Know no fear - info please?

[MajorWesJanson]

Robute Guilliman can breathe in space.
Batman can breathe in space.
Therefore, Robute Gulliman = Batman.

[Londinium]

If anyone hasn't noticed them yet Dan has added a couple of youtube videos to his facebook account and blog about Know No Fear, you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYhs5iBQo2A Brief highlights:

Very much a 'Space Marines Battle' book for 30k. The book starts a few days before the actual Battle of Calth with the clock ticking down.

Astartes are the main characters, there are some human characters aswell but this isn't a Prospero Burns type set up. He even uses the word 'bolter porn' which is a nice thing to hear after Prospero Burns (not that I hate it as much as some but it was still disappointing)

Argel Tal will feature in some way (yay!)

Ultramarines POV with plenty of Guilliman (interestingly he says it the way I pronounce it with a soft g rather than weird Gool-i-man pronunciation)

ADB will be writing a follow up novel at some time although the way it's said it sounds more like a timeline progression rather than Calth from the other side. Dan's also working closely with ADB and Graham McNeill to fold existing characters into the novel and make the legions seem like the same ones those two writers have already established.

Dan actually says the authors are very interested in the numbers of the legions as well as us background nerds. Says that at the time of Calth the Ultramarines roughly number 250k (usual figure) and that the Word Bearers are at 150k (bit higher than the usually quoted 100k figure). Of these roughly 200k Ultramarines are at Calth and about 60kish Word Bearers but the WBs have the advantage due to colossal armies of cultists and daemonic support.

Plus plenty more besides, check 'em out. There are more videos to come aswell, so there might be more info leaking out about it. All in all it sounds rather awesome to me.

Oh and he makes a vague allusion to Cerberus... (bah humbug! - still not over that) although it's obviously not related to Calth.

[Wyrmwood]

Cheers, Londinium; that info is very helpful.

[shadowhawk2008]

The information regarding the legion sizes is very helpful

The WB have managed to increase their size by nearly 50% in the 40 years between Monarchia and Istvaan/Calth. That is something!

[FlashGordon]

I love the title of Grahams next book, "Bastards of Evil". XD

[shadowhawk2008]

Dan might have been talking about the priests of mars book.

[Terminatorphoenix]

"In space, no one can hear you scream."

Primarchs > Vacuum, apparently

Tzeentch once saw that quote and laughed. "In the warp, no one can hear you scheme," he said to his favourite Lord of Change as Cesare Borgia was left in the hands of fate.

On topic, I'm interested in this (Nightbringer was the first book I bought for myself) but I do wish they'd release a Custodes book...actually, I wish these two authors would release a Custodes book.