Dark Son

Warhammer 40,000

by Gav Thorpe

Fear drives the drukhari – fear of She Who Thirsts, the monstrous Chaos God who would consume their souls. For the incubus Kolidaran, that fear drives him, like all his kind, down dark paths and into committing terrible acts to stave Slaanesh's jaws away from his soul. But when an attack on their Craftworlder kin leads to Kolidaran being imprisoned on Alaitoc, he begins to see that there might be another, better way to secure his soul, and takes his first steps on the Path of the Warrior…

Read it because

It's a companion piece to Gav's Eldar Path series, exploring the fluidity of aeldari society and the way in which even the most depraved and degraded members of their race can find redemption through the Paths followed by the Craftworlders.

Genres: Science Fiction, 40k, Short Stories

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 31, 2017

About the author

Gav spent 14 years as a developer for Games Workshop, and started writing novels and short stories in the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 when the Black Library imprint was launched in 1997.

He continues to write for Black Library, and his first 'homegrown' novel series The Crown of the Blood has been released via Angry Robot.

Currently living in Nottingham, Gav shares his home with his loving and very understanding partner - Kez, and their beautiful little boy - Sammy.

Reviews

[Michael Dodd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dark Eldar incubus Kolidaran has spent his entire life fighting – to survive, to find the incubi shrine, to keep his soul safe from She Who Thirsts – but is there another option for survival, one that the Commorraghans have never considered?

It’s straightaway interesting to read about two aspects of eldar society in a single story. Nicely paced and focused, with enough action to please fight fans whilst digging into the meat of the core concept to deliver an intriguing story, this is impressive stuff.

Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2017/07/...

[Przemek0980 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an underrated gem.

The main character is up there with Morr and Visarch as some of the most interesting Incubi in the lore, the situation in which he found himself is very unique and the whole "transition" is shown very well.

I feel like Gav Thrope has more fun writting Dark Eldar than Craftworld Eldar. Which is weird when you remember that he wrote majority of Asuryani books but hey, it works well for this one.

[An Honest Puck · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Gav Thorpe eldar piece of writing I actually enjoyed?Shocker.

Compared to the author's craftworld works, this was a marvelous read.
As short as it was, it was impactful and emotional.

[Ulzeta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite boring.

[Stephan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never did like Path of the Eldar, but this is a nice spinoff as well as background material for one of the more interesting characters in the first book.