Issue 2 – Summer 2012 TThhee EEyyee ooff TTeerrrroorr Includes Resources and Information on the Occulis Terribilis The Nemean Campaign With Index Astartes Articles for the Steel Dogs, the Lions of Alba, and the Heralds of Light Painting and Modelling Articles And An Interview with Author Aaron Dembski- Bowden 0 Introduction & Contents This is the second issue of the Legio Imprint, the Introduction & Contents 1 B&C’s semi-regular attempt to show the board members all the stuff they miss by hiding in their Interview: Aaron Dembski -Bowden 2 particular corners of the forum – and show off some THE EYE OF TERROR new stuff into the bargain. An Introduction to the Eye of Terror 6 This issue focuses around the Eye of Terror, the centre The Black Crusades 12 for so many of the events of 40K (especially power- Beast Marines Tutorials 17 armoured events). There’s a lot to the Eye of Terror, A Guide to Creating Mutations 23 and no e-zine could really be up to the task. Still, the Renegade Chapters 26 B&C did its best, with fluff articles, modelling Paths of Glory: Chaos Legion Rules 34 tutorials, painting tutorials, special rules, and a fully realized campaign with background, scenarios and The Making of Magmatrax 41 advice for adapting it to your needs. There’s also an The Astartes Praeses 47 exclusive interview with Black Library luminary Codex: Exorcists 55 Aaron Dembski-Bowden, where he talks about the Codex: Iron Hands 60 inner workings of the Black Library. THE NEMEAN CAMPAIGN The issue is divided into two major sections. First is The Steel Dogs 68 the Eye of Terror section, which provides background The Heralds of Light 79 information on the Eye and many of its denizens. There’s an exploration of just what the Eye of Terror The Lions of Alba 88 is, overviews of the Black Crusades and the Astartes Going on a Lion Hunt: 97 Praeses, and a variety of Eye-related modelling The Nemean Campaign articles. There are also three different sets of special The Battle of Jamshyd’s World 105 rules – one for the various Chaos Legions and one each for the Exorcists and Iron Hands Chapters – both of Aftermath 112 whom make their homes near the Eye. Credits & Acknowledgements 115 Second is the Nemean Campaign section, which covers a B&C-created campaign around the Eye of Terror – a war prompted by honour, pride, and vengeance. Heady stuff – and all created on the B&C. In addition to the background articles on the Chapters and the campaign, there’s also a complete set of scenarios, a battle report, and a guide to adapting the campaign for your purposes. There’s lots of original fluff, original ideas, original interpretations and original artwork, and even what you’ve already seen before has been polished and added to. Hopefully you’ll enjoy reading it as much as the team enjoyed producing it. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard on this and to all of you who will now read it. THE EYE OF TERROR Octavulg – Editor 1 One of the Black Library’s most popular authors and one of the B&C’s most prolific luminaries, A D-B graciously agreed to answer some questions after the application of sufficiently gratuitous flattery. His answers are interesting and provide insight into both the Black Legio Library and Games Workshop. Armour 9 landed on the doorstep. What is the process of Imprint writing and researching a It occasionally includes stuff that's not novel for the Black Library? yet published, though you tend to have Um. I'll cover that later. If I do it to be in GWHQ to get a look at that. now, I'll have to write "See Question But I saw the Blood Angels codex ages 1" about four times. before it hit the shelves, for example. And I saw the photocopied pages of the You’ve mentioned a GW next codex release, like, months and months ago. That's a rarity, but it's nice Archive in the past. Could you explain it to us? to pretend you're as cool as the Design Studio guys for a few minutes while Sure. On a practical level, dealing you read that stuff. with the archive goes a little like this: To: Are Black Library novels [email protected] included in the Archive? From: Yeah. Though we get all of them for [email protected] free, anyway – don't usually need to ask. Interview: Dear whomever gets this email, Does the archive give you Aaron I need X information for novel Y. Can access to super-secret you send everything they have in the archives about it? Ta. background material no one Dembski- else sees? Then, the very next day you get a Not so much. It gives you access to Bowden chunky A2-sized envelope with a stuff no one has seen in a long time whole bunch of colour photocopies (Black Legion Chaplains and relating to everything you asked for. Techmarines with Spawngoads... Dreadnoughts called 'Chuck'...), and it I'm usually aware of exactly what I'll gives you an occasional glance at need, so I'll list off specific references something unreleased if it pertains to like "I know Slaves to Darkness has your project. some jazz on the old units Chaos Marines used in the 80s... Can you That said, the Horus Heresy meetings send me a copy of those pages?" are the exception that proves (okay, completely breaks) this rule. In those, Essentially, the archive is everything we're sat around a table with Alan by Games Workshop and its subsidiaries Merrett, the overseer of Games (Black Library and Forge World) Workshop's entire intellectual property. Librarium have published. F’rex, for the novel And he's not just the IP manager; this I'm working on right now, I wanted to is also the guy that invented most of Staff and see what Forge World had done on the Horus Heresy's events as we know the Marines Errant –- because there's them today. So at HH meetings, we're A D-B a vague subplot where the Night able to see any relevant new codices Lords are essentially hanging out while they're still basically printed with the Red Corsairs when Huron Word.docs, and we're the ones has a crack at killing the Chapter off deciding the Imperium's history. [Yes, this interview was a while ago. That's... I mean, Jesus, even typing that Sorry, A D-B – Ed]. A day later, to explain it feels cool. When you're sat colour photocopies from Imperial in the room, it's absolutely killer. The 2 other guys are a bit cooler and more discussing the (thankfully, collected about the whole thing. I can almost always very positive) barely remember my name at the time, reviews I get there. But a lot of though. writers really don't much care, and they're probably right in How much older material is feeling that way. Reviews by contained in them (like the your Average Joe can range from 'insightful' to 'missing the Starchild theory, for point by a ball-aching mile', and example)? all too often, it's the latter. Everything, ever. Again, while I've been more Though, as I recall from my tender fortunate than luck should allow, youth, the Starchild cra– uh, “theory”, it's a general thing inherent in wasn't exactly widespread. the semi-anonymous and opinionated nature of online Could you walk us through the reviews. Look at any Amazon editorial process on a Black review of a TV show, book or movie that you like. Now check Library novel? out all the people that missed the The full deal goes like this: point by a bajillion miles. 1. Synopsis pitch. Yeah, exactly. It's not always 2. First draft. sane, let alone valid. 3. Editor feedback, usually storyline- based and typo catching. Black Library is like any other 4. Second draft. publisher, in that its editors and 5. Copy editor gets it; catches typos staff have opinions of their own. and stuff. You've got mass-marketed, 6. Lore reader gets it; sends back hugely advertised stuff that a lot feedback on any background of them might think simply Our subject in both his forms – discrepancies. sucks, and you've got lesser DaemonPrinceDargor 7. Production turn it into a formatted known authors that they really .pdf file. wish would break out of the pack. everything is as good as it can be, but 8. Final edit, where you check it over it's not exactly a disaster if it's not. again yourself. The most boring I will say this: in the past, BL haven't That has nothing to do with Back part. You're usually sick of the sight had a great record with heavily Library's production, really. It's of it by now. advertising certain authors. In recent inherent in all types of media. 9. Print. memory, they made a fuss out of a couple of authors in particular who've You might be reading this and thinking ended up receiving very mediocre I'm very sceptical. I'm really not. I'm Does a negative or positive just honest. reaction to a book get noticed reviews. They do notice that, but they also know reviews are fleeting. Give at the Black Library? something an amazing cover and a How detailed a plot/concept Okay, now I need to tread carefully.