I think someone made a hilarious comment on a video where someone said like when he uses
power he looks really like scary and gaunt and someone called him Lord, Lord of Bushemi eyes.
He's like, I'm starting to feel like this guy got misplaced and he should have been in the Lamenters.
Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Lore Crimes. Today we've got something very special.
It's been some time since we properly covered a member of the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines,
and so for such a monumental return to form we've decided to cover, I was going to say one of, but
no just just the most powerful one in the setting by quite some margin. I imagine it goes Space
Marine a whole lot of tears him and then Primarchs. Without further ado I'll give you the grand
reveal. We're talking about Mephiston today. And uh, hey not Kato Sicarius? I mean like that's not
fair like he's above the emperor. He's the Kato Sicarius. No today is Warhammer's very own blonde
uh time-stopping vampire. I had to get that in once. I will, I will shut my mouth on it going
forward. I promise in the same way I promise this is a sleep schedule reset. So I probably won't.
Colin has been asleep for a while. 24 hours. I wish I had these powers but he has so much done.
I just know everyone watching that we we put our health at risk for this podcast.
Please sleep for eight hours a day. I am not a sleep denier. Please sleep for eight hours a day.
I beg of you people. And it's ironic that this is kind of like the vampire fact and here we have
Colin who's like upside down like a bat trying to stay awake. Oh my gosh. But uh before we get into
that I uh I think it's about time for the question of the week. So we're gonna go over last week's
answers real quick. All right thanks very much Colin. This week's question of the week uh we had
some interesting stuff about the Necron dynasties that you guys were making up in the comments from
our last video and so we're and I believe it was hashtag dynasty which is a classic law crimes
original meme from the first episode. So without further ado let's go through some of my favorite
picks of comments. Starting off with pristonwood1308 and he said hashtag dynasty the iron hands
dynasty known for actually having iron hands made of iron. They've been stuck in a several thousand
year legal battle with a specific space marine chapter over naming rights. There we go that's the
first one. This guy he's targeted my beloved my boys. Again. So much iron water iron hands hate
I know it's so unreasonable. I think it's pretty reasonable. It's gonna be a recurring joke at this
rate. If you're gonna be boring you should be hated huh. Oh man I don't know. Says the elder
player. I think they're cool. The elder aren't boring they're just elves so everyone hates them
because no one has hate. They are boring because GDW shows no love currently. That's why they're
boring Colin it's not your fault but it's why. And they show love to metal man. They did they got
straight to the point. That's true. Everyone's only sad that Charis died. No one said the
iron trilogy exploded. I don't know I'm reading through the eye of Medusa book on my kindle so
I'm having fun with the iron hands. There's just not much lore and it's all old books which is a
bit frustrating. But anyway moving on to our second of the hashtag dynasty comments from
harrybalentine398 the dovak in dynasty very open to trade with the lesser races though every piece
of technology they trade comes pre-installed with some strange architect called Skara Rim their main
form of defense is using transdimensional beamers to teleport their foes away no one knows where
but the psychic echoes transmit the following words hey you you're finally awake
does it again it did it again this has mike the liar written all over it this sabotage does
harry balentine will be known as my eek from now on
I will brooker know my eek slander in this in this pot knows many things and he would never lie to me
no khajiit has wares uh harry harry's a regular commenter so we see you we appreciate the uh the
love um keep keep it up man we appreciate it love khajiit has skooma what's the skooma do you reckon
it's in warhammer i there's there's only one thing like i think that's risky yeah i can't think of
like any like jet is what i keep thinking of i was like no that's fallout again no no it's not that
would um there's like a couple drugs they bring up but they're like in some way related to combat
usually like slot there really isn't hasn't been like a kind of uh epidemic you know uh sort of
drug plot line in warhammer yeah and that's clearly the part that gw are missing so gw the
emperor's children they've nicked all the drugs anyway they're like they're all mine and then like
don't do any drugs imperial citizen it's heresy it's naughty don't do it although they have got
warhammer crime so maybe we'll see more of that uh that'd be quite interesting is a drug
prick plastic is the drug red the pile of shame uh impact your wallet in the same way
i don't know with khajiit though going back to them i always like find it a shame that in skyrim
you can't just be like pet the khajiit like why not just a cat man technically yeah you asked for
consent but you're like can i just give you a little chin scratch just i don't know bro i think
there's a different kind of elf maybe i should maybe i should kill him all
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
we are not mer yeah oh and and before we get any more elf slaughter going on uh final comment i've
picked i quite like this one uh is from your boy striker 3750 said hashtag dynasty my dynasty
shall be dubbed the pan kenis pan kenis their only purpose is to serve bacon and pancakes to
any human with an accent resembling that of the ancient terran tribe known as the english their
reasoning for this mission is still unknown to this day ah that was a big argument on that episode
where we me and how like why would you how would you put like pancakes with bacon it's weird i think
it all comes down to that breakfast should kind of be more savory just and it's the idea of it being
dinner is sweet yeah dinner is pudding is dessert is exactly yeah well let's not get into how much
sugar there is in americans like food stuff because i yeah you'll win that sugar-based meal
oh it's like carbs on carbs on carbs yeah yeah that's right buddy that's right come on it's tasty
i mean not that look you can look i get our food is like horrendous for you but i do not give
breakfasts can be sweet yeah don't you like like having honey on an english muffin you're english
it's english muffin english i have honey and tea but that's about it honey my favorite pre-workout
meal is english muffin with honey and eggs what the heck is this one you know for the eggs on the
english muffin it's like separate but the kind of muffin i'm thinking of i don't think it's the same
muffin that's the thing yeah it's like i said an english muffin into the general i don't i just
don't like the idea of eggs being anywhere near honey that just seems strange to me well no you
don't put the honey on the eggs you put the honey on the english if you eat like two bites then the
palate's gonna get confused that's not a muffin that's like a scone yeah who came for their
welcome my english or is americans i'm not gonna say that actually let's listen to these people
dear viewers fucking scone they're making up words oh and scones are sweet scones are super sweet
for the people who came for their warhammer lore and they come to do with what breakfast
debates hashtag culinary culinary crimes the next versus breakfast breakfast at this point
yeah yeah that'll be our like anniversary episode like yeah breakfast versus um anyway
let let's not get too too sidetracked we're here for for an interesting episode about the boys of
the ninth so we've got a ninth legion slash chapter themed next question of the week the next episode
and it is hashtag black rage and this is all about uh what is um what is the one thing that makes you
rage about warhammer now this doesn't have to be necessarily just law this could be about the
business it could be about the models it could be about the law it could be about anything as long
as it's about warhammer or warhammer 40k what makes you hashtag black rage and that's the next
question of the week i'm interested to see what the uh the comments are going to be about that
but otherwise i suppose it's time to pass back on to colin to get into today's episode
and with that done it's uh it's time for the beginner section where andy will be taking it away
with the uh the beginner basics of mephiston andy what kind of lore do you have for us in store
today the floor is all yours thank you very much colin i'm going to say this up front um i know
hal has a very vast script up ahead so i'm not going to take up too much of your time and also
i have a slight confession to make although i am the mr imperium man i know a lot about
the space marines i'm a fist and knowledge is not as vast as hal's and am i right in thinking he has
like three mainline books and several short stories and oh yeah he's in a lot of big he's
like in devastation of barl he's got three of his own books he's in the warhammer tv series briefly
he's in he's all over the place um so there's a lot to cover and so with that in mind i'm not
going to take too much of your time but we'll go over the basics um so mephiston would originally
be born on bal secund uh bal primus where if you're a blood angels fan you might realize that a lot
of times you hear about bal secundus which i believe is one of the moons which is where their
base of operations is but mephiston was born on bal primus among its tribe and he was a young boy
known as kai and from his humble beginnings among the irradiated wastes of uh bal primus
he would become probably the most powerful space marine ever with time um but you know this is
during the 41st millennium i believe he's born um eventually with time he would be inducted into
the blood angels and become one of their librarians originally he was a lexiconum librarian
he would be known as calisterius when he ascended as a fully fledged blood angel and with time he
would become the chief librarian of the order and he would also interestingly become an honorary
member of the first company during their boarding actions of the space hulk the sin of damnation
with time he would there's not really like not that much known about his time as calisterius
because that's not really the fun part but with time he would develop a craven a craven for a bit
of blood and then he would be subsumed by the black rage now we all know about the black rage more or
less it's the the death knell of sanguineous that all blood angels are cursed with to uh if they but
if they submit to their inner rage they are overtaken by visions of their primarch dying
at the hands of horus lupical and are in are completely frenzied in their need to slay
horus the war master and if you happen to be in the vicinity your the blood angel is going to be
seeing red and they're going to see you and they're going to see the war master and they're going to
cut you to ribbons even if there's you and 10 of your friends they'll see 10 horus lupicals and
they'll rip you to pieces because that's kind of their deal they're noble warriors but they also
have this inner savagery but interestingly for uh miphiston as he would become known uh he actually
survived the black rage he's one of the few astartes that went through the frenzy and came
back sane enough to become a member of the death company and funnily enough in miphiston's case
uh he would when when he was serving in the uh the death company during the second war of armageddon
it happened again he's he got he got he got the black rage twice and he would be i believe he
is trapped during the conflict of the second war of armageddon he's trapped under a bunch of rubble
of a big temple and while under the rubble suffering the black rage he can't really move
he can't really fight he can't do anything and so he just has to deal with it and for a while he's
trying to crawl out of the rubble and by the time he gets out of his entombment upon the world of
armageddon he rises from his second time surviving the black rage and he he is now he inhabits the
title of miphiston and i believe this is a title he has within him uh this is this is something where
he he embodies a fragment of the black rage he's kind of the avatar for the curse of the blood
angels so at this point he relinquishes his title of calisteris he becomes the so-called lord of
death and with this uh this power as the avatar of the curse of the blood angels he has these uh these
psychic black wings which he can use to fly he's supremely powerful as a pyscher and the black rage
empowers him further he also has this sword called vitaris known as the sanguine sword
which is a four sword similar to a nemesis uh four sword that the that the gray knights are using that
it's empowered by his inner rage and it bursts into a crimson flame the more angry he gets and
and again we've got a lot to talk about that's kind of the basic overview of miphiston he's
he's everyone's favorite crazy uncle slash vampire wizard um i don't really know if there's much else
to say before we do the deep dive if i'm honest i'm just ready i'm roaring to go yeah i know i was
like i want to keep this brief there is something cool though which is uh his sword vitaris um it is
supposedly like a gift from like a lot of other uh like the librarians they have staffs and obviously
sometimes if they're really good they're able to like transfer like their power through a sword
and vitaris is particularly cool because uh it's kind of like um thaw's hammer it like comes back
to him when he throws it or like yeets it at a demon and my favorite part is literally he will
whisper he just whispers it he goes like vitaris it just goes and it comes back it's usually on fire
yeah and it has like a weird boomerang etching in the top as well which is quite funny it's currently
in australia as we speak um yeah yeah miphiston flings the sword and then as soon as it comes
back you just hear in the distance good day and then it comes back bogan librarian sword i think
that's the title for it now it's a very cool uh cool sword i think that's my only thing before
we get in i like uh i like how the first time he comes down from the black ray it's like he
he calmed down a bit but the second time it's like he went full circle where he went just pure calm
because he's so unbelievably mad he's like i've come we've looped around i am now a sea of angry
calm it's like when you get so mad it just short circuits there's that well there's a well when we
go into it there's actually a few times where it's actually come and gone quite a lot in his story
but we will there's a couple of main times he or dude go through it um but i do i think someone
made a hilarious comment on a video where someone said like when he uh uses power he looks really
like scary and gaunt and someone called him like lord um lord bushemi eyes because he
because he just looks like he's like and he has like a
i'm starting to feel like this guy got misplaced and he should have been in the
lamenters yeah you were in the wrong chapter hello fellow blood raven uh blood angel
it's following us oh my god uh with that being said there is everyone ready to dive into the
full-on expert slash uh long long story of miffiston's journey yes sir she's like her of
the blood ravens uh that was protected by corn wasn't it that's a weird move um gw
like relic um they gave her a stamp of approval with with that being said though if you guys are
listening if you're new or even just painting your hammer figures uh this is a there's a decent
amount to go through on this one so do strap in uh and also feel free if you want to add any
comments boys because again this will be a bit of a roller coaster uh so we begin with the story of
lord miffiston chief librarian of the blood angels the lord of death he's the most powerful
pyscher in all of the adapters of startis but his story begins centuries and centuries before he
even became the lord of death and it would be in good old m41 i know we've done a lot of uh
episodes particularly like heresy focused this one is full on yeah this is worst timeline
humanity here we're in the 41st millennium and as andy did say uh we begin on bar primus where a
child would be born into the realm the roaming tribes who sort of wander around the irradiated
wastes uh quick note bar primus is a much bigger planet it's like bigger than earth so
the gravity is actually quite a bit stronger on bar primus you think that would make them all
bit shorter or maybe like squats but apparently not it just makes it on hard mode uh for some
reason um but it gets worse because the child who is born is named kai uh sounds like something from
avatar the last airbender unfortunately it's not um but he's going to go through a bit of a journey
in this one and kai was just a simple tribesman or a child at this time uh he had literally nothing
i think it says his only possession is literally like a piece of colored glass on a string and
like that's all he has really and he also had like a really kids these days with their tablets
luxury when i were a kid i only had a piece of string with some glass on it
we had two sticks and a rock and we shared my favorite part is that there's like a vision quest
like looking back at this time and they all comment that he's actually quite ugly as a child
also kai unfortunately had a really terrible father he was quite mean and um eventually kai
would run away because it was death was better and running away in baal on any of the planets
they they purposely keep it quite rough on these like desert worlds so it was basically certain
death but kai was would be a bit luckier he would find this hunched sage sort of figure who would
help uh nurture the innate abilities that kai possessed because at this time it was becoming
clear that kai was a psyker so he was connected to the warp he had power he could um throw funny
funny lightning bolts at people he gets to do really cool stuff later but again that's uh
spoilers uh but as all the people on baal would see uh powers like this don't go unnoticed and
eventually the emperor's angels would appear and they would take him to do the trials of the blood
angels i'm sure a few of us probably know like they have um there's that really awful one they have to
like essentially they get all the uh i say young initiates but we do mean young children essentially
and they basically do like a rat run they go through like a desert and they like to fight
there's like massive scorpions and they have to try and get past them and it's pretty awful
and they have to essentially go into blood sarcophagus and they have to survive like the
visions of that and uh kai would actually pass these gruelling trials and then he would as many
different asatis chapters do in fact many even just general warrior lodges in history he would
discard his old identity and he would become calistarius and calistarius is obviously a much
more autogetai? is there a single space marine chapters like initiation rituals that aren't just
atrocious like do any of them just have like yeah whoever does the most sit-ups you're in?
