Спойлеры к "Владыке человечества" Аарона Дембски-Боудена ОСТОРОЖНО СПОЙЛЕРЫ!!(очевидно).⁠⁠

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Взято с warforge:

-Магнус нехило раздолбал ворота вебвея свои сообщением. Император винит Магнуса в этом, но без особой горечи, а скорее фаталистично. Прорыв был назван "глупостью Магнуса".

-Император вынужден сидеть на Золотом Троне, чтобы предотвратить поглощение Терры расколом. Позже Сестры Тишины подключают тысячу псайкеров к нему и это позволяет Императору временно покинуть трон.

-Импи, Кусты, Сестры и лояльные Мехи, все борются с Демонами в вэбвее. Мирожеры и Легио Аудакс сражаются против имперцев и никто не знает, как они туда попали.

-Император на троне на протяжении большей части книги и постоянно разговаривает с Трибуном Кустов. Он доверил ему много своих мыслей и на протяжении всей книги Трибун получает проблески из памяти Императора

-Война не идет хорошо для имперцев и демон Драк'ниен (да, тот что внутри меча Аббы будет) постоянно вселяется в людей и прыгает от тела к телу. Драк'ниен был рожден после первого убийства в истории человечества (Каин и Авель)

-Большая часть книги либо сражение с демонами, либо болтовня Импи с трибуном. Особых откровений или срывов покровов нет, как и предупреждал АДБ.

-Многие лоялы Мехи жалеют о потере Марса и в конце концов покидают императора через вэбвэй, полагая, что они могут так добраться до Марса. Это подрывает Имперские силы и Император решает запечатать портал навечно.

-Перед тем как запечатать Драк'ниена в Куста Трибуна, он говорит ему убежать в вэбвей настолько далеко насколько тот сможет. У Куста столько силы воли, что Драк'ниен не может захватить его, фактически он становится тюрьмой для демона и сейчас бродит по паутине

Общие замечания по книге:

-Немалая часть книги это описание пути от терры до ворот вэбвея. Император построил его, как действительно большую и массивную вещь, предназначенную для путешествия людей по всей галактике через них. Это что-то вроде аэропорта на стероидах и с тронным залом в качестве зала ожидания.

-Кратко описывают детство Императора. Будучи подростком неолитической эпохи из деревни на среднем востоке, он занимался подготовкой тел для похоронных ритуалов. Он наслаждался этой работой и видел ее как произведение искусства, это было аллюзией на создание Примархов. Когда он готовил труп отца, он понял, что убийство совершил дядя из-за какого-то мелкого спора. Император спокойно воспринимает это, но он идет к своему дяде и останавливает его сердце своими психическими силами.

-Император кажется не считает Примархов своими сыновьями, он называет их образцами по их номерам, Фулгрим к примеру "Третий"

-Флэшбэк императора и Архан Лэнда смотрящих на валяющегося без сознания Ангрона сразу после того, как его забрали. Они говорят, что Гвозди не могу быть извлечены, не убив его, но император холодно говорит, что в то время как Ангрон сломан, он все еще может быть полезным и не должен быть уничтожен.

-Импи возился со своим триумфом на Улланоре и поддерживал свой нынешний облик "Золотого бога" только ради помпы и пиара. Он считает все это жалким и поэтому посвятил всего себя только проекту Вэбвея и судьбе человечества как правителей галактики. Проект Вэбвея был для него всем.

-Силы Императора прикольные и анимешные. Он телепортируется мгновенно, создавая остаточные изображения. В одной сцене Драк'ниен пронзает его тело, которое оказывается остаточным изображением, тогда как настоящий Импи уже сзади него. Он также призывает армию "духов" умерших имперских слуг, что бы победить демонов. Феррус среди них.

-Архан Лэнд является лидером сил Механикумов внутри Вэбвея. Он остается верен императору во всем и абсолютно шарообразен. Он летает вокруг на анти-грав Лэнд Рейдере с Волькит оружием.

