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The Horus Heresy #Audio Drama
Thief of Revelations
The Thousand Sons – a Legion whose destiny was irrevocably altered at Prospero, and yet who now seem to dance only to fate’s tune. Ahzek Ahriman and Magnus the Red cast their psychic sight over the galaxy, seeking any clue as to what the future might hold and where their true allegiance should ultimately be placed.
A Horus Heresy audio drama written by Graham McNeill.Running time approx 35 mins.
A Horus Heresy audio drama written by Graham McNeill.Running time approx 35 mins.
1 pages, Audiobook
First published November 29, 2013
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Graham McNeill
339 books911 followersHailing from Scotland, Graham McNeill narrowly escaped a career in surveying to work for Games Workshop as a games designer. He has a strong following with his novels Nightbringer, Warriors of Ultramar, Dead Sky, Black Sun and Storm of Iron.
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February 14, 2024
February 2024 Re-Listen and Review as part of the Horus Heresy Omnibus Project Omnibus III The Burning of Prospero (https://www.heresyomnibus.com/omnibus...) in my Oath of Moment to complete the series.
Honestly, I don't think I have anything much to add that I didn't say below.
It's interesting to see how some are embracing the Flesh Change and Chaos, while Ahriman is having none of it and Magnus has far bigger fishes to fry.
I think one of the most striking things, despite the wildness of time on the Planet of Sorcerers, is getting some perspective on the order and relatively similar times of the Burning of Prospero and the Scouring of Calth.
Great, if non-essential audio drama fun.
***
A great little window into where Ahriman, Magnus, and co at at on their new Warpy world.
Ahriman is dedicating his study to understanding the Flesh Change, determined to find a way to stop it, but even with Magnus' grimoire he's not getting anywhere. Tensions are high between the remaining Thousand Sons, especially while Magnus spending his time locked away in his obsidian tower.
Paying his Primarch a visit, Ahriman beseeches Magnus for aid, only to be given a Warpwind tour of the unfolding Heresy.
A well wrought flavour piece, vibe check, and overview of the events taking place that's fun to listen to.
McNeil has long been one of my favourite Black Library authors who really got the memo on the epic, tragedy, mythos tone of the Horus Heresy (unbelievably fucked up misogynistic bioessentialism and stuff in Fulgrim aside), and that's on display in style here. He crafts the Thousand Sons stories so well and really taps into their potential. Sure, this isn't in my absolute top audio dramas ever but it's still bloody good!
Honestly, I don't think I have anything much to add that I didn't say below.
It's interesting to see how some are embracing the Flesh Change and Chaos, while Ahriman is having none of it and Magnus has far bigger fishes to fry.
I think one of the most striking things, despite the wildness of time on the Planet of Sorcerers, is getting some perspective on the order and relatively similar times of the Burning of Prospero and the Scouring of Calth.
Great, if non-essential audio drama fun.
***
A great little window into where Ahriman, Magnus, and co at at on their new Warpy world.
Ahriman is dedicating his study to understanding the Flesh Change, determined to find a way to stop it, but even with Magnus' grimoire he's not getting anywhere. Tensions are high between the remaining Thousand Sons, especially while Magnus spending his time locked away in his obsidian tower.
Paying his Primarch a visit, Ahriman beseeches Magnus for aid, only to be given a Warpwind tour of the unfolding Heresy.
A well wrought flavour piece, vibe check, and overview of the events taking place that's fun to listen to.
McNeil has long been one of my favourite Black Library authors who really got the memo on the epic, tragedy, mythos tone of the Horus Heresy (unbelievably fucked up misogynistic bioessentialism and stuff in Fulgrim aside), and that's on display in style here. He crafts the Thousand Sons stories so well and really taps into their potential. Sure, this isn't in my absolute top audio dramas ever but it's still bloody good!
April 10, 2018
This is almost a direct sequel to The Thousand Sons and picks up immediately after Prospero where Ahriman and the others find themselves on the Planet of the Sorcerers.
I have to admit, I wasn’t blown away. It was good to see what had become of Magnus and the others but the performances (its an audiobook) were perhaps a little too over the top and the scenes a little convoluted.
Not my favourite Horus Heresy short...
