Reddit reviews Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo

Those are really cool. Hadn't heard of any of them, but looked them up. From left to right it looks like they're:

• The World of the Witcher: Video Game Compendium
  
• Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo
  
• Unfortunately I can't tell what this artwork is from and there's no title to look up for it. Maybe OP can chime in with the title of that one?
  Edit: Took me a bit to recognize it but it's Bioshock Infinite. So I bet the the hardcover of this book has the colored sleeve with the embossed version we see in the pic on the book cover itself: The Art of Bioshock Infinite
  
• This one's odd because it looks like the title is Dark Souls: Design Works but the color of the book looks like Dark Souls II: Design Works. Perhaps it's just the blue wall behind it that makes the book more blue than black.

Halo Mythos covers close everything from a thousand feet up: https://www.amazon.com/Halo-Mythos-Guide-Story/dp/1681193566

There are currently 24 novels, yes. plus comics, films, audio dramas, etc etc etc.

If you want to dive into the books, it is generally recommended you start here: https://www.amazon.com/Halo-Reach-Definitive-Editi-Nylund/dp/B00BXUD6PW/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493501699&sr=1-2&keywords=fall+of+reach+definitive

Full Disclaimer: Traviss is a good writer, regardless of what people say. However, she hurts her talents by not doing any of her own research into the Universe she's writing for. Rather than have 343i staff give her a list of canon details to include. That's just a recipe for disaster.

My Opinion:

Personally, I would avoid Glasslands at all costs. That book - while written very well in terms of structure and how it tells it's story - is basically an entire inconsistency all by itself. Practically the whole book. All the way from how the characters are portrayed to referencing historical events in Halo. It's a real head ache.

The other two stories are more secluded and don't try to fill in that many gaps in the Halo Universe. They basically try to rap up their own personal stories for the most part with minor additions to the Halo Universe.

Now, for my final thoughts.

As it stands, I'd say Halo: Thursday War is worth a read. However, Mortal Dictata is kind'a just there to finish the Trilogies story and it's very... drawn out; it's still good by itself though. Glasslands is chalked so full of so many inconsistencies that it's not worth picking up simply to disregard a huge amount of the story details it contains.

The best part about all of this though, is that Halo: Mythos contains an excellent summary of the entire Halo Universe and the Kilo Five trilogy; without the many inconsistencies. You really don't even have to read any of the Kilo Five Trilogy because of Halo Mythos.

Spend your money on that instead.

Luckily for you, there are quite a few resources full of info on the Halo Canon. Whatever you're looking for, you'll find here.

• Halopedia is arguably the best resource for everything Halo, but you'll probably suffer SCP Syndrome and get dragged in for hours and forget what you were there for in the first place.
  
  
• The Halo Story subreddit has a lot of Q&A type posts dating back for years, so whatever questions you may have are probably already answered. If for some reason your questions aren't there, just post them and the awesome community over there will help you out.
  
  
• There are two massive "Halo Bibles" that have been published so far, with the older Halo Encyclopedia covering almost everything released up to Halo: Reach and the new Halo Mythos covering everything from the fall of the Precursors to the months leading up to Halo Wars 2. Mythos, in particular, has some beautiful artwork that could help you get an idea of the mood you'd want for your campaign.
  
  As far as youtuber's go, there are two main ones that I'm aware of. I'm sure there are more, and if anybody would PM me or comment below, I'll add them to the list.
  
  
• Halo Canon, who has videos on almost any topic imaginable.
  
  
• Halo Follower, who focuses more on the "real world" side of Halo, but does have an awesome lore playlist
  
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  Edit: After some quick googling, I've discovered that there is a fan-made Halo RPG called Halo Mythic, which has its own subreddit at /r/HaloMythic/

Hey dude! I'll chime in here if that's okay, I've been getting some Xbox owners in my family some stuff this year too. :)

I've nailed down a few great ones that I'm really excited to see them open up, and I think an awesome trifecta I landed on is "Bioshock: the Collection", "Skyrim Special Edition", and "Assassin's Creed: the Ezio Collection".

It's a nice group of FPS action, third-person action, and sense of giant RPG adventure, but any one of them alone will be awesome!

I'd also recommend looking into a couple fun books, if you're interested? For instance, you've got "Halo: Mythos", which is a fully illustrated, beautiful 200 page in-depth Halo universe guide that just came out recently. It's only ~$22 on Amazon, hardcover, and I think that would be an amazing gift!

There's also some cool clothing and accessories on this site, J!nx that might be worth browsing.

(P.S. I've been obsessed the last couple of weeks with vetting christmas gifts, and I'm happy to hang out with you here and shoot ideas back and forth until we land on something!)

http://www.amazon.com/Halo-Mythos-Guide-Story/dp/1681193566/ref=wl_mb_wl_huc_mrai_1_dp

this as well

If you're ever inclined to read up on it, but don't want to buy like twenty novels you don't have time to read, I'd highly recommend getting Halo Mythos, which is a beautiful coffee table sized book that pretty well summarizes all the important stuff from the Forerunners up through the beginning of Halo Wars 2.

https://www.amazon.com/Halo-Mythos-Guide-Story/dp/1681193566

Buy her this book it's amazing and has everything in it + more will make a great Christmas present :)

>I mean... the obscurus itself is pretty vague... its just a giant lashing demon cloud thing...

Uh huh. Okay, so you're right in that it's pretty strong, but if that's all wearing going by it isn't much. There isn't enough information available to argue for or against the Obscurus.

>idk if those chief feats are admissible? wouldn't the most poplar canon chief be in game halo chief?

I fail to understand what you mean. Are you questioning the validity of the canon I presented?

The first scan comes from the game manual, the second is an excerpt from a short story published by Microsoft and written by a senior Bungie employee and writer.

Everything else except the adrenaline excerpt (which comes from Karen Traviss' Kilo-5 trilogy which was a novel series whose canon was used extensively to set up Halo 4) came from The Fall of Reach, which was the prequel to Combat Evolved and was released a month before the game, thereby making it the source material technically.

I recommend perusing the Halo Mythos if you have any doubts regarding Halo canon.

>AK doesn't penetrate... armor is like clothes... it envelops the target just like in the video and bypasses things like armor, clothing, and durability... it just kills you.

But what about inanimate objects used as cover? That's also like armor.

Oh snap, was this the book? https://www.amazon.com/Halo-Mythos-Guide-Story/dp/1681193566#immersive-view_1482686547816