Black Library Starts New Age of Sigmar Series With Spear of Shadows
September 4, 2017 by dracs
Black Library has released the first in a new trilogy set in Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Set off on the hunt for Eight Lamentations: Spear of Shadows.
This first instalment in the Eight Lamentations series by Josh Reynolds sees a dwarf, a human and a vampire drawn together to hunt for the second of eight legendary weapons, forged in ages past by Khorne's own smiths.
In a recent interview with Warhammer Community, Reynolds introduced us to some of the things we can expect to find in the book, including:
"... an opportunistic Kharadron merchant-turned-smuggler, a demigryph-riding knight, a Freeguilder-turned-sellsword, a disturbingly serene Sigmarite priestess, a cunning Khornate Deathbringer, a philosophical Tzeentchian Sorcerer, raven-assassins, a lunatic Skaven warlock-engineer and possibly the stupidest Verminlord ever spawned.
Also, there is a giant, flying shark."
I haven't been the biggest fan of Age of Sigmar in the past, specifically because of its background. However, this questing set up with interesting characters may well be the way in I've been looking for.
I think the flying shark may have sold me.
Do you like the sound of Spear of Shadows? Does it tempt you into Age of Sigmar's world?
"Hunt for eight legendary weapons, forged in ages past by Khorne's own smiths..."
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I have a different story for you…
There was once a company that decided to flush down the toilet 30 years worth of lore so that they could copyright the living daylights out of the new world they created…
.. unfortunately they could not copyright good taste.
The End 🙂
And angered many who were not spending their money with them anyway, and made loads of profits assuring the company could survive. The end.
Some of these new AoS are suppose to be quite good / a bunch of fun to read.
“the stupidest Verminlord ever spawned”
the return of an elevated Thanquol? He was always Skaven’s own worst enemy, coming up with plans and then sabotaging them in case one of his own minions got too much credit.
I’m seeing a few possible parallels to Felix and Gotrek lol. Although that’s not necessarily a bad thing, Age of Sigmar has been crying out for something like Felix and Gotrek since its inception. From the outset I could see what they were trying to do and it’s not a bad concept. However what it lacked, and what it still lacks, is a frame of reference. It needs books like this that tell the story of people who are just trying to make their way in the world (or rather worlds). Not necessarily grand heroes or gods, just regular folks… Read more »
As a long-time Warhammer fan, it’s really interesting to see the AoS setting develop. It was clear that they wrote themselves into corner with Old World, and hopefully the wider scope of the high-fantasy AoS setting will let them experiment more. The existing novels were usually of the expected “quick fun” quality of Black Library, but focused almost solely on the Shinyboys. I’m hoping that books focusing on other factions will bring more life to the background.
AoS really needs more grounded perspective to it’s world to get attention of those of us that need something like that that WHF lore had to get some interest to AoS lore and so far it has been lacking that. This one looks like it could help to fix that in some degree.
City of Secrets was the first book to deal with the mortal cities. There were Stormcast in it, but mostly at the end. Fun read.
Agreed on the lack of a frame of reference. It’s hard to picture how people live in a land of fire.
Hoping the Stormcast vs Chaos thing fades a bit into the background. Lots of other cool stuff going on.
I like Josh Reynolds’s Age of Sigmar fiction . His “Plauge Garden” and “Quest for Nagash” audio dramas are excellent and he builds in lots of background snippets as he goes. I have already pre-ordered this one.
I’m super excited for this book. If I don’t enjoy it, I will have learned something new about the setting. If I do enjoy it I will keep following the series.
I’m loving Age of Sigmar right now!
As a Death player, I am especially interested to see how the Soulblight Vampire character is depicted in this title. I have heard pretty good things a bout a lot of the AoS fiction released to date, though I haven’t gotten around top reading much of it myself yet. I’ll have to rectify that.