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Belisarius Cawl: Archmagos

Warhammer 40,000

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Belisarius Cawl: Archmagos

By: Guy Haley
Narrated by: John Banks
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A Warhammer 40,000 Audiobook

Belisarius Cawl is the greatest mind of his age, and he has a plan to open up the Attilan Gap to allow safe passage through the Great Rift. In order to complete his work, he travels to a necron tomb world. In the process, he attracts the attention of something even more dangerous than ancient xenos…

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Belisarius Cawl continues to be one of the most important figures in the 41st Millennium as he attempts to solve the greatest problem facing the Imperium – allowing safe passage through the Cicatrix Maledictum. He squares off against ancient necrons and the forces of Chaos in his audacious attempt to do the impossible.

THE STORY
For years, Belisarius Cawl has nurtured an audacious plan to stabilise the Attilan Gap sufficiently that the Imperium might open a stable route into Imperium Nihilus. With the primarch Roboute Guilliman having crossed the Great Rift, and now isolated on the far side, time is running out.

Before Cawl can perfect his latest great work, he requires one last element: control codes preserved on an ancient necron world trapped on the event horizon of a black hole. Realising that even he cannot do this alone, Cawl recruits help from across the Adeptus Mechanicus. Yet as victory nears, malign intelligences have taken note of the archmagos, and Cawl is about to discover it is unwise indeed to provoke the interest of Vashtorr the Arkifane…

Written by Guy Haley. Narrated by John Banks. Runtime 10 hours and 52 minutes approx.

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Great read, some standard wishy washy science but that’s to be expected with 40k. Strong writing, strong characters and welcome plot development.

Cawl is just such an entertaining character

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Has a classic A plot, B plot and C plot structure. Most of the time I don't like it when 40k books do this but for once all three plots where interesting and when they converged it was satisfying. Cawl continues to be my all tome favourite 40k character. I love the dude and will Rea's anything he is mentioned in, so take this review with a grain of salt haha.

Cawl is still the best 40k Character

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