Black Library: The Rise of Nagash

THE SHORT VERSION

Dan surveys Mike Lee’s collected trilogy as the rise of a villain who was never a fallen innocent. Its shifting chronology moves from a desert war back through Nagash’s earlier ambitions, with Arkhan’s newly developed history a particular strength of the first book. Increasing power and declining sanity make the later story disturbing, while its depth inspires Dan to consider a Tomb Kings project led by Arkhan.

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Find this article in White Dwarf 397, p. 42.

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