Editing The 13th Black Crusade (section)

===The [[Gathering Storm]]===

To herald the end of 7th Edition and welcome in 8th, Games Workshop did something unthinkable and decided that it was time to shake things up and '''finally''' [[Advancing the Storyline|move the plot forward]]. To do this, the company decided to return to Abaddon's 13th temper tantrum, and make it less fail than what happened during the Eye of Terror campaign (admittedly not that hard). To accomplish this, it did the following:

* Stress the fact that Cadia was not the ''goal'' of the Black Crusade, but merely step 1 in a much broader campaign of general nastiness for the Imperium.
* Tighten the narrative, focusing less on the entire battlefront, and instead on a select few but crucial battles that could decide the campaign.
* Make the conflict much more personal, and introduce characters who had actual stakes on the fate of Cadia.
* Blow up Cadia, just to show that Abby was '''not''' messing around anymore.

Suffice to say the end result was much more well received by the fanbase, and while Cadia eventually was destroyed in the end, the stagnation that had settled upon the setting for years was finally shaken off. While it hasn't been a hundred percent perfect (what big change is), the narrative figuratively hit the floor running, and ''hasn't stopped since then''.

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