Valdor: Birth of the Imperium (The Horus Heresy) Print on Demand (Hardcover) – March 31, 2020

As usual with Warhammer books, whenever a book is named after that character, you will find yourself seeing little of that character and being pulled by secondary characters. There's only so much they can tell us about Valdor and so many dangerous situations they can put him because we all know he's alive in the Horus Heresy.Despite this, the story is intriguing, fun and seeing the birth of the Imperium is a treat, there's plenty of fun rug pulls and vague suggestions that are incredible to read. To read this book was like slightly lifting the veil on something we are all DESPERATE to learn more of.

Short novella that gives a lot of insight into the early imperium. Really liked the thunder warrior point of view.

Buen libro. Llegó en perfecta condición.

Great read! Gives you some insight and perspective on the imperium of man and the emperor’s motives.

What a book! All I read is Warhammer 40K and this book was a standout from the usual battle fodder that drives the imperium story line. Excellent story line that takes you all the way back to the compliance of Terra itself and how that was achieved. Plus, you get to know the Custodians in a way rarely described. I hope to see a lot more of these high quality “Character Series” novels from GW. Highly recommend this book.

This is easily one of my favorite Warhammer novels, and chronicles an old and easily forgotten piece of Empyrean history. The story was riveting, and is one I finished in the course of about a day due to its gripping quality.Chris Wraight is a great author, a number of whose books I've enjoyed as they're excellent. Even among those, this was perhaps my favorite. A must read for any Warhammer historian, or simply anyone looking for a monumental story.

This was an interesting book that described pre-heresy Terra, as well as the construction of the imperial palace.Especially interesting were the references to the primarchs, all 20 of them, being created and lost.Valdor, being the focus of the book, was more fleshed out than I've seen him before, and he felt like a fairly tragic figure in this. Worth a read for fans of 40k/heresy "history"

Set in the earliest days of the Imperium, before the Horus Heresy, before even the Great Crusade or the unification with Mars - Valdor tells a story of the unification of Earth, the twilight of the Thunder Warriors and the birth of the Space Marines.Warhammer 40k stories (though I guess technically this is a Warhammer 28k story) often suffer from the problem that Space Marines are not very interesting characters and the title character of this book - Constantin Valdor - is even more boring than Marines. An impeccably loyal and invincible warrior Valdor really is not an interesting subject, a fact that characters in the book and even Valdor himself admit. But Chris Wraight keeps things interesting by focusing on the human characters around him, an early High Lord of Terra, an embittered mercenary seeing the end of the wars that gave him purpose, a brilliant geneticist, and others. Thunder Warriors, the savage predecessors of Space Marines, also appear but don't get as much screen time as I would have liked.This is a short book, under 200 pages, which made me wince at the $17 price tag. Honestly I would have preferred to see more of the savage Earth of Warhammer 28k and spent more time with some of the characters. Still fan of the 40k universe will get some interesting insights into the early days of the Imperium and the creation of the Space Marines. A key event in the lives of the Primarchs is chronicled for the first time.As I said the price to length ratio is a bit of a turn off, but I enjoyed the book and would like to see more of this era.

Como muchos de los libros de Black Library, es una historia con una buena narrativa que nos permite a descubrir un poco más sobre Valdor. Además tuve la suerte de pillarlo en una oferta por 3-4€

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So oder so ähnlich könnte eine Zusammenfassung des gesamten Buchinhaltes klingen. Tragik, Epik und teilweise sogar Komik vereint.Valdor zeigt Szenen aus dem Warhammer-Universum, die so in kaum einem anderen Buch Platz hätten. Mein Favorit: die Konfrontation zwischen Valdor und einem formidablen Feind inmitten eines zentralen Gefechts. Nothing. Nothing at all.Obwohl wir nur minimale Einblicke in die Gedankenwelt des Captain-Generals erhalten, steckt in dieser knappen Charakterisierung enorm viel Tiefe drin: was nützen einem körperliche Perfektion und funktionale Unsterblichkeit, wenn innen drin permanent Versagensangst und Unzufriedenheit herrschen? Was bringt es, die Krone der Schöpfung darzustellen, wenn man doch nur ein Werkzeug ist und nicht leben darf?Zudem: ein Hoch auf die ersten Astartes! Ein Hoch auf die letzten Cataegis! Hurra für das Custodes!Kurzgefasster: eine wirklich spannende Darstellung der letzten Züge der Unification Wars und des Übergangs zum Great Crusade.

A lot of stuff mentioned in Alpharius relates to events that occur in this book, so read this first.It's a great book though, great fun. Reading 30k is like living history, and this is going back further than ever.

With the Unification wars over and the Emperor, beloved by all, ready to start the Great Crusade the High Marshall of the Arbites discovers that the Thunder Warriors weren't just killed and begins a tale of intrigueAlso we find out the first reason of why the Emperor was so secretive about everything