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It doesn't matter what I'm gonna say for the rest of this podcast. Everyone listening is tuned out because I said Dark Souls 2 was my favorite.

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Everyone's done. I could lie for the rest of this.

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It's an objectionable point of view. It's like, I don't know, you're basically Hitler.

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Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back to Law Crimes. And today we are back with the Beginner to Expert podcast discussing everyone's favorite 50 boys, the Steely Birds, the Blood Ravens.

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We're gonna go through a lot of stuff today, including a special guest. But before we get to anything in particular, let's start off with the question of the week.

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Well guys, I hope you're prepared for some spicy takes. There's a bit of a slight theme this week. I've chosen with some of these questions, so you have to let me enjoy this moment because I think one of us on this panel is certainly gonna have some hot takes.

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Oh no.

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The first one was by Stormy. It was hashtag Black Crusade. Abaddon is attempting to transcend time to teach Colin that he does indeed have a glorious line of spears he can use to kill Bretonian knights with.

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Hmm. You know, if Abaddon could teach me the secret of that one, I might come around to him. I don't know how to properly handle them.

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The next issue we have by the Wordner, the Wordner, sorry bro, I forget that wrong. Hashtag Black Crusade. It is a little known fact the primacy goal of the 12th Black Crusade was not for Abaddon to acquire the Blackstone fortresses, but to gain possession of a strong enough glue to keep his arms attached.

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What is the reference for that?

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It's a massive...

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You can explain it, yeah.

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One of his older models, I believe, I think it was resin. But either way, if it wasn't, his arms refused to stay attached to the model.

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And because also prior to, you know, like the Dark Imperium, the Great Rift and all that, Abaddon had spent about 10,000 in universe years and about 20 out of universe years just failing to get past Cadia. So he was an armless failure and they made fun of him for that reason.

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To be fair, I remember when I was younger, my dad used to, when he would visit the UK, bring back models and they were always the metal ones and it was so difficult. You paint the model and then all of a sudden, like a week later, arms fell off and then you cry because you haven't got any glue strong enough to keep them on the body. It was tough times, tough times. Kids these days with their models, they don't know what we had to go through.

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Had to pin it with our tears.

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That's the armless Abaddon lore.

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The next one is by TheOzzy.

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The next hashtag Black Crusade is going to be arguably the most heroic one yet. Abaddon, learning of a group of heathen worse than the demons and Dark Eldar will journey towards a mysterious manhole cover located in the planet of Scarven.

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That was a long one. Reaching the cover, he and his army shall battle through the hordes of strange creatures to reach another manhole cover. Climbing through, he and his forces shall finally reach their next target after all those battles, Bretonia.

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That was a long way of saying Bretonia.

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I think, again, if he did that, I might come around to him.

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The next one is by the Bretonia Hate by CogmoreGaming, the last one here. Hashtag Black Crusade. Abaddon's next Black Crusade will be all about going through the warp to the fantasy universe with the sole purpose of eradicating Bretonia.

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There's a theme on this one.

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Yeah, we have like a fairly even split of like half the time, it's people saying, Colin, you need to like helm a beginner to expert on Bretonia. And then the other half is just kill all Bretonians. It's a great, I love this community and how, how they're not very partisan.

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It's like, yeah, we'll just keep it nice and even.

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You genuinely spread like an actual hatred.

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They just want to watch me get angry.

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True, and have they done that? They've hated on Bretonia this entire time, so I guess you're in a good mood.

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That brings me up. If I had to talk about them for an hour and a half, I would not be very happy.

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We live in a post-Bretonia sucks video society, so you know, you have to bear that in mind.

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The end times was horrid, but it got rid of Bretonia. So even the darkest of days.

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Complimenting the end times. This is a spicy.

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They have a few good moments, it's just overall they're the worst thing ever.

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Zutelo, there is, that's not French, Zutelo, there is chaos, oh, wee wee, horses, I get.

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Well, that was the questions of the week. Thank you for your answers, brothers. For the next question of the week, we have hashtag Klepto.

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What would you steal from the 40k universe? Of course, make the answers spicy, make them heretical, make them maybe offend Bretonia.

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We love it all. And I'll quickly pass over to Andy to help the beginner section. Andy, take it away.

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Thanks very much, Hal. And without further ado, I think it's time that we announced our returning special guest on his first time on the beginner to expert podcast.

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The illustrious, the lugubrious, the silver play button obtaining man himself, Dreadanon.

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Yo, what's up, gamers? It's time to learn all about Blood Raven's protagonists of hit video games.

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Dawn of War, Dawn of War 2 and the other one. No, that was it. Just Dawn of War 1 and 2.

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No, they were in Space Marine as well. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, the end. Just the end. Yeah.

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You know, I wrote that. Just those three games. And I forgot the other ones. You know, much to my shame, when I played the Space Marine game, I wasn't as into Warhammer at the time.

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And I thought they were blood angels. So I'll cop to that. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, my bad.

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I mean, it's kind of forgivable if you didn't know much at the time. But, you know, now you know better.

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Well, we're going to learn more about them, aren't we? Now we'll see what they're true. Yes, indeed.

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You're all about to get schooled. So sit down, shut up and listen to me talk about the blood.

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Not angels. Raven.

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Wait for a second there.

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I was definitely not going to say angels. Oh, no. You just had to talk about the blood angels. Or terrors. Or Reavers or anything.

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Or any of the blood guys, because these guys are unlike all the other blood guys in that they don't come from the blood angels.

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As far as we know. They're not the Knights of Blood. They're not the blood angels. They're not the blood clotters. They're not the pipe-

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The blood clotters?

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The blood bandits. The blood banditos.

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Bandaritos.

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Yes, because the blood ravens, in fact, come from-

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Redacted.

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They are a successor chapter to-

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Redacted.

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Their true homeworld is-

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Redacted.

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So this actually makes my job super easy because there's barely any information about them, because that's their hat.

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They're mysterious and unknown and they have origins in the murky parts of the galaxy.

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So they're an Alpha Legion successor.

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How dare you.

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Slender, report this man to the Inquisition. And have his penis exploded immediately.

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Oh, no. I need that.

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To the ball-crushing factory with you.

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Oh my god. Can't bring out cock and ball torture so early on in the podcast.

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I've heard of penitent engines, but that's a bit too far, surely.

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Well, hey. Now, you do know, of course, that the blood ravens know some things about various things.

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Because they love their libraries and they love their librarians. They're big brained boys.

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So none of you guys could join.

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Hi, Trey.

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Trey, we'll make Warhammer content for a living. We're not the smartest people in the room.

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Yeah, I listen to audiobooks of 40k because I can't read them. I don't have the ability.

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I have a history degree. They'd love me.

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Well, I have a history degree too, man. Let's just stay on our station. Let's not try to rise above it.

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That's why I stopped teaching.

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We've all made some very bad choices or else we wouldn't be here.

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Not to ruin everyone's game, but like, what did everyone do before they did Warhammer still?

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Because I was an estate agent and now we do this. So this is a different kind of job to me.

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Oh, I was going to teach and then I swiftly decided, wow, I hate this with a passion.

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I used to work as an electro biomechanical engineer at a hospital for 10 years, but that was about it.

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What are you doing here?

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Got fed up of working on defibrillators and stuff.

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Go make something of yourself. You still have time.

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No, I refuse. I refuse. I'm here now.

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Oh, fair enough. I used to be a butcher. I have a history degree, but I never did anything with that.

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If you guys knew the health conditions that happened in factory slaughterhouses just would never eat meat again.

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I have witnessed horrors, the likes that would make Azariah Kairos himself say, all right, guys, this is a bit too much.

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We're totally down.

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But you say that if you used to be a butcher, then clearly for several years you were literally making the bacon.

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So can you complain?

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No!

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Damn.

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I'll have you know I'm slightly above minimum wage.

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Oh.

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Talking about blood ravens, at least.

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The blood ravens, the blood ravens. Oh my god.

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The blood ravens. I name dropped a guy called Azariah Kairos.

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And he's the man to pay attention to in the blood raven story because he's what screwed everything up.

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Because, OK, there also existed a man called Azariah Vidya who is not related to Azariah Kairos very confusingly.

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I think Azariah might be a title instead of a name, but I have no idea.

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I probably should have looked that up before I came on a lore podcast.

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But anyway, the story goes Azariah Kairos and Azariah Vidya were Galavetan trying to take on the demons of Nergal, in particular this stinky boy called Ol' Kher.

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But it seems that Azariah Vidya died or something. We don't know.

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But then Azariah Kairos, who was also the chapter's chief librarian, was like, I lived. I'm gonna, I'm gonna become the chapter master now.

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And if you don't like it, you can take a hike.

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Nobody took a hike because everyone liked him. They thought he was a hero.

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Except for the man, the myth, the legend, the guy who does backflips in Terminator armor.

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For Gabriel Angelos!

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Space Marines.

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Hmm. As best Marines, I am Gabriel Angelos.

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The thing is, third game, it's like, it reminds me of a different IP. Is it League of Legends, the way he moves and everything?

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He don't look like a space marine no more. He's strange.

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He could fit in there to be honest.

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Well, they were chasing the eSports Bucks and they failed miserably.

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What third game?

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We have to confront this at some point, Colin. We can't keep running from it.

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I'm gonna put it all to the end because it comes at the end and I'm gonna...

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Are Bloodrains really, are they the only chapter that has, like, they had a chief librarian, for people who don't know, like a Psyker as their chapter master?

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So was that common in other places too? Does anyone know?

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I don't think it's common.

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I, off the top of my head...

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Probably not unheard of. Like, you can probably find at least one example apart from them, I bet.

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It's kind of cool though, isn't it?

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It's not cool if he's secretly an agent of chaos.

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Yeah, he was king of the nerds who read books. Boo. Boo.

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Were we...

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God, we're getting like out of time.

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How's that glass house of yours, Andy?

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I can't spell my own name. Let's move on.

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You know who else couldn't spell their own name?

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Margaret Thatcher. Sorry, not everything about this earlier, I'm just saying. Sorry.

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Why didn't you have to go and make it political?

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We were having a grand old time talking about space marines and you just had to go and reference a British politician from the 1970s?

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She's already involved in 40k.

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Yeah, she created it.

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She created a Gazgrill magnet or a cracker.

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Oh, actually, that's a misconception. That's a misconception.

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I know, I know.

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Actually, it was rotting.

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Actually, that's an off-propeated myth.

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Oh my god, my brain's gonna rot from the Thatcher memes that are gonna pop from this.

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The rules of art has come to the podcast.

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So Margaret Thatcher inspired Blood Ravens.

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The librarians are now the chapter master in their story.

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Yeah, but Gabriel Angelos was a bit, hey man, you got lost in the work for 500 years.

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I think that's a bit suspicious that you came back and you're suddenly all right.

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I'm raising an eyebrow at you.

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Gabriel Angelos himself has a bit of a checkered past because he blew up his home world.

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Because he cared.

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Because he cared.

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I was wondering where you were going with that. I was like, god damn.

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Because he cared.

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Yeah. No, they were...

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Heresy was a footsie, so he called them exterminatus upon them, which...

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I personally wouldn't have done that, but maybe he's just a tougher dude than me.

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So did Blood Ravens recruit from particular worlds, or were they fleet-based chapters?

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They had a world and then it blew up, and then they had another world.

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It didn't blow up. I think it blew up later, maybe, but I don't know.

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It went through some stuff.

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I don't know if it blew up, but I think a demon landed on it.

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Or was that the other one?

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No, Dawn of War 2 was a very bad time for the Blood Ravens.

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Imagine having to fight Orcs and Eldar and Tyrande all in the same day.

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And Chaos and Tal.

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Chaos and Tal.

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I would just have myself a little snooze after all that, but that's maybe why I'm not a Space Marine.

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Just do an inventory of the corpse starch and be like, let's just wait out a few hours. It'll be fine.

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Yeah. But, spoiler alert, it wasn't fine.

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Because the Blood Ravens had a traitor in their midst.

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Another one, if you can believe it.

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As it turns out, having a bunch of librarians in your chapter means that they're kind of predisposed to getting tainted by Chaos.

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Yeah, like the Thousand Sons.

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Perhaps there could be a connection there! Whoa! But we're getting out of ourselves!

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There was, because Gabriel Angelos' best friend Isador the Librarian, he fancied himself a bit of a hot shot.

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And he tried to become a big shot demon man.

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But Gabriel Angelos wasn't having any of it.

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So he killed him in a quite well voice acted but partly animated cutscene.

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So let's pour one out for Isador, the big traitor.

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Shout out to my boy.

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Which Chaos God corrupted him though? Was it all of them, or was it just one?

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I think it was Korn, but it's weird because he was buddies with a sorcerer, even though Korn's not supposed to have sorcerers.

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Yeah, Korn corrupted a sorcerer.

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He did it twice! Azariah Kairos was also fond of Korn later on in Dawn of War 2.

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They just couldn't get enough of that Korn.

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For anyone who doesn't know watching this, Korn, the Chaos God of basically blood and murder, despises psychers.

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So the idea he would ever want to have a psycho in his midst is...

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I mean it makes sense that he's just like, hey look at this bunch of nerds, I'm gonna ruin their day.

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Am I just having a one sided crush on a Chaos God?

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That's pretty pathetic.

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I mean, it's Slanesh, that's what Slanesh corruption is really, isn't it?

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No, Slanesh loves everyone back.

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In her own special way.

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Yeah, to the degree where you're like, I don't want that. Take it back.

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What was his name, the librarian who turned to Korn?

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His name, Isidor. He has a first name too. No, he has a second name. Isidor asked for Kairos.

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So he was one sided. And he signed up to only Korn. Oh dear.

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And then he got quacked! Quite liberally, I think.

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That is what happened. He got Gabriel Angelost.

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What the fuh?

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Gabriel Angelost turned around and said, it's Angelost time. And Angelost all over him.

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Oh. Yuck. I don't like that. Yuck. Oh man.

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So everything was gravy for the Blood Ravens for a little while. Until...

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It wasn't. Because soon they would come under the command of the commander, so dunderheaded, so silly,

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so incompetent that it would wipe out a third of their total strength in the acclaimed Dawn of War expansion pack, Soulstorm.

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It wasn't acclaimed. That was sarcasm.

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That game is only good for the big apocalypse mod. That's the only reason you own that game.

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Unity and the apocalypse mods. That's what Dawn of War Soulstorm is for.

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Most of the characters you follow, who was the Imperial Guard captain?

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He was in Dark Crusade and he immediately dies in the beginning of Soulstorm.

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No. You weren't writing this.

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Just repeat what it is. Oh, go ahead, sorry.

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Yeah, Gorgots, fan favorite Gorgots, shows up and he's voiced by a different actor and he sounds really bored.

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Oh God.

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Dawn of War has had a rough history.

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I must admit, I never had the chance to play the games, but I've watched people play them and I love the videos.

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Is it by 7TP? He did the Necron one with Skeletor animated into it. It's very good.

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My favorite part is the blood wraiths fight the Imperial Guard.

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For people who don't know, the Space Marines and Imperial Guard, there's been times where Space Marines will attack the Imperials

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because it therefore conflicts with their own objectives, even though they're both of the Imperium.

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Do you remember the reason, Dread, why they had to fight the Blood Ravens and the Imperial Guard in Dark Crusade?

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Yes. Because the gameplay required them to.

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That's the true reason. Was it their own goal?

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They were trying to capture a temple or something. No, it's because the Blood Ravens had some shady goings on on the planet

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and the Imperial Guard were like, don't think you guys should be doing that. Maybe we could have a little look inside that building you're occupying.

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To be fair, they're already fighting like evil Blood Ravens and they're like, are you good Blood Ravens? Are you bad ones?

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What do you mean? Eliphas the Inheritor?

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Yeah, that guy.

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He's still the best by far, best faction word bearers in that game. So much fun.

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He's all like, ha ha ha. And Captain Davey and Thor is all like, no! And they go back and forth for a bit.

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And then Thor gets clapped in a war too. Sorry, I exploded.

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He gets freaking roasted and he gets put in a dreadnought, which I don't know, that seems like a pretty sweet deal to me, aside from all the hundreds of years of agonizing pain.

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But you get to be a dreadnought, so that's pretty cool.

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I wish I was a dreadnought.

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Really?

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You mean you're not?

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No, I'm actually some guy who's not in a dreadnought.

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You heard it here first, the YouTube channel is a lie. He's not a dreadnought.

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He's not even angry, he's actually quite calm.

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Yeah. This is stolen valor, but for a dreadnought and also for being angry. So send your hit mail to dreadnought at gmail.com.

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Oh man, this is definitely a weird hashtag, hashtag stolen valor.

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I came from a different kind of video.

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Yeah, if I go to a Warhammer store I'll get people coming up to me filming me and going like, sir, let me see your reference number.

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I'll be like, I left it in my wallet at home.

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Where's your dreadnought membership card? It's in my wallet.

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I don't think you're a dreadnought at all!

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And then I run away and call security.

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So people go around questioning, yo, why is this guy not on life support in a tomb?

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This guy can breathe! Get his ass!

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How did he get through the door?

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Do you actually have any dreadnought miniatures? I have to ask.

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I can't afford that. I can't afford any of that stuff.

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What do you think I am, some kind of YouTube Warhammer 40k guy who invests in the hobby?

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That's ridiculous!

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Do you have any tabletop stuff?

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No, I can't paint at all. I have negative artistic capabilities so I would only end up asking people to paint for me and that seems like it defeats the whole purpose.

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If I were to, I would like to get myself some Imperial Knights and also a Bellacor movie because he's got a really cool model.

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Actually, some Age of Sigmar stuff looks pretty cool like the Deepkin and lots of really cool models.

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Oh yeah.

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Now you've got Colin.

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I've got him excited now.

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Deepkin video.

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This is the only time I will ever talk about Age of Sigmar in any capacity but yeah, the Deepkin have some pretty cool units.

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I'll take it.

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I can't paint so in the event that I learn how to paint I will get myself some models and paint them.

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Could you melt down your silver play button and then sell the silver to buy the model?

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No, you're not allowed to! It's in the guidelines, you're not allowed to do that or else they'll terminate your YouTube account.

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I don't know if they would though but maybe there's some sort of chip in it.

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Even if you did, it's nickel. It's not silver.

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It'll probably get stolen as an artifact of the Blood Ravens from then on.

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No, we have to get to that. We have to get to the Blood Ravens most nefarious, most infamous trait.

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It's one of those things that I'm pretty sure was just not something the developers were thinking about.

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Like it's just, oh hey, let's just put in a bunch of references to other chapters. People will like that.

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They didn't think too hard about it but the way it looks is that the Blood Ravens have ransacked hundreds of other chapters,

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stealing all their most important and treasured artifacts which has kind of spun into its own thing by the community.

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I must admit, if there was a side story that Black Library released with a character who's supposed to have one of these artifacts

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and just as a quick aside, it disappears for a few chapters, that would be so good just to tease the connection.

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But they're cowards, they won't do it.

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GW, I demand that you recognize the Blood Ravens' kleptomania. It's a serious problem and you have the power to bring attention to it.

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In the background of every Ultramarine's book going forward, there should just be mention of a single Blood Raven taking around battlefields.

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I'm going to look up how much stuff they actually have.

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If you look up images, it is a lot.

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What are the Blood Ravens currently up to now though in terms of the...

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Well to know that, you have to play Dawn of War 3.

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So moving swiftly on, for those of you who don't know, there are three games in the Dawn of War series starring the Blood Ravens.

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First one, it's pretty good, pretty great, pretty great.

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Second one, also pretty great, it's a bit of a different thing, it's more of an action RPG thing, but pretty great, pretty great.

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And then there's Dawn of War 3.

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Also known as League of Legends 40K.

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Yeah, it's shit!

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I think they apologized immediately after they released it, didn't they?

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Which is like slapping someone and then going, I'm so sorry man, I don't know why I did that.

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Thanks for buying this, but we're keeping the money.

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Little did they know that would become standard practice in the games industry years later.

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To release garbage in the head of their time.

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Yeah.

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I hate to bring it up, but Darktide...

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At the time of recording, Darktide is not in a good state.

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And when it released back in November, I think December, they immediately apologized for the state of the game.

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So yeah, we're hoping...

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As of the day of recording, they announced a co-op mode for Space Marine 2, which looks really good.

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Maybe the Blood Ravens will show up in there?

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Yeah, we're hoping the Blood Ravens will appear as a cameo in that game.

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When I saw that reveal for the co-op, I had a twinge of fear that one of the co-op partners would be Leandros, and I was very happy to see he wasn't there.

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I was like, please, please, please, please!

