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  • Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First

  • The Horus Heresy Primarchs, Book 13
  • Written by: David Guymer
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
  • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (75 ratings)

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Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First

Written by: David Guymer
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Book 13 of the Primarchs series.

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The Dark Angels have their secrets...and their primarch is no exception. Discover what the Lion was up to while the Great Crusade came to an end.

The Story

Each primarch is an exemplary being, derived from the Emperor’s own genetic stock to embody a facet of His personality. Their powers are unfathomable, but only one of them is the First. Lion El’Jonson is the paragon of what it is to be a primarch. His Legion, pre-eminent for most of their long history, typify the virtues of temperance, pride and martial excellency that the Lion embodies. They are the Emperor’s last line and final sanction. They are His Dark Angels.

Now, while the Emperor gathers His mightiest sons for an assault on Ullanor Prime, the Lord of the First instead draws his Legion to the farthest reaches of the known galaxy, seeking to subdue a single rebellious world. Is this but another example of the Lion’s infamous pride, or is there more afoot amidst that graveyard of empires that is the Ghoul Stars, more than the Lion will share even with his own sons?

Written by David Guymer. Narrated by Jonathan Keeble.

©2020 Games Workshop Limited (P)2020 Games Workshop Limited
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Thoroughly enjoyed.

This book really sheds a light on the internal culture of the Dark Angels and how they fit into the panoply of the Emperor's Legions. Highly recommend. Even if you're not the biggest fan of the 1st, there's quite a bit you can take away from this novel.

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Wow! Excellent book I just loved it!

Finally a more intimate view of the Dark Angles and the Lion and there place among the Legions from the Emperor’s perspective.

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Probably my favourite Primarch story so far.

I'm not all the way through them yet, but of the Primarch books, this one has been my favourite.

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A good look into the dark angels

Not my favourite book I’ve done on here but its still worth checking out if u want to get a look at what the dark angels are like

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For The Lion

Great story showing both the strength of the 1st and the complexity of this storied legion.

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YOU DON’T KNOW THE POWA OF THE DARK ANGELS!

This was absolutely insane and shows just powerful and frankly different the lion’s sons are from all the other legions. They EXTERMINATE those horrors which cannot be allowed to exist even in memory. In this we see the Dark Angels forced to unleash all their forbidden weapons and techno sorcery to defeat the Cthonic Krave, a nightmare xenos race that is able to hijack and subvert entire planetary populations, entire empires….

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Fun story that’s different from a lot of others I’ve heard

Great story that has a unique set up and Xenos from other 40K books. The Lion is an awesome character, if you want to be sold on Dark Angels dive into this one!

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Worst Primarch Book So Far…

Before I begin Jonathan Keeble is an amazing narrator.

I generally choose books that I think I will really like which is why it pains me to write such a poor review of this one.

There was virtually no information about Lion El’Jonson in this book. In Perturabo’s Book it covered his upbringing, his innate abilities, what drives him and even had some emotional moments where he realized he screwed up…

In this book it was mainly the Dark Angels fighting the Krave with a few instances of Lion El’Jonson intervening here or there. But I felt like they talked more about Duriel then they did The Lion. I’m disappointed with this one…

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