i think this maybe some of the more ultramarine focused ones are a little bit more
i mean the raven the raven guard do a lot of like they teach you how to like pack stuff into your
armor so it makes less noise and it's all about i'd assume because they're quite stealthy they're
not as much like right go into the flogging machine and eat the glass
what is the blood coffin? yeah like eat the glass cereal it's like no it's more about sneaky sneaky
um but when you were talking about the tough trials about the blood blood angels i was just
imagining like the space wars going oh my trials are tougher than your trials and then the ultramen
said my trials are tougher than your imperial fists i wore a body suit that inflicts pain mine was
tougher and then the grey knights just going amateurs and just never ending pissing contest
and no one wins except us who enjoy the lore and good old calistarius he'll be trained in his
psychic abilities combat war all that good space marine stuff but a little bit uniquely to the blood
angels they would also be trained as artists and poets and all that kind of i guess extracurricular
is the best way to describe it and there's a really good part where it mentions well calistarius
mentions like he actually remembers the first time he heard music but i thought was a really cool
detail in one of the books because you would go oh yeah like a super soldier he was like a tribesman
he wouldn't have actually heard any like a lot of them don't really live good lives until they
funnily enough become space marines which is quite ironic but he does remember sort of hearing music
for the first time that's like a bit i remember hearing that i think and that was quite wild
it's a very blood angels thing as well like zephon he was like he used to play piano and
then he got his arms cut off and he couldn't play piano anymore he was really annoyed about it
oh that's kind of pain but luckily calistarius would go on to be a fully fledged member of the
blood angels he would leave the bar system and he would go to wage war across the stars he was
often mentored by his good friend now this guy one of my favorite characters in warhammer by the
way but like not a main character his name is gaius raceless and he is also a librarian in
the blood angels this man if you read the mephiston book is an absolute chad this guy is like your best
mate he always comes through and he is just the most he's like he's actually quite an old blood
angel not as old as dante but he's got like white hair which is quite rare for a lot of space
marines to ever get to that age but a bit of a shame he doesn't have any art but unfortunately
but raceless is like that kind of grumpy old dwarf bigger but he's a he's a ripped blood angel he's
like the grumpy dwarf vampire okay pretty much yeah he's a he's a chad and uh calistarius was
just as a side note he was actually quite well liked and he was known for being a very warm and
bright person he enjoyed many good friendships with figures known as reclusiarch quirinus and
apothecary albinus i think albinus is still uh i think you can play him still on tabletop he's the
um well the head of the san guinu sanguinary priests the ones who are like the apothecaries
for blood angels i think he's oh the um uh because i'm thinking of corbulo who's like yeah the uh the
apothecary equivalent what they called aren't they just sanguinary priests i think so yeah but he's
playable on tabletop and basically everyone liked calistarius he was the joey of all like the friends
cast essentially not i mean bit smarter um but eventually calistarius came in and went hey how
you doing how you doing taking that to the slaneshi oh god joey or the fonts no that's that is joey
how you doing isn't it i've never seen friends you've never neither have i i've never seen it
either oh my god i mean i'm not i'm not a 30 year old lady um it doesn't seem like something like
like yeah people would really for real jesus where's the swords and the dragons and the guns
space i mean you don't watch this now though you went to watch as a kid and there's nothing else
on tv when when my sister was watching ross in friends i was watching ross in band of brothers
because that's the better version ross with ptsd he didn't make it to the front lines and that
didn't he got no no quick he got um he didn't get to the post then did he no they got mutinied i
think he did i ho silver i also haven't seen band of brothers yeah they're fine i'm not surprised
by colin um but eventually calistarius would be as i said earlier he'll be attached to the first
company lesser carnium calistarius to enter the space hulk the sin of damnation which by the way
that name sin of damnation does go hard i appreciate that one and this will be where
calistarius will be asked to delve into the mind of an ancient comatose blood angel supposedly
he had been injured here like centuries and centuries ago so he's been in like sort of you
know space dreams can enter a comatose state and preserve themselves but vespario would never
survive these wounds unfortunately and as carus so as calistarius was delving into vesparios mind
he saw the manner in which he had been attacked and survived because there was a somewhat mystery
to it because he had obviously been in battle but then he'd locked himself in like a locker room area
so but it only could be done from the inside which was bizarre so everyone's working out how
would this mystery come about and they were kind of running out of time on this space hulk
and eventually calistarius would push deeper into his mind and he would see the truth that there was
a gene stealer cult that's right four armed emperor time they would be on the space hulk hidden in the
depths and they had created a gene stealer hybrid from a navigator so that was incredibly dangerous
because something that powerful could not be allowed to live and calistarius would eventually
lead the blood angels to go slay this beast for sad sad for eli here for the gene sealers they got
correct but unfortunately calistarius wouldn't leave this encounter without some mental scars
as when he delved into vesparios mind vespario had been afflicted by the black rage and a little
bit of that had sort of affected calistarius's mind just is anyone wants a brief explanation
i thought maybe one of you guys could explain very briefly what the black rage is perhaps to
someone new has anyone got a good idea because i would thought it'd be quite cool to um someone
else i know a lot of people get tripped up between the between the distinction of the black rage and
the red first there i'd uh good okay mind if i give it a shot yeah i actually know this uh so the
black rage is that the as all space marine legions do the blood angels had their prime
arc when they were a legion not a chapter and his name was sinquineus and uh when he died to his
brother horus it was such a brutal and violent death and the culmination of years of betrayal
that uh it left a psychic back aftershock that's a good word i think yeah uh on sinquineus's entire
bloodline so now if you have blood angels gene seeded in you you suffer from the black rage which
is where you get angrier and angrier and eventually you start to think you are sinquineus on the bridge
of the vengeful spirit horus's flagship and uh everyone in front of you starts to look a whole
lot like horus and you basically relive that fight on the vengeful spirit culminating of course in
whoever kills you uh in your mind it replays as horus finally slaying sinquineus who is now you
yeah it's uh which it's quite okay sorry which is i'm really curious as to the logistics of that you
know just like how many horses can you see before something goes like clicks like that ain't that
ain't right i know i know there's like a distinction where some some people say if there's other blood
range if there's other blood angels around you you'll see them as blood angels and you'll kill
everyone who isn't a blood angel that looks like horus if you're surrounded by just blood angels
they'll start to look like horus and it kind of has a like a tier list almost of priorities
and then like uh there's a really good visual representation of it in the angels of death
uh series where kazarian is a veteran of the death watch comes back from the death watch after like
not having anyone help him with the red first and the black rage and the first episode there's like
a scene where he's praying in front of the altar of sanguineus and he's seeing horus and he's this
big shadowy figure and there's red mist everywhere and he's like continually battling these visions
of horus and it's really cool it's a pretty it's at some point if the blood angel does live long
enough eventually there will be uh an interaction with the black race they all feel it within them
and unfortunately uh calistarius since this event would start to exhibit signs of seeing visions of
horus so it would kind of slip out in conversation um his friend uh quirinus uh reclusiart quirinus
he started to become a bit concerned he's watching over his friend and then there's even a scene
where like they're about to do a invasion on a world and then i think calistarius says we'll
finally you know eliminate them and then we can kill horus and then he goes wait what i mean kill
the enemy so it slips out in certain conversations and then it's obviously clearly starting to take
over and unfortunately though um eventually it just it was building and building and even his
friend quirinus good good friend who was promised to watch over him unfortunately he would be lost
in the warp his shit would be lost during this time and so he didn't even have that friend to rely
on and eventually i know it's a bit sorry i just said jeez yeah it was it was a bit of a slow
decline for calistarius because he was like he didn't he probably could have gone on a bit longer
if he hadn't done the deep you know the sort of thing with vespario but he i mean it is inevitable
for them all unfortunately some fight it better than others better than others and after fighting
the black rage for decades unfortunately calistarius would fall to the black rage and he would be
assigned into the death company and he would fight on many different battlefields just essentially
lost to the raids the death company is essentially led by death company chaplains and they are
basically just directed maniacs and they kind of really they have to like the chaplains like sing
blood angel hymns to like essentially calm down for like just brief moments um but and and there's
an interesting again like and they recently uh on warhammer plus released a solo episode of a blood
angel that gets completely subsumed in the rage and then gazarian and chaplain rafael have to go
and find him and from that episode it seems that like the regular blood angels don't know about it
because when they discover him like rafael has to shoot uh his name's lucretius in the head and then
kazarian's like wait a minute this is what this leads to this is what we become and then the
chaplains like yeah we swear an oath and he kills the guy and he's like the report is he died a hero
that is the report and he's like yeah he died with honor and it's really interesting that they
have this in a turmoil that they they don't talk about and they have to keep secrets so the rest of
the the main battle companies don't i suppose spiral quickly more quickly into the black rage
their chaplains like their high chaplains are basically in charge of as well like eliminating
those who fall to black rage so it's a pretty there's there are some blood angels out there i
think it's um astor asterath the grim he literally just kills blood angels at this point so it's a
pretty hard uh existence um it's as much as i very much you know as you know enjoy the jokeyer side
of warhammer i mean case in point you can phrase this as the ultimate expression of daddy issues
it really is quite just a grim depressing thing especially once you learn about it because i
imagine the whole time you're gonna be like when's it gonna happen when's it gonna happen and then
maybe it happens to you to go nuts or maybe arguably worse it happens to your best friend
and you're left to live with that like fuck yeah there's an interesting thing with like uh the the
angels of death series where it's two characters the two sergeants kazarian and an chaos and
kazarian for the whole series is struggling with the black rage and the red first and and chaos is
the strong brother who's like we're gonna get through this we're gonna get through this and
then like the last episode zarian gets seemingly killed but he survives and all the squad of the
blood blood angels die and then an chaos as the last survivor he just he's been strong the whole
series not showing any signs of the black rage and he just goes all right i'm gonna go ragey time and
and he fights a tyrannid patriarch and he kills it and so it's like it makes you super strong
but it can just come out of nowhere sometimes if you're in a dire situation the more stress
the easier it is to trigger the black rage i do think it also as much as like i think some of the
other writers elude to it it is a sort of thing where um they elude to it like it was say if you
have like older family members and then possibly like things like i mean obviously a sensitive
topic but like things like dementia and things like that's one of those things where it's like a
haunting like end coming and it's like they're all a bit once they know of it they're quite
a lot of them gets very somber so that's why it's a lot kept under wraps and also the imperium
doesn't like um deviancy shall we say in terms of you know you're meant to be the emperor's angels
sort of thing and the inquisition could look but the blood angel is already going around drinking
people's blood and that's kind of oh that's the first level of keep it hush hush and then there's
and then there's this extra layer and then there's more and more you're like oh it keeps getting
worse i wonder i wonder if that's ever let any of them spiral further when they realize like we have
two bloodline curses and one of them is is like psychic in nature we can never get rid of that one
well i mean it's all gonna and they do counterbalance it with much of their noble
acts but uh like you know with their artistry and things so there's there's there's a sort
of point to that i will explain later because it actually implies in tomb of histons story but as
for kalistarius now he essentially is just he's in the death company and he's essentially just a
raving lunatic who is sent from war zone to war zone and he would eventually be sent to the second
war of armageddon where my boy yaruk fighting good if anyone's read the book with yaruk and on the
war armageddon probably one of the better warhound books i ever made it's so because it's all done
from the human perspective and it's so good is that chains of gold gotha i think it's the one
before that unfortunately i think it's something if i remember chains of gold goth is when he
gets captured by um oh okay oh my god what's the hawk's name um gazkull and he basically yells at
him like you i'll kill you and he's like just smiling back at him it's odd um but essentially
yeah um in the death company kalistarius is just fighting in the middle of a massive orc swarm
he is still using his psychic powers at this time but it's just kind of a rampaging fiend and
eventually the orcs just kind of almost overpower him but then a large building i think it's the
ecclesiarchy building in the area just gets um blown up and essentially all the debris falls
on top of him and it buries the orcs and him underneath a mountain of rubble and this would
be where the raging kalistarius was stuck he was in this state where he's desperately trying to
get out but then the black rage is taking over his mind he's still somewhere in there and he's
eventually because he's actually sat down like and he's forced to confront it he manages to sort of
slowly physically claw his way up towards the surface but then also in a mental way he pushes
the black rage down and down and after seven days of just literally just crawling and lit and then
obviously in his own soul crawling his way back he does emerge on top of it and he conquers the black
rage he no longer feels angry but kalistarius was not the man who stood on the ruins of hades hive
it was someone new someone who called himself mephiston and a slight caveat here you're probably
thinking why does he call himself mephiston when he emerged from the rubble he was basically a
different person and he'd like the way he sees is mephiston is like the name of his soul so
kalistarius doesn't make sense to him anymore and i would explain a little bit more of that but
essentially mephiston is born here so it literally says like it's a rebirth he's like a new person
and mephiston sprouts his psychic black wings and he essentially soars across the battlefield he is
empowered beyond belief and he starts eviscerating orcs just because he can he's kind of exploring
his new power until he feels like a psychic presence trying to enter his mind and he is pissed
like immediately like someone has the audacity to do this to him and so he flies down next to this
shrine and he almost kills the man who was trying to enter his thoughts only to see his old mentor
gaius raceless my boy he's back because he was a part of the other blood angel contingent forces
here and he last saw kalistarius lost the black rage fight for a long time and now he looks upon
this well what was once a very handsome and good looking sort of blood angel all the as a side note
all the blood angels when they have the sanguinus's gene seed like placed within them they all become
like more beautiful and like more sort of uh like statue where it's kind of like sanguinus it like
transforms them so ugly kai was definitely saved on that he had a bit of a facelift
if everyone remembers in the uk i was at goth kwan he had the kind of goth kwan transformation
that's a really good uk reference there but um essentially when raceless now looks upon it's
like oh kalistarius you're back you conquered the black rage and then he looks upon him and his
face is like gaunt and it's terrifying and it's like a kind of weird like deathly calmness to his
face and he looks like whoa indeed he speaks like this instead of how he used to speak
doesn't look quite as beautiful as he did before but in like a he still does but in the kind of
like terrifying vampire way and mifiston tells raceless that kalistarius is dead and he's now
in his place and this is where it kind of makes sense is that mifiston uh he is kalistarius but
it's almost like he watched kalistarius's life like it was watching someone's life through tv
and he so he knows everything that's happened to kalistarius but it doesn't feel like him
he does feel like a new person he just he just filled with the memories of kalistarius mostly
but he knows he's not kalistarius it feels like that's like someone else essentially and he's
