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Feb 14, 2021 · Xenos (novel #1) This is where it all started, with a novel that’s still – twenty years later – widely held as the quintessential ‘domestic 40k’ story and one of the best entry points into Black Library fiction.
I absolutely love “The Magos” because of the domestic 40K setting. Like this guy is just trying to live his life but then 40K shit happens, even if it is small scale 40K shit it’s utterly terrifying.
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The Inquisition moves amongst mankind like an avenging shadow, striking down the enemies of humanity with uncompromising ruthlessness. When he finally corners an old foe, Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn is drawn into a sinister conspiracy. As events unfold and he gathers allies - and enemies - Eisenhorn faces a vast interstellar cabal and the dark powe...
Part One: Hubris
240.M41: After years of pursuit, Gregor Eisenhorn has finally run Murdin Eyclone to ground on Hubris, inside the enormous cryonic vaults where the majority of the planet's elites spend the nine-month winter season. Eyclone manages to kill Eisenhorn's retainer, Lores Vibben, but Eisenhorn corners him in one of the vaults and shoots him dead with Vibben's pistol, though not before Eyclone has triggered a systemic failure of several hundred stasis cells, killing their inhabitants.[2a][2b] Eisenh...
Part Two: Gudrun
Eisenhorn and his retinue, still accompanied by Fischig, travel from Hubris to Gudrun aboard the Essene, captained by Tobius Maxilla.[2f][2g] Upon reaching Gudrun, the Essene is inspected by a Naval team, which attempts to kill Eisenhorn.[2h] Managing to find Tanokbrey, the Rogue Trader who transported Eyclone, Eisenhorn attempts to capture him, but Tankobrey is killed during the chase.[2i] That night, Eisenhorn is ambushed by Commodus Voke, another inquisitor who has been investigating House...
Part Three: KCX-1288
Thus Eisenhorn and retinue head for Damask, a Frontier World where they find an excavation seemingly under the supervision of a Chaos Space Marine.[2m] Learning of the enslavement of the planet's population by escaped prisoner Rhizor, they find out that Estrum's rogue wing has appeared in orbit and decide to return to the excavation site, where they find traces of the xenos known as saruthi: unsettlingly asymmetrical eight-sided tiles which the slavers mean to extract.[2n] Discovered by the r...
The Inquisition
1. Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn, Ordo Xenos 1.1. Uber Aemos 1.2. Alizebeth Bequin 1.3. Midas Betancore 1.4. Godwyn Fischig 1.5. Lowink 1.6. Tobius Maxilla 2. Inquisitor Commodus Voke 2.1. Interrogator Heldane 3. Inquisitor Titus Endor 4. Inquisitor Konrad Molitor 5. Inquisitor Schongard 6. Watch Captain Cynewolf 6.1. Deathwatch Librarian Brytnoth 6.2. Brother Guilar 7. Lord Inquisitor Plebas Alessandro Rorken
Hubris
1. Murdin Eyclone 2. Nissemay Carpel 3. Saemon Crotes
Gudrun
1. House Glaw 1.1. Oberon Glaw 1.2. Pontius Glaw 1.3. Gorgonne Locke 1.4. Archpriest Dazzo 1.5. Archaeoxenologist Girolamo Malahite 2. Captain Estrum 3. Sergeant Enil Jeruss, 50th Gudrunite Rifles. 3.1. Corporal Twane, 50th Gudrunite Rifles.
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1. In Chapter Seventeen, while discussing the lack of symmetry displayed by the saruthi species, Aemos makes reference to the tyranids, stating "All species - even the most obscene kinds like the tyranid - have some order of it."[2q] However, although tyranids had been encountered by the Imperium over the millennia, they were not formally classified under the name "tyranid" until after the destruction of the planet Tyran in 745.M41, 500 years after the events of this novel take place.
1: Black Library(last accessed December 20 2018)2: Xenos (Novel):3: Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition), pg. 8- Dan Abnett
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Apr 15, 2019 · The TL;DR. Xenos is a great entry into Black Library fiction if you are looking to find your way into the world of Warhammer 40,000 novels. Equally, if you know nothing about Games Workshop or Warhammer, Xenos is still a great novel. Whilst it is informed by its setting it is never overwhelmed.
“Xenos” is the first of a series, and it is a fantastic standalone Sci-Fi novel. Eisenhorn follows a lead much like a detective would, tracking down an ancient artifact called the Necroteuch.
- Josh Hinton
But do the Xenos factions have any real relevance at all? If so, what have they accomplished in modern lore? What are their key lore events? Here's my knowledge - Necrons - Probably the best off of the Xenos factions lore wise. Pariah Nexus and Silent King are their main hooks.
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Oct 22, 2019 · An incredibly well-respected trilogy, graded on the curve required for licensed genre fiction, the books Xenos, Malleus, and Eisenhorn track story of the titular Inquisitor through and across much of the near-strangeness of the 40K setting.
