W40K: Thousand Sons 
Child !!... Have not I said that with the warp is not played ?!.... CACA!
Title:
thousand children Original title: A Thousand sons
Authors: Graham McNeill
Editorial: More
Timun ISBN: 978-84-480-4452-7
Price: 17 €
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"The Great Crusade experiencing a turning point and the Thousand Sons struggle with dedication and loyalty. However, the empire is afraid of the Legion of Magnus the Red because of their arcane methods. Feared by those who have sworn to protect, Magnus is called the planet Nikaea to fend off accusations of witchcraft. However, when the hapless Primarch have visions that predict the treachery of Horus, decides to warn the Emperor banned by authorities, and the Lord of Mankind sent Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves to attack Prospero, the world of the Thousand children. But Magnus has seen beyond the treachery of Lord of War, and these revelations will decide the fate of the Legion forever. "
Comment and Opinion:
Well ... we find the book number XII of the saga of the "Horus Heresy." A book that As indicated by the title of the paper will focus exclusively on the legion of the Thousand Sons of Magnus the Red.
The book is divided into four major blocks.
In the first part we will meet at a point in the history of heresy slightly anterior to the time when the emperor became the power of the cross to his son Horus and declared Lord of War. In this part of the Thousand Sons legion is on the planet Aghoru investigating a technology they have there on the planet ... the subjection of the planet has not been as orthodox would expect the Thousand Sons and move into a fine thread between the total subjugation of the world and want to investigate the fact more about the technology that intrigue. In this first part and we see the character of the legion ... driven by a relentless desire for knowledge to the inmaterium. At the same time you'll see, because this is facing a host almost 100% to be a legion of librarians, that is, an army in which every one of his Marines are great psychics who can exercise their powers in the field (On the other hand also will explain the various branches of psychics who have the Thousand Sons, each with a very specific and useful skills in the field of battle ... from which they can read the future through the can read the minds of adversaries or which are capable of raising or kinetic barriers that can launch lightning or fire or boil the blood of opponents ... We ... a whole range of powers to beings that already if they impose ...) Well ...
while the study of continuous Aghoru appears on the planet an emissary of the Space Wolves Magnus claiming to be a Leman Russ in the submission of another planet.
Magnus, which does not carry very well to be given orders to reveal this "mandate" and continues the study that is taking on the planet ... and this is when everything starts to go wrong ... Thousand Sons discover in the depths of the planet something not planned ... something the Emperor did not want to find, at least for now ... and there began the decline of the legion.
In this first part I say nothing more, so you discover the rest.
In the second part, once the crisis resolved Aghoru, Magus and his Thousand Sons are directed towards Alcaudon to join Leman Russ Logar and in making this world. In this part we will see the bickering between the Space Wolves and Thousand Sons practically reached unsustainable levels and the visceral hatred that are the Space Wolves to their brothers 'witches' leads to the occurrence of events that should not have ever happened between brothers .. . On the one hand we lust for destruction and subjugation of the Wolves and the other the hunger for knowledge and the use of the powers of the Thousand Sons inmaterium ... and we have a cocktail list to only a small spark started the conflagration between the two legions sisters.
Only the intervention of Logar get calm things down enough that the thing does not go much further.
The third part will witness the events that we know of heresy but viewed from the perspective of the Thousand Sons ... The emperor is removed from the cross and handed over the command of Horus. Soon after, at the request of some legions who are uneasy about the use by the Thousand Sons of the supernatural powers of inmaterium, Nikaea council is convened at which we will witness the Magnus trial and the Emperor's express prohibition of using the powers of the warp.
Magnus will retire after the council together with his legion to his world, Prospero, to "lick their wounds" and ignoring the edicts of the emperor and continue their studies inmaterium ... And so it goes over time, studying the currents of the warp until Magnus sees future in the flow of the treachery of Horus.
Frightened and disgusted at such a fact decide to use the knowledge gained in Aghoru cast a powerful spell that allows you to communicate with his father, the emperor quickly to warn of impending betrayal ... And this is the highlight ... this is the turning point that will condemn them forever ... trying to contact his father something goes wrong ... in his arrogance, Magnus thinks he knows all the secrets of the warp and control the entire warp, however, the media cast the spell check to derail the whole plan that the Emperor is implemented in Terra to control the forces of the warp ... Magnus unwittingly triggered an unprecedented catastrophe if ... good action is transformed into something horrible ... something that deserves exemplary punishment ... and we know all the spending as the emperor at the time of giving punishment ....
And here begins the fourth part ... the attack on Prospero ... the emperor commanded the Space Wolves, to the Trustees and the Sisters of Silence to Prospero to end the unruly legion ... In addition, Magnus is broken ... their intentions were good, but the result has been catastrophic and now are going to raze the planet ... he is a true lover of his father and accept the punishment so stoic ... if your father wants to kill them is not he who opposes their will, however, not everyone in his legion as good will with the eyes being destroyed and when it's invading fleet begins a fierce battle for possession of Prospero .
However, the Thousand Sons will soon lose control of the situation and, in their eagerness to defeat the invaders, will open in excess of its powers inmaterium and begin to fall into the hands of beings who are not very kind ... the passage of Chaos legion already signed ... and all for a misunderstanding ....
no longer tell you more about the plot .... Now my personal opinion ... I quite liked the novel because of the legion did not know much and always had the doubt of what had pushed to end as they had finished ... the truth is that even get to feel pity to see such an action was intended to be good just being who looks at this legion Chaos as the arrogance of human beings to think that we know EVERYTHING makes us weaker before beings who know how to use this arrogance against us.
I liked because it is an army that falls on the dark forces trying to impose on others, not by trying to impose their worldview proud above the rest, but by trying to broaden their knowledge without understanding really what we were studying what a black hole leads to no end. In addition, Graham is one McNell which I personally think the "grand narratives" of Warhammer (either Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K) and the skill and ease that is to relate the actions in this environment makes the novel read in a quick, entertaining and agile.
In summary, a novel 100% Warhammer 40000, which will delight followers of WH40k and that should be present in the library of one if you want to be clear of events that led to the longest war of humanity.
Kind regards and have fun ....
