Let's Talk...Valdor with Chris Wraight

[@markweevil3985]

Chris is one of those rarest of specimens, a BL author with hair

[@collecter343]

@@markweevil3985 Male pattern baldness being why so many turned traitor

[@obnoxiouspriest]

Mira: certified Emperor botherer.

[@miramanga]

I claim this title!

[@stewartthorpe2533]

Also, Mira is the breathe of fresh air that the wh40k community needs imho

[@miramanga]

Does the WH40k community really need more stuff?! It seems like it already has a LOT of stuff!

[@stewartthorpe2533]

@miramanga lol. The 40k community does have a lot of stuff! And it has stuff that I wish it didn't have. And it certainly needs more ppl like you imho

[@HistoritorJimaldus]

There’s so much top-quality output from Mr. Wraight for 40K - Valdor is one, I’m reading his Vaults of Terra trilogy right now too, and Emperor’s Legion/The Regent’s Shadow were great as well - not to forget Scars, Bloodlines, and Lords of Silence!

[@perfidy1103]

He's rapidly becoming one of my favourite BL writers. He might even be my favourite, but I haven't quite managed to remove Abnett from that position because of the role he had in forming my younger 40k brain with Eisenhorn.

[@waaaghzag]

Bloodlines was so good, and I think probably a book that a lot of people will overlook. It was a great story. There's another book called The Vorbis Conspiracy which takes place after Bloodlines and is made up of a series of shorter stories by a group of different writers, but they all interlink and tell an overarching story from different perspectives. Some of Chris' characters from Bloodlines show up throughout that book and one of the stories is by Chris as well. I may be misremembering but I think one of the characters from Bloodlines also shows up as a cameo in Grim Repast by Marc Collins.

[@RougeTrader-86]

Not to mention his take on the space wolves.

[@TheTrenchface]

Chris Wraight is my favorite!!!! He understands warhammer so well ❤

[@jeffreysmith6910]

I come for the singing intros, I stay for the interviews.

[@deathwatch962]

Chris is super down to earth and, mostly importantly, in touch with his audience. Very impressed.

[@AkosKovacs.Author.Musician]

Chris looks like a cool cat. Very cordial and perceptive.

[@Vaellas]

Great interview. I just finished Valdor a few days ago and loved it. Great characters, made me love the Custodes more and enjoyed Chris Wraight's writing so much I started the Watchers of the Throne series to see him write more Custodes. Also more elf people! Love elves. In WoW there is a running gag in the guild that I have a million elf alts because of how much I am drawn to them. Give me elves in any story. Eldar, Wood elves of Lothlorien, Idoneth deepkin, the Dalish of Dragon Age. Can't go wrong with elves.

[@ReverendMeat51]

Chris is great, hope you get him on again to talk about the White Scars and Watchers of the Throne

[@christiangoldsmith7863]

Super interview, what a thoroughly nice chap. Thanks Mira

[@holtjamie77]

So many books so I love leaving it to Mira and Ian to decide what i read next. If I've already read it then a great excuse for a re-read.

[@Yandarval]

Can you imagine being selected to write a 40k for the first time. So many binders of lore to read, overseen by a security guard, I imagine. I rather liked Amar and Kandawire as characters. Yet another excellent intro song, Mira.

[@adambman2]

This was a really satisfying interview for me, both great fun, and also hitting the nail on the head with musings about understanding themes over lore, and recent goings on... Anyway, I could go on and on haha, but for now, thank you both, and as you may well already have checked, it was Raymond Chandler! 😌

[@miramanga]

Thank you Adam :)

[@adambman2]

You're welcome Mira :)

[@jinofthesheep]

I’m not really a lore person, but I’m always fascinated by these interviews and the insight to world building

[@jinofthesheep]

Also can we just note that I feel your access is unique with these authors

[@adapax77]

What a topsy-turvy game 😄 Grail Knights and Bloothirsters absolutely failing to live up to their potential, and the brave wee peasants making the sacrifice play! ⚜️💪 Great fun!

[@randomacademypilot]

Thank you.

[@scotty7671]

Love Chris' work thanks for agreeing to the interview!

[@mikevincent8728]

Great interview, Mira! Also, definitely read Bloodlines (Chris' Warhammer crime book) Genuinely fantastic book :D

[@InquisitorGalve]

Thank you Mira for all these wonderful interviews. You are awesome.

[@krakke3188]

You are doing great, I hope you do a lot more!

