only to see it's so funny in this part of the book because obviously we're just like all that
horrific death before but then immediately the next scene is they're like getting into transports
of like you know we just get to the next high city and they look to their right I think and then
in the little forest bit there there's one orc who's like waving at them and it's like and then
they shoot it eventually and it's Jarek realising that this gaz call had realised what was going
to happen he'd pre-planned like basically what was going to happen in this he knew it was a trap
essentially I feel a bit sorry about that orc though just like oh gaz was like gov the gormless
I'm gonna send you to stand by the forest and just be like you're useless like you guys are
oh I get a special mission that's pretty cool
Hello and welcome to Lore Crimes today we will be talking about commissar Jarek old bali the
scariest commissar to ever exist and perhaps the coolest one in most of our opinions I think maybe
he's not around anymore but we'll talk about that later but before we get started we have to cover
the question of the week now what the question of the week we had for you all was hashtag insisting
on a fist and uh who would you most like to punch I regret nothing in 40k or warhammer general
pardon me uh I said imperial or not oh my lord I am I'm I'm a crimson fists who would you like
to post them up that was a diet coke out of fear we did blood raven it oh no uh but yeah insisting on a fist and so uh the first one is from
uh at st niv and oh one uh steven oh one uh hashtag insist not efficient the head of ferris man
just imagine slapping that head and spinning it on your finger like a basketball
iron hands bros can't stop losing kick us over down it's meant to be the most like haunting part
of the book is when ferris's head gets like slapped on the ground in front of horrors even horrors goes
yeah like that's a bit gross and he starts talking to it and basically turns it into a did he turn
into a cup at some point I think that's game of thrones but he definitely talks to it I think he
just hasn't like because there is like an artwork where he has the skull above his throne and there's
bits where he apparently looks at it he goes oh I know game of thrones is when they they killed joe
or mormon the guys I think it's raw that was out of it god that was that's pretty there's this really
like somber art piece of fulgrum holding ferris's head and he looks I know the one yeah except the
problem is I almost never see it unedited I only ever see it with fair ferris or fulgrum holding
the doge the doge and then the caption is I love you funny yellow dog yeah I love you funny orange
catholics I've never seen that unedited yeah I had to look it up my pull my 18 years old
is it kabusos still going yeah she's still she's still jeans is dead that's sad feels bad
real my poor ferris I'm sure an edit of that picture as well where it's fulgrum with like
you know those mcdonald's fries like holders a couple of fries and it's just there going
looking sad I love you carbohydrates
the next one is uh another name I'm gonna have trouble with I'll be real uh
ag nasrame sor sacram 719 feel free to look at the general and uh fact check me on that pronunciation
uh hashtag insist not a fist and this is a good one I like this one I'd mash my knuckles into the
paper mache consistency bowl of the emperor's actively rotting noggin finally knocking him
past that last inch away from death so we can see more definitive change in the imperium
other than Gillum's back and he's changing politics and policies what exactly you know
stuff this is a smart man I like this man's ideas get some actual change going
zenos propaganda absolutely disgusting disgusting good can't believe you said that
the next one is from zac m 5 4 8 5 uh hashtag insist not a fist in it's uh
mirathy because she and then it's a break I realized I misread the question my man
but to be honest I saw you posted something along that line on your twitter recently Colin
oh my gosh and I just I just put an image of the tick going neat and that was it
uh the exact thing I tweeted for ladies and gentlemen was uh if I was malikith I would too bro
oh my gosh take the whole take the whole podcast out I'm like I can't even blame
you're down bad for perhaps the the worst woman the worst person who's ever lived I don't care
she's like female Erebus bro she's bad in the game and she sure look bad too sheesh
oh moving on uh the last or well I've got two more but they're both variations of the same thing
is uh sunships lava 4057 first of all sunships are delicious good man good man uh insisting on a
fist and I would punch gotrick gurnison because I too seek a mighty doom and then uh the next one
is the lucky goblin 5880 I'd punch gotrick with my non-dominant hand just to say I could and then
I'd hastily scribble a will down with the other you'd have to be quick you'd have to be very quick
you'd have to be like touch typing with a quill like it'd be even worse if he was drinking too
because it wouldn't he would well you'd be long enough just to get that that one eye just to
stand you'd be actively looking for a fight I feel like they just scribble I leave all my
belongings to gotrick gurnison hashtag sorry don't kill my family please
swear don't put it in the grudges not garage please gotrick doesn't have grudges he
created it'll live long enough to be a grudge the book is clear required there's going to be a bit
of time where you can't meet up some punishments I love how like every time you had to you because
I pause before you said insisting on a fist and as in like your skin crawled every time you had to
say that oh man but um we will be talking about uh something a bit more um ancient and old and
doesn't really know how to give up uh well known for not retiring uh yarick so the question of the
week this week is what would you retire from warhammer hashtag retirement yes we are putting
hashtag retirement so be careful what you get leads to law crimes that's rude yes for example
I would say retire the entire space marine model line because I think it'd be funny
just to see what people would do I don't know I feel like you could say by the same token you
could say I could retire the entire Eldarie line because no one would notice boom gotcha oh they
noticed right now because they're top of the win rate baby got nerfed from best to best I think
I have a good answer which is uh I'd retire Marneus Calgar because god damn that dude deserves or
deserves to go Dante really Dante's whole thing is like he's not gonna go like that's he's the
one who outlays everyone Calgar kind of just it's he's fine he's had his time it's fine I did put
him in the bin I did start listening to devastation of bar and they were like Dante doesn't look like
even old space means because he's got like saggy jowls and it's like oh it's like oh poor Dante
now you're gonna piss out with saggy cheeks poor guy I would retire Abaddon that a spoiler so that
uh Huron Blackheart could take his place that's a good answer to you fair although probably uh
Ed from the sand man of terror will probably have the companies are gonna knock on your door and start
fighting anyone who believes in that that's good is a very good channel people should go check it
out um with that being said though we'll head on to the beginner section and uh that was the question
of the week I'm going to pass it to Andy for the beginner section on uh the one the only commissar
Yarek yeah it's gonna be a fun one boys um we all love Yarek I've not met anyone who says they think
Yarek's rubbish or he's oh that guy's boring he's an old man old men are boring oh yuck put him in
an old folks home rubbish no we all love Yarek Yarek's good fun um now I will preface that
Hal is a bit of a Yarek fanboy I think it's fair to say uh somewhat yeah we've both converted into
one yeah I mean we've both done a Yarek video on our channels mine's a measly 15 minutes
Hal's is a girthy several hour endeavor three hours long yeah Yarek's over the setting Hal's
video is longer than mine so I think he's the one silencing all conversation in the locker room
when he brings up his Yarek video yeah just like flumps on the table anyway um but the
so the I'll give you guys an overview for the beginner section but it will be fairly brief
so keep that in mind but just know we're gonna get into it and how's going to
you're in good hands when Hal gets to the expert but to start things off Sebastian Yarek is known
as the hero of Hades Hive the bane of the greenskins and a veteran of two wars to conquer the world
known as Armageddon uh this man was originally when he was a child raised by an Astra Militarum
soldier who was retired which you you it's very rare the only two people I know who were raised by
fathers who retired from the Astra Militarum are Yarek and Gabriel Angelos from the Blood Ravens
like very rare for anyone to retire from the Astra Militarum but Yarek's grandfather did um so Yarek
would learn some skills of survival and combat from his grandfather which would prove to be very
useful when his home world was invaded by greenskins and they started slaughtering everyone but during
the invasion Yarek as a younger man he managed to evade the orcs he laid traps he he killed a few
here and there and after a few I think it was months of survival the Astra Militarum would
retake the home world he was born on and finding him an orphan his grandfather I'm sorry to say
passed away or was butchered by the orcs during this time Yarek would be inducted into the the
school for gifted kids of the Imperium not Hogwarts it's called the Scholar Progenium and there's no
magic no yeah less magic more we I think one of the schools they entomb the bad students in the
brick walls as a lesson to teach the kids hey do your homework and that's like a real thing oh no
so there aren't even in the walls there are there are children in the walls amazing um 40k
um 40k everyone um but while he was in this yeah I don't know we're all like oh I grew up in a
pretty rough school like yeah I like bitch please um no dead kids in my walls thankfully yeah I
think it'd be quite off-putting you're trying to do calculus and all you see is just like
Gavin staring at you from the brickwork like oh god not not a fan of that um but either way while
Yarek was undergoing his training to become a Commissar of the Imperium uh there would be a
human raider within the school who had previously been captured there we go sirens going when I'm
talking about capturing humans uh but he would he had been the secret law perfect timing yeah
London or what's it like um there we go so there this this human raider had been captured by the
uh the orcs during his years of uh pillaging the galaxy and pirating and uh he would talk to and
speak with Yarek during his time as a student and he would impart to him the orc language and some
of the things he learned about the orcs during his capture because he'd been captured by them
for many years and slowly Yarek would start to learn the full extent of orc psychology and culture
so he could best exploit their weaknesses when he would take to the field as a Commissar of the
Imperium utterly devoted to the Imperium Yarek would be stationed to command the Steel Legion
Battalions of Armageddon and thankfully be there during the dawn of the second war for Armageddon
in which the uh the orc warlord known as Ghazgul Mag Urug Fracca would attempt to reclaim his
ancestral orc home world once known as Ulanor so fun bit of trivia Armageddon and Ulanor are the
same place um little side note during the war of the beast the orcs were a bit of a problem so the
mechanicus said you know what we're just gonna like teleport Ulanor to this place in this
six sector called Armageddon sector we'll put it over there and that will trick the orcs and they'll
never know what happened turns out the orcs saw right through that they know exactly what it is
so that's why they're always clamoring to get it back into their green sausage fingers and um
a bit of a shrek reference there for you guys don't you point those dirty green sausages at me
however with a donkey in like the the onion cart and he's making the noise of the you know
that's the orcs that is that's the orcs yeah um but yeah during the uh the beginning of the
second war for Armageddon Yarek would be stationed within Hades Hive one of the prominent hive cities
of the planet and uh in its defense faced the orc warlord known as Uglhard and in the uh the battle
that ensured uh ensured Yarek would duel this orc warlord and though lose his arm in the engagement
kill the orc warlord cut off his power claw claim it for himself and have it fitted to the stump of
his own arm so now he's a human soldier outfitted with a an orc like power claw big razor sharp
talon fingered claw mechanism thing he also would lose his eye in the in the war and have it replaced
with an augmatic known as the bale eye which is capable of shooting a laser beam at his uh
at his enemies with a moment's glare of his so-called evil eye uh so during the defense of
Hades Hive some of the other hives would fall battle was crazy they're waiting for reinforcements
and Ghaz Gulmak Uruk-Frakur is thinking why is this hive taking so long to conquer come on this
should have been done ages ago and so begins the uh the great rivalry between the prophet of gork
and morc and the hero of Hades Hive Yarek would match and outmaneuver Ghaz Gul at every turn
foil his plots and match his schemes and basically by time until the blood angels
will eventually uh arrive to the to the to the armageddon sector and repel the orc invasion
finally now with uh the the greenskins thwarted uh Yarek would say i am not letting that orc go
away i'm going to pursue him unfortunately Yarek would get captured during his pursuit
and be tortured by Ghaz Gul for many days until eventually he would try to stage an escape with
some of the prisoners on board the orc vessel uh in the attempt Yarek though managing to do some
pretty big damage to the ships and almost go out in a blaze of glory he would be uh revived by
Ghaz Gul after the fray given back his uniform and his weapons to which uh and also a vessel
to escape back to the imperium and why when asking why are you letting me go Ghaz Gul would state
good enemies is hard to find because he loves fighting as all orcs do and Yarek's the best
opponent he's ever found so he doesn't want him to die he wants to keep fighting him as long as he
can so he lets him go back to Armageddon and warns him i'll be back i'm coming to get you
i'm accruing a wire i'm gonna ruin your day so you you get as many defensive positions going
as many reinforcements get the Astartes get the sororitas get some tanks get some
your little flashlights whatever get everything you can i'm coming to kick the door down and
it's going to be a load of fun um need one of those flashlights that you can is almost in this
amazon video where it's like this is the most powerful flashlight and it literally can turn it from night to day
yeah we did say flashlight yeah just better torch isn't it torch flashlight is american is it torch
is in give it give him home it's not a torch it's a torch it doesn't make sense a torch is a burning stick
is there fire the flaming flashlight what do you call a burning stick then a torch yeah that's a
torch yeah they did the same thing no they're not download those is technology what a torch
illuminates oh it's the son of torch then in a way isn't it the world's biggest torch this is a
pointless argument isn't it that's why they're here to watch law crimes just going into weird tangents
um however breakfast guys don't cook your breakfast with a torch
anyway um hashtag bread not anyway um during the uh the escape yarick would um i'm sure i'm sure how
we're getting into in more detail but several times he tries to retire he just can't do it he
keeps getting drawn back into the conflict against the orcs because there's no one better suited to
combat them even the astartes don't have the same experience that yarick has to the point where they
revere his pedigree um and as such unlike in the second war for armageddon where he was just defending
hades hive he would be tasked with the defense of the entire planet during the third war for
armageddon where once more yarick would repel the invasion of gazgul mag uruk frakka during 998.m41
however despite his success in pushing the orcs back from the greatest orc war ever recorded
in human history that exceeded even the ulunor crusade of the great crusade or the war of the beast
unfortunately the most recent knowledge we have of sebastian yarick is during his
pursuit to end the beast of armageddon supposedly he would die at the hands of angron
prime arc of the world eaters and never achieve his life's mission to end the reign of gazgul
mag uruk frakka the prophet of gork and morc sad big sad and that's basically all i have to say
for the beginner section of today's episode he needs a book his death deserves a book he needs
some lore that's how gw killed angron because gazgul went straight to corns domain to kill
him and then he glared at him and shot a laser in his face. that plotline's already kind of explored isn't it? who's the orc who lives in corns realm?
