The scene with the herd of pigs is like the herd of such in the Bible that get possesed by demons and die like here, though one of the herders seems to get dragged to his death during the chaos here. The ferry scene during another moment was also powerful, how everything goes wrong but all you hear are sounds and movements, it feels like night to the reader, too. The Chapter also seemed to possess an unusual contingent of Terminator Armour suits, of which many appeared to be heavily modified or augmented in unorthodox ways to keep them combat-worthy. The vast majority of those taken would go on to become slaves and serf labourers in the Chapter's great fleet, providing the means by which the Carcharodons Astra could continue to function in exile.

The Tithes, however, are not the only means of recruitment. During times of desperation the Chapter had recourse to another brotherhood, one that, like the Carcharodons, had chosen the path of exile -- the Ashen Claws. During the darkness of the Horus Heresy not all of the Legiones Astartes had cast in their lot with either the Emperor or the Traitor Horus. The Ashen Claws, formerly the Raven Guard Legion's 18 th Chapter, had despaired at the chaos engulfing the galaxy, and their own primarch's disgust at their past slaver practices. Sembra andare meglio a sua sorella Rinthy: ma anche per lei il mondo offre poco più della sopravvivenza.

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They are far more likely to carry weapons such as the ancient Phobos R/017 Pattern Bolter or the Mark V Heresy Pattern Power Armour from ten thousand standard years in the Imperium's past, alongside other weapons and gear that span the entirety of that ten-millennium history.

This is set much longer ago (before cars) and tells several parallel and occasionally intersecting stories: a woman searching for her missing baby; her brother searching for her; a tinker travelling between towns, and a gang.Having given 5* to The Road (my review here http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), I was surprised and disappointed at how much I disliked this.

La terra e i suoi abitanti, coloro che la percorrono e calpestano, sono forze del Caos: sono come forze primarie di un cosmo votato alla distruzione, alla dissoluzione, alla degenerazione.

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Years later, Culla talks to a blind man who tells him of the blessings of being blind, and that he prays for what he needs. Culla later watches the blind man walking towards a swamp, which for him means certain death. The novel ends with Culla thinking, "Someone should tell a blind man before setting him out that way." This suggests that the Carcharodons do recruit from a wide variety of sources, and that their skin colour and eye mutation is a result of their gene-seed's alterations of their phenotype. These traits are similar to some of the physical traits of the Raven Guard. However, even if the Chapter does count Corvus Corax as its progenitor, many standard millennia of genetic drift will have likely created distinct differences.