-Там есть раненый кровавый ангел, который был частью Крестового похода и борется вместе с Кустодес. Он является единственным заметным персонажем десантником в этой книге.

-Импи считает Кустодес его лучшей работой и каждый из них является отдельным произведением искусства сам по себе.

-Полуподтверждено, что Кустодес были теми, кто избавился от Громовых воинов

-Есть чудной намек на то, что император был тем, кто написал Пиноккио. Опять же, это аллюзия на создание Примархов.

-В книге император, кажется считает Хоруса и войну в большей степени отвлечением/раздражением. Он больше сосредоточен на Вэбвее и угрозе Хаоса/Демонов.

-Ещё спойлерщик утверждает, что полное имя Ангрона - Ангроний. Живите теперь с этим.

Ещё один большой спойлер на английском:

Imperial Webway is bolted onto an Eldar nexus city. The Eldar all ran away when the Imperials turned up. The ruined area beyond it up toward the breach is called Magnus' Folly.

The Emp sits on the throne holding a psychic shield over the whole Imperial Webway, if he were to get off it would collapse immediately. He issues orders by summoning a Custode Tribune into his memories. Mal and Dorn are left to their own devices above, Emps isn't impressed they are losing the war.

The Custode Tribune is the only one left, the other 2 are dead, they were the 3 senior guys under Valdor. The Imperials are losing the Webway War as well; not just daemons are attacking them now, the World Eaters and Legio Audax have also somehow got inside.

The Emperor orders that the Webway army gets reinforced; there is literally no-one left in the Sol system to send except a Knight House that were locked up for briefly being traitors before learning the truth, the last Mechanicum troops and a lone Blood Angel cripple. Arkhan Land decides to go along as well because he's baller

The first memory the Emperor shares is of his childhood. In some mud-hut shithole in ancient middle east (like really [черт]ing ancient, pre-Hittite) his job was to clean up corpses for burial by moulding mud to their bodies to make them look whole. He was good at it due to psychic powers. When he gets given his father's skull to fix up he is able to discern how his father died; struck in the head by his uncle, murdered. He goes to his uncle and kills him by stopping his heart.

The Fists are all deployed in the system fighting the Solar War. Dorn says he will send some down but Valdor points out he will be stripping men from the walls and there's only around 3 or 4 companies of Fists actually on the planet.

The Emps is utterly devoted to ensuring humanity survives and his plan would have totally worked if it weren't for Horus and Magnus [черт]ing it all up, he's dedicated his entire existence to it and has no interest in glory, worship, personal anything and rejects people saying he's arrogant and power hungry completely, everything, everything goes to the plan and he has no time for any bullshit. He does indeed manipulate the primarchs and people in general to this end but tries to be nice about it, however the ends would have justifed the means

Drach'nyen is a daemon born at the moment of the first murder. He/It seems to be intent on confronting the Emperor

The other memories are the Emps and Land examining Angron to see if they can get the Nails out, they can't without killing him, Emps decides that even though the Twelfth has reduced lifespan and ruined tactical acumen as compared to his design, he could still be of use so returns him to his legion instead of offing him

we also see Ullanor and the Emp admitting he did the Triumph and all the Imperial pomp and shit because he knows the Primarchs and the people need that kind of emotional manipulation

He also explains why he can't guide everyone perfectly by showing the Custode a memory of standing at the base of a cliff - the future is the top, you can see it; climb the cliff. The Custode loses his grip on a rock that looked solid but wasn't and falls. Yes, the Emperor says.

When asked why he lets the Primarchs, especially the Sixteenth, call him father, he basically says that he's Gieseppo to Horus' Pinnochio.

