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Lorgar: Bearer of the Word

Primarchs: The Horus Heresy, Book 5

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Lorgar: Bearer of the Word

By: Gav Thorpe
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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On the world of Colchis, mighty religions rule a decaying society in the name of absent gods - until the arrival of Lorgar. Primarch, prophet, leader of destiny, the Golden One is raised by Kor Phaeron, priest of the Covenant, to be his weapon in a quest for power.

As religious war spreads across the planet, spearheaded by the Brotherhood of Lorgar, the primarch is plagued by visions of the future and the coming of the Emperor. To find his place in this new order, he must reach balance between the teachings of his adopted father, Kor Phaeron, and the fate that he knows awaits him among the stars.

©2017 Games Workshop Limited (P)2017 Games Workshop Limited Adventure Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera Destiny
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Brilliant lore book, not much in the way of 30k or 40k but there is a lot of lore surrounding the bearer of the word

Not for the Bolter Fans

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well read and good story from the beginning.
tells the whole story from being found as a child up to being found not like the other primach books that I was hoping would be more like this one.

brilliant

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This is a very tricky book to read. Normally you would want the main protagonists to have some form of likeable or redeemable qualities. Anything at all to make you want to sympathise or empathise with them.

It is very, very difficult to find any positive or redeeming qualities in any of the characters, save perhaps the one slave.

Kor Phaeron is obviously horrific, the worst of the worst and so incredibly egotistically driven that he sees his own actions and indeed the actions of all others as purely god(s)-ordained.

Lorgar … you would suppose that in his origin story that you would want to like Lorgar, as a child at least. But you don’t. He has no obvious compassion, and those actions done to aid others are only done because he sees them as necessary to aim towards The Truth.

It’s a very difficult book to like, because almost every single character is an awful, truly awful, character. Lorgar is so wilfully stupid, it’s hard to know whether he’s deliberately written as that.

Naive, ignorant, and overly credulous.

Still, a useful read.

A difficult read

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The narration by jonathan keeble is as always amazing and living with the story.
The book itself is propably my second favourite traitor primarch book.
This book does kor phaeron justice not by making him more likable it does so by doubling down on his evilness, ego and selfserving with a dash of pride toward lorgar and a genuin fatherly feeling between him and lorgar, this all making an allready well-written character even better.
the book is a 100/10 and i highly reccomend it to every 40k fan to listen

even better than than i expected!

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Lorgar's Origin story in full done right. Unlike other Primarch books BotW shows you the world of Colchis and how Lorgar lives his formative years on it. It serves as a satisfying Origin story.

Kor Phaeron is a legend. I do not care what antone says. He is an unlikeable scheming scumbag, who uses religion to further his own power. Gets beaten up by his own followers, causes more issues than he solves. But despite this. He is a loyal Dad who will charge a gunline of armoured troopers to save his adopted super son.

I love how he goes from dessert dwelling goober, with no martial training. To commanding super soldiers in a galactic crusade.

From Primarch pod to The Great Crusade

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