Hello, ladies and gentlemen, it's Law Crimes.
How's it going? The brethren are all gathered.
It's been a few weeks, hasn't it, since all four
of us have been in the same video call. In real
life, not so much. Would anyone like to introduce
today's episode, though? Because this one is
probably quite relevant for what will be the
upcoming... future of Warhammer 40k for the next
at least two or three years. We're doing the
biggest goat of the best chapter, right? The
boy himself. Go around the block, though. Should
we ask people in the group how they feel about
Space Wolves? Colin, I feel like you have some
good opinions. Oh, yeah, I love them. I love
how they get to get away with whatever they want,
and then the authors pretend that, no, no, they
totally didn't. Look, this barren moon got exterminatist.
Oh, the consequences are sure coming. Oh, man.
That being said, I would be a Space Wolf if I
could, because they have booze. They do have
really good food. They actually eat proper food.
They're probably some of the only Marines eating
quality meals and not Nutri -Slop. They feast.
They properly feast. To be fair, the Blood Angels
do feed on other people, so there's a bit of
variety. Sure. I will give you that. It's definitely
different. Humans. Andy. How do you feel about
Space Wolves? You know a little bit about Ragnar
because you've done your own previous videos
as well as read all six books like I have as
well. I read all six books in a three -day span.
It was a lot. But yeah, I do like the Space Wolves.
There's some really cool characters that people
don't know about. They have kind of cliche ones
like, this guy was raised by wolves. I was like,
was he now? What other crazy ideas have you got?
Oh, this guy's called something wolf. ah whatever
ideas have you got not many so yeah they're kind
of fun they ride on wolves they drink beer lucas
the trickster is fun to set up we will have a
proper complaint about that later on in this
episode there's a particular the particular scene
that really makes me want to smack my head and
you know like literally wants to blow my own
brains out how crazy it is and dumb eli how do
you feel about space wolves my brother i'm just
gonna say it I'm coming out. I'm coming out.
Space Wolves are my favorite Space Marine chapter.
It's official. I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed.
I know who I am. I'm proud of who I am. He's
all of a sudden a born -again Space Wolf fan.
Crazy. Times were really tough in 8th and 9th
and 10th edition when Space Wolves were just
primary Space Marines with the name Wolf on them.
But we're coming back, baby. We're coming back.
Space Wolves have cool lore. They're probably
the most seething and rage -inducing chapter
in the whole community. It's really funny to
watch people be angry about how much they win.
It's like Ultramarines, except more funny. Yeah,
but the Ultramarines are cool when they do it.
It's different. Space Wolves have cool characters.
They had cool models and now they have cool models
again. They absolutely mogged the Blood Angels
chapter. Sorry, Blood Angels bros. This is what
a real Space Marine looks like, baby. They're
ludicrously OP in the lore just because, similar
to the Ultramarines. It's funny when they do
things like one -shot Grey Knights and whatnot.
And like Colin said, they kind of just get away
with everything. and it's funny well uh i'm hoping
there's one thing okay go ahead if there's one
thing speaking of we can all agree on it's that
grey knights players are on suicide watch right
now yeah yes we are hello oh i literally don't
play them now because it's painful i just i was
i play thousand sounds world eaters and grey
knights this has been a very mixed bag recently
but enough with that though because We have two
yeas and one nay for Space Wars. I'm hoping to
change Colin's mind and all the people listening
who are like, oh, Space Wars are literally ass.
I can't swear too early in the video, I just
realized. You know, they are out of all the factions
I hate, the most I'm likely to change my mind
on because I've yet to lose against them on the
tabletop. Or Total Warhammer, as it were. Forgot
Colm's a petty bitch. Or Magic the Gathering
and Magnus sending me into a frenzy of rage.
