In a way, if we were to turn Eisenhorn inside out, we would see a being much like Cherubael, tainted, damned, corrupted. Over the course of a few hundred years, Eisenhorn has turned into something that is almost foreign to the Gregor he once knew from Xenos. He makes the decision to cross the line into radicalism and down the path of heresy.
Only a small few are left in his retinue, and at that point he has nothing left to lose. Out of the entirety of his career, always sticking by the book, always playing by the rules and always kicking it old school, where do you draw the line? Every resource that Eisenhorn has ever had at his disposal is diminished. At this point, Eisenhorn is faced with his innermost conflict. It becomes apparent that during the events of Malleus, Gregor is getting nowhere as far as finding Quixos, Cherubael, Prophaniti, and the dozens of psykers who escaped during the Thracian Primarsis tragedy. However, as the trilogy progresses, Eisenhorn questions his own authority and his own traditional approaches. The daemonhost symbolizes all that is unholy with the approach of radicalism and Gregor during the events of Xenos representing the inner being of what it means to be puritan. Cherubael often hints at Gregor that they are one of the same person but at the same time they are not.
However, over time Eisenhorn himself also slowly decays and corrupts into something that he's not. When Gregor first meets the daemon, he is applaud by the monstrosity of the corrupt, decaying, warp tainted creature. Cherubael, a daemonhost enslaved by Inquisitor Quixos, ultimately is the incarnation Is exemplified through Eisenhorn's descent into heresy. The central theme that's revolved around the Eisenhorn trilogy is the idea of duality of man which I mean, what was the message Abnett was trying to get across? Here is my analysis: However, one of the things that kept me perplexed was that unlike most books, this one had no central theme, almost no symbolism, or any literary devices. I've never read a 40k novel until this, and it really opened my mind to reading. The novel gave me more of an emotional connection than let's say Catcher in the Rye or The Great Gatsby. It felt almost as if you were part of the journey. The final book of Hereticus had put me at a loss for words and made me look back from the very beginning with the hunt for Ecyclone back on Hubris. Eisenhorn, unlike so many others in this dark millennium, actually has a sense of morality and understanding with the people around him.
This book is by far one of Abnett's best, right next to Gaunt's Ghosts and the Ravenor trilogy. Out of the entire collection of novels within the Black Library, never have I read a 40k book with such emotion.
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