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No Mark Strong, though, unfortunately.

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Even as a side character.

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He isn't cheap these days, you know?

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To be fair, the guy who's doing it now is Rollo from Vikings, isn't he? The guy who played him. So that should be good.

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He'll be good, he'll be fine. He'll be good.

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I know, it's hard to follow up.

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I think in Space Marine 3 they should get Dreadanon to play Captain Titus.

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Wow, that's a good suggestion.

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I think it would be better if Eliphas came back to Space Marine 3 as the main villain, and then you could voice him and do his over-the-top mustache twirling. That would be great.

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I've always wanted a mustache I could twirl.

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This is the game for me.

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I want to play Eliphas, I've always wanted a mustache.

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No, I'm currently gunning for Thanquil in Total War Warhammer.

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There we go.

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Wow, Colin's definitely interested now.

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He brought up the Iduneth, he brought up Thanquil.

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He's in all the best hits.

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I will start an annoying email campaign, Creative Assembly. You will rue the day you spurned me, a mid-level YouTuber who isn't even that good. So watch your back.

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They're quivering in their boots from the YouTube.

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He's going to send the Blood Ravens to steal all the other voice actors.

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Hashtag Dread Army. Hashtag... Kidnapping. Yeah. Hashtag Theft. Hashtag Blood Ravens. Remember the Blood Ravens, that Space Marine chapter we were supposed to do a podcast episode on?

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We're just doing an intro of it, that's fine. Hashtag Dread of War.

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I think Colin's got the facts in bag.

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Hashtag Dread and On didn't actually do any research, so we're forced to...

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From memory.

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I've played the Dawn of War game, so I know what I'm talking about. Let's take a look at Steam to see when... last played... last played December 2014. Yeah. So I guess it's still pretty fresh in my head.

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That shit is archiotech by this point.

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Nearly a decade, wow.

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Guys, what's a Blood Raven?

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Oh lord.

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I mean you did sum it up pretty well there.

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Redacted, redacted, redacted.

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Okay, anyway, so, anyway, they're, they're kleptomaniac psychics who used to serve Nergal for a bit, but now they don't anymore.

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Colin, take it away!

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Alright!

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I mean, to be fair, not inaccurate at all.

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But, let me make sure that, oh no, never mind, I was just having a bit of a useless panic attack.

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Let's go to the experts of the Blood Ravens.

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Experts section. I'm the expert. I am the expert. It's me time now.

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If you say it enough, if I say it enough, I will get a pedigree.

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I bet this nerd made notes and everything.

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No.

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It's appropriate for this episode, it's Blood Ravens.

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The Blood Ravens stole Colin's notes, it's fine.

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Yeah, I'm also going off memory.

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No, no, no.

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Fun times.

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But, I'll start with the origins of the Blood Ravens, and then right after that the theories of their origins,

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because I want to get that out of the way so it's not hanging over the rest of the video like the sword of Damocles.

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Also, apologies for the construction noise in the background, if you can hear that, it did not go away.

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Anyways, the Blood Ravens origins, they are a bit tricky, one could say,

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because their earliest records they have only go back to the 37th millennia,

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which you'll note is a couple thousand years after Space Marines had been a thing since the 31st millennia.

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Now, that in itself is not super odd, you know, I mean there's plenty of chapters that have been found past the original legions,

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the early Ultramarines, the other 19 that were not Ultramarines that are less important than the Ultramarines.

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Plenty have come up after them.

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And the issue though, is that there's references to them serving with other chapters and organizations before the 37th millennium.

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But every time they try and find like the text that these references are mentioning,

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it either doesn't exist, it's gone, or it's under lock and key by the Inquisition.

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So every time they try and find out, hey, what were we up to before, you know, M37, they just can't.

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They just can't get the information.

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To make it even worse, because the whole thing is mystery, but it's actually mystery, not Alpha Legion's mystery, where they just don't tell you anything,

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some of the knowledge that is known about the chapter was found on Eldar worlds in the Eye of Terror, guarded by Harlequins.

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So God only knows what that was doing there, but that would imply they're far more ancient than just the 37th millennia,

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which again, fair is fair, that's 4,000 years old.

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But if the Harlequins are guarding something in the Eye of Terror, which is Eldar Hell, something's probably up in them.

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I'm pretty confident saying that, something's probably up.

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Whatever the case may be, they call this the unfounding, which I think is just cute.

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We don't have a founding, we were unfounded.

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Whoops.

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They like kind of shift their leg in that form.

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Your assertion is unfounded, Bloodravens.

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I dropped, oops, I dropped all my evidence.

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Do they have, what's their shout, is it to the missing or the lost Primarch, or the unknown Primarch?

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One of their battle cries, and it's like for the unknown Primarch or something like that.

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I did not see a battle cry about that.

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I did write down a couple of their battle cries for later, but I believe, I did not see anything about them having a battle cry about the...

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It might have been in the games that they reference it, not...

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I remember hearing that at some point, and it's like, for the unknown Primarch, and you kind of go, oh damn, it's like you can't tell what the hell's going on.

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Yeah, that very well could easily be like...

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I have a theory with the whole, they don't know what their genes are, they just ask their chatmaster, like,

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Dad, where do Space Marines come from?

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They say, oh, they...

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Ask your mother.

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There wasn't a founding, we just ask your mother.

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I don't have a mother.

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Goodbye, son.

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And that was why they got such weird origin.

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The Primarch went out to get milk and cigarettes.

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But because, like I said, I don't want to be having the mystery hanging over for all of those of you fans of suspense,

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Sorry, I'm just going to rip the bandaid off now on the theories of their origins.

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Now, the two major theories about them are that they are either from the Wordbearers or the Thousand Suns.

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Who could have seen that one coming?

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Just some general facts that could go either way.

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The Blood Ravens destroy pretty much any sign of evidence of their origins that hint like,

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Hey, this is solid proof of the Primarch, the Legion we're from.

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They tend to get rid of it, which is rather suspicious because, you know, surely loyal sons of the Emperor would have no reason to do that, right?

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But they do that.

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A little bit suspicious, I'm not going to lie.

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00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:53,900
And the other main thing hinting, I say hinting, that they're from a traitor Legion,

411
00:36:53,900 --> 00:37:02,900
is a white dwarf article about them that ends with them suggesting that their sorcerous habits imply their original Legion was not one of the loyalist ones.

412
00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:05,900
Which seems pretty good confirmation.

413
00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:07,900
Probably don't come from the good boys.

414
00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:08,900
Hint, hint, wink, wink.

415
00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:09,900
Yeah.

416
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:13,900
And they actually hail from like the Aurelia system.

417
00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:18,900
It is. Subsector Aurelia.

418
00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:19,900
As for-

419
00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:27,900
I guess you could say all those relics of theirs are getting a bit dusty.

420
00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:30,900
Screw you, Ehrman.

421
00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:32,900
Ehrman alone. He's trying his best.

422
00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:41,900
I think Yvrain reversing the rubric and then throwing those unrubric marines straight into the warp is the funniest thing I've ever read.

423
00:37:41,900 --> 00:37:45,900
I can reverse the rubric. I'm not going to though.

424
00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,900
He just goes, no, no, he literally dives in immediately after them.

425
00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:55,900
He's not going to do anything about it. He's been trying to get in the Black Library for 10,000 years and the Clown God keeps clowning on him.

426
00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:57,900
He's not going to do anything about it.

427
00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,900
No, but let him try.

428
00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:03,900
I'll let him try and then laugh when he fails, just like Zinch does.

429
00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:15,900
Just to make it super obvious for like if you're a beginner to Warhammer, where it's heavily implied that the Blood Ravens, their gene seeders from the Primarch Magnus the Red slash the Thousand Sons,

430
00:38:15,900 --> 00:38:35,900
which are obviously a traitor legion, which is obviously you wouldn't really allow a traitor legion gene seed to continue. That's probably why they mash up any information about any hints of their own history sort of being tied to traitor blood, shall we say.

431
00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:43,900
And it's definitely even their sigil based on is it the Corvadae cult? It's like the Raven looks just like one of the cults from the Thousand Sons.

432
00:38:43,900 --> 00:38:48,900
I was going to get to that. In fact, that might be related to a quote I'm going to hand you off.

433
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:49,900
Segway!

434
00:38:49,900 --> 00:38:57,900
Yeah, almost though. I want to get rid of the wordbearers evidence first because it's a lot more limited, at least in my opinion.

435
00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:14,900
It's more or less limited to the fact that some of the taunts of Chaos Lord Eliphas the Inheritor he makes in Dark Crusade, I believe it is, can be interpreted as wordbearers. That might be where they're from.

436
00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:24,900
And there's the fact that for those of you new to Warhammer, if you have the Thousand Sons gene seed, it tends to turn you into living soup.

437
00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:34,900
And the Blood Ravens are not all living soup. So it is one of pretty much the only major strike against them being Thousand Sons loyalists.

438
00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:43,900
And then there's all the evidence pointing towards them being Thousand Sons loyalists, such as absolute boatload of psychers in the Blood Ravens.

439
00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:46,900
They recruit from worlds with a high proportion of psychers on them.

440
00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:56,900
There was a group of psychers in the Thousand Sons known as the Corvidae cult, which Corvidae is the subspecies of birds that Ravens belong to.

441
00:39:56,900 --> 00:40:03,900
And one, this name's gonna give me some trouble, Revuel Arvida.

442
00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:04,900
Revuel Arvida.

443
00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:06,900
Hey, I got it.

444
00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:12,900
Once mentioned how knowledge is power, which is one of their battle cries.

445
00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:21,900
And I believe it was a Remembrancer, and I might be giving this one off to the Remembrancer to read for that reason.

446
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:27,900
Also, you have read all the Horus Heresy books, so if anyone will recognize this quote, you would.

447
00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:29,900
Is this from Promius?

448
00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:31,900
Probably.

449
00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:41,900
It is a nice quote said by an individual during the Horus Heresy looking into the future.

450
00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:44,900
Andy, would you mind reading that one out for us?

451
00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:45,900
I'll give it a go.

452
00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:47,900
Let's see.

453
00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:50,900
Ravens, I see them too.

454
00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:55,900
The Lost Sons and a Raven of Blood.

455
00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:59,900
They cry out for salvation and knowledge, but it is denied.

456
00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:03,900
Brother betrayed. A brother murdered.

457
00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:13,900
There's a bit more of the quote before and after that, but the Ravens and a Raven of Blood, and the person is talking about the Thousand Sons.

458
00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:17,900
Gee, I wonder what the connection there is.

459
00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:21,900
Don't need to think about that one too much.

460
00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:28,900
In fact, actually, if I remember correctly, the person who said that quote was the first Grandmaster of the Grey Knights.

461
00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:31,900
Andy, can you back me up on that one? Is that a belief?

462
00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:34,900
That would be Revuel Arvida, wouldn't it?

463
00:41:34,900 --> 00:41:37,900
Who was the last son of Prospero.

464
00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:43,900
I'm not sure if that is where the quote is from, but he was literally the only loyalist Thousand Son left.

465
00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:53,900
He was basically merged with the arguably best Shard of Magnus, Malchador's experiments.

466
00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:55,900
Janus.

467
00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:56,900
Janus.

468
00:41:56,900 --> 00:42:05,900
It's all Janus I've talked about in when Magnus before in the Suit of Terror, when Magnus appears before the Emperor,

469
00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:14,900
the Emperor does say to him that he basically his sons are corrupted and the current Thousand Sons in the 30k timeline.

470
00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:22,900
And he basically says, join me again, you know, because Magnus has never fully fallen to chaos until the very end of the Suit of Terror.

471
00:42:22,900 --> 00:42:30,900
And he essentially says, join me, but you have to let your Thousand Sons die because they've been corrupted by Zeen.

472
00:42:30,900 --> 00:42:35,900
That's why when Colin said earlier, like, if you're a Thousand Sons gene seed, you basically turn to soup.

473
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:40,900
It was because Zeen corrupted their gene seed like very early on, like in secret.

474
00:42:40,900 --> 00:42:43,900
And the Emperor says, I'll give you a new Legion.

475
00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:50,900
And obviously, I think it's implied that people thought it might be he'll give Magnus the Grey Knights to lead.

476
00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:53,900
So obviously, it could have been like he...

477
00:42:53,900 --> 00:42:54,900
The blood rate.

478
00:42:54,900 --> 00:42:55,900
You'll get a new chapter.

479
00:42:55,900 --> 00:42:56,900
Proper.

480
00:42:56,900 --> 00:43:01,900
Well, it became a chapter because of the Codex of Stardust by Yermaine Mann and Gilliman.

481
00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:07,900
Yeah, it could have been like from that when maybe it was implied like, well, make you a new Legion.

482
00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:10,900
And then Magnus goes, no, because I like my sons.

483
00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:15,900
And then eventually turns into a demon and suddenly goes, actually, I don't really care that much about them now.

484
00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:16,900
I'm a demon.

485
00:43:16,900 --> 00:43:20,900
I do like... Chaos Witcheroom.

486
00:43:20,900 --> 00:43:22,900
Pretty much, yeah.

487
00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:28,900
I do like as well how Revuel Arvido is the only one who doesn't fall to the flesh change because he was hanging around with the White Scars

488
00:43:28,900 --> 00:43:31,900
and he grew massive balls by virtue of being in proximity to them.

489
00:43:31,900 --> 00:43:33,900
Like, nah, flesh change is cringe.

490
00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:36,900
Nah, I'm part of the White Scars now, it's fine.

491
00:43:36,900 --> 00:43:38,900
Wasn't he stuck inside his armour though?

492
00:43:38,900 --> 00:43:41,900
He also learned how to roll really well.

493
00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:42,900
I mean, he had to.

494
00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:46,900
The man is... he was a god in the battlefield though, wasn't he?

495
00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:53,900
They said like, he was like, the White Scars and the Emperor's children are fighting during the Horus Heresy

496
00:43:53,900 --> 00:43:59,900
and Revuel Arvido just like straight up just like shoves them all back at one point and just looks disappointed.

497
00:43:59,900 --> 00:44:03,900
And this guy shakes his head and they retreat.

498
00:44:03,900 --> 00:44:05,900
And he's like the only thousand sun.

499
00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:07,900
And they said, you can join us?

500
00:44:07,900 --> 00:44:08,900
And he's like, nah.

501
00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:16,900
Yeah, Tartagotai Usu guy was like, ah we made like a pauldron with like thousand suns heraldry and our heraldry

502
00:44:16,900 --> 00:44:18,900
and you can be part of our legion.

503
00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:25,900
He was like, that's very kind, but I still want to be a thousand sun even if I'm the last one and then...

504
00:44:25,900 --> 00:44:27,900
Well truth was he couldn't get out of his armour.

505
00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:29,900
Yeah, there was that too.

506
00:44:29,900 --> 00:44:31,900
Well he was bloated up by the flesh change.

507
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:34,900
Bit fat.

508
00:44:34,900 --> 00:44:36,900
He was feeling fat that weekend.

509
00:44:36,900 --> 00:44:38,900
Whatever happened without that?

510
00:44:38,900 --> 00:44:40,900
Hey, no body shaming on this podcast.

511
00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:43,900
True, true. We don't shame no Space Marines.

512
00:44:43,900 --> 00:44:45,900
Thick girthy body.

513
00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:47,900
I shame Space Marines.

514
00:44:47,900 --> 00:44:48,900
Oh God.

515
00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:55,900
Although in the last podcast episode on the Black Legion, Hal did like start talking about the length of Abaddon's top knot

516
00:44:55,900 --> 00:44:56,900
and we were like, Hal?

517
00:44:56,900 --> 00:44:58,900
Hal, no.

518
00:44:58,900 --> 00:45:00,900
Hey, it was pretty big.

519
00:45:00,900 --> 00:45:03,900
Alright, alright, alright, alright now.

520
00:45:03,900 --> 00:45:06,900
You're just being silly.

521
00:45:06,900 --> 00:45:08,900
I hear three inches is huge.

522
00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:11,900
Three? Damn.

523
00:45:11,900 --> 00:45:13,900
I thought we were leaving three there.

524
00:45:13,900 --> 00:45:15,900
I thought we were doing Dawn of War 3.

525
00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:17,900
We're actually doing the number three.

526
00:45:17,900 --> 00:45:19,900
There's no Dawn of War 3. There's no Half-Life 3.

527
00:45:19,900 --> 00:45:21,900
Anyways, moving on.

528
00:45:21,900 --> 00:45:26,900
Regardless of where that quote ultimately comes from, if I lore-crimed it or not,

529
00:45:26,900 --> 00:45:31,900
that Janus fellow, I'm going to keep calling it Janus, I'm not saying Iannis, I don't care.

530
00:45:31,900 --> 00:45:35,900
I call Juergen, Juergen, Juergen.

531
00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:38,900
I'm not saying that either.

532
00:45:38,900 --> 00:45:40,900
Iannis.

533
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:42,900
He's a, that fellow.

534
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:44,900
What's this about your Anus?

535
00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:47,900
Janus, Janus the Valor.

536
00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:51,900
The Anus master of the Grey Knights, who was the first Grandmaster.

537
00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:56,900
He did not just die, he disappeared.

538
00:45:56,900 --> 00:46:04,900
Which, given that the Grey Knights are very prone to secrecy, him disappearing and founding his own chapter of space wizards,

539
00:46:04,900 --> 00:46:10,900
would rather be, that would rather line up with something the Imperium would like to keep hidden, I think.

540
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:18,900
And for the low-hanging fruit, the Thousand Suns were a chapter of red-colored space wizards.

541
00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:22,900
The Blood Ravens are a chapter of red-colored space wizards.

542
00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:24,900
I know that's rather low-hanging fruit.

543
00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:29,900
But it's also a very obvious, easy to make comparison.

544
00:46:29,900 --> 00:46:35,900
At least when they were loyalists, the Thousand Suns, they're all blue now because of the zinch, but they were red.

545
00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:42,900
So, there's their traitor legion, all but stated to be backstory.

546
00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:46,900
For some slightly more reliable history, they did actually exist before Dawn of War.

547
00:46:46,900 --> 00:46:51,900
They were just one of those background chapters that was mentioned probably once in a paragraph,

548
00:46:51,900 --> 00:46:54,900
and then we get 50 more pages of Ultramarine's lore.

549
00:46:54,900 --> 00:47:01,900
I looked for days straight trying to find the Blood Ravens lore prior to this.

550
00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:06,900
Could not find it. I just know they existed beforehand, and that was the end of the story.

551
00:47:06,900 --> 00:47:09,900
They were one of those background chapters that doesn't matter.

552
00:47:09,900 --> 00:47:13,900
But hey, then Dawn of War, and that's how we get these amazing fellows.

553
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:19,900
First off, as I just need to get out of the way now, the voice acting of Dawn of War,

554
00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:24,900
the finest choice of voice acting ham you could possibly ask for.

555
00:47:24,900 --> 00:47:34,900
Everyone is giving it 110% energy, 200% of the time, and it's amazing.

556
00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:38,900
That's the kind of war hammer I love when everyone is screaming and shouting,

557
00:47:38,900 --> 00:47:42,900
and just constant yelling about heresy in the Emperor.

558
00:47:42,900 --> 00:47:45,900
That is what happens with the Blood Ravens take to the field.

559
00:47:45,900 --> 00:47:50,900
It gets very loud and yelling, and then everyone just starts fighting everyone.

560
00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:52,900
It is a blast.

561
00:47:52,900 --> 00:47:57,900
So, for their history of the constant yelling they did,

562
00:47:57,900 --> 00:48:04,900
one of the earliest campaigns that they know of, and again, that they know of very key to the Blood Ravens,

563
00:48:04,900 --> 00:48:10,900
was in the Gothic sector, where Abaddon and his Black Crusades get those Blackstone fortresses,

564
00:48:10,900 --> 00:48:12,900
you might notice from Battlefleet Gothic.

565
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:18,900
The Blood Ravens were around there as well, although I don't believe it was during that crusade.

566
00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:22,900
They're noted as facing off against Chaos Forces and suffering immense losses,

567
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:26,900
though again, there's no solid records of this happening either.

568
00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:30,900
They just know it happened, but there's no records of having it,

569
00:48:30,900 --> 00:48:33,900
which is, again, more fun with the Blood Ravens.

570
00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:39,900
They had some early successes, but the Chaos Forces were luring them into complacency and traps,

571
00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:43,900
make the Blood Ravens think they were doing a lot better than they actually were,

572
00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:48,900
and then they went through some rough times.

