…of creativity, of course!
We are now accepting articles for Issue 6 of the Astro Mag. What is this issue’s theme? Why, I’m glad you asked, good sirs and lasses, for Issue 6 is all about the pre-Heresy and the Horus Heresy!
While the fiction, aesthetics and competition are going to be about this infamous era in Games Workshop lore, feel free to submit a modeling, painting or tactics article, even a battle report that isn’t set in the Heresy. If you’re new to the Mag, email your article, with pictures, in a Microsoft Word .doc file to theastromag@gmail.com
The deadline for articles is October 2nd! This will ensure that we can release this issue before October ends.
In other news Kevin (Arkaedin) will be stepping down as Chief Editor with myself (Morgan, AKA Consadine) will be taking his place. Kevin will still be creatively involved with the mag but will be sticking more to a promotional role.
I leave you with an excerpt from one of my favorite pieces of Horus Heresy fiction, The Last Day:
Horus threw his father across the room where he clanged against the bulkhead. The Warmaster stepped toward him, breathing ragged, expression psychotic.
“I will take away your godhood! I will take away your galaxy! I will take away your empire! I will take away your sons! When I have done that, Father, what will you be?”
“A man,” the Emperor whispered.
He focused everything into a lance of bright light. All his pain, all his grief, the despairing rage of a man who has nothing left to lose.
Horus was hit so hard it shocked the very daemons from his soul. In that moment, he knew what he had done, what he had become. He looked the master of mankind in the eye; and then he died.
–The Last Day, by NoPoet
#1 by Floost - August 12th, 2009 at 02:52
I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often!
#2 by Niraco - August 14th, 2009 at 09:32
Horus did not died immediatly after he got hit, he made penance for his sins and spoke of them before the Emperor killed him. He struggled a lot before the psyhic blast of the emperor destroyed him. you can get these informations from the collectrors edition of Horus Heresy-concept art book (can`t remember now the full name)
#3 by Consadine - August 17th, 2009 at 11:46
Floost: You won’t be disappointed!
Niraco: The Last Day is a piece of fan fiction. Thus it doesn’t have to be canon. Plus, you’ll find that GW has changed their fluff quite often. Big example of that is Ollanius Pius.
#4 by Daenyathos - August 29th, 2009 at 10:03
Reading that just makes me wander, how many heresy novels are there likely to be? if that particular novel has excerpts like that it will surely be worth the wait.