I have to admit, I wasn’t blown away. It was good to see what had become of Magnus and the others but the performances (its an audiobook) were perhaps a little too over the top and the scenes a little convoluted.
Not my favourite Horus Heresy short...
January 7, 2024
Kudos to both the voice actors for Magnus and Ahriman.
This short finds the Thousand Sons trying to lick their wounds after the burning of Prospero. As Magnus grows increasingly distant, Ahriman sets out upon his great work.
While Magnus searches the stars for potential allies, Ahriman shows horror at the burning of Calth and insists Horus can offer the Sons nothing. What will drive him to the rebellion?
This short finds the Thousand Sons trying to lick their wounds after the burning of Prospero. As Magnus grows increasingly distant, Ahriman sets out upon his great work.
While Magnus searches the stars for potential allies, Ahriman shows horror at the burning of Calth and insists Horus can offer the Sons nothing. What will drive him to the rebellion?
June 24, 2025
An insightful blurb into Ahriman and the main group of Thousand Sons post Prospero. This didn't really progress the things forward much, but gives some context on their relationship with Magnus during this transitional phase
Felt the dramatization was a little overdone and it took me out of the story more than it amplified it. Seems like a stepping stone to The Crimson King
Felt the dramatization was a little overdone and it took me out of the story more than it amplified it. Seems like a stepping stone to The Crimson King
July 2, 2022
A deeper than usual audio drama that folds in nicely to the Thousand Sons timeline, as well as giving us glimpses of other conflicts. Barely any action, and narrative heavy, which is where I tend to find these audios shine best.
January 18, 2025
Good short story following Magnus and ahriman.
Collected in legacies of betrayal book.
Collected in legacies of betrayal book.
January 19, 2025
As part of the horus heresy, this is a good added context story. As a stand-alone for someone who isn't that far into the series yet it lacks the spark of many of the other shorts within the series.
February 19, 2025
Fanfiction of fanfiction. Why did I have to buy this? I resent this plotless radioplay and I'm going to count it as a whole book for Goodreads because I deserve it.
January 3, 2026
Nice little short checking in on some of my personal favorites, Magnus the Red and Azek Ahriman. Not much occurs, but keeps you in the loop of the dilemmas facing the Thousand Sons.
July 31, 2025
After the burning of Prospero, the Thousand Sons have fled to the Warp. On the planet of the Sorcerers, Ahriman is studying to find a cure to the Flesh Change which is reaking havoc on his Legion. The Crimson King has locked himself away in his obsidian tower, many of his sons feel abandoned. Ahriman seeks out his father for answers, only to be taken on a tour through the Warp to view the unfolding Heresy.
Fun and atmospheric audio drama. I enjoyed seeing a young Ahriman seeking for a cure to the Flesh Change, knowing how that quest would continue into the 41st Millenium (see John French’s incredible Ahriman series). The relationship between Magnus and Ahriman is an interesting parallel to that of the Emperor and Magnus. Fathers and Sons making the same mistakes again and again.
I enjoy when the Heresy leans into mysticism and tragedy so this was a good time.
Fun and atmospheric audio drama. I enjoyed seeing a young Ahriman seeking for a cure to the Flesh Change, knowing how that quest would continue into the 41st Millenium (see John French’s incredible Ahriman series). The relationship between Magnus and Ahriman is an interesting parallel to that of the Emperor and Magnus. Fathers and Sons making the same mistakes again and again.
I enjoy when the Heresy leans into mysticism and tragedy so this was a good time.
March 7, 2014
You can read the full review over at my blog:
http://sonsofcorax.wordpress.com/2014...
For a good three years now, Black Library’s audio output has been quite impressive. Both in terms of quality and quantity. Thanks to the success of the Horus Heresy audios such as Gav Thorpe’s Raven’s Flight and James Swallow’s Garro duology, the publisher’s audio franchise has really taken off for the Warhammer 40,000 timeline as well. I’ve certainly been enjoying them thus far, though there have been a few along the way that I did not like, and would even consider to be among the lower-tier works put out by the authors. But I won’t deny that BL audios are generally so much damn fun to listen to.
