On the other hand, when you’re an experienced hero, they keep wanting to send you into danger as well… On the bright side, this means that he regularly dines with the finest officers in the Guard, and can usually get away with some plush assignments. Lauded a hero because of his string of wins due to luck and accident, he ends up trapped in the role, finding that he has to maintain the façade of being a hero in order to not suffer that friendly fire incident later on.

Because of this, he’s ended up liked by the soldiers he looks after (because if they like you, they’re less likely to shoot you by “accident” during combat) and has found a large number of enemy holdouts, secret rituals and nests by looking in the place he thought they wouldn’t be (because if they weren’t there, he wouldn’t get shot at). He’s spent his entire life trying not to get killed (a tricky job for a Commissar). Every time a fight’s about to break out, he finds an excuse to go somewhere else. The thing is, is that Ciaphas is a bit of a coward. Well, apart from the fact that everyone’s shooting at him. He is respected by the soldiers he serves with, honoured by Generals, a friend of the Warmaster, an ally of the Inquisition, and generally has a fairly decent life. The books are actually both omnibuses, collecting six novels and five short stories between them.Ĭiaphas Cain is a Commissar of the Imperium. As you may have guessed, they’re about Ciaphas Cain. So there are two books here: Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium and Ciaphas Cain: Defender of the Imperium.

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