for The Roboutian Heresy4/26 c84 Guest
Dios te bendiga Jesús te amo ️ te amo
Dios te bendiga Jesús te amo ️ te amo
4/16 c84 
3RohanVos
Amazing chapter as always, once i started I could not stop! Looking forward to the necrons entering the scene.
3RohanVosAmazing chapter as always, once i started I could not stop! Looking forward to the necrons entering the scene.
4/14 c84 1killrsloth
dang another valiant defeat/phyric victory for the empire. I keep reading hoping that this time this time chaos will be dealt a massive blow in the same way its given us. the third is dead, olympia is lost, the emperor slain, and now the enemy has gained powerful tools. at this point in time id be okay if the orks won Armageddon if they just take the fight to chaos cause damn we cant catch a break
1killrslothdang another valiant defeat/phyric victory for the empire. I keep reading hoping that this time this time chaos will be dealt a massive blow in the same way its given us. the third is dead, olympia is lost, the emperor slain, and now the enemy has gained powerful tools. at this point in time id be okay if the orks won Armageddon if they just take the fight to chaos cause damn we cant catch a break
3/28 c1 Juliasimon77
A masterwork of storytelling that pulses with raw intensity, weaving threads of fate , longing, and quiet revelation into an unforgettable tapestry. Every character breathes with a depth that defies the page flawed yet luminous, their struggles carving echoes of our own joys and sorrows. The prose is a symphony: elegant yet unforced, each word chosen with the precision of an artist shaping light and shadow. Scenes unfold with a cinematic grace moments of hushed vulnerability giving way to thunderous emotion, leaving an imprint that lingers long after the final passage. Neither confined by genre nor bound by convention, this is a story that transcends, a journey that doesn’t just unfold but unravels, drawing the reader into a world at once distant and deeply intimate. It is not merely read it is felt, an experience to be carried, pondered, and revisited like a beloved relic of time itself.
A masterwork of storytelling that pulses with raw intensity, weaving threads of fate , longing, and quiet revelation into an unforgettable tapestry. Every character breathes with a depth that defies the page flawed yet luminous, their struggles carving echoes of our own joys and sorrows. The prose is a symphony: elegant yet unforced, each word chosen with the precision of an artist shaping light and shadow. Scenes unfold with a cinematic grace moments of hushed vulnerability giving way to thunderous emotion, leaving an imprint that lingers long after the final passage. Neither confined by genre nor bound by convention, this is a story that transcends, a journey that doesn’t just unfold but unravels, drawing the reader into a world at once distant and deeply intimate. It is not merely read it is felt, an experience to be carried, pondered, and revisited like a beloved relic of time itself.
3/24 c82 2Maternova
So for context: I am the translator of the Roboutian Heresy into Chinese. The entire thing. At least, the only one that I know of.
I was pinged to hell by folks saying "RH updated, when do we get a translation" as I lay sick in bed last week, only for chat to quickly become "Guilliman got bombed AGAIN?" And honestly I dreaded reading this chapter, based on the negative feedback folks were generating based off of machine translation.
Anyhow, I got better and started reading. To put it bluntly, this chapter is bad. Maybe not as bad as I expected, but still bad.
First we get our new Hero of the Chapter, which unlike Ciaphas Cain, takes up around 10% of this single chapter from introduction to KIA. For readers who don't know, Maximilian Schreiber is the newest in Zahariel's very long line of WH Fantasy cameos, starting at least from Khalida all the way back in Terathalion. Max in WHF/TOW was an Alchemist, a wizard of metal, so it isn't surprising for his cameo to fight on a Forge World. The problem lies in - unlike our other friend, Felix, and surprisingly Gotrek has not appeared in this chapter - Max shows up way too late and gives off way too strong 'disposable character' vibes. What was the point of having him over, really? What is the point of detailing the fall of Volundr so far beyond that of Phlegeton? To give Malakai (yes, this is on purpose) an italics section?
Then I echo Zahariel's own sentiments: the 40K galaxy does have a lot of characters and plot points, which ends up making this chapter feel all over the place. I guess the thing about a planet-wide warzone is that battlefields feel disconnected. Even as over half of the chapter covers the war on Olympia, the results of the battles barely impact each other. Unlike the also 3-chapter arc of Macragge, where most of the fighting all over the place was wrapped up and we are focused on Robby in Chapter 3, this chapter rushes things in an attempt to end the arc. Despite that, making so that the destruction of Olympia was metaphysically killing Perturabo could tie up individual battles with Perturabo's death, which leads to my third problem.
