YMMV / The Weaver Option

• Angst? What Angst?: Sums up the Vandire clan's overall reaction to Nostradamus's death. Even his father, the one who wants to avenge him the most, seems to care more about the insult to the family.
• Catharsis Factor: Watching the Drukhari get what's coming to them in the form of having the absolute crap pounded out of them and their powerbase be irreversibly broken can be quite enjoyable.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Venerable Ancient Dreadnought Pierre of the Heracles Warden. He's a multi-ton murder machine who cheerfully ignores all of his Chapter's precepts of stealth and invisibility (at least when it suits him, he can be better than the rest of his chapter at stealth when he wants to be, as shown when he sneaks up behind a xenos on a captured Malta-class starfort), kicks a mountain of ass every time he's unleashed and enjoys being a Troll.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Taylor's battle against Ka'Bandha parallels Sanguinius' fight with him in that they both banish him in spite of critical injuries and having their legs broken. The most notable difference is that Sanguinius was incapacitated when numerous Blood Angels were killed causing a psychic backlash on him while Taylor made the Blood Angels recover from a psychic attack inflicted on them.
  • The Emperor's tear was able to supercharge the Blackstone Fortress's cannon not simply because it came from the Emperor, but because of what it represented. The Emperor most likely shed that tear when he accepted he must abandon his dream for the Imperium, making it a tear representing Sacrifice, the same as Taylor's aspect.
  • The wanted poster the Vandires issue for Borek and Leet has a seemingly generous reward until you notice it's 10 billion Vandire crowns rather than throne gelt. Given their liquidity issues mentioned in the chapter, it's likely the Vandires don't have enough free throne gelt for a bounty and are relying on their sector's much less valuable currency which they can pawn off on gullible bounty hunters.
  • Elena receiving Corax's Shadow Powers makes sense when you remember they were both brutal when young, but was taught to be better.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: During her POV at the Decision arc, Cyrene Valantion calls Lorgar's followers "rats". In the aftermath of the Raid of Commorragh, the Word Bearers (Lorgar's Legion) see their main world start to be invaded by Skaven, which are huge rats.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The surviving parahuman Doormaker, as in the quirky guy who worked with Contessa (who's initially trying to lead the parahumans) and can open portals to other dimensions (potentially allowing for the appearance of other Worm characters who survived the destruction of Earth Bet and fled to other dimensions), is the only parahuman to remain unseen, and is practically never mentioned by the others. Missy says he is "certainly dead" as of Ovation 9-1, without even a token appearance in the story, but no explanation is given as to how she'd know. It could be she is only assuming.
  • The Tau. The Tau homeworld and part of their population make a surprise appearance, but before they do anything their race is shattered and each caste is claimed by a Chaos God or Taylor.
• Unexpected Character:
  • During an expedition to a quarantined system, techpriests rescue Rylanor while he is still sane.
  • At the end of 9-4, as Lorgar prepares the Fifth Black Crusade, the Thousand Sons' element is led by Magnus the Red.
  • Yang Wen-li from Legend of the Galactic Heroes and the 24th Millennium ship Spirit of Eternity show up in the Monsters and Nightmares Interlude.
  • Given she hasn't even been born yet nobody expected Saint Celestine being literally summoned across time and space to duke it out with a Bloodthirster.
  • Never mind that, after the Necrons get somehow sent ahead in time they come back and end up dragging the Tau homeworld as it stood at the beginning of M42 (or, rather, an alternate M42) along with Commander Shadowsun back into the past with them.
  • Few people expected that Taylor would end up meeting both the Second Primarch and the Sanguinor during the fight at the Throne of Oblivion.