A short while ago we got the latest Horus Heresy audio by Graham McNeill, in which he built on many of the different concepts he’d introduced in his amazing Thousand Sons-centric novel, A Thousand Sons. They are one of the least-covered legions, although they do get a leg-up since they’ve had a novel published about them. I loved A Thousand Sons when I read it three years back, and I enjoyed Thief of Revelations as well. As ever, the audio quality was superb, and the script was really good too, offering parallels to the relationships between the Emperor and the Primarchs that have been the cornerstone of the Heresy.
As I said, this audio drama builds on the novel A Thousand Sons. It is set quite a bit after the events of that novel, and it features the surviving leadership of the Thousand Sons legion, as represented by Ahzek Ahriman, Hathor Maat, Amon and Sobek. We even get a significant extended scene with the lord of the legion, Magnus himself. The Crimson King. One of the things that I loved about A Thousand Sons was how well Graham characterised the individual characters and the legion itself. With the audio, he chooses to focus on specific characters and we don’t see the legion itself.
Regardless, Graham tells a very personal story here. We first meet with Ahriman as he carries out sorceric experiments on a fellow legionnaire who has fallen to the curse of the flesh-change, the curse where a Thousand Sons Astartes begins to lose control of his psychic powers, no matter how major or minor, and eventually devolves into a mindless beast or even worse, consumed by the chaotic powers unleashed by the flesh-change. The flesh-change has long been the legion’s greatest weakness and Ahriman is still trying to fix it.
In the second half of the audio, we move on to a confrontation between Ahriman and Magnus as they talk about the former’s plans to cure the depleted legion of the flesh-change. This… confrontation then evolves into a story where the author draws parallels with the burdens that the Emperor placed on himself when deciding how much and what to reveal to his twenty gene-forged sons about the nature of Chaos, the truth of it as it were.
Throughout the entire 39-minute audio we have Ahriman as our primary protagonist. He keeps moving the story forward and this audio is very much his journey with macroscopic effects that will eventually permeate down through the ranks when he casts the Rubric of Ahriman, one of the greatest sorceric rituals ever cast and which will change the nature of the Thousand Sons legion for millennia.
http://sonsofcorax.wordpress.com/2014...
For a good three years now, Black Library’s audio output has been quite impressive. Both in terms of quality and quantity. Thanks to the success of the Horus Heresy audios such as Gav Thorpe’s Raven’s Flight and James Swallow’s Garro duology, the publisher’s audio franchise has really taken off for the Warhammer 40,000 timeline as well. I’ve certainly been enjoying them thus far, though there have been a few along the way that I did not like, and would even consider to be among the lower-tier works put out by the authors. But I won’t deny that BL audios are generally so much damn fun to listen to.
A short while ago we got the latest Horus Heresy audio by Graham McNeill, in which he built on many of the different concepts he’d introduced in his amazing Thousand Sons-centric novel, A Thousand Sons. They are one of the least-covered legions, although they do get a leg-up since they’ve had a novel published about them. I loved A Thousand Sons when I read it three years back, and I enjoyed Thief of Revelations as well. As ever, the audio quality was superb, and the script was really good too, offering parallels to the relationships between the Emperor and the Primarchs that have been the cornerstone of the Heresy.
As I said, this audio drama builds on the novel A Thousand Sons. It is set quite a bit after the events of that novel, and it features the surviving leadership of the Thousand Sons legion, as represented by Ahzek Ahriman, Hathor Maat, Amon and Sobek. We even get a significant extended scene with the lord of the legion, Magnus himself. The Crimson King. One of the things that I loved about A Thousand Sons was how well Graham characterised the individual characters and the legion itself. With the audio, he chooses to focus on specific characters and we don’t see the legion itself.
Regardless, Graham tells a very personal story here. We first meet with Ahriman as he carries out sorceric experiments on a fellow legionnaire who has fallen to the curse of the flesh-change, the curse where a Thousand Sons Astartes begins to lose control of his psychic powers, no matter how major or minor, and eventually devolves into a mindless beast or even worse, consumed by the chaotic powers unleashed by the flesh-change. The flesh-change has long been the legion’s greatest weakness and Ahriman is still trying to fix it.
In the second half of the audio, we move on to a confrontation between Ahriman and Magnus as they talk about the former’s plans to cure the depleted legion of the flesh-change. This… confrontation then evolves into a story where the author draws parallels with the burdens that the Emperor placed on himself when deciding how much and what to reveal to his twenty gene-forged sons about the nature of Chaos, the truth of it as it were.
