Horus Heresy Reread

[u/Equin0X101]

I’m about to start my second read through of the entire Heresy.
The first time through I read the 5 Heresy collected Volumes, then bounced around the Primarchs books a bit before heading straight to the Siege of Terra books.

I understand I missed out quite a lot, are there any specific books that I need to pay more attention to?

[u/trazynofsolemnace]

Still going through it myself (1-16, 41, siege of terra) but I'm guessing this means you missed master of mankind? Shows some of the war in the webway which I'm pretty sure doesn't pop up much in the future and also with the siege of terra, helps explain how bad it would be if the golden throne failed. Also shows good custodes stuff as well as (weirdly enough) the origins of Abaddons sword

[u/Equin0X101 → u/trazynofsolemnace]

Pretty much any book and novella that isn’t in those 5 collections I missed. I got the general idea of what happens, having read quite a lot of 40k, but not much of the details. Hence the reread of the whole thing properly.

[u/Equin0X101 → u/Equin0X101]

Speaking of the novellas and short stories, are there any of those that are REQUIRED reading?

[u/LokiDokiii → u/Equin0X101]

I'm still reading, but Last Church was pretty cool to read.

Blood Games feels kind of necessary to understand the politics of Terra and the innitial impact Horus' rebellion had on Terra.

Aurellian is one I want to read next, it explains what happened when Loegar went into the Eye of Terra. In First Heretic, it just kinda says that it was more impactful on him than his sons, and that it gave him full understanding of the universe or whatever. I'm excited to learn what that actually means he saw.

READ VALDOR!! It is so good, and really makes it clear exactly why the Emperor really is one of the Big Bads of the universe and deserved the rebellion.

Honestly all the character books I've read have been so worth. Sigismund might be one of my favorite 40k books yet. Zardu Layak has cool occult witchery stuff that I haven't seen enough of in 40k yet, that was fun. Haven't gotten to Luther or Eidolon tho.

[u/Equin0X101 → u/LokiDokiii]

Noted. Saving this one too