Bitter End

Warhammer 40,000

by Sarah Cawkwell

Following the Star Phantoms' attack on the Palace of Thorns, a grievously injured Huron Blackheart survives only through making a pact with a mysterious creature known as the hamadrya. While the hamadrya imbues Huron with its strength and protection, the further from the Maelstrom he travels, the weaker its blessings become. What solution can Huron find for this conundrum, and, more importantly, what price will he have to pay for it?

Read it because
One of the enduring mysteries of Warhammer 40,000 gets some just what is the strange creature that follows Huron Blackheart around? Don't expect a definitive answer, but rely on a huge amount of bloodshed and villainy as he seeks to secure its services wherever he goes.

Genres: 40k, Science Fiction

18 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2011

About the author

A freelance writer based in the north east of England, Sarah is old enough to know better, but still young enough not to care. When not slaving away over a hot keyboard, Sarah's hobbies include reading everything and anything, running around in fields with swords screaming incomprehensibly, and having her soul slowly sucked dry by online games. Her minimum bribe level is one chocolate orange.

Reviews

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes, Huron Blackheart kept his word.
But this was not one of those times.

When the Tyrant of Badab needs a powerful soul to feed his hamadrya, the parasitic familiar that aliments and keeps him alive, Lufgt Huron seal a pact with the Heterodox, a cabal of powerful ex-Word Bearers chaos sorcerers, and unleashes his wrath on an unlucky convent of Sisters of Battle.



A very good action packed e-short by Sarah Cawkwell, a nice insight about Huron Blackheart cunning and villainess but the final twist was not a real surprise for me.

[Griffin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting characters and potential, but poor writing made this not as good as it could’ve been. The dialogue is a bit stilted and words are often repeated when not having purple prose descriptions. You have a couple of sentences like this “‘I confess I’ve heard rumors,’ he confessed”. My interest in the characters involved may be giving this a higher rating than it should be, but I’m rounding up. Ended up being a simple story with a obvious twist and not much depth. Do I regret reading it, no, but it could’ve been much better in the hands of another writer I think