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Black Library Advent 2022 #11
The Fields of Abundance
A Calas Typhon Short Story
READ IT BECAUSE
The Herald of Nurgle himself encourages a Death Guard warrior to embrace the freedom of slaughter.
THE STORY
During the Horus Heresy, the warriors of the Death Guard Legion raze the cities of a Loyalist world. Throughout the devastation, First Captain Typhon mentors Legionary Nevak, opening his eyes to the glories of corruption and the exultation of massacre.
Written by David Annandale.
READ IT BECAUSE
The Herald of Nurgle himself encourages a Death Guard warrior to embrace the freedom of slaughter.
THE STORY
During the Horus Heresy, the warriors of the Death Guard Legion raze the cities of a Loyalist world. Throughout the devastation, First Captain Typhon mentors Legionary Nevak, opening his eyes to the glories of corruption and the exultation of massacre.
Written by David Annandale.
32 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 22, 2022
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December 26, 2022
A decent little palette cleanser. Not a lot happens, but it serves as a nice slice of Heresy fiction. Annandale has a gift for writing about this Legion, and Typhon/Typhus in particular.
March 30, 2025
May 2024 Read using the Horus Heresy Omnibus Project Reading Order (https://www.heresyomnibus.com) as part of my Oath of Moment to complete the Horus Heresy series and extras - Now in Immaterium of everything outside the Horus Heresy Omnibus Project working on the Primarchs and other stories, before the Siege of Terra.
Hooley freaking dooley!
CW: Massive Content Warning for Disease, Death, and Grossness with Explicit and Horrifying Detail.
I am absolutely not joking or messing around when I say take the content warning seriously and because this is full on. It's not 'extreme horror', but relative ro the usual spectrum of the Horus Heresy and Warhammer, this really is something else.
Typhon, First Captain of the Death Guard and his Grand Company are tasked with bringing total annihilation to an unfortunate world in the path of the Legion. A touch of inspiration sees the former Librarian turn from staid path of scorched earth to something equally as devastating, but reaps a harvest of suffering and pestilence. Can he share this revelation with one or this Battle-Brothers?
There is no limit to the nightmares Annandale can canjure. The way they channel the warp is a mysterious and horrifying miracle. Their capacity to conduct the most repulsive and sickening things into some kind of foetid symphony is something else. I hesitate to describe this utter foulness as beautiful, but my heebies are well and truly jeebied and their is true artistry in the disgusting here, as opposes to the simpler act of just being as extreme and gross as one can for the shock of it.
This was haunting and visceral, but elevated in its awfulness to some kind of inverse gorgeousness like a Dada installation. inside the corpse of a beached whale.
I'm not going to lie, this was almost too much for me, but it truly is transcendent in its poetic foulness and the philosophical, aesthetic, and theology perspectives espoused by the Grandfather's Herald are beautifully wrought and fascinating.
I have long been a fan of Nurgle, more for the jolly gardner and joyous plague puppies than anything else, but I have never seen Nurgleth's bounty rendered in such stark, visceral, harrowing, and revelatory manner. Never before has the Thrice-Blessed Pestilence been so real and genuinely sickening, just as it has never been discussed with such lofty and inspired language and perspective.
This is one of those stories that is a point of demarkation in my life, between before I had read it and now, and honestly I don't know if I would read it again, but it is exalted and damn near perfect in what it's doing. It's just that what it's doing is disturbing.
But that's the Primordial Annhilator for you! They are four wild scamps!
Hell of a thing to read before bed. I really don't want gross dreams!
Through the Horus Heresy Omnibus Project and my own additions, I have currently read* all 54 Horus Heresy main series novels (+1 repeat), 25 novellas (+2 repeats), as well as the Macragge's Honour graphic novel, all 17 Primarchs novels, 3 Characters novels, and 163 short stories/ audio dramas across the Horus Heresy (inc. 10+ repeats and Cthonia's Reckoning). Plus, 2 Warhammer 40K further reading novels and 1 short story...this run, as well as writing 1 short story myself.
I couldn't be more appreciative of the phenomenal work of the Horus Heresy Omnibus Project, which has made this ridiculous endeavour all the better and has inspired me to create and collate a collection of Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40,000 documents and checklists (http://tiny.cc/im00yz). There are now too many items to list here, but there is a contents and explainer document here (http://tiny.cc/nj00yz).
