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INTERVIEW·WHITE DWARF 398

The Old Man and the Lord of Death

February 2013·pp. 150–151

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Adam Troke asks David Annandale about writing Yarrick and Mephiston. The Commissar’s imprisonment provides a contained story within the larger Armageddon conflict, while Mephiston calls for a stranger and more unsettling narrative voice. Annandale discusses the appeal of their mythic personalities and rivalries. His own route into the hobby began with fiction, eventually leading to a Black Dragons collection and individual characters bought for their personal appeal.

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