573
00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:54,900
The chapter master of the time was Slane, defending the first company on a retreat,

574
00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:58,900
which already, I think, makes them apart from other Space Marine chapters of the time,

575
00:48:58,900 --> 00:49:03,900
as when Dawn of Orr is being made, Space Marines generally did not do things like retreat.

576
00:49:03,900 --> 00:49:09,900
This was Older Warhammer, where retreat was a no-no word. That would get you shot.

577
00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:11,900
You mean tactical redeploy?

578
00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:16,900
Yes, if you tactically redeployed, you were tactically redeployed to the afterlife.

579
00:49:16,900 --> 00:49:20,900
How are you going to hit them with your chainsword if you're going the opposite way?

580
00:49:20,900 --> 00:49:21,900
Exactly.

581
00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:22,900
You need to get closer. What are you doing?

582
00:49:22,900 --> 00:49:28,900
So the Blood Ravens already kind of set themselves apart with things like retreating.

583
00:49:28,900 --> 00:49:35,900
Their chief librarian, Azariah Vidya, came to hold the position of chapter master after this,

584
00:49:35,900 --> 00:49:38,900
a dual role that would become tradition for the Blood Ravens.

585
00:49:38,900 --> 00:49:40,900
Voice crack, okay.

586
00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:44,900
With him at the helm of the Blood Ravens, they returned to war with the Renewed Spirit,

587
00:49:44,900 --> 00:49:49,900
and they crushed the Chaos Forces they came into conflict with, with almost supernatural precision,

588
00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:54,900
because again, he's a librarian. He is a space wizard super soldier.

589
00:49:54,900 --> 00:49:59,900
So they used psychic powers to take care of the Chaos Forces.

590
00:49:59,900 --> 00:50:03,900
And after this somewhat resounding victory, because again, a whole lot of them still died,

591
00:50:03,900 --> 00:50:08,900
the Blood Angels, I did it. I did the thing.

592
00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:11,900
You know what? It is hard, isn't it?

593
00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:13,900
It's going to keep happening too.

594
00:50:13,900 --> 00:50:21,900
The Blood Ravens rebuilt, and Azariah Vidya set a bit of a precedent where if they could help it,

595
00:50:21,900 --> 00:50:26,900
the chief librarian would also be the chief chapter master, the chapter master.

596
00:50:26,900 --> 00:50:30,900
Something, as we said, probably not completely unique to the Blood Ravens,

597
00:50:30,900 --> 00:50:35,900
given that there's at least a thousand space marine chapters in the 40k galaxy,

598
00:50:35,900 --> 00:50:37,900
but definitely makes them an outlier.

599
00:50:37,900 --> 00:50:41,900
That definitely is the kind of thing that makes you stand out.

600
00:50:41,900 --> 00:50:47,900
And then we get to don a war proper, which is, whew, fun times.

601
00:50:47,900 --> 00:50:52,900
Before we do that though, their battle cry, I mentioned part of it earlier, but Hal,

602
00:50:52,900 --> 00:50:57,900
would you mind reading out their full battle cry? It's not very long. It's a battle cry.

603
00:50:57,900 --> 00:51:01,900
Of course.

604
00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:06,900
Knowledge is power. Guard it well.

605
00:51:06,900 --> 00:51:07,900
That's pretty much it, yeah.

606
00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:11,900
I gotta say, it's not my first choice for a battle cry,

607
00:51:11,900 --> 00:51:18,900
but I do think it is infinitely better than that one Andy broke out for the Dark Angels,

608
00:51:18,900 --> 00:51:22,900
which just straight up sounded like a Dawn of War menu quote.

609
00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:25,900
It was word salad. That is not a battle cry.

610
00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:29,900
I think it's an inverse on the Thousand Suns one, isn't it?

611
00:51:29,900 --> 00:51:36,900
The only sin is ignorance. The only power is knowledge.

612
00:51:36,900 --> 00:51:39,900
There's another connection for you.

613
00:51:39,900 --> 00:51:42,900
It does remind me of Meditores as well.

614
00:51:42,900 --> 00:51:44,900
The mental is mental one.

615
00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:47,900
That's something like knowing it's after battle.

616
00:51:47,900 --> 00:51:50,900
That's just G.I. Joe.

617
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:55,900
Yeah, I was hoping you wouldn't find it, but it's very similar, and they're my favorite chapter, and it's silly.

618
00:51:55,900 --> 00:52:00,900
They start getting into like, I think therefore I am at this point, it's gonna get even more.

619
00:52:00,900 --> 00:52:03,900
It's not going back on itself.

620
00:52:03,900 --> 00:52:06,900
But now we come to Dawn of War one.

621
00:52:06,900 --> 00:52:13,900
That's why they're all psychers, because all their battle cries are very wordy, because they're librarians.

622
00:52:13,900 --> 00:52:22,900
You know that image of the guy going, where do you work out, and then the other guy says, at the library, and he has a giant head?

623
00:52:22,900 --> 00:52:26,900
I found it. It's knowledge is half the battle.

624
00:52:26,900 --> 00:52:28,900
That is just G.I. Joe.

625
00:52:28,900 --> 00:52:31,900
It is just G.I. Joe, and it's great.

626
00:52:31,900 --> 00:52:35,900
I love when Warhammer's goofy like that.

627
00:52:35,900 --> 00:52:39,900
But, uh, Dawn of War- oh yeah, speaking of orcs, they're coming up.

628
00:52:39,900 --> 00:52:43,900
Dawn of War one, we come to the planet of Tartarus.

629
00:52:43,900 --> 00:52:50,900
Which, gee, that's not foreshadowing what this planet is holding or anything. Tartarus.

630
00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:53,900
It's got a demon on it!

631
00:52:53,900 --> 00:52:54,900
Correct!

632
00:52:54,900 --> 00:52:56,900
It just reminds me of Halo, though. It just reminds me of Halo.

633
00:52:56,900 --> 00:53:00,900
Oh, God. Oh, I love-

634
00:53:00,900 --> 00:53:05,900
Whereas Warhammer writers are like, yo, I heard you guys like myth, and they rub their hands together.

635
00:53:05,900 --> 00:53:12,900
I want some myth for you, and they open up their little jacket, and you have to look at it like, myth, myth, myth.

636
00:53:12,900 --> 00:53:18,900
You want some Greek? I got some Roman here. You want some Persian?

637
00:53:18,900 --> 00:53:24,900
We're gonna name every member of the Dark Angels after Judeo-Christian history.

638
00:53:24,900 --> 00:53:27,900
Yeah, okay, we've got Belial, Azrael, Gabriel.

639
00:53:27,900 --> 00:53:30,900
Where's Chris Jericho, the Dark Angel, at this point?

640
00:53:30,900 --> 00:53:35,900
So then we've got Gabriel Angelos, very on the nose. The angel angel himself.

641
00:53:35,900 --> 00:53:39,900
The Brutes would probably do quite well with Corridor ship, wouldn't you say so, Andy?

642
00:53:39,900 --> 00:53:43,900
If it weren't for the Great Journey taking up their religious aspects.

643
00:53:43,900 --> 00:53:47,900
Give them better helmets than those little plates that you can just pop off.

644
00:53:47,900 --> 00:53:48,900
Oh, yeah.

645
00:53:48,900 --> 00:53:54,900
But we come Tartarus. The Blood Raven's third company, led by Captain Gabriel Angelos,

646
00:53:54,900 --> 00:53:59,900
makes planet fall and begins fighting the orcs on the planet.

647
00:53:59,900 --> 00:54:03,900
Because, again, that's 40k, that's Warhammer settings.

648
00:54:03,900 --> 00:54:08,900
There is a planet, orcs just will eventually show up there if you wait long enough.

649
00:54:08,900 --> 00:54:12,900
But quickly into the battle they realize it's all a cover by the Alpha Legion,

650
00:54:12,900 --> 00:54:15,900
which I think it's cool that it's the Alpha Legion actually doing it.

651
00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:21,900
I don't like them, but I do like when they're actually doing something and it's explained, which is what happens here.

652
00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:24,900
They're pretty weird in the Dawn of War games, aren't they? Because they're kind of...

653
00:54:24,900 --> 00:54:27,900
They're not very Alpha Legion-y, almost.

654
00:54:27,900 --> 00:54:33,900
I think some of that is because there's only so much you can do with an RTS, especially an older one like that,

655
00:54:33,900 --> 00:54:38,900
to make them sneaky. Also, stealth in Dawn of War is an absolute nightmare.

656
00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:42,900
I'll cover when we get to...

657
00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:44,900
That's just funny to make your units invisible.

658
00:54:44,900 --> 00:54:46,900
Yeah, we'll get to Cyrus later.

659
00:54:46,900 --> 00:54:54,900
But as they're led, the Alpha Legion is led by Chaos Lord Baal and his sorcerer, Sindri.

660
00:54:54,900 --> 00:55:03,900
Also, not terribly important, but the orc warboss leading the attack is named Orcamongus.

661
00:55:03,900 --> 00:55:05,900
Yo.

662
00:55:05,900 --> 00:55:07,900
That was brilliant.

663
00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:10,900
I love Orcamongus.

664
00:55:10,900 --> 00:55:14,900
I just love the idea of, like, when the Wars of Armageddon, the Steel Legion's like,

665
00:55:14,900 --> 00:55:18,900
how many orcs? Like, I don't know. It's Orcamongus. Hey! Nice one.

666
00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:22,900
And then there's the flying boom side effects.

667
00:55:22,900 --> 00:55:27,900
I was like, this is even before the era of, like, my name is Hugh. Hugh what? Hugh-mongus.

668
00:55:27,900 --> 00:55:30,900
This is even before that old reference.

669
00:55:30,900 --> 00:55:37,900
And then shortly into the invasion as they're mopping up some orcs, an Inquisitor shows up and says that

670
00:55:37,900 --> 00:55:43,900
everyone needs to get the hell off this planet because a warp storm is brewing, and no one wants to be around for that.

671
00:55:43,900 --> 00:55:53,900
And very interesting for an Inquisitor, his name is Toth, he criticizes Angelos for being too into purging

672
00:55:53,900 --> 00:56:01,900
chaos since his planet was exterminatist for chaos incursions before, which, out of everything you'd expect

673
00:56:01,900 --> 00:56:08,900
to hear out of Inquisitor's mouth, you would not expect it to be you are looking for heresy where there definitely is none.

674
00:56:08,900 --> 00:56:12,900
That doesn't sound right, but it's what happened.

675
00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:17,900
It's like I'm imagining you're too good at your job. Yeah, it's like, what is going on here?

676
00:56:17,900 --> 00:56:22,900
But... Damn it, you're a loose cannon, but you get results.

677
00:56:22,900 --> 00:56:25,900
And that's why you're fired. That's why we gotta get you off this planet.

678
00:56:25,900 --> 00:56:29,900
Hand in your badge and your gun. And your other gun.

679
00:56:29,900 --> 00:56:37,900
They also find out that the Eldar are around on the planet as well, led by one farseer, Makka, of Craftworld Beeltaan,

680
00:56:37,900 --> 00:56:42,900
and they're investigating chaos and ritual sites and all that fun stuff.

681
00:56:42,900 --> 00:56:46,900
Craftworld Beeltaan, like the dried meat. Beeltaan.

682
00:56:46,900 --> 00:56:52,900
No, Beeltaan, like the Irish holiday. Gotta wrap the culture here.

683
00:56:52,900 --> 00:56:55,900
Indeed. There's a lot of... The Eldar Irish?

684
00:56:55,900 --> 00:56:58,900
I love it when fantasy authors tag our stuff.

685
00:56:58,900 --> 00:57:04,900
Yeah, there's actually a decent amount of stuff. Isn't Saimhan the reverse of something?

686
00:57:04,900 --> 00:57:07,900
That's not how you pronounce it.

687
00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:11,900
Well, no, I'm saying it like the Warhammer, with Craftworld Saimhan.

688
00:57:11,900 --> 00:57:16,900
Yeah, I know. They don't say it right, neither. They don't say nothing right.

689
00:57:16,900 --> 00:57:19,900
Don't blame me for...

690
00:57:19,900 --> 00:57:22,900
It's not the right boat straight. How do you say it?

691
00:57:22,900 --> 00:57:26,900
It's Beeltaan and Saumann.

692
00:57:26,900 --> 00:57:29,900
Oh. Oh.

693
00:57:29,900 --> 00:57:34,900
Thank you, GW, for butchering the thing you stole.

694
00:57:34,900 --> 00:57:39,900
You will be sued by the nation, the proud nation of Ireland,

695
00:57:39,900 --> 00:57:47,900
and all of our many lawyers, trained in tax haven martial arts.

696
00:57:47,900 --> 00:57:53,900
GW is basically like a... At the end of the day, it's like a bunch of British authors going,

697
00:57:53,900 --> 00:58:01,900
Mmm, that's a nice mythology you got there. Saimhan's not incorporated into their multi-million dollar...

698
00:58:01,900 --> 00:58:05,900
I've brought it up, but Eldar, they just ripped it straight out of Tolkien.

699
00:58:05,900 --> 00:58:10,900
It even means people of the stars.

700
00:58:10,900 --> 00:58:13,900
But yeah, so the Eldar are there too.

701
00:58:13,900 --> 00:58:18,900
And of course, that leads to conflict, although at least in this one, I don't think the Eldar were...

702
00:58:18,900 --> 00:58:21,900
They kind of deserved it, I'll admit.

703
00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:23,900
It's always the Eldar's fault.

704
00:58:23,900 --> 00:58:26,900
I disagree with that one, and I'm moving on.

705
00:58:26,900 --> 00:58:34,900
Angelos tells the librarian with them, Isidor Acius, to destroy the artifacts of chaos they found.

706
00:58:34,900 --> 00:58:39,900
But Acius is being tempted by Sindri the entire time,

707
00:58:39,900 --> 00:58:45,900
and Acius damages the Bloodraven transports that were going to transport people to do their jobs,

708
00:58:45,900 --> 00:58:50,900
in order to give him more time to research the artifacts before he had to destroy them.

709
00:58:50,900 --> 00:58:55,900
You cause a delay in the train, you get more time to spend screwing around with the forbidden stuff.

710
00:58:55,900 --> 00:58:58,900
It's funny, because you can see Sindri in the cutscenes.

711
00:58:58,900 --> 00:59:04,900
He's got that poor Halo 3 active camouflage, where you're not really camouflaged at all.

712
00:59:04,900 --> 00:59:06,900
You just kind of look vaguely transparent.

713
00:59:06,900 --> 00:59:13,900
He just sits there like, ooh, you need to research the artifacts. I'm spooky and evil.

714
00:59:13,900 --> 00:59:16,900
It's very goofy, very hammy, but very fun.

715
00:59:16,900 --> 00:59:21,900
I like the idea of him going one side to the other, whispering in each ear,

716
00:59:21,900 --> 00:59:24,900
shouldn't do it, it's bad for you, and then trotting to the other side,

717
00:59:24,900 --> 00:59:28,900
do it, do it, I am chaos, do it.

718
00:59:28,900 --> 00:59:33,900
Gabriel Angelos then tracks down the Eldar.

719
00:59:33,900 --> 00:59:38,900
A big old battle ensues, because it's an RTS game, and those are very fun to play.

720
00:59:38,900 --> 00:59:42,900
And Farseer Maka, after the Space Marines beat them,

721
00:59:42,900 --> 00:59:47,900
tells them that the Alpha Legion are there to find an artifact that will doom the world.

722
00:59:47,900 --> 00:59:52,900
She also says that that Inquisitor is up to some no-good stuff and is hiding things.

723
00:59:52,900 --> 00:59:56,900
As using the Warp Storm as an excuse to get the Blood Ravens off the planet.

724
00:59:56,900 --> 01:00:00,900
Which is true, but not in the way you might think.

725
01:00:00,900 --> 01:00:03,900
We're not M. Night Shyamalan-ing it for once with the Inquisition.

726
01:00:03,900 --> 01:00:07,900
Everyone makes up... Oh, no, I skipped a bit, pardon me.

727
01:00:07,900 --> 01:00:08,900
Everyone makes out what?

728
01:00:08,900 --> 01:00:13,900
I said up, not out. But following the Eldar's hints,

729
01:00:13,900 --> 01:00:17,900
Angelos and his company go to the ruins of an Imperial Temple,

730
01:00:17,900 --> 01:00:21,900
fight some more Chaos Forces, and when the Inquisitor shows back up,

731
01:00:21,900 --> 01:00:25,900
Angelos finally is like, alright, listen, I know what Alien told it,

732
01:00:25,900 --> 01:00:29,900
but it kind of lines up with what I was thinking, that you're hiding some stuff.

733
01:00:29,900 --> 01:00:33,900
What are you hiding? And the Inquisitor comes clean,

734
01:00:33,900 --> 01:00:39,900
which again, very out of pocket for an Inquisitor to just be honest about what's happening over once.

735
01:00:39,900 --> 01:00:43,900
At least one that isn't Amberly Vale talking to Cain.

736
01:00:43,900 --> 01:00:48,900
As it turns out, the plot choice isn't the Inquisitor is actually evil the whole time

737
01:00:48,900 --> 01:00:51,900
and serving Chaos or some crap like that.

738
01:00:51,900 --> 01:00:54,900
Tartarus actually houses an artifact known as the Maledictum,

739
01:00:54,900 --> 01:01:00,900
which Dawn of War games just are the most 40k thing to ever 40k.

740
01:01:00,900 --> 01:01:07,900
Which itself also houses a powerful demon who is summoning the Warp Storm to prevent people from escaping,

741
01:01:07,900 --> 01:01:10,900
so he can get out of his little prison.

742
01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:14,900
He can't get out, but he can still affect the world,

743
01:01:14,900 --> 01:01:18,900
but he'd rather not be locked up in jail, which I can't blame him for.

744
01:01:18,900 --> 01:01:22,900
I'm sending you to space jail! No!

745
01:01:22,900 --> 01:01:29,900
The Inquisitor and Gabriel Angelos, they make up and they assault the Alpha Legion once more,

746
01:01:29,900 --> 01:01:33,900
with Bale and his forces being left to rot by Sindri.

747
01:01:33,900 --> 01:01:37,900
You gotta say it, you gotta say it, you gotta say it.

748
01:01:37,900 --> 01:01:41,900
SINDRI!

749
01:01:41,900 --> 01:01:49,900
I don't remember the exact intonation he uses, but yeah, he lets out a nice...

750
01:01:49,900 --> 01:01:53,900
The voice actor for Bale does an impeccable job,

751
01:01:53,900 --> 01:01:56,900
that's the most frustrated shout I've ever heard.

752
01:01:56,900 --> 01:01:59,900
He's immaculate!

753
01:01:59,900 --> 01:02:03,900
That's like you need to lure the airport and there's a blackout.

754
01:02:03,900 --> 01:02:10,900
You would think the voice actor himself was betrayed by Sindri, he does a fantastic job with it.

755
01:02:10,900 --> 01:02:13,900
He puts his heart and soul into it.

756
01:02:13,900 --> 01:02:16,900
Did he do like a Khan from Stutter?

757
01:02:16,900 --> 01:02:21,900
Yeah, it was that, just with a wizard.

758
01:02:21,900 --> 01:02:27,900
I think it was the damn video, the guy didn't make it to the toilet in time,

759
01:02:27,900 --> 01:02:33,900
and then he just like, it makes you fall on the floor like you died, and it just like has...

760
01:02:33,900 --> 01:02:36,900
You know, the awful sound wave.

761
01:02:36,900 --> 01:02:39,900
I can't describe it because obviously it's a bit too much.

762
01:02:39,900 --> 01:02:44,900
The incredibly vivid sound wave, I don't know why he's shouting himself.

763
01:02:44,900 --> 01:02:46,900
Good lord.

764
01:02:46,900 --> 01:02:48,900
Oh no.

765
01:02:48,900 --> 01:02:51,900
I'm at the light full notes.

766
01:02:51,900 --> 01:02:54,900
I don't even know what to do with that one.

767
01:02:54,900 --> 01:02:58,900
That same passion is in this Sindri.

768
01:02:58,900 --> 01:03:05,900
After Sindri gets killed, the other shoe drops and Isidor fully joins chaos in Sindri.

769
01:03:05,900 --> 01:03:09,900
Yoinks the male addictum and teleports away with Sindri.

770
01:03:09,900 --> 01:03:13,900
Isidor then gets, I don't think it was quite fully betrayed,

771
01:03:13,900 --> 01:03:18,900
but he also gets left to die by Sindri because he's a chaos, they're all evil,

772
01:03:18,900 --> 01:03:21,900
this is how they just work, this is how they do things.

