For this episode, we’re reading Archmagos by Guy Haley. You can purchase it at Amazon, the Black Library, and Audible.
From the back of the book:
For years, Belisarius Cawl has nurtured an audacious plan to stabilise the Attilan Gap sufficiently that the Imperium might open a stable route into Imperium Nihilus. With the primarch Roboute Guilliman having crossed the Great Rift, and now isolated on the far side, time is running out.
Before Cawl can perfect his latest great work, he requires one last element: control codes preserved on an ancient necron world trapped on the event horizon of a black hole. Realising that even he cannot do this alone, Cawl recruits help from across the Adeptus Mechanicus. Yet as victory nears, malign intelligences have taken note of the archmagos, and Cawl is about to discover it is unwise indeed to provoke the interest of Vashtorr the Arkifane…
Discussion guide for Archmagos:
- Did you like the book?
- Which parts stood out to you?
- Cawl is Cawling about. What did we think of the Nutty Prime Conduit’s misadventures this time?
- Technically, Solana is the main character of this story. Were you invested in her? Was she a good protagonist?
- We get to see Felix again! Did you like his portrayal in this book? Were you invested in what was happening on Ulvheim?
- Was Vashtorr the Arkifane a compelling antagonist? Was he well-utilized in this story?
- Where do we begin with “what happens next?”
- What does Guilliman make of all this?
- What will Cawl do now that we have pylon technology?
- What could Vashtorr possibly be playing with on the “good” side of the rift?
- Is there a world in which the pylon network fully destroys the rift?
- What is Erementias up to? Who does he work for?
- WHERE IS HARVEY DENT?