[@gplog7197]

Loved the interview Mira Chris seems like such a great guy

[@miramanga]

He was awesome :)

[@daveemerson6549]

Excellent comments from Chris re: the "spirit" vs the "letter" of the lore. You can have all the technical details 100% correct, and still have it not feel right. I'd much rather a story nail the themes and feel rather than worry about specific characters wearing continuity-breaking marks of armor or whatever.

[@kavehrashid6342]

This interview gave me the urge to have a pint with Chris Wraight

[@andresperedo1275]

Great interview! I love Chris Wright: the only author that seems to understand Space Wolves, plus the one who had written the best novel in the siege of Terra, including the best comedic scene And the questions were great! I will be looking forward some more of this!

[@marjoe32]

Amazing interview!!! Manga manga is the best

[@davidpaterson1203]

Thanks for another great interview Mira and thanks to Chris. Chris's fantasy novels are brilliant. 100% recommend his 'Swords of the Empire' duology. I echo both yourself and Chris, I really hope we get another BL event someday. Will be sure to say hello if we do!

[@KarlKingz]

Was such a good novel full of so many rich interesting characters. One of my favourite parts was the old mercenary recounting his life. He was always just after battle, coin, drink & women, and lived the way he wanted. An old war dog being true to himself. & in the end he accepted his fate, charged head first into it & relished teaching the young Space Marine something to take with him to the stars. Humanity is guided by Our Emperor. But forged off the backs of millions of men like that old war dog..

[@sodinc]

What a nice interview! I just went through 3 more books of Chris Wraight and his writing is solid as always (and he doesn't fail in bringing active and influencial female characters to this universe). Special thank you to Chris for adding Adeptus Astartes to the Land Raider meme 😅

[@stewartthorpe2533]

Mira risking running out of time because of enthusiasm = why she is an awesome interviewer

[@perfidy1103]

I'm so glad Wraight agreed to an interview. He's one of my favourite BL authors. I look forward to you getting round to his other work Mira. Also belated sub: I discovered you via Ian but, to my shame, hadn't subbed yet.

[@jpay06]

Your opening songs are the best.

[@miramanga]

Emperor bless you

[@Gynnemo]

Great interview!

[@KarlKingz]

Best Warhammer author interviews on this channel. Such a unique perspective that's really good for the Universe & IP. Really looking forward to more.

[@erih2934]

Chris has become my favorite BL author without me realizing it until this weekend as I rarely paid attention who was writing the books and was mostly just following topics I was interested in. I always had an interest in White Scars and his HH story arc about them is absolutely brilliant and made them my second favorite faction. He managed something nobody else did - as I'm reading his Space Wolves books they are the only ones where I don't spend my time wishing them all to be whipped out and instead liking the characters. Now hearing that out of all the legions he is most interested in Dark Angels - which were my first step into the hobby and will always be my favorite - I can only dream about him writing a series for them. I think they really need someone like Chris to do it because it is so hard to get the nuances right to not have them appear like idiots chasing imaginary ghost screaming 'repent'. And my reading list changed now to basically read all the remaining HH and 40k books he wrote.

[@jaspergoodrich751]

These interviews are absoulute gems

[@ropable]

Glee!!! My favourite BL author!

[@rhysvokes5351]

Loving the Intros! you keep knocking these interviews out the park! any thoughts on having these interview audio only? on say like spotify?? (would make listening a lot easier)

[@miramanga]

I'll try and figure it out!

[@rhysvokes5351]

thats all we can ask! keep up the great work

[@robbie__uk]

Brilliant Interview Mira 👏 well done 😊

[@HarryCollett]

I absolutely loved Chris’ stuff set on Terra. Really awesome atmosphere and tone, so dark and grimy. More Custodes and Inquisition stuff please Chris!

[@Kristian.B.Kristiansen]

Excellent interview!

[@euansmith3699]

"... I'm like "Crikey, blimey..."..." Language Mira! 🤨 Thanks for another great interview.

[@CygnusMaximusXIII]

What treachery is this?!?! Dark Angels?! The guy who literally wrote the book(s) on White Scars says Dark Angels?!?!?! (All that aside, this was a great interview - thank you for setting it up and posting it for all of us to enjoy!)

[@DAMIENDICE]

Been looking forward to this! My favorite BL author by far. Great interview!

[@garyknight3018]

Always a delight to hear you chatting with the Authors, hopefully you’ll get a bunch more jumping on.

[@mattjames6847]

So what does Mira think of the theory that they're called Space Marines because the Emperor's real name is Jimmy Space?