773
01:03:21,900 --> 01:03:25,900
And Isidor is killed by Angelos while he begs for forgiveness,

774
01:03:25,900 --> 01:03:30,900
as our lovely guest Dreadedon said, in a very well voice acted,

775
01:03:30,900 --> 01:03:36,900
very horribly animated like early 2000s RTS cutscene.

776
01:03:36,900 --> 01:03:39,900
They tried their best.

777
01:03:39,900 --> 01:03:40,900
They did try.

778
01:03:40,900 --> 01:03:41,900
They did their best.

779
01:03:41,900 --> 01:03:46,900
I cannot lie, they tried.

780
01:03:46,900 --> 01:03:49,900
I might wonder if it would be better if they didn't try.

781
01:03:49,900 --> 01:03:52,900
It's like watching a Shakespeare play where it's like

782
01:03:52,900 --> 01:03:57,900
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, but they're like sock puppets.

783
01:03:57,900 --> 01:04:00,900
They're still giving it their all, but they're just like,

784
01:04:00,900 --> 01:04:02,900
Bop bop bop bop bop.

785
01:04:02,900 --> 01:04:09,900
Yeah, that's Patrick Stewart's voice, but Kermit the Frog is the one whose voice is coming out of.

786
01:04:09,900 --> 01:04:13,900
Well, last for Yurik, I knew him.

787
01:04:13,900 --> 01:04:18,900
The Blood Ravens rush to Sindri to finally finish this mess,

788
01:04:18,900 --> 01:04:22,900
but then Sindri sacrifices himself to some of the Demon Prince,

789
01:04:22,900 --> 01:04:25,900
and then the Blood Ravens and surviving Eldar clown on the Demon Prince

790
01:04:25,900 --> 01:04:29,900
and his forces pretty hard, because again, this is an RTS game.

791
01:04:29,900 --> 01:04:31,900
Your guys are probably going to win.

792
01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:35,900
The Jojo, do you mean where they're just kicking him and kicking him as a team?

793
01:04:35,900 --> 01:04:37,900
Not far off.

794
01:04:37,900 --> 01:04:39,900
The male addictum gets destroyed.

795
01:04:39,900 --> 01:04:42,900
The Eldar say don't destroy it so they can lock him up again,

796
01:04:42,900 --> 01:04:44,900
but the male addictum is destroyed.

797
01:04:44,900 --> 01:04:47,900
The Demon Prince is roaming free.

798
01:04:47,900 --> 01:04:51,900
He's kind of injured and not doing great, but he's free and he's a demon.

799
01:04:51,900 --> 01:04:54,900
So, not a Demon Prince, pardon me.

800
01:04:54,900 --> 01:04:56,900
He's still a demon though, so death is temporary,

801
01:04:56,900 --> 01:05:01,900
which is why the Eldar wanted to not destroy it so they could lock him up again.

802
01:05:01,900 --> 01:05:05,900
And he taunts Angelos, saying he'll come for the Ravens later.

803
01:05:05,900 --> 01:05:09,900
Angelos being the space marine-iest space marine to ever space marine,

804
01:05:09,900 --> 01:05:13,900
just says, I know you now, I will kill you later.

805
01:05:13,900 --> 01:05:18,900
And I don't think he ever actually comes back into Dawn of War, if I'm being honest.

806
01:05:18,900 --> 01:05:20,900
No, he does! He does!

807
01:05:20,900 --> 01:05:21,900
Oh, God.

808
01:05:21,900 --> 01:05:23,900
It just takes like ten years.

809
01:05:23,900 --> 01:05:24,900
Oh, I'd lore cry.

810
01:05:24,900 --> 01:05:27,900
It was like, not only in Dawn of War 2, but in the expansion pack,

811
01:05:27,900 --> 01:05:30,900
in the second expansion pack for Dawn of War 2.

812
01:05:30,900 --> 01:05:33,900
That took a really long time for them to do it, but they got there.

813
01:05:33,900 --> 01:05:35,900
He was all care?

814
01:05:35,900 --> 01:05:39,900
No, no, no, that's Chaos Rising, this was Retribution.

815
01:05:39,900 --> 01:05:44,900
The Maledictum Demon comes back, and Ybril Angelos faces him dying.

816
01:05:44,900 --> 01:05:48,900
I gather perhaps that this expansion didn't sell very well.

817
01:05:48,900 --> 01:05:53,900
I didn't finish that expansion, I only started it, but I never...

818
01:05:53,900 --> 01:05:55,900
Oh, jeez.

819
01:05:55,900 --> 01:05:56,900
I lore-cried a bit.

820
01:05:56,900 --> 01:05:59,900
It was the epic conclusion to the Dawn of War saga.

821
01:05:59,900 --> 01:06:00,900
You know?

822
01:06:00,900 --> 01:06:01,900
The end.

823
01:06:01,900 --> 01:06:03,900
The end.

824
01:06:03,900 --> 01:06:06,900
Then Dawn of War what? The number we don't perceive?

825
01:06:06,900 --> 01:06:09,900
Yeah, the Dawn of War biology.

826
01:06:09,900 --> 01:06:17,900
But moving on, we get to Winter Assaults, because that is the end of Dawn of War, the main game.

827
01:06:17,900 --> 01:06:23,900
Winter Assaults is... the Necrons are now waking up on a different planet, Loran V.

828
01:06:23,900 --> 01:06:27,900
And to be honest with you, the plot of this is not super heavy,

829
01:06:27,900 --> 01:06:33,900
at least in terms of the overall, honestly, what happens, there's not too much to it.

830
01:06:33,900 --> 01:06:37,900
There is a damaged Imperator Titan that everyone wants to use as a weapon,

831
01:06:37,900 --> 01:06:41,900
the Necrons keep waking up, and by the end of it most of them are up,

832
01:06:41,900 --> 01:06:48,900
and then whichever faction you're controlling gets the Imperator Titan's weapon battery online,

833
01:06:48,900 --> 01:06:51,900
and you kill a whole bunch of Necrons.

834
01:06:51,900 --> 01:06:52,900
The cannon... what's up?

835
01:06:52,900 --> 01:06:55,900
Darkruise Raiders, How I Fell in Love with Warhammer.

836
01:06:55,900 --> 01:06:57,900
This is Winter Assault.

837
01:06:57,900 --> 01:06:58,900
Oh, fuck.

838
01:06:58,900 --> 01:06:59,900
Sorry, 2020.

839
01:06:59,900 --> 01:07:02,900
You got a win, you got a win, we're not there yet.

840
01:07:02,900 --> 01:07:03,900
Sorry.

841
01:07:03,900 --> 01:07:05,900
A weird tangent.

842
01:07:05,900 --> 01:07:06,900
By all means.

843
01:07:06,900 --> 01:07:14,900
Looking at the Dawn of War games, all the expansions have really cool names like Dark, Couchade, and so on,

844
01:07:14,900 --> 01:07:19,900
Winter Assault, like it's snowing and we're having a fight, what is that?

845
01:07:19,900 --> 01:07:22,900
Well that's the whole theme of it, it's all snowy.

846
01:07:22,900 --> 01:07:29,900
To be fair, it also has the single most iconic photo of the Imperial Guard as its cover art,

847
01:07:29,900 --> 01:07:32,900
the dude in the snow with the lasgun slung over his shoulders.

848
01:07:32,900 --> 01:07:35,900
Yeah, but it's wild.

849
01:07:35,900 --> 01:07:37,900
It's an assault in the winter.

850
01:07:37,900 --> 01:07:39,900
Yeah, what else do you need?

851
01:07:39,900 --> 01:07:41,900
It's very to the point.

852
01:07:46,900 --> 01:07:51,900
I don't know, I just think it's a bit of a letdown considering all the other expansion titles are quite grand,

853
01:07:51,900 --> 01:07:57,900
and like, oh, that's quite heavy hitting, I do it of war, Soulstorm, Dark, Couchade, Winter.

854
01:07:57,900 --> 01:08:02,900
Winter Assault is a heavy hitter, so if you play it, you'll be like, oh, okay.

855
01:08:02,900 --> 01:08:05,900
It's a heavy hitter, this one.

856
01:08:05,900 --> 01:08:07,900
It's a really good one.

857
01:08:07,900 --> 01:08:08,900
Yeah.

858
01:08:08,900 --> 01:08:15,900
But yeah, the candidacy of this game, like I said, the Imperial Guard and Eldar endings,

859
01:08:15,900 --> 01:08:19,900
it is a mix of those two victory endings, what ended up happening,

860
01:08:19,900 --> 01:08:27,900
so the Eldar retrieved the Soul Stone of the Farseer Taldir, who comes down with a bad case of being dead,

861
01:08:27,900 --> 01:08:34,900
and the Imperial Guard wins, and the Necrons are all deaded, and it's great for everyone.

862
01:08:34,900 --> 01:08:42,900
Honestly, though, this one isn't super important, at least to me, to the overall importance of the Blood Ravens.

863
01:08:42,900 --> 01:08:46,900
That being said, the Necrons in this game, properly horrifying,

864
01:08:46,900 --> 01:08:53,900
because this is towards the end of the old Necrons, where they just hated life and wanted everything to die

865
01:08:53,900 --> 01:08:57,900
before the Mat Ward actually gave them character.

866
01:08:57,900 --> 01:08:59,900
That's right, I'm defending.

867
01:08:59,900 --> 01:09:01,900
I kind of miss them both.

868
01:09:01,900 --> 01:09:06,900
I like the new Necrons, but there's just something about the old ones.

869
01:09:06,900 --> 01:09:08,900
They definitely have an appeal.

870
01:09:08,900 --> 01:09:13,900
It's like, I like Trazin too much, alright? I'll just be honest.

871
01:09:13,900 --> 01:09:14,900
Yeah, that's fair.

872
01:09:14,900 --> 01:09:17,900
He was probably the real Primarch of the Blood Ravens.

873
01:09:17,900 --> 01:09:21,900
His stealing habits.

874
01:09:21,900 --> 01:09:23,900
Oh no.

875
01:09:23,900 --> 01:09:26,900
Poor one out from my homies, the Priahs.

876
01:09:26,900 --> 01:09:29,900
Yeah, that is a shame they had to go.

877
01:09:29,900 --> 01:09:31,900
Rip in non-canon.

878
01:09:31,900 --> 01:09:38,900
And of course, in Winter Assault, Warboss Gorgut shows up, who is just a very fun orc.

879
01:09:38,900 --> 01:09:42,900
He is fun. He's, again, the orkiest orc ever.

880
01:09:42,900 --> 01:09:46,900
He's orkier than Thorgazgul, he's very fun.

881
01:09:46,900 --> 01:09:48,900
And he also has a lieutenant.

882
01:09:48,900 --> 01:09:52,900
Anyone want to guess what the name of his orc lieutenant is?

883
01:09:52,900 --> 01:09:54,900
Orc-y McOrcface?

884
01:09:54,900 --> 01:09:55,900
Orc-enormous?

885
01:09:55,900 --> 01:09:56,900
No.

886
01:09:56,900 --> 01:09:57,900
Stupid.

887
01:09:57,900 --> 01:09:58,900
Go for it.

888
01:09:58,900 --> 01:10:00,900
What?

889
01:10:00,900 --> 01:10:07,900
Because Gorgut says he has a plan, it's called Plan Stupid, named after the orc he's making fun of.

890
01:10:07,900 --> 01:10:10,900
And the orc takes it as a compliment.

891
01:10:10,900 --> 01:10:12,900
Oh man.

892
01:10:12,900 --> 01:10:17,900
I love Warhammer as portrayed by Dawn of War so much.

893
01:10:17,900 --> 01:10:22,900
We get to Dark Crusade next, the next expansion for Dawn of War.

894
01:10:22,900 --> 01:10:28,900
And again, this is a sandbox takeover the world game, it does not matter too much.

895
01:10:28,900 --> 01:10:33,900
The Eldar break their alliance they'd formed with the guard during Winter Assault.

896
01:10:33,900 --> 01:10:38,900
Whichever faction you pick to play in the game takes over the planet Elorn.

897
01:10:38,900 --> 01:10:43,900
The tower here now and the dude from Fire Warriors is leading them so they kill a whole lot of people.

898
01:10:43,900 --> 01:10:48,900
Eliphas the inheritor shows up, he's the leader of the Chaos Forces.

899
01:10:48,900 --> 01:10:51,900
And I'm only bothering to mention him because he shows up later.

900
01:10:51,900 --> 01:10:53,900
That's my favorite one.

901
01:10:53,900 --> 01:10:58,900
Oh he sounds very cool, he is the word bearer, he's awesome.

902
01:10:58,900 --> 01:11:02,900
You can ascend into a demon prince as well, it's so cool.

903
01:11:02,900 --> 01:11:09,900
It's just as it stands in this game, the plot of the game is whoever wins takes over Elorn.

904
01:11:09,900 --> 01:11:11,900
It's kind of of minimal importance.

905
01:11:11,900 --> 01:11:13,900
What's the name of the planet again?

906
01:11:13,900 --> 01:11:15,900
Elorn.

907
01:11:15,900 --> 01:11:17,900
Elorn? I thought it was something else.

908
01:11:17,900 --> 01:11:19,900
I think Soulstorm is when Carava shows up.

909
01:11:19,900 --> 01:11:21,900
It's Elorn 5.

910
01:11:21,900 --> 01:11:27,900
Doesn't it begin with something with D for the Dark Crusade planet?

911
01:11:27,900 --> 01:11:29,900
That's Carava.

912
01:11:29,900 --> 01:11:32,900
D'Avalon? Cronos?

913
01:11:32,900 --> 01:11:33,900
Yep.

914
01:11:33,900 --> 01:11:35,900
Well, which one's Cronos?

915
01:11:35,900 --> 01:11:37,900
Is that the recruitment world?

916
01:11:37,900 --> 01:11:42,900
No, I think that's the one with... isn't that Dark Crusade? They're fighting for the world of Cronos?

917
01:11:42,900 --> 01:11:43,900
Uh oh.

918
01:11:43,900 --> 01:11:46,900
I have to get the booming introduction lore.

919
01:11:46,900 --> 01:11:48,900
Oh god, it is Cronos.

920
01:11:48,900 --> 01:11:52,900
Oh god, I'm lore-criming all over the place.

921
01:11:52,900 --> 01:11:56,900
It is Cronos in Dark Crusade.

922
01:11:56,900 --> 01:11:59,900
Thank you everyone for catching that.

923
01:11:59,900 --> 01:12:02,900
Wow, I am lore-criming the Blood Ravens all over the place.

924
01:12:02,900 --> 01:12:06,900
Like I said, it really doesn't matter. It's a planet they're all fighting on.

925
01:12:06,900 --> 01:12:08,900
It just needs to be there for the game to happen.

926
01:12:08,900 --> 01:12:11,900
It doesn't come up again.

927
01:12:11,900 --> 01:12:14,900
But yeah.

928
01:12:14,900 --> 01:12:16,900
Dark Crusade is over now. It's very fun.

929
01:12:16,900 --> 01:12:19,900
I know I'm being very quick with it.

930
01:12:19,900 --> 01:12:23,900
Dark Crusade is probably my favorite of the original Dawn of War unmodded, that is.

931
01:12:23,900 --> 01:12:24,900
It's awesome.

932
01:12:24,900 --> 01:12:27,900
It's just the plot of it is take over the world.

933
01:12:27,900 --> 01:12:34,900
I think most people, most Warhammer fans would have probably...

934
01:12:34,900 --> 01:12:37,900
A lot of people I think came into the hobby through that game.

935
01:12:37,900 --> 01:12:39,900
Winter Assault was more...

936
01:12:39,900 --> 01:12:40,900
Yeah, I did.

937
01:12:40,900 --> 01:12:47,900
Dark Crusade was like, you didn't have to follow any kind of big story art to get into it.

938
01:12:47,900 --> 01:12:52,900
It was a really good way to enter the setting and be like, oh what the hell, there's space marines.

939
01:12:52,900 --> 01:12:55,900
You didn't have to know anything about Warhammer to say that game.

940
01:12:55,900 --> 01:12:59,900
It's a whole lot of fun set dressing that really gets you into the setting.

941
01:12:59,900 --> 01:13:02,900
The story is more or less a non-entity.

942
01:13:02,900 --> 01:13:04,900
Yeah, nothing really big happens.

943
01:13:04,900 --> 01:13:11,900
We get to Soulstorm now though, and is everyone ready for the lightning round of Soulstorm?

944
01:13:11,900 --> 01:13:13,900
Go to the car of a system.

945
01:13:13,900 --> 01:13:19,900
There's a warp storm happening because an Imperial Guard psyker heard the whispers in the warp and decided to listen to them.

946
01:13:19,900 --> 01:13:20,900
Which is not great.

947
01:13:20,900 --> 01:13:22,900
Everyone's fighting each other.

948
01:13:22,900 --> 01:13:25,900
The Dark Eldar and the Sisters of Battle are here now.

949
01:13:25,900 --> 01:13:29,900
For the love of God, everyone's used to settle down for five minutes.

950
01:13:29,900 --> 01:13:34,900
They won't because Soulstorm is again just clusterfuck.

951
01:13:34,900 --> 01:13:37,900
The Necrons are on one of the planets.

952
01:13:37,900 --> 01:13:39,900
There's a tomb world there waking up.

953
01:13:39,900 --> 01:13:42,900
The Eldar show up to fight the Necrons.

954
01:13:42,900 --> 01:13:44,900
Chaos is here because of the warp storm.

955
01:13:44,900 --> 01:13:47,900
Gorr gets his back because he's the most marketable character in here.

956
01:13:47,900 --> 01:13:53,900
The Imperial factions are all calling each other heretics and shooting each other because this is the 40th K to ever 40K.

957
01:13:53,900 --> 01:13:56,900
The Dark Eldar are just here to kidnap people.

958
01:13:56,900 --> 01:13:58,900
That is their only reason for showing up.

959
01:13:58,900 --> 01:13:59,900
They just want more slaves.

960
01:13:59,900 --> 01:14:06,900
The Tau are trying to annex the system because clearly that's worth the effort of this just absolute mess.

961
01:14:06,900 --> 01:14:14,900
And the whole thing canonically ends with Gorgots beating everyone else up and using it as a staging ground for his waa.

962
01:14:14,900 --> 01:14:20,900
And the Blood Ravens getting absolutely mulched during the course of the Soulstorm campaign.

963
01:14:20,900 --> 01:14:21,900
Eesh.

964
01:14:21,900 --> 01:14:23,900
Good old Indrik Boreal.

965
01:14:23,900 --> 01:14:27,900
The greatest space...the space marine of all time.

966
01:14:27,900 --> 01:14:29,900
One of the space marines of all time.

967
01:14:29,900 --> 01:14:30,900
One of the space marines.

968
01:14:30,900 --> 01:14:33,900
Easily one of the space marines of all time.

969
01:14:33,900 --> 01:14:37,900
What were they thinking?

970
01:14:37,900 --> 01:14:40,900
I'm glad they were thinking it.

971
01:14:40,900 --> 01:14:44,900
It's bad, but it's what you're saying early, it's goofy bad.

972
01:14:44,900 --> 01:14:47,900
Like I'd laugh every time he talks.

973
01:14:47,900 --> 01:14:52,900
And then we get to Dawn of War 2 because Soulstorm all you need to know for the Blood Ravens in that one is that...

974
01:14:52,900 --> 01:14:55,900
Wait, we're really seeing that through Soulstorm?

975
01:14:55,900 --> 01:14:57,900
Look, it's literally that is pretty much all it amounts to.

976
01:14:57,900 --> 01:15:01,900
The Blood Ravens go there to fight to try and quell the mess.

977
01:15:01,900 --> 01:15:06,900
Except it's a mess that every faction in the game but the Tirendas is a part of.

978
01:15:06,900 --> 01:15:08,900
And then they get the hell beat out of them.

979
01:15:08,900 --> 01:15:11,900
And then they leave and the orcs are the canonical winners of Soulstorm.

980
01:15:11,900 --> 01:15:15,900
That is genuinely all you need to know about Soulstorm.

981
01:15:15,900 --> 01:15:24,900
Pardon me for all the three Soulstorm fans of you that don't just have the game because of the ultimate apocalypse mod.

982
01:15:24,900 --> 01:15:26,900
Dawn of War 2 now.

983
01:15:26,900 --> 01:15:32,900
And yeah, the format changes a bit for Dawn of War, but this is still when the games were good.

984
01:15:32,900 --> 01:15:34,900
The Blood Ravens return to their home system.

985
01:15:34,900 --> 01:15:42,900
Subsector Aurelia to rebuild since all that caravan nonsense, like I said, was very damaging to them.

