#INQUISITOR TANNENBERG SERIES#
Despite his protestations, arguably the arc of the series is Eisenhorn's fall from a puritan outlook to that of a radical and rogue element of imperial society. It is not clear if the novels and stories are written in the same period, after Hereticus, or are, as may be more likely, written intermittently during and after the events of the series. The series is predominantly written in the first person, resulting in an unreliable narrator: at certain points in his career, Eisenhorn sets down accounts of his life. Dan Abnett, 'Introduction', Eisenhorn Omnibus (2004) Style and Content A chance to visit worlds that were not levelled by war, and see how the billions of Imperial citizens lived.Īnd also to find out what evils stalked them, even in the shadows of their own hive cities." It offered a chance to explore what might be called the ‘domestic’ side of the Warhammer 40,000 universe: the daily, non-military, life – at work, at worship, at rest, at court, at slum-level. This was a glimpse behind the lines at the internal complexity of the Imperium. This wasn’t about the battlefield, the front-line of mud and gas and behemoth engines. I think what inspired me about John’s painting was the aristocratic clothing: the rich black velvet of the sleeves, the engraved gold of the elegant weapon. I visited the Studio, and got great help and advice from the game developers, particularly Gav Thorpe. I picked up the phone, called Black Library and said, ‘Can I please write about this?’ Even though, truth be told, at that stage I didn’t know exactly what ‘this’ was. Among the pages, along with a number of other very fine pictures, was a copy of John Blanche's painting.
#INQUISITOR TANNENBERG FULL#
This was a rich seam indeed, full of wonderful baroque material. Know the one? Guy with a scalp full of cables, a black fur coat, a double-headed eagle familiar on his shoulder, a gold-chased bolt pistol in his hand? Yes, it is good, isn’t it? Īs soon as I opened the package and started leafing through, I could see what they meant. It’s called Inquisitor Tannenberg, it's by John Blanche, and it has been reproduced in various places, including the Inquis Exterminatus. " There is a rather gorgeous painting that many of you, I’m sure, will be familiar with. John Blanche's painting, 'Inquisitor Tannenberg' Retrieved on Ībnett, in the Introduction to the omnibus of the series, also included other details, including the roles played by John Blanche and Inquisitor developer, Gav Thorpe: 'The AbnettCast',, The Backwards Compatable Podcast. And I did, and it proved to be enormously successful to such the extent that the Eisenhorn books are regarded as a bit of a primer to get you into 40K." I wouldn't go so far as to say I didn't know what I was doing or where the plot was going, but it was very much I have a basic idea and I'm just going to go for it. If we can get a novel together by the time the game comes out, I’ll be able to get it past the people upstairs as part of an imaginary marketing strategy.’ And so I did, and basically just wrote the first Eisenhorn novel, Xenos, I just wrote it in the sheer white fun of just writing it. And I rang him straight back up and said ‘Can we not write a novel about this stuff rather than using it elsewhere because this is great!’ And he said ‘well, yeah, we can but we need to make it look deliberate rather than random. But at the time I looked at it and leafed through it – it was half complete, as I said photocopies and bits and pieces, brilliant spot illustrations and stuff like that. And it showed the detail – the elaborate detail – of imperial life.
And he sent to me simply because he thought I might be interested in and inspired by the images in Gaunt. " I think I was 3 or 4 books into the Gaunt's series and just writing those and the then-head of the Black Library sent me a portfolio of photocopies and rules from the Inquisitor game that was going to be produced.
As he explained in February 2016 to the Backwards Compatible podcast: The series was pitched by Abnett when he was given material from the game in-development as inspiration for his Gaunt's Ghosts series of novels.
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