*My tracking consistently proves shoddy, but I'm doing my best
Hooley freaking dooley!
CW: Massive Content Warning for Disease, Death, and Grossness with Explicit and Horrifying Detail.
I am absolutely not joking or messing around when I say take the content warning seriously and because this is full on. It's not 'extreme horror', but relative ro the usual spectrum of the Horus Heresy and Warhammer, this really is something else.
Typhon, First Captain of the Death Guard and his Grand Company are tasked with bringing total annihilation to an unfortunate world in the path of the Legion. A touch of inspiration sees the former Librarian turn from staid path of scorched earth to something equally as devastating, but reaps a harvest of suffering and pestilence. Can he share this revelation with one or this Battle-Brothers?
There is no limit to the nightmares Annandale can canjure. The way they channel the warp is a mysterious and horrifying miracle. Their capacity to conduct the most repulsive and sickening things into some kind of foetid symphony is something else. I hesitate to describe this utter foulness as beautiful, but my heebies are well and truly jeebied and their is true artistry in the disgusting here, as opposes to the simpler act of just being as extreme and gross as one can for the shock of it.
This was haunting and visceral, but elevated in its awfulness to some kind of inverse gorgeousness like a Dada installation. inside the corpse of a beached whale.
I'm not going to lie, this was almost too much for me, but it truly is transcendent in its poetic foulness and the philosophical, aesthetic, and theology perspectives espoused by the Grandfather's Herald are beautifully wrought and fascinating.
I have long been a fan of Nurgle, more for the jolly gardner and joyous plague puppies than anything else, but I have never seen Nurgleth's bounty rendered in such stark, visceral, harrowing, and revelatory manner. Never before has the Thrice-Blessed Pestilence been so real and genuinely sickening, just as it has never been discussed with such lofty and inspired language and perspective.
This is one of those stories that is a point of demarkation in my life, between before I had read it and now, and honestly I don't know if I would read it again, but it is exalted and damn near perfect in what it's doing. It's just that what it's doing is disturbing.
But that's the Primordial Annhilator for you! They are four wild scamps!
Hell of a thing to read before bed. I really don't want gross dreams!
Through the Horus Heresy Omnibus Project and my own additions, I have currently read* all 54 Horus Heresy main series novels (+1 repeat), 25 novellas (+2 repeats), as well as the Macragge's Honour graphic novel, all 17 Primarchs novels, 3 Characters novels, and 163 short stories/ audio dramas across the Horus Heresy (inc. 10+ repeats and Cthonia's Reckoning). Plus, 2 Warhammer 40K further reading novels and 1 short story...this run, as well as writing 1 short story myself.
I couldn't be more appreciative of the phenomenal work of the Horus Heresy Omnibus Project, which has made this ridiculous endeavour all the better and has inspired me to create and collate a collection of Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40,000 documents and checklists (http://tiny.cc/im00yz). There are now too many items to list here, but there is a contents and explainer document here (http://tiny.cc/nj00yz).
*My tracking consistently proves shoddy, but I'm doing my best
September 9, 2025
‘The gift of death and its excess. Death and suffering. Death in its slow, gradual majesty. Death that multiplies, and produces the life of decay – the life that creates more and more and more death. This gift is the full embrace of death’s potential, of death’s very being.’ – First Captain Typhon of the Death Guard.
First Captain Typhon brings destruction to a world loyal to the Emperor. Mortarion has ordered complete and utter destruction, to raze it to the ground with nothing left standing. But this leaves Typhon feeling hollow, he desires a different, less complete destruction that will allow something new to grow, something changed and warped in image. Typhon begins to take steps to disregard his father’s orders and thus steers the fate of the Legion to what it will become by the 41st Millenium.
First Captain Typhon brings destruction to a world loyal to the Emperor. Mortarion has ordered complete and utter destruction, to raze it to the ground with nothing left standing. But this leaves Typhon feeling hollow, he desires a different, less complete destruction that will allow something new to grow, something changed and warped in image. Typhon begins to take steps to disregard his father’s orders and thus steers the fate of the Legion to what it will become by the 41st Millenium.
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