oh come on his name his name tuska demon oh he's there to have fun angron's there for vengeance
gazgul angron's there in a way angron is there for vengeance uh if that's being said there any uh
feelings or thoughts boys currently on yarick what's your current like knowledge of him
i haven't read the books but i know the war generally yeah it's about the same as you like
i will i will say he's not my favorite commissar it's it's hard for me to hard to top cain for me but
yeah he's cool i'm not saying he's not awesome i'm just saying i like cain
he was cool on the tabletop back in the day
cain says his own thing he's not even really an actual like he is a commissar but you know what cain is his personality in commissars
does really act like one so much more than a commissar all right boys strap in put down your hentai pillows
yes right put your i mean i say get off your seats but i say put yourself and sit down because
about to have possibly we're not talking about space marine super soldiers nothing like that
we're talking about the best human just an ordinary guy in the 40k setting so uh you know as they say
it's the god it's the commissar it's the average oh wait not an average man how dare i stay as an
average man it's about old bali hero of hades hive the for some reason his nickname is the old man
which obviously seems very generic um i prefer poppy eric poppy eric uh commissar sebastian eric
a man even respected by space marines as we will that's quite far in i won't lie so i have to
get to that um but his story starts way before that as we say legends are not uh born they are
created and it will be on a world called teo three when i first read this book i thought it was called
talos three real missed opportunity that's not called talos because that would have been a
like absolutely gorgeous but he loves you
um there would be a little young boy named bass obviously it would be short for sebastian
and he was born in this world teo three not really important it's kind of like a backwater
but his parents were wealthy they were somewhat cold so he only knew them when he was about four
i think he was seven um when eventually they would actually pass away unfortunately uh supposedly
they died in a tragic accident at the planetary governor's summer mansion and all their assets
were quote-unquote seized for the imperial war effort which happened to go to the cousin of the
governor himself no less so we can obviously kind of guess what happened there just a coincidence
sir yeah just a little little coincidence there and um so he kind of he was only seven years old and
it went he had a rough start and his parents even though he didn't really know his parents very well
um and they basically lost everything they said oh but he's going to one sort of founding member
left so they sent him off and they put him on a train they described it in the book when he gets
on the train the train is filled with people who are slaves it's like maggot and cockroach
infested and rusty and he's a seven-year-old boy just sent by himself it's not quite the oh i sent
my son on like a transatlantic flight or anything like that this is like this is not a gap year
yeah this is the 11 this is the 11th of that and he arrives to his first ever hive city and
it's really it's really like hard to listen to it because he immediately gets off and he just
pisses himself immediately literally pisses his pants immediately because obviously he's a kid
and he's terrified and he's greeted by this old man who's like injured and gnarled and his name is
the old sarge they call him and he was supposedly an old warfare he was the grandfather or father
to his mother and he had like no idea his mother obviously had any kind of history like that
and the sarge was very much like oh you little shit i gotta take care of you like you're taking
my resources i hate you so he wasn't very nice to him in the beginning my rations away how dare
yeah he was pretty he was like a real old vet he was not nice and uh bass would have to join the
local school and that immediately it gets worse uh because unfortunately um bass would be bullied
straight away and because he was a little you know he was essentially the posh boy who had lost all
their money and now he's come to the rougher side of the area and he was picked on by a particular
slightly tubbier older kid we can all we all see the cliche like in our heads right now
and his name was a bit on their nose his name was craven but it's like kevin spelt wrong
it's like craven is in like if someone is craven silly a little bit on their head there and craven
and his cronies they called them one of which was called judas and yeah pretty much they would uh
literally attack him pretty much every day after school at one point they even stabbed him and he
had to just walk home and he was like christ and every time the old sarge would just kind of
you know knit his wounds and said did you fight back today and he was like no but eventually one
day he gets so pissed off that he decides like i will so he brings his he's like you know when
someone says like oh you shouldn't bring a knife to a gunfight uh doesn't matter for sebastian
because he brings a knife to a knife fight and he they immediately pull out knives on him one time
in an alleyway and he just loses his crap and just launches himself at the bullies he makes craven
cry kicks him super hard in the nuts um it's a really big scene in that book he's like literally
actually like proper crack in there and then when he gets back he realizes like well when craven's
crying he's like i'm sorry so sorry you know it wasn't my fault the old sarge he paid me
i know so oh so bat is like you're lying surely and then craven is not lying here so when bass
gets back he kind of has that weird mexican standoff when they're both in the doorway
like the old sarge is in the house and then bass is sitting there and he goes did you like did you
send them kid and then it was like it's a bit of a weird standoff moment where he kind of hates
the old sarge and then you're like why did you do it and then it's because the old sarge goes
because i needed to make you strong it's like oh so it was all in the way like training and
it's an it's the beginning this is where sebastian yarick is kind of uh born he very much admits to
himself like oh i uh i i did all these fighting but i actually realized in my own heart of hearts
i actually enjoyed it i like and he asked the old sarge will you train me it's kind of the
the ugwe moment but ugwe's an alcoholic old retiree and he's a bit abusive it's more like
like cobra kai was just like ah the mentor's like oh he's got a bit of a drinking problem he's a bit
of a dick but oh well he's gonna yeah a little bit uh so old sarge begins to train him it's
pretty ruthless but because you know it this is old guard training so he is he's only a first
edition training right yeah this is this is first edition uh warhammer training um but fortunately
one day it would all have to end because something was invading in the skies and the old sarge says
uh the guard never forgets they're gonna call me up and says like remember to be strong and he says
you know goodbye yarick because that's the name of his grandfather and he never sees him again
unfortunately and in fact uh good old sebastian wouldn't see anyone at that point because it's
actually an orc invasion as andy mentioned earlier and the orcs land into teo 3 and they immediately
win everything is destroyed and sebastian has to essentially use his training and he
sort of lives in the sewers and goes underground he hides from all the orcs for months and he's
eating nothing he sets up like little um you know you know like vietnam what they called like the
men who said go through tunnels because they were like short i don't know the name of it it was like
a rat something they all remembers um probably tunnel rats if i had to tunnel rats that was it
um essentially has to become like that tunnel snakes tunnel snakes rule
rule and he has uh he says like weird traps i want them like well they um
all the tiny orcs cause it not noblars but the court is it gretchen gretchen noblars
yeah they they're like the gretchen for the ogres and um the he has a moment where like one time
it's like him and the gretchen kind of fighting kind of like you know the gretchen's like chuckie
the little like creepy doll and like he has like kind of stabbed it he's like
they're literally yelling at each other and he has to like beat it up we're like
yeah he does like weird like booby traps so he kills some orcs that way
when he's only like 10 at this point so he's pretty young and it's a pretty horrible existence
for like he thinks it's all over and this is just it um he thinks he's gonna die at any point really
like he's he doesn't even sleep he sleeps like with knives across his chest like there's
he doesn't even get full sleep and then one day he's looking over into the orc camp and he sees a
sort of caravan of captured humans are put in a cage and here's this weird moment where he's
looking at the people in the cage and sees a boy who's like his age and their eyes kind of meet
and since sebastian has been alone for so long they kind of have a connection of like that
like kind of survivor's desperation and they kind of they both kiss you know oh it's actually
somewhat implied some people take this moment as it's implied that sebastian um is somewhat
as in his sexuality is up for debate we're not sure but it's not really clear in the book
in the book but i mean again they're children so it's kind of harmless at this point it's not that
but um this other charlotte he goes out to talk to him he realized the the kid doesn't have a tongue
but he can still speak to him because he's got a brand on his uh forehead which means he was a
psycho so they cut out his tongue and obviously they're persecutors in the imperium and the boy
like talks to him in his mind and one night like he's been he just realizes like i don't want to be
alone anymore so he goes to break the boy out and then the orcs like sleeping they're all drunk
and it gets it doesn't go well where the people this is a bit where you you know you're watching
a film and like there's that one person who panics in the film you're like you want to grab him like
shut up you know so some there's like some people in the cage that are like they're too desperate
to escape as like yarick so sebastian so he gets like the key from like a sleeping orc and they
start to panic and make noise one of them is like let me out let me out and then literally gets them
all killed and apart from the uh boy because the other ones are just being slaughtered because the
orcs have woken up uh little sebastian the boy they run off together and for a bit like it's not
within they don't this is the same night so they're not like run off into the you know the sunset or
anything like that and they're being chased and they realize that munitions are suddenly dropping
around them like there's a firefight happening that's because the imperium has come back and
so they see like the imperial guard but they fall through like a gap on like a roof they're being
chased by the orcs they're gunshots everywhere and once they fall down this layer they're both like
oh my god we survived and then the boy uh unfortunately gets uh killed here the other
boy not sebastian and he sees it happen in front of him and he literally sees um a squad of imperial
god come up and they said oh my god what have they done they go oh no it's just a little old psycho
they see his forehead uh mark and sebastian just loses it because like that's like literally my
only friend i had for months and it's like i just lost it straight away come on and he attacks like
he attacks an adult he's only 10 years old remember but he manages like take kind of take down
this imperial god and he just goes like this kid just stabbed me like he's just oh it really hurt
ow yarick bit me pretty much and uh they kind of knock him out teeth yeah he kind of is like a
ravenous dog but then uh another uniformed man approaches said wait a minute because he looks at
sebastian he goes like hmm so you've rubbed yourself in dung you've been you've made survival
tools he kind of sees like the genius obviously the lessons of old sarge here and the man says
listen there's possibly a thing we can do for maybe kids like you orphans of war and so he basically
says you know where are you going to take me and he goes oh well i see i'm a commissar and i'm going
to take you to a the scholar virginian so this is the kind of the end of the short story here
and this is like more like a general law where he now at the very end of that book he says like
what's the kid's name he's like bas sebastian within it i'm bass is short for sebastian
and then he kind of pauses because he's going to give his real name his last name they decide not
to he says my last name is yarick because he decides to then become sebastian yarick as a way
to honor the old sarge whose name was yarick so uh sebastian i can't remember his original
is it mentioned i think it is it's mentioned like very it's only mentioned once very briefly in the
book but it's like again he never uses it ever in even then he's actually not called he literally
call him bass throughout the entire uh novel and then he's called like sebastian right at the end
so you don't even know and um he basically discards his old name no one will ever know it
and he becomes sebastian yarick uh from there on and he would go join the scholar progenium as we
said it's kind of like crappy hogwarts where there are people in the walls not scaven unfortunately
and this is where he would uh train ruthlessly to become well eventually they do somewhat specialized
later so he's not quite a commissar yet so they go off to be soldiers so he fights in many regiments
he sees battle on many planets as andy did mention earlier he learns orcish from a traveling merchant
he was supposedly captured by orcs long ago he'd also funny enough he actually would make friends
here and he was known for being yarick was like the kind of more quiet reserved intelligent one
but he did have a sense of humor so it would come out sometimes he often made friends with people
who were like kind of the opposite of him so he had a good friend named uh commissar seraph who
will come up actually quite a bit although we're not going to like him towards the end of this
story i i do like how you were talking how the idea of yarick learning the orcish language he's
talking to the guy and he's trying like pronouncing is like wanker wanker no wanker and just like
going through like the the specifics of like the hard k's and the like the phrasing of like kind
of because it's cockney basically orcish language is basically just like oh i i'm an orc just
yeah he would best impression well apparently he he picked it up quite well obviously yet the
members well that's like kind of his childhood trauma as well which is a very bizarre so this
is kind of where he's definitely despises orcs even from this um earlier age and uh he would also
at the scholar virginium meet a man who was called lord commissar rasp now lord commissar rasp was a
veteran commissar he was very very intelligent i think it goes it shows really well in the books
