Dan Abnett on Chaos, on Trilogies, and on Ghosts

Dan Abnett answering your questions and talking about all things Black Library related.

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• Gaunt's Ghosts
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• Chaos.

[Xhalax2007]

*runs around screaming and waving her arms in delight*

This videos is going to keep me amused for at least the rest of the evening.....stapling babies to you hat.....ACE!

[adeliehigh]

Wasn't anticipating this amount of delight. I'll cut some more film tomorrow.

[TehWarsmith]

What you don't see is that when he said that he loved them all, he couldn't say anything else. Why? Because Mkvenner is hiding behind the bookcase.

[carkastoken]

One of the greats! Loved 'Titanicus' and 'Brothers of the Snake'.

[xehilo]

will the ghosts ever get their new home?

[eviltreemonster]

I agree with Dan Abnett's definition of Chaos. I believe this arguement applies to many equally diabolical groups in the real world, like the Nazis.

Like it or not, Nazism is way of life. Its followers have their own culture, rituals and philosophy. This happens because they think they have a cause and a purpose. It is a lifestyle that is detested by the civilized world, but it makes perfect sense to the believers.

[killalot363]

I think the best way to write a book from the view of chaos is to use tzeentch because it seems that the followers of tzeentch are the most rational.

[Zekkandgrant13]

when he mentioned there would be Blood Pact characters I leapt for joy.

[MauserK43]

@DerAngriff I met Dan at Gamesday 2005 Baltimore and I asked him this question and he said alot of the stuff he based the Ghosts on is from WW1

[DerAngriff]

Reading some of Abnett's evokes a sense of the brutal battles fought on the Eastern Front in WW2. Anyone's who is remotely read up on Stalingrad, Kharkov, Rostov and numerous other battles on the Easter front, will see some of those experiences and documented history appear in his writing. Whether vast armoured pincer movements, massed frontal assaults, and savage hand to hand combat, where factories were lost/retaken over and over again (Stalingrad).

[LikeSleeve]

you should make a book about zael from ravenor about what happened to him after ravenor the ominbus.... you could do it dan!!!

[clayisajedi444]

@Xhalax2007 lol yea

[srwt1234]

@adeliehigh where do you get the videos from?

[tr4d3m4rk44]

Dan is good, but I like Graham a bit better myself.