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Creados a imagen y semejanza del Emperador, los primarcas se creyeron los príncipes del universo durante mucho tiempo. Dirigieron a las legiones de marines espaciales en una gloriosa conquista de la galaxia, y ningún enemigo del Imperio fue capaz de resistírseles. Pero incluso en el seno de una hermandad tan legendaria, las semillas de la discordia han sido sembradas hace tiempo, mucho antes de que el traicionero Señor de la Guerra, Horus, proclamase su gran herejía. Esta antología contiene cuatro novelas cortas, cada una de ellas centrada en alguno de los guerreros y caudillos más poderosos que la Humanidad jamás haya conocido: Fulgrim, Ferrus Manus, Lion El’Jonson y los primarcas gemelos, Alpharius y Omegon

I had mixed feelings on this one. On one hand, it was fun reading about four of the primarchs involved in the Heresy. On the other hand, one of the stories was good, two were so-so, and one just bored me to tears.

The best was the last one concerning Omegon/Alpharius, although it took me a bit to realize that Sanders was jumping around in the story time-wise. The deception used by the Alpha Legion on both sides was very clever. The first and third stories concerning Fulgrim and Lion were ok to read, just not up to what I have experienced so far reading the Horus Heresy. I did enjoy how Fulgrim's Slaneeshi possessed body was dealt with and how Lion fought the forces of chaos in the warp as he fled the Night Lords.

The story concerning Ferrus Manus did nothing for me, did not advance any character in this portion at all. I've always read short stories with some trepidation as I feel that a lot of times there is simply not enough time to develop plot and characters to a sufficient degree as in a full length novel. This also seems to be the case here as all four authors in this collection seem very rushed or otherwise non-committal to the overall story. Here's to hoping that the next Heresy novel avoids this. ( )

Set in the era around the rebellion of Horus against the Emperor, 10,000 years before the gaming background, wuith the Emperor heading back to Ancient Terra instead of leading the Crusades of the Space Legions against the alien xenos. The Primarch, leaders of the greatest armed force ever seen. But There's disension in the ranks of the supposed loyal for as Horus gets ideas above his station and tries to turn his brothers against their Father the Emperor. But like all civil wars, this war is deadly with Brother Astartes facing off against different legions and, sometimes, against Brother Legionnaires.

In this book, the authors all take a look at Primarch of some of the Traitor and Loyalist Legions. Most of the tales are fairly standard science fiction, without too much of the rather weirder Dark Powers that can be added to the Warhammer scenarios. I did find that a list of the various Legions and their loyalties gave one some help in working out the alignment of some of the forces in these stories - some of the authors enjoyed writing about the Traitor Legions rather too much... ( )

The imagining of the primarchs , showed new aspects of each, gave a richer definition of how they behaved and more of what their decision making was like. Parts were slower than others but all in all the book held me through all of it and I walked away wanting more from other Primarchs and of course the Emperor of all mankind. ( )