where you know you meet characters that are really well written in a lot of things you can kind of
tell like the intelligence the intelligence of them comes through not that they're using big words
or anything like that but they kind of there's a little um i can't think of the word for it but
there's a subtle genius to their kind the way they talk and they see through people in a way
rasp was very good at being a commissar he'd been a commissar for a long time and he did have a
certain word of wisdom for one of the boys to read out for it i do have a slight quote which was
a sort of off-handed comment spoken by mr roth i will ask i think uh or either elai or colin which
one you want to do the first one they're not too when people have been deprived of ability to act
they will respond to leadership with gratitude and vigor to have direction becomes a form of
salvation in its own right harness this human characteristic and there is very little that you
cannot accomplish so that's one of uh lord commissar roth's kind of initial saying slash
bits of wisdom that he will pass on because it's the role of the commissar is much more than just
being a soldier it's about as we will see going forward being a symbol and the first time this
would need to be uh used um unfortunately it would be actually this book is a really good book so if
anyone does want to read the yarrick book this one i recommend it absolutely uh but we're going
to go through a brief summary of it here this would be on the world known as miss straw or
mistral not minstrel the chocolate that's in the uk that's made by galaxy if anyone remembers that
it's getting a bit old now i know i did think i called it minstrel every time i read it and um
mistral is a an ecclesiarchy world which you don't often see in a lot of warhammer stories it's kind
of usually it's either not done well or it's just kind of like oh there's a thing that happens
on one of them but you don't this is the first time you see it up close they tend to also be like
oh that's a that's a sororitas thing that's in their books so they try to keep them quite
separate a lot of times like oh that gels with that faction we'll keep that separate from the
rest of the setting a lot of the time well we're going to be seeing some of them bit of a spoiler
there i would say here but um good old this ecclesiarchy world is not perhaps it's not an
incredibly populous one but it is an important one sort of a seat of um monastic power in a way
it's ruled by the the you you've you probably will be surprised by this the corrupt cardinal
known as vagaheim um vagaheim is described in the book as an overweight like just you know you know
like you're imagining uh from history the borgias it's kind of like um rodrigo borgia if anyone
knows their history he's kind of described in the sort of i've played assassin's creed too and
they're in that assassin's creed brotherhood of everyone has done that he's i think he kind of is
a bit more i know he's more in two but he's a little bit at the end of uh that one too and
vagaheim uh has asked the imperial guard to come to the world to destroy a rebelling so-called
noble there's like a kind of ongoing beef that we'll get into about this and this starts with
an opening battle where uh seraph uh yaruk and rasp have arrived and they're attacking this
noble's compound it begins like this massive opening battle where yaruk is called following
in with the men like on the front lines as they have like tanks and rocket launch like booming
against this structure yeah it does describe it like yaruk carried around a saber and he cuts
down a few men he kind of goes like oh shit like this is like weird to be this up close to people
and do it by him with a sword usually he has a gun because it's the first time he's kind of being
a commissar rather than just a soldier and they fight well as they're approaching this compound
the gates kind of blast open and there's this corrupted uh titan that walks out but it's not
quite like it's a bit broken this one doesn't have like all the shielding and all the guns working
something's quite wrong with it and they all kind of go oh that's disgusting that thing
uh yaruk and his men get up close and they manage to throw some missile launch at it they eventually
bring it down uh there's a really weird point in the book where they mention how when the titan
is falling over it lets out a death cry like an animal would and they said it's so haunting it
made like their whole body shake on the inside and they said as long as they lived they would always
remember that haunting scream it sounded like a weird so that you can tell something's a bit wrong
with this and they eventually do get further on into the compound uh only the commissars go into
the compound because obviously their minds a little bit more less they are tuned to what they're about
to see and they eventually discover the evidence of a chaos cult now commissars most the imperium
do not have knowledge of chaos particularly the uh normal imperial guard obviously commissars are
somewhat educated on it not as much as the inquisition would be and they discovered
obviously something is big is brewing on mistral there's something that means that they can't just
destroy this noble and then they have to leave there's obviously something bigger going on
they also run into a inquisitor on this world this guy by the way few most inquisitors in
warhammer are usually pretty intelligent and you know maybe they're a bit a bit a bit of a
dickhead sometimes but they'll do it for a reason this guy is what you would this guy is clapped
this guy is a total absolute bellend of a character and he is just like he's one of those like um
i think someone would describe him as he's been shouting and spewing out ideas for so long he can
no longer hear people because he's just he's so convinced he's right he's absolute blow
the sound of his own voice kind of character or like oh he is so parallel from game of thrones
like oh i'm so cool look at me it's my stuff don't touch my toys where's my i'd call him i'd say he's
like a somewhat more athletic rudy giuliani if anyone knows the reference to that which is uh in
terms of me not to bring too much real world politics and there's clearly a bit more as they
uh sort of venture into the capital of mistral they see that there's the well first of all
yaruk is even though he grew up in a little bit of wealth he is shocked by the absolute ostentation
and wealth of the ecclesiarchy everything is dripping in gold and it's obviously statues of the
emperors cardinals sororitas everywhere it's one of those ones you go ah this is like church
this was what like if it would be on the nose church corruption is and it yaruk is uh particularly
uh lord ross finds it very distasteful and they're not impressed but they often have to kind of show
up to these balls and these um evening sort of meetings to kind of you know put on a display
because obviously they're meant to be commissars they're meant to be you know they're like tight
black uniforms they're like the face of the the guard in a way like you're not going to get a
you're not going to get a typical guardsman going because he's too scruffy he's like commissars
they're in charge they're the ones who are specially trained they have the nice hats
like put them in charge there they're the nice face of the the military and there's a they kind
of get to understand that there's there's more than just that corrupt noble so first of all there's
a chaos cult clearly on mistral and then there's also excuse me there's also a problem with uh the
nobles have had so much of their power on the world been taken away by the uh cardinal vagaheim
who's making a power play it's kind of clearly lead to a civil war in some regard it's not to
deal with religion at all it's just about power and politics which they all play very well but
something is clearly that basically mistrals ready to kick open if you know what i mean
and it does kick open as uh vagaheim you know when someone said earlier like someone is just
a they they take their shmeet and they slap on the table uh seems to do that where he for
extra for an extra layer of protection he um has called that a holy relic be brought to mistral
and the relic is guarded by a contingent of sisters of sight of this is a battle sorry and
it very much everyone could tell like they're not happy to be here they're led by a lee sister
called uh sethano she's very important to yarek's story so remember that name she's a absolute like
get it done kind of woman she's quite cool and the next day they're going to leave the relic
the relic through the town as sort of as vagaheim is displaying his power he's kind of lure the
nobles essentially into open conflict he's just daring them to do it and yarek is not yarek
rasps they're off they're not they're like something's about to go down they can feel it
people being kidnapped in the streets some what has been rumors of people being going missing
something's wrong and as they do the parade through the central squares the entire central
square blows up and and immediately the city starts blowing up in different locations and
chaos cultists pour out of all the sewers and then vagaheim by the way as has happened these
sisters protect the relic like pretty disciplined um vagaheim is like this is not what i meant this
is not what i thought would happen this is a bit more this is a bit much this is clearly not
he didn't expect the chaos cult so this has gone wrong for him and what makes it properly grim dark
here is that this the citizens start to panic and when the citizens panic they start to run
and all the guard like get up their guns they say everyone needs to stay still they're shouting
about stop stop stop but clearly people are too panicked and they actually in much as they hate
to do it yarek and the other commentators order them to do like like a warning shot nothing happens
second warning shot nothing and so they eventually like they fire into the city and then they're
like get the heavy bolter we need to get this sorted now oh no it's so grawler they fire into
the civilians like wipe you know a single shot just like they wipe out a few and that seems to
make everyone like stand still and they're like oh all would have been restored but it's like
basically everyone's like crying and like you know panicked and shot like what the hell just
happened it's clearly gone out of control all the guard that have been um either placed throughout
the city or have been on the march they have been like broken up into sections as explodes explosions
have um cut them off from each other and essentially the up the chaos uprising has begun yarek decides
like all the vox is down so they have to start lead the men across the entire city um excuse me
there's a few like epic street battles where like some chaos tainted machines like break out of the
sewers and they have to like they literally there's a bit where yarek is going we need to get out of
the way this thing and it's just a like they break into um house and then like rush and like buff
like headbutt themselves in get up the stairs quickly and then like set up uh rocket launches
across the place they're like chaos symbols extra onto loads of the machines and the cultists and
then they kind of notice like some of the men if they stare at them too long they get a little bit
like dazed and they're like i don't want to fight some reason and this is the first time where yarek
actually has to kill one of his own men as an as a much so a commissar probably you're is famous
for doing he has to shoot one of his own men here and it's one of those moments he knew it would like
he'd have to do it eventually he probably would have to kill thousands of men it was his right of
passage in a way true commissar until you've killed a civilian he doesn't feel like good about doing
it it's kind of a he literally goes like why do you make me he's like he kind of gets annoyed in
his own cell he doesn't say anything but he's like why did you make me do this and then he kind of
takes out the leadership of the guy who was meant to be leading um the unit and kind of this is
where he learns to quote be the symbol and at least a really epic scene where like munitions are
firing down on them as they realized the outer walls so they defended the inner city from like
the uprising part from the sewers and they realized oh and a force is coming to the outer walls
and so they rushed to the outer walls they reunites with seraph and the dickhead inquisitor who by
the way got himself captured and they had to rescue him and he was not thankful one bit and
they eventually lead the men in a well basically night starts to fall and they're being bombed by
munitions one lands like right near them and he can't even hear anything yarek but he literally
stands up first and like draws his saber and he stands like above the battle line because he has
to be the symbol for people and obviously everyone rallies around him being like you know fuck yeah
so this is where yarek is he's exhausted at this point and he just this is obviously what a
commas commissar is meant to be there's a night siege where they describe it as the only light
is just lasguns and it's just an absolute wall of lasguns and then ladders that climb the outer walls
they cut down they literally fight the entire night it's one that's like really i think the way
to describe it in the book i don't quite do it justice unfortunately but it's an amazing
scene where you can almost like imagine it's definitely like a world war one kind of storming
the trenches but on from the other side kind of vibe you know i mean and uh yeah they eventually
managed to hold off the outer walls for a bit and they have a bit of breathing room they're thinking
because because you know at this point everyone's going oh quite a lot has happened i'm exhausted
from reading this damn book and uh they have a bit of breathing room and clearly it's begun to show
that cardinal varghain is not as clever as he thought he was because he's kind of crumbling
under the leadership he should be showing the sisters of battle are kind of locked in place
they kind of need to protect the relic but they're a bit like we want to get out there and kill chaos
cultists and uh mr old uh commissar no mr old varghain is not really letting them um eventually
they have a meeting and then everyone sort of learns to ignore varghain is like everyone kind
of recognizes he's not really intelligent i should also mention this point lord uh lord commissar
rasp yarick's mentor has also gone missing they're not really sure where he is they presume he's dead
and as yarick is kind of putting it together like something is clearly you know how did this start
how did chaos get in and he kind of puts it together that this isn't even though they've
distracted them with loads of these attacks they actually want to take out the leadership
which they believe is he like there's no way they're going from like oh they are it's actually
varghain they're really targeting and he goes he rushes back into varghain's um sort of cathedral
place and they realize like underneath a sort of chaos demons have started to spawn this is the
only time where the actual inquisitor is not a dickhead and they do him and yarick managed to