like almost taken over his body but he hasn't and raceless he looks within this mifiston he's a bit
you know he's a bit odd um but he sees like a sliver of kalistarius like still in there
but he also recognizes that this is a this is a blood angel who's conquered the black rage which
has never been done in the hit in the 10 000 years of the blood angel's history and so he
sort of accepts him and he says you know you're in it you know still my friend in a way and i
accept you and you're you mean you're like something special to the chapter because you've obviously
conquered our curse and mifiston would now rejoin the chapter um but unfortunately many of them were
unnerved by him like even just i think it's really cool point here even dante the chapter master
he's not scared of much in this universe but he's actually scared of mifiston whenever he's in the
same room as him but it's not like he's trying to intimidate dante he's just being around mifiston
kind of makes you go oh like makes like the hair in the back of your neck stick up so that's
that's a little bit like it's okay sorry it's like being in the same room as like a primed nuclear
warhead it's like you know it's not going to go off unless you make it go off it's still there
it's it's still a bomb be hoping that no one drops their phone or something
it's like oh drop my phone they do like they recognize like he's got a massive power boost
and obviously when they speak to him like he there is no rage within him they don't sense like a kind
of he literally is like he's undead he's sort of very like low and he's very like calm most of the
time and but a lot of them are kind of terrified by what mifiston represents because it's like
that's what happens when we come back from the black rage like that's not what i thought would
be a cure um but this mifiston would be accepted and he would go on to prove himself uh mifiston
as a character now is because obviously he's not calistarius he is actually exceptionally cunning
and quite ruthless but not like he's not ruthless where he like chucks civilians at a situation but
he will very much just civilians are around the area i have to eliminate that threat and he will
launch himself at it he's not necessarily a salamander um but he does he will essentially
be the weapon he needs to be and eventually he does earn the rank of chief librarian after this
i remember when i was researching this before i'm thinking like when does he become chief librarian
it takes because it's never actually mentioned but it is like somewhat implied that it's after
he becomes mifiston mifiston becomes the um could you imagine that you're the you're the chief
librarian at the time then mifiston comes out and you see him in a few battles just laying waste to
hordes of and you're like he's making me look a bit small i give up yeah i'm going back to like
normal ranks you can you can be the chief librarian now still still stretched i'm just
warming up bro trust me like you know yeah yeah yeah like oh my god my back um but this mifiston
was something different um a brief caveat like when he was very early on as mifiston yeah i think
it was at 977m41 the demon um um car it's not like okay like that okay but it's definitely not
um he did trap mifiston in the crystal caves on solon 5 he attempted to lure mifiston into joining
uh chaos but again like mifiston is very much even though there's the power of the black rage within
him it's a tool it's not a curse for him and he very much rejects any demon um sort of
treaties or temptations and he basically literally throttles m car out of existence it's really cool
and decades later though is his chief librarian mifiston he's out there in the galaxy with a
contingent of blood angels and they would find a broken blood angels vessel drifting in space
and it was swarming with your boys the word bearers the ones who know the true uh faith of the
yeah the truth not the emperor's false faith and mifiston and his allies would uh cleanse those
on board hashtag cleanse it because uh they're pretty aggressive you know i mean even though
they're word bearers everyone's scared of blood angels because they're pretty hard hitting and
they would eventually come across a figure who had been missing for a very long time it was reclusiac
querunus if everyone remembers earlier this was a good friend slash even before they were both
lexiconiums or reclusiacs they were they were friends as calistarius and querunus and uh
and querunus has been lost essentially on a doomed ship for a long time and when he
finally sees his rescuers he's like oh my chapter he sees a gaunt looking haunting
uh like figure with a flayed muscled armor and it's the chief librarian mifiston and he's confused
because you're meant to be calistarius and he's like i'm not calistarius i'm the first and he
talks different he's much more powerful he acts completely different and it's like a sort of past
meeting future situation the group would eventually join forces and they would go chase the word bearers
down but it was very clear that querunus as much as like he was a very good friend of calistarius
he despises this mifiston and he calls him like an abomination because he's a reclusiac he's
basically a chaplain and he thinks in a way like very differently to what the idea was of essentially
a descendant of sanguinius should look like or behave like and this group would eventually track
down their enemy to their planet of uh philin i think uh also they were down to a planet sorry
and it was filled with a massive like weird arrangement of like astartes statues but these
like very ancient ones so they're like they're very old armor patterns and they would eventually
battle some cultists on this world fighting a few more word bearers clean them up very easily
and they would eventually find this relic of sanguinius and when they all see it they kind
of fall to their knees in worship like they're all like so they literally cry some of them because
it's so beautiful it's like a representation of sanguinius it's clearly from the great crusade
era and everyone is just in awe except mifiston when he looks at the relic he thinks something's
a little bit off about it he's like he's like everyone's at a restaurant and everyone's eating
food and he's got like i got the same meal but everyone is like really talking out of their ass
like this is not good essentially he thinks everyone is like sniffing like the wrong soup
essentially like he's just summing up um but this actually draws more condemnation from crunus
because he just basically goes see you don't really you're not really a true blood angel
you don't look upon this and then see the beast calling him a poser in the most obnoxious way
essentially yeah he's sort of um making well it sort of creates a split because a lot of
bloody angels in a way do feel like mifiston is a little bit other although as much as you think oh
this must hurt his feelings like for poor mifiston because everyone treats him like an outsider
he's not really affected by it because he sees it as them like sort of condemning calisterius or
calisterius and so he doesn't really see it like oh they're not they're not my friends who are
rejecting me they're like someone else's so it's like a bunch of strangers being judgmental and
you don't really care um but he's not like completely emotionless you're just a little
bit i think um out of it in terms of all the the drama he's not part of the the uh the tea
club essentially he's not interested the artist formerly known as calisterius does
the artist unfortunately this mifiston is right something is not up and eventually this planet
that they're um situated on it begins to rumble and split magma spews up as the slain dead around
them was actually uh done they were throwing them on purpose to power up a ritual so all this blood
that coalesces and eventually brings the demon prince doom breed into real space and he begins
attacking the blood angels and this is one of my favorite parts the statues around them like in
this sort of um destroyed area they start to crack open and they're revealed to be like ancient blood
angels who long ago were like lost to the black rage and they froze themselves in place as a
sacrifice to bind doom breed until now so the blood the blood angels essentially get attacked
by their own and they kind of doom breed like does taunt them like this is your ultimate fate you know
he's joined joined corne you know corne's got wednesdays off you know hawaiian t-shirts on
friday stuff like that um does he does he look like a bull is that it makes me think about like
a minute's heart type name i hope so doom breed is uh i think one of the older demons
in wahama lore likes early edition stuff um so he's not really mentioned that much i think i
don't think he's even in the horrors heresy that's that's one of the 50 greater demons he far from
the quiz right yeah that's actually yeah that's probably six months ago alongside pippa and gura
oh god he disgust me um but during this uh battle mephiston because he's powered up and he
he spreads his psychic black wings and he just launches himself at this demon prince and they
kind of it's a really funny moment they're just like two like he's like a little gnat essentially
you know mephiston and he's like flying at this much bigger thing but obviously he's way powered
up so they they're just like wrecking the place they're flying around they both have wings they're
just like hitting each other in uh like the space while magma flies everywhere eventually mephiston
would win it was quite hard for vitarus made a stunning appearance because vitarus was just
absolutely cranking this thing i don't know how vitarus holds out to you because he just
takes a lot of punishment there'll be some shenanigans with necrons later which i'll
mention be very cool and um he eventually banishes a doom breed back into the warp
unfortunately it's not stuck in place like the ritual but it is what it is and during this
battle queerness his old friend would begin falling to the black rage he'd obviously been alone
too long like what andy said with the um angels of death stuff it was just sometimes you don't
have a brother to rely on it can really catch up to you and mephiston encourages him to like fight
the black rage but queerness kind of like with a last it was like sanity like holding on he's like
really forcing it he just says like he basically rejects mephiston he says the black rage is like
a holy gift of like you know it's literally the last act of our gene father i wouldn't want to
ever become like you which obviously is like quite sad for what would have would have been
calistarius but mephiston kind of just takes it on the chin because he's like that he's like that
would have been sad for calistarius but i'm not him and eventually parole coronas forced the black
rage and is shipped off to join the uh good old death companies very it's a bit of a sad ending
because like there's no real victory in this like that first sort of conflict there but uh things
get worse because we next join mephiston on the world of fermea uh mephiston and the blood
demons are evacuating the world because okay i don't remember the name of the senos but it's
one of the coolest ones i've seen where essentially it's like a multiplying fungi um creature it's
like in like white sort of globules and when they touch like flesh they essentially take over and
they get bigger and bigger and bigger so the imperiums has given up on this planet and the
blood games are helping evacuate the people and mephiston is just there to assist the evacuation
like with all the other blood angels but he's like not on the ground so that you kind of start the
book with um all the blood is going oh where's the where's the cheesed librarian and then you
just hear like the ripping guitar music like he's over there and there's this guy on like black wings
it's just like soaring in because at this point there's a tide of like um running like uh like
sort of running weird bulging like humanoid senos like in like a horde running towards the
survivors you can just hear free bird solo kicking off in the background as mephiston just plunges
just like carving into pieces everyone remembers like early attack on titan how some of the titans
run like a bit weirdly it's like that essentially the xenos and mephiston just soars in and he's
just like laying carpets of fire everywhere and all the other people like superhero landing and
everything he actually does i'm not even joking he does actually and he's just like cleaning it
up like you probably think he probably could take on the entire planet but there's just too many of
them so he's just kind of he's essentially he's the heavy artillery and he's burning the xenos
and their thousands and eventually sort of leads to a temple ground and this is where lucius anthros
who's actually the pupil of mephiston so he's one of the younger generations which as a side note
it's interesting now because a lot of obviously space marines don't really live forever a lot of
them die very early on even so like not a lot of them make it to be veterans and so this is like
a new generation of blood angels you only know of mephiston like most people now have never even
heard of kalistarius or remember him so it's kind of like that's how much time has passed and
lucius anthros another lexiconium would go psycho sorry for people who knew he would find his lord
in a tornado of black fire like the sense that the xenos will throw themselves at him and he's just
like clawing black flame everywhere and he looks at his mentor's face and it's like oh god that is
horrifying it's literally like a snarling beast so a lot of like i said a lot of the black rage stuff
is kept secret but mephiston is using it here as a weapon so he's not really angry he's actually just
contorted with the power of the black rage and you can see that his master is sort of losing control
and this would eventually lead to lead to a confrontation back on their homeworld of baal
they would enter this like really special blood chamber i'll do like another side note the world
building on the blood angels homeworld in a lot of these books is amazing so they have like these
weird sort of indian and jones like sort of tunnels and architectural like museums like like hidden
like hidden in deep in like vaults beneath baal there's even like these weird guardians to like
some of the uh librarian quarters where they are essentially they look like space marines but they
wear like different armor and they essentially guard that area forever and they don't go out
ever and they're like even the space marines look at them they go that's they're like terrifying
and it's like mosaics and it's like essentially the blood angel you think the blood ravens have
stolen a lot of artifacts the blood angels have got things created by 10 000 i was just imagining
darn day just going it belongs in a museum and then charging into battle it's not too far off too
fair and um miphiston and our boy are uh chad raceless they bring lucius anthros into the fold
essentially they show him this like this when i said the blood chamber earlier it's filled with
like there's like aspects of blood within it that like sort of create visions and um allow them to
like scry and things like that there's even like a side note as well like miphiston's personal
chambers is actually filled with like the old like dead bodies like the old chief librarians of the
chapter so they all like they had their genes he'd removed but they essentially like their bodies
like their corpses like still talk to them so it's like a weird i just had like the scene of like
him having a tea party with all the corpses it's like oh how are we having with little like little
teacups in their hands moving them around psychically in his off time it is quite cool
though because there's a bit where like they do talk to miphiston there's even a bit where
uh lucius like enters into his personal chambers and he can hear like the voices they're like
judging him a bit because you know they're all essentially the wisdom of the blood angel is
always there because every like chief librarian essentially guards so it's not him being insane
it's just they actually can inhabit their former bodies psychically and be like right so the ghost
chapters there yeah yeah it's pretty it's pretty cool and um they are in this chamber with um
raceless and miphiston anthros gets the sort of the download what's been going on so he
this explains he gets like a vision of how kalistarus became miphiston so he's a vision of
hayley's hive and then they start to show why something's going wrong with miphiston essentially
miphiston's powers are growing like constantly and he starts to show like black flames like
rippling underneath his armor and he's struggling to contain his power like he's losing he's not
falling into the black rage necessarily but the power keeps going beyond what he can even control
with it um but they have a plan because something has come up recently which has changed a lot of
uh events and has put things into motion uh it'll be an artifact called the blade purific
which is on an it's an ecclesiarchy artifact that could possibly help contain his power
and then obviously make him an even more potent weapon for the imperium and the only problem is
is that this artifact is on a world which is completely lost like they don't know where it
is in terms of it should be here and it's not here um it's supposedly literally veiled by the
warp itself like something is intentionally hiding it but and that's what they've been that's the
problem they've had so far but luckily something else has happened which has allowed them to find
it because miphiston the boy himself like when they've been back on barl has been sending him
his soul into the warp um like alone completely like essentially flying past demons and he's
actually found this planet and he's brought someone back with him and it's i feel so bad for this guy
because he he brings back like a ecclesiarchy priestess a random one on the planet literally
goes like yoink and so i guess i just traveled through the warp to transport her back to barl
and i'm like i don't want this he's like sheesh it's like oh my god it's like the worst experience
ever um just just going on to dante being like hey dante look at this thing there's just like a
little this guy screaming yeah this guy is not i think he if i remember correctly he i think he
is a little bit of chaos taint on him as well that's how he's able to find him and basically
miphiston went mines went yoink and when he when he actually like sees miphiston like properly
literally gets like terrified like oh my god that's the most haunting thing i've ever seen
literally a vampire in my face and miphiston our our boy race i'm gonna say every time our boy
raceless because by the way when uh they were telling anthros like anthros sorry of um miphiston's
like condition raceless is like the old he's older than miphiston and like calistarus by quite a bit
but he sort of is a very overprotective friend and he's sort of he's really grumpy because he's
