Magnus the Red: Master of Prospero

Primarchs: The Horus Heresy, Book 3

By: Graham McNeill

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Lord of the mystical and uncanny, Magnus the Red has long studied the ancient crafts of sorcery. A psyker without peer, save only for the Emperor himself, he commands his loyal followers of the Thousand Sons Legion in the Great Crusade, though also vigilant for any lost knowledge they might recover from the remains of dead human civilisations.

Now, fighting alongside his brother Perturabo of the Iron Warriors, Magnus begins to foresee an approaching nexus of fate - will he remain true to their mutual aims or divert his own efforts towards furthering his own mastery of the warp?

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First Primarch Book I Like

I've already gone through the Guilliman and Leeman Russ Primarch books and this is the first one that I actually like. You get a decent look into not only Magnus but also Ahriman which is a plus. My gripes with the first two Primarch books is that either they didn't deal with the Primarch enough or the story just wasn't all that interesting. I'm not going to say it's a masterpiece, but it's definitely better than the first two.

Excessive Excess

There's a decent amount of good stuff here, I enjoyed it for sure. But there were so many moments of such extreme that it could fill several books with an appropriate volume of tension. Between the hand-waving magic stuff and constant escalation of crisis, its teeth were made dull by the end.

A Great Book

a great book about the Crimson King, Magnus the Red. Loved listening to it while painting minis

Great Thousand Sons short story

Solid entry in the lore of the Thousand Sons legion.

I enjoyed the descriptions of the psychic powers displayed by Magnus & Ahriman & their battle with this psychic force on a dying planet.

The narrator did an excellent job with his descriptions of the action scenes & thought processes of the characters.

I like the explanation of how the Iron Warriors are very analytical & mechanical in their approach & thought processes compared to the Thousand Sons (though they do have their own sense of compassion & humanity).

Great short story if you’re a Thousand Sons fan or a fan of psykers in 40k in general.

The best...

Primarch(s) story in this particular series. It's almost as much Perturabo's story as much as it is Magnus's. and old Pert shines here.