986
01:15:42,900 --> 01:15:46,900
Guess what though? The entire system is plagued with orcs.

987
01:15:46,900 --> 01:15:48,900
Because they're orcs.

988
01:15:48,900 --> 01:15:50,900
How did that happen?

989
01:15:50,900 --> 01:15:52,900
You are Force Commander.

990
01:15:52,900 --> 01:15:54,900
What in the chances?

991
01:15:54,900 --> 01:15:59,900
But yeah, Force Commander you, Blood Raven Man extraordinaire.

992
01:15:59,900 --> 01:16:01,900
He never gets a name, he's just the player character.

993
01:16:01,900 --> 01:16:05,900
The closest thing to the protagonist, I guess.

994
01:16:05,900 --> 01:16:07,900
They call him the Quiet type.

995
01:16:07,900 --> 01:16:10,900
Not even that. He's just like, he's there for it.

996
01:16:10,900 --> 01:16:14,900
He's an active spectator because he doesn't say or do it.

997
01:16:14,900 --> 01:16:17,900
He doesn't say anything, he just kills aliens.

998
01:16:17,900 --> 01:16:27,900
You and your battle brother, Sergeant Tarkus, fight the orcs and to rescue your captain, Davian Thule.

999
01:16:27,900 --> 01:16:29,900
Good guy, Davian Thule.

1000
01:16:29,900 --> 01:16:33,900
The previous protagonist of Dark Crusade, for those who haven't played the games.

1001
01:16:33,900 --> 01:16:35,900
Indeed.

1002
01:16:35,900 --> 01:16:43,900
You'll find Sermeldar towards the tail end of the mission, who are revealed to be stirring the orcs up into a frenzy for some reason.

1003
01:16:43,900 --> 01:16:45,900
Well, the reason will be revealed.

1004
01:16:45,900 --> 01:16:49,900
Turns out they were doing this by disguising themselves as orcs.

1005
01:16:49,900 --> 01:16:54,900
Anyone feel free to take a guess how that one would work?

1006
01:16:54,900 --> 01:17:00,900
I'm just imagining, you know those inflatable sumo suits you can get?

1007
01:17:00,900 --> 01:17:03,900
It's just green and it's got teeth on it.

1008
01:17:03,900 --> 01:17:05,900
You're like, yeah, I was an orc.

1009
01:17:05,900 --> 01:17:08,900
Just imagining an Eldar pretending to put on the accent would be amazing.

1010
01:17:08,900 --> 01:17:18,900
You see, it was working until the Orc Mech, the most in-charge Orc Mech of the mall, saw through their clever ruse with a cybernetic eye.

1011
01:17:18,900 --> 01:17:21,900
And again, no, I don't know how that works.

1012
01:17:21,900 --> 01:17:24,900
He just did. He's an orc.

1013
01:17:24,900 --> 01:17:27,900
Analyzing. Das well an orc-y.

1014
01:17:27,900 --> 01:17:30,900
That's not proper orc-y.

1015
01:17:30,900 --> 01:17:38,900
You then kill more orcs, kill a whole load of Eldar, who say that it was just that you were using the orcs to fight off a potentially greater threat.

1016
01:17:38,900 --> 01:17:42,900
Of course, the Eldar don't say what it is because these are the Eldar.

1017
01:17:42,900 --> 01:17:50,900
That word required explaining themselves, and that is the biggest taboo in Eldar culture, is explaining yourself to the lesser races.

1018
01:17:50,900 --> 01:17:54,900
First rule of Eldar, don't talk about Eldar stuff.

1019
01:17:54,900 --> 01:17:55,900
Yeah, pretty much.

1020
01:17:55,900 --> 01:17:58,900
Second rule, follow the first rule.

1021
01:17:58,900 --> 01:18:02,900
And then the Blood Ravens just kind of shrug and get back to killing orcs.

1022
01:18:02,900 --> 01:18:12,900
For some reason, though, the scout leader known as Cyrus, who is that man I was talking about with the broken stealth in Dawn of War, you can pretty much solo the game with him if you kid him out right.

1023
01:18:12,900 --> 01:18:20,900
He brings up how the astropaths are, for some reason, going on about a shadow in the warp.

1024
01:18:20,900 --> 01:18:25,900
Something that they're concerned about, the astropath, for some reason.

1025
01:18:25,900 --> 01:18:29,900
That's surely not relevant, though. We gotta kill more orcs, right?

1026
01:18:29,900 --> 01:18:32,900
Steve Blum must be wrong.

1027
01:18:32,900 --> 01:18:34,900
For showing!

1028
01:18:34,900 --> 01:18:43,900
Just like the idea of all the astropaths having a look at the warp and then just like, Aaron, Aaron, what is that?

1029
01:18:43,900 --> 01:18:44,900
I don't know.

1030
01:18:44,900 --> 01:18:47,900
Steve, do you know what that is? I don't know.

1031
01:18:47,900 --> 01:18:49,900
Mom, dad, the Wi-Fi is not working.

1032
01:18:49,900 --> 01:18:51,900
Yeah, yeah, just like smacking it.

1033
01:18:51,900 --> 01:18:54,900
We tried turning it off and on, like, no, it's still there. What is that?

1034
01:18:54,900 --> 01:19:00,900
No, I'm a human being. If you turn me off, I die.

1035
01:19:00,900 --> 01:19:02,900
That's the hell of a sentence.

1036
01:19:02,900 --> 01:19:09,900
Turns out, though, it was relevant because that shadow in the warp is the Tyranids, for those of you not familiar with the Tyranids.

1037
01:19:09,900 --> 01:19:14,900
That's what happens when the hivemind starts showing up. It blocks out warp communication.

1038
01:19:14,900 --> 01:19:19,900
So the big bad guys of Dark... I almost called it Dark Souls 2.

1039
01:19:19,900 --> 01:19:22,900
Of Dawn of War.

1040
01:19:22,900 --> 01:19:26,900
Blood Angels? So the Blood Angels are facing Dark Souls 2?

1041
01:19:26,900 --> 01:19:29,900
Dark Souls 2 is the best Dark Souls moving on.

1042
01:19:29,900 --> 01:19:37,900
That's what happens when the Tyranids show up. They block out warp travel and communication.

1043
01:19:37,900 --> 01:19:40,900
Dark Souls 2 is the best one.

1044
01:19:40,900 --> 01:19:41,900
No, it's not.

1045
01:19:41,900 --> 01:19:43,900
Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

1046
01:19:43,900 --> 01:19:45,900
That's not true!

1047
01:19:45,900 --> 01:19:48,900
You can't just go around saying things like that.

1048
01:19:48,900 --> 01:19:51,900
You know, it goes to the father of the first sin. I think this was the first sin.

1049
01:19:51,900 --> 01:19:53,900
Calling Dark Souls 2 the best Dark Souls.

1050
01:19:53,900 --> 01:19:56,900
I enjoy Dark Souls 2, but it ain't Dark Souls 1.

1051
01:19:56,900 --> 01:19:57,900
And it ain't Dark Souls 3.

1052
01:19:57,900 --> 01:20:01,900
Dark Souls 3 is just Dark Souls 1's greatest hits.

1053
01:20:01,900 --> 01:20:02,900
Yeah, and it's better than 2.

1054
01:20:02,900 --> 01:20:06,900
It's better than Dark Souls 2, which is Dark Souls 1's worst hits.

1055
01:20:06,900 --> 01:20:12,900
Dark Souls 2 had the best magic in the entire Souls trilogy, it had the best PvP.

1056
01:20:12,900 --> 01:20:17,900
It tried something new and it didn't just wallow in Dark Souls 1.

1057
01:20:17,900 --> 01:20:21,900
To be fair, it had Peter Serafinowicz in it as patron, that was cool.

1058
01:20:21,900 --> 01:20:28,900
And Majula is the comfiest hub area in any video game ever.

1059
01:20:28,900 --> 01:20:30,900
Yeah, yeah.

1060
01:20:30,900 --> 01:20:31,900
Name Sorye Povsky.

1061
01:20:31,900 --> 01:20:33,900
It's fine.

1062
01:20:33,900 --> 01:20:36,900
It doesn't matter what I'm gonna say for the rest of this podcast.

1063
01:20:36,900 --> 01:20:40,900
Everyone listening is tuned out because I said Dark Souls 2 was my favorite.

1064
01:20:40,900 --> 01:20:43,900
Everyone's done. I could lie for the rest of this.

1065
01:20:43,900 --> 01:20:51,900
From an objectionable point of view, it's like, I don't know, you're basically Hitler.

1066
01:20:51,900 --> 01:20:56,900
Oh my god.

1067
01:20:56,900 --> 01:20:58,900
No, it's a good 2.

1068
01:20:58,900 --> 01:21:04,900
Yeah, god, I thought you were giving me crap for Thatcher earlier, but that was trojan.

1069
01:21:04,900 --> 01:21:07,900
It's like if he would have said that Skyward Sword is the best Zelda game.

1070
01:21:07,900 --> 01:21:09,900
Like, no, no, no, no.

1071
01:21:09,900 --> 01:21:11,900
I've never played Skyward Sword.

1072
01:21:11,900 --> 01:21:13,900
Yeah, I have strong opinions on this.

1073
01:21:13,900 --> 01:21:17,900
I've only played Breath of the Wild and Spirit Tracks.

1074
01:21:17,900 --> 01:21:20,900
That's such a ranting combination.

1075
01:21:20,900 --> 01:21:22,900
Look, Spirit Tracks was on my DS as a kid.

1076
01:21:22,900 --> 01:21:24,900
I like the new ones, and Trains.

1077
01:21:24,900 --> 01:21:28,900
I love Trains as a kid. You do not want to get me started on this, alright?

1078
01:21:28,900 --> 01:21:30,900
That's a great defense. I love Trains.

1079
01:21:30,900 --> 01:21:37,900
The Warhammer thing should have been very well foreseen when I was a kid because I loved model Trains.

1080
01:21:37,900 --> 01:21:39,900
40k needs more Trains is what you're saying.

1081
01:21:39,900 --> 01:21:41,900
Yes, it does. The Squats need to bring back their Trains.

1082
01:21:41,900 --> 01:21:43,900
The Hammer fantasy has more Trains.

1083
01:21:43,900 --> 01:21:44,900
Train full of Orcs.

1084
01:21:44,900 --> 01:21:47,900
Yes. Anyway, Tyranids.

1085
01:21:47,900 --> 01:21:51,900
Tyranids who agree with me that Dark Souls 2 is the best.

1086
01:21:51,900 --> 01:21:53,900
Thule gets poisoned by a Tyranid warrior.

1087
01:21:53,900 --> 01:21:56,900
Tyranids would agree with that because they don't have any Brins.

1088
01:21:56,900 --> 01:21:58,900
I walked into that one.

1089
01:21:58,900 --> 01:21:59,900
I walked into that one.

1090
01:21:59,900 --> 01:22:01,900
Anyway, Dawn of War 2.

1091
01:22:01,900 --> 01:22:08,900
Thule gets poisoned by a Tyranid warrior, but they just shove him in a dreadnought after they cure the poison.

1092
01:22:08,900 --> 01:22:10,900
So Thule is not out of it yet.

1093
01:22:10,900 --> 01:22:13,900
During the process of this...or pardon me.

1094
01:22:13,900 --> 01:22:18,900
The Blood Ravens get to work at developing the counter poison to the Tyranids.

1095
01:22:18,900 --> 01:22:20,900
Which I think is quite cool.

1096
01:22:20,900 --> 01:22:22,900
Farsight also does that.

1097
01:22:22,900 --> 01:22:26,900
Hal, I know you are saying you're quite familiar with that, I'm sure.

1098
01:22:26,900 --> 01:22:29,900
There's nothing I do not know about Farsight currently.

1099
01:22:29,900 --> 01:22:31,900
I'm recording.

1100
01:22:31,900 --> 01:22:36,900
So far, it's the Blood Ravens and the Tyranids who have been smart enough to do that.

1101
01:22:36,900 --> 01:22:44,900
During the process of this, and a lot of the mission, a lot of Dawn of War from here on out, is getting...Dawn of War 2, pardon me.

1102
01:22:44,900 --> 01:22:50,900
Is getting the poison and all the preparations ready to take care of the Tyranid fleet.

1103
01:22:50,900 --> 01:22:52,900
And so you do so.

1104
01:22:52,900 --> 01:22:58,900
And as you finish the process, you get ready to mass produce and deploy all the poison.

1105
01:22:58,900 --> 01:23:01,900
The Hivemind itself psychically assaults the Blood Ravens.

1106
01:23:01,900 --> 01:23:04,900
Cutting your forces off your singular ship.

1107
01:23:04,900 --> 01:23:09,900
From reinforcements, but it does take a lot out of the Hive fleet.

1108
01:23:09,900 --> 01:23:12,900
So it has to stop and just focus on feeding for a bit.

1109
01:23:12,900 --> 01:23:15,900
Not just overrunning the world before it feeds.

1110
01:23:15,900 --> 01:23:16,900
It's a snack break.

1111
01:23:16,900 --> 01:23:17,900
Indeed.

1112
01:23:17,900 --> 01:23:22,900
And while the Tyranids are feeding and the feeding tendrils are coming down on the world.

1113
01:23:22,900 --> 01:23:27,900
You, Force Commander, and all your wonderful Blood Ravens friends.

1114
01:23:27,900 --> 01:23:32,900
Employ the poison into the Tyranid feeding tendrils, which poisons the Hive fleet.

1115
01:23:32,900 --> 01:23:34,900
Because when you eat poison, you die.

1116
01:23:34,900 --> 01:23:36,900
I would not recommend.

1117
01:23:36,900 --> 01:23:37,900
Fun fact.

1118
01:23:37,900 --> 01:23:39,900
Which dooms the Hive fleet.

1119
01:23:39,900 --> 01:23:43,900
But your own forces are under intense assault from Tyranids on all sides.

1120
01:23:43,900 --> 01:23:48,900
And it looked like the Blood Ravens, at least your company, probably wasn't going to make it.

1121
01:23:48,900 --> 01:23:51,900
But then, just as it's about to end with, and then everyone died.

1122
01:23:51,900 --> 01:23:53,900
Gabriel Angelos is back, baby.

1123
01:23:53,900 --> 01:23:58,900
And he saves everyone alongside the Blood Ravens first company with...

1124
01:23:58,900 --> 01:23:59,900
So green.

1125
01:23:59,900 --> 01:24:04,900
Steel, Steel Rain, the Codex Astatis names this maneuver, Stale Rain.

1126
01:24:04,900 --> 01:24:07,900
Oh man.

1127
01:24:07,900 --> 01:24:10,900
That game is so, it's so quotable.

1128
01:24:10,900 --> 01:24:13,900
Can I make a side note about our boy Gabriel?

1129
01:24:13,900 --> 01:24:14,900
Of course.

1130
01:24:14,900 --> 01:24:18,900
In the second and third game, he reminds me of Chip Hazzard from Toy Soldiers.

1131
01:24:18,900 --> 01:24:20,900
Damn.

1132
01:24:20,900 --> 01:24:23,900
Damn.

1133
01:24:23,900 --> 01:24:25,900
Do you know what I'm talking about?

1134
01:24:25,900 --> 01:24:26,900
No.

1135
01:24:26,900 --> 01:24:28,900
I think it's the hair.

1136
01:24:28,900 --> 01:24:35,900
Yeah, he's like this evil marine toy character from this animated film from what, the 2000s?

1137
01:24:35,900 --> 01:24:37,900
He looks just like Gabriel.

1138
01:24:37,900 --> 01:24:39,900
Anyway, I'm sorry, I had to mention it, it was bugging me.

1139
01:24:39,900 --> 01:24:46,900
I'm just glad Hal also didn't get the reference, because otherwise I would have just got made fun of again.

1140
01:24:46,900 --> 01:24:49,900
I got the reference, I think it's one of the few things I haven't seen.

1141
01:24:49,900 --> 01:24:50,900
I love you.

1142
01:24:50,900 --> 01:24:52,900
And like Colton, who hasn't watched even The Godfather.

1143
01:24:52,900 --> 01:24:55,900
Thank you Hal, for slipping that one in.

1144
01:24:55,900 --> 01:24:56,900
Yep.

1145
01:24:56,900 --> 01:25:04,900
And before we end on the main game of Dawn of Orr, it's of note that this is where the meme about the Bloodravens stealing all their stuff comes from.

1146
01:25:04,900 --> 01:25:12,900
That being said, it's only half, it's only like half a meme, because I know like the fan base does what it always does and blows it up.

1147
01:25:12,900 --> 01:25:20,900
If you look at the descriptions for the items they have, some of them really imply that the devs kind of knew what they were doing.

1148
01:25:20,900 --> 01:25:22,900
These were not just given to them.

1149
01:25:22,900 --> 01:25:31,900
Some highlights, I know Andy you have a few, once I say these if you've got any favorites of yourselves.

1150
01:25:31,900 --> 01:25:39,900
Some of the ones I quite like are a Sacred Blood Angels Flamer, that it is unknown how the Blood Angels got it.

1151
01:25:39,900 --> 01:25:43,900
An Inquisitorial Plasma Gun, also unknown how they got it.

1152
01:25:43,900 --> 01:25:51,900
And a Custodes Bolt Gun, which that one's really interesting, because unless I'm really messing something up.

1153
01:25:51,900 --> 01:25:55,900
Custodes equipment is all bio-coded to the one who's wielding it.

1154
01:25:55,900 --> 01:25:56,900
Yep.

1155
01:25:56,900 --> 01:25:59,900
And the Bloodravens just have it and use it no problem.

1156
01:25:59,900 --> 01:26:04,900
Colin, it was given to them as a gift, consensually with full notes.

1157
01:26:04,900 --> 01:26:06,900
With the hand attached.

1158
01:26:06,900 --> 01:26:18,900
Doesn't that Argo Tal steal a Custodian's weapon in his book, the First Heretic, and he's just like, yoink, and he does some weird chaos stuff to unlock it.

1159
01:26:18,900 --> 01:26:22,900
He has to corrupt the weapon so that it will activate.

1160
01:26:22,900 --> 01:26:26,900
You have to put work into it, you can't just steal it, and it works.

1161
01:26:26,900 --> 01:26:35,900
I love the idea though, it's just like a thumbprint, so you just cut the Custodian's hand off and you just unlock, got it, done.

1162
01:26:35,900 --> 01:26:42,900
He cuts the Custodian's hand off, cuts his own hand off, and then grafts the Custodian's hand to it so we can use the thing.

1163
01:26:42,900 --> 01:26:46,900
Or takes his eyes out and is like, eye scan, done, alright, put them back in my pocket.

1164
01:26:46,900 --> 01:26:54,900
If you really want a theorycraft, that could be some proof that it was Janus who founded the Bloodravens.

1165
01:26:54,900 --> 01:26:58,900
I mean, hey, you're wondering where a Custodian's gun came from.

1166
01:26:58,900 --> 01:27:04,900
If anyone would have had access to it that it wasn't a Custodian, it would probably be the first Supreme Grandmaster of the Grey Knights.

1167
01:27:04,900 --> 01:27:10,900
So there's, again, that is, I'm theorycrafting, not fact, not necessarily canon.

1168
01:27:10,900 --> 01:27:12,900
Or the developers just wanted to put something cool in.

1169
01:27:12,900 --> 01:27:15,900
Listen, it's more fun when we...

1170
01:27:15,900 --> 01:27:17,900
lie to ourselves.

1171
01:27:17,900 --> 01:27:21,900
I'm not lying, some of these things are blatantly like, they did not just get this.

1172
01:27:21,900 --> 01:27:25,900
Some of them are almost blatantly like all but said, this was stolen.

1173
01:27:25,900 --> 01:27:28,900
Andy, do you have any highlights you'd like to...

1174
01:27:28,900 --> 01:27:31,900
Yes, I do.

1175
01:27:31,900 --> 01:27:36,900
So we've got some stuff that's just kind of more generic, like they've got an axe from the Iron Snakes.

1176
01:27:36,900 --> 01:27:38,900
They've got...

1177
01:27:38,900 --> 01:27:45,900
There's a... if you're going to bring up the big one from perhaps a Legion.

1178
01:27:45,900 --> 01:27:48,900
I'll bring him up last, shall we say.

1179
01:27:48,900 --> 01:27:53,900
They've got things like the Judgment of the Khan, which is a power axe from the White Scars.

1180
01:27:53,900 --> 01:27:56,900
They've got an Alpha rifle from the Alpha Legion.