actually like very protective of his friend so he's very much like a kind-hearted guy in the end and
he always like backs miphiston up he's always there for him sorry i just love him can i have any of
you making it sound like a sitcom just like miphiston he's not such a bad guy so miphiston at
this moment does not deserve him i imagine yeah i kind of and kind of not because he's not evil
but miphiston is not very let's say he's evil he's not very warm he still protects the innocent
he's just he's just when the people see very misunderstood it's a little bit of this salamanders
problem where like he's not as nice as salamander but you know people are scared of salamanders
when they take their helmets off because he's not any more evil than any given person the imperium
is no not really um but there are some cool moments that will kind of humanize him in a bit
um and essentially then this poor priest that he's dragged from this planet they use him as an anchor
and then like some of the ecclesiarchy have like come to talk to miphiston being like help find our
planet he's like sure i was going there anyway and they eventually this priest goes off you know
you know that's a horrible experience and then he goes like yeah we're going back
and they're using him as like an anchor point because he's like connected to the world now
and so they use um they're using him as a ritual point to help open up a massive tear within the
confines of Baal uh this doesn't go well immediately like nurgle demons like trying
to crawl out and they immediately attack the librarians within their own like literally on
Baal they attack them within their inner sanctums and they do manage to battle them back for a bit
and this is where they finally use the ritual and they teleport themselves just literally through
the warp which is actually extremely dangerous so it's probably why you haven't heard a lot of other
lore times when they do this and also it's implied that it's only really capable with
miphiston because he is so powerful to be used to like yeah i know the i know the grey knights can
shunt themselves through the wall but that's because they're the grey knights it's like we're
supposed to be the only ones who can do that but like miphiston okay he gets a free pass yeah he
i guess the he kind of is the equivalent to a pack or a i guess a cluster of grey knights essentially
he's used to help empower this ritual and just a small note here teleportation no matter what it is
in warhammer it's never quite perfect and even if some people who've listened to the horrors
heresy there's even that scene in shattered legions where like all the shattered legions
are like they they survive istvarn a few of them they regroup and they go on to attack the traitor
forces but they're using reckless moves like teleportation like when they teleport i think
it's um shadraq medusen like teleports from the iron hand he teleports onto a sons of horrorship
i think it is and some of the raven guard with him just end up in the structure of the like yeah
because they're at that point we're like well our primarch's dead already we might as well just do
whatever we can even if we die trying they've got nothing to lose so it's pretty i mean to
survive istvarn to then go down like essentially because your head was then in the middle of it
it's like a minecraft chunk error happened pretty much although hell you're forgetting something
teleportation isn't perfect unless you're the necrons or leagues of otan yeah pretty true um
especially if it's warp teleportation um there's also a awful bit here where and like they're all
not teleported perfectly together so they actually don't end up on the right planet initially and
they have to do it again um but this is like the idea of ms mphiston going whoops and then back in
essentially it is but the first time it happened like they're with a squad of uh blood angels and
anthros sees the blood blood angel in front of him get teleported like and essentially his torso
is in the middle of the ground and like a puddle of blood just starts to fall out he's like oh
literally he teleports like his body halfway into the solid ground so essentially that does remind
me of something i've seen where there's i've seen that happen in something i can't but it is though
yeah it's a pretty i thought the blood angel was like crawling like to have like help me brother
and it's like it's like oh my god they haven't even got there yet and they do it again and
essentially a few of the blood angels like three or four and like just don't make it because they
get essentially teleported in the middle of objects that's how they die um but they do make it eventually
to the planet and its name is divinus prime which is also a cool name and the i said that i think
the blood angels books are really good world building the strange thing about this planet is
it's basically entirely made of bone and i mean literally like not as in like solid bone i mean
as in piles and piles of bone is everywhere so from little giant creatures that were probably
the size of cities like rib cages that literally come out of the ground and you can't see the top
to literally like small mammals and like reptiles and things like that it's literally
everywhere across this planet so it's a really weird place and even weirder that it's an ecclesiastical
world apparently so they've been um it's a really cool scene then also the skyl that's like the sky
sorry is uh something's really wrong with the sky like it's rippling it's clearly like the warp
shielding that's been happening to it and this world unfortunately is caught within a civil war
there's been a religious uprising which has been secretly manipulated by zinchen cultists
and they eventually do make it to one of the last cities the strongholds for the imperial faction on
this world they have to go through this massive like corridor of like um crucified ecclesiastical
priests which is like kind of like oh god it's a little bit haunting but mephistons just takes
it with chest and he's like we'll just keep have to keep going doesn't matter and when they enter
this sort of last bastion city they do meet with and funny enough one of mephistons like old friends
a man whose name is father orsuf i think i'm getting that correctly and i'm gonna lie this
is like one of my favorite parts of the book because also like as a he's like a 90 year old
retired imperial officer and he actually remember he's fought with mephistons since he was young so
it kind of makes you think oh yeah like mephistons again like i said earlier he's been around like as
mephistons for quite a while and anthros sees him interact with this um like he's called father
because again it's like an ecclesiastical thing so they're all become priests at this point and
it's the first time he actually sees mephistons smile and he's actually like quite warm and
friendly with this guy because it's like you know best buds sort of thing and like you know
you remember that and he's like you remember that conflict mephistons like i do it was good one
essentially so it's quite a nice like human building moment do you remember when you pulled
that demon's head off with just your bare hands like yeah that was a good day that was a good day
yeah he's a little bit he's a little bit eccentric so he's like one of his eyes is like essentially a
essentially a monocle like um sort of zoom in like binocular thing and then he's a little bit
hunched over a bit as soon as he sees mephistons he starts like like smiling like grinning ear to
ear and he's like buddy what's up dude and he's like it's like good to see you buddy essentially
Sharon look who it is you haven't seen him in ages oh get out the fine china yeah let's have
a takeaway i don't know yeah they kind of it's a nice moment where you go like oh yeah he actually
has been serving around the imperium he's actually not like as terrifying as everyone
basically everyone gets lured into thinking he's the what everyone says about him rather than what
he is and like he's actually come to he sensed uh father orsos presence and he's come to him to
help him work out the mystery of the blade purific because like they found like the symbols of it
around there's like a trite a trident or like sorry three sword symbol that people have been
wearing it's like a holy like um pendant around it's a very confusing plot to the overarching
like planet like something's obviously clearly going on and unfortunately as this is happening
mephistons power is still growing it's to his time is like feels like it's running out they like
black flames are starting to leak a bit more and he starts to like feel the black rays rise up again
he's not really falling into it but it's kind of like essentially you know those videos like when
a kid holds like a fire hydrant or a fire hose thing and then it's clearly and then they're on
a roller coaster yeah and like the poor fireman has to try and grab it and it's like slipping
around like a snake that's essentially what it feels like um they do eventually get ambushed
the blood angels within the city there's like this massive amphitheater filled with thousands of
zealous people who've come to meet this uh traveling priest but it's actually a ploy
by the heretics and the it's quite funny when the priest comes out on stage because it it does say
in the book he comes out with like that smile which is like hi guys like he's like a bit nervous
to be on stage i found really funny like he's not confident about what he's about to do but he's
like you know guess i'll give heresy a try like oh god um it's a little it's so fun like he like
kind of rubs his hands together it's like oh god you know it's a little bit like keeps you nervous
um but he eventually turns into a demon and you know basically it kicks off and the fist and then
the blood angels just dive in poor old raceless and uh anthros are there too and uh the problem
is that again Mephisson he doesn't feel like he can use his power to his full extent so he's
actually struggling to put down this demon even though normally he'd be fine um eventually the
entire amphitheater everyone gets turned into demons by like the little um pendants they're
actually little sort of warp-powered infusions a little kind of um what's it when they etch
runes into the essentially runes essentially and they eventually get turned like blue and pink
horrors and the blood like raceless and anthros are just caked in like gore because they're just
like literally every swing is like three four demons down and eventually they fill the whole
place with fire and Mephisson uses like the flame vortex to help burn all the delicious demons back
away and you know they're they are victorious and they do discover the location of the blade
purific it's high up in the mountains and they quickly rush to the guardians aid sorry the
guardians who are at the relic place find that they are a sisters of battle contingent and they
are essentially the guardians of the blade purific who have been there in secret and they join them
because they're being attacked by a massive force of traitor god but they don't they've been tricked
they don't really know that they're traitors until too late and then some demons uh also appear
there's also a demon named uh zarambus who's like a weird twisted like he looks like a sort of
britonian knight i know you're gonna hate that colin um he looks like a sort of arthurian legend
knight look i don't hate king arthur on principle king arthur is cool i hate his bastard offspring
from fantasy but he does uh was around this like a weird figure and he's obviously it's implied that
there are like multiple factions of zinch playing a game and like competing for this artifact and
he's kind of loses his crap when Mephisson ends and he's like he's like sort of like a no i'm so
annoyed like a bit of a mouthful moment um from the boss uh the blast the battle between the two
forces pretty fierce like Mephisson is kind of losing his control a bit as he as like you know
he's basically snapped off vitarus and him and the zarambus are essentially dueling it out and the
even the sky above them literally collapses because the warp is failing around them and
it's a very hard book to follow at this point i had to reread this a couple of times because
a little bit confusing because it all happens a bit too quickly um essentially the sky starts to
reflect the true earth that they're meant to be standing on and they realize like actually the
plant they're standing on is a demonic like reflection of the true divinus prime so when the
powers of the warp are starting to collapse because of the battle and like all the forces of zinch are
kind of losing their hold the true place they all have to like essentially jump and then they land
on the true divinus prime above him and then the world just suddenly flips and the demon one
disappears really hard to follow in the book by the way if you read this andy in the coming future
but it is a it is a cool scene and they do finally get to the top of this uh mountain peak area
and then they see the blade purific but then unfortunately the last second is snatched away
by some cultists and lucius anthros is pissed because when he was there he actually saw
mephiston let them go and he starts off like a bit of doubt like are you a heretic like why the hell
did you do that what the hell's wrong with you um but mephiston did actually the problem is that
mephiston when he arrived there he uses powers he looked at the relic and he saw that actually it
was a dud essentially and it wasn't the real thing and it wouldn't solve his power rising problem
but he realized like there's obviously a massive like something has something's clearly amiss with
this whole whole event that's been happening and it reeks of like this like someone manipulating
things behind the scene it's clearly a game going on with like a zinchen cult and maybe even
architects behind that and so he plays like a psychic what um uh what's it called like when
someone wants to trace something it's like a uh like you know like spies they put stuff on things
like ben said you trace it a trace that's it um he was like a psychic trace i can't think of the
word it was like a psychic trace on the um blade periphery from his mind so he can therefore
sort of he lets it go just so then he can sort of then try and work out what's really going on but
it's obviously a little bit sad in the books like he sort of accepts like i don't think there is a
cure for my advising power but like basically accept that and i'm okay with it because if i'm
meant to die in the imperial service that it is what it is it is what it is he doesn't say it in
those exact words but um it is what it is and don't worry boys we're cracking through i told
you this is a long one i just like the idea of like mephistone at the end of the book going
well you know sometimes you've just got to bear with it and keep your chin up everyone and it's
okay to have a bit of rage now and then just bottle it inside just having like one of those
pieces of space again it's a fan i think that's a family guy bit punches the wall so hard he bleeds
one v one how does mephistone or caldo trago come out on that um i would say probably caldo
just because he's more built to fight psychic stuff whereas like he's got the power of matt ward
i think mephistone would do better against mostly everything else though like he could
be hordes and hordes of tyrannids and things like that i don't know i'm still waiting for a buddy
cop movie with tigurius and mephistone going through that'd be awesome and then they just
like you know like that bit in monsters inc where they bump into the abominable snowman and it's
caldo drago that's what i want to see what a reference snow cones anyone snow cones exactly
what flavor is that snow cone looks a little sus um he's like he's like moving a pile of rocks
back and forth into place like where this is the portal how do we get back it's an old film now
it's good though those films are so well written they even hold up now which is so cool real wizard
of oz is old but it's still a classic oh here we go something's flying monkeys haunting my dreams
i hope i hope you're not telling me wizard of oz isn't a classic no it's a classic but doesn't
mean it's good yeah i'm not really a fan either i'm not gonna lie i think she's got some monkeys
gave me nightmares when i was a kid i mean that's fair i mean i guess out of every reason not to
like it that's fair enough if everyone has seen some of the older james bond films i've watched
every single james bond film they are all classics but some of the older ones like there's like a
definite tone of like oh this is old school if you know what i mean yeah yeah i mean
golden eyes the only one you have to watch golden eyes the best one
oh hey guys you don't have it read any horse heresy books
you haven't seen them in the movie i'm correct you lie i've only seen the new ones to be fair
skyfall's good yeah they're okay uh speaking of mephiston though not in james bond or having
those attitudes uh mephiston would the next peer so up here at the devastation of barl this is one
of the best books in warhammer if you haven't you actually read this as a beginner so if you
are listening you're like i haven't i don't really want to read like a warhammer book this is a pretty
good one because it's a really yeah i haven't listened to it yet but it's kind of one of those
classics like if you're getting into it this is a good one to start with it's a this is we should
we probably have to do a full episode on this one day because there's just so much that happens
but i'll try and go through mostly mephiston's part which is at the beginning of the book he
senses from the warp that kabanda the demon prince of corn is seeking to attack the blood angels
and he wants to try and kill all of them before high fleet leviathan the tyranids which are also
attacking basically wipes him out first so there's like a three way or essentially two-on-one situation
happening here and the blood angels are in deep crap he even mephiston even interrogates okay
this i'm gonna butcher this name because it's so hard to pronounce he interrogates the
octo cali vela which is and i should did it first time it's an ancient like immortal xenos prisoner
on ball who is they actually can't kill it like they try to and they just keep it as like a it's
like a chaos corrupted um it's a zoo animal essentially it's like a multi-limb like weird
thing it has no other members of its race alive it's it's a weird creature they kind of torture
it once in a while for like information on chaos but that'd be like it's even brother brother
frederick poker with the sharp stick okay it's even cool enough it's actually even it's guarded
by a previous chapter i'm sorry it's guarded by a previous chief librarian who's who was injured by
it and now is like in a dreadnought and he just stands outside guarding this thing because it's