I make three chaos spawns every time I attack
and spells are too cheap. When I was in... And
my controlling player pulled a turn one soul
ring. Death. Space Wolves were my first Space
Marine army as a kid. I also wrote like 100 pages
of novel when I was like 14 about a Space Wolf
guy and a Tau guy. And I was very proud of that
back in the day. And they were friends. That
is the spirit of Warhammer. We just don't call
it fan fiction. We call it sloth. We call it
homebrew. One must love Space Wolves, or they
are forced to watch their first video again,
by the way, at the end of this episode. Their
first video on stream, which is the ultimate
punishment. I don't think I'd leave. I'm fighting
my father's firearm and shooting myself. Speaking
of that, for everyone who is maybe, or some people
who might be new, but for all the glorious and
gorgeous people who are here, we obviously are
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how you guys participate in stuff, which we've
got coming up soon. Also, exciting news. We have
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Discord. We got it designed and it's us riding
Boingob. You can check out our fourth wall page.
It is now purchasable via t -shirts and stuff.
If the people make it further in the episode,
we'll show you guys some designs maybe at the
end. We can show you some of the art for the
people who haven't seen it yet. This episode,
though, we're going to go straight into it because
this is actually pretty decent lore. I was pleasantly
surprised at how good the lore is for this character
who is called Ragnar Blackmane. Premise to start
for everyone listening. This is not a Warhammer
40k book. This is a fantasy book. There is not
much Warhammer 40k in it. So if you came here
expecting, you know, all, you know, big action
like Baltimore and stuff like that, you're not
having that for a while. You've got to sit your
ass down and wait. So for all the people who
like Warhammer fantasy, this is where Mr. The
God himself, Mr. William King, who wrote Godric
and Felix, he was over here cooking as well.
He was like, I don't like 40K. I need more fantasy
in my 40K. So we're going to begin this journey.
on the beautiful world i say beautiful uh this
is the world called fenris now i wouldn't say
it's like bad like something like birmingham
or chicago bad this is a different kind of bad
i don't know if people you know maybe if anyone
another one of boys wants to kind of give a slight
explanation of what fenris is kind of like because
uh it might be better from someone else it's
a death world it's in the title it's a death
world it sucks summer paradise Would you describe
it as discount Norse mythology, Colin, for Fenris?
It's basically copy and paste homework again.
Not the worst description, but I feel like I
read somewhere that was kind of the point with
whoever made Fenris back in the Dark Age of Xenology.
Let's make the Norse theme park. And then everything
went wrong and all the theme park attractions
went a little bit wild. Turns out that, yeah,
that and then it cooked for a few thousand years.
So Fenris itself is a frozen ish like death world.
It's very much reminiscent of what you kind of
would imagine imagery of like Norse mythology
or similar things like that. And we begin our
story. Oh, we lost footage. Oh, no. Oh, no. Also,
the Kraken might be a tyrant. Crazy. Maybe. There's
all kinds of fauna, but basically every animal
on Fenris is dangerous. In the snow, hiding,
there's sea worms and, as you imagine, wolves,
trolls, all those kinds of gloriously hideous
creatures. Kind of literally like Norsca from
Warhammer Fantasy for the entire planet, essentially.
There's no respite. Less chaos, though. Less
chaos. You say that. There's actually... There
are little creatures walked by chaos, actually,
on Fenris. There's some. I said less. Not zero.
Yeah. There's not a warp vortex down on Fenris.
It's not literally you walk into hell just 100
meters that way. But our story begins with the
character who would become, eventually, Ragnar
Blackmane. But this is just a teenage boy named
Ragnar. And at this point, he's just a normal
tribesman. he's reached his adulthood which i
guess for them is like 16 they say in the book
35 is considered ancient that's how brutal it
is basically fenris is stuck in early iron age
the entire most the people who live there like
the entire planet and the story begins with ragnar
he's on a ship with his father and many other
members of his tribe and they're transporting
this very large stranger who because again they
don't have the knowledge of like there's even
other planets they just call him the wizard or
like you know they think he's a magic boy uh
he's obviously quite large he's got you know
cloaks and hooded up and they this guy says like
if you take me across the sea to where i'm trying
to go i will give you a gift and then you know
tries me like yes believe the wizard literally
gandalf's on my bloody doorstep so um it begins
though when uh the ship because obviously it
is fenris uh They are in the middle of a raging
storm, and they are attacked by a sea dragon.
