The Fall of Cadia

Warhammer 40,000

By: Robert Rath

Narrated by: David Seddon

Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

An Astra Militarum Audiobook

Cadia. This proud world stood defiant for centuries – a bulwark against the forces of Chaos residing in the Eye of Terror. All of this would change when it was targeted for destruction by Abaddon the Despoiler as part of his Thirteenth Black Crusade.

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The Fall of Cadia is a touchstone moment of the Warhammer 40,000 timeline. This incredible battle led to the opening of the Great Rift and ushered in a grim new era in which even greater threats assailed the Imperium.

THE STORY

Cadia licks its wounds in the wake of the Thirteenth Black Crusade. The heretic forces retreat on all fronts. The day is won. But Lord Castellan Creed cannot rest easy. Something tells him the assault was a mere prelude to something greater, something more final. He is right. Out of the Eye of Terror comes Abaddon the Despoiler, at the head of a warhost unmatched in scale since the dread days of the Horus Heresy.

In the face of the looming apocalypse, Creed must weld the champions of Cadia into a bulwark capable of withstanding Abaddon’s fury. And in orbit, the Despoiler himself finds his own alliance teetering on a knife edge…

This is a tale told at epic scale, from the tables of high command to the slaughter of the pylon fields, and with a huge cast of characters from self-styled demigods to the rank-and-file foot soldiers of the Imperium.

This is the story of Abaddon’s greatest conquest. This is Cadia’s last stand.

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The fricken planet broke before we did

I am a combat veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, I like to believe I am a hard man. This book made me weep, it blows everything else in 40k out of the water, “this is my foxhole, this is my home” took me right back to Iraq in 2008 decorating a tiny Christmas tree with my chumate with .50 brass, and dip cans. It takes a fantastical story in space that I already knew the ending to and somehow makes it so human and real that it touched on my own memories of war. This is everything that is great about 40k, it is grim dark, it is the dying of the light, but it is also a tale of the indomitable will of humanity and the refusal to go quiet into the night

cadia stands. and this book stake that fact in the ground firmly

the narrator absolutely nailed the voice for everyone, the demonic growls I especially though that he did well on the female voices. god-emperor knows that's hard to do sometimes.
the book itself, I wont lie, I am biased. I listened to this painting my first 40k army and that being the imperial guard. I love the sheer tenacity in the face of utter chaos.
absolutely worth the 21 hours put into this. would listen to it again in the future!

That Was Cadia Done Right!

[At least after they re-recorded Elstobs not at all *GrimDark* narration! Will GW finally learn after at least the 3rd time re-doing an Elstob narration? Godz, his Creed & Abaddon sounded like Star Wars Walrus-people rejects...]

Amazing!

This book is long but it fully covers the events of the fall of Cadia. We see all the heroic and tragic moments of the last days of Cadia and the beginning of a new age in Warhammer 40,000 with the birth of the Cicatrix Maledictum. Abaddon, Creed, Caul, St. Celestine, Inquisitor Greyfax, and Trazyn are all here all with their own plans or schemes. Quality narration by David Seddon who does a masterful performance, and well paced plot with devastatingly melancholy prose by Robert Rath. I am normally a Space Marine / Custodes enjoyer but this novel gave me a great perceptive of the Imperial Guard in the 41th millennium. Bravo!

Great book

Must read for all Warhammer 40K fans black legion and all the Warmaster comeh go Warhammer

The Ultimate Cadia Book

I've read other Cadia stories in the past, but this one really nailed the balance between shifting points of view and cementing unique characters.

I hadn't listened to a version that features all the prominent characters in the lore that were here, so it was one great surprise after the next.

The narration was excellent and some of the descriptions really stay with you. The copilot scene, the nurgle gate, sometimes minor scenes that are packed with creativity.

Much better than the previous version

This is the second release of this book, this time with a different narrator, and it's really good.