Perturabo was supposed to die in this chapter, honestly. He is the wall, The Wall even. A stationary definition whose fall would symbol the dawn of the new age as surely as the death of the Emperor Himself. I like RH Perty, but from the moment he showed up I was expecting him to die. He was facing Robby Returned, he suffered serious injuries and was on life support, clearly this was all building up to -
And then he doesn't. I guess he must live another day to face Dorn and then die?
Finally we come to Roboute Guilliman, the myth, the legend that spawned this alternate heresy over a decade ago, so very long after the Dornian Heresy Zahariel salutes on-and-off had spiralled into incoherence and the second issue of the DH Legions fanzine simply refuses to show. To paraphrase our long-gone friend Aeonid Thiel (RIP):
"First Alpharius on Eskrador, then Thiel on Macragge, and now Perturabo on Olympia. Tell me, oh mighty Dark Master of Chaos. How does it feel to be beaten by the same trick, thrice?"
The problem with Robot Gorillaman tanking bombs like breakfast lies in making him look stupid. In other works, even in canon, this problem could be tanked, absorbed by bringing other characters into focus. In the RH, Rowboat Girlyman looking stupid - consistently - damages the meta structure of the story because he is the Arch-Traitor. Yes, Robert Gullible wasn't a charisma-heavy Arch-Traitor like canon Horus, but there is a difference between a calculating but uncharismatic warlord and Roberto Buffoon. This chapter, pitting two Primarchs against each other, should have ended no other way than with the death of one: if not Perty, then the death of Roman Grizzlyman would be a very powerful symbolic echo of the death of the Emperor. The overlords of the First War have both fallen, and the various powers and players in the next Age must adapt to this brave new world.
To consult canon on the potential relevant damage this chapter could do to not only Rodent Guillotine but also the entire Traitor cause, one need not look any further than The End and the Death Part 3, wherein Horus Lupercal's deconstruction makes a joke of, if not the loyalists, due to the severe consequences of their failure, then at least Horus himself and the other Traitors, who were reduced from following an ambitious and charismatic warlord gunning for the leadership of all Mankind to an Emperor-sexual mental patient whose unique sexuality has survived the damage to his soul and psyche. Whilst Ramrod Gigabyte has not suffered fate so Unkind (ha!), the more he seems to be an idiot, the more this outflow damages the Traitors as a whole.
Hopefully, in future updates, Roboute Guilliman would stop his slide towards idiotic incompetence and be a fitting titular Big Bad for the Roboutian Heresy.
Anyhow, time to get translating.
2MaternovaSo for context: I am the translator of the Roboutian Heresy into Chinese. The entire thing. At least, the only one that I know of.
I was pinged to hell by folks saying "RH updated, when do we get a translation" as I lay sick in bed last week, only for chat to quickly become "Guilliman got bombed AGAIN?" And honestly I dreaded reading this chapter, based on the negative feedback folks were generating based off of machine translation.
Anyhow, I got better and started reading. To put it bluntly, this chapter is bad. Maybe not as bad as I expected, but still bad.
First we get our new Hero of the Chapter, which unlike Ciaphas Cain, takes up around 10% of this single chapter from introduction to KIA. For readers who don't know, Maximilian Schreiber is the newest in Zahariel's very long line of WH Fantasy cameos, starting at least from Khalida all the way back in Terathalion. Max in WHF/TOW was an Alchemist, a wizard of metal, so it isn't surprising for his cameo to fight on a Forge World. The problem lies in - unlike our other friend, Felix, and surprisingly Gotrek has not appeared in this chapter - Max shows up way too late and gives off way too strong 'disposable character' vibes. What was the point of having him over, really? What is the point of detailing the fall of Volundr so far beyond that of Phlegeton? To give Malakai (yes, this is on purpose) an italics section?
Then I echo Zahariel's own sentiments: the 40K galaxy does have a lot of characters and plot points, which ends up making this chapter feel all over the place. I guess the thing about a planet-wide warzone is that battlefields feel disconnected. Even as over half of the chapter covers the war on Olympia, the results of the battles barely impact each other. Unlike the also 3-chapter arc of Macragge, where most of the fighting all over the place was wrapped up and we are focused on Robby in Chapter 3, this chapter rushes things in an attempt to end the arc. Despite that, making so that the destruction of Olympia was metaphysically killing Perturabo could tie up individual battles with Perturabo's death, which leads to my third problem.
Perturabo was supposed to die in this chapter, honestly. He is the wall, The Wall even. A stationary definition whose fall would symbol the dawn of the new age as surely as the death of the Emperor Himself. I like RH Perty, but from the moment he showed up I was expecting him to die. He was facing Robby Returned, he suffered serious injuries and was on life support, clearly this was all building up to -
And then he doesn't. I guess he must live another day to face Dorn and then die?
