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Eight Lamentations: War-Claw – Josh Reynolds

After the excellent novel Spear of Shadows, Josh Reynolds’ Age of Sigmar series Eight Lamentations continues with the audio drama War-Claw. When one of the infamous Eight Lamentations is located in Aqshy, the Realm of Fire, Grungni sends Owain Volker and Zana Mathos to retrieve it in his name. Before they can lay claim to the weapon, however, Owain and Zana are forced to find refuge with the tattered survivors of a devastated outpost. Tension and mistrust grows as it becomes clear that there are agents of other powers also seeking the same prize, and their survival hangs by a thread.

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RAPID FIRE: Josh Reynolds Talks Eight Lamentations: War-Claw

Welcome to this instalment of Rapid Fire, my ongoing series of quick interviews with Black Library authors talking about their new releases. These are short and sweet interviews, with the idea being that each author will answer (more or less) the same questions – by the end of each interview I hope you will have a good idea of what the new book (or audio drama) is about, what inspired it and why you might want to read or listen to it.

In this instalment I spoke to Josh Reynolds about his latest Age of Sigmar audio drama War-Claw, the latest instalment in his Eight Lamentations series, which is available to order right now.

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Eight Lamentations: Spear of Shadows – Josh Reynolds

Josh Reynolds’ Eight Lamentations: Spear of Shadows is the first in a planned Age of Sigmar trilogy about the search for eight powerful weapons scattered across the Mortal Realms. In the city of Excelsis, the crippled god Grungni gathers together adventurers from different Realms to seek out one of the eight, the Spear of Shadows, before it falls into the wrong hands. Grungni isn’t the only power seeking the spear, however – the Khornate forgemasters who first forged the eight weapons compete against each other, while both Archaon and Neferata send their own champions even as the skaven of Clan Rictus join the hunt for it.

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QUICK REVIEW: The Tainted Axe – Josh Reynolds

A tale of the Eight Lamentations, Josh Reynolds’ short story The Tainted Axe follows Sir Roggen as, post-the events of Spear of Shadows, he embarks on a quest in the Realm of Ghyran at the behest of a handmaiden of Alarielle. Though wounded in body, Roggen remains strong in faith, and ventures deep into an old and dangerous forest accompanied only by his loyal demigryph and a spiteful forest spirit. There he hopes to find and return with a foul weapon that has been tainting its surroundings with its Nurgle-infused filth.

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QUICK REVIEW: Auction of Blood – Josh Reynolds

Day Five of 2017’s Black Library Summer of Reading campaign

The book trade is a dangerous business, at least in Josh Reynolds’ Age of Sigmar short story Auction of Blood. Palem Bok, bookseller and spy, is tasked with attending an auction of rare items and acquiring what turns out to be a remarkably dangerous artefact for his mistress, the Mortarch Neferata. Danger abounds in the streets and houses of Greywater Fastness, and in order to complete his mission Bok must exercise all of the caution, judgement and skill a bookseller needs, along with a judicious serving of violence and death.

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QUICK REVIEW: The Road of Blades – Josh Reynolds

Day four of Black Library’s Advent Calendar sees the first Age of Sigmar story, in the shape of The Road of Blades by Josh Reynolds. Tying in loosely with his Black Rift novel and setting things up for the upcoming The Eight Lamentations, it follows Ahazian Kel, Deathbringer of Khorne, as he searches for the Road of Blades that will lead him further on his path to claiming ever more powerful weapons. Constantly being tested as he strives to prove himself in the eyes of the Blood God, he uses both his strength and his wits on the perilous journey.
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