1181
01:27:56,900 --> 01:28:01,900
They've got some interesting stuff like the Cruelty of Jephros, which is from a Corrupted Crimson Fist.

1182
01:28:01,900 --> 01:28:06,900
They've got Ulric the Slayer's weapon.

1183
01:28:06,900 --> 01:28:09,900
They've got Xavir, the Chaplain from the Salamanders.

1184
01:28:09,900 --> 01:28:12,900
They've got his Melter Gun for some reason.

1185
01:28:12,900 --> 01:28:15,900
They've got the wings of Shrike from the Raven Guard.

1186
01:28:15,900 --> 01:28:21,900
They've possibly got a Heavenfall blade from the Dark Angels called Azrael's Second, which is like,

1187
01:28:21,900 --> 01:28:23,900
oh, where did you get that from?

1188
01:28:23,900 --> 01:28:26,900
They've got Scarbrand's Dreadmawl.

1189
01:28:26,900 --> 01:28:34,900
There's also one particular weapon beyond anything else of any calibre.

1190
01:28:34,900 --> 01:28:36,900
Did you want to reveal what this one was?

1191
01:28:36,900 --> 01:28:38,900
I've got one thing to add on in.

1192
01:28:38,900 --> 01:28:44,900
Ragnar Blackmane, was it they either offered to make him a weapon or give him a weapon?

1193
01:28:44,900 --> 01:28:46,900
And he went, nah, bro. He said no.

1194
01:28:46,900 --> 01:28:49,900
Yeah, they give him a weapon. He's like, no, it's fine. You keep it.

1195
01:28:49,900 --> 01:28:54,900
It's like a scurrying way, like you're trying to peddle stolen goods.

1196
01:28:54,900 --> 01:29:00,900
That would be the perfect theft to steal the Space Wolves weapon and pretend like,

1197
01:29:00,900 --> 01:29:06,900
look, a gift, a perfect recreation of the thing you have and the Space Wolves being stupid, arrogant Space Wolves go,

1198
01:29:06,900 --> 01:29:08,900
nothing compared to what we have.

1199
01:29:08,900 --> 01:29:12,900
They've even got Manias Kalgar's Bolter called the Heavy Bolter of the Ancient.

1200
01:29:12,900 --> 01:29:16,900
It's like, where are you getting these things from? Geez.

1201
01:29:16,900 --> 01:29:23,900
They were gifts, man. Come on. It says it right there. Why would they lie?

1202
01:29:23,900 --> 01:29:27,900
It says gift back. See? Just says gift.

1203
01:29:27,900 --> 01:29:30,900
Should I get to the big one now?

1204
01:29:30,900 --> 01:29:31,900
Yeah, go for it.

1205
01:29:31,900 --> 01:29:36,900
They somehow stole Forgebreaker.

1206
01:29:36,900 --> 01:29:40,900
Which if people don't know what you say that is.

1207
01:29:40,900 --> 01:29:45,900
That is the weapon that Fulgrim, a Primarch, himself crafted.

1208
01:29:45,900 --> 01:29:53,900
And then give it to Ferris and then was stolen by Horus, which was then gifted to Pertorabo, which he used.

1209
01:29:53,900 --> 01:29:58,900
He's quite attached to it. So like, how did he get that from Pertorabo?

1210
01:29:58,900 --> 01:30:01,900
Who's a demon prince in the warp.

1211
01:30:01,900 --> 01:30:06,900
I like the idea though that Pertorabo woke up one day on his demon world and he's like,

1212
01:30:06,900 --> 01:30:12,900
I wonder what terrible things I'm going to do today. And he kind of gets up his bed and he's just like, hammer?

1213
01:30:12,900 --> 01:30:20,900
Yo Dread, next meme video is literally Pertorabo missing his Forgebreaker and a Blood Raven.

1214
01:30:20,900 --> 01:30:24,900
Where's the hammer? Drake, where's the hammer?

1215
01:30:24,900 --> 01:30:27,900
Panicking a bit.

1216
01:30:27,900 --> 01:30:29,900
Well it's right there.

1217
01:30:29,900 --> 01:30:34,900
So yeah, that one, they definitely stole that one.

1218
01:30:34,900 --> 01:30:38,900
The thing is, who the hell uses it in the game? Surely it's two hands.

1219
01:30:38,900 --> 01:30:44,900
That comes into play in Chaos Rising, so I will get to that.

1220
01:30:44,900 --> 01:30:49,900
Speaking of though, it's time for Chaos Rising because we've just cleaned up the Tyranids.

1221
01:30:49,900 --> 01:30:54,900
This one is, as you can probably guess, all about Chaos Rising.

1222
01:30:54,900 --> 01:30:57,900
Fun fact, surprise I know.

1223
01:30:57,900 --> 01:30:59,900
Better than Winter Assault, but yeah.

1224
01:30:59,900 --> 01:31:03,900
It starts with the Blood Ravens responding to a distress signal.

1225
01:31:03,900 --> 01:31:09,900
Turns out it's a trap by Traitor Guard forces, but it's just the Traitor Guard so they all get mulched.

1226
01:31:09,900 --> 01:31:14,900
Then they rescue the Librarian Jonas who is under attack by Mor Eldar.

1227
01:31:14,900 --> 01:31:19,900
Because again, it's a strategy game, we need all the factions to fight each other so they're here again.

1228
01:31:19,900 --> 01:31:25,900
The Planetary Governor in the Aurelian Sector, one of the planets, requests some aid.

1229
01:31:25,900 --> 01:31:29,900
And my brain just blue-screened, pardon me.

1230
01:31:29,900 --> 01:31:37,900
They request some aid because the orcs are looting the area again because there's been a whole lot of fighting here and the orcs love their loot.

1231
01:31:37,900 --> 01:31:40,900
So the Blood Ravens then go to fight some orcs.

1232
01:31:40,900 --> 01:31:45,900
While they're fighting the orcs, the Black Legion shows up, led by Eliphas the Inheritor.

1233
01:31:45,900 --> 01:31:47,900
He's back!

1234
01:31:47,900 --> 01:31:52,900
They thought he died in Dark Crusade, he didn't, he was too marketable.

1235
01:31:52,900 --> 01:31:53,900
Although...

1236
01:31:53,900 --> 01:32:01,900
I think it's like the Chaos Gods just keep resurrecting him, like, try again, try again, and then they're like, if you fail again, we are not putting you in prison.

1237
01:32:01,900 --> 01:32:09,900
He's got a little bit of thank-all energy to him, where he's kind of failing, but he's failing successfully in a way.

1238
01:32:09,900 --> 01:32:14,900
I like the idea that they were just going, he's funny. I want to see him die again, it would be funny.

1239
01:32:14,900 --> 01:32:20,900
I mean, for their own amusement, is that a valid reason for the Chaos Gods to do anything as any?

1240
01:32:20,900 --> 01:32:22,900
So, that's happening.

1241
01:32:22,900 --> 01:32:28,900
But alongside some Imperial Guard allies, for once they're not shooting each other in the face, them and the Blood Ravens,

1242
01:32:28,900 --> 01:32:35,900
the Chaos Forces and some summoned demons are assaulted and defeated, their temple completely destroyed.

1243
01:32:35,900 --> 01:32:40,900
There is a Baneblade involved in this that you have to run away from in the game, it's very harrowing,

1244
01:32:40,900 --> 01:32:46,900
because you do not have a Baneblade, you are just some Space Marines on foot, and I know Space Marines are powerful.

1245
01:32:46,900 --> 01:32:47,900
It does have a funny name.

1246
01:32:47,900 --> 01:32:48,900
I think it, is it Beanblade?

1247
01:32:48,900 --> 01:32:51,900
Baneblade, Baneblade, let it rip.

1248
01:32:51,900 --> 01:32:54,900
I think it's called Beanblade.

1249
01:32:54,900 --> 01:32:55,900
No, it's...

1250
01:32:55,900 --> 01:32:56,900
It's not called Beanblade.

1251
01:32:56,900 --> 01:32:57,900
I'm checking this.

1252
01:32:57,900 --> 01:32:58,900
It's a Baneblade.

1253
01:32:58,900 --> 01:32:59,900
No, you mean...

1254
01:32:59,900 --> 01:33:01,900
It's definitely not called Beanblade.

1255
01:33:01,900 --> 01:33:03,900
You know, it is not the Beanblade.

1256
01:33:03,900 --> 01:33:06,900
Beans, for sure.

1257
01:33:06,900 --> 01:33:09,900
That's gonna be Heinz Nix's mascot, the Beanblade.

1258
01:33:09,900 --> 01:33:10,900
The Beanblade.

1259
01:33:10,900 --> 01:33:12,900
It is a really cool...

1260
01:33:12,900 --> 01:33:19,900
It is a cool set piece though, because the whole time, like, you're running from the Baneblade,

1261
01:33:19,900 --> 01:33:23,900
and, you know, it's shooting at you,

1262
01:33:23,900 --> 01:33:26,900
and that's not great,

1263
01:33:26,900 --> 01:33:29,900
as you have to just keep running from it and fighting the forces in your way.

1264
01:33:29,900 --> 01:33:37,900
If a Beanblade was shooting at me, I would just do a backflip, slide under it, and then end it.

1265
01:33:37,900 --> 01:33:41,900
Are you gonna talk about Dawn of War III, or are we sort of all...

1266
01:33:41,900 --> 01:33:44,900
I'm going to very briefly cover it.

1267
01:33:44,900 --> 01:33:45,900
Okay.

1268
01:33:45,900 --> 01:33:47,900
That's what it deserves.

1269
01:33:47,900 --> 01:33:51,900
I force myself to cover the End Times, I'll force myself to cover Dawn of War III.

1270
01:33:51,900 --> 01:33:55,900
That one's much more palatable, because I can ignore Dawn of War III.

1271
01:33:55,900 --> 01:33:57,900
I can't ignore the End Times.

1272
01:33:57,900 --> 01:34:02,900
But while Andy's looking up the mysteries of the Beanblade,

1273
01:34:02,900 --> 01:34:09,900
the Chaos Lord of the Black Legion, who's leading the forces, isn't actually Eliphas.

1274
01:34:09,900 --> 01:34:11,900
He's like a lieutenant.

1275
01:34:11,900 --> 01:34:14,900
The guy in charge is named Arragast the Pillager.

1276
01:34:14,900 --> 01:34:16,900
He shows up to taunt you, because he's a Chaos Lord.

1277
01:34:16,900 --> 01:34:20,900
That's kind of what they do, they love their evil monologues.

1278
01:34:20,900 --> 01:34:23,900
And fast forward a bit, you know, they go to...

1279
01:34:23,900 --> 01:34:26,900
They realize, now we have to deal with him.

1280
01:34:26,900 --> 01:34:30,900
In the meantime, they notice some Eldar are poking around some ancient ruins,

1281
01:34:30,900 --> 01:34:32,900
so they kill them.

1282
01:34:32,900 --> 01:34:35,900
I don't think the Eldar are even doing anything,

1283
01:34:35,900 --> 01:34:38,900
like seeding the orcs into rebelling.

1284
01:34:38,900 --> 01:34:40,900
Not rebelling, but getting all uppity.

1285
01:34:40,900 --> 01:34:43,900
It's kind of like, Eldar murder on behalf of the Blood Ravens.

1286
01:34:43,900 --> 01:34:47,900
At this point, they've probably killed more than Slamash.

1287
01:34:47,900 --> 01:34:53,900
And then following that, even more of those chaotic fellows are killed,

1288
01:34:53,900 --> 01:34:56,900
for the chief librarian and chapter master of the Blood Ravens,

1289
01:34:56,900 --> 01:35:02,900
one Azariah Kairis, recalls all Blood Raven forces to their fleet,

1290
01:35:02,900 --> 01:35:05,900
and confines them to it until further notice.

1291
01:35:05,900 --> 01:35:07,900
Now, uh...

1292
01:35:07,900 --> 01:35:08,900
I wonder why he did that.

1293
01:35:08,900 --> 01:35:10,900
Interesting, yes.

1294
01:35:10,900 --> 01:35:16,900
Important note about him, as Dreadanon covered in the beginner section.

1295
01:35:16,900 --> 01:35:21,900
About 500 years prior to the games, he heroically fought against a great unclean one,

1296
01:35:21,900 --> 01:35:26,900
named Ukaer. U-Kair. I don't know how to say it. U-L-K-A-I-R.

1297
01:35:26,900 --> 01:35:29,900
But he was lost in the warp during this battle.

1298
01:35:29,900 --> 01:35:33,900
Before he just showed up back up one day, and took command of the Fifth Company,

1299
01:35:33,900 --> 01:35:35,900
and eventually became chapter master.

1300
01:35:35,900 --> 01:35:37,900
He just... he's like, I'm back. I'm in charge now.

1301
01:35:37,900 --> 01:35:38,900
And everyone was like, oh my god.

1302
01:35:38,900 --> 01:35:39,900
Guess who's back.

1303
01:35:39,900 --> 01:35:41,900
Wow, he's so cool.

1304
01:35:41,900 --> 01:35:45,900
He's like, oh my god, this legendary space marine hero is back.

1305
01:35:45,900 --> 01:35:47,900
Welcome, please come back.

1306
01:35:47,900 --> 01:35:50,900
Unfortunately for Mr. Kairos, because at the start of this,

1307
01:35:50,900 --> 01:35:54,900
he wasn't corrupted, he was genuinely just fighting a Nurgle demon,

1308
01:35:54,900 --> 01:35:57,900
as he's supposed to do. Good on him.

1309
01:35:57,900 --> 01:36:01,900
But unfortunately for him, he is neither Kaldor Drago,

1310
01:36:01,900 --> 01:36:04,900
Gatric Gurnason, nor a Chameleon.

1311
01:36:04,900 --> 01:36:07,900
So he was corrupted to the side of Chaos due to the time in the warp.

1312
01:36:07,900 --> 01:36:08,900
No one's gonna call...

1313
01:36:08,900 --> 01:36:10,900
It is called Beanblade.

1314
01:36:10,900 --> 01:36:11,900
It is not called Beanblade.

1315
01:36:11,900 --> 01:36:12,900
No one's gonna...

1316
01:36:12,900 --> 01:36:13,900
It is not called Beanblade.

1317
01:36:13,900 --> 01:36:14,900
It is a special thing for blood.

1318
01:36:14,900 --> 01:36:17,900
It says, heading due south, the Orcs found these particular guardsmen

1319
01:36:17,900 --> 01:36:22,900
possessed of Potent Firepower, a Baneblade by the name of Beanblade.

1320
01:36:22,900 --> 01:36:23,900
It's in the game.

1321
01:36:23,900 --> 01:36:24,900
As in Laser Pool.

1322
01:36:24,900 --> 01:36:25,900
I don't believe you.

1323
01:36:25,900 --> 01:36:28,900
Well, maybe they named it Beanblade, but it's not called...

1324
01:36:28,900 --> 01:36:30,900
Yeah, they named it Beanblade, yeah.

1325
01:36:30,900 --> 01:36:33,900
I can accept they called it that.

1326
01:36:33,900 --> 01:36:35,900
I thought you were saying, like, it's called the Beanblade.

1327
01:36:35,900 --> 01:36:37,900
Like, no, it is not.

1328
01:36:37,900 --> 01:36:41,900
I'm sure one of the guards says, let's use Beanblade.

1329
01:36:41,900 --> 01:36:43,900
You're like, it's called Beanblade. That's cute.

1330
01:36:43,900 --> 01:36:47,900
Shout out to the clip of being made of this with a Baneblade with Heinz on it.

1331
01:36:47,900 --> 01:36:49,900
A can of Heinz.

1332
01:36:49,900 --> 01:36:55,900
Okay, I've Google-quote-searched Beanblade and there are no hits apart from...

1333
01:36:55,900 --> 01:36:58,900
Dekalb's Captain Blood Flag's Wiki page.

1334
01:36:58,900 --> 01:37:00,900
It's in the game. It's in the cutscene.

1335
01:37:00,900 --> 01:37:03,900
No, I don't believe you. I don't believe you.

1336
01:37:03,900 --> 01:37:05,900
Just because you don't want it to be...

1337
01:37:05,900 --> 01:37:06,900
What do you mean? Knowledge is power.

1338
01:37:06,900 --> 01:37:08,900
You don't want it well.

1339
01:37:08,900 --> 01:37:13,900
Oh, but yeah, so he's corrupted.

1340
01:37:13,900 --> 01:37:17,900
Oh, Beanblade! Beanblade with an M.

1341
01:37:17,900 --> 01:37:18,900
With an M, yeah.

1342
01:37:18,900 --> 01:37:22,900
I also heard Bean.

1343
01:37:22,900 --> 01:37:23,900
Shoot a beam.

1344
01:37:23,900 --> 01:37:25,900
I also heard Bean the entire time.

1345
01:37:25,900 --> 01:37:27,900
I thought it was a beam.

1346
01:37:27,900 --> 01:37:29,900
Oh, no, it was a beam.

1347
01:37:29,900 --> 01:37:31,900
Bean is just the joke of it.

1348
01:37:31,900 --> 01:37:33,900
Bean.

1349
01:37:33,900 --> 01:37:40,900
Okay, that was a miscommunication. I would like to unreservedly apologize to Andy for my comments.

1350
01:37:40,900 --> 01:37:44,900
I just like how the Miss Ed Rahimson had us all like,

1351
01:37:44,900 --> 01:37:45,900
It's not called this!

1352
01:37:45,900 --> 01:37:49,900
And I was wondering why everyone was so riled up and I was like, it is!

1353
01:37:49,900 --> 01:37:51,900
Now it makes sense.

1354
01:37:51,900 --> 01:37:53,900
I thought you were talking about legumes.

1355
01:37:53,900 --> 01:37:55,900
You know?

1356
01:37:55,900 --> 01:37:57,900
Not beans.

1357
01:37:57,900 --> 01:37:59,900
Coffee beans at him, yeah.

1358
01:37:59,900 --> 01:38:03,900
Okay, misunderstanding, let's move on.

1359
01:38:03,900 --> 01:38:05,900
Misunderstanding indeed.

1360
01:38:05,900 --> 01:38:07,900
Back to the Ravens.

1361
01:38:07,900 --> 01:38:12,900
Despite, you know, so yeah, Kyra, I called Kyra,

1362
01:38:12,900 --> 01:38:18,900
he's been corrupted ever since it came back and was slowly turning members of the chapter to chaos.

1363
01:38:18,900 --> 01:38:23,900
Despite their reluctance, the loyal Ravens, which is, you know, yourselves,

1364
01:38:23,900 --> 01:38:25,900
the people you're controlling in the game,

1365
01:38:25,900 --> 01:38:29,900
follow his orders as he is still the chapter master and they don't know he's evil yet.

1366
01:38:29,900 --> 01:38:34,900
And the chapter instead deals with a space hulk filled with Tyranids that has warped into the system.

1367
01:38:34,900 --> 01:38:39,900
Again, RTS game, they put the Tyranids in the base game, by God, they're gonna use them.

1368
01:38:39,900 --> 01:38:44,900
And this is, oh, pardon me, skipped over a bit.

1369
01:38:44,900 --> 01:38:48,900
They also end up defeating Eregast after they fight him.

1370
01:38:48,900 --> 01:38:52,900
And Eregast goes, LFS, I need you to teleport me away from the Blood Ravens.

1371
01:38:52,900 --> 01:38:55,900
And then LFS says, no, I will not be doing that.

1372
01:38:55,900 --> 01:38:58,900
And then he doesn't and leaves him to die.

1373
01:38:58,900 --> 01:38:59,900
Classic LFS.

1374
01:38:59,900 --> 01:39:00,900
Very funny.

1375
01:39:00,900 --> 01:39:04,900
Turns out that whole inheritor part of his title,

1376
01:39:04,900 --> 01:39:08,900
it's not like you inherit something, you know, from the deceased.

1377
01:39:08,900 --> 01:39:11,900
You make them deceased and then take it.

1378
01:39:11,900 --> 01:39:13,900
It's how he likes to inherit.

1379
01:39:13,900 --> 01:39:15,900
Actively inheritor.

1380
01:39:15,900 --> 01:39:19,900
He's in like the Horus Heresy series very briefly, isn't he?

1381
01:39:19,900 --> 01:39:20,900
Like very briefly.

1382
01:39:20,900 --> 01:39:24,900
I think he is because he is, I'm pretty sure it's briefly mentioned in the game.

1383
01:39:24,900 --> 01:39:25,900
Like he's old.

1384
01:39:25,900 --> 01:39:30,900
Like LFS isn't just like a, he showed up one day, we invented him.

1385
01:39:30,900 --> 01:39:32,900
I guess they did invent him for Dona Horda.

