Knight of the Blazing Sun de Josh Reynolds

En mars 2012 sortira un roman inédit en anglais consacré à un ordre de chevaliers très connu de l'Empire dans Warhammer : Knight of the Blazing Sun de Josh Reynolds.
En voici une brève présentation :

==> KNIGHT OF THE BLAZING SUN de Josh Reynolds

The Knights of the Blazing Sun are a noble and venerable order of templars dedicated to the warrior-goddess Myrmidia. The young knight Hector Goetz is sent to the distant island of Svunum to investigate the disappearance of a group of knights. Reunited with his comrades, he battles vicious pirates and bloodthirsty raiders, but from his increasingly disturbing nightmares Goetz realises that there is more to the place than meets the eye. As northern savages lay siege to the island, a deadly secret is revealed that threatens to damn his order for all eternity.

Les Chevaliers du Soleil éclatant sont un ordre noble et vénérable de templiers dédié à la déesse-guerrière Myrmidia. Le jeune chevalier Hector Goetz est envoyé sur l'île éloignée de Svunum pour enquêter sur la disparition d'un groupe de chevaliers. Réunis avec ses camarades, il combat pirates vicieux et pillards sanguinaires, mais à partir de ses cauchemars, de plus en plus inquiétants, Goetz réalise qu'il y a plus en ce lieu qu'il n'y paraît. Comme des sauvages du nord assiègent l'île, un secret mortel se révèle à lui pouvant condamner son ordre pour l'éternité.
(Traduction : Cyberbachi et Abaddon)

Cela m'a l'air d'être un bon livre pour Warhammer.

j'adore ça, les ordres de chevaleries de warhammer, comme la série "les armés de l'Empire" je les ai dévorer les deux que j'ai........ ce monde est si sombre et gothique, j'adore j'adore j'adore! vivement qu'il sorte en FR (si il sort un jour en FR, sinon ben faudra que je révise mon anglais... where is my umbrella ^^)

La Black Library a posté hier sur son blog un court extrait de ce roman à paraître en mars prochain.


Goetz took a deep breath and set his shield. He caught Wiscard’s eye, and the hochmeister nodded briskly.
‘We go where we are needed,’ Wiscard said, intoning the first part of the Order’s creed.
‘We do what must be done,’ Goetz replied along with all the rest.
‘And Myrmidia have mercy on those green buggers because I’ll have none!’ Berlich roared, standing up in his saddle. ‘Let’s have at them! Hyah!’ Then, with a slow rumble that built to a thunderous crescendo, the Order of the Blazing Sun rode to war. They brushed aside the thicket with the force of their passage and the Order’s specially-bred warhorses bugled bloodthirsty cries as they launched forwards.

Seconds later, wood met flesh with a thunderous roar, and the ground trembled at the point of impact. Lances cracked and splintered as they tore through the orc lines, shoving bodies back atop bodies and creating eddies in the green tide. Goetz’s teeth rattled inside his helmet as his lance was reduced to a jagged stump of brightly painted wood. He tossed it aside and drew his sword, wheeling his horse around even as the broken weapon struck the ground. Goetz lashed out as a green shape crashed against him in the press of combat.
The orc’s mouth gaped wide, its foul breath spilling out from between a gate of yellowed tusks as the sword passed between its bulbous head and its sloped shoulders. The head, still mouthing now-silent curses, tumbled forward, striking Goetz’s shield and springing away into the depths of the melee.

The body, its neck-stump spurting blood, was carried in the opposite direction by the snorting, kicking boar its legs were still clamped around. Goetz hauled on his horse’s reins, forcing the trained destrier to sidestep the grunting beast. The horse bucked and kicked at the fleeing pig and then swung around at Goetz’s signal, lunging towards the next opponent with a savage whinny.


Source A Blaze of Glory