Extra: Explanation of Locke's Story

The purpose of this article is to explain some issues about Loken. I believe everyone has discovered that I have rewritten and modified Loken's story. Today's article hopes to give a little explanation without taking up updates, so that You readers will understand why I rewrote it.

First of all, let me elaborate on my consistent position. Do not pursue the so-called "official Warhammer novel setting". If there is one thing that is constant about GW and will not eat books, it is that GW does not have any official novel setting concept. The Black Library is a collective creation, and there is no so-called official plot at all.

Different authors may completely contradict each other when writing books, and it is not uncommon for the plot to be the other way around. Among them, the one who was the most deceived was the Emperor. He repeatedly jumped between the evil tyrant and the one who was dedicated to all mankind. Regarding the Emperor, Whether or not the Primarchs and Space Marines should be killed after the Crusade is also conflicting.

For example, in "Lords of Mankind" it is said that the Emperor is preparing to kill the Space Marines and Primarchs like the Thunder Warriors, but in the latest "Horus Heresy" series it has become that the Emperor gives each of his sons They all built palaces and prepared to take them to retire together after the expedition.

Both are officially produced novels, but they say completely opposite things about the same thing, and GW will never make any official determination on this issue, so I have always advocated not pursuing the so-called official authoritative content of Warhammer, because there is none.

I know some readers will ask the question "Don't GW also have authorized authors?" Yes, the Black Library does have some "official authors" who have been responsible for writing books for a long time, but the most classic example is the infamous "Lan Ancestor" "The bunch of magical content written by Matt Ward during the period, such as stories such as Calgar holding an undead electric tower and hitting people, and Sicarius using a grenade to kill the Star God, are all written by the official author.

After Matt Ward resigned, the new George Kellan directly overturned most of Matt's settings and simply started reading the book. They are both official authors, but this is the characteristic of GW, so I hope everyone can understand this.

For example, some readers said before that I made the hive gang's firepower too strong, but in fact the hive gang's firepower has been strengthened by the epic level. In the officially authorized production and distribution of "Necromunda" and "Undertide", it became Melt, plasma and various explosive bombs are running all over the ground. Please remember that this is the hive gang in the officially authorized game, so this is not me "messing around" but the official is already "messing around". "But this is also the norm for GW.

A similar thing happened to the Astra Militarum before. The previous army was a group of pathetic militiamen without tanks or artillery. However, after George Kellan rewrote the Astra Militarum, it has stronger firepower. More than ten times, it has become a torrent of steel and cannons, so don't pursue the so-called "unchanged setting"

Warhammer has never been officially set in novels. GW just sells expensive plastic villains. They don’t know shit about Warhammer (I’m sure)

Therefore, my principle and proposition have always been that, without going too far beyond the Warhammer framework and maintaining the Warhammer flavor, the author should write a good story based on his own ideas, designs and opinions, rather than blindly pursuing authoritative rigor. , I say without exaggeration that the officialdom itself has nothing to do with rigorous authority, and we authors don’t need to write novels as essays.

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After a long round of talk, let’s get back to the issue of Lorken. I hope you have understood what I mean, so I will talk specifically about why I rewrote Lorken’s story.

The biggest bug in Loken's story is that at the end of the third book in the Horus Heresy series, The Burning Galaxy, it is clearly written in the book after Loken narrowly escaped after a deadly fight with Abaddon. , it's Loken lying in the rubble looking up at the second orbital bombardment of the Rebel fleet overhead, and then the story ends.

A huge question arises here, why did Loken not only survive? In the later story, he was discovered and rescued by Captain Gallo who returned to Istvan. Do you remember the previous content? Loken survived an orbital bombardment while lying on a piece of bare ruins without any cover?

As for Saul Tarvez, who was also on Istvan, he and the loyalists around him were in a cathedral, a church with a bunker that had withstood two or three months of shelling without collapse. Did they all return to the throne after the bombing? Everyone with the bunker died, but Loken, who had no bunker and faced the bombing, survived. Neither the author of the book nor GW gave any reasonable explanation.

If you have to explain it, it means that the emperor has appeared. It is a typical GW style of forced planning and narrative logic. I think this kind of behavior is both stupid and treats readers as fools. I think my readers are all smart people, so I rejected this kind of behavior. A logical rewrite was made by forcing a way of explanation.

I rewrote it to mean that Trazin and Istvan were also present to watch. We all know that Trazin has the habit of watching major historical events in the galaxy and packing away souvenirs. So Istvan betrayed this kind of person who is so important to the entire galaxy. At such an important turning point in history, it makes sense for Trazin to go there to watch and collect souvenirs.

As Loken is a legendary figure and the last Luna Wolf, it is very reasonable for Trazin to teleport him away and put him in the Endless Museum at the last moment, because he later did the same thing to Creed on Cadia. The castle owner was taken away, and he was taken away very quickly at the last moment of the explosion.

So I rewrote this story so that when Loken was about to die, Trazyn took him away at the moment before the orbital bombardment fell, and thus Loken escaped the fate of death. I think this setting is much more reasonable than the "Emperor's Apparition". I don't know what you think.

In addition, Loken's ending in the original book is also very confusing. Loken's only appearance in the Battle of Terra was to kill little Horus Aximand. I will not say that Aximand's presence is extremely low, even worse than Captain Torgadodon, and this plot is also very inexplicable.

At that time on Terra, there were a lot of people with names who could kill Aximand. It was not necessary for Loken to break the rationality of the plot and forcibly appear on Terra. In other words, Loken had no necessity in the later story, and even the author himself did not mention Loken much except for killing Aximand.

Loken's ending is also absurd. In fact, his ending after the Heresy is not clear at all. The so-called Loken became the founder of the Grey Knights, which was only hinted in the "Horus Heresy" series, but in another Black Library novel "The Buried Dagger", it became that Loken refused the Emperor's appointment and went on a public-funded tour with Captain Garro on a boat. The final ending was sailing to the sea of ​​stars, and then it ended.

(The embarrassing thing is that according to the content of the Horus Heresy, the Emperor was already sitting on the toilet and couldn't speak, so how he met the Emperor and talked with the Emperor is still a mystery. Psionic communication? Remember that the Emperor's psychic communication can shock people other than the Primarch to death.)

Of course, I can start writing from here, such as what happened to Loken and Garro later, and finally to Trazyn, but I think it is more fluent and reasonable to rewrite directly from Istvan, and I finally decided to do so, and it can also avoid a lot of unreasonable plots later.

Therefore, the claim that Locke is the founder of the Grey Knights is completely fictitious. You can interpret it however you want, because no novel has a consensus on this issue, so I did not adopt this approach, but made my own understanding and adaptation.

This is why I rewrote Locke's story and adapted it according to my own logic. I hope you can understand it. Welcome to continue reading the book, and thank you for your support.

I know some friends will ask, "What about Tarvitz? Did he also go away because of the King of Figures?"

For this answer, I answered with a sentence that the protagonist often likes to say, "If things are revealed in advance, then what surprises are there?"

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