the thing that put him in the dreadnought in the first place funny enough but he has to guard it
the entire time because it's just so dangerous and they kind of torture it for more information
they could they basically work out commanders coming to attack the blood angels and this is
a bad news so dante sends out the call and all of the chapters of blood answer it so the blood
angels essentially of all the divergent chapters they reassemble back onto the homeward of ball
into literally like legion-sized numbers it's a really cool moment there's this i have i cannot
i'll be remiss if i didn't mention it probably one of the coolest scenes in warhammer is where all of
the various representatives of the different chapters like the hall is filled with thousands
of them and they essentially assemble for the meeting that they're about to have and what is
paraded in front of them is essentially the best of the blood angels so they see like relics they
all like literally hold their breath because they're seeing like relics of the age of like
sanguineous is like when alive essentially they see the last there's a relic called the last
feather of sanguineous and it has even like a bit of blood on it as well from when essentially
uh nasir amit the flesh terror sort of made it oh sanguineous died eat shit traitor that guy
they parade out um like old patterns like their relic patterns of um armor from different
eras of the blood angels they bring out all their relics their banners they're literally
all of their sanguinary guard they bring out dante mephiston like everyone essentially is
paraded in front of the other essentially it's like a massive like showing off of what their blood line
is essentially i'm just i'm just envisioning like a blood angel's equivalent of antiques roadshow
and it's like here we have the uh 31st millennium uh cup that sanguineous used to drink out of and
you look on the bottom here it's got the maker's mark and they're all just like geeking out of it
and meanwhile the tyranids are just getting ever closer like guys we're getting distracted can we
like get on with it it's a little bit distracting but it is a really cool scene because essentially
like there's these all these chapters and different armor and they have all different looks and things
like that but they all just kind of stare at this moment of like essentially the glory of the blood
angels is put on display and dante like sits down wearing the mask of sanguineous and they all just
go like it's like they all like nudge each other like oh my god oh shit you know i mean like they
kind of like it is oh it's my phone it is like it's eerily silent when they're all just essentially
staring at the glory of like their bloodline because some of them haven't even probably
interacted with the blood angels for literally thousands of years so this is like a it's a
massive moment it's really well done by guy hailey the author it's a really cool scene
i know i've not even done it justice here but if you ever read that book you'd be like oh my god
and uh where was i so they have this massive sort of just basically this massive display scene
and they say like you know tyranids are coming and we need to stop them but then mephicyn is
given his secret mission because he doesn't want they don't want to let them rest of them know
what's really like if they knew about commander coming as well with like essentially the forces
of korn there's like oh crap so mephicyn is actually he's given carte blanche to do whatever
he can to stop commander and he even asked ante like i could do anything i want and he just goes
just do what you need to do and like okay because they're about to do something which is a little
bit heretical so he takes a contingent of all of the different psyches from many of the chapters
so like they're all in like different armor and they follow mephicyn into the crystal caves of
baal there's a cool scene to fair when they're they're trying to fly there and there's obviously
the shadow and the warp from the tyranids so they're a little bit like dulled in power at this point
and essentially they get attacked by flying tyranids like in the initial invasion and mephicyn goes i
got this he literally like opened the back door and he's eventually flies out with his wings and
starts cranking uh tyrannids in the air and all the other like psyches are going oh my god and then
all the other blood angels are like yeah that's my boy like you know what i mean
like that's what we got what is that thing oh that's one of us what do you have that's our boy
that's our boy and um he does return he flies back he literally does it and he flies back in
essentially like iron man moment and um they enter these like secret caverns underneath baal they're
filled with blood crystals so they're mentally like a uh they harmonize and they like enhance
psychic power so they feel like their strength returned to them and mephicyn was like almost
like stumbling as they were walking in then he starts like walk up straight and he looks
a little bit too tall it's like oh god he's like really powered up he's even more powered up than
usual and this is the part where they start to get a little bit heretical they do this ritual
where they have like they all drink a portion of each other's blood and they're all bonded together
as like sons of sanguineous and they literally open a tear into the warp on baal like on baal
primus so they're back on the original planet not uh balsa cundus where the chapter masters
and the um monastery is they essentially open a portal into the warp they all you they they push
their power together and essentially mephicyn draws his phataris ignites it with fire and his
sprouts his black wings and just says oy cabanda fight me essentially he has a delay cabanda as
long as possible and he well he says it a lot better than that because he says it in his like
lord of death voice which like really raspy like you will and mephicyn said to to cabanda ah my
dad could beat up your dad he said what and then they get into a big fight yeah what if it's for
people who are new this is literally the balrog versus gandalf scene and except um mephicyn is
not using a staff he's using a sword and him and cabanda battle for a bit but this is cabanda
inside the warp so he's a little bit too powerful and mephicyn does his best but he was never going
to be able to beat a demon in the warp even in as much as he was empowered by the other blood
angels in fact some let's not forget he's he's kind of got a storied history of the blood angels
and like he this is the demon that basically gave them their uh their their red first curse kind of
i believe he bolsters that in the horus heresy so he's like he's like the arch enemy of the demons
for the blood angels in a lot of ways he's also uh the commander's literally attacking now because
he wants to kill the blood angels before the tyrannist does because he's like that's what i
do and kill steal do not have time pretty much and um mephicyn does a pretty decent job of like
holding him off for a time but again he had probably no chance uh in winning and the rituals
does start to fail like i think it's some of the uh psychers they start he tries the commander tries
to tempt them and they'll hold firm for a decent part even raceless like the older librede is like
hold it together boys like he's again the chad move he's like holding it down it actually does
start to crumble unfortunately funny enough anthros which actually anthros is quite young
so even though he's a powerful uh lexiconium he is quite young it's unfortunately he's actually the
chink in this and it starts to fail there eventually they're pushed back into real
space and the kind of crystal caves collapse on them they do all live but they are literally out
of the fight for the rest of the devastation of baal but their plan to delay kabanda has worked
slightly because kabanda instead of landing on baal secundus and essentially wiping out where most of
the blood angel forces are he actually lands on baal primus which is again like the sort of big
planetoid and it's not where most of the blood angels forces are and he essentially gets thrown
into a horde of tyranids and some i can't remember the name of the chapter but it's like a renegade
chapter blood angel so they're not even loyalist technically but they but they throw themselves
they throw themselves as like a last sacrifice to um essentially die was it the knights of baal
the the knights of something they're the knights of something it's of blood knights knights of blood
could be it too possibly they essentially wanted to die like a worthy death and there's there's a
cool scene that where one of them is like because they've already been drinking blood and they've
been like essentially disowned by the blood angels at this point um and like the imperium and they
they were definitely renegades they were under no doubt at least yeah but they but one of them like
they kind of do redeem themselves a little bit because they're not evil they just kind of fell
to the curse too much and he literally looks he looks kabanda in the face and a kabana tries to
tempt him and he literally shrugs it off so even at this point he's like no even now i still reject
the corruption and but he does get crunked i like it's uh that scene from one of the aliens movies
where they're all like huddled around the uh computer and it's got the machine gun ammo rounds
like how what's left counting down is the oh yeah xenomorphs are throwing themselves against the
automated turret and then it hits the zero and you have dante like well that's a chapter gone
oh they know now it's our problem entire chapters literally get wiped out
during the devastation of barlis it's horrendously like enormous as conflict um but before
unfortunately from the fist and he's kind of kind of and the other librarians like a lot of them
there are some out there still but this contingent they're out of it until they do dig themselves out
of the rubble they emerge after the devastation of barlis ended and they find the indomiters fleet
and robute gilliman has arrived the grand administrator is here and the uh situation
changes the primaris have arrived all the chapters have been renewed essentially it's a new era
and this is sort of a again like as a renewal for the blood angels and they survived the devastation
of barl by like the skin of their teeth but they'd lost a lot of like so much was lost like
historically and in terms of culture but you know they're still around essentially they lived
post devastation of barl mephiston continues uh fighting but then he sort of comes across this
psychic block in his mind like he struggles to use his his powers are still growing at this time
but he felt like a massive psychic block on his mental power particularly and he starts to search
for the source of this he believes something out there is doing this to him and he's begun to see
ghosts people who have he has fought with over the centuries they start to haunt him he sees them
they're all creepy and something is clearly not wrong so something's clearly wrong with him
they eventually battle across the galaxy until they find a planet named morsus and morsus was
now dominated by necrons the undead necron money two mummy boys are here uh i'm sure elise is
probably enjoying this moment a lot because please gc that calls in necrons big win today
all of his christmases have come at once we've got some funny on this one though um uh side note
as well uh lucas anthros uh the pupil he goes off on his own journey to help find a way to save
mephistons so he's not with the crew but raceless your bad boy and mephistons go down to morsus
themselves to help uh they think the source of his psychic blindness is here and they also want to
investigate because his world was previously an imperial one that supposedly was mentally recaptured
in something called the revenant crusade but clearly they were destroyed by the necrons uh
there's also small note there's an awesome scene in the beginning of this book where raceless is
like they're on their ship and he goes into mephistons quarters and he just sees a flayed man
like kneeling down and essentially all of mephistons skin is like in the air floating and
it's turned into like a star chart and he's like and racers goes yo that's weird but he also goes
like i get you're the chief librarian and all that you know you're powerful mephistons but even he's
like oh i'm gonna like throw up because that's like that's disgusting he literally flays his
own skin off himself and then disgustingly reassembles it back on um apparently it's all
fine so i think initially thought it was like his armor but it just because he actually obviously
his armor resembles like flayed um like muscle beneath but it's actually just mephiston he's just
like a weirdly not blinking thing in the middle of the room horrifying and as they wait make this way
down to morsus uh there's also another funny part about this planet uh there is a necron court held
on morsus uh there's a slight problem with this necron court they're all insane well feron is
actually he's woken up from the great sleep and he is not right he basically has the necrons
but the warriors and doing mock battles like randomly shooting things in the desert that are
not there he also like powers up this massive device that just keeps them really clean whereas
it should be like awakening other things and like destroying you know like enemies thing like that
he just uses it to essentially be like a power cleaner like a big hoover at least he's hygienic
not that he's got like a nervous system or like viral infections can affect oh it's fine keep
her armor nice and shiny priorities in the wrong direction essentially that um thing we talked
about in the necron episode where like the necrons don't like touching flesh like oh my god they're
like they're like sick and um there's even a funny part where like he actually he starts talking to
the corpse of an actual necron tear like somehow a preserved necron tear corpse is there and like
he supposedly was his brother and he's like talking to it he's like like what what do you think ah
interesting interesting and everyone's like oh god there's even a part like a visiting cryptic has
come to the planets like do an investigation like a little kind of safari like oh i'm here to surf
for technologies like oh this guy is not right so it's all kind of to be fair warhammer 40k has a
lot of scenes where a brother is talking to a deceased brother that's like a recurring theme
go horus and ferris manus's skull yeah that was that was horrific that moment it was like yuck
when like a full grim brace he chucks his like dead brother's head in the floor then Horus is like
says he has like forced down a throw up because like oh my god my brother he's like i get it we
still hate him but like yuck um but especially yeah the the planet's like crazy uh something's
wrong with the necron forces like even when the blood angels arrive there's a funny part where
they're being attacked by the necrons immediately and the fiston goes wait a second let me think
checks his like archive and then just basically goes in front of the forces and goes i declare a
right to to parlay essentially like from um pirates of the caribbean he never remembers the black
pearl movie um is like par par parlay and they sent to the necrons go crap he did say the word
didn't he and then they have to like basically uphold like a ceasefire whilst they uh intrigue
like a court summonings possibly that will happen so it's like oh gosh hilarious the miffissin and
racers do make it down to morsus and in the kind of depths and minds they find the remnants of the
imperial forces there they're like the generations like later of the people who were from morsus so
that all they've known is like the necron uprising and they also find a force of people called the
uh blister men and they are essentially ogrens that are been irradiated and they've kind of been
blistered and they've kind of not been working with the humans for a while but they do been they've
been like fighting the necrons like with mining tools so literally they get like a chain hammer
or a chain um jackhammer sorry and they're literally like jack hammering the necrons
whenever they see them and they do like sort of gather the imperial forces together and they meet
in this like weirdly immaculately carved uh temple ground supposedly carved by the ogrens over the
last like how many decades and it's like oh that's kind of weird like what a sentence that is
yeah it's like weirdly immaculately done it's like really impressive there's even a the bit
that's even weird is like there's a statue that looks like miffissin in the middle of it and
they're like you're the savior the savior and then it starts to get weird here because
miffissin is like this is clearly not me but it's like meant to be obviously a space marine or maybe
even the emperor like they don't know what's going on and then the ghosts of like the dead which have
been slowly over the story like he's been catching glimpses of them and then people have been like
you're right it's like yeah i'm fine and they eventually swarm him here and they're essentially
shouting him telling him all his sins like everything wrong he has done and he's actually
retreats his psychic mind into like a mind palace and he's essentially losing it like he's
he's realizing at this point now it's like miffissin he's losing like a lot of the memories
of like what he's done as miffissin as well as calistarius he's kind of becoming like a
monster in his own mind like he again you know there's a being that's just been fighting and
fighting and he realizes like his memory's been failing and he doesn't know why the ghosts are so
angry at him and this is where chad raceless my man comes in he joins miffissin in his like
little uh mind palace area and he tells him you know what you need to do essentially is remember
who you like you don't need to remember everything for you i can be your memory essentially but the
only thing you need to remember is that your purpose is that you are the lord of death and
you fight for humanity and he goes like oh yeah that's all i need to do like so even if he does
end up becoming a monster and like you know what everyone says he is it doesn't matter because
as long as he keeps doing what his duty is if that's enough and he realized like miffissin
the ghosts were not like an outside force it was actually his own psyche producing them as a way of
like sort of to help remind him of like all the promises and things he has to um honor and he
eventually is like i am miffissin lord of death as or like i just need to basically be the best lord
of death there is as of embraces the ghost they kind of like hug him in a weird moment they all
like accept him like you well done you remembered your purpose because at this point he's been kind
of he's been so lost like following leads and quests and like fighting he's forgetting like the
overall purpose of what his power is meant to be because again he's like been blessed with the
