated you can usually find it for cheap (around $15 on ebay). Make sure you get the hardback, not the softback (which only includes game rules).
  
  
• Dark Heresy 1st Edition RPG book. This is OOP I think, but it has lots of lore on the imperium. Great artwork. 2nd edition is out, so you can probably find it decently priced on ebay.
  
  
• Horus Heresy: Visions of Heresy. Official art/lore book about the Horus Heresy. Huge event that influences the 40k setting. Technically not about 40k proper, but explains a lot of important background material.
  

If you're from the UK you'll find plenty on Amazon for very cheap.

If you're from the US you can also find there. Like I said the copies are very cheap and if you're willing to buy second hand then I'd definitely recommend it.

A "classic" description by Alan Merrett can be found in the (very awesome) artbook Visions Of Heresy. Besides the great artwork and the reasonable pricetag (well, it used to be reasonable, now you have to get lucky with used copies), it's very fun to read the classic descriptions of events if you've read the much more nuanced novels of the HorusHeresy series (and yes, VoH covers the whole Heresy, from the end of the Great Crusade to the aftermath of the Siege of Terra). VoH then reads like an in-universe historical piece written by some unusually well informed, but nevertheless heavily biased historian from the 41st millenium.

Lions novel was just announced. Coming out May 26, 2020 on Amazon.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.com/Lion-ElJonson-First-Heresy-Primarchs

So yes. Every Primarch is getting their own novel. GW is just handing them out piecemeal. We are gonna have to wait a while to see who is going to write the remaining books.

Five months ago some dude messaged me too, something about perpetuals and a bunch of links, I haven't clicked shit cause it was super odd to receive that. He seems to be pretty active on /r/atheism

Here's the text:

>Do you hate Perpetuals?

>https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/8wgbv4/a_daemon_tries_to_use_oll_perssons_memories/

>https://www.amazon.com/Calth-Horus-Heresy-Laurie-Goulding/dp/1849705755

>https://www.amazon.com/Know-No-Fear-Horus-Heresy/dp/1849701350

>https://www.blacklibrary.com/the-horus-heresy/novels/mark-of-calth-ebook.html

>https://www.blacklibrary.com/the-horus-heresy/novels/know-no-fear-ebook.html

>Old Wounds, New Scars shows John Grammaticus talking Alivia Sureka on Earth in the 80s.

>https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/a7zj5u/book_excerptold_wounds_new_scars_meeting_your/

>https://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/advent-2018-1-old-wounds-new-scars-eshort.html

>The shaman background.

>www.corehammer.com/why-everyone-should-read-the-lost-and-the-damned/

>www.belloflostsouls.net/2019/01/retro-realm-of-chaos-the-lost-and-the-damned.html

>www.belloflostsouls.net/2019/01/retro-realm-of-chaos-slaves-to-darkness-draft.html

>Alivia Sureka mused about the Emperor going to Molech.

The Sabbat Worlds Crusade is written as an in-universe "coffee table book." I wish they'd make more stuff like this.

Both of these are great reads:

Imperial Munitorum Manual


The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, Damocles Gulf Edition

edit: woah I bought these for $13.59 USD when they first came out...

Yes.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Konrad-Curze-Haunter-Heresy-Primarchs/dp/1784969850

There’s a great book about the genetic defects of humans. I imagine the emperor using genetic engineering to fix them all

Apologies for the blaaah link. Will edit when I get to my desktop

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Errors-Panorama-Glitches-Pointless/dp/1328589269/