fight it off and some of their men but it's a weird moment where you can kind of see in the
imperium how they describe it where yarick says to the men well done we killed the the xenos allying
with that even though you can see that the men don't quite believe him but they because there's
weird about seeing demons particularly they're not space marines and they're not obviously built
into hand or seeing chaos like that so a lot of them will obviously like once you see a demon it's
obviously going to kind of mess with your mental state and only like people who like the inquisitor
and yarick kind of have the training to shrug it off for a bit but even when they look at like
blue horrors and pink horrors which the ones they fight they kind of go on my brain wants to like
incorrect you know implode on itself because it hurts i like the idea of them if they were fighting
a blood first it's like well done for killing the xenos lads and they're like that's a weirdest
fucking xena's i've ever seen with fire coming out of its nostrils and a big tongue and oh yeah they
like it cuts into and it turns into like the two of them so like huh it reforms just like into warp
confetti like that i've never seen an orc do that before and this one's red what's going on it's a
luckily that that attack goes well and the sisters of battle actually come in at the end they're
basically like we're done listening to this idiot fargaheim and they eventually all they gather
the forces in the city and decide like we actually have to we can't stay here this isn't tenable and
they leave and as literally as they're leaving this city gets blown up from a distance so it's
like oh just the nick of time and they're realizing that clearly it's actually the nobles who
they believed in beginning it was just political but now they're actually being corrupted by chaos
they realize and so they're going to a uh sort of sequestered uh nobles house and they're going to
attack it because clearly a chaos temple now this fight they managed to sort of um imagine it's
like masiya from um actually that pronounce that wrong but like masiya from assassin's creed
in your head like the temple sort of looks like that where they kind of you can get in through
the gate but they're obviously like side entrances shout out to assassin's creed revelations everyone
has played that old ass game loads of hay bales everywhere pretty much there's ways to get around
and um they attack this chaos temple this fight as they get in like they can see hordes like
captured people and they've slowly been corrupted and then even the nobles they look all twist and
it looks horrific to be in there like literally the floor is soaked in blood just anyway so it's
pretty horrific site and they eventually attack the nobles uh they find lord commissar rasp and
he's chained to a seat and his skin has been flayed off so that one is pretty awful uh
apparently he'd been beaten like the entire time because the the noble who's in basically started
this cult was actually used to be raft's old friend and they kind of tricked him into being captured
and it was a bit sad for lord rasp because he was so wise and a really good teacher and then he got
tricked by sort of um i don't know what's the word for it like we're nostalgia if you know what i mean
and they start fighting uh inside the halls the scissors of battle yarek seraph the inquisitor
um and their forces it's a pretty bloody fight and eventually the nobles they're really from
a chaos tome and they start to infuse into one like weird being which by the way like
they all attack it like you know like it's like dnd where all the heroes attacking one monster but
they all get like smashed apart the only thing that happens at the beginning of the fight where
where yarek launches forward stabs in the head and just stuck there and the rest of them are trying
to attack it they get swiped and battered away they don't even get close until yarek like manages
to get the sword in a bit deeper so this greater demon of zinch it managed to kind of again when
everyone was in the room was looking at it everyone was like my brain is essentially melting quite a
few of the men around the room just like i just might as well off myself at this point and yarek
managed to hold it together because obviously his he survived through so much so his will is strong
and he managed to stab the book that i mentioned earlier which was kind of how the nobles were
fused together into like that weird mutant creature and they uh the greater demon was
starting to be banished and it decided i need to punish this thing so it reached out and it started
to give visions as it was like melting away back into the warp and this is where yarek would see
vision of a things of the future disaster and a muscled green hateful silhouette a beast if you
will so obviously this is clearly a bit of a nod to where his story will be going a little more
subtle foreshadowing well i think this book was written like even after this second world war of
armageddon had been written into law if you know what i mean so that's kind of a known thing and
uh yarek here they kind of managed to win but everyone is like even seraph who's his friend
he's like part of his skull is like broken and like hanging open it's like pretty brutal this
book is really quite grim dark which i think a lot of people might like and if you enjoy that certain
uh tone to wahama and well i guess we all do in a way and um the ending of this book is quite
melancholic in a way because even though they've won it feels like the most pyrrhic victory of all
because quite a lot of yarek's men had died and unfortunately as i mentioned earlier lord
uh commissar rasp this he was a great man he had lived a long time and survived many wars
uh as i mentioned he was like the man he was like flayed on a chair essentially he's like
beaten and bloodied and he because the noble who had managed to trick him had been trying to turn
him to chaos the entire time and sethano the sister of battle she'd also looked into the warp as
yarek had and they both when they were like talking to each other they were saying they've
probably both been fundamentally both been fundamentally like changed and broken in a way
and she asked like what are you going to do with rasp and yarek says like i just have to like give
him a chance because he's gonna as it as is the duty of a commissar they execute traitors and so
they need to see if um his friend and mentor is actually a traitor
just quit with that voice and unfortunately the way this book it doesn't say what happens in this
book if it happens on mistrial but it's very clearly implied that yarek judges that lord
commissar rasp uh is too far gone and so he kills him and this basically breaks him and seraph's
like decades long friendship seraph was quite like the outgoing like good friend he wasn't quite as
smart as yarek so whenever they were doing talks with rasp speaking the book the dialogue is really
good between the three of them where it's showing that yarek is actually like seeing a lot of time
the bigger picture and kind of how a commissar is meant to like the power of being a good symbol
in war literally leads to so much more victory for the imperium obviously as we can see very much why
the emperor himself is you know decked out as you know in his golden aura my armor it's a you have
to be a symbol and uh this is where uh yarek would then be assigned in the wake of this conflict to
the armageddon steel legion so they're here boys i don't think they're not in are they still resin
can you buy them as resin or they definitely like not even i think they're dead now sadly yeah
i'm not sure that i think they are my only knowledge is that all astra militarum players get shafted
when it comes to models because their favorite stuff becomes discontinued and then they have to
find niche third fourth fifth edition like i want some vestroyan good luck mate so you need either
got to go on ebay to find it the very rare chance forge rolled has still has them in stock which
usually means a million times the price of regular plastic guardsmen or a third party and it's forge
world too yeah so sorry but it's not a secret but uh so this is yarek's kind of first you know proper
conflict in i guess like full story uh it's pretty brutal this story but it's really i wish i could
give the book justice but it's not a secret it's a very very very very very very very very very
i wish i could give the book justice but it's quite well done and obviously yarek has emerged
from it you know knowing what it means to be a commissar he knows that he can't quite be as quiet
as he usually has been he needs to be that you know what would eventually he would become which
is that overwhelming sense of you know just i am the yarek in a way i think i had a second uh
quo is it still in the uh chat for someone to put them back in the chat uh perfect i think colin do
you see the second one in there i don't think it's the one that it's not the one that elie did it's
the second one it's the heroes of armageddon uh it's the when i think it's the let me just get
that quickly it's every soldier i think yeah i can read ah there it is yeah all right uh
uh every soldier is a politician to some degree the higher the rank the greater the degree
but only the commissar is specifically tasked with those concerns if you think that your role
is simply a guardian of orthodoxy then you are a fool yes so yarek has learned to be essentially
more it's important to be more than a commissar um as well just you know he under he's been a
soldier for a long time he understands the men but then he has to understand what that role will
take from him and what he has to impart on others and there's a short story that i think elie might
like so we're going to see some xenos in this next short story this is set between the next bigger
ones and i don't this the short story is set on like a really weird world when they describe it
how it's basically what would be like the moon of jupiter and so they can see like a massive ringed
planet but i think it's really cool you don't really get to see like that kind of level of vista
described in a lot of warhammer stuff and they're being attacked by chaos cultists and actual chaos
marines on this planet and yarek is quite fresh from mistral but so he's still not he's not he's
not you know he's still a veteran in some regards but he's not that old in a way and he's joined up
with a military group which is led by two men one of them is quite the good soldier the other man is
a very like charismatic he's the character typical charismatic soldier he's like come on lads let's
go have a jolly good war sort of that old world war one poster of you know come on come on let's
go and do pretty much and yarek is a bit like oh this guy but then because this is there to obviously
to ensure order he's not there to lead necessarily unless he has to and this conflict is they're
trying to potentially attack the cultists in their position the charismatic leader thing oh this is
just a ploy here let's go go they're weak let's go run over the ground and take it it's been a trap
immediately it's a trap and lozum get bombed as they do this quite they make it across but they
like a lot of lives have lost and this is a story where like this guy who's been very charismatic
and like you know the big leader the bit of a showboater the entire time he is like oh crap
what have i done and he he goes a bit meek and he's not holding it together and they realize
they're being attacked now by their flank so they have to run into these strange caverns that almost
look like tombs one could say and as they make it into these tombs the structure of the tombs is a
little bit odd this seems to be very angular it's made of a sort of darker kind of stone there seems
to be like lines of light that seems to lit up or light up the area and i think you probably
guessed what's inside this tomb they managed to like kind of set small ambushes yarik you know
helping set ambushes for the cultures so as soon as they walk in through a door they literally like
obliterate them and then they actually have some chaos space rings that follow them in there
which is you know i don't know how they would even last five minutes and eventually retreat
further in and they see an area where there's like a sort of a descending platform into a
mist area and there's something making strange noises in the mist like like scraping metal
thing they kind of hide around the corner and they decide like something is clearly in there
which obviously i think we can all probably guess what xenos is in there and they let the chaos
cultists and space rings walk past and then they just hear screams and they go like you know what
that's a fight for another day let's get back out and it's clearly we're gonna ignore that for a
minute yeah it's clearly implied that they're necrons down there and they've gone into a tomb
that's clearly been invested with some other foul meat bag things and they eventually make their way
out and there are some other teams that have been separated the good soldier who's the other
commander uh yarik asks the charismatic guy who's kind of been losing it a bit since his failure
he asks him you need to tell you need to order the other men in the other tomb area to go further in
you know basically make the ultimate sacrifice and let the chaos get taken out with the necron
whatever's in there that missed and the charismatic soldier won't do it he just absolutely won't do it
it's like he's i'm done ordering people to their death and this is where yarik is a first time
where yarik he actually says he says to himself i actually have to kill a good person and he hates
that he has to do it but he does it anyway without hesitation but he's killed men who have hesitated
cowards he's used to killing cowards but this is the first time he ever thinks i've actually killed
just a good person who wasn't a good soldier so it's quite an interesting like dynamic and
obviously he has to then he's very angry with the guy in the end because like why do i have to live
with that now because obviously it's on his conscience he obviously is a human being he's
not like a minor's killer like a space marine and they unfortunately don't really succeed in this
mission they do have to retreat but they definitely yarik says i gotta make a note for whatever's
clearly in this tomb because something's awakening here there's a nice short story
there's another short story which is like it's on another hive city where there's steel legion
and yarik are ordered to like help take out some an uprising not specifically even chaos
related they don't really know and they meet a sort of contingent of inquisitors so there's a
recurring theme in yarik's life of like inquisitors seems to be like the more dog he doesn't get the
eisenhorn ones he kind of gets the dog shit versions of inquisitors to be honest if an
inquisitor is in a story and it's not an inquisitor book they tend to do pretty badly and never really
like oh in the best way because they're not the ones who the story's about pretty much yes like
the target inquisitors if anyone i don't even know if target is bad to be honest but i just
inquisitors from wish.com the target store brand inquisitor and the interesting part about this is
