The Lion: Son Of The Forest (Warhammer 40,000)

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Witness the Emperor’s First Son make his dramatic return to the 41st Millennium! Much has changed since he last walked among the stars, but not Lion El’Jonson’s drive to protect humanity from the threats that assail it from all sides. Stopped reading the moment I came across a character referred to as some sort of, I think it's called a 'neo-pronoun' or something dumb like that, where a character is referred to as something other than 'he' or 'she.' Drama-Preserving Handicap: The Lion's forestwalking is apparently not powerful enough to bring him all the way to Terra. However, it does give him two full opportunities to meet the Emperor, but the Primarch couldn't recognize them for what they were.

The Lion learned to trust through Imperium Secondus and Ruinstorm. They all but go skipping off into the sunset hand-in-hand. But he was hurt afterwards - he saw the futility of his efforts. Terra fell, the Emperor died because people he trusted and relied upon couldn't get the job done. If they had been more ruthless, more ready to make sacrifices, more Lion-like, maybe the day could have been saved.... Así es como el leon se encamina en un viaje para volver a poder proteger a la humanidad que ahora es acosada por la disformidad y los xenos ¿podrá reunir las fuerzas necesarias para defenderlos a todos? Number Two: Zabriel gets roped into becoming the Lion's right-hand man as the first Fallen to be recruited to the cause. The massive Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer is an armoured beast , mounting a triple-barrelled neutron laser battery onto a rugged Spartan hull to create a devastatingly focused anti-tank weapon. It can detonate tanks in a single blast while shrugging off return fire like it’s nothing – everything you want in a Lord of War. Sicaran Venator Tank Hunter By contrast, Alpharius’ novel was a retrospective, showing what shaped him (and them) into what we see later. Huron’s novel was a continuation of what had come before, with him dealing with an internal threat rather than an external enemy.After a 10,000-year absence, the Lion awakens on the far-flung and devastated planet of Camarth, with no memory of how he got there. Discovering one of his former sons, the Fallen Zabriel, the Lion soon discovers what has happened to the Imperium in his absence, as well as the terrible threats of the Great Rift and the forces of Chaos. Unsure of his purpose or what has happened to him, the Lion sets out to preserve humanity from the forces trying to destroy it. Rallying members of the Fallen from their long exile, the Lion begins a new campaign throughout the besieged systems of man, while trying to reconcile himself to everything he has lost. But a dangerous and well-organised Chaos warband, the Ten Thousand Eyes, led by two of the Lion’s Fallen sons, are determined to destroy the returned Primarch and enact an ambitious plan with galaxy shattering consequences. Can an isolated Lion survive the insanity of the 41st millennium, or has he returned only to face his doom? The perspective in the books shifts between the Lion, a Terran veteran of the Legion and a wonderfully portrayed Chaos Space Marine warband. His Lion gradually comes into himself as the book progresses and the way his relationships develop with the supporting characters is interesting. Zabriel is a great character, like the Lion stranded out of time and forced by circumstance to be self-reliant it feels like the majority of the book is told in his words and I enjoyed being in his company. The various corrupted Space Marines we meet range in their devotion to the dark Gods and depravity but all drip with charisma and personality- interestingly they’re notably different from the Alpha Legionaries featured in Brooks’ Harrowmaster. Throughout the book are some of the most interesting depictions of relationships between Space Marines that I can recall reading, there is rivalry, antagonism and distrust but also genuine bonds of friendship and tenderness if not outright homoeroticism. At the end of the book, he beheads Baelor to spare him a long, painful death from of Seraphax's poison.

TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.I'm a 37 year old man, and this book written to sell a resin model of a toy soldier made me smile. Because it's a good rip-roaring tale about an ancient chivalric knight awakened at the end of all things, it's got some nice bits about forgiveness and brotherhood and having to change your outlook. If you never encountered a masculine man in your whole life and were tasked to write one... well... you would have Lion El'Johnson from this particular book. He is written like a self-hating man that oozes his, what leftists would call, "toxic masculinity". But, we see him start to tone police himself and other Space Marines in the novel like some sort of dude with mommy issues. In this midnight age, the dying embers of humanity are threatened on all sides by the hungry darkness. Alone, even the Lion has no hope of prevailing against such evil – but there are those who would aid him in his quest. Hunted to the edge of endurance, many among his Fallen knights have long-awaited the day their liege would return to redeem them. The Lord of Shadowed Paths must gather these lost loyalists to his side once more, and stride forth to vanquish a traitorous son and the twisted Chaos warband that calls him master. At the dawn of the Imperium of Man, there was no force more deadly nor more loyal to the Emperor than the Dark Angels, the first Legion of Space Marines. Led by their implacable and unstoppable Primarch and genefather, Lion El’Johnson, better known as the Lion, nothing was able to stop the Dark Angels as they crusaded from planet to planet dispensing the Emperor’s will. However, following the events of the Horus Heresy and the Lion’s inability to save the Emperor, the Dark Angels imploded from within. Treachery and years of resentment saw the Legion engage in a brutal and sudden civil war, which resulted in the destruction of the Dark Angel’s home world of Caliban, the scattering of the traitor Dark Angels throughout time and space as the Fallen, and the disappearance and apparent death of the Lion right when the galaxy needed him most. I would like to see a bitter, angry Lion doubling-down on his 'I'm the only person who can make the hard choices' attitude circa Dreadwing . I will be deeply disappointed if we get an introspective, mellow, 'mea culpa' Lion. I don't want reasonable people. I want big, angry spacemans making bad decisions! We've already got Mr. Reasonable in Guilliman. Let's have a Primarch-sized Colquan, please.

The story is straightforward and while the Primarch’s life is never at stake, that’s not the point of the story. It’s a well-executed power fantasy where we watch him grow in personal strength and military power, taking his place as the defender of humanity you’d expect from the God-Emperor’s son. Dark Angels lore is explored and we learn things about the First Legion that move the fluff forward. Son of the Forest is a character study about the Lion — what is a Primarch, completely alone, out of time and without guidance? It explores his psyche while respecting his posthuman nature. While Roboute Guilliman’s reawakening was announced with the Eye of Terror bisecting the galaxy, Lion El'Jonson’s return almost went unheard. Even the name of this novel is low key… Son of the Forest, seriously? Yet as someone who read the three part Gathering Storm, this is a significantly superior narrative that introduces the Dark Imperium-era, as well as offers long time fans deep insight into a Founding Chapter. Shapeshifter: The Lion encounters one in the forest; it takes the form of each of his brothers in turn, forcing the Lion to fight them. La historia transcurre en el milenio 40 de este universo, ahora el Leon ha despertado y se encuentra completamente desorientado tanto por su falta de memoria como por el lugar que se encuentra, en unos bosques le son familiares, sólo puede seguir sus instintos y su capacidad de razón. Current is a difficult term to pin down. My understanding of the timeline is that Godblight ends 12 years post-Rift with Guilliman preparing to cross the Rift into Imperium Nihilus.The Lion and his Fallen are out of the loop on the state of the galaxy at large, with the Lion spending most of the book confident he is the last Primarch alive and concerned that the Emperor himself may be dead. It's not until the epilogue that he meets someone who can bring him up to speed. Mr. Exposition: Zabriel finds himself serving in this capacity to the Lion, as he has been in the galaxy for four centuries, while the Lion has only just emerged from the past. Various Psychic Awakening events supposedly take part during the Dawn of Fire timeline, too. They're referenced in passing in some novels, but also featured in the appendices. The Pariah Nexus stuff, for instance, and Magnus pulling the Planet of Sorcerers into real space were already mentioned as parallel events. The Magnus stuff is likely happening a couple of years after Wolftime, considering that Ashes of Prospero is that novel's direct follow-up.