And this straight up just eats people off the
top of the ship. Ragnar is basically like, crap,
I'm going to die. Again, he's just a boy at this
point, so he's pretty much deaf. He's not nowhere
starting. He doesn't feel fear. He feels fear.
And he manages to break out of it a little bit,
and he throws his spear into one of the dragon's
eyes. That didn't really stop it, though. The
stranger who's standing at the back of the ship
is just laughing his head off because he thinks
the whole thing is funny. Yeah, he takes out
this magical device that spits fire and the sea
dragon basically goes down. Ragnar's like almost
falls off the ship. The stranger grabs him. Ragnar
sees that his eyes are a little bit kind of yellowy
and he has long fangs and he's huge. Obviously,
we can maybe kind of guess where this man belongs
to. they pass through the storm and then they
arrive on this island and they see like men who
are in robes, they have like dark skin and they
come up with their own ship and Ragnar, they're
kind of known as the guys who like, they don't
know what they are called. For the people who
are listening, they are basically Mechanicus.
They are like tech priests. In Fenris, they're
just known as the guys you just don't fuck with.
Because they have metal towers. And Ragnar, for
the first time, it looks like a very tiny mine.
And it blows his mind that there's a building
made of stone. It blows his mind that people
are like, he used stone? And then they see that
they have metal, too. He's like, that's the biggest
amount of metal I've ever seen in my entire life.
Nuts. Brutal. Absolutely crazy to him. Ragnar
Bench did a gold on the island. Almost as crazy
as the five consecutive failed dodges I just
watched in the gameplay right now. Thank you.
I was trying to remember how to play the damn
game as well. Yeah, this is Hal's gameplay. I
was warming up. I was rusty. I was rusty. Oh,
yeah, yeah. Warming up. Appreciate it, brothers.
Thank you for talking to me in my bloody gameplay.
Just pointed it out. Ragnar goes onto the island
and they get gifted some iron bars, which is
basically the most amount of iron he's ever seen.
He's gifted to his father and their tribe. Ragnar
speaks to the wizard stranger. He's a strange
voice. He's very powerful and intimidating, but
Ragnar seems to actually be curious. He wants
to know more. And Ragnar says, hopefully I'll
meet you again someday. And the guy tells him,
you really hope not, because the only time I'll
ever see you again is on the day of your doom.
And Ragnar's like, okay. He's like, oh, thanks.
Yeah, appreciate it. He's like, that's kind of
weird. The tribe starts sailing back to their
home base, where they live in these ones specifically.
They are called the Thunderfists, and they live
in an area where they are essentially... They
are even like an archipelago of islands. And
so they are often on their ships. They do raiding
and fishing, all that kind of stuff. And the
funny part, like when they're heading back, they
hear like a rumbling sound in the air. And all
the tribesmen, even like the fully grown men,
just like shit themselves. And then they see
like a bird of metal flying overhead. And they're
like, what the hell is that thing? You know,
like fire is coming from the metal bird. This
is crazy. um but ragnar you know he's like no
he thinks it was probably related to uh the the
priest or the the wizard whose name was rannik
who goes by rannik uh slight thing problem with
being on fenris uh fenris is not safe ever uh
there is all kinds of creatures but the worst
thing on fenris is other fenrisians As you can
probably guess, there's a brutal tribalistic
war that continues over the entire planet, basically
at all times. And the Thunderfists in their history
had taken this like bounteous archipelago and
they had taken it from a tribe called the Grimskulls.
And we cut to a scene where essentially the Grimskulls
are planning to attack the Thunderfists at the
time when they're having this massive festival.
