News de la Black Library (France et UK) - 2012

Horus Lupercal a écrit:Dans la vidéo un événement concernant les Raven Guards est annoncé pour la 7 mai prochain. Je ne pense pas qu'il s'agisse du roman "Delivrance Lost/Délivrance Perdue" dont nous connaissons déjà le planning.
Je penserai plus pour un nouveau titre collector à tirage limité mettant en scène les Raven Guards.
Nous en saurons plus lundi prochain (dixit la Black Library).

THE STORY
Raven Guard Chaplain Cordae hunts a deadly beast in the mountains of the Chapter’s homeworld, Kiavahr. But as the creature realises the danger, Cordae finds himself the prey...

ABOUT THE BOOK
A Raven Guard short story by George Mann.

Horus Lupercal a écrit:Oui c'est curieux, c'est en ligne en partir d'aujourd'hui.
Mais le buzz d'hier porte bien sur quelque chose qui serait disponible à partir de 7 mai prochain.
Cette nouvelle diffusée aujourd'hui sous forme d'ebook est peut-être un avant-goût à ce qui va suivre bientôt.

'Prey' for Deliverance

We showed you a video in yesterday's blog and promised some more news about what's coming on May 7th. To that end, we tracked down our local raven expert George Mann, here's what he had to say:

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently (some would say too much time), thinking about the Raven Guard. In particular, I’m interested in exploring everything that sets the Raven Guard apart from their brother Space Marines. Some of these traits are well established, of course: their ghostly white flesh, their obsidian eyes, their preference for stealth tactics and striking from the darkness. I’ve tried to incorporate all of these things into my Raven Guard stories so far. But one of the things that I’m really keen on delving deeper into is the rituals of the Raven Guard, their symbolism and beliefs.

In Helion Rain and Labyrinth of Sorrows I took inspiration from the recent Forge World models, which depict the Raven Guard as carrying bird skull fetishes on chains about their power armour. I named these tiny bird skulls ‘corvia’ and imagined that the Raven Guard harvested these skulls as part of their initiation as aspirants – that they had to put their stealthy skills to use in capturing these ravens in the forests of Kiavahr and make totems from the creature’s skulls.

However, when it came to describing the armour of a Raven Guard Chaplain for a new, forthcoming project, ++REDACTED BY THE INQUISITION++, I decided it was time to up the ante. If a typical Raven Guard aspirant was expected to capture a tiny Kiavahran raven with his bare hands, what trials must a Chaplain have to face?

Chaplain Cordae’s armour is unlike that of any Raven Guard seen before. His skull mask is formed from the head of a massive Roc – an enormous bird that lives high in the peaks of the Diagothian mountains of Kiavahr. The bird’s wing bones are spread across his jump pack, and its ribs form a brace across his chest. Cordae believes he carries the spirit of this massive, terrifying bird into combat alongside him, and the last thing his enemies see before they die at his feet is the looming, beaked skull of his mask, peering into their soul.

In Prey, a prequel, of sorts, to the campaign in the Sargassion Reach that began in Labyrinth of Sorrows, Cordae is hunting this beast. As the story opens he’s been in the mountains for nineteen days, wearing only a ritual loincloth, and he’s readying himself for his attack. But has he anticipated just how wily this deadly creature can be…?

Horus Lupercal a écrit:
Du coup, la piste du graphic novel inédit (une BD quoi) est maintenant la plus probable.
Et les Raven Guards en seront les héros.

Uriel Ventris a écrit:100 balles et un mars avec ceci?

Malheureusement il faudra attendre un moment pour une possible traduction...

Mortarion a écrit:Toute façon,l'action sur l'instant est souvent dessinée en BD. Après,beaucoup de termes nous sont familiers en anglais,pour le reste,il y a google traduction.

What is the Kraken?

That’s a good question. Who better to give us an answer than Chris Wraight, a man who has braved the wilds of Fenris to study this mysterious beast in preparation for his latest short story.

'The kraken cannot be killed. It will tear at the roots of the world for eternity, weakening them, making them frail.’

The Priest withdrew his skull mask. Kvara closed his eye. He felt the drugs in his system dragging him back to unconsciousness, and fought against it.
‘It can be killed,’ he said, feeling his words slur. ‘I know it, and you know it. Everything that lives can be killed.’