1386
01:39:32,900 --> 01:39:34,900
They take the piss out of him because they're like,

1387
01:39:34,900 --> 01:39:39,900
I think he basically becomes the de facto leader of a chapter in the Legion during the Horus Heresy.

1388
01:39:39,900 --> 01:39:40,900
And they're like, oh, you didn't earn that.

1389
01:39:40,900 --> 01:39:42,900
You just like inherited the company.

1390
01:39:42,900 --> 01:39:43,900
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1391
01:39:43,900 --> 01:39:44,900
That's how he got his name.

1392
01:39:44,900 --> 01:39:45,900
You inherited it.

1393
01:39:45,900 --> 01:39:53,900
But either way, LFS is, I like to imagine that Aragast is one of the people making fun of him.

1394
01:39:53,900 --> 01:40:00,900
And he's like, all right, this is what you get for bullying me in middle school.

1395
01:40:00,900 --> 01:40:06,900
But that aside, it's time for the Blood Ravens to get to some investigating.

1396
01:40:06,900 --> 01:40:10,900
And some messages are sent out by someone within the chapter,

1397
01:40:10,900 --> 01:40:14,900
but they can't quite decipher them and they get to more investigating.

1398
01:40:14,900 --> 01:40:17,900
And they become aware of treachery within their ranks.

1399
01:40:17,900 --> 01:40:21,900
And actually, it's really cool because this actually ties into the equipment selection of the game.

1400
01:40:21,900 --> 01:40:25,900
As a forge breaker, as for who wields it, you can give it to a couple different people.

1401
01:40:25,900 --> 01:40:27,900
Lord only knows how they hold it.

1402
01:40:27,900 --> 01:40:31,900
I know you can't equip it to them if they have Terminator armor equipped.

1403
01:40:31,900 --> 01:40:35,900
You had, it's one or the other.

1404
01:40:35,900 --> 01:40:41,900
And the way it works is all this equipment, because there's plenty of other chaos equipment, tainted equipment they can get.

1405
01:40:41,900 --> 01:40:49,900
It adds to their corruption score and slowly over the course, you can get more and more corrupted, which is not great.

1406
01:40:49,900 --> 01:40:55,900
They discover through a chapter or through a good lord, through a chapter.

1407
01:40:55,900 --> 01:41:05,900
The way they find out is towards the end of the game, the squad mate who has the highest corruption score is revealed as the traitor,

1408
01:41:05,900 --> 01:41:13,900
the not loyalist, the one who's been working with Kyris. And it's, so you kill him.

1409
01:41:13,900 --> 01:41:20,900
If you don't have any corruption score, by the way, it is a tech marine who was revealed to be a traitor named Martellus.

1410
01:41:20,900 --> 01:41:24,900
And then you find out that Kyris is evil through killing that guy.

1411
01:41:24,900 --> 01:41:28,900
He tells that he's like, well, if I'm going down, might as well lore dump on you.

1412
01:41:28,900 --> 01:41:30,900
So now you know Kyris is the fool.

1413
01:41:30,900 --> 01:41:36,900
They go to Captain Diomedes and explain that, hey, we've all been played for fools.

1414
01:41:36,900 --> 01:41:44,900
We have to deal with this. Kyris declares all of those people, you and Diomedes and everyone, the real traitors.

1415
01:41:44,900 --> 01:41:48,900
And it's time for a nice, good old fashioned Blood Angel Civil War.

1416
01:41:48,900 --> 01:41:51,900
And this all ends up with that demon.

1417
01:41:51,900 --> 01:41:52,900
Wait, Blood Angels?

1418
01:41:52,900 --> 01:41:55,900
I, god damn.

1419
01:41:55,900 --> 01:41:58,900
Game keeps happening.

1420
01:41:58,900 --> 01:42:04,900
Blood Raven Civil War. All right, look, I bet name your things better, GW.

1421
01:42:04,900 --> 01:42:13,900
It's like the whole world eaters, word bearers thing where you say, oh, I love the world bearers.

1422
01:42:13,900 --> 01:42:18,900
I thought they were called the world bearers for so long and then I was finished.

1423
01:42:18,900 --> 01:42:25,900
Except now Blood is how both of them start and they have like the A.

1424
01:42:25,900 --> 01:42:28,900
Anyway, Blood Ravens Civil War happens.

1425
01:42:28,900 --> 01:42:33,900
And in all of this, Ukaer ends up being freed.

1426
01:42:33,900 --> 01:42:37,900
The Blood Ravens seal him away once again, unlike the first demon they dealt with.

1427
01:42:37,900 --> 01:42:39,900
Ukaer does not get away.

1428
01:42:39,900 --> 01:42:45,900
Eliphas escapes into the warp because this time Relic isn't wasting the character.

1429
01:42:45,900 --> 01:42:51,900
He also ascends to Demon Princehood and then just he's like, I'm out.

1430
01:42:51,900 --> 01:42:55,900
And although Kyris was defeated, he's not gone.

1431
01:42:55,900 --> 01:42:58,900
And I did also mention again, yeah, Forgebreaker.

1432
01:42:58,900 --> 01:43:00,900
I just double down on that.

1433
01:43:00,900 --> 01:43:03,900
I can't believe they found that.

1434
01:43:03,900 --> 01:43:11,900
Retribution, the next DLC, the last one for Dawn of War 2, is dealing with Kyris once and for all and an Inquisitor's Behest.

1435
01:43:11,900 --> 01:43:17,900
And the story for this one is once again rather simple like the other some of the Dawn of War 1 expansions.

1436
01:43:17,900 --> 01:43:22,900
You pick any of the factions to deal with him, you know, Eldar, Orcs, what have you.

1437
01:43:22,900 --> 01:43:28,900
And the way it works is you fight one of your nemesis factions at the beginning of the game.

1438
01:43:28,900 --> 01:43:30,900
So like the Eldar and the Orcs will fight each other.

1439
01:43:30,900 --> 01:43:34,900
The Marines and Chaos Marines fight each other.

1440
01:43:34,900 --> 01:43:35,900
And you win.

1441
01:43:35,900 --> 01:43:44,900
And then you speak to the Inquisitor and it's up to you to deal with Kyris because the Inquisition has caught wind of the mess that is the Aurelian sector.

1442
01:43:44,900 --> 01:43:47,900
And they're just going to blow it to high hell.

1443
01:43:47,900 --> 01:43:49,900
It's exterminatus for every one time.

1444
01:43:49,900 --> 01:43:52,900
Unless you can deal with it in a timely enough manner.

1445
01:43:52,900 --> 01:43:54,900
And that's what the game is all about.

1446
01:43:54,900 --> 01:44:01,900
So over the course of Retribution, you deal with Kyris.

1447
01:44:01,900 --> 01:44:11,900
And of note is that the canning ending of this cannon ending of the game is once again a mixture of the Eldar endings and Space Marine endings.

1448
01:44:11,900 --> 01:44:18,900
Which is cool that the Eldar are at least allowed to technically win in their own way, kind of.

1449
01:44:18,900 --> 01:44:25,900
There's another awesome Orc introduced named Captain Bloodflag who straight up wears a pirate hat with a skull and crossbones on it.

1450
01:44:25,900 --> 01:44:28,900
And Hal voiced him in my Orctober video.

1451
01:44:28,900 --> 01:44:31,900
Oh yeah. He's very fun.

1452
01:44:31,900 --> 01:44:37,900
And Kyris ascends to become a Demon Prince of Khorne despite Khorne hating psykers.

1453
01:44:37,900 --> 01:44:45,900
Although with that being said, if you listen to his speech, good lord, is he again the finest voice acting hand.

1454
01:44:45,900 --> 01:44:47,900
He is putting his all into this.

1455
01:44:47,900 --> 01:44:55,900
Like you know the Horus heresy trailer where Horus is like, if I cannot save it, let the galaxy burn.

1456
01:44:55,900 --> 01:44:59,900
Even if it takes the last drop of my blood.

1457
01:44:59,900 --> 01:45:00,900
Oh yeah. This is good.

1458
01:45:00,900 --> 01:45:05,900
It's good. But when he says, you know, let the galaxy burn, it's all very low energy and low.

1459
01:45:05,900 --> 01:45:10,900
He's like, I don't want to have to do this. I'm pretending I have the moral high ground.

1460
01:45:10,900 --> 01:45:13,900
But when Kyris says it, he's owning up to it.

1461
01:45:13,900 --> 01:45:18,900
I am a bad guy. I am serving demons and I am in it to win it.

1462
01:45:18,900 --> 01:45:23,900
He's like, let that galaxy burn.

1463
01:45:23,900 --> 01:45:26,900
He genuinely sounds like a crazy person and it's the best thing in the world.

1464
01:45:26,900 --> 01:45:33,900
Like just look up, either pause it or when you're done listening to the podcast, look up the Azariah Kyris speech.

1465
01:45:33,900 --> 01:45:41,900
He is he loves life more than anything in that moment because he's about to end a whole lot of life.

1466
01:45:41,900 --> 01:45:45,900
Because the exterminatus is just to get him to ascend to demon princehood.

1467
01:45:45,900 --> 01:45:52,900
Because although Korn doesn't like psychers, he likes blood and exterminatus is a whole lot of blood.

1468
01:45:52,900 --> 01:45:55,900
So yeah, that's one hell of a sacrifice.

1469
01:45:55,900 --> 01:45:58,900
So the exterminatus, however, ends up being delayed.

1470
01:45:58,900 --> 01:46:02,900
Kyris ascends to princehood, but he is defeated and banished.

1471
01:46:02,900 --> 01:46:07,900
And the blood ravens are bloodied, but they come out victorious.

1472
01:46:07,900 --> 01:46:12,900
Once again, it is not like the technical canon ending to Dawn of War 1 with Soulstorm

1473
01:46:12,900 --> 01:46:17,900
where the blood ravens kind of get the crap kicked out of them.

1474
01:46:17,900 --> 01:46:22,900
They're victorious. They're hurt. They're bruised, but they've won.

1475
01:46:22,900 --> 01:46:24,900
I do like how there's several endings though.

1476
01:46:24,900 --> 01:46:28,900
And there's like one where you can play as Captain Bloodflag and he just blows up his head.

1477
01:46:28,900 --> 01:46:32,900
And then he's like, I like the Inquisitor's hat and just nicks it.

1478
01:46:32,900 --> 01:46:34,900
And that was what it was all about.

1479
01:46:34,900 --> 01:46:37,900
He was so real for that.

1480
01:46:37,900 --> 01:46:43,900
He's an orc. I don't care about your exterminatus stuff. I see that hat. I want that hat.

1481
01:46:43,900 --> 01:46:49,900
And he gets it. Only in the orc ending though, which is unfortunately non-canon.

1482
01:46:49,900 --> 01:46:54,900
We do briefly get to the Space Marine game though. They show up.

1483
01:46:54,900 --> 01:47:01,900
They help Captain Titus, the second greatest Space Marine to ever live out towards the end of the game.

1484
01:47:01,900 --> 01:47:08,900
The best one is Malem Kato. Malem Kato? Malem Kato, however you say it, from Boltgunn,

1485
01:47:08,900 --> 01:47:14,900
who is a Black Templar who got lost and accidentally painted his armor blue.

1486
01:47:14,900 --> 01:47:18,900
Although the Black Templars make a very brief appearance in Space Marine as well.

1487
01:47:18,900 --> 01:47:21,900
They do. Oh, hey. Yeah, that's right.

1488
01:47:21,900 --> 01:47:24,900
They're just with the Inquisitor lights.

1489
01:47:24,900 --> 01:47:26,900
They don't say anything though.

1490
01:47:26,900 --> 01:47:28,900
No. But they're there.

1491
01:47:28,900 --> 01:47:33,900
Towards the end of the game when Captain Titus is going to defeat the big old Chaos Sorcerer,

1492
01:47:33,900 --> 01:47:37,900
who is also funnily enough a Chaos Sorcerer with help from Khorne demons,

1493
01:47:37,900 --> 01:47:42,900
Relic seems to really like having sorcerers aligned with Khorne for some reason.

1494
01:47:42,900 --> 01:47:47,900
As Captain Titus is going to help him, the Bloodravens show up to give him a hand

1495
01:47:47,900 --> 01:47:52,900
because the rest of the Ultramarines are busy complaining about the Codex Astartes in this game.

1496
01:47:52,900 --> 01:47:56,900
So the Bro-Blood-Ain-Ahhhhhhhhh, I caught it!

1497
01:47:56,900 --> 01:48:00,900
The Bro-Blood-Ravens showed up and helped him out.

1498
01:48:00,900 --> 01:48:03,900
And of note is that they have a different battle cry now.

1499
01:48:03,900 --> 01:48:07,900
They changed it after retribution from Knowledge is Power, Guard it Well,

1500
01:48:07,900 --> 01:48:13,900
to None Shall Find Us Wanting, which is a much better battle cry, I have to say.

1501
01:48:13,900 --> 01:48:18,900
I do like how Titus, when he speaks to the first one, is just like, ah, your deeds in the Aurelion Sector are legendary.

1502
01:48:18,900 --> 01:48:21,900
Like, oh, they're friends. That's nice.

1503
01:48:21,900 --> 01:48:26,900
It's cool. That's also the nicest opinion anyone has of the Bloodravens that isn't a part of them,

1504
01:48:26,900 --> 01:48:33,900
because some of those item descriptions kind of imply the Bloodravens are pariahs.

1505
01:48:33,900 --> 01:48:37,900
Captain Titus, bro that he is, big fans of him.

1506
01:48:37,900 --> 01:48:42,900
He knows Bloodravens can throw down when it counts, because Captain Titus is the coolest.

1507
01:48:42,900 --> 01:48:46,900
He was like, I've got to get up to that place. I don't care who's going to give me...

1508
01:48:46,900 --> 01:48:50,900
Oh, these guys. Oh yeah, you're great. Let's keep going.

1509
01:48:50,900 --> 01:48:53,900
He wouldn't have minded who it was. Space Wolves, yeah.

1510
01:48:53,900 --> 01:48:57,900
Oh yes, I too enjoy Mjod.

1511
01:48:57,900 --> 01:48:59,900
Let's go to the end of the game.

1512
01:48:59,900 --> 01:49:04,900
Let's go fight the guy now. I'd like this game to be over. I hate it here.

1513
01:49:04,900 --> 01:49:08,900
But now, unfortunately, it's time for Dawn of War 3.

1514
01:49:08,900 --> 01:49:15,900
No one likes this game. No one likes League of 40 Hammer, so I'll keep it short.

1515
01:49:15,900 --> 01:49:20,900
The whole game revolves around fighting for a weapon known as the Spear of Kain,

1516
01:49:20,900 --> 01:49:24,900
because before it was Chaos doing all the bad stuff.

1517
01:49:24,900 --> 01:49:28,900
It was then the Necrons waking up, and then it was Tyranids and Chaos again.

1518
01:49:28,900 --> 01:49:33,900
Now it's time for some Ancient Eldar stuff to finally shine, which if nothing else,

1519
01:49:33,900 --> 01:49:41,900
I appreciate someone in a Warhammer production finally acknowledge the Eldar had a bunch of super weapons lying around.

1520
01:49:41,900 --> 01:49:47,900
Thank you. And if I can thank Dawn of War for that, it's the music, which admittedly the music is really good for 3,

1521
01:49:47,900 --> 01:49:54,900
and that plot piece. So they're trying to get the Spear of Kain, which presumably belonged to Kain,

1522
01:49:54,900 --> 01:49:58,900
and I at least personally think it might have been one of those 100 Blades Vol Forge for them,

1523
01:49:58,900 --> 01:50:02,900
although I don't believe that's ever stated. The fake one.

1524
01:50:02,900 --> 01:50:10,900
This thing is said to be very powerful, so this might have been the real one.

1525
01:50:10,900 --> 01:50:18,900
But thankfully, to save us from the fact that this is Dawn of War 3, Gorgoth is back!

1526
01:50:18,900 --> 01:50:23,900
He's made his return! He's back to be the most entertaining thing about this game! He's back!

1527
01:50:23,900 --> 01:50:32,900
So is Farseer Maka, who's also back and is depicted exactly as fan art of her depicted her as,

1528
01:50:32,900 --> 01:50:37,900
which is interesting because she never took off her helmet in the first Dawn of War,

1529
01:50:37,900 --> 01:50:44,900
which has led people to believe that either someone who made fan art for her got lucky and got a job in the Dawn of War 3 development team,

1530
01:50:44,900 --> 01:50:49,900
or the Dawn of War development team was looking for references and thought that was canon.

1531
01:50:49,900 --> 01:50:52,900
Just neat little thing.

1532
01:50:52,900 --> 01:50:57,900
Maybe they realized the game was going to tank and they tried to put some fan service in it at the last minute.

1533
01:50:57,900 --> 01:51:00,900
That also might have been a bad life.

1534
01:51:00,900 --> 01:51:04,900
Actually, I have a potentially controversial opinion about Dawn of War 3.

1535
01:51:04,900 --> 01:51:05,900
Oh?

1536
01:51:05,900 --> 01:51:08,900
The voice acting sucks.

1537
01:51:08,900 --> 01:51:09,900
Okay.

1538
01:51:09,900 --> 01:51:11,900
I'll bet it.

1539
01:51:11,900 --> 01:51:16,900
I don't know if that's controversial because I've seen a couple of people say, well at least the voice acting is good,

1540
01:51:16,900 --> 01:51:22,900
but everyone sounds really bored and there are videos on YouTube comparing the same units in 1, 2, and 3.

1541
01:51:22,900 --> 01:51:29,900
And in 1 and 2 they sound like they're having the time of their lives and then in 3, I don't know, it sounds like...

1542
01:51:29,900 --> 01:51:32,900
The Space Marines sound like bored squaddies in Afghanistan.

1543
01:51:32,900 --> 01:51:35,900
It's like, the Marine squad here, yeah.

1544
01:51:35,900 --> 01:51:38,900
Oh, it's just terrible.

1545
01:51:38,900 --> 01:51:41,900
It became maybe a little bit more high quality professional,

1546
01:51:41,900 --> 01:51:46,900
but that means it lost all of the fun and the charm of the first two Dawn of Wars.

1547
01:51:46,900 --> 01:51:48,900
Yeah, no one's yelling anymore.

1548
01:51:48,900 --> 01:51:49,900
Yeah, no one's ever like,

1549
01:51:49,900 --> 01:51:50,900
My Emperor!

1550
01:51:50,900 --> 01:51:53,900
Space Marines attack!

1551
01:51:53,900 --> 01:51:55,900
And everyone's just excited to be there.

1552
01:51:55,900 --> 01:51:57,900
No one's excited to be in Dawn of War 3.

1553
01:51:57,900 --> 01:52:00,900
Even the people in Dawn of War 3 don't seem interested.

1554
01:52:00,900 --> 01:52:05,900
The voice acting is so bad.

1555
01:52:05,900 --> 01:52:11,900
They're just slaughtering, they are having so much fun and you're like, oh, they're having a great time slaughtering the enemies of the Imperium.

1556
01:52:11,900 --> 01:52:12,900
Good on the Space Marines.

1557
01:52:12,900 --> 01:52:14,900
And then you get to freeing it.

1558
01:52:14,900 --> 01:52:19,900
I've definitely watched the video that Dread's referencing where they compare the two and it's like,

1559
01:52:19,900 --> 01:52:25,900
It's so milk toast and dull and it's like, oh, there's no charm in it.

1560
01:52:25,900 --> 01:52:31,900
Maybe professionally it's a little bit higher quality, but it's not fun anymore when that's what we're here for.

1561
01:52:31,900 --> 01:52:35,900
I'm not here for The Last of Us, it's all depressing and grim.

1562
01:52:35,900 --> 01:52:38,900
It's like, no, I'm here to watch these Space Crusaders scream.

1563
01:52:38,900 --> 01:52:43,900
Can't Gabriel Angelos do a jumping forward roll in the third game?

1564
01:52:43,900 --> 01:52:47,900
Yeah, in Terminator armor.

1565
01:52:47,900 --> 01:52:52,900
Exactly, like, the ship has sailed, make it silly, make it fun.

1566
01:52:52,900 --> 01:52:55,900
It's like, yeah, you can't have a back flipping demigod.

1567
01:52:55,900 --> 01:52:58,900
How will they appeal to eSports commentators?

1568
01:52:58,900 --> 01:53:01,900
That might be it, like that's my conspiracy theory.

1569
01:53:01,900 --> 01:53:06,900
They didn't want the characters like speaking over like the eSports commentators

1570
01:53:06,900 --> 01:53:09,900
because they thought it was going to be a big eSports hit.

