Just take a look at how that accusation plagued the Ciaphas Cain series for years. This helps to further ground the book in the sense that it is still a part of the main 40,000 setting, and sidesteps the obvious accusation that it could simply be non-canon due to its themes. This naturally means that they are far more serious on the whole, and that ultimately they fit more into the Odin side of things than Loki. The book focuses somewhat on his evolution, but a stronger part helps to define just how such a figure could exist within this world.Īs many of the secondary characters clearly follow the themes and ideas present in Chris Wraight's works. He retains all the skills, experience and knowledge of a Grey Hunter, but the way he expresses them is what singles him out from the others. Equally, his actions during the Kraken hunt makes it clear that while he is irreverent and prank prone, he is far from stupid nor negligent in his skills. His opening brawl with a company's worth of Blood Claws follows some remarkably childish acts, and serves as a stark reminder of his skill. He still manages to fit in with this world, so rather than seeming utterly at odds with the Space Wolves chapter, he serves as a facet which is rarely seen.Ī major benefit of how the story continually depicts Lukas stems from how it knows exactly when to dial back the humour or divert it. Lukas' nature is in stark contrast to the dour-faced and saga spewing figures in charge of his Great Company, but the story presents it in the correct way. While the old trope of the dumbass who is secretly a badass is centuries old by this point, the book manages to find creative ways to express it. The book more or less manages it, and while he is perhaps not so overtly insane as people imagined from his reputation, the character walks a fine line between juvinile and laughably skilled. Let's follow on from that last point in the introduction - The balance required to pull off someone like Lukas. When he faces Duke Traevelliath Sliscus of the Dark Eldar, the encounter between the Serpent and Trickster will end only in blood on the snow, and neither will walk away from the battle unchanged. Yet, his constant drive to surpass himself may well have met his match. With a reckless joy which is matched only by his skill, Lukas proves himself a capable hunter time and time again, despite the frustrations of his brothers.
With his presence inflicted upon another Jarl, Lukas sets about establishing himself among the younger Blood Claws. In most cases either an author would be forced to abandon these elements, or might crank them to intolerable degrees. The point is that between his humour and standing as the antithesis of typical Adeptus Astartes, the character stood on a knife-edge of becoming obnoxious. Yes, that is the last time Batman mentions will be made in here. Either he reflects a type of exaggerated humour that was all too rare in Warhammer at the time, or he passed Adam West right into George Clooney territory. Well, as a character who replaced a vital internal organ with high explosives, Lukas the Trickster sits firmly on the Adam West side of things.īorn out of the most insane elements of the Fifth Edition (non-Ward related ones anyway), Lukas is very much a love-him-or-hate-him character. A few years ago we discussed this, dubbing it the " Batman Effect" - Comparing it with how one character could represent the pinnacle of the comicbook Silver Age but also dark, serious and intelligent storytelling. Warhammer 40,000 benefits from a unique thematic standing, something which few other franchises have mastered: The capacity to slide back and forth between borderline parody and stone-faced seriousness in style and tone, without either clashing.
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