#honourbound

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Honourbound by Rachel Harrison (2019)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onOct 24, 2025

[weak-fragile-mortal]

begging for footnotes in the story of my life (4.5k words)(Original Fiction) Content Warnings: none Prompts: 1. "It's not too late, let's go" from Fictober, and 1. Honorbound + 2. Anxiety from Angstober Rating: Teen and Up Audience

Excerpt:

Marriage isn't some novel concept- most kingdoms have marriage as a requirement for heirs to succeed. Those that don't still marry to secure political alliances. Selene had known she would have to marry some day, but her father had promised her that that day would come when she was ready, and not a day before. It wasn't a promise made or taken lightly, and so Selene had gone on freer than most other princesses her age.

Her father didn't break his promise on a whim, Selene knew, but it didn't stop the surge of bitterness in her heart. She wasn't ready, they both knew that- not nearly experienced enough to choose someone to tie herself to for the rest of her life. She didn't even know who she wanted to be yet, how was she supposed to know who her groom was supposed to be?

Wynn doesn't tell her what she already knows, and instead says, "It's not too late, we can still go. Off to the countryside. I hear eloping is the latest fashion these days."

[aeldari-enclave]

Pre-ordered ^_^

Also just bought the three short stories about her.

I'm going to have to order the Kill Team Commanders box now :))

Still an Aeldari blog I swear!

[ask-valerian-40k]

A stun grenade bounces off the barricades and lands among the Antari. Raine sees Yuri Hale throw it back, and follow with one of his own, only he doesn’t carry stun grenades. What Hale throws is a frag grenade. When they both go off in short succession, the Sighted are blinded. Then they are burned, just as Hale promised. ‘Push forwards!’ Hale shouts. The Antari obey, taking the moment afforded to them by the explosions, but then a whirring sound cuts the air. Raine recognises it. A heavy stubber. ‘Down!’ Raine shouts, dropping into a slide as the large calibre rounds put dents and holes in the wreckage of the barricades around her. She hears screams from her side. Hears Hale cursing. Raine chances a look around the cover. The stubber isn’t mounted. One of the Sighted is holding it. She is walking braced, letting the barrel run hot as she tracks the Antari going to ground. The roar of the gun is absolutely deafening

Honourbound, by Rachel Harrison

Can I please have a Lost and the Damned release GW?

[littleclevercat]

Honourbound

When I read the first story about Commissar Severina Raine, I said that I want to know how they make commissars so utterly fearless. Now I have my answer.

This novel is fantastic. It’s obvious that it’s inspired by Gaunt’s Ghosts but this is the good thing. This novel has many parallels with GG in the setting of the novel, but they don’t look artificial, they are a very clever homage to Abnett’s novels and exploit many “what ifs“ that didn’t happen in GG.

And if Honorbound is equated with other large works about commissars, you can see its uniqueness right away. Both Gaunt’s Ghosts and Yarric series have their respective commissars in commanding positions by the plots. Cain series does portrait Caiphas in the more traditional role as a regimental commissar but it’s too Caiphas-centric, everything is shown from his point of view and characters of the regimental officers are coloured by his perspective. In Honourbound, however, there is no fixed point of view, and it has third-person narration which gives a more objective picture. Also, this novel contains unique flashbacks to Severina’s time in schola, and this adds many details to her character.

Another pleasant detail that there are many female characters in the cast. And I think none of them is from bad guys camp. Refreshing!

All in all, 10/10, I strongly recommend this novel!

[randomaccessbrainspace]

Commissar Raine’s 11th Antari Rifles are nearing completion! #paintingwarhammer #astramilitarum #Honourbound #blacklibrary #miniatures #wargaming #gamesworkshop https://www.instagram.com/p/Bverw6OH4xr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=edwew5tbfkv2

[ask-valerian-40k]

‘Something comes,’ Zane says. Her teeth are pink with blood. ‘Another witch?’ Hale asks her. Zane sniffs wetly. ‘Something comes,’ she slurs again. ‘What’s wrong with her?’ Hale says to Wyck. Wyck spits on the ground, still watching the psyker. ‘Damned if I know,’ he says. ‘She started saying it when the gate began to open, and now she won’t stop.’ Crys’ eyes have gone wide. She starts pulling at the pouches on the bandolier across her chest to reload her grenade launcher. ‘Zane’s right,’ she says. ‘Something is coming. Something with a bloody great engine.’ Raine can’t understand how the Antari can pick it out from the sound of the gate grinding open and the forge machinery, especially half-deaf, but if there’s one thing Crys knows, it’s things built to kill. ‘What is it?’ she shouts up to Fel. ‘What do you see?’ ‘Something bad,’ Fel shouts back. He drops down off the high portion of the remaining barricades. ‘Something they have made.’ Raine looks over the barricades. She sees it now too. Not a tank. Not a war machine or a Cybernetica robot. It is an abomination. The Sighted have fused parts of a super-heavy tank onto a set of jointed mechanical legs. Exhaust stacks stick up from the back of it like spears in a sea monster’s back, spewing thick dark smoke. It is metal and crystal and thick clots of oil where the two materials meet. Its hooked limbs punch holes in the plasteel of the floor as it approaches them. She wonders if this is what the Sighted with the gemstone eye meant. If this thing is the life they have made here. ‘Throne of Terra. What have they done?’ Crys looks distraught. ‘Those guns mounted on it. Those are Vulcan mega-bolters.’ ‘On your feet!’ Raine shouts, moving among her soldiers. ‘Now!

Honourbound, by Rachel Harrison 

Come on GW, a Lost and and the Damned Codex please 

[levy120]

Hey I know you're used to be better from me, but I slapped this together in 2 hours... and then proceeded to procrastinate an entire week for the 4 little effects you see in there %D