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Ahriman: Exile

Ahriman: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1

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Ahriman: Exile

By: John French
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
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Book one in the Ahriman series.

Cast out of his Legion, the sorcerer Ahriman, who condemned the Thousand Sons to an eternity of damnation, plots his return to power and the destruction of his foes.

Listen to it because: experience the beginning of an epic, time-twisting saga of revenge, betrayal and attempted atonement. John French takes the Ahriman you know and love from the Horus Heresy in new and interesting directions, making him both deeply sympathetic and thoroughly evil.

The story: all is dust.... Spurned by his former brothers and his father, Magnus the Red, Ahriman is a wanderer, a sorcerer of Tzeentch whose actions condemned an entire Legion to an eternity of damnation. Once a vaunted servant of the Thousand Sons, he is now an outcast, a renegade who resides in the Eye of Terror. Ever scheming, he plots his return to power and the destruction of his enemies, an architect of fate and master of the warp.

Written by John French. Narrated by Mark Elstob.

©2020 John French (P)2020 Games Workshop Limited Fantasy Fiction
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Story was pretty decent, but the narrator has the worst character voices I've ever encountered across hundreds of audiobooks. Comically bad, and constantly pulling me out of the story - I'm not sure the character voices could have missed the tone of the setting any harder. If I wasn't so committed to Ahriman's story I'd have abandoned it less than half an hour in. As is, I'd say read the physical book for this one if you have the option.

Good story, wrong narrator

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kind of zoned out a few times but the voices dragged me back in. worth the moolah to hear the different voices.

Incredible narrator.

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I had always found the other legions more tragic.
the Emperor's Children falling to Slaanesh.
the World Eaters descending into the madness of Khorne.
the Death Guard tortured into the service of Nurgle.
but thanks to the wonderful work of John French I finally understand.
it is hope that ties the legion to Tzeentch. a cruel but brilliant twist.

a lot of the reviews say the narrator is bad.
but I cannot disagree more strongly.
he put passion behind each character, and was always creative.

an awesome book, I look forward to finding out how it continues in the next one.

Better than promised!

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I was worried by the reviews of the narration, but I was well and truly surprised by how good it was, different to the others, but then again chaos scorcerers are different

Very different but awesome!

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stroy started well with a good pace.. the narrator is good and has a lot of voices but they just not ..match.. the wh40k realm.. I quickly lost interest unfortunately. Perhaps it was sounding too dramatised which made it cartoonish. I think the narration needed little more "dread" factor and more dryness to make it sound more grim and dark as it is in the wh40k.

Great story, not the best narration

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