Ragnar, he's a bloke. He's a man now. He's got
a girlfriend. He does. He's pretty big up there
because he threw a spear into the Sea Dragon's
eye so his name will be added to the sagas and
he's like, man, I'm going to be immortal. He
loses. There's this woman who's a girl who's
named Anna who's like his childhood friend who...
Essentially, is I fucking him? Like, the entire
festival? Because he's now been like, you know,
this is the guy now. This is Ragnar. Literally,
like, airing over the... Imagine this is a tanker.
Kind of like... Oh, I see. Ragnar, he's into
it. He's like, yeah. Like, I love that girl.
I'm into it. The whole Thunderfists are preparing
for a festival. To note, most of... Fenris, where
they live, there's earthquakes and stuff. So
similar to Japan, they don't build out of stone.
They often build out of dragon bone and leathers
and stuff. Having the iron they got from the
Mechanicus elements is considered a huge amount
of iron. And they can make spears and stuff.
Steel? Haven't heard of it. Iron's the best they
got. And Ragnar's like, oh, I love this girl.
I can have a wife now. Maybe I'll get to the
old age of 30 or something. God, me now. And
they begin this festival, their scolds are talking,
everyone's getting drunk. The problem is, though,
it's like the Thunderfists, they've become milk
drinkers now. They've become a bit weak. They've
lived in the good lands for a long time, and
they don't realise that the... Grimmskulls are
planning to essentially attack. The festival
is popping off. That was the Space Wolves champion.
The Grimmskulls infiltrating slowly around the
camp as the festival is going off. Ragnar and
Anna disappear into a tent. things happen off
screen fade to black my boy they have you know
they have actual you know if you know if he lives
actual space marine who's been with a woman crazy
uh kissy kissy he you know he's like couldn't
be all of them the space wolves are like particularly
one of the chapters who tend to have like actual
lives like even um yeah what's his name uh big
four fella um ayak ayak rock fist he had like
a wife and kids He was so burly. They're like,
it doesn't matter. He's an adult. He'll be fine.
So the festival's going on. Everyone's drunk.
Ragnar's like, I'm going to be crazy. My dad's
chief. I love my dad. I'll be chief one day.
I've got a wife. It's going to be amazing. He
literally says, this is the best day of my life
ever. I'm having an amazing time. Then the Grimmskulls
attack. And there's one in particular called
Strybjorn, who is essentially the same age as
Ragnar. He's another youth. But, you know, the
Grimmskulls have been roaming in like the crappy
lands forever. And they come back for revenge
like 20 years on, which they say is ancient because
of an ancient beef. And Strybjorn is like, I'm
here to kill. You know, I'm ready to kill these
weak Thunderfists. They charge in. they start
killing people. It's pretty common in Fenris
that when a tribe, you know, they kill the men,
they take the women and the children, then they
basically incorporate them in. Happens all the
time. And now it's like real history. It's going
to happen to the Thunderfists. Ragnar runs out,
all the Thunderfists run out, and they know they're
not going to win. But, you know, you fight dying
for, you know, the Allfather and Mr. Russ himself,
the God Russ. They, the battle's pretty fierce.
Ragnar is no slouch. He takes out a few and then
something descends on from the sky and there's
a giant like slams down and it's the wolf priest.
It's Rannik, the one who Ragnar has seen before.
And he realizes this is the day of his doom.
And he realizes like Rannik is just not interfering.
He's just watching. And it kind of creeps. There's
a whole bunch of them. yeah the space wolves
are like just not watching at all he doesn't
even know what that even a space wolf is at this
point and the thing is there's also like the
grim skulls have the advantage but as soon as
they spot the space wolves the two sides part
and they allow the thunder fist to pick up weapons
and have like an equal match because they're
like ah this is a test we have to not strike
them back we have to fight them head on to prove
our worth and that's an interesting thing they
call them the choosers or the fallen as they
say and they'll go to fight with russ and you
know the upland or you know the afterlife and
ragnar's like the two sides basically clash pretty
heavily ragnar is doing gets injured but he noticed
at this point like he knows he's gonna die so
his fear just melts away and he just goes ham
and he gets a point where like he notices that
his father's been killed It brings back his emotions.
