Angron: Slave of Nuceria by Ian St. Martin

5 stars

Wow, Angron’s story is so freaking tragic.

This was my first introduction to Angron outside of the short story, ‘After Desh’ea”, and seeing glimpses of what he was prior to the Nails alongside what he became after is horrifying. He had so much potential that got lost when he was forced to take the Nails, and he wasted his entire Legion forcing them to take them too.

Angron’s story also sheds a lot of light on how terrible the Emperor is. From the second that he left Angron with his Legion after discovery, everything that happened after is on his hands. He knew that Angron needed help and just left him to his sons without so much as a by your leave. And then proceeded to not even check on them or do anything to solve the issues.

My heart bleeds for Mago and his brothers who understood what true horror the Nails would bring and did what they could to stand against it. The XII Legion’s fall and descent into absolute madness was really sad to see as all his sons wanted was the approval and acknowledgement of their gene-sire.

This was a great story, maybe even my favourite in the Primarch series so far.