Editing Gav Thorpe (section)

==And then there's the elves...==
[[File:GavThorpeEldar.png|400px|thumb|right|"And there will be as many bullet holes as the plot demands."]]
Among the best examples of his writing style's flaws on display is his infamous view on elves, specifically that "[[Derp|there are as many elves as the plot demands]]." In one story they can write off the death of a million as part of a grand victory, but in the next the death of a hundred is a tragedy from which their race will never recover. Either way they will always be a dying race, and with no word on how the [[High Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|High Elves]] or [[Dark Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dark Elves]] replenish their numbers for these huge wars with each other (plus the High Elves doing their "world police against Chaos" deal and the Dark Elves raiding around the world).  This is to say nothing of his requirement that Elves retain the traits of the Eldar (souls eaten by Slaanesh, never worship Chaos) and the constant need to retcon anything that doesn't fit his very 40k-centric view of Warhammer lore. 

(For a long time, it was debatable whether he was in bed with the Elves or with Chaos, considering he varied between jacking them off at each other's expense depending on the book. In the end he monogamously settled on taking it up the ass from Chaos, [[The End Times|and in turn made absolutely sure every faction took it up the ass from Archaon]].)

Thorpe's trademark is his whiny sentimental approach to writing: it's a formula meant to instil a sense of grand loss in the reader, which only works the first two or three times before it gets irritating. Worse still, he applies the same methodology to the Dark Angels and [[Raven Guard]]. Thorpe was basically [[Edgy|that morose emo kid who cuts himself and seemingly never grew out of it]].

Some of his more recent work is represented by the "Rise of the Ynnari" duo of books. It details the current events of the [[Ynnari]], as they try and find all the croneswords. Over the course of two books and 730 pages Thorpe had them achieve nothing. They lost ships and lives, got no additional Crone Sword or allies, and succeeded only in making the clans of Saim-Hann now thoroughly dislike the Death Cult, as they wasted hundreds of Eldar lives for absolutely nothing. The only redeeming qualities of this "series" are senile Wraithconstructs looking to settle centuries old, half forgotten scores and Eldrad Ulthran being a dick. Another criticism is his way of handling dialogue, where in an infamous passage it appears that the eldar do not have a word for 'stuff'... [[derp|despite every other eldar book having them use the word 'stuff'. Including Path of the Eldar, ''which he wrote'']]. This may have simply been a rather hasty and poorly thought out way of having them sound less human, although wooden dialogue in general has been an issue for him he seems to have no will to grow out of.

An update, where it has been revealed that the [https://twitter.com/GavThorpeCreate/status/1334068305053835265 Rise of the Ynnari trilogy is now dead] and a third book will not be written. While many are quite upset by this, and even Gav Thorpe seems to be rather sad that he could not write a third book about a supposedly hyper-intelligent psychic species making bizarrely stupid choices that get hundreds of them killed, it seems a lot of this might lie in the fact that few will buy eldar books by Gav Thorpe anymore. He has essentially become a poison pill to any book about the local space elves.