He's pretty grief stricken. And, you know, he
turns to rage. Ragnar and Strybjorn rush at each
other and they end up killing each other. They
actually die. Then Ragnar awakens. And that's
why they're called the choosers of the fallen,
because the let's say the wizards at this point,
they. on the edge of death or basically they
pass into death they take those who prove themselves
worthy in battle and they bring them back only
a few usually and ragnar's father would not make
it nor any really of the other uh member or combatants
but ragnar and strivion were both saved by rannik
and Ragnar is gutted. He sees the Thunderfist
women and children being hauled off in the Grimmskull
ships because they ran away after the battle
because they're like, oh, this place is cursed
now because the bloody Tuners of the Fallen have
appeared. They're like, yeah, let's get out of
here, but we're moving. He thinks he sees someone
waving to him, but everyone thinks he's a ghost
because he came back from the dead. It's pretty
crazy. He sees Strybjorn lying on the floor.
And just tries to murk him. Like, he just straight
up just tries to kill him. When Rannik, like
an iron glove, just grabs his hand and is like,
nah. Does the beef not end? And they always say,
laddie, he's like, look, laddie, you don't fight
your brothers, he's your brother. And I was like,
ugh, I hate him. Laddie, laddie, laddie, laddie.
And that's what they say. Yeah, it's pretty,
Ragnar has a burning hatred for Strybjorn. the
two of each other have like there's an understanding
between them both which like they wish to kill
each other pretty much he killed his dad that's
pretty bad yeah it's pretty striped one did kill
his dad um and ragnar and striped gets strapped
into a thunderhawk at the time or story stormbird
sorry and they basically they there's the first
time like they fly ever and they're like what
the hell is going on like they're like He's freaking
out that they're flying. And then he realizes
they've been transported to another site, which
seems to blow his mind. Other than the fact they
just got resurrected from the dead. They land
in a small village called Rusfig. Rusfig is built
out of wood. And this, once again, is completely
stunning. It is wood and stone. And he is like,
this is the biggest thing I've ever seen. Because
to be fair with Fenris, there's only one place
on the whole planet called Azaheim where there's
stable tectonic plates. So every other place
on the planet's always shifting. So if you try
to build stuff, a few years after you build it,
earthquake, gone. So it's like, he's like, well,
you can like build a house and it doesn't fall
over. And they're like, yeah. What? That's crazy.
It always falls over. Not here. Yeah, he's only
like 16 or 17 years old at this point. So he's
just like, this is just like, this is below my
mind that, you know, the wooden hut. The wooden
hut is crazy. And then Ragnar said, this is cray
-cray, said Ragnar. He did slay. He's just like
me. This is where they get paired up with other,
what they call the chosen. So like the other
recruits who are similar. similarly chosen from,
you know, near -death experiences all across
Fenris. And they meet another, well, wizard called
Hakon, who, as much as Rannoch is like, you know,
stoic and wise, Hakon is a ball buster. This
guy does not care. He's seen a thousand of these
guys. He's like, he literally says like, you
are worth nothing, you know, poor scum. I hate
you. You know, we're just here to see if you're
strong enough to actually, you know, now you've
been chosen. We'll see if you're strong enough
to join Russ and, you know, fight for like the
true the true warriors of, you know, Mr. Godlyman
Russ. And then, you know, all of them are pretty
keen. Ragnar is pretty like all the Thunderfists
are gone, essentially. So he's pretty he's having
a difficult time with it, but also the chance
to essentially, you know, fight for God literally
beyond death is pretty enticing. So he is definitely
keen. Stryborn is. The man has, the boy's got
a chip on his shoulder. He literally says to
the, to Mr. Ball Buster Hakon, you know, Mr.