like clearly the inquisitors are not here to stop the uprising they're here for something else
and yarik's store sort of again like puts it together and he follows them and he realizes
they're actually not kind of the normal inquisition they're actually the resurrectionist
faction inquisition i think there are other boys here want to explain if you guys know what the
resurrectionist faction is for the uh inquisition does anyone else know that one can't think of it
they're the ones who want to kill the emperor yeah yeah they want to kill these are the ones who are
like proper nutty and they want to kill the emperor so you can revive so i mean it's not
they're not completely they may not be wrong well i think they're like a there's a even the most
recent the lion book the whole plot is the the guy wants to kill the emperor so he can return to life
which supposedly is like obviously everyone's like it's a big no no even the lion's like that's just
a dumb idea i mean it could work it could work possibly high risk high reward it could work it
would work it's just a matter of oh well what's gonna happen at the time it takes for him to
respawn i think terror would imply that terror would basically implode if he didn't he doesn't
keep resurrecting or something what's what's one planet yeah i live in it we don't live in it
my bones are buried deep within it oh no imperial fist need to find another planet to recruit from
big one god only necromunda and uh this um sort of he he sort of clashes with this resurrectionist
faction because they're clearly they're not here to help with the uprising they're here to do their
own nefarious stuff they try and kill him a few times he does end up like taking some of them out
making some of them like back off in the end and they do kind of use the steel legion to sort of
stop the uprising it's just a small short story but it's an interesting bit of like yarrick is not
of like he knows it's not his place to question the inquisition in a way but he sort of goes
i've kind of got a hunch that you kind of don't really fit in with the inquisition you're actually
a kind of far off order of it and yarrick would go on to serve with the steel legion for a long
time but this is where we have like a huge kind of time skip uh yarrick has been when we first
meet him he's sort of implies in his 40s or like maybe yeah early 40s which is considered young
in the imperium or at least for commissars and then we next join him when he's quite a bit older
but he's had rejuvenation um treatments so he has been even though he's doesn't i think he says it
looks like he's still like possibly late 40s but actually like near 100 essentially in his you know
in his bones so even though he looks young and he could probably fight young he actually still like
feels like he suffers he's like oh my back you know i mean he still aches my back aches oh oh
there's greenskins oh get me balter oh me bloody back me bloody back oh my knees click and um
every guy hitting their 30s right now um i'm all right memories for now and uh this is where we uh
this is the best book in my opinion this is Armageddon so this we meet yarrick as he arrives
back to Armageddon he goes to the capital hive city and uh for people listening Armageddon is
as anna said earlier it's a pretty important world and it is at this point uh inhabited by many
different um hive cities a huge like you know basically city stacked one city city city basically
a dystopian hellscape uh Armageddon is clogged full of smoke is industrial to the extremes it's
all love it is desert they do have a jungle in their equator but it's considered quite
fucking horrific if i may swear there like it's considered awful and um essentially the world is
clogged by smoke and then only the rich get to basically not they get to live kind of above that
layer and everyone else is suffering yeah it's pretty much it is very much a hellscape it is
pretty industrial revolution levels of horror but isn't it also one of the like premier weapons
development and production yeah like oh you want guns made Armageddon is one of the most like
important ones for arming everyone because it makes so much weapons very much so and even
just also know how bad it is this armageddon obviously they wear like masks the steel legion
they wear even on other planets as well kind of like the um who are the infamous ones for only
wearing the gas masks uh the great creed creed or yeah greeks greeks creed creed uh creed also kind
of a similar look and uh yarik arrives to somewhat of an ambush he meets with lord commander seraph
so his once old friend and they yarik doesn't hate him but seraph despises yarik at this point
because he's the one who killed rasp and he can't he never quite ever let it go and they've kind of
hated him for decades at this point and seraph just basically managed to advance beyond yarik
because yarik was given you know basically crap work for many decades an ambush in a meeting with
the overlord of armageddon named hermann von strabb there seems to be now it's not a subtle link
but it seems to be the theme of the evil guy in yarik books having a german sounding name
sometimes now i don't know if there's any historical relation there but there seems to be
what are you referring to there's never once been an evil german no not one um just fictional ones
like the one in zombies called rick tophan only in cod like every vampire ever in fantasy called
zombies and um they kind of meet in it's designed as an ambush where yarik is said he is basically
forced to retire and he's being sent to hayley's hive to train essentially some guard and yarik
even debates this point like shall i actually just take out my pistol and shoot him in the face even
that he died and because he's just so pissed off with this and even the the over again described
as an overweight richly decorated evil villain character who doesn't care about the common people
sort of thing like von strab's a little bit smarter than uh vagaman you know back in the
mistral days could i yeah could could i drop some von strab lore that i love go for it uh his rise
to power was because he was so unbelievably incompetent uh that his siblings did not consider
him a threat worth worrying about when they were trying to become planetary governors uh and so he
he had them killed because they assumed he was such an idiot that he could never uh pull it off
well he might just live up to that reputation as we see going forward um this is clearly
von strab and lord uh commissar seraph had clearly had an alliance here and yarik is going to be
sent to hayley's hive forced to be retired to live out or to die than nobody somewhere just training
the recruits which is not what clearly a commissar should be doing and but that would never get to
happen because clearly something has been going awry with the warp in the area for some reason
and uh before yarik could even get to hayley's hive which one of the smaller hive cities
they see in the sky this massive giant moon-sized base rocketing towards armageddon this would be
actually where they're actually having a parade at the day and everyone's like oh crap and they
realize like something is about to just smash us the the guarding fleet of armageddon is immediately
munched in like a second like it just gets like flattened they'd be like a fly getting hit by like
a football or a you know basically in in midair it's actually crunk and even here yarik just
realizes like everyone is like looking away and scared but he actually stands up and like stares
at it hatefully because in his old age he's become a little bit more hateful and gritty
as as much as reputation and he even says to himself now like i need to play the role i need
to be the symbol again i start doing it immediately and his best Clint Eastwood impression he goes is
that a damn green scale on my lawn yeah pretty much and um yeah immediately as we said earlier
good old you know quite competent uh Herman von Straub because he's so corrupt he this massive
moon like slams into the planet like quite far away like below the equator line and like the
whole planet like shakes a little bit and he doesn't immediately like send out like their
forces to attack it they kind of all lock up into their high cities and he sends out like a token
force helmed by guess who yarik who's clearly meant to die um here and yarik is absolutely like he
can't believe that he does that we there's no way we'd be able to beat whatever's coming for us
but that's all the force of the highest cities unite but never mind a token force is sent out
yarik also reunites with a very old face here it is the battle sister known as Sethano who was
previously on Mistral although something has changed to her since then her garbs are no longer
decorated i think in it might have been the barbed thought rose or the poison rose i think was the
name of her order because since the events of Mistral her order has been wiped out as it was
deemed a heretical which is very weird because it's not you think like they didn't turn to
heretics i think they may be it's one of those ecclesiarchy things where like they basically
didn't turn out to be the way they wanted them do you remember what the order was called pierced
thorn something like that that's very yeah that's like if it's not the sacred rose or the white it's
not one the main ones it was a minor yeah it's like a minor minor major there's like militant
majoris and there's militant minoris so it's one of those ones and so he meets with her and it's
really funny because as soon as he sees it he goes like oh shit you know i mean like because he
basically knows like as soon as i see you i know things are bad because she obviously she is she's
anyone who's allowed to live uh because she's anyone considered not corrupt um from the order
but she's lost all the color in her clothes she basically is decked in greys from now on
and they form an alliance with the uh princeps known as manaheim princeps are the pilots for
massive titans who's one of the titan legions who basically reside on armageddon because they're the
people who like kind of have their heads on together and uh yarok and sethano they eventually lead the
city together with princeps manaheim like staying behind to well first of all guard the corrupt
herman who he has to follow orders but unfortunately and also to kind of encourage them to actually go
out and fight because as much as herman is pretending he has it all figured out it's like
oh i've got it it's all good people it's all good you know smoke smoke the hushies don't
worry about it is that a moon that crashed in the pie it's fine don't worry about it it's fine he
doesn't get a painting decorating we'll just fix it it's fine don't worry it was he's like he
definitely doesn't have it together so they um are roaming across the plain to wherever this
supposed emmy force is obviously it's orcs the orcs are here the war has arrived and this first
attack doesn't even get close it goes so poorly because they are set upon immediately as they're
like crossing these desert plains and this is where they first start to hear the names chanted
by the orcs they hear the name orcul hard like you know their orcs are crying out to their war
boss and they also hear the name gazkul which yarok kind of feels weird about hearing like whenever
he hears it i think his his left arm sort of starts like tingling his and his eye does as well
so it's kind of a bit you know like more subtle foreshadowing yeah destiny destiny he feels the
pain inflicted by the greater demon on mistral years ago and this attack goes so poorly they
immediately get set upon and like yarok and sethano are in a tank and it just gets blown up and they
get like thrown over to the side they crawl out and the orcs are on bikes and they descend upon
the soldiers who are not a lot of them are in transports so quite a few of them are walking
and yarok just literally leads from the front is like people are like what do we do he's like we
just have to run to the next hive city like whatever make it like i don't say i didn't say
stop and complain and then run to the next hive city i said run to the next hive city
and they because they know the orcs are going to catch up to them anytime soon
and there's this weird epic scene where the orc bikes have gone like around the flanks and they're
and eventually they start to like head on charge them and yarok like doesn't even stop like they
just he's yelling in fury and anger we're like charge and so it's a horrific scene where the
orc bikers just smash into the imperial guard and it's described as like an actual like flurry of
meat and bone everywhere which is pretty horrific and but obviously eventually because of yarok's
you know thinking they eventually the the orc bikes do stop because they get clogged up
and then they descend upon them and then they take them down which is like absolutely mental
and eventually do kind of like the orcs are like oh my god they're crazy like the humans as well
because obviously setheno is like setheno doesn't care about anything she's seen the warp doesn't
care she's dead on the inside and yarok is just like full of anger they're a weird reaction to
both obviously seeing hell and they eventually make it to i believe is hive tempestora yeah now
hive tempestora is one that not the biggest hive cities but as a decently sized one quite a few
billion i think even a few million people live in there and is not gonna basically they were expecting
reinforcements the hive city but obviously hermann von straub is clearly not prepared for this
battle at all and yarok says we can't hold this like we just cannot hold this city but we can do
something with it so they he says like the civilians are allowed to either fight or flee
he gives him that option maynum choose to flee and even though some of them do flee they manage to
like leave before the orc army gets there they are eventually every single one of the millions of
people are ran down by orcs and again yarok knew it would happen but that's like how horrific
this siege and this like armageddon war was every city described that every single human died from
that like millions and millions strong sort of great leaving of people and yarok decides they
need to essentially damage the orcs they can't save tempestora but they can hurt the orcs so
they get the water system that goes around like all the pipes that filter and like send water
throughout the entire hive city they just change it and fit it with promethium one of the guys who
is in control that goes like that's crazy i'm not going to do that and yarok just goes up to him
and is like kiss kills him straight away the guy's in the middle of like apologizing because he
didn't realize a commissar ordered it but he just kills him anyway like there's no time to apologize
or anything like that and so they managed to fill it with so promethium is like running through the
through the entire city now and they set up like an ambush where they try and bait the orcs in
and so some of the people have to hold the line there but then a lot of the men who are still
with yarok they start retreating through the city and eventually they just start booking it and
they're like they're like we've got to get out of here at this point and eventually set off the