1571
01:53:09,900 --> 01:53:12,900
That's my conspiracy theory and I'm sticking to it.

1572
01:53:12,900 --> 01:53:15,900
Well, it's like a, when did that game come out?

1573
01:53:15,900 --> 01:53:19,900
Like 10, not 10 years ago, maybe 10 years ago.

1574
01:53:19,900 --> 01:53:20,900
6 years ago I think.

1575
01:53:20,900 --> 01:53:22,900
Mayor G sponsors Dawn of War 3.

1576
01:53:22,900 --> 01:53:23,900
Yeah.

1577
01:53:23,900 --> 01:53:25,900
Good Lord.

1578
01:53:25,900 --> 01:53:28,900
And then you play it and it's just bad StarCraft.

1579
01:53:28,900 --> 01:53:33,900
It has no full StarCraft but awful.

1580
01:53:33,900 --> 01:53:34,900
Yeah.

1581
01:53:34,900 --> 01:53:35,900
But.

1582
01:53:35,900 --> 01:53:40,900
The fact that we thought it was going to take off is embarrassing and shameful.

1583
01:53:40,900 --> 01:53:42,900
Shameful.

1584
01:53:42,900 --> 01:53:45,900
Oh wow, strong opinions.

1585
01:53:45,900 --> 01:53:51,900
And even the plot of it is, everyone's racing for the spear of Cain.

1586
01:53:51,900 --> 01:53:59,900
It's even like, the other plots of the game, they were all contravences to get you to fight all the cool factions they put in.

1587
01:53:59,900 --> 01:54:02,900
It doesn't even feel like they were trying for Dawn of War 3.

1588
01:54:02,900 --> 01:54:04,900
It's like everyone's fighting for the spear of Cain.

1589
01:54:04,900 --> 01:54:10,900
Go beat up the Eldar, now beat up the Orcs, now you're the Orcs, beat up the Eldar, now you're the Eldar, beat up the Marines.

1590
01:54:10,900 --> 01:54:17,900
Because you notice it had the same plot again where like the ending was basically, oh are demons being released?

1591
01:54:17,900 --> 01:54:18,900
Like a big demon.

1592
01:54:18,900 --> 01:54:24,900
Yeah, I was going to say, it turns out there's a prophecy that the Eldar have about the spear of Cain united.

1593
01:54:24,900 --> 01:54:30,900
What they thought it was, was it would unite all of the Eldar craft worlds and bring them into a new age of glory.

1594
01:54:30,900 --> 01:54:36,900
But it turns out the real prophecy, and there was this demon known as the Storm Prince.

1595
01:54:36,900 --> 01:54:41,900
Well you didn't know he was a demon, they thought the Storm Prince was some Eldar to unite them when he had the spear.

1596
01:54:41,900 --> 01:54:44,900
Turns out it was a demon who was released, the Storm Prince.

1597
01:54:44,900 --> 01:54:52,900
And everyone being united was actually the Orcs, the Eldar, and the Space Marines, the Blood Ravens, to fight the Storm Prince.

1598
01:54:52,900 --> 01:54:57,900
So at the end of the game they all come together, beat the hell out of the Storm Prince,

1599
01:54:57,900 --> 01:55:04,900
and in a very un-40k move everyone decides to just go their separate ways and kind of forget about the whole affair.

1600
01:55:04,900 --> 01:55:05,900
Except for Gorgots who hangs-

1601
01:55:05,900 --> 01:55:06,900
Just walk away.

1602
01:55:06,900 --> 01:55:08,900
Pretty much.

1603
01:55:08,900 --> 01:55:15,900
Except for Gorgots who hangs back after everyone else leaves and then nicks the spear of Cain because he's an Orc.

1604
01:55:15,900 --> 01:55:21,900
Also of note is that Gorgots is no longer a war boss, he's at the start of the game serving another one.

1605
01:55:21,900 --> 01:55:29,900
Although that one I don't find as egregious because he's an Orc, it can be easily explained away as he didn't feel like being in charge anymore for the moment,

1606
01:55:29,900 --> 01:55:31,900
and Gorgots does what Gorgots wants.

1607
01:55:31,900 --> 01:55:36,900
Jain's czar was also there, left no impact.

1608
01:55:36,900 --> 01:55:39,900
Thank you for coming, Jain's czar.

1609
01:55:39,900 --> 01:55:48,900
And yeah, thank you Dawn of War for- I can't even summon up Vitriol to talk about this game after long enough, I just feel-

1610
01:55:48,900 --> 01:55:52,900
It killed the Dawn of War series, which was really upset.

1611
01:55:52,900 --> 01:55:55,900
Which is impressive in a really bad way.

1612
01:55:55,900 --> 01:56:02,900
Oh also, speaking of just copy and pasting from Dawn of War earlier, the Necrons were teased at the end of the game,

1613
01:56:02,900 --> 01:56:07,900
but then the game flopped and they stopped developing anything for it, so that went nowhere.

1614
01:56:07,900 --> 01:56:10,900
And then Meedam Necrons went back to bed.

1615
01:56:10,900 --> 01:56:12,900
They just made it equal size for it, didn't they?

1616
01:56:12,900 --> 01:56:14,900
I like the idea that Empires IV was alright.

1617
01:56:14,900 --> 01:56:16,900
Yeah, Age of- yeah.

1618
01:56:16,900 --> 01:56:23,900
And after Dawn of War III, alright might as well have been a 10 out of 10.

1619
01:56:23,900 --> 01:56:29,900
But thankfully, thankfully I don't need to end the Blood Ravens talk on Dawn of War III.

1620
01:56:29,900 --> 01:56:36,900
Because the last bit of information about them actually comes from Dark Imperium and the somewhat modern 40k timeline.

1621
01:56:36,900 --> 01:56:39,900
So hey, that's something.

1622
01:56:39,900 --> 01:56:44,900
The Blood Ravens, although the Blood Ravens would probably rather this lore not exist,

1623
01:56:44,900 --> 01:56:48,900
because they're on the wrong side of the Great Rift.

1624
01:56:48,900 --> 01:56:56,900
There's the side for those of you unfamiliar with Warhammer, the Great Rift, the big ol' chaos storm that tore the galaxy in half.

1625
01:56:56,900 --> 01:57:04,900
There's the half that the Astronomicon is on, which is the Emperor lighting the warp up for Imperial ships to travel.

1626
01:57:04,900 --> 01:57:08,900
And then there's the half that he's not on, and it's real dark and hard to do anything in there,

1627
01:57:08,900 --> 01:57:11,900
because warp travel is really hard when you don't have the Lighthouse.

1628
01:57:11,900 --> 01:57:18,900
They're on the bad side, the dark side, and the Aurelion subsector was absolutely rampant with chaos incursions.

1629
01:57:18,900 --> 01:57:26,900
And there were some signs that Ulcair was going to reawaken from his prison.

1630
01:57:26,900 --> 01:57:30,900
The Great Unclean One was coming back for round two, or at least trying.

1631
01:57:30,900 --> 01:57:33,900
I guess it would have been round three, actually. Pardon me.

1632
01:57:33,900 --> 01:57:37,900
Thankfully... Oh, what's up?

1633
01:57:37,900 --> 01:57:43,900
Sorry, I just made a weird connection with the Great Rift to the Berlin Wall.

1634
01:57:43,900 --> 01:57:45,900
Don't mind me.

1635
01:57:45,900 --> 01:57:48,900
You're on the wrong side of the wall, bro.

1636
01:57:48,900 --> 01:57:52,900
The rise of communism then, technically, rather than the fall of it.

1637
01:57:52,900 --> 01:57:57,900
Whoa. More crimes goes political. Not political.

1638
01:57:57,900 --> 01:58:00,900
Oh no.

1639
01:58:00,900 --> 01:58:05,900
I was just like, oh, you don't want to be on the east side. Oh yeah, I get the reference. Very good.

1640
01:58:05,900 --> 01:58:12,900
But despite them being only at half strength after Dawn of War bad and all that fun times,

1641
01:58:12,900 --> 01:58:18,900
they heroically, the Blood Ravens, threw themselves into the fray to defend their home sector,

1642
01:58:18,900 --> 01:58:24,900
both out of heroism and because they're kind of out of recruiting worlds, if this thing goes.

1643
01:58:24,900 --> 01:58:31,900
But thankfully, the custodians show up, as they did to almost every other chapter, except the Lamenters, rest in piss,

1644
01:58:31,900 --> 01:58:37,900
and gave them the secret of the Primaris Marines, as well as a whole bunch of Primaris reinforcements.

1645
01:58:37,900 --> 01:58:44,900
So now they're half and half Primaris Marines and firstborn Marines, and they're back at it again.

1646
01:58:44,900 --> 01:58:49,900
Gabriel Angelos is now the chapter master as of Dawn of War III, and he's leading the charge now.

1647
01:58:49,900 --> 01:58:53,900
He's not just a captain, he's back flipping across the galaxy in his Terminator armor.

1648
01:58:53,900 --> 01:58:55,900
Fleeing from battle to battle.

1649
01:58:55,900 --> 01:59:01,900
Yep. And he's with his massive Thunder Hammer, and he's being the best.

1650
01:59:01,900 --> 01:59:06,900
And also, we were talking about it earlier, when they looked at the genes he the custodians gave them,

1651
01:59:06,900 --> 01:59:14,900
they went, right, time to not let this secret out again, whatever they found, and they kept their origin secret once again.

1652
01:59:14,900 --> 01:59:22,900
And that is the Blood Rape, although there's one more thing I need to bring up, and I will show this in the edit.

1653
01:59:22,900 --> 01:59:29,900
I'm going to send this image file into the general thing now, because this, I think even more so than Forgebreaker,

1654
01:59:29,900 --> 01:59:32,900
is the most impressive thing they've ever stolen,

1655
01:59:32,900 --> 01:59:37,900
and perhaps the only good thing to come out of Dawn of War III aside from the music.

1656
01:59:37,900 --> 01:59:40,900
They stole a Wraith Lord.

1657
01:59:40,900 --> 01:59:42,900
Oh my. What?

1658
01:59:42,900 --> 01:59:44,900
Yo. What is that?

1659
01:59:44,900 --> 01:59:45,900
That's a Wraith Lord.

1660
01:59:45,900 --> 01:59:48,900
What do you mean, it's got the color scheme and like, it's got their logo on it and everything.

1661
01:59:48,900 --> 01:59:53,900
For reference, a Wraith Lord isn't just like a dreadnought where you can kill the guy inside and then if you really want just take it.

1662
01:59:53,900 --> 01:59:58,900
There's a ghost in there, like that is an Eldar in there. You can't take the Eldar out of the Wraith Lord.

1663
01:59:58,900 --> 02:00:00,900
If you do, you just kill the Wraith Lord.

1664
02:00:00,900 --> 02:00:02,900
And...

1665
02:00:02,900 --> 02:00:04,900
You wouldn't steal a ghost.

1666
02:00:04,900 --> 02:00:10,900
I don't know, but I just saw that screenshot and I'm like, I don't know how they managed it, but they stole a Wraith Lord.

1667
02:00:10,900 --> 02:00:12,900
That is nice.

1668
02:00:12,900 --> 02:00:14,900
Utter, like heresy to the utter.

1669
02:00:14,900 --> 02:00:23,900
To be honest, I think the logical, next when they revive the Dawn of War games and they go, Dawn of War IV,

1670
02:00:23,900 --> 02:00:29,900
the only way they continue the Bloodraven story is they go, okay, we've given you Primaris,

1671
02:00:29,900 --> 02:00:31,900
we're back up to full strength.

1672
02:00:31,900 --> 02:00:35,900
And they're like, okay, guys, it's all going to be swell from here.

1673
02:00:35,900 --> 02:00:45,900
And then all of a sudden the sky darkens and ships descend and they're all in the heraldry of the Iron Warriors and Pertorabo descends and goes,

1674
02:00:45,900 --> 02:00:47,900
where's my hammer?

1675
02:00:47,900 --> 02:00:51,900
And that'd be the perfect way to kick off a new game.

1676
02:00:51,900 --> 02:00:53,900
It's very cool, but...

1677
02:00:53,900 --> 02:00:55,900
And give the Iron Warriors some...

1678
02:00:55,900 --> 02:00:59,900
A complete waste of a demon Primaris.

1679
02:00:59,900 --> 02:01:07,900
And have the craft world come up, have Ulthwee come up like, hey, you stole our Wraith Lord, we need that back.

1680
02:01:07,900 --> 02:01:10,900
What do you mean you stole our Wraith Lord?

1681
02:01:10,900 --> 02:01:12,900
And then Gorgoth comes in with his like...

1682
02:01:12,900 --> 02:01:14,900
The Spear of Kain.

1683
02:01:14,900 --> 02:01:16,900
Yeah, he's just like, I've got this too, and they're like, oh no, not this again.

1684
02:01:16,900 --> 02:01:18,900
And yeah, it all combines.

1685
02:01:18,900 --> 02:01:22,900
Well, Dawn of War IV is basically every faction coming...

1686
02:01:22,900 --> 02:01:30,900
Just make it Dark Crusade again and just make it a complete mess of a war zone where everyone is there killing everyone else.

1687
02:01:30,900 --> 02:01:34,900
And make them yell again. Please, I beg of you, make everyone yell again.

1688
02:01:34,900 --> 02:01:36,900
Yes, we need the yelling.

1689
02:01:36,900 --> 02:01:40,900
I hired Dredanov, I heard he's pretty good at yelling.

1690
02:01:40,900 --> 02:01:42,900
Yeah, you should hire Dredanov for Dawn of IV.

1691
02:01:42,900 --> 02:01:48,900
He yells raining willowmen pretty, pretty hard, if I do say so myself.

1692
02:01:48,900 --> 02:01:52,900
That's... yeah.

1693
02:01:52,900 --> 02:01:55,900
That being said, that's the Blood Ravens?

1694
02:01:55,900 --> 02:01:57,900
That's just about the Blood Ravens.

1695
02:01:57,900 --> 02:02:02,900
As of modern times, that's like I said, with the Dark Imperium, that's kind of what they're up to.

1696
02:02:02,900 --> 02:02:10,900
I assume they still have that Wraith Lord in a shed somewhere alongside half of every other chapter's artifacts they've ever accumulated just in some sheds.

1697
02:02:10,900 --> 02:02:14,900
They're probably not even on one of their like, flagships, it's just somewhere.

1698
02:02:14,900 --> 02:02:16,900
It's also poorly labeled as well.

1699
02:02:16,900 --> 02:02:21,900
I just like the idea of them all in a big pile, like not even organized, just like, oh, another thing, and they just chuck it on the pile.

1700
02:02:21,900 --> 02:02:22,900
Get them a goblin.

1701
02:02:22,900 --> 02:02:27,900
It's how they arm their aspirants once they're ready to become full space warriors.

1702
02:02:27,900 --> 02:02:29,900
They're just like, go grab some from the shed.

1703
02:02:29,900 --> 02:02:33,900
We've got to do like a joint operation with the Space Wolves.

1704
02:02:33,900 --> 02:02:39,900
Neophyte, Calderus, you go through and just root for like that thing we have that's theirs for like negotiations.

1705
02:02:39,900 --> 02:02:41,900
Okay, and he's just there sifting through.

1706
02:02:41,900 --> 02:02:47,900
The real question is who can steal more, Shrazen the Infinite or the entire Blood Ravens chapter?

1707
02:02:47,900 --> 02:02:49,900
Blood Ravens or the Minotaurs?

1708
02:02:49,900 --> 02:02:54,900
I don't think the Minotaurs is stealing because stealing implies it was stealthily taken.

1709
02:02:54,900 --> 02:02:59,900
And more like repo, they knock on your door and they go, you have something the High Lords want.

1710
02:02:59,900 --> 02:03:05,900
The Blood Ravens are, I almost called them the Blood Lords, I don't know where I got that one from.

1711
02:03:05,900 --> 02:03:14,900
The Blood Ravens are like the Skyrim stealth build, you are suddenly naked because the Dragonborn has pickpocketed the clothes off your back.

1712
02:03:14,900 --> 02:03:21,900
The Minotaurs... it's just a hate crime.

1713
02:03:21,900 --> 02:03:27,900
They have to paralyze hell on your body and then nick everything while you can't move.

1714
02:03:27,900 --> 02:03:30,900
And then beat you up just for good measure.

1715
02:03:30,900 --> 02:03:34,900
Well, with that being said...

1716
02:03:34,900 --> 02:03:41,900
I hope people enjoyed learning about the sneaky slash mysterious boys of the Blood Ravens.

1717
02:03:41,900 --> 02:03:44,900
Thank you for this lore crime filled episode.

1718
02:03:44,900 --> 02:03:47,900
Many flubs as I kept calling them the Blood Angels.

1719
02:03:47,900 --> 02:03:51,900
What was not a flub is that Dark Souls 2 is the best Dark Souls game.

1720
02:03:51,900 --> 02:03:56,900
That one was not a flub, that one is simple fact.

1721
02:03:56,900 --> 02:03:57,900
Yeah, yeah.

1722
02:03:57,900 --> 02:04:00,900
Colin was later executed by Fire Expo.

1723
02:04:00,900 --> 02:04:06,900
Dark Souls 3 is overrated, it may have the best gameplay with the swordplay, but everything else is vastly overrated.

1724
02:04:06,900 --> 02:04:07,900
Oh, it's good.

1725
02:04:07,900 --> 02:04:14,900
But with that heresy aside, and also thanks very much, Red and On, for once again joining us on lore crimes.

1726
02:04:14,900 --> 02:04:16,900
Thank you again for having me.

1727
02:04:16,900 --> 02:04:24,900
I'm sorry I wasn't as prepared as perhaps I should have been, but I think it led to lots of fun shouting, so swings and roundabouts.

1728
02:04:24,900 --> 02:04:26,900
It's Blood Ravens, it doesn't matter.

1729
02:04:26,900 --> 02:04:30,900
If there's any chapter to have fun with it like that, it's the Ravens by far.

1730
02:04:30,900 --> 02:04:38,900
Because again, like I've really been trying to emphasize, they're my favorite way to look at 40k because it's over the top, it's goofy and fun.

1731
02:04:38,900 --> 02:04:46,900
It's these cracked out maniacs screaming for the Emperor and then three minutes uninterrupted of just...

1732
02:04:46,900 --> 02:04:47,900
AHHHHH!

1733
02:04:47,900 --> 02:04:48,900
It's just fun.

1734
02:04:48,900 --> 02:04:49,900
Yeah, like...

1735
02:04:49,900 --> 02:04:50,900
The Blood Ravens are just fun.

1736
02:04:50,900 --> 02:04:56,900
They're not... are they like the deepest most emotional characters in 40k? Not by a long shot.

1737
02:04:56,900 --> 02:04:58,900
But they're fun.

1738
02:04:58,900 --> 02:05:00,900
Dawn of War 3 notwithstanding.

1739
02:05:00,900 --> 02:05:01,900
And you can play them as well.

1740
02:05:01,900 --> 02:05:04,900
And you can play them without needing to take out a loan.

1741
02:05:04,900 --> 02:05:08,900
With that being said though, thank you everyone for listening.

1742
02:05:08,900 --> 02:05:10,900
We hope you enjoyed this one.

1743
02:05:10,900 --> 02:05:14,900
As much as it was, you know, half jokes, half informative.

1744
02:05:14,900 --> 02:05:22,900
But you probably walk away with hopefully a decent understanding of the beloved Blood Ravens.

1745
02:05:22,900 --> 02:05:24,900
I almost did the flood myself.

1746
02:05:24,900 --> 02:05:25,900
It's hard.

1747
02:05:25,900 --> 02:05:26,900
It's an epidemic.

1748
02:05:26,900 --> 02:05:28,900
It's a bit hard, it's in my head now.

1749
02:05:28,900 --> 02:05:34,900
With that being said though, thank you all for listening and we will catch you all on the next one.

1750
02:05:34,900 --> 02:05:35,900
Peace.

1751
02:05:35,900 --> 02:05:36,900
Take care everyone.

1752
02:05:36,900 --> 02:05:38,900
Goodbye everybody.

1753
02:05:38,900 --> 02:05:39,900
Who's gonna say it?

1754
02:05:39,900 --> 02:05:40,900
I love you.

1755
02:05:40,900 --> 02:05:41,900
I love you.

1756
02:05:41,900 --> 02:05:43,900
There it is.

1757
02:05:43,900 --> 02:05:44,900
There it is.

1758
02:06:13,900 --> 02:06:15,900
Bye.