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Helbrecht Knight of the Throne

Warhammer 40,000

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Helbrecht Knight of the Throne

By: Marc Collins
Narrated by: Christopher Kent
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A Black Templars Short Novel

Guided by a vision, the High Marshal of the Black Templars journeys to a world left in ruins for millennia, in search of a holy relic.

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High Marshal Helbrecht is back in the action after his meeting with Roboute Guilliman, doing what he does best—questing for a sacred relic with a handful of his best troops.

The story

An heir of Sigismund has been reborn.

The Shrine Worlds Crusades are over. The Rubicon Primaris has been crossed.

Chastised by Guilliman, the Primarch Returned, and guided by a vision from the holy God-Emperor Himself, High Marshal Helbrecht is called to the ruinworld of Hevaran. Forged in the fires of the Scouring, Hevaran is sacred in its desolation, condemned never to rebuild… Yet hidden upon its barren surface is a sacred relic. Questing to reclaim it with but a few select souls to aid him, Helbrecht must trust in his skill, his wrath, and his faith as an ancient enemy returns to test him as never before.

©2022 Games Workshop Limited (P)2022 Games Workshop Limited Adventure Military Science Fiction Fiction
Faithful Tribute • Gothic Grandeur • Great Voice • Developed Characters • Medieval Atmosphere • Solid Performance
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This story follows the Black Templars leader, and if you enjoy The Black Templars you will enjoy this.

Black Templar must read

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but damn, not a lot to really add. we go from zealots to calm zealots who follow the signs they already followed. kinda like when gw took away our codex and put us into the main book only to go back to a stand alone book.. almost feels like the writer was told what they could say and couldn't say and what needed to be said. and the rest of prayer and descriptive scene setting

love the fluff and filler

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I enjoyed the novel, the reader was engaging and excellent at keeping you drawn in to the story. Will definitely listen to this more than once!

Amazing book

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a shorter story, but would definitely recommend for any Templar fan! gives you some insights into the chapter, where the chapter is going after the introduction of primaris Marines, and into the high Marshall himself.

a good read, would recommend!

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Wish he got better quality stories to narrate. The quality of the story dropped off half way into book.

More Christopher Kent

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An interesting and largely enjoyable exploration of what drives High Marshal Helbrecht ever onwards, but it didn't quite have the depth to keep me fully gripped throughout. Brilliant for Black Templars fans though, and plenty for casual 40k readers to enjoy too,

I'd have preferred a full-length novel

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Fantastic book and wonderfully narated. The story ended too soon. Would like a sequel!!

Beautifully written

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The Emperor Protects! I knew I needed to listen to a Black Templars book, considering I am new to the hobby, but am currently putting the final touches on my first army, the Templars themselves. This book gave me some ideas of how to paint Helbrecht himself, whom I own but have not yet done more than primed, waiting for inspiration such as this.

Praise Be

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If you’re a fan of the series you won’t hate it, but there’s nothing that makes it stand out. A strong start then craters till the end

A bit generic and didn’t necessarily make me like the Templars anymore.

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Technically written well, with interesting ideas on how to use Helbrecht and the Black Templars as characters. However, these ideas and motifs aren't developed enough. The characters and setting are straight as Rogal Dorn's sense of propriety, and unfortunately end up as somewhat flat and boring archetypes. It ends up all being a fairly standard (but good) bolter porn story of good guys fighting bad guys in a narrative straight line. Not quite doing Helbrecht's character justice, but it could have been far worse. I contrast this with the Astorath and Sigismund novels, which had much better scenes and more developed plotlines (albeit this book did much, much better at using the eponymous Helbrecht as a character to be developed than poor Astorath).

In hindsight, I would not have spent a Credit on this, but still am glad I listened to it regardless due to how much I love the Black Templars. It was an enjoyable listen, for the most part. Grimauldus sounds far, far too old and wizened, but I don't blame the narrator for not knowing in fluff he's more of a younger firebrand than Helbrecht.

Good, not great (certainly not at all bad)

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