massive explosion and like the blast wave literally knocks them all off their feet and they're like
their ears are ringing and eventually make it outside the other side of the city only to see
it's so funny in this part of the book because obviously we're just like all that horrific death
before but then immediately the next scene is they're like getting into transports of
here like you know we just get to the next high city and they look to their right i think and then
in the little forest bit there there's one orc who's like waving at them and it's like and then
they shoot it eventually and it's yarok realizing that this gaz call had realized what was going to
happen he'd pre-planned like basically what was going to happen in this he knew it was a trap
essentially and so he had sent essentially like the fodder orcs to go into hive tempestora it wasn't
the main orc force in any capacity and that and he's realizing just and he's taunted yarok with
that little messenger and then this is where yarok first like realizes oh crap this orc is actually
smart and he's obviously been fighting and studying orcs for a long time so he's kind of going
oh crap this is not a war like we've ever fought before i feel a bit sorry about that orc though
just like oh gaz was like gov the gormless i'm gonna send you to stand by the forest and just
be like you're useless like you guys are oh i get a special mission that's pretty cool
oh
you think it's that bad so far so basically it says in the book when hive tempest because not
everyone could also get out of the hive too so billions of people just died in this hive city
which is like when you when you're reading this but you kind of go oh my god what the kill count
is enormous it's ridiculous but it gets worse because as they are leaving because obviously
yarok's having to make the hard decisions here about he's only just to save all the other hive
cities and it's not working currently so they retreat to another hive city i can't remember
the name of this one uh but it's not going to be on the map for very long because eventually they
get there and they've had time to set up a defense somewhat there but the entire orc the true orc
force just starts to arrive and they literally see it like slowly like the silhouettes of the
gargants and all those things like quite slowly um like that's seen in hell's deep where they just
see the orcs the orcs approaching this is like this is the end oh that's raining is that but
worse because when they look they said it's not ending but they said like it's still going on
for miles like it's just an absolute wall of orcs and like huge and they can see these these orcs
are armored they have really good orc versions of equipment so this was clearly the main orc force
and it's even larger than the one they had seen at tempestora but they don't have a plan to blow
them up and so they realize that they can't they do have like an initial sally from the gate but
again gazkull knew that this would happen or he calculated it and so again he sent like a way you
know it was like a diversion and he sent a counter-attacking force to try and cut off
or yarek's men which they do get quite a few of them but they managed to just get back into the
settlement walls and yarek and sethano are talking they realize like we have to sacrifice this hive
city as well which is slightly bigger than tempestora and they realize like are we just
we have to buy more time so we can basically uh defend the other ones was yarek decides we
need to call for aid because this is clearly beyond what normal humans can fight and this is
perhaps the most like it's a very weird scene coming up i'll explain it but it's also the one
of most like grim dark scenes where this hive city has a prison complex on an island like next to it
because there's some water around it and they and then basically sethano goes all right we're going
to buy some time i have an idea and they basically have this massive like huge elevator that and they
armed prisoners and they basically armed prisoners in waves and then they just send them at the orcs
invading and essentially it describes like two waves of meat continuously clashing because
sethano is you know becoming her true sister of battle like she's chanting out redemption for the
emperor for all you prisoners death redemption and death sort of thing and these prisoners are like
absolutely like zealot and furious and they lose it and so they basically match the orcs's
kind of fury further yeah further yeah and it is a very cool scene obviously horrific
below to describe it but it's literally like two wars of fanatics like smashing into each other
and it's the first time that the humans are meeting the orcs and like holding them still
and there's a weird scene where like one of the prisoners is like sort of had like a come to
jesus moment like oh the emperor and then he's like watch me sethano like the citadel battle watch me
die in like glorious vein he gets like grabbed by a i can't remember the name of the orc thing but
it's like two pins it's like a crab and it basically slips him in half it's like oh god
it's uh and that basically happens essentially for an entire night the prisoners are just brought up
also some of the guards are still alive in this city but they're fighting but and all i can hear
are just prayers and people screaming and they're like oh god i'm not gonna get sethano yet sethano
holds it down she's chanting like war prayers to like send them into fervor the entire time was the
orcs are like loving it and yarrow sneaks back into the capital city just you know he literally
says like screw herman i need to send the message herman doesn't want to send out a message because
he realizes it will make him look weak and he might lose control of armageddon so he's not asking
for help but yarrow says screw it and so he makes a plan like he basically steals his way into the
ashiopathic choir and he kind of says to them listen we're all gonna die unless you send a signal
and they go the warp's screwed if we do this we'll probably die and they went yeah it's like yeah
what what choice do we have and so they kind of rebel against herman and yarrow and a few of the
guards there like have to defend them whilst they're being attacked by herman's own guards
trying to send a signal eventually this massive like warp scream goes out and then they you know
the yarrow's like you know call the adepts as the starties we need them he does succeed but then
herman does capture him and basically go listen you're gonna you know he's like well done you
know all sarcastic and he realizes like i can't really kill a commissar in front of people because
now like yarrow's in the light sort of thing people see him so it's like especially now he's
been defending like oh you know that guy's done all that work defend you all like so now he probably
sends him to hades hive whilst sethano is basically using that other hive city as like a delay tactic
like billions of people have died at this point in fact herman von strab during this conflict
actually sells out one of the other hive cities to the orcs like opened the gates as like a bargaining
chip that's how like crazy he is and when yarrow arrives to hades hive he makes his vow like i've
had two hive cities die i'm not having another one die like it's just not gonna happen even though
hades hive is because it's one of the smaller ones but hades hive is positioned quite well it was an
old mine it's positioned against a mountain so he's like i can actually make a plan here and he
he actually does something crazy initially well like he hasn't done something crazy because we
were fighting the entire time he walks into the middle like the gang territories like we're just
one guard and they both say they'll go like oh what's this little pretty boy doing he's like
stabbed with a knife just like you know take me to your leaders because we're about to be attacked
by orcs so they kind of unite the gangs of this hive city and basically goes i just need good
fighting men and um he also takes over the city the governor tries to run away just like it's a
funny scene where he's like i'm praying in a monastery i swear i'm just praying for guidance
there's a secret ladder underneath the monastery and he tries to get out and uh he tries to run
away that way but they catch him and kill him and um they yarik like takes control he does his great
speech of like i am defending hades hive you know people were like oh my god that guy is
incredible he's like he's so yarik obviously not the most charismatic figure but his speeches are
incredible and obviously you can see like his absolute hate in his eyes the determination the grit to
continue you know i didn't mention it earlier there's a phrase that much is like what lord
rasp had said to him which is observe and learn which is a kind of thing it's hinted that gazkul
has been using that a lot he's been observing many things and worked out how to fight humans and yarik
needs to learn he needs to observe and see how to actually beat gazkul now or at least there's orc
force and so they begin this proactive defense they use the mines that like there's like mineshafts
underneath hades that stretch out way before the city and obviously the orcs are coming and
they're preparing this ambush they've got bombs everywhere like underneath and they're like
the little hatches they're ready to pop out and yarik hears something and he goes oh my god this
is why hermann von strab has not been worrying the entire time those are virus bombs he's gonna
virus bomb his own planet he's absolutely insane so they actually run back into the mines they're
running back like like fuck and then just like running back to get in and the bombs do go off
some of hades hive does burn like a few people a few thousand die but because the virus bombs
are from the horrors heresy era they're so old that quite a few of them didn't go off properly
but a lot of the orc force was actually killed by that not a lot of like around the planet but
the one attacking hades hive and so they kind of go yarik's like ah you know curse hermann he will
die for this because once once the imperium finds out you use a virus bombing at your own planet
that's kind of like we can't have you around that's a war crime right there that's actually
done and that's the imperium saying they're like that's a war oh yeah and um they sort of run back
out because the orcs don't care that their friends have been turned into sludge and they prepare the
next they prepare the ambush and eventually they set off the bombs are in different mines and
eventually all the gangs and the imperial guard have been formed into units by yarik they kind
of like leap out and they just basically butcher the first wave of orcs it's a really cool moment
in the where it's described like yarik like puts his foot you know like someone stands on a rock
and looks majestic yarik kind of does that thing where he stands like really high up even though
he knows he could get killed by doing that and he comes he's he's literally yarik the symbol and the
orcs see him and they actually start to feel fear it's the first time it's described like the orcs
feel fear because they see this absolutely raving angry face human who is like defying them and
cutting them down so he'd be standing on a tactical rock of all things you can't match it
on a good old tactical rock and um it's an absolutely epic scene where he kind of he's
just like fire issues like cool guys don't look at explosions kind of thing it's everywhere around
him and they have their first victory so they retreat back into the mines and then they realized
the orcs yarik is you know he's been a soldier for a long time as well so he's no dummy he
realizes the orcs now know about the mines so they use that to their advantage i love this scene which
is they see the orcs come they hear them come from the mines and they basically like plant people in
the walls like the little like from his days in the skull of progenium so that's not a bad idea
it literally is like you've got um steel legion in your walls essentially and they kind of pop
out and they're like they basically ambush the orcs kind of like a prison fight in a way
and they burn them in the minute and they also at some point they drown them there's a bit where they
start to flood it with water so the orcs will drown there's some of their own men still like a few
of them still sat down there but yarik's like we don't have time we have to do it you know at this
point he's already condemned so many people to death but it's all about the ultimate victory you
know sparing more lives and they like drown the own the orcs and kind of the gangs are like fighting
like some of the gangs like wielding like weird ass you know necromunda like chain axe things and
it's like fighting yarik's like i've made my own force but meanwhile this is happening the siege
above ground has still continued because the orcs are challenging and then they're getting raved up
by someone quite big but it's not who you think they're challenging the name ugru hard ugru hard
ugru hard everywhere and eventually they hear this chant even now down in the deeper parts of the
mines where yarik is and they realize like something is happening so this contingent of
his manages to get back to the siege walls and they see the captain who was supposedly in charge
of the war he's basically embattered and left off to the side and here stands before everyone
but it's a massive orc his name is obviously ugru hard he's probably a chief one of the men
underneath gazkal and he's got this massive power claw and a lot of the fighting has stopped because
they kind of see like oh this is the that's the that's the tough yumi get from earlier so a lot
of them are like oh they kind of stop and they let the duel happen and obviously yarik is just an
old dude so it doesn't he's not gonna win initially like ugru hard's like playing with him and he
eventually grabs yarik's arm i think it's his left arm yarik feels his eye like he'll lose his eye
at some point here and he was always like left arm it's not going to burn but it's not because of
what's happening here it's definitely the it's a wound from when he saw the demon like it's
basically fate is coming to happen and he's like ugru hard's playing with him while yarik tries to
stab him with his sword he grabs yarik on his arm he literally lifts him up he's playing with him
he starts to squeeze like he feels his bones break and eventually it squeezed so hard his arm severs
and yarik like falls to the ground screaming ugru hard is like laughing he's enjoying this
like throwing the arm around like way way way you know like a little uh like jersey or something
like that and eventually yarik like is about to pass out but he like bites through the pain and
he kind of you know even though he's just a gnawing man he kind of like i'm not gonna die here he gets
up and he like surprisingly managed to like stab ugru hard and well in the neck essentially and
ugru hard is like what the hell and he eventually just cuts his head off straight away and he picks
up his head with his one good hand and he's like shouts literally i have it here i am yarik he
does in in the green skin tongue i look i should do that again because i should do this justice