Space Wolf, you know, like, yeah, I'll take you
on. When the Space Wolf says like, the Space
Wolf literally yells, anyone you think you can
take me? He's huge, obviously. He's enormous.
And Stryber was like, yeah, I could do it, mate.
He literally, Hakon gets out his chainsword.
puts it in the snow before Strybjorn and says,
go ahead, I'll just use my hands. Strybjorn almost
breaks his neck trying to lift the chainsaw up
and swing it. Hakon just dips side to side, and
I think he just headbutts him? Or he knocks him
down so hard and he says, that's a cool guy,
because any other guy, that would have... snapped
his neck off but that guy seems to be alive somehow
so therefore he might be worthy you have an impressively
thick skull well done yeah he gets uh it's funny
because he does he roasts him the entire time
as well it's like like this guy's an idiot thinking
he can challenge me uh it did not go well for
stride beyond but then again after this ragnar
and lots of the combatants they all pretty much
are just the same age, they're young aspirants,
and they're examined for their health. Examined
for taint as well, and Ragnar doesn't quite know
what that means yet. Taint examination? Taint
examination? He says he thinks they're examining
for things he doesn't know. To any viewer who
doesn't know where you're tainted, just ask your
mum, ask your dad. They might be able to help
you out. Also known as the zipper. Speaking of
taint, should we mention some donations? Yes,
please. Do not like the zipper. Not a fan. Not
a fan of the zipper. First one from DonkeyManUSA.
We can always rely on you, DonkeyMan. Thank you,
DonkeyMan. Once again. Smells like Stephen Cooper
for five bucks. Smells like wet dog in here.
Thanks, man. Wotan. Wotan. I don't know. Thank
you for the 50 DKK. Your PFP looks neat. I don't
know what it is, but it looks cool. Just got
my first real paycheck in quite a while. Well,
congrats. And I'm spending some of it on this.
We appreciate it. How far I've fallen. Danish
Kroner. Thank you. We never know. We're so ignorant.
I have heritage there, actually. Stephen Cooper,
again, think of it, $2. Also, Prosper was a good
start. Prosper, I think. Wow. Ah, yeah. We should
finish the job. Angry Homunculus, you've sent
me videos, bro, and I've watched them. I appreciate
that. Bro, do not leave it at that. Yeah, that's
a crazy thing to say online. They're just Will
Smith edits from... Wait, let me get the message
in. They're just Will Smith edits for the Fresh
Prince of Bel -Air, but the edit is just... Come
on. Read it, read it, read it, read it. Read
it, read it, read it. Stream late due to Hal
building a pizza hut in his garage. By the way,
Colin, have you considered the Moon Empress is
a rabbit because Chinese mythology pee? Wow.
Pee. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know what pee
has to do with anything. That was Eli's dad?
Dan Mason, not my dad, but thank you for the
$5. The only thing Space Wolves are good for
is they let me use the Vengeance for Prospero
stratagem. Or is it respectable? Still, we still
won. Well, I know who this is. Colin will wear
a green hat in four weeks. You're the five heroes.
I cursed everyone but Colin with forbidden knowledge
last week. which will confuse at least Colin,
if not all in the podcast. Happy birthday, Colin.
Please, I beg of you, it's 1L. It's also not
his birthday still. This is his 15th birthday
in the last three months. I think next week has
to be the green hat, by the way. Yeah. I think
it was six weeks originally. I don't own a green
hat. Maybe we'll have it the day you're about
to. Nimrod the Ape. Canadian. Made it to the
stream. Woohoo! Glad you enjoyed the art, Colin.
I'll make sure to follow those voices in my head
if the urge to draw more art pops up. Please.
Join the Discord if you want to see Colin pregnant.
That was a hell of a sentence. Hell of a sentence.
A bad sentence. Can I just say briefly before
that, the guy who did draw Colin pregnant, Excellent
use of free will. The guy? The gaggle of people.
