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Ashes of the Imperium

The Horus Heresy: The Scouring, Book 1

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Ashes of the Imperium

By: Chris Wraight
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Summary

Audiobook 1 in the Scouring Series

As the Siege of Terra ends, there are many loose ends – Traitors trying desperately to escape, a monumental vacuum of power to fill, and a crumbling galactic government to see to. Those who hold on to power must decide how to wield it, and a new structure must be put in place, all while desires to exact vengeance run high.

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It's the beginning of an epic series. Find out what happens after the cataclysmic events of the Horus Heresy, as an unsteady Imperium must find its footing and learn how to exist without the guidance of the Emperor.

THE STORY
Horus is dead. Terra lies in ruins. The Emperor is silent. Amid the rubble of the Palace, shell-shocked survivors emerge into the light of an uncertain dawn. New powers are present now, ones that have travelled the length of the galaxy to bring salvation to the Imperium, though they are as readily cast as usurpers as redeemers. The survivors of the Traitors’ Grand Armada, now scattered and desperate to escape vengeance, are riven with doubt and dissension, and their gods too are silent. Amid all the grief and confusion, some hopeful souls believe the war to be over and an era of renewal just ahead. But wiser heads know that this war can never end, and that the only question remaining is who shall rise to power within the perilous new age, and who shall fall.

Written by Chris Wraight. Narrated by Jonathan Keeble. Runtime 15 hours and 28 minutes approx.

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Great start to a new series, I look forward to see what comes next! Probably will have to wait a while though

Great Start for a new Series

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a dense, gripping start to a era of the universe that like the great Heresy before have speculated about before. and this start has a great sense of scale and varied perspectives to view the start tp this period in time. Chris wright balances the different perspectives well and each gets a equal attention and cate. though no doubt future books may focus on singiular perspectives rather than this book has but its exciting looking forward to see moments were hyped about and moments yet unknown with multi layered action, politics and character.

a fun and exciting start to a new series and hopefully with strong consistancy to match the pace and wealth this book delivers.

A Gripping, Sprawling and Looming start to the new age of the Scouring

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Really good story. My only gripe is that HH was an escape from the wall-to-wall Ultramarines content that GW pushes in 40k. Sadly, the Scouring looks like it will be difficult to distinguish from the mainline 40k narrative.

Ultramarines

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I enjoy the narrator probably much as everyone else, epic story teller. The story itself has some layers. Perspectives I had not considered in depth before, so that’s very interesting. The sense of what was lost is starting to be explored in this story. I am reminded of an old English king, who said of the Romans: “we can see their footsteps, but we cannot follow in them”. The sense of loss, and maybe even the crushing inevitability of what we know comes hangs over the characters like a silent cloak, waiting to wrap them in lore.

Well then…

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Great story, or really a series of stories that show how the Horus heresy started to transform the Imperium into what we know in the 10k stories. We’ll read. Highly recommended!

The end of the heresy but the start of Warhammer 10k

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