#News_lampPost #Black_library На форуме БиЧ ( https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/379879-the-end-and-the-death-part-i-ii-iii/?page=42 ) потекли первые спойлеры 3-й части Конца и Смерти ииии... Ну, помните на прошлой неделе был шутливый пост, про взломанный китайскими хакерами компьютер Аббнета? В общем, наверное лучше бы оно было правдой, чем то, что получилось. Если вкратце - то да, Хорус сначала почти бил Императора, но потом Хоруса взяли на понт формата "Любой дурак может убить Императора с силой Хаоса - а ты попрлобуй-ка без неё!" и Хорус, как последний казанский чушпан повёлся. Ну и пожалуй самое печальное - в итоге, мало какие исторические события самой Саги повлияли на эту дуэль, с перегибом в сторону этого центрального сюжета с "бессмертными" которые нахер никогда никому не были нужны и вот их наконец натянули на глобус вархаммера. Остается надеяться, что это действительно финальный--маой-клянусь-финал: "The Emperor and Horus meet about 100 pages in, and the deathblow isn't delivered until 400 pages in. The Emperor takes so much damage.... There's way more to their fight than what I'm describing here, but it'll take a while to write out. Main spoilers: -We get a chapter with Perturabo seething in his room about the siege, justifying his retreat, and I think it was hinting at him taking the path to daemonhood. -We get a chapter with Lorgar in exile on the other side of the galaxy, living on a low-tech world obsessed with divination. You might need a dictionary for this one. Lorgar is mostly -Trying to divine what's happening in the siege. Chapter is pretty wholesome until it ends on a nice subtle dark note that you expect with Word Bearers. -RG's fleet is desperately trying to locate Terra or make contact with any loyalists. -Oll realizes the broken athame in his pocket was fixed when the Emperor mended Grammaticus and him. He realizes he has to go back to the Emperor as he'll need the Athame. -The Emperor wipes out an entire company of Word Bearers with one psychic blast on the route to Horus. Really shows his power level. Also Horus' power level, given how he treats the Emperor in their fight. -The Emperor has cast off all emotion, and shows none when he sees Sanguinius' body nailed to the wall. He just says +Take him Down+. Enter Horus. -When Horus and the Emperor face off, the Emperor only says +You have Killed My Son+ and +Why?+. Horus tries to respond, saying he offered Sanguinius a place at his side, but realizes the Emperor isn't talking to him. He's talking about Horus to the chaos gods watching the conflict from the shadows behind him. The Chaos gods are there watching the fight the entire time, but the don't have any lines. They're just enjoying the show (until they aren't) -SIgismund, Keeler, and her refugees make their way to the hollow mountain where the Dark Angels are working on the astronomicon. She leads her followers in prayer, which helps the DA librarians with their work. The Emperor must live. The Emperor is mankind, and mankind is the emperor. They end up restarting the astronomicon, and Battlefleet Solar, and RGs battlefleet fire up and make for Terra. The fight off Typhus here too. -Oll and John cut open a portal back to the Emperor, who is badly wounded and unconscious on the ground at this point after Horus' onslaught. They show up right in front of Horus. Terrified, John speaks a word of enuncia that blasts Horus back, and then Oll send John away to complete the red ribbon tying task. Oll puts the Athame in the Emperor's hand and pleads for him to wake up. Horus starts making his way over, so Oll puts his lasrifle on full-auto, and fires on Horus until he's obliterated by a talon swipe. -Loken convinces Horus he's won, and that he doens't need the power of chaos anymore, and should show that he can give it up and isn't enslaved to it. He does so, and this is the Emperor's chance. The Emperor is empowered by prayers, and Horus is tormented by whispers of "the Emperor must live". He frantically tries to gather back the chaos power he gave up, and they begin the final phase of their battle. Still somewhat clear of mind, Horus realizes he's just an instrument of chaos, and silently pleads with his father for mercy, to end him now if possible, before chaos fully powers him up again and he's lost. The emperor says +I wait for you and I forgive you+. He stabs Horus in the heart with the athame, killing him. -The Emperor drops at this point, all his energy spent, and Valdor and Dorn finally arrive to find Loken kneeling over him. Blood Angels show up too, and they call for a teleport to bring everyone back to Terra. Dorn also recovers Ferrus Manus' skull from the VS. LE-2 finds a tarot card of "The throne" beside the Emperor, so that's where they'll take him. Just as the teleport is about to start, Loken says he's staying behind to hold vigil over his father's corpse. -Later, Abaddon and two other SoHs arrive. The others want to kill Loken, but Abaddon stops them. Loken pleads for him to surrender and ask for mercy, and says he'll speak to Dorn on their behalf, but Abaddon is taking the VS and going his own way to be his own boss. It seems like Loken and Abaddon will part peacefully, when we possibly the worst Erebus moment ever, as he shows up out of nowhere and stabs Loken in the back, killing him. Abaddon is not pleased, but refrains from killing Erebus, who then goes on to explain that Daemons aren't born, they are created by horrible things like this, and Loken's murder is what creates Samus, completing the cycle. -From Malcador's persepective, we see Dorn and the Custodes bring the Emperor to the throne. Malcador says it will sustain the Emperor, and he will sustain it, but he'll be stuck between life and death forever, in agony, and it's probably better Dorn and the others don't know that. -We get a scene of Grammaticus far in humanities past, tying a red ribbon, and using one of Sanguinius' feathers in place of an athame to open his portals. -It ends with Keeler holding up her arms in praise of her Emperor. - -Ahriman helped explain Tarot cards in the library"