#David Guymer Interview

[paulsemel]

Here's another one for the board game crowd: In my exclusive interview with writer David Guymer, he discusses his new "Descent"-related fantasy novel, "The Shield Of Daqan."

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[ask-ciaphas-cain]

So I WAS going to get the new Angron book but then I read the interview with the author and intend to fist fight him

Has anyone read any of David Guymer's other novels? Is he a good writer at all and would it still be worth picking up Angron: The Red Angel, or will I just wind up buying a ticket to England to beat the author's head in with the book

The reason I'm upset with his take on Angron is that I find him to be an extremely empathetic character, and I feel that you cannot write what this book is about- how the World Eaters react to their beloathed father's return and how he influences them- without understanding who Angron is.

He's a man who was driven primarily by grief and a desire for his own ruin, and only emerged from that towards the very end of his life when his terminal illness* had nearly destroyed his brain. You have to be able to work that into any characterization of Angron as a daemon Primarch- someone who was just beginning to decide that maybe they didn't want to die after all, before having that choice taken from them by their idiot loser brother. Who is he now that his ability to choose was taken away from him by someone he was growing to trust and love? Who is he now that his slavery can't be ended even in death?

I really hope that this interview is misleading in the contents of the book because Angron IS a nuanced and empathetic character and if you can't see that you don't deserve to write a book about him!!!