power of like over the black rage and so he's forgetting that he needs to really use that for
humanity's betterment and so he declares that the revenant crusade that previously failed to
capture and save mortis will be reignited and all the ogrens and the humans like joined together
and they will basically they're going to take on the necrons even though at this point miffissin
had been like it's basically before this he'd been like oh it's a doom to mission why are they even
bothering and raceless at this point you know tells him they will come to conclusion like
they should just why not because even if they win or lose it's about fighting for the right thing
and they do take on the necrons the imperial guard actually do a really noble moment here
they kind of let themselves be like a sacrifice and like a distraction so they know they will die
and but again like the other people who live on the planet will live if the necrons get destroyed
and eventually miffissin does like he basically knows they die because he eventually sees their
ghosts he's like ah you know they're dead and I've watched over the necrons I'm sorry here Eli
the miffissin does blow up the necrons um there's a point here he does fight some of the
necrons as well that's Colin what's that thing you I think you said you knew something about
this earlier is about how they can indeed I believe it was one of the one over the necron lord
who says that though miffissin is undoubtedly powerful he's a he's a child compared to the
eldar sorcerers of old yeah so even miffissin now was like nothing compared to what the war in heaven
was which is bit mind a bit hard to imagine like it does like that's like how do I imagine that
just being a real thing but apparently yeah he's even as powerful as he is and he does end up
winning and beating them they're still like damn like you weren't nearly as good as the eldari
well you see this the way to imagine is look at the sun and then just turn it off which is also
pretty uh insulting you have the elder I mean poor miffissin as well because actually he's a very
as much like it's hard to explain like all his badassery he's actually really
intelligent in terms of like when he's not fighting he's constantly reading like books
and stuff like that he's essentially in his like comfortable robes like learning and learning and
learning because that's what a chief librarian has to be nerd and he doesn't I mean he do that
and then destroy your entire home world so like he's not a nerd yeah sure he can do that he is
like I was like nerd it's like we all like listen and read like lore books for our channels the
irony nor the hypocrisy is not lost on me but luckily uh he sort of eventually had to push
like further into the necron tomb like underneath and they find this device which is actually
which the original lord had been powering up like his necrons to keep them clean in his like craziness
and there was like a visiting cryptic who I briefly mentioned earlier unfortunately I can't
go too much into that but essentially him and Mephisson have a both a moment they both snuck
into the chamber and they go ah you know the spider-man meme where they both point at each
other it's kind of like a huh huh you you and they have like a small conversation where like
Mephisson is like bluffing he's like I know more about this than you and you're like oh really
he's like and he starts to say things like quite like obviously things that show off his intelligence
is like mathematical and you know things are physics things like that and eventually does start
to waffle a bit too long and then the cryptic goes he's starting to he's starting to sound less
intelligent now it's because Mephisson is trying to like work out what like how to operate the
device and he goes oh like he eventually does work it out and this is the weird part where like the
necron device only works when you use psychic power on it which is strange because the known
necron is a psycus obviously it was probably not even a necron device maybe originally it probably
wasn't an eldar one it's implied that and maybe even belong to the old ones maybe uh but Mephisson
just like a like a lactose intolerant man developing like every type of cheese it's like why are you
doing this this will be no benefit I yearn for what I can't have although come on I have not
noticed single lactose intolerant person to actually care about eating like cheese or ice cream
very true there's like um a weird funny scene where the necron lord does show up like catching
Mephisson in this crypt tech like you know with their pants down and then he's brought like his
corpse brother with him being like I can't he's talking I can't believe they were here like they
invade our inner sanctum it's crazy and then it's but I haven't really mentioned too much but like
one of the consorts of the necron lord who was like kind of sycophish crap at this point and had
been like oh my god I hope this guy dies he's actually painted in red so it's implied like if
you watch our necron episode that she was one of the um people who would like would drag them to
like the bio furnace so she's actually one of those people so her arm was like painted in red
she just basically at this point in the book she'd been kind of they'd been like a side plot the
necron thing she had enough of this lore because she wasn't crazy she's like oh my god we can't
which we she's had enough and just ends up slicing the corpse in half which makes the necron lord go
oh my god how could you that's so awful and the necron essentially like under her control just
end up fighting and then Mephisson powers a device that the necron lord had been using to keep his
necrons clean and sends like a shockwave through them they all just blow up essentially in one big
go apart from the crypt tech apart from the visited crypt tech who just runs away being like
jesus christ what a mess um that was the events of morse's uh only two more books sorry no three more
books to go boys but where to go um the one is a bit more short luckily uh short off shortly after
the events of morse's uh Dante and Mephisson together would battle a demon prince of slanesh
uh kairis the perverse kind of can guess what he's like slash she's like slash it's like and also has
a storied history at the same time as uh uh what's his name kabanda those two are both oh yeah the
black rage uh the red first so yeah there they have a history i don't wonder how the meeting so
that went down the warp like we need you two to work together it's like how did what did korn
and orcel mesh convince them to pull that off or the entire horrors heresy is mostly that isn't it
i mean that's that's not stopped chaos from being at each other's stores before
they hate each other immediately when the opportunity is arrived they like go for it don't
they but uh yeah finally there's been enough ever chosens we'll have a fancy for people who are
uh not initiated um but at this point this has been a little bit after the events of morse's not
very long to be fair and as we mentioned earlier you keep thinking like you know you keep thinking
oh my god this guy is saying Mephisson's power is growing but i swear it hasn't had like a backfire
in a while it happens here it's finally gotten to the point where Mephisson cannot contain his
power any longer and as they're fighting uh kairis the perverse uh the black ray just essentially
fully envelops him in terms of like flooding out of him like he's a conduit for it and like black
flame and just roaring power flows around him it actually turns some of the primaris marines uh
into the black raid essentially so this is like a oh crap the bloodline cure is not is the bloodline
curse is not cured there's like a real like um harrowing moment and the demon what's the guy's
right so the well the black rage is like it's a it is their bloodline but that's like a psychic
curse right like theory the red curse you could theoretically get rid of if you had
were good enough at gene seed but the black rage is it's magic you can't yeah it's like
endemic and then but the black rage is it's all chaos's fault basically well yeah basically
chaos one of those is like a like an illness like that runs through your family the other is just
straight up like you aren't cursed by a witch or till till this point though when uh dante received
the primaris reinforcements they actually thought they yeah might be free of the curse and even like
some of the blood angels like um so even like the lamenters chapters like um gabriel sef's uh
uh flesh terrors he was like saying that they're not true blood angels they don't even have the
curse like what's wrong with them so at this point wrong with them well he thinks like it's
a divine curse yeah um so they were no primaris had ever suffered the red thirst of the black rage
until this point with mithycin's power going out of control so this is where dante kind of goes like
oh god like they're susceptible to it too and this is they do defeat the demon prince luckily
there when there's like this um floating ship you know sort of a old blood angel ship uh but
mithycin's like losing it and he's about to like essentially implode until dante just runs up to
him like knocks him out essentially the power is still flooding around him and then dante's like
raceless what the hell's going on he's like i'm sorry like his power has been growing for a long
time and mithycin's like in terms upon this like um this uh blood angel's like specific um
what's it called like a tomb slash blood tomb thing when they go like a sarcophagus
oh that's like blood sarcophagus that's what it's called when they yeah the one they use when they
transforms into blood angels and mithycin's power is so great that they place like so many psychic
wards on this blood sarcophagus to the point where it's actually impossible that anything could leak
out of it but his power is leaking out of it which is like the blood angels essentially like this is
not possible there's no hashtag leaky fist and leaky leaky fist um so but mithycin essentially
is dying like his body is not and it's like like black flame is like rippling all over it
and his soul is actually in the warp so he's kind of just in his own like place he's like in a weird
uh like middle ground place it's hard to explain um but they do kind of believe that this is the
end of it um from mithycin unfortunately until a contingent from mars and bellisarius call rock up
and they're agreeing to transform mithycin into a primaris you're probably thinking why do they
why do they choose mithycin was actually because they hadn't really done the rubicon primaris
transformation on any blood angel before and they even said like at this point uh only person who
had done it successfully really was mannys calgar good old ultramarines but even then some of the
ultramarines like most of the ultramarine lieutenants who went with calgar didn't actually
survive with him and i think even with a blood angel where it's like they're a bit more divergent
so the dante was just going can i do it please like no you're too important please let the other
one do it first please just dante's begging to get died so desperate and they do agree to transform
mithycin because they think why not maybe the primaris frame can hold his power longer and
mithycin's soul goes on like a weird vision quest so he ends up seeing like his previous life so he
sees like kai he sees calistarius and then he sees mithycin so it's like all of his life even meets
the soul of the um the sort of uh old man who had mentored him as when he was kai if you remember
that from like very early on in this um long ass video um because they're in like a pocket of the
warp which like not touched by chaos they're very few of them like ever in the warp so it's like a
kind of peaceful area but there's nothing really there and eventually this leads up to mithycin
finding this like blood soaked figure who offers him this choice and he looks above barl in the
warp and they see an angel of gold and an angel of black and they are battling and this figure
tells him like they're basically battling for the soul of the blood angels and it offers mithycin to
become the avatar of the black angel just as the sanguino is the avatar for the golden angels this
is kind of we did mention earlier like a little bit like oh the black rage is a little bit more
than just a curse it's like a as colin has said like it's like a psychic wound within reality
itself and it the interesting part it mentioned this in this book as well was that this battle
here like between the the different angels it will affect the area of barl in the past present and
future so it's implied that this like no matter what civilization will live on barl they'll
eventually like come to like these all idea like look like resembling angels and demons in some
sort of fight it's like a really weird thing even when humans die out essentially like all alien races
long before humanity won the world so they would eventually sort of embody this power because it's
literally span throughout all of time and mithycin is told that if he does accept this offer basically
it would damn him but it will he'll eventually become the black angel but it will save his
brothers for a time and by a bit more respite from the black rage and funny enough though he
actually refuses he initially says no like he just he says he's actually he's done enough
like he's really kind of like dante with like i've literally been fighting for centuries i've died
twice essentially you know i mean i've had a few times i survived the black rays like i'm just
like i don't i don't know if i can handle it anymore and it's actually revealed that when he
does refuse this figure reveals itself to be sanguineous and then this is like a moment where
he thinks he's failed like some kind of test but the sanguineous figure they're not even sure if
it is sanguineous truly but in a way it sort of forgives him and just kind of reiterates the
offer again and mithycin makes his choice back on baal the transformation is going on
but mithycin's body's been dead for quite a while which is a little bit funny because like racists
are basically playing telephone with mithycin's soul in the wall being like you there mate yeah
yeah yeah cool cool you there um so he's like talking to me once in a while but he's like
not heard from him in a while just dialing the wall the number you have dialed is not recognized
please try again later in a second oh for getting frustrated it's been quite so being quite
if i don't have like been watching it been like is he there like yeah yeah he's still around
my mate is coming i swear like you know you're going out as a group and then like
yeah five more minutes five more minutes um but this is a very cool scene here though where
the like racists venture goes he's he's coming back he's coming back and essentially mithycin
is rocketing from the warp like back into his own body but it's not just him he literally brings
three souls back into his body and his body just lifts up into the air and it's an incredibly like
violent turbulent um experiences like literally the air around them ripples like some of the blood
angels around them actually die from the power like around them like and they see behind him
a black angel spread its wings some of this one of the sanguinary god i think does actually get
killed by it which is quite like oh god but eventually the power they will think like we
should kill him now kill him now and then it does start to stabilize and then he sort of his
mithycin's boy like knits back together and it heals like in an instant and he basically lands
on his feet again and again like you say like i think astagrath the grim the high chaplain just
basically goes he's he's a demon like we should kill him straight away and that dante's like
wait a second let him cook like you know let him cook he's been given for a lot because obviously
mithycin's like basically been the poster child for primaris blood angels so they're trying to
see if it works and he sort of talks he has like a talk with uh mithycin they're actually both in
secret like it's a bit of private conversation they both mention seeing sanguinous in the war
it's an interesting part where they kind of go like dante asked him like was it really sanguinous
and then mithycin's like yes and no because sanguinous is dead like sanguinous is dead
but it may be could have been a sort of a manifestation of his soul an echo an echo
what he was it could have been something pretending to be him not the first time a mysterious thing
pretended to be sanguineous and made a deal with the blood angels yeah so it has they're not they
both do even funny enough that dante did promise to keep that but his own vision that he saw when
he almost died on the devs and the bar like to himself they kind of both tell each other about
their own experiences like seeing this sanguineous because it doesn't feel like the real thing
and it's a really like touching moment because they're both like like that's our gene father
but it's also we can't allow ourselves to believe it is truly because obviously he's sanguineous is
very much dead you know so it's not real yeah don't give us hope that kind of thing don't give us hope
but if it is uh but it is cool but it's like they're both in a way take like hope from it and they
both like find it's like because they've both been like so like they're both very clearly ready to
die which is like a i think we mentioned like the sort of tragedy the blood angels they're both very
much as much as you think like oh mephistene is like this he often appears to be like a cold and
uncaring thing he's actually just he is like a normal person mephistene is like he emerged
into the universe from hades hive not really having much to himself other than the memories
of someone else but he does obviously he basically does turn into his own person like he lived
longer as mephistene than he ever was kalistarius and sent uh sent an official warhammer image
related in the chat it's mephistene and the blood angels having thanksgiving dinner that's a good
one the vatarius is a cool sword as well it's got a little like hooks bit to the end um but yeah he's
sort of mephistene's been ready to die for a while funny enough which you wouldn't you wouldn't have
expected but obviously running with the blood angels because he doesn't he doesn't suffer the
black hurray like them he's not like he even says like in his own words the usual hunger and thirst
doesn't haunt me but he still obviously just had a lifetime of war so he's ready to go but um he's
they do find like a sort of renewal and particularly more mephistene he's very much like i'm ready to
get out there and they do like have a mini test where tanda like go do that mission he goes like
sure and then just annihilate some gene stealers sorry elo and then they have no happy ending by
design he can't whine over that all union with the star children okay there's a funny bit where
