Subject: I'm about halfway down. (Spoilers for the first half)
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Posted on: 2022-07-08 08:31:40 UTC

This is fun. You've had to stretch a bit to literally flip the alignments (there's no single Point of Departure, except your vague "the Emperor makes better decisions"), but that's fine, that's the point. I like the fact that Tzeentch is the driving hand behind the Heresy this time around, which I don't think was the case in canon.

My two big questions so far are things that haven't changed. You mention chapters, but in my head they were a Gulliman innovation, so I'm not sure they would exist. And you also mention the Emperor staying out of the Heresy because he was sitting in the Golden Throne - but without Magnus Doing Anything Wrong, there's no reason I've seen so far that he wouldn't be out and about.

I would also query whether the post-Heresy Imperium would create a new Alpha Legion when the entire Legion except for one of its two Primarchs fell to Chaos. I'm thinking of how virulently they distrusted the loyalists from the Eisenstein and so forth, and also the whole "no, by the Emperor, you can't create Primaris Traitor-But-Not Marines, what are you thinking?!" thing. (The loyalist Angels, I can easily accept, though I'd imagine they don't talk much about where they came from.)

I also like how much you jump around. It's dramatically non-linear, but... this is the Horus Heresy! Those books have never been linear, so why should your version be?

Okay, lots to read, and I should probably do some work today too, so not sure when I'll get it finished.

hS

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