Solar System Sized, Planet Busting Bloodthirster:
A planetary system loomed up. He slowed further and steered close to take a good look at it. Its sun was huge, except that it was not what he would normally think of as a sun. It was not spherical but a flat disc, in colour a brilliant shimmering green. There were at least twenty different planets, each a different colour- mauve, russet, lemon yellow, magenta- but they were not arranged as planets normally are. Instead of being roughly in the same plane, their orbits criss-crossed at all angles, linke the electrons of an atom, and sometimes more than one planet shared the same orbit. Then something appeared which caused Calliden to sit stock-still with shock. A figure was flying through the system, and it was bigger than the planets themselves, bigger than the disc-shaped green sun. A vaguely humanoid figure but crimson-furred, with a ferociously fanged, dog-like head, eyes glaring like pits of blood from beneath jutting horns, the head topped by great angled horns plus a twisted unicorn horn jutting from the crown. The creature was flying by, flapping great membranous wings which put a dozen planets in shadow with each pass. It wore brief, ornately worked armour down to the waist, glinting red and black, close-fitting except at the shoulders whch were protected by raised and extravagently worked pieces. The curve-bladed battle-axe it carried in one hand, holding the haft loosely as it flew, was bronze-black and vaster than any weapon should be. A supernatural energy seemed to flow and crackle through the unbelievable apparition, making it more solid-seeming, more real, than any natural creature. "What- what-" Calliden stuttered until his mind found a rational explanation. "It's a hallucination. Can you see it, Kwyler?" Though frightened, Kwyler was not quite as astonished as the navigator. "It is real," he said quietly, his mouth dry. "A daemon, one of rank too." Now something happened which confused Calliden at first. The apparition seemed to be retreating. Too late, be realized that it in fact was approaching, but diminishing in size at the same time. The daemon seemed angry. It flew alongside the Wandering Star, no more than twenty times the size of the spacecraft now, glancing at it sidelong with its smouldering eyes, wings beating majestically. "How can it use those wings to fly in space?" Calliden queried hysterically. "It flies on warp currents. Be careful. Don't do anything. Perhaps it will go away." Calliden shrieked and pulled on the controls as the warp entity, in a sudden rage, swung round and lashed out with the battle-axe, itself larger than the starship. The Wandering Star jinked aside, narrowly missing being crushed by the blow, then sped off. The daemon did not follow. The spaceship was too minute to be worth the bother, no more significant than a gnat. When last he looked Calliden saw the immense Chaos creature, system-sized again, taking his frustration out on one of the circling coloured worlds, batting it sidewise with the flat of the battle-axe, and sending the broken pieces hurtling into the disc-shaped sun. For the very first time the navigator felt that now he truly understood what it was that the divine Emperor was striving to protect the human race from. Briefly he wondered if the smashed planet had had a human population. -Eye of Terror Page 96-97


Greater Daemons assume forms larger than entire star clusters, then shrink down and push planets around:


It is an advantage of being a greater daemon that the quality of size, the greatest of restrictions placed on merely physical beings, means nothing. Size is a property of matter only. The disparate pair, allies of convenience if events fell that way, flew through the Door, the narrow pass through which all this time the forces of Chaos had been trying to overcome the Materium. Spread before them was what, in comparison with the galaxy in its entirety, was but an antechamber. Still they could fly here, for the space of the warp and the space of the physical world overlaid one another here, like oil spreading and swirling on water, creating rainbow colours. This was what some mortals called the Eye of Terror, and for rainbow colours there was the suspension and warping of physical laws, making new types of worlds possible. The two great daemons flew through entire star clusters which for the moment were smaller than they were. They adjusted their size, dwindling as they approached their destinations. Each selected a suitable planet from their respective domains. They moved those planets away from their warming suns — it did not matter, the planets did not freeze; instead their atmospheres were heated by friction as they moved through the ether-like warpspace-realspace overlap. They brought the planets close together and drew out from the surface of each a long tongue or causeway so that they met and welded together. Here, then, was the field of battle: a verdant bridge between two worlds, lit by a glowing sky, blasted by hot winds, crackling with incessant lightning. And on each of these worlds the war hosts were already assembled. Officered by daemon princes, its leading standard bearing the Eye of Tzeentch, raising aloft every magical emblem, herded by Chaos champions, half the population of the world belonging to the Chi’khami’tzann Tsunoi, armed and trained, mutated into their war roles, proceeded forth on to the battle-bridge. Officered by daemon princes, its leading standard bearing the crossed-bars emblem of Khorne, skull-filled banners dripping blood, herded by Chaos Champions, half the population of the world belonging to the Khak’akaoz’khyshk’akami, armed and trained, mutated or else mutilated into their battle roles, proceeded likewise. Far above, seated on floating thrones of gold and silver, the greater daemons directed the game, relaying tactics to their captains. - Eye of Terror Page 85