[@miramanga]

I’m into it

[@TheOrderoftheSigillite]

Great interview Mira. I love this book and Chris Wraight's writing throughout the Heresy. Although I'm really disappointed he didn't say White Scars were his favourite legion! 😁 Please can you follow this up with a second interview once you've read Jaghatai Khan's Primarch novel?

[@miramanga]

I would love to!

[@a.l.7262]

Fascinating interview ! I really think you'd like Bloodlines Mira, and that would be another fantastic chat with Chris Wraight !

[@IamLertimo]

Spot on, really amazing book. Chris Wraight's best, and there's some stiff competition for that award!

[@glandhound]

Well, bloodlines starts with a young woman being kidnapped and then her blood gets stolen via torture... so there's that.

[@SF-wx1bu]

Amazing! Chris is my favourite BL writer. Cracking content...As a fan of the Emperor be sure to read the short story by Graham McNiell 'The Last Church'

[@miramanga]

Just read that today!!

[@obnoxiouspriest]

@@miramanga nice! It's a classic! Everyone loves it as far as I'm concerned.

[@glandhound]

Does that mean you don't care unless someone loves it? Graham McNeill has a talent of telling a story without actually writing it by using classic techniques that often go overlooked. The parts he did write I felt were a bit too obvious. Everything that happens is exactly what you'd expect happening when an atheist goes to church.

[@miramanga]

@@obnoxiouspriest It made me feel a certain way... looking forward to discussing it with Ian and Graham!

[@obnoxiouspriest]

@@miramanga I'm very excited for that!!

[@TVs_Brent]

hell yes. already can't wait to dig in to this one.

[@stuartbayne6699]

Is there a part two to this? love these interviews good job

[@deepstothepeeps]

Wonderful stuff, Mira. I love seeing you with Ian in the bookclub!

[@ChristopherMountenay]

Great interview as always. Chris is really a treasure of a writer and I’m always excited to see his name on a new book. I think you’d really enjoy both his Vaults of Terra and Emperor’s Legion series, which show what Terra is like in the “modern” 40k setting and what the Custodes. But my favorite book of his is “Lords of Silence,” which might be a little too Nurgley for your taste.

[@Whyred100]

Great interview and dynamics between the two of you 🍻! Keep them coming 👍!

[@aztecjaguar6571]

It is a shame that Chris Wraight did not get to write about the Dark Angels - as I think Gav Thorpe and Mitchel Scanlon did not do them justice.

[@marktwain7339]

Please Mira. Yell at him to give us a Lords of Silence sequel. Everything he does is so good but my god no one did the stinky boiz like Chris

[@glandhound]

The Sigismund book by English John French has some of that Lunatic Genewitch stuff and few situations where Sigismund gets his space marine panties in a bunch because about that one league that is always coming for you.

[@Fliss317]

A quick note on Salute - I've been going on and off since 1998 - and every time I've gone it's had a few more women and a few more BAME people and that's great. Salute '24 sounded like it had the most yet (until next year)!

[@miramanga]

It was lovely this year!

[@Fliss317]

@@miramanga perhaps I'll see you at next years'! (I'll be in a Sororitas cosplay)

[@miramanga]

@@Fliss317 SO COOL!

[@SamsButterscotch]

Aaaaweeeesoooomeeee

[@SillySpudyRocking]

ALGOFOOD!

[@TilmanEnke]

I would love to know if Wraight and Abnett talked about the king in yellow. let's see how that goes ;) EDIT: I think Wraight is best at implying. vaults of Terra's ending is the best thing that never happened. I would love for the Drukhari to give the empire infinite emperor clones to power a better warp map and demon fence or just give them another emperor clone to actually do things. how about you pay the Drukhari to get a drop of magnuse's blood

[@TheAnchorite]

54:44 Raymond Chandler!

[@amosb1452]

comment for the comment god!

[@PlasticusForkus]

I am sorry that the ridiculous fuss about female custodes had a negative impact. I am very glad you are part of the hobby and I really enjoy the content you produce.

[@grimmnekrokvlt]

Love love love these interviews. Hate hate hate that intro.

[@miramanga]

Just skip ahead friend!

[@paddya3304]

I love 'em. Each to their own, I guess.

[@grimmnekrokvlt]

@@paddya3304 Aye true.

[@BigMikeMcBastard]

Great interview. Really love Chris' novels and it was really interesting hearing his answers to your questions Mira. Look forward to the next interview!

[@DexGattaca]

Great interview!