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Eidolon: The Auric Hammer

The Horus Heresy Series

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Eidolon: The Auric Hammer

By: Marc Collins
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
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A Horus Heresy Audiobook

Lord Commander Primus Eidolon has claimed many titles along the annals of his infamy. He is the Exemplar and the Risen, the Soul-Severed, and the Auric Hammer. Now, fallen far from his primarch’s grace, he carves a path to Terra, where the culmination of Horus’ grand heresy awaits.

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Eidolon has been a key figure of the Emperor's Children Legion from the beginning. Now, on the eve of the Siege of Terra, he’s fallen far from grace and is facing a long overdue reckoning for his many misdeeds during the Horus Heresy. Can he come to terms with his tainted legacy?

THE STORY

Coaxed and goaded by the wiles of the warp – and an entity whose whispered truths stretch even his credulity – Eidolon finds himself stranded around the world of Tatricala, where the ghosts of his past haunt every fated step. Now he must choose which life he wants to lead… and how much of his soul he is willing to sacrifice for it.

If Eidolon cannot banish his daemons, then they will surely take him for their own.

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Character Development • Deepened Motivations • Excellent Expansion • Internal Politics • Distinctive Voice Techniques
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Excellent story for those interested in the Third Legion and particularly Eidolon. I recommend coming to it after reading the other Emperor's Children novels in the Horus Heresy for context, though the story will make sense enough without. It's short for a Warhammer novel but the narration made up for it. Eidolon is a fairly unlikeable character in the series, but this book gives him some dimension which helps to understand him better and give him his own deepened motivations and trials.

Fantastic Voicing

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Standard heresy story, but a good view into the mind of a character that has been a part of the lore for a long time. Eidolon stands out as the only true “leader” in the emperor’s children rather than being just an eccentric with followers like Fabius.

The third legion given character

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I loved the change in tones for the voices to show never born and other daemonic characters, such as the shattered king

The writing

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Very good story of Emperors Children. Still held together but already starting to fray. Like the progression from beginning to end.

Shows Emperors Children at the beginning of their fall to Slaanesh

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Really great. Not much expansion on emperors children lore so it’s nice to get such a storh

Great narration and excellent expansion on story and lore

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It’s seems kind of obvious, Eidolon has been in the setting from the start and this book proves that with a little bit of focus you can bring a character to life. I think the writer perfectly captured what Eidolon should be to the Emperor’s Children. A force that directs the excesses of the legion as he desires and following his own arrogant path. GW please give him a model.

Eidolon needs a Model on the Tabletop

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honestly didn't realize how shallow Eidolon felt until I got towards the mid or later point of this book, the character needed the development and got it.
it's a little bolter porn sometimes but that's alright

solid story, tremendous character development

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I never thought I'd like Lucius but he grew on me. I was absolutely certain I would never like Eidolon... but here we are.

Material

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In previous 40k books, I always found Eidolon massively uninteresting. This book did nothing to disabuse me of that perception.

Titular Character is ho-hum

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