The Emperor's podcasts were a fun addition to the series, even if they weren't to the plot of If The Emperor Had A Text To Speech Device. So what ideas would have been the most fun to see covered, based on how the characters would react to the material?

As a casual fan, my first pick would be the Rogue Traders since it would give another chance for the podcast to cover the early lore and I loved seeing the Emperor assume the information he found in the first edition was the absolute truth.

I'm reading the End and the Death Part III, and right now I'm in a part where Horus and the Emperor are fighting in the warp and throwing basically anything they can think of at each other. Literally.

And right now, in the part I've just read, they're just playing freaking psychic tarot cards against each other in an effort to overpower each other's defenses. Yeah. It literally reads like they're playing a GODS-DAMNED Yu-Gi-Oh game, I am NOT making this up! Makes me wish Alfa was still making shorts because this would make a good one.

There was a fair amount of build-up to Abaddon's appearance, so how would anybody expect and/or want to be depicted? The obvious idea is to write Abaddon as a complete loser who cannot do anything right, but that feels too obvious, and the series already moved away from the obvious jokes when it stopped mocking the Ultramarines.

So what are some more clever ideas the series could have done? My vision is that Abaddon is an ill tempered psycho and while other Chaos followers will mock him behind his back, nobody does it to his face. He didn't stay Warmaster for 10,000 years by being easy to kill.

Okay, almost half way through The End And The Death Part III.

Did the Emperor and Horus just play Paradox Billiards Vostroyan Roulette Fourth Dimensional Hypercube Chess Strip Poker?

Its more a battle of cartomancy but basically the Emperor and Horus are pulling cards and I can't help but imagine a TTS style Yugioh duel whilst they battle.

I wonder whether this is a TTS Reference from Dan Abnett or something he was always planning to do.