Finally we come to Roboute Guilliman, the myth, the legend that spawned this alternate heresy over a decade ago, so very long after the Dornian Heresy Zahariel salutes on-and-off had spiralled into incoherence and the second issue of the DH Legions fanzine simply refuses to show. To paraphrase our long-gone friend Aeonid Thiel (RIP):
"First Alpharius on Eskrador, then Thiel on Macragge, and now Perturabo on Olympia. Tell me, oh mighty Dark Master of Chaos. How does it feel to be beaten by the same trick, thrice?"
The problem with Robot Gorillaman tanking bombs like breakfast lies in making him look stupid. In other works, even in canon, this problem could be tanked, absorbed by bringing other characters into focus. In the RH, Rowboat Girlyman looking stupid - consistently - damages the meta structure of the story because he is the Arch-Traitor. Yes, Robert Gullible wasn't a charisma-heavy Arch-Traitor like canon Horus, but there is a difference between a calculating but uncharismatic warlord and Roberto Buffoon. This chapter, pitting two Primarchs against each other, should have ended no other way than with the death of one: if not Perty, then the death of Roman Grizzlyman would be a very powerful symbolic echo of the death of the Emperor. The overlords of the First War have both fallen, and the various powers and players in the next Age must adapt to this brave new world.
To consult canon on the potential relevant damage this chapter could do to not only Rodent Guillotine but also the entire Traitor cause, one need not look any further than The End and the Death Part 3, wherein Horus Lupercal's deconstruction makes a joke of, if not the loyalists, due to the severe consequences of their failure, then at least Horus himself and the other Traitors, who were reduced from following an ambitious and charismatic warlord gunning for the leadership of all Mankind to an Emperor-sexual mental patient whose unique sexuality has survived the damage to his soul and psyche. Whilst Ramrod Gigabyte has not suffered fate so Unkind (ha!), the more he seems to be an idiot, the more this outflow damages the Traitors as a whole.
Hopefully, in future updates, Roboute Guilliman would stop his slide towards idiotic incompetence and be a fitting titular Big Bad for the Roboutian Heresy.
Anyhow, time to get translating.
3/23 c83 33neverdie
Otro gran capitulo, aunque es una lastima que sea tan corto. Gracias por compartirlo.
33neverdieOtro gran capitulo, aunque es una lastima que sea tan corto. Gracias por compartirlo.
3/19 c1 anonymous
this is amazing! keep up the good work!
this is amazing! keep up the good work!
3/11 c82 3RohanVos
Wow! Simply wow! Perturabo always making the hard choices. I look forward for what is to come! For a moment I thought it would Perturabo emerging from the dreadnaught healed by the emperor to face the arch traitor but your take was much more satisfying!
3RohanVosWow! Simply wow! Perturabo always making the hard choices. I look forward for what is to come! For a moment I thought it would Perturabo emerging from the dreadnaught healed by the emperor to face the arch traitor but your take was much more satisfying!
3/10 c11 Guest
You referenced haunts ghosts in chapter 11 didn’t you?
You referenced haunts ghosts in chapter 11 didn’t you?
3/9 c82 33neverdie
Creo que hay un problema, los Tau se supone que no tienen capacidad disforme, asi que los Tau no van a poder irse con el resto de los Imperiales, y esa se supone era la razón por la cual les tomo tanto tiempo viajar desde su reino hasta Olimpya.
Por otra parte es la segunda ves que usa una bomba que saca del tiempo a su objetivo, como ultimo recurso para evitar la catástrofe, solo que esta vez es a una escala muy grande. Todo un planeta a sido expulsado del continuo espacio tiempo... ¿Eso significa que los sobrevivientes de Olympia ahora están a la deriva en una galaxia que se mueve?
33neverdieCreo que hay un problema, los Tau se supone que no tienen capacidad disforme, asi que los Tau no van a poder irse con el resto de los Imperiales, y esa se supone era la razón por la cual les tomo tanto tiempo viajar desde su reino hasta Olimpya.
Por otra parte es la segunda ves que usa una bomba que saca del tiempo a su objetivo, como ultimo recurso para evitar la catástrofe, solo que esta vez es a una escala muy grande. Todo un planeta a sido expulsado del continuo espacio tiempo... ¿Eso significa que los sobrevivientes de Olympia ahora están a la deriva en una galaxia que se mueve?
3/9 c82 Orion B
a fair concern but damn, you putting every arc in a chapter may result in a rushed ending. ah well, its not like youre getting paid for this anyway. thanks for writing!
a fair concern but damn, you putting every arc in a chapter may result in a rushed ending. ah well, its not like youre getting paid for this anyway. thanks for writing!