like he's talking to them and he says he basically says like i know you're about to say you're about
to give me this speech and say these things and they go like what how could you possibly know the
divines like because i've battled you before essentially you all say the same thing on different
worlds but never mind you wouldn't be able to understand or even reject what you think and
it just takes them out um but essentially mephistene is now primaris and he's reborn
now we're on to the very last book well done people for hanging in there there's quite a lot
but we're almost there i think when you when you were saying earlier when it was telling the guy
like i know it's rough but we're almost there he should he should have been telling like i know
it's rough but we still have three more books this is the last book though so this is uh mephistene
is primaris up and the trio of raceless yermaine chad who's but raceless also guarded mephistene
was he was like in his body was like in danger things like that again he looked after him the
entire time like and his greatest defender they even defended him against dante when he was like
what the hell's going on it's like don't you dare you know go near him things like that
and the trio have now set off to find the source of these clues that have been appearing over the
centuries it all starts on divinus prime from the back a little while ago with the um the sort of
the the world of bones and things like that and then the psychic trace on the relic there's
over the centuries mephistene has been collecting clues there's someone has been someone has been
manipulating him and the events it took him to morsus as well like he wasn't he was actually
directed to morsus by like some artifacts that lured him there so someone's clearly been playing
him for a long time doesn't know why and i also side note as well as the time of lucas anthros
since morsus when he was off on his own and i should briefly explain what happened to him
because it doesn't make sense if you if i don't he actually met with another chapter called the
sons of helios who they said they had found a way to sort of exist near the eye of terror and not be
corrupted and then they called it the sleepless mile i don't remember the exact charm i think it's
like we dream dreaming dreamed and they would like huddle around or like find a way to like in sort
of meditate and they would chant this and they called it like the sleepless mile where they put
themselves into a trance they sort of followed along this path up the like imperial palace in
their own mind and it sort of calmed them and actually lucas anthros actually fell to the black
rage when he was fighting alongside them but they all chanted together like we dream dreaming dreamed
like in like a way to bring and it brought him back from the black rage but and even when he
returned he's actually more powerful than ever been before but he didn't want to tell mephistons
something was something was clearly wrong with the way he had grown this power and even since i
haven't earned it oh but something something had been off with lucas anthros for a while and
obviously he's even though mephiston is his mentor like he doesn't something he's like that thing
like he doesn't you don't want to tell your parents something he doesn't want to tell mephiston
necessarily burden with him and he's trying to hide it from mephiston he does feel really guilty
about this but obviously in a way he's actually able to mentally trick mephistons like mephiston
tries to invade his mind and he actually holds him off which is usually not possible for a psycho of
any other level other than mephistons so mephiston kind of goes hmm and it was even weirder was like
when mephiston because his power is so great like he also kind of he also has a little bit of
prophetic vision things like that and he kind of sees events he's like always calm and in control
mephiston he does something he obviously literally unnerves people but anthros at times has said
stuff that has caught him off guard and he's like that's not i didn't expect you to say that
and there's so something has been obviously ticking mephiston off to something being wrong
they even go and visit the um crazy like corrupted xenos the one in the oxyviliaria one again then
they can get a little bit of torture they get a couple of fisty cuffs and they kind of do uh
interrogate it a little bit but they set off to find and put together these clues to find find
who's been at the heart of this grand conspiracy for centuries and but before they do set off
mephiston allays the worries of anthros and he gifts him an ancient bloody angel scepter as a
sort of gift and tells him you'll use this when the time is like necessary this is really important
to remember but essentially mephistons planting something you know he's saying even though
something's off with you anthros i still uh trust you and then here's a gift and as they set off
there's this really cool scene where they are exploring these uh craft world eldarie craft world
ruins um there's a weird bit as well here where i some of the primaris marines are accompanying them
they feel a little bit weird doing some blood angels magic in front of them because they're
like these primaris marines are not like initiated into blood angel ways that's like they use when
they use like certain blood ritual magic that's specific to the blood angels they're like these
rubes these are primaris marines they're a little bit they're like oh shit what the fuck is that
because obviously they're like you know i mean they're not they didn't they've been on tarot
this time so they don't know any of the culture from barl and what yeah so they're like oh this
isn't what i was expecting a little bit like oh that's a weird but eventually they get like
something starts to mess with them uh they start fighting like visions on this craft world and they
do realize they're being messed with some harlequins have turned up and they started messing with them
uh there's like this one specific harlequin it's like been taunting them as they explore these
ruins boom first adventures goes i've had enough of this and just like leaps at him like with his
psychic black wings and this man's like crunk him in place and um but he doesn't kill him and he
says we've come to make a deal essentially this is the part where earlier some when they've been
attacked by some eldaria the pilots who they were flying down with their heads get crunked
whilst they're flying the ship and this is where Mephisto shows off his
conno d'or like you know like jawad or time power and he um he as colin said earlier he literally
pauses time and sort of sits there for a moment and thinks about like he's like observing the
brain matter of the pilot one second has passed two seconds have passed he's kind of like watching
it he's going he's exploring his new power and he actually thinks i could probably reverse this and
like save them but then he also goes i probably that's not something i should do though because
that's just uh that's a misuse of my power which is funny enough after pausing time um so then he
lets that happen uh as he said earlier he's basically grabbed this like harlequin and been
like you you'll come with me come here boy and he eventually says to them listen i want to make a
deal i won't tell any of the imperial forces about the ruins of this craft war which clearly you're
protecting if you can get me across the um the great rift and the harlequin's like ah they they
hate him they even there's a part where he also invades the minds of the eldari ships and i think
that's colin knows some of the eldari ships are powered by um spirit stones and the infinity
they uh the infinity circuit runs through the heart of every eldar craft world except for biltan
because it kind of got shattered and don't worry about that one don't worry about that one and they
kind of like the like the ancient eldari um minds when they sense mephysons in there like hey get
out of it hey hey like they're like get off my lawns oh wait it's all touch touch it's a funny
go away it's quiet in here yeah they're like oh human disgusting and um let their dog off the
leash it's pissing into my infinity circuit it's um they do sort of make a deal with mephyson they
go fine we'll take you across like through the webway if you promise to keep your word so harlequin's
basically on their ship like guiding them through the webway for a bit and he's like so miffed he's
like you know i mean he's like i hate all of you but we made a deal he does anything he just ended
with glitter bombs filled with tannerite in his mailbox back on ball the mark robert experience
one style um and they sort of managed to get across the great rift which obviously is mostly
impossible at this time and this takes them to the jungle world of sabassas now sabassas is an
isolated planet it's not the same as what happened to divanus prime but essentially it's sort of
quite close to the great tear the great rift so it's been cut off for a long time sort of
quite a while now and they eventually arrived mephyson razeless anthros and they've relieved
the imperial forces on the world who are being attacked by a funny enough a zinchen cult uprising
mephyson saves this captain named federac and there's a really interesting scene between the
two where they are like having a conversation where federac has actually previously seen a
demon prince and when a human looks at something like that they're basically like walking dead at
that point there's no coming back from that they'll eventually go mad and mephyson says the only
reason you're not like a bubbling mule-ing mess essentially is because there's a painting inside
one like the halls of this area and it's a painting of the emperor and it's supposedly actually
painted during the time of the great crusade and mephyson says like the artist like he looks upon
it so the artist at the time was there when the emperor like started the great crusade and it
captures like the true kind of presence of the emperor within the painting and then you've got
and that imagery of the emperor has like saved federac's mind for a little bit but
mephyson does say like unfortunately you are like walking dead and you will die at some point but
i need your help and it's a weird moment where like you kind of go like oh yeah he's like
mephyson the scholar like half the time rather than just being because wallhammer is mostly like
like you know grimdark badass and then horrible tragedy so there's like that moment where it
shows a little bit of a different side to him and he's very like when he does speak he is very
intelligent so he's extremely well read and obviously pretty much has like a ridiculously
powerful mind which can basically basically like the sherlock holmes of the blood angels as well
at this point why not add it to the list of overpowered things and they need federac because
federac can lead them to a temple in the mountains which is where he originally saw the demon
they do funny enough mephyson leaves elusius anthros behind which much of the anthros is like
sort of complaining basically like no you there's a there's a reason for this and the blood angels
as they finally enter this like temple ground it's in this really weird like reflective
underground section where like it's hard to explain but they do enter this temple area
and they are eventually ambushed by rubric marines and a greater demon of zeech which looks like a
floating bird mask with a cloak funny enough he looks quite small so i find it bizarre this is
like a greater demon but it's like okay fine fun enough but um it's zeech he's he's uh he's not the
one all about power yeah but the so the good old rubric marines burst out and they attack him in
they attack him in this temple at the center of this temple grounds where there's ritual stone
and it starts to burn and then they realize like something like a ritual is being set off
and arcing fire is like spewing out from it mephyson just lunges forward and literally
just smothers it with his body using it as like sort of a way to absorb the heat from it so like
his body and armor can take it and then this is really bizarre this part then mephyson splits
himself into three he sends his mind into raceless to coordinate the battle between the blood angels
and the rubric marines he uses body to like hold on to the stone like absorb the heat
and then he sends his soul into the warp to chase the demon down so essentially he literally just
splits himself apart and getting all doctor strange all of a sudden yes it's a pretty
is a i mean it's very impressive but like very bizarre moment but then it gets even weirder
because mephyson's soul as i should mention earlier by the way is often described like three souls
where it's like implied there's one that's calistarius one that's mephyson there's one
that's like the avatar of the black angel so he's like coalescing to this weird being
and when mephyson appears in the warp he wakes up with like no memory of what's like who he is or
like who he is or what's happening but he appears like a burnt flayed man and essentially he's like
like raw flayed muscle and he's like all crackled and black and he basically looks like the
manifestation of the black rage but he's not like pissed off or angry but he does have fun enough
vitaros his sword is with him though the sword doesn't leave um for some reason like even this
is weird like warp creature like that's like a doll he's like yo can i have that sword he's like
nah it's mine i'm sure like i'm pretty sure that's mine and like some other creatures like try to
take it from him and he just like sprouts wings he's like get away from me he does a bill bow from
let me give this myth rule and then like give your childhood nightmares
and then apologies after like oh my bad that was quite unruly quite rude of me like really
did that scare anyone else by when they were younger when they first saw that i saw one of
these for the first time two years ago so i was in the cinema when it first came out when was that
oh geez i'm so old i still haven't seen the other two movies they're good bro i've read the books
they're still good films though i know they're good movies and i know i'd like them i just haven't
seen them can you please put in the chat like colin needs to watch one of those like films those
one of those film series where it's just like they are pretty much i know i know the fellowship of
the ring is like a perfect example of like the structure of a film like you look at the screenplay
it is pitch perfect it's like first 10 pages it does the whole flashback with the war and blah
but yeah great films without going too into it fellows in the chat i i've got a better idea
take it get a compilation of every time i've said i haven't seen x movie or y tv show and then take
a shot every time i do so and then please inform us how quickly you're in the hospital
we do not support that and law crimes but it would be funny um just do that for legal purposes there
so of course the mephistene has since he's woken up without much memory of himself but he's like
the weird avatar of what his power is and he's the war by the way i don't i wish i'd written it down
the way they describe it because it literally sounds like some crazy artist like you're living
inside of like a moving painting it's like rippling with color and i've never seen it in other things
but they often describe the warp as like oh like a mix of weird rippling energy but this is like a
full-on like multicolored rainbow picture of like colliding color and shapes and ideas and concepts
it's so weird actually quite like a good um part of the book the book itself is a little bit confusing
in times but this is particularly like really um like visually it's such like a feast and it's so
good in terms of its description and he's also like travel through the warp he's also follow
other weird twisted monsters and creatures and other sorcerers because everyone seems to be
venturing towards this one place so like the kind of pace of the book is like really slowed down
here it's like going what the hell is going on and they realize like everything's heading towards
something called the city of light and this is prosperous this is long dead thousand suns
magnus the red home that's in the war and it is guarded by like zangos and things like that and
the reason that everyone is traveling towards the city of light supposedly like people have
been corrupted or like demons or just creatures the warp is because they're essentially recruiting
in the city of light because there's a plan for it to eventually emerge back into the real space and
basically ruins everyone's day because why not magnus you did nothing wrong um ever so uh
mephistons sort of joins this weird shambling horde it's like he just but he looked like one
of the other monsters there so he kind of like blends in even like talks to a few of them like
can i skip the line they're like i don't know bro like it's a pretty long line to go in
i got the movie theater have you got a wristband no i haven't got a wristband oh eventually mephizon
goes ah screw it and he just breaks his way in like attacks the guards just rushes up these like
crystal stairs and he does like sort of chase this he finds a demon again and starts to chase
it around prospero like they see like the ghosts of obviously the people who lived in prospero like
and obviously space walls and um like a thousand sons who have died there like there's echoes of
what the you know the wounds of the old burning of prospero and eventually chases this demon and
it finds him in this like tower area even follows like some other people there it's kind of bizarre
and then unfortunately this like demon mephizon or his soul gets trapped and he realizes that
it's been an ambush and the demon reveals himself to be uh zadkale he was essentially a servant of
i don't know if he was previously a thousand sun or not i can't remember but he's like a servant
of madness the red and uh he sort of tells us and how i've been behind so much of your
like your journey like since divinus like divinus prime i was the one who like architect that
morsus that was me you know i've been manipulating you for centuries because
i've needed you for something uh i've been basically nurturing you for my own purposes
and also side notes well at this time that mephizon is caught anthros who's gone off on his own
like he's he's seeing himself oh mephizon must have sent me off to do something i'm here to work
out something so he goes to one of the towers of the world i'll explain that in a little bit but
unfortunately essentially on anthros on his own journey he's also realized like oh his power that
we mentioned earlier that was a bit suspicious it was because the sleepless mile the power that he
been used like you know we dream dream dreaming something that he'd been doing in secret since
morsus and the sons of helios chapter taught him that it was actually a ritual designed by z so
he's actually been corrupting himself and he starts like sprout feathers and he's like turning