You're all heroes. Excellent use of free will.
We really like the art. If we could get actual
lore crimes related art, it would be really cool,
but I will take the pregnant Colin art any day.
We'll make a pregnant Colin mini that you can
buy. Anyway, Alexander McKay. wolf wolf wolf
wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf
wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf Like, count, count.
I was there the day Horace bounced on it crazy
style. That's not it. Thank you, Sharp. 1074.
Banana dial. My name is the Amber King. Brilliant.
Lewis, 1945, for two bucks. Bully the diabetic
boys. No. Wow. That's a hell of a sentence. Last
one from Stark Boromir. Who wants to read this?
Colin, you have to. Sure. Thank you for the five,
Ka. The relationship between Godric and Felix
is that of a Discord mod and his kitten. Also,
happy one week late birthday, Colin. I don't
like that message. That's still not... Thank
you for the donations. You guys make lore crimes
possible. Yeah, thank you so much. Where was
I? Yes. At this point, they're in... Yeah, Rusvig.
And it's pretty... Like, this is more state...
It's not quite like where Ragnar's from. It's
very mountainous, which he finds quite daunting.
Again, Ragnar's a character, like, he is brave.
He's pretty strong. But he's also intensely in
grief at this point. He's just kind of consumed
by a hate to kill Strybion. But then there's
a building curiosity to, you know, who are these
grand wizards? You know, since he first met Rannoch,
you know, which was a few years before at this
point, he's very much in some way built a fascination
for the outside, you know, a life beyond what
was that in the Thunderwolves, or the Thunderfists,
sorry. All the recruits are given steel. spears,
which again, they're like, they look at these
and they're pretty impressed by them. And some
knives as well. They are told if they lose it,
they might as well not come back. And they are
assigned to claws or groups. And Ragnar is in
one which has the aspirins called Ragnar, Kjell,
Sven, Hank, and Strybjorn. Sven, Sven, Sven,
Sven. We love Sven in this household. We do.
Sven's our daughter too? Not quite. Kjell is,
like, he's called Kjell the Falconer. He's pretty
nice. Kjell is a pretty stand -up dude. He's
like a friendly ginger, though. So you can probably
tell what's going to happen to him at some point
in the story. Sven is... Yeah, I wasn't like,
you know, all the kind ones. Did you just die
in both stories? Is that what you're telling
me? That's crazy. I didn't literally even mean,
I didn't mean the kind ones. This guy hates Irish
people? This guy hates Irish people? This guy
likes straighter gingers, and I said the kind
ones. No wonder he left early. Wow. Wow. Sven,
stubborn as a mule, this guy, but pretty reliable.
Hank. is uh they always joke about hank because
he's a sheep herder hank and they say he does
stuff to sheep he does strange things to his
sheep they make jokes about that and there's
obviously kind of yeah he's welsh and there's
also strybjorn which ragnar is kind of he's not
cast about but then he's also cast about because
he's like i'm gonna kill this guy like you know
and so essentially that everyone is from all
over fenris they've never met each other before
or would ever in their lives but they're all
gathered here and they are very much uh i mean
they all kind of say how they arrived here obviously
ragnar's like you know my whole family is dead
but uh kills he kind of gets on with kelp uh
pretty well like straight away because the guy
seems to be uh i don't think kiel like his family
didn't all die so he's pretty chirpy guy which
ragnar likes uh sven and stryborn are a bit too
like to themselves and you know they sven just
won't stop eating at all yes you know you can't
get literally cannot get him to stop eating and
they're training oh and henk uh killed a troll
And they don't, like, Henker's really shy and
small, but he killed one of the deadliest creatures
on Fenris. So they're all a bit like, really?
That guy did it? So they have more respect for
him after they learn that. And after this, their
training begins. They do climbing, running, physical
combat, everything you can think of, survival
skills. Again, this is not a 140k book. This
is a