I second starting at the Horus Heresy stuff. No particular book but its easier to follow chronologically. Also new stuff seems to have forgotten everyone is supposed to be the bad guy.
That’s why heretic books like the Fabius Bile or Nightlords trilogy are great. Even authors who forget they should be writing villains on the loyalist side can remember that the traitors are evil. However, at least for those two trilogies, their authors also write them as likeable characters somehow. I would hardly call them anti-heroes, but they are understandable in their own messed up ways. It’s how I feel the loyalists should have been written.
Oh yeah Fabius is the guy. He is a piece of shit undeniably but you cant resist how cool he is. And its totally how the loyalists should have been written. I dont think any loyalists has ever hurt chaos with words alone that I can recall. But Fabius does it on a whim and he means what he says so much it hurts.
It isn’t even that. He is a horrible monster, but what makes him so appealing to me is that he is completely delusional about it. With his new men he genuinely sees himself as the saviour of humanity, despite the fact that his plan for his new men is to destroy and replace humanity. It’s almost like a tragedy, which I find very appealing.
I second starting at the Horus Heresy stuff. No particular book but its easier to follow chronologically. Also new stuff seems to have forgotten everyone is supposed to be the bad guy.
That’s why heretic books like the Fabius Bile or Nightlords trilogy are great. Even authors who forget they should be writing villains on the loyalist side can remember that the traitors are evil. However, at least for those two trilogies, their authors also write them as likeable characters somehow. I would hardly call them anti-heroes, but they are understandable in their own messed up ways. It’s how I feel the loyalists should have been written.
Oh yeah Fabius is the guy. He is a piece of shit undeniably but you cant resist how cool he is. And its totally how the loyalists should have been written. I dont think any loyalists has ever hurt chaos with words alone that I can recall. But Fabius does it on a whim and he means what he says so much it hurts.
It isn’t even that. He is a horrible monster, but what makes him so appealing to me is that he is completely delusional about it. With his new men he genuinely sees himself as the saviour of humanity, despite the fact that his plan for his new men is to destroy and replace humanity. It’s almost like a tragedy, which I find very appealing.