Lorgar’s final journey into the heart of chaos comes with a price.
And that price is having to put up with some of the most annoying, riddle-incarnate demons ever.
Aurelian is a short novel that continues and also complements the previous book where the Word Bearers where the focus: The First Heretic. It follows Lorgar on his entirety as he travels to the warp in hopes of finding the final answer and the primordial truth. And oh he does just that.
Aurelian is short but it builds up on the forte of Lorgar as a faith-driven characters that is willing to do everything to accomplish is divine quest. He faces various challenges that alter his point of view, and also bears witness to some nasty realities that tremble his certainty. It is a compelling and entertaining journey that reads quite well and superbly fast due to a well structured pacing.
My major complain, however, is the fucking demons. Dear gods do they talk like the most pretentious cunts ever. One of them is a literal literary tool that speaks both a true and a lie, and you can not know which is which. All these riddles feel unnecessary and way too melodramatic, as if their whole purpose is to actually try to trick the reader into believing these demons have such a grand scheme. To my own interpretation, their only purpose is to confuse Lorgar so that he is more easily sway towards Chaos, yet even he expresses a lot of disdain and tiredness of these plots and riddles, so why keep up with the bullshit then? And yet, despite the clear-cut view that Chaos demons are not good, Lorgar still falls for it.
I mean, that’s pretty much every idiot that falls to Chaos at this point, but still.
Rating: 3 out of 5
A good read, but I personally find it to be a just too pompous.
Endless Questing 