The Black Ships are ordered to switch from collecting people for Astropath etc training to simple industrial hoovering up of all psykers

The Fire Wasps are present, as are Custodes, Sisters and everything in the Mechanicum army lists

The Blood Angel is from the Crusader Host, he didn't get picked for any combat roles because he lost his arms in battle and augmetics won't take to him without malfunctioning, so he's combat ineffective. He's titled Bringer of Sorrow which is rad but hasn't been explained yet

The loyalist Mechanicum are super salty about Mars being in traitor hands and increasingly only support the Emperor because without him they can't get back to Mars

A good chunk of the book describes the journey from the palace down to the Webway gate, it's really well written, the Eternity Gate is awesome etc. It becomes obvious that this road was meant to be the way humanity travelled to the stars once that whole pesky spaceship shit was done away with; what becomes the Throne Room was really meant to be the Departure Lounge

It's pretty much confirmed the Custodes exterminated the Thunder Warriors. One of them wonders if they were to do the same to the Astartes. There are 300 Custodes early in Unification, who are the Emperor's personal guard, they get expanded to 10,000 later (and are called The Ten Thousand amongst themselves and by the E. The Emperor seems actually honestly quite attached to the Custodians, seeing each of them as unique works of art he's proud of creating. The first Custodian to 'die', the Emperor is having none of it and has him personally made into a Dreadnought (the first one?) Of course this feeling/info is stuff only communicated through him talking with the Tribune, so it could be part of his manipulations

The Imperials lose. The Mechanicum contingent (except the Titans) betray them and split off to find the Webway route to Mars. They all get killed in various hilarious ways.

The Sisters of Silence plug a thousand psykers from the Black Ships into the Golden Throne, giving it enough battery power for the Emperor to get off. He goes to rescue everyone that's retreating back to the palace

Turns out he can instantaneously teleport in combat, or at least do something that has the same effect. Literally dudes swinging swords at him and he's not there anymore and Вовчик Куцепал behind you* now his sword is in your back

He also has a super saiyan attack where he swings his sword and fire comes out in a wave, and in the fire are like, smoke-ghosts of the Imperial dead who form just long enough to [черт] up the daemons and then dissipate. These smoke ghosts include Custodians, dreadnoughts and a certain dead primarch. It's more like a special effect to his fire attack than Aragorn's army of the dead, but it's pretty metal

So a thing happens that I'm putting in a separate spoiler and the Imperials all pull back to the palace. The Emperor, *very* regretfully, seals the gate. That's it, Imperial Webway is DONE. In a coda, the Emperor basically admits to a dude that his plan is capital F [черт]ed and humanity is essentially doomed and there's nothing he or the Imperium can do except hold it off for as long as possible

Drach'nyen duels the Emp and wins, puts his claws right through him. Emp teleports away next to the Custodian Tribune who was the guy who learned all the Emp's secrets throughout the book.

Drach comes in for the finisher, forming into a familiar sword shape. The Emp somehow transfers the blow into the Custodian, but not as a wound, he essentially shunts Drach'nyen into the Custodian

For whatever reason - sheer willpower is mentioned but it's fairly obv the Emp has done something to the Custodian previously or they're all designed like it - Drach can't overpower and possess the dude like he has about a half dozen other people in the book. He's trapped within the Custodian.

The Emperor gives the Custodian "the last order he will ever receive: Run."

The Custodian takes off at a sprint into the mist of the Webway, all alone, Drach'nyen's jailer, as the Emperor sadly returns to the palace and ultimately shuts down the gateway

The Custodians are talking about how they haven't heard anything from Aquillon when Magnus bursts through

The Mechanicum contingent (except the Titans) betray them and split off to find the Webway route to Mars

Land doesn't leave, he's baller incarnate. Dude rides around in a grav land raider with quad volkite cannons on a top ball turret and has a pet cyber monkey, he's basically Drebin from MGS

The Mechanicum in the webway leave, but there's still the ones on the surface. they have a plausible deniability for when they get bitched out about the betrayal (which does not happen in this book)

Blood Angel dude who is called Zephon, gets a jury-rig to his arms from Land and is able to fight in the last battle, where he pulls off a pivotal strike (he has a jump pack). He survives.