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The Iron Kingdom

Dawn of Fire: Warhammer 40,000, Book 5

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The Iron Kingdom

By: Nick Kyme
Narrated by: John Banks
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Dawn of Fire Book 5

A depleted Battle Group Praxis returns the slain heir of Kamidar to the Knight world's ruling family – and its embittered ruler, the Iron Queen Orlah.

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Nick Kyme continues the story of the Indomitus Crusade, as a vicious feud breaks out on the Knight world of Kamidar – and the agents of Abaddon are only too happy to stoke the flames.

The story

A war-weary Battle Group Praxis arrives at the Knight world of Kamidar, ruled by the Iron Queen Orlah, to return the queen's slain daughter and heir, who died in Guilliman's name. In truth, the Imperium's mission here is twofold: to strip Kamidar of its resources in order to resupply the flagging armada, and to prepare the Ironhold Protectorate to become part of the defensive Anaxian Line, a crucial bulwark for the Indomitus Crusade.

Yet Kamidar's Knights have survived for many years without the Imperium's aid, and what should have been a simple reunion between allies soon becomes a vicious feud. As division turns loyal souls against one another, the agents of Abaddon move in the shadows, seeking to manipulate this growing rift to their own ends. Can the Imperium restrain itself from laying an old ally asunder, or will the Hand of Abaddon arise triumphant, halting the Avenging Son's reclamation in its path?

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doesn't add much to the growing story an went with the same old, bad things only happen because off chaos. People can't just be bad characters it has to always be chaos interference.

just like every other 40k book

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hopefully it's setup for done the road as it seems a lot of nothing happens.

main conflict resolves itself with little impact to the ongoing series, so not sure about this being included.

not sure about this one

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Good story but lacked the punch the other books in the series have. I would recommend this is a splitter book rather than following the series story arc.

Not the best in the series.

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Good story but quality filler rather than furthering the main series plot. Much better than Horus Heresy filler books though - there are links to the previous stories and overlapping characters.

Many of the chapter titles are incorrect - like they have been transcribed automatically by a machine listening to the story rather than copied across from a book. Fitting for 40k, I suppose.

Good story but filler

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I didn’t get this book at all. There are a lot of elements that make no sense with how the space marines are severely played down and how the majority of female characters are really played up. The custodian, the marines are all just throw away and poorly written. Nick Kyme has not done a good job here.
I don’t think lore was really at the forefront of Nicks mind and it suffers for it.
Overall poorly written, pointless entry in what has been an ok series, I worry for the next books.

War for war sake

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