Last
night I pre-ordered The End Times: Archaon from my local GW, standing
in line with the same crew that turns out for every End Times book.
I'm going to miss that bunch. I'll see them, of course, but there's a
certain camaraderie to the queuing experience when you're a nerd
among nerds in a dedicated nerd space.
I
say this on the assumption this is the last End Times book, which has
all but been announced but I could be reading my tea leaves wrong. I
do hope its the end because I want to know how this ends so I can get
back to telling my stories
for my armies in the
brave new world that results.
And
I do hope its a brave new world full of hope in which the coming
darkness has been vanquished because that's how the story is supposed
to end, especially as The End Times is as blatant a narrative
collapse story as has ever been written.
Restoration
of order! Heroic victory! Hope!
NOT
a bleak nihilistic ending in which Chaos wins. I really, really don't
want that and I am a player who absolutely loves Chaos. I've had
Warriors Of Chaos, Chaos Space Marine and Lost And The Damned armies,
I love the concept BUT, just to be clear, I don't want them to win on
the macro scale because that would end the story.
Then
again it isn't like GW doesn't like its nihilism. I just hope they
realise that that's what 40k is for: the bleak, nihilistic universe
in which progress is impossible whereas Warhammer Fantasy has always
been essentially hopeful.
On
the smaller scale I really, really want Archaon to die. I feel he's
served his purpose and should get a proper death to cap off the
story, the sort of closure he didn't receive in the Mark I version of
this story back in Storm Of Chaos.
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