Editing Psychic Awakening (section)

=== Story ===
For the most part, the entire Psychic Awakening event has been met with [[skub|mixed results]]. In regards to the stories that they each tell, for the most part they come off with the same old "status quo" storytelling that GW used to tell, with there being no clear winner in most books and no groundbreaking changes for the factions involved within them. (Part of this is because GW has started taking a "no exact dates" policy with the lore; to wit, none of the PA books state any specific date, and current lore is that thanks to the [[Great Rift]] endlessly fucking with time there's no way to know for sure when anything happens. It's hinted that PA events happened before/during/after the [[Indomitus Crusade]], depending on the exact book and events.)

Complaints have come about the quality of the writing: for example, the lead up to the Tau PA book had a lot of mention of Death Guard, but they were suspiciously absent from the book. Ghaz vs Ragnar were talked up as the greatest of rivals, forgetting Ghaz's famous rivalry with Yarrick. In the end it felt less like these books were written in respect to existing lore and more to fall in line with the release schedule GW wanted to put out.

From general discussion the books which received most of the praise for the best tales and story were
# War of the Spider
# Faith and Fury
# Ritual of Damned

The ones that were consider least popular for story were
# Saga of the Beast
# Blood of the Phoenix

For many, War of the Spider was popular as it took several unlikely groups and has them battling it out in the Cadian System. Ritual of Damned was also praised for its less classical match-up, opting to instead bring in the Dark Angels and Grey Knights against the Thousand Sons.