i am yarik i look upon you and you die so and he's like doing that like way above the
orc line and they all like start to run because they're terrified of him and eventually yarik
goes and he just passed out and then just yeah and then this is where nap time he i mean he
he did and then um uh as he recovers he basically takes ugru hard's power claw uh be careful if you
ever make a warhammer quiz and you clearly think it's a unique item but it's not because you may
get in trouble and um he takes that as his like badge of office from ugru hard he has a you know
the bionic old you know the bale eye with the laser put in and the the siege of hades hive continues
but it continues for months like yarik has managed to slow down the pace of the entire war
and there's a cool bit where like yarik often leaves like ambushes that are still like the
orcs trying to get through the mines underneath and they like hit their power claw like will
reach out like claw through an entire wall and like cut down orcs and then he always leaves one
orc alive to basically spread the message as he's learned like he needs to you know observe and
learn like how much he can take from the orcs he needs to be feared not by his own men in a way
as much respected but feared by the orcs too and so he becomes old bale eye you know the one that
orcs talk reverently about and eventually the space marines do come you know they blood angel
salamanders i think marines malevolent come to them as well for some reason oh no and
armageddon is eventually saved although mostly hades hive did fall but eventually obviously
when it's cleansed from the orcs yarik is held up as a hero seraph and well hermann von straub goes
into hiding he apparently just goes into a bunker he's like oh crap i can't be seen he's at the
awkward part you know the guy who everyone knows had like brought the toilet at a party or something
and the seraph goes away in disgrace because he just chose to ally with hermann rather than
actually do his role as a commissar because he hated yarik more than he loved his role in a way
and yarik was like oh i could retire now i'm done no he couldn't he couldn't stomach retiring
the absolute chad couldn't handle it he's a workaholic pretty much and so yarik would rejoin
the guard or the commissar commissari and i don't know what things were there commissariate
commissariate and he would create an army and he would chase a gazkull to the world of golgotha
and the problem at this time was that yarik was a legend he was a big symbol but much of the
imperium is quite clearly corrupt and so he has to make a lot of compromises in creating this
you know this army that's going to chase gazkull so many of the people he recruits he has to kind of
he like you know it's like six sons of nobles who maybe don't have as much military experience
but the fathers are willing to lend him his little precious son an entire regiment so
the army's got a lot of inexperienced men in it but it also has some of the
veterans of the second war of armageddon they've chased them all the way to the world of golgotha
where they are planning to attack gazkull like in person because yarik hates and despises him
and unfortunately they've run into a trap golgotha gazkull is not dumb as an orc and as much as he's
been like a kind of distant figure for yarik for a lot of this this is now they actually get to know
each other up close because they kind of only know each other by rumor and uh gazkull ambushes them
at golgotha the imperial army does poorly because of the inexperience of some of the soldiers
yarik is essentially ambushed loads of the men who were like who had survived the second war of
armageddon who had followed yarik since hades like men he like he had known for years like on a
personal basis they all die pretty much in this fight which is very sad and this is the first
time where yarik is like standing like his tank is destroyed it's like his famous like bane blade
that he rides on top of and he's like standing like in a haze of smoke and feces all the orcs
around him and then he finally sees him in person gazkull mag uruk thracke and he is
he literally is a walking he's not walking tank he's a walking stack of tanks this thing is so big
and it's the first time they come face to face and yarik is like basically knocked out he's been
captured and when yarik awakens he finds that his power claw has been removed obviously getting
up one arm and he doesn't have his bail eye in one eye as well and he is chained up held over a pit
and he is face to face with gazkull and even though yarik's an old guy he's an experienced
soldier he sort of says i should hold it together you know show him nothing but he can't hold it in
and he just starts yelling in gazkull's face like you will die by my hand because he just you know
for a amount of people who have died to gazkull and he literally yells him but gazkull's just
staring at him and he's kind of he starts to realize that gazkull is kind of inhabiting the
lessons of a commissar like gazkull is watching him and learning which is like oh like he's
actually doing what i did as a commissar and like i had to learn and be a symbol but like it's a weird
parallel where like in a way they're the same thing in each other's species that old movie
cliche you're not so different you and i pretty much yeah and they're like staring each other
like he's insulting him but gazkull just smiling the entire time in fact actually one of the orcs
even makes a joke and like pokes yarik and immediately that's the only time like gazkull's
smile drop and he just kills the orc immediately and throws him down this pit and it takes a while
like it's a funny scene where like yarik goes like oh he's not landed yet and eventually goes like
doof and he's like oh that's quite far down and uh yarik is like i don't know what you know there's
basically no escape here they've he realizes they've been taken to a space hulk so he is
somewhere he doesn't know where he is but he knows he's inside a space hulk and gazkull doesn't say
anything he just keeps staring at him and eventually grabs the chains and just cuts them and yarik
starts to plunge down into the darkness and yarik thinks oh my god i get to die thank god you know
i mean am i entered my service to the emperor and then he lands in some water and he realizes like
he landed like a tiny like water pen bit whereas the orc next to him like splattered around and
he's like oh god i lived how annoying um so he gets out of the same extent as darn day but still
not happy about it pretty well in a way yeah and he get he climbs out this water thing he's feels
weak and he's dirty and he's you know it's a bit of a hellscape there's not very much light there's
like growing mushrooms like glowing mushrooms around the area which kind of give light and he
starts to see like weird chittiness creatures like start to eat the orc's corpse and he realizes
that's the only thing that lives down here and so basically he has to relive his childhood that he
did when he was um a boy and the orcs first attacked he has to live in this like secluded
area like basically he starts to kill the bugs one by one but each time he does it he's like this
bug is bigger than me stronger than me i have to like surprise it and if i don't surprise it i'm
literally dead he has to keep killing the bugs because he can like take off their claws and he
uses that like basically slam it into the wall because he just because the man can't give up
some reason but he's like my oath to his his faith the emperor is quite strong as a character he's
very he doesn't spout like religious stuff he's very much like in his own mind he's like saying
you know for the emperor continuously he's a one-armed like old dude that keeps he's thumping in
like little sort of hooks and he managed to climb his way to the top after who knows how long and
gets to the top and then gaskill's there and just kicks him back down again we're just like oh my god
so eventually has to do it again and he makes it to the top and he kind of gaskill's not there
but he realized like he thinks he's been watched the entire time and he manages to kill the orcs
like that are at this like guarding post and he steps through like a next door and he gets
captured immediately because he realizes gaskill's been watching the entire time he's trying to learn
from him and he gets thrown into a different prison area this time and he is actually thrown
in prison with humans and these humans are actually the somewhat they're like the survivors of the
force who were on gold goth that they made into slaves to essentially harvest metal for orcs
whenever they want it at times like gaskill like kind of sort of like a little creepy guy in the
shadow goes like i'm watching you i swear i'm here slowly like it's i don't know how like an
orc that big can be stealthy but for some reason like he sneaks up on them a lot if the raven guard
can do it in full plate armor then an orc can do it why not it is bizarre but clearly size has
nothing to do with how sneaky you can be in this setting very much is is pretty bizarre and um
um but he doesn't see gaskill for a while and yarick does what he does best and he starts to
fight back so he's sort of the prisoners they all kind of know him but in a way this is not
like the yarick they know because he's like he doesn't have his power he's not being the iconic
thing he usually is but he's like we're still going to fight back so they create this they create a
complicated plan to sort of break out and this plan is as brutal and as grueling as basically
all of the story has been so far where essentially people like they have like smash open promethium
tanks like set themselves and the orcs on fire as a sacrifice something else can get away
like like cry like they literally like are humans as well like regular old humans trying to kill
like the orcs like around them so like it takes a few of them to like batter them down and most of
them get stumped but yarick and a crack team sort of managed to get out and they slowly make their
way through the space hulk at many times they're realizing they're not here to actually leave they
just want to cause as much damage to the orcs as possible and one by one like each of the crew
like he gets to know and they all sort of sacrifice themselves as like distractions so they go into
like crazy like battles they're not going to win but they do sort of they're doing it to buy time
to get closer into the inner sanctums and eventually uh it's only yarick and one other guy left and
this i think his name is it's not maybe benedin or benjin something like that this guy had
previously been like a rat in a way like he used to be one of the slaves in charge of the other
slaves and everyone used to hate him because they thought he would basically kill the slaves who were
like slacking and everyone was like oh you're a traitor scum i tell you when yarick realizes
like he actually has been doing it because he's ending people's suffering so like he would whisper
like for the emperor as he was doing it so they kind of become close towards the end and as they're
getting closer and closer to this inner sanctum they get this like weird elevator scene where
they're like oh we made it and they start to hear the orcs behind them they realize like oh crap they
knew the entire time and they basically start running up these uh it's like staircase thing
whilst an elevator next to them is like going up slowly and they happen to like throw grenades
behind them they have like crude orc weapons they make it to the top and then they're like ambushed
so they throw all their grenades they blow up the entire area which eventually leads to like
them almost falling down into the um this gnawing pit like fire and yarick is kind of almost off
the edge like the guy is like holding him up the only last guy who's alive and um yarick is like
i'm only a one-armed old dude like i don't think i can hold on another guy says you actually got a
you it's more important that you live so he like latches in on and lets himself fall instead
rather than because the beam they're holding on is not going to support both their weights
so like literally everyone has like died to get yarick here and at this point he's literally like
a disheveled old literally you never know david letterman right he's like david letterman once he
stopped hosting the david letterman show and uh he looks like that and he makes his way to the
control room and he can hear the orc like pounding to try and get in angela says i'm going to do
as much damage as possible so literally flips on every single control everything and the entire
space hulk obviously filled with lots of different ships it starts to like shift and all the ships
like being powered on they start like the whole thing shakes so the loads of like obviously the
slaves and it died but loads of orcs die in it too and eventually the orcs break in and everything
starts to explode and yarick starts to fall back into that pit they saw earlier because like an
explosion puts him back that way and he's thinking oh yes finally my death is coming i can say my
service has ended and he realizes like a massive orc is running forward and it's like and it's
gazkull who's run forward and grabbed him and he's like no and he's been saved and then he kind of
awakens like confused like how am i alive and he realizes his power claw has been reattached
and his baili has been reattached and his uniform is on again and then and they've pressed it and
everything they've ironed his shirt and they've made it all nice and all the orcs are like kind of
you know like fixing his equipment and he sits up and he's like he's like grinning with that
like kind of old man in like a hateful stare and he leaves the door it's a really funny bit where
he says like he actually realizes how like effing bizarre this is where all the orcs are lined up
and he says like he's been to many military parades and he would never not stroll down a
military parade so he walks down and he sees gazkull there and gazkull is the way he talks
to me and says like but you know he sort of tells him in his way like you know in high gothic by
the way gazkull speaks in high gothic which is obviously um the much more in in warhammer there's
low gothic which is spoken by most of the imperium there's high gothic which is often used in
administration or yeah i think it's described that like low gothic is english high gothic is more like
latin if that's correct yeah and gazkull speaks in high gothic to him it's really bizarre guys are
good so i think uh i've read before like high gothic is the fake latin they use uh but low gothic is
like just everything like every language ever and it's they're just classified as different
dialects of low gothic like spanish english french russia anything you can think of that's all
low gothic just different dialects and uh gazkull basically says to him listen you put up a good
fight and orcs we know as orcs we love that so we're gonna let you go and then obviously
yarik like kind of puts it together that he's actually he's been observing i said like he's
been observing and learning from him he's only he basically knew what yarik's gonna do the entire
time because he's kind of wanted to learn about how yarik and humans operate so that's like even
