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Ahriman: Exile
- Ahriman: Warhammer 40,000, Book 1
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
Book one in the Ahriman series.
Cast out of his Legion, the sorcerer Ahriman, who condemned the Thousand Sons to an eternity of damnation, plots his return to power and the destruction of his foes.
Listen to it because: experience the beginning of an epic, time-twisting saga of revenge, betrayal and attempted atonement. John French takes the Ahriman you know and love from the Horus Heresy in new and interesting directions, making him both deeply sympathetic and thoroughly evil.
The story: all is dust.... Spurned by his former brothers and his father, Magnus the Red, Ahriman is a wanderer, a sorcerer of Tzeentch whose actions condemned an entire Legion to an eternity of damnation. Once a vaunted servant of the Thousand Sons, he is now an outcast, a renegade who resides in the Eye of Terror. Ever scheming, he plots his return to power and the destruction of his enemies, an architect of fate and master of the warp.
Written by John French. Narrated by Mark Elstob.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-21
Forced and annoying voices
Reader fakes voices to the point of annoyance eg the navigator. Compared to other voice actors reading for Black Library.
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- Adam
- 08-10-20
A Gem
This book is awesome!
Not only does it give a rare look into what life is like for those who have fallen to chaos (it’s not fun) but it also follows one of the most interesting anti-heroes in the 40k universe. There is a good mix of action, sorcery and betrayal. If you loved the thousand sons novels and wondered what happened next, look no further. This book is so, so good.
A note about the narrator:
Audiobooks can live or die on the strength of their narrators.
I’ve listened to almost all the 30k/40k audio books now and I have to say that Mark Elstob ranks up there with veterans like Toby Longworth and Johnathan Keeble. I really enjoyed his character voices - he’s got the chaos sorcerers and the fallen space marines to a T. I am looking forward to his reading of the rest of this series!!
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- Joel Cassin
- 30-08-20
Great introduction to Ahriman
Shows Ahriman as more than a two dimensional character, explaining his contradictions and his desires.
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- paul sparks
- 09-09-20
Good story Great narration
Not a huge fan of thousand sons tales and when I have read or listened to stories of Ahriman they have been during the Horus Heresy and I prefer him as was not as is, what lifts this book to a higher level is the narration, Mark Elstob is simply outstanding and I probably would have given up on this book but for him narrating
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- Brian
- 12-09-20
Mediocre
I've read this trilogy of books and consider them to be average at best with a few decent plot twists and character arcs. However. the narration on this book kills it for me. The characters sound like pantomime villains and have excruciatingly nasal voices. I honestly found it hard to take the story in and struggled to finish this. The recent choice of narrators for Black Library novels seems to be very lacklustre and ill-thought out. It simply didn't suit this type of story.
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- Istvan Madarasz
- 04-10-23
Awesome story with some bad voice acting
I really enjoyed the story, it paints very colorful pictures of battles, scenes and characters. The narration is great, it has emotion, the actor's normal voice is enjoyable. The part that sucks is the voice acting. Ahriman's voice is a bit annoying, with a hint of "scheming villan" forced into it. The female techpriest's voice makes you want to claw your ears out. The overacted "Gollum-like" tone of one of the chaos sorcerer is unbearable. Why are you trying to imitate echoing or reverbing voices instead of adding digital effects? Some additional voice actors would have solved these issues.
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- Oliver B.
- 26-10-20
Awesome
A great book with a fantastic audio performance, captures many concepts so well especially to do with the warp in 40k
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- Ante
- 25-02-23
A good look into Ahriman
In this book you get a really good look into what Ahrimans thought process is. Also you get to see him grow immensely and find himself after the ruins of the rubric. This is a really good book with a good supporting cast and a great narrator
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- Marcin
- 05-02-24
The reader has about 1687 voices!
Great story, a must be for Thousand Sons enthusiasts. And it's being read by one man with about 1963 voices. Give or take... 7. A completely mind blowing performance.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-04-24
very good book
it's an amazing book Loved the story as a whole i just don't think that the narrator was right for the book and I used the same couple of voices which made me confused some characters together
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