December 2017 – Q&A (Part Two)

This is a compilation of questions that have been emailed and messaged to me recently. Part one of the December Q&A can be found here.

I’ve been posting Q&As for a while now, so if you’ve found this one interesting, you can look back at previous Q&As here.

If you want to ask anything, you can post a comment here or get in touch through the contact page (and newsletter subscribers can just reply to any of my emails).

Dmitry asked on Facebook: Hey Gav a question for you, in regards to how the Aeldari are now interacting with the Imperium is it still openly hostile or has Yvrainne’s assistance in the resurrection of Guilliman created an understanding between the two sides.

I’d say a little more understanding in some quarters, but bear in mind that the Ynnari are quite divisive within eldar society itself, including their contact with Guilliman. This may form one of the themes to book 2 [Wild Rider, book two in my Rise of the Ynnari series].

And another from Dmitry: Gav this is something that just popped into the warp storm which passes for my brain. Did Corax share the information of what occurred with the Raptors with Guilliman? particularly the aspect of improving on the Adeptus Astartes. It stands to reason that Guilliman sought out Belisarius Cawl for his radical stance and provided him some form of criteria in terms of what was possible. In this regard we can see the Raptors as the first generation attempt at the Primaris. This in turn can also be connected with the cursed 21st founding as potentially being an attempt by Cawl to see if his experiments had worked…..all leading up to the Ultima founding where we have our new genetic monstrosities. …..and all this from the Alpha Legion screwing with Corax dreams

I don’t know if he would have shared the Raptor project with any of his brothers, considering he regarded it as a cursed failure. As far as anyone knows, the labyrinth remained intact on Terra, its secrets still for the taking.

Kevin asked on Facebook: Sanguinius is factually the greatest primarch. Why can’t any of his nipple headed brothers see his all encompassing greatness?

I think most of them do, to be fair. It’s just that some love him, others are just jelly.

Rory asked on Facebook: What Loyalist Primarch do you see yourself as?

I think I’d be more like Sindermann – shaping people’s view of the universe