title: Beowulf: A Tale of Blood, Heat, and Ashes
author:  Nicky Raven 
description: John Howe is best known for his work as a lead artist on Peters Jacksons LORD OF THE RINGS movie trilogy based on the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. The illustrator of many books in the fantasy genre, he lives in Switzerland.
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  Ravenor Omnibus
  
  Warhammer 40,000 Stories
  
  Contains:
  
  Playing Patience, Ravenor, Thorn Wishes Talon, Ravenor Returned, and Ravenor
  Rogue
  
  PLAYING PATIENCE
  
  A Ravenor story
  
  Originaly Seen in “Let the Galaxy Burn”
  
  Dan Abnett
  
  WEST OF URBITANE, the slum-tracts begin, and one descends into a ragged
  wilderness of dispiriting ruins where the only signs of life are the armoured
  manses of the narcobarons, projecting like metal blisters above the endless
  rabble. This is a destitute realm, a great and shameful urban waste, stalked
  by the Pennyrakers and the Dolors and a myriad other gangs, where Imperial
  authority has only the most tenuous grip.
  
  A foetid wind blows through the slum-tracts, exhaled like bad breath from the
  sumps and stacks of the massive city. This miasmal air whines through the
  rotting habitats and moans in the shadows.
  
  And those shadows are permanent, for the flanks of Urbitane rise behind the
  tracts, ecli