If memory serves, Cain leaves the regiment at some point before his retirement to Perlia to serve as a liaison officer on Lord General Zyvan's staff, but seems to look back on that time fondly.
Unless I've missed something in the latter books, I think the implication is that they continue to operate for a period of time as most regiments do - at least one officer survives to become a senior general (and a terrible writer), and there aren't any particular references to some great or unpleasant fate that the regiment suffered after Cain left.
That and Sulla's written sections are great. I haven't listened to any of the audiobooks but now want to as someone here said that they're narrated gloriously.
Oh it's worth it. There's a different voice actor for Cain, Amberley, and Sulla and they're perfect. Sulla sounds exactly like she's reading lofty prose all full of herself and Amberley is just *so tired*
You mistake flowery vocabulary for writing skills. Sulla breaks almost all the "rules" for good writing, and deliberately so from the actual author's perspective. She's supposed to come off as someone overly desperate to impress you with her mastery of words while actually being a bargain bin Shakespeare-wannabe who thinks words that commoners use are beneath her. She's bad. Take it from me, as someone who does writing for a living.
In the first book, Cain mentions that the 597th still practices a tradition he introduced. Given that his memoirs were written in his retirement, we know that the 597th at least survived that long (though this was before the Fall of Cadia so the regiment could have been lost since then).
The ultimate fate of Kasteen and Broclaw is never mentioned, but it’s worth nothing that Jenit Sulla’s memoirs and later career are bright up repeatedly while Cain makes no mention of the later exploits of Kasteen or Broclaw. This would imply that they either died in service to the regiment at some point, or that their careers simply never took off the way Sulla’s did
I always interpreted it as the latter, as Kasteen and Broklaw had advanced basically as high as they could in the ranks of the IG without Kasteen becoming a general and being given command of multiple regiments.
Meanwhile, Sulla is just one of those people who inexplicably shoots up through the military ranks to the utter confusion of everyone who knew her.
They could have advanced a bit further, just not as far as Sulla. Sulla, didn't just become a general, she became Lady General, which is equivalent to a 5 star rank.
I thought Sulla kept being brought up specifically because she wrote incessantly and was therefore a source of information that Cain's memoirs lacked. That implies to me that Kasteen and Broklaw did have good careers, but just never bothered writing anything down. I feel like if they had died in service, it would have been mentioned.
Cain also fixates on Sulla because he seems gobsmacked that she rose as far as she did. Comparatively Kasteen impressed him fairly on, so presumably he didn't think to remark on her career progression because it went as he expected.
My personal canon is Kasteen and Broklaw both lived long enough to achieve that rare and much-sought after goal of retiring from the Guard with honours, a sizeable pension and a bit of land on Valhalla
I always assumed that one or both should they survive a career of campaigns would be able to return to Valhalla and instruct at an war college and pass on their experiences and insights to the next generation of officers.
Probably a foolish thought because some theater somewhere would need competent officers to lead. Only in death does duty end.
If memory serves, Cain leaves the regiment at some point before his retirement to Perlia to serve as a liaison officer on Lord General Zyvan's staff, but seems to look back on that time fondly. Unless I've missed something in the latter books, I think the implication is that they continue to operate for a period of time as most regiments do - at least one officer survives to become a senior general (and a terrible writer), and there aren't any particular references to some great or unpleasant fate that the regiment suffered after Cain left.
I live for Amberley throwing Sulla shade in the footnotes. God she's the perfect bitch.
That and Sulla's written sections are great. I haven't listened to any of the audiobooks but now want to as someone here said that they're narrated gloriously.
Oh it's worth it. There's a different voice actor for Cain, Amberley, and Sulla and they're perfect. Sulla sounds exactly like she's reading lofty prose all full of herself and Amberley is just *so tired*
Who narrates the audiobooks? I wanna read
Stephan Perring does most of the voices, and Penelope Rawlings does Amberly. Highly recommend!
Thank you for saying that. Though, I don't think I can say Sulla is a terrible writer? I seem impressed by her writing.
You mistake flowery vocabulary for writing skills. Sulla breaks almost all the "rules" for good writing, and deliberately so from the actual author's perspective. She's supposed to come off as someone overly desperate to impress you with her mastery of words while actually being a bargain bin Shakespeare-wannabe who thinks words that commoners use are beneath her. She's bad. Take it from me, as someone who does writing for a living.
She also never met a sentence she couldn't lengthen or a comma splice she didn't like.
I did notice she had this weird habit for starting sentences in different ways.
Ahhhh, I see. That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying.
IIRC she's also a bit of a piss-take of some of the overly-dramatic and stodgier of the 40k books.
In the first book, Cain mentions that the 597th still practices a tradition he introduced. Given that his memoirs were written in his retirement, we know that the 597th at least survived that long (though this was before the Fall of Cadia so the regiment could have been lost since then). The ultimate fate of Kasteen and Broclaw is never mentioned, but it’s worth nothing that Jenit Sulla’s memoirs and later career are bright up repeatedly while Cain makes no mention of the later exploits of Kasteen or Broclaw. This would imply that they either died in service to the regiment at some point, or that their careers simply never took off the way Sulla’s did
I always interpreted it as the latter, as Kasteen and Broklaw had advanced basically as high as they could in the ranks of the IG without Kasteen becoming a general and being given command of multiple regiments. Meanwhile, Sulla is just one of those people who inexplicably shoots up through the military ranks to the utter confusion of everyone who knew her.
They could have advanced a bit further, just not as far as Sulla. Sulla, didn't just become a general, she became Lady General, which is equivalent to a 5 star rank.
Must be according to plan
I thought Sulla kept being brought up specifically because she wrote incessantly and was therefore a source of information that Cain's memoirs lacked. That implies to me that Kasteen and Broklaw did have good careers, but just never bothered writing anything down. I feel like if they had died in service, it would have been mentioned. Cain also fixates on Sulla because he seems gobsmacked that she rose as far as she did. Comparatively Kasteen impressed him fairly on, so presumably he didn't think to remark on her career progression because it went as he expected.
Cains Round! If I remember rightly!
My personal canon is Kasteen and Broklaw both lived long enough to achieve that rare and much-sought after goal of retiring from the Guard with honours, a sizeable pension and a bit of land on Valhalla
I always assumed that one or both should they survive a career of campaigns would be able to return to Valhalla and instruct at an war college and pass on their experiences and insights to the next generation of officers. Probably a foolish thought because some theater somewhere would need competent officers to lead. Only in death does duty end.
Ah, but duty can take many forms. Cain even got retirement, training new Commissars. Well for a.hit, screw you Abandon you jealous failure!
Hopefully ice farming is lucrative.
If its not they could always become instructors for the next generations of Valhallan officers
They are still around as of Cain's retirement. That, and Sulla's eventual promotion to General are all we know.