Angron: Slave of Nuceria: Slave of Nuceria (Volume 11) (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs)

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instead these were forced upon him early into his adult life, so it comes across as him just never making the push they needed to get out. This book gives a glimpse into Angrons past, showing how he was before the nails poisoned his mind: Kind, calm, and it seems he might have even had some latent psychic abillities. While Angron himself is certainly at fault, and many cite shortcomings among the World Eaters attachment to the Nails, it doesn't forget their strengths. Batto, captain of the Devourers, was the first to come forward to his father's side to try to placate him.

As for Angron's part, it's a lot more straightforward, and doesn't have much in it that you can't deduce yourself. Is he as detached as he’s sometimes portrayed to be (mainly in short stories), considering the Primarchs and the Legions purely as sentient tools? With Slave of Nuceria, you repeatedly run into the problem of Betrayer being treated as required reading. He may have what is hands-down the most on-the-nose Primarch name in history, but this book makes it clear that Angron gets angry(on) for some pretty good reasons. Ian St Martin wonderfully portrays the strained relationships between the World Eaters and their gene-father, the legionaries’ desperate yearning to prove themselves to him – because, after having been (forcibly) reunited with his sons, he constantly makes them feel ashamed of what he perceives as their inadequacy.

The war the World Eaters fight hardly resembles warfare at all, to the point the World Eaters themselves are commenting on it, and it really only serves as a frame for what true marrow of the horror: the Butcher's Nails. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. We learn some very interesting details, notably where his name originated and potentially why he never utilises his surname (no, I can't reveal that due to spoilers). However, the massive battle scenes fall somewhat short, and he tends to skim over key details in places.

Within a single second Angron had torn both of his arms from their sockets and sent them flying through the air, before he lifted the Terminator from his feet and broke his head open against the ground. My main gripe with it is that I just didn’t feel overly excited throughout like I have in the past for other BL titles. Through a series of cleverly-worked, yet at the same time managing to feel almost shoe-horned in, flashbacks, we learn of Angron’s youth on Nuceria and how the experiences there drove him to be the uncaring, brutal killing machine that he is today.

It is hard not to feel bad for the guy after one gets to witness his journey of transformation from a mere human into a bestial machine of anger first hand.

It's interesting to see that at Angron loathes the tactic of the pre-Nails World Eaters with their slow advancement as he prefers them to attack with sheer rage and fury. Every XII Legion warrior, no longer War Hounds but now the Eaters of Worlds, who had undergone the procedure had died. The flashbacks to his past were touching and you can really feel the raw anger but even more so anguish and pain that this character embodies.In a setting filled with malevolent gods turning people into sex slugs or rotting fly babies it's interesting to see that the horrors wrought on Angron were entirely human in nature.