into a greater demon of z it's like oh and he realizes it's happening in me like in real time
and he's like feeling his body corrupt meanwhile zed kill has uh again he says like he's nurtured
mephizon he's been using him because he needs mephizon as a conduit to for a enormously powerful
ritual to bring prospero back into real space the mephizon is the basically the reason he's been
making mephizon for this catalyst yeah he's a catalyst he's like yeah not making mephizon but
he's mephizon would be the perfect catalyst as colin said just to bring him back and they reveal
that on the planet where one of the temples they've been fighting in like the blood angels and
raceless um is called uh one of the fingers sort of finger mountain there are actually nine fingers
or sorry multiple finger towers and they're called the the fingers such as the nickname of these
mountains and they're not actually mountains they're tap their silver towers of zinch that have been
grown over and they realize like it's almost like a hand and essentially mephizon is going to be
used as a conduit to um replace where prospero is like sort of as a um a switcheroo essentially
so they're going to replace where the fingers are and then switch prospero in its place land it on
top of sebastis and then prospero is back in real space and he needs to channel all that power
through mephizon eventually like you know burn him up whatever and zadkiel the little demon is
like laughing and he like enacts the plan like he takes a cut of mephizon's blood and then he like
you know the ritual begins and he starts the you know it's and it's all going off and he is so happy
he is so happy but something goes wrong like he's basically is like mephizon's like basically
explodes in front of him into light and he starts like water this way over to magnus the red to
tell him of his amazing power he's done he's looking around and going it doesn't look like
sebastis outside like something's a bit something hasn't gone quite right and this was because
as the ritual was taking place uh something so something went wrong and just a brief foray back
in time mephizon becoming a primaris was obviously very powerful we can stop time but it was actually
more powerful than we even realized and he was strong enough to see that lucius anthros had been
corrupted so he was powerful enough to detect the zinchen like corruption flowing within him even if
anthros wasn't willingly turning against him and he when he gave him that scepter earlier the scepter
was actually something to use at this very moment because he had foreseen that the uh like he was
being manipulated for a long time um he couldn't this is about i didn't quite like the ending of
this book as well because like it's one of those like haha i knew all the entire time it's very
jojo i knew in fact that you were going to do this i knew all along but you may have outsmarted me
but i have outsmarted your outsmarting with my harmon it's a little bit like that which i don't
i don't think is the best ending but it is still a representation of how far he's come and he saw
anthros would be used in some way so he gave him the scepter and he realized like anthros was part
of the ritual too and so with anthros's like last remaining moment of sanity he uses the scepter
itself to polarize the ritual so instead of sending um prospero basically where sabathas was it sends
the mountain slash towers of zheng back into the warp and so when so go ahead so now it's time for
what is the zelda game without is it awkward where the moon's crashing down oh majora's mask
majora's mask yeah now it's time for that but with nine of the damn things yeah so essentially
zadka like pops over to the court of magnus which does he really brief like fall right into that
it's like filled with like sorcerers on disks and like demons are hanging about and like thousand
sun sorcerers like sort of conversing was but wait magnus the red in this book is like a little bit
in it and he's like just randomly like at times like in his like demon throne would stand up and
just randomly espouse things so he's like he's fully mad so just to show you like what a demon
magnus is like and zadka goes like i did it the whole thing is like going right and he's like
man's like are you sure about that he was like are you sure about that you know pulling back the
thing like um john cena and because then zacko goes oh he sees like the towers of zin she's like oh
my god i've been how did i get tricked i've been planning this for literal literal centuries
and so like basically demon magnus like you're going to prison slash worse prison than you can
imagine and super hell basically super hell and it's revealed that mephiston actually did
trick the demon like he'd kind of been he'd not been passive for the last few centuries in
working out what was going on and you know him noticing what was wrong with raceless they did
find a way to polarize that ritual and then but it did obviously unfortunately it did save lucas
anthros but it cost him his life so it spared him from becoming a demon but so he used instead of
using mephiston in the ritual it basically ended up using lucas and when they revive so they arrive
back on barl uh raceless and mephiston are kind of like in his anthros's personal quarters kind
of going through like his collections because they've been they've been fighting with him for
a long time at this point and raceless is kind of he he always been like the grumpy like older
lebrae and like always been a bit disapproving for anthros for a long time because he always kind of
was a bit overprotective of mephiston and only very recently like even in this book he kind of
like and he's from the end of like the last book as well he kind of accepted anthros like you know
you're finally worthy and just when he was finally worthy he died so he's a bit he was obviously a
bit gutted and raceless even asked mephiston like if there was any way to like save him
and mephiston just goes but i did and actually the first time like raceless properly gets angry at
him because he kind of there's a bit where he raceless is now realizing like mephiston is
actually so powerful that he's kind of but you know how like a like he's almost like not seeing
them like ants but there's a bit more of a chasm between him caring about normal people
seeing them like the emperor sees people yeah he's a little bit he's not being ruthless like he did
save sebastis he did say the thing he stopped lucas turning into a demon but then it's kind of
he's a little bit he sounds almost heartless and at some points yeah he's not gone full iron hands
where it's like you are a number in the calculus it doesn't matter he's like ah i've still got
some humanity but it's all for the rubble yeah um so he's not cruel but again it's a little bit
oh you know like how the emperor is not intentionally malicious but
isn't there things he classes under necessity and it kind of ends with mephiston drawing like he's
been sketching like random things like throughout his like life and even in his booklet obviously
bloody and just like artists and they're very creative and he does sort of finally sketch like
a replica of the emperor's painting that he saw on sebastis and it kind of reminds he looks at in a
way where he takes a sort of a bit of hope from it too the way like um the captain did what his
name was it was it sabado or something like that he um the way that he took hope from it and he
kind of realized like yeah like he is doing a lot of like crazy stuff but he's like mythic and lord
of death servant of the emperor son of sanguineous like he is basically duty bound and he will as the
avatar of like the black angel essentially just do his best to keep going forward and
essentially fighting for the imperium until one day he does become the black angel so he's kind of
it's a bit of a funny moment like he kind of weirdly accepts like yeah i'm gonna like have
a horrible end but i'm just gonna keep doing like i'm gonna keep getting victories for the
imperium as much as i can and like defending worlds and things like that and he kind of
it ends in the moment where like he just walks away and then he's like ready to fight his next
journey that's kind of the end of miphiston's tale sorry boy that's a really long one uh there's
just so much to cover um is there any particular points you guys thought was like interesting or
was particularly weird because there's quite a few of them there was like um the divinus prime book
the one where they fight on like the bone world i thought was very cool and that was one of my
more favorite it's cool he certainly is you indeed he is sounds like there are a lot of really cool
set pieces and um miphistan's journeys oh yeah i i have a walk i'll go this way oh no you first
i'll say i did unfortunately funny enough as much as i've said i have skipped quite a few things
because the fight with kabanda in the warp as like there are other demons around is pretty amazing
um there's i did skip unfortunately quite a bit of the morsus book with the necrons there's like
some really crazy scene where like the necrons send scarabs at miphiston and essentially like
goes like some of the primaris marines get literally torn apart in front of him and he
just ignites vitara's and just start slashing as fast as he can to the point where literally
the scarabs like swarming around him in a bubble and he's literally just like yelling going ah
like kind of dragon ball z literally he's like kind of going to like super saiyan two to three
if you know what i mean like there's a really he's at one he's got to get to two now or no
literally two to three like he's literally yelling like that and oh oh i see what you mean now and
like vitara's is again just being the sturdiest boy ever and um he even fights like another
cryptek there as well one of them like poisons raceless and he like has to use like blood
magic things like draw out the poison from him it's quite cool um there is a cool part in
the last book called is called city of light which obviously is reference to prospero
which is the part where the warp is obviously uh quite good imagery i didn't i fortunately i
didn't do the craft world quite enough justice because they do walk through the ruins of this
long dead craft world it's not implied to me the famous ones of now it's like a war in heaven era
maybe possibly or later that one's like a really eerie scene and they see like there's lots of
fight like they're clearly being tricked by like something's wrong with just the general area of
it because obviously like ancient eldari souls have died here and things like that but um he
does he does do quite a lot and there's a lot of uh complexity to his character in terms of
of people think a lot more of him but the real him is just somewhat of a
more contemplative soul who wields obviously a great power and he's a very he is he is cool
he's obviously he's ridiculously overpowered that's not i'm pretty sure we all agree on that don't we
like he's ridiculously overpowered but he's always in a way where like it's not like oh and then he
completely um just completely crunked the enemy and then it was fine it was always in the way
he's always like had to outsmart his enemy which i always liked in the uh mephistin books was quite
good um yeah sorry does anyone have any like questions or like cool things perhaps he's done
or any thoughts um i would like to again give a brief mention to his appearance in angels death
just because it's it's like a nice cameo from him where kzarian's just about to be shipped off to
the death watch and he's praying in front of the angel of sanguineous and then he's like oh please
give me the strength and then mephistin just appears he's like what are you doing here and
he's like um i i'm i'm i'm i'm just he's like you're a liar he's like oh i'm not sure if i have
the strength to to to last the curse and he's like i don't know what to do and mephistin just goes
there's nothing you can do and then he gives him the blood and when the camera's panning around
kzarian he just keeps like disappearing and reappearing in different spots in the room
without seemingly moving and you're like oh that's creepy and he's got like this you know this this
veil of shadows over his face and he's got these glaring red eyes and uh you know i just i just
think like i think especially because um seeing him in a visual form like that rather than just
the artworks which is static a lot of the time it was just seeing how imposing and
vampiric and and otherworldly he was in the in that scene which i thought was really cool
what are you calling i uh i would like to say you've done an a fantastic job uh andy with the
beginning and you uh with the expert uh to the point that i was almost ready to give mephiston
uh the highest honor i can give a space marine character which is i like you six out of ten
uh unfortunately uh the ending kind of tripped the ball a bit not you uh but the ending of the
last book it's not not not not for the outsmarting reason because it would no because it was gw going
hey you know this cool big jury this guy's been on okay s did it it's okay us thanks for coming
everyone it's a little bit of a it's not his last when it won't be his last book it's just the last
of the uh initial trilogy by i think the author yeah i just i just don't like when they always
fall back on yeah chaos is behind everything do you reckon he's really got much place to go it
seems like he's had quite a good arc i think there is more to explore in terms of um like he had not
necessarily on the rage side of it but more is in i think his interaction with the rest of the chapter
because it's kind of like his solo journey is done but what i said like also his black rage stuff is
mostly like entirely separate it's just after he became mephiston the demon sad kill started to
mess with him because like ah mephiston that guy seems powerful i bet i could use that to my
advantage so the the black rage stuff is all um him like he him conquering it and all that stuff
is not the manipulation i don't know if i maybe implied that do you think if mephiston like was
from this point onward largely only relegated to major like codex events do you think you would be
satisfied or do you think he needs more i'm curious i don't think he needs more character
development in terms of um it's kind of like his character development has got to a good point
i think it's just they need to do something with like that needs to then be done with the chapter
in terms of like this is all separate from the chapter as much as him in like a few blood angels
i guess it's the mephiston show i guess to reword the question a bit do you think
he needs more books for that or do you think if he were to be like i say relegated like it's a
like it's a dishonor to be front center in a codex but if you were to be like put aside to be like
mostly just in codex as and maybe a couple appearances it's like a kind like an angel to
the death cameo like in books do you think that would be all right or do you think he needs more
books oh it doesn't need him front and center there's no no there's no need for more books
but i think there must inevitably be the inevitably be the arriman versus mephiston if they don't do
that one day at least i'd be so upset and also i just think there's opportunities yeah i'd do that
i don't know because honestly the authors might have something more they want to say i just think
the author darrius higgs who wrote the trilogy of mephiston specifically i think he's like put in a
good spot where like mephiston's at a good point obviously there's more trials and tribulations you
know good old uriel ventris has had six books and he's still he's still going through stuff so
um i don't i i can't save what i can't i just can't i feel as well as as a space marine enjoyer
there's a lot of fans who are like crying out for other characters in different factions to get more
spotlight i feel like the more the more books we have of a mephiston or a uriel ventris the more
those fans are like can we please have some iron hands law or some like white scars or something
that's like that needs some like desperate new stuff to keep up to date i don't think crossovers
is a good uh opportunity for him because again he should be mental mephiston rather than no i mean
just like yeah like put put him on the back on the bench for now let the other factions have their
time and then hopefully when when the setting progresses a bit more we can bring him back for
another outing we can we have a krieg book that isn't wrecks so we can get something about them
that isn't shovel memes please i beg of you i beg of you tw what about you would you uh what would
you say i like him mephiston's cool even if he hurt my boys the jeans dealers and my boys the necrons
and my boys the eldar a lot of else today eldar it's okay the harlequins i guess he didn't really
fight them though he just trolled them just a prank i do think we should do a cal or drego versus
mephiston versus episode that'd be fun that'd be very fun oh there's your cal or drego versus
the warp at the same time i already know who wins yeah for real cal or drego versus the doom slayer
all right well i think i think we know who wins that one in the other direction people being
gagging for the um arryman versus mephiston just because it's the two most powerful cycles in the
setting so that'll be a interesting time just because i think technically mephiston is more
powerful than arryman just because uh arrym mephiston's power is like he's got something
more powerful you know basically powering him up but maybe arryman's a better sorcerer in terms of
he could do more um but that's yeah the mephiston's cool there's a lot that goes on as we could tell
this has been a long episode of orgy boys but uh with that being said though i don't know what is
our next episode on boys did we already decide that one if i remember correctly i think well i
think it's up in the earth moment actually so if you want to make any suggestions for future episodes
comment below endless space to make it happen if you want to comment an endless stream of
kyphus kane or godrex felix feel free to do so i'm not telling you to do so of course just you know
suggesting or palinal white streak give columbia opportunity to do a two and a half hour episode
of pure pure god part one of nine of kyphus kane or part one of 18
oh that's not even paying that's fun um but that being said though thank you guys so much for
watching for watching uh i i've done a research into mephiston a few times so glad to finally
use it all up in one go and to actually be for it to be useful um hope you guys all enjoyed and
hopefully enjoyed his mephiston's uh current lore too got a very cool model on the tabletop and uh
got some cool lore too and uh with that being said thank you so much for listening and watching uh
con again comment below for any suggestions for future episodes and we'll see you all next time
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