more terrifying to uh yarik but obviously he gets to leave and as much as gazkull's last word he says
uh prepare for a big old fight and that big old fight does come but a few decades later for some
reason it's not straight away but a few decades later armageddon would once again be invaded
by orcs for some reason that plan just can't get a break and um the third wolf armageddon begins
with they call him the like yarik by this time is an ancient figure he literally looks as old as
you probably feel he's probably like hundreds of centuries years old and is in a core but even the
rejuvenants are still not working anymore because like yeah that's how older than most to start he's
at this point he's easy i think he's older than he's still even chapter masters like come to this
so the third wall armageddon is different this time because they're prepared and many different
space marine chapters arrived uh flesh terrors gabriel seth uh black templars hellbrecht i had
an art piece made for that that was a very cool one i enjoyed that and um essentially to show
how much people respect and have learned from yarik yarik is in yarik doesn't actually hold
any official position other than just a normal commissar but he is invited to this meeting and
in fact he helms it there's even a funny part where one of the other space marines who by the
way is he specifies he's in orange armor you clearly know he's not one of them anything main
or like anyone plays because no one ever paints their means in doesn't grim out has even mentioned
like oh he's from some like backward chapter that no one gives a shit about oh pretty much yeah
good old uh grimaldus is there too and they essentially listen to yarik because yarik knows
what he's doing and how he orcs think and like it's described how like even the chapter masters
defer to his um command on this which obviously is showing how much even space marines are looking
up to a normal human being and the third war of armageddon is beginning beginning sorry uh yarik
immediately says we have to abandon hades hive and everyone's like what why would you do that
it's like because he knows yarik but he knows gazkull he knows how he thinks he knows he's
going to destroy it as a symbol because that's what he would do because obviously they're both
in a way symbols and symbols need to be killed to kill the enemy and the war begins with basically
gazkull and whereas previously there was perhaps one moon that attacked second the second war of
armageddon now multiple moons of orcs like and meteors land into armageddon the amount of
guard and imperial regiment and space marines and munitions and firepower is so enormous and
in its millions that it literally blocks out the sky in terms of when they fire at these um massive
meteors yeah uh yarik has to fight they fight this war for many years but there's even a short story
where yarik actually gets attacked in his bane blade front of they went back to golgotha they
grabbed his destroyed bay blade remade it only to then be now again on armageddon it would be
attacked in it and almost he would almost be killed but then he's actually saved by the black dragons
chapter which is very bizarre because they don't really show up much surprisingly they show up in
a short story with sethano who we obviously spoke about before she's not here for the third war of
armageddon and this convict is just as big or much larger than the second one obviously there's main
notable things i don't want to quite cover so we might say every episode such as the defense of
um what's the one with grimaldus it's hell's reach hell's reach high hell's reach which again
is his own kind of story there's very there's a lot of legendary fights this war lasts for a
few years but eventually uh gazcourt as much as we say is repelled i think he just got bored
because i think the same thing happened again we got bogged down doesn't he get a vision from the
prophets as the prophet he gets a vision from gorkham walk he's like oh something more important
is happening i've got to go now i need to die this was a good test for what i'm actually planning to do
he needed to go and gazcourt would leave armageddon and again yarick's offered retirement and he just
can't take it some reason he's so old and ancient he just can't give up and him and um hellbroke to
the mast of chapter master the black templars uh give they give chase to uh gazcourt they actually
do have a small conflict in space but they get very close to sort of getting to gazcourt but again
they fail and this is one of the few times where um yarick does feel quite a lot of despair like
he's just come so close again to not be able to destroy his arched rival because in a way
gazcourt doesn't want yarick to die but yarick really wants uh gazcourt to die he's he's lived
a life of long war and he's very much a bitter old man even though he is the hero of the imperium
and he's done what he needs what has needed to be done in a way he still acts the role as what the
imperium demands of him but he's obviously very tired but speaking of that uh supposedly unfortunately
is slightly off screen here uh we're not quite sure if it is i would say we said earlier it was
angron that killed him but i don't think it's quite confirmed how yarick does die i think we
all thought it might be angron um due to the angron book prime art book coming out but
yarick's death has somewhat been said like he's died and they've told the bells on terror for a
hero of the imperium there's like an image of kind of his corpse slash with the bale eye and the
commissar hat i really hope there's a book about actually how he dies and i hope they maybe give
it to gazcourt because i think it's part of gazcourt's story in a way more but it would be cool
to see that kind of rivalry and obviously you know in a way uh yarick has always fought orcs even
like for instance he was a literally a boy hiding from them you know with his old serge to then
actually having to fight them so many times in armageddon and then uh yeah he's yarick's been
through a lot but he's got tenacity it's hard to explain well just in the books is how much his
intelligence comes through he's not a he's ruthless in the sense that he's willing to make the hard
decision he doesn't enjoy doing it but he does it without a second thought because he just knows
ultimately that will save more people in the end as much as he obviously in a way by our today's
standards yarick would have killed more people than anyone in our planet combined so um but
obviously it's not him doing that in a way like other things have forced those decisions upon him
but yarick has done a lot he's literally many times whenever he fights he literally goes beyond
the point of exhaustion and he's not the greatest fighter ever you know he's not he's okay but he
always but he can use a storm bolter somehow yes somehow um he's just that ripped yeah i know
those theories about people like the orcs imbue him with strength because they their belief empowers
him and that's how he can just fire a storm bolter that like a space marine could use but it's like
nah it's fine with my weak arthritic wrists it's no damage it's it's the same reason ranbo can one arm
and m60 it's cool and it's great stop thinking about it yeah i hope there's a bit of a um
uh lore dump for uh people there unfortunately there's quite a few things i did miss out uh
unfortunately with yarick but again that's just that level of detail is again as i've done three
hours long so it's a ridiculous amount um but that's kind of the current lore of yarick hopefully we
get his end sometimes too obviously um as we mentioned to people earlier this is obviously
coming out near halloweenish time so and also october as well orcs orcs orcs um so there's a
obviously a quite a bit of orc heavy on this one um and i hope uh hope people didn't get too overwhelmed
the massive amount of like so then it was just getting worse um but that's kind of the overarching
story of yarick uh what do you guys think so far colin what do you think uh i think he's very cool
and i do need to read the book season uh but that being said even i know you're a big fan of him
and you did a great job of telling us about yarick but i don't think he's gonna supplant
kai if his i think kane's more lovable isn't it kane is a colin character yes yeah yeah i think
kane's a lot more lovable whereas yarick is i think he he plays into what he's meant to be like he's
more than a human in a way he's not he's not as relatable in his own mind he is like you see his
own struggles but then yeah go so i i i would take yarick if i needed someone to lead me through
a grand field of war i would take kane on a moment to moment basis because he would bs
us our way i think there's an interesting dynamic between like gaunt kane and uh yarick
where it's like gaunt is the human version of a commissar yarick is the legend of a commissar and
then kane is like oh it's your your buddy who happens to be a commissar what how are you a
commissar what's going on here jester here yeah kane's the idiot in the workplace who should not
he's like he shouldn't be a commissar yeah here he is and he's he's failing successfully what's
going on he's quite he failed successfully that's like the kind of thing isn't it
uh yeah he's quite a big i mean yarick does do is pretty much there's a little bit like chaos stuff
into woven but it's very orc heavy um elai what do you think of the uh old bali himself i didn't
know a lot of that lore so that's cool i only knew his childhood and armageddon i didn't know all
that stuff in between so i would recommend that the i don't i really don't do it justice but his
first two books which are the ones on mistral and the second war of armageddon damn the scenery and
the way they describe like particularly the way they describe the orcs in that book is you never
felt so small it was like a lot of it if you're a space marine if it's like a space marine story
you don't really feel overwhelmed it's kind of like a it's always a you know ragtag group coming
through whereas this is like oh we're actually throwing people at a hole trying to fill it we
are throwing bits of people still clutching grenades just so they were like go away go
the death of the hive cities in the book is so horrific it's like even what i didn't describe
like there's a bit where most of the high cities most people didn't get out of the high cities so
a lot of the orc forces are trapped in there just going door to door like basically taking the
people doesn't do a good job of i know a lot of people can get frustrated with how the law either
says orcs are goofy goofballs or they are the most horrifying thing in the setting and it's like both
it does both well because obviously there's that orc that waves and then there's like he's like hi
guys like he's like nervous and he's got lumped the gormless we'll call them yeah and then there's
also like oh this is what it means to actually fight orcs you know it's just a perspective
you just have to look at it through the right's perspective if you look through your faction's
perspective they're always the good guys that's like that's all you have to remember and from
everyone else's perspective though they're not the good guys in there unless you're the drukhari
we're definitely not the good guys but we're having fun we don't care you just got it depends on if
you want to get your warhammer lore from you know books and stuff or if you just look at memes and
then you'll there's a clear yeah you can tell eric memes well i was like there's good memes and
there's good lore for the character so he's a nice balance uh what did you uh think andy by the way
the only thing i'll mention is i'm hoping that he's not dead and actually it's all the ruse
and that he's trying to pretend that he's dead so that gazgul goes a bit mental and it's all a ploy
so that he can catch him off guard and go i'm not dead yet you think so actually i'll see when they'll
get me you idiot i have to pay my just to make you mad it's very much implied by the way i didn't
yes there's a few nods in the chains of golgotha bush which is the one where he's um the prison on
the space hole which is basically he essentially rambo in that very much implied in that although
i would say okay sorry it was it might just be a saint too he might get resurrected and you know do
all the sainty stuff but he deserves and i think yarick's as a character i've read i read literally
everything he's been in i think he's kind of as much as people like oh i'm sad he's dead like
some of my characters they need to have their arc finished rather than like you know that it's
probably like you know the car and the betrayal whereas like he's had his full full he dies all
the time full to chaos and then he's just kind of this amorphic angry thing now sometimes a
character i think is yarick dying would be okay because first of all there's a lot to you could
replace him with or in a way his story hasn't it could have a nice ending with dying at gazkul
the arc is complete he has to be killed by gazkul or i'm not going to be happy a lot of time um
dw are not brave enough to kill a character yeah so i feel like it would be a good opportunity like
to yeah you know yarick did his cool stuff he did it he's he's one he's then i just want gazkul to
go to his funeral and go oh i'm so sad only for only for yarick's hand to lunge out of the coffin
grab gazkul by the neck pull him in and like you're coming with me and then he just reveals
melter charge or something like that would be cool and then gazkul maybe survives but he's really
badly wounded but it's like that was a good way to go good well regnar beheaded him right
yeah he cut his head off and then he was like that's a good issue new body bigger body lol which is
weird isn't it they let him have like a bigger supposedly he's an enormous enormous orc but there
there was a bigger orc where he could have his head yeah there was like one that was just like
we've been feeding him nothing but protein shakes for 20 years non-stop and he's gigantic now
that was the spare from that exact situation um well thank you guys so much for listening
obviously there's a bit of a big lore dump on yarick but he definitely deserves uh some love
uh we hope you guys obviously like the orc stuff too um i think this is this definitely is one of
the in the books the better betrayal of orcs or they're quite terrifying i think there is a
is it brutal cunning is a good book on orcs maybe we should uh i thought like rin's world how they
was like these are not goofy goofballs they are really nasty like when they're holding the guy
on the on the fire and he's burning him from the toes up yeah that's hilarious you'd work like
yes yeah but it's in a perverse way we're like oh no yeah well i hope uh people enjoyed that
absolute lashing and rendit rendition and uh again like any topics you want us to cover
please do comment below because they're very much we've obviously listened to what you say
i want to cover things you want to hear just don't talk about elder hey hey no we'll get a
phoenix lord episode someday we haven't we haven't had an elder or phoenix lord one yeah so we should
probably be coming it's coming yeah and uh without being said thank you guys and we'll catch you on
the next one peace love you