Throughout the entire 39-minute audio we have Ahriman as our primary protagonist. He keeps moving the story forward and this audio is very much his journey with macroscopic effects that will eventually permeate down through the ranks when he casts the Rubric of Ahriman, one of the greatest sorceric rituals ever cast and which will change the nature of the Thousand Sons legion for millennia.
November 3, 2015
This audio drama should be considered as a bridge between Graham McNeill's novel A Thousand Sons and an upcoming novel called The Crimson King.
The story revolves around Ahzek Ahriman's attemps to cure the remnants of the Thousand Sons legion of the Flesh Change. This part of the plot will no doubt be the now legendary Rubicae often refference to in the 40k lore.
As a result of frustration borne of failure, Ahzek Ahriman converses with his Primarch Magnus pleading for his aid. From this conversation Magnus reveals that his abscence from his legion and by extension the civil war is as a result of seeking information, not wanting to be tricked again by his own arrogance and false visions.
Nothing is resolved at the end of this audio, rather the tale ends in a way setting the foundations of the plot that will be found in the forthcoming novel The Crimson King.
I would highly recomend this audio to whet the appetite for more to come later in the Horus Hersy series.
The story revolves around Ahzek Ahriman's attemps to cure the remnants of the Thousand Sons legion of the Flesh Change. This part of the plot will no doubt be the now legendary Rubicae often refference to in the 40k lore.
As a result of frustration borne of failure, Ahzek Ahriman converses with his Primarch Magnus pleading for his aid. From this conversation Magnus reveals that his abscence from his legion and by extension the civil war is as a result of seeking information, not wanting to be tricked again by his own arrogance and false visions.
Nothing is resolved at the end of this audio, rather the tale ends in a way setting the foundations of the plot that will be found in the forthcoming novel The Crimson King.
I would highly recomend this audio to whet the appetite for more to come later in the Horus Hersy series.
March 21, 2016
A very interesting audio drama showing that the Thousand Sons have been up to since the end of Graham McNeill's A Thousand Sons and Dan Abnett's Prospero Burns. Ahriman was the key player, and I really wish that the CDs came with scripts, as I love reading the scripts along with listening to the drama.
The Thousand Sons voice actors were great, though I feel their voices should have been a little deeper, with the exception of Magnus, The Crimson King.
The actual contents of the story were a sort of prologue I assume, the Ahriman's creation of the Rubicae and Magnus' choice to join Horus.
I cannot wait to see where the Thousand Sons go from here, or how they fair in the coming future.
The Thousand Sons voice actors were great, though I feel their voices should have been a little deeper, with the exception of Magnus, The Crimson King.
The actual contents of the story were a sort of prologue I assume, the Ahriman's creation of the Rubicae and Magnus' choice to join Horus.
I cannot wait to see where the Thousand Sons go from here, or how they fair in the coming future.
October 14, 2014
Released alongside Hunter’s Moon by Guy Haley, Thief of Revelations is Graham McNeill’s latest contribution to Black Library’s range of Horus Heresy audio dramas. Running to just under 40 minutes, it features the welcome return of Ahzek Ahriman, Chief Librarian of the Thousand Sons, tragic hero (anti-hero?) and without a doubt one of Warhammer 40,000’s greatest characters. We see Ahriman post-the burning of Prospero, living on the Planet of Sorcerers and working on what will become the infamous Rubric of Ahriman.
Read the rest of the review at http://trackofwords.wordpress.com/201...
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August 18, 2020
Another short that I enjoyed even more revisiting as an audio than I did reading it conventionally.
This renders the Thousand Sons in a suitably strange fashion; these are way more than Space Marines with the powers of Matilda, and this story does them and their sensibilities justice.
This renders the Thousand Sons in a suitably strange fashion; these are way more than Space Marines with the powers of Matilda, and this story does them and their sensibilities justice.
October 21, 2014
felt like a waste of time. maybe it's not my genra.
very good recording, bit its not enough
very good recording, bit its not enough
May 25, 2014
These horus heresy shorts are beginning to feel like deleted scenes on DVDs - they were cut for a reason. Too cryptic to be satisfying
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