The Rose Cluster, created by a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch:


Multiple multi-coloured suns fled past, some misshapen, some ring-shaped, some joined together in complicated patterns by filaments of light and fire, some surrounded by what looked like intricate decorations made of gold and silver and brass. There was no consistency; no two were identical. It was a storm-enwrapped minor universe in which the normal laws of physics did not count. The will and imagination of daemons counted for more. "The Rose Cluster," Kwyler kept saying. "Took for the Rose Cluster." Calliden found it, coming at him from the darkness and distance, and despite everything that had already happened, he gasped with wonder. "Maynard!" he called. "Come and look at this!" The trader staggered from the pallet where he had been lying and peered out blearily. His arms dropped limply. His jaw sagged. The Rose Cluster was, as its name implied, a large cluster of stars. Typically these were globular and contained thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of stars. In that respect, the cluster was unremarkable. Except that all the stars were an entrancing pink colour. And the entire cluster had the shape of a rose. It was all there, the curving petals, hundreds of light years across, picked out in sheets of stars and glowing gas - also pink - the petals foliated one within another, layered down to a softly blazing heart. Some mighty daemon with a sense of beauty had crafted this. Calliden powered the telescope, feeding its image to the view-screen. One of the stars forming the cluster appeared before them. It, too, was in the shape of a rose, its radiant plasma magically suspended to form identical layers of soft petals. "Every single sun in there is the same," Kwyler told him. "And that's not all. Every one of the planets in there is shaped like a rose too. Thousands upon thousands of them." - Eye of Terror Page 97



https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Terror-Warhammer-000-Novels/dp/0671783904

Spoiler alert, the sky is carnivorous.

It's still on amazon, but v v expensive - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Imperial-Infantrymans-Uplifting-Primer/dp/1844164845

You want Legacy of the Wulfen

https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Wulfen-Space-Wolves-Annandale/dp/1784965111

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hunt-Vulkan-Beast-Arises/dp/1784961817/ref=bseries_primary_0_1784961817

After doing that, read-

Prince of Crows

The Abyssal Edge

The Long Night

ETA-
Massacre

Looks to be The Long Night by everyones favourite Night Lords author, Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Sourced from 1d4chan.

You should read Eye of Terror

They're going to soon release a Primarch book on him it seems:

https://www.amazon.com/Konrad-Curze-Haunter-Heresy-Primarchs/dp/1784969850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541533701&sr=8-1&keywords=curze

Maybe this?

there is an omnibus called Raizing of Propero that I would suggest. Its got two of the HH novels (thousands sons and burning of prospero) along with a couple short stories.

This says pub date was 9/21/19 and it’s the only precise date I can find so let’s stick with that. I’m not sure why Black Library never lists the exact dates on their own site, it’s kinda annoying.

I was excited till I saw the date... May 26th is a long ass ways away

Link for those that are lazy:
https://www.amazon.com/Lion-ElJonson-First-Heresy-Primarchs/dp/1789990777

The Dark Millennium book (part of the 7th Edition box set) states that humanity is on the edge of evolving into a fully psychic race that could keep the Warp at bay without the Emperor. Although the book does question whether humans will be able to make this leap without destroying themselves...or at least in time for them to not be ovetaken by Chaos upon the death of the Emperor (which seems imminent at this point).

I can find the exact quote tonight if you would like. It's really more of a few sentence blurb...but one that seems put there to avoid GW having to completely destroy the Galaxy if there is an End Times equivalent event in 40k.