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Umm, yes do care to explain, as I remember Konrad was the only one in the throne room, and here is a quote of his when he met M'Shen.
"Your presence does not surprise me, Assassin. I have known of you ever since your craft entered the Eastern Fringes. Why did I not have you killed? Because your mission and the act you are about to commit proves the truth of all I have ever said or done. I merely punished those who had wronged, just as your false Emperor now seeks to punish me. Death is nothing compared to vindication."
and as I said earlier, he let himself be killed, though who knows if he was killed or not as the video feeds had cut off before the fight was finish, but considering he hasn't shown up yet, and as he going to let himself be killed. As he saw himself as a murderous and corrupt villain, the very thing he sought to destroy.
Also considering it was Sahaal that thought the Emperor betrayed them didn't mean he did, as it was his perspective not the Night Haunter.

*rubs forehead*Alright, the book was from Sahaal's point of veiw, he believed they were betrayed, as for Curze, sure he may have felt betrayed, though as I remember it wasn't because of the Emperor more of the responses he got when he confided with the other primarches over his homeworld, as I remember the assassins came after the Siege of Terra, the Night lords continued to attack the Emperor instead of fracturing, however, their tactics seemed to change, betraying a self-destructive desperation. The Emperor himself, wishing to disband the Night Lords forever, dispatched half the Callidus Temple of assassins, so really I don't see how the Emperor betrayed Konrad, as the man going to let himself be killed, and like above their tactics speak for themselves, the Emperor didn't need a legion of criminals and murders running about.
Anyways, on a different topic, has anyone read the Deus series, the Blood Angel books?

just finished fifteen hours. Shweet.

Anyone else psyched for the new gaunt's ghosts book, Blood Pact?

I've been a big fan of the tanith first, and i think that Abnett did a great job with the chaos baddies. Especially in the novels Traitor General, His last command and Only In Death. It really put some much needed character into the masses of faceless cultists in a universe flooded with stories of daemons and champions.

I always loved the way the dude at my game store made a tanith force by mishmashing the necromunda minis with empire militia, cadian and catachan bits to made a wholly unique regiment. add a few greenstuff cloaks and and all the original tanith minis and you've got an awesome army. All infantry too, heavy weapon support squads with tread-fethers and sniper rifles and the like.

But a whole novel on the blood pact...
I love those khorny bastards. I was even thinking of doing Urlock Gaur and a blood pact entourage using the rules of an inquisitor. Have a few blood pact as stormtroopers and a few crased khornate fanatics as guardsmen. I could even convert a few stalk tanks to use as sentinels. I bet an AT-70 reaver could use Russ rules.

Wait, Blood Pact is all about the Blood Pact, or does Gaunt and the Tanith First show up in the book?

I heard that Stanley Kubrick was interested in making a movie out of the Inquisitor book by Ian Watson whee

Not really a hack, but he does make a good living out of writing Flashman in space. And he does do a fair amount of format writing, each Cain book has the same plot points, the same remarks, the same flow of the story. Same same same. Even I could write Cain books so predictable are his! Cain is sadly going down the same road as the Ghosts, they were fun when they first started out but is now becoming dull and more (TOO MUCH) of the same. Unlike Mitchell Abnett writes good fiction for the most part to redeem himself, like Ravenor, Eisenhorn, the Horus Heresy and other novels that aren't about the Ghosts. Mitchell has a rather predictable but somewhat entertaining fantasy trilogy to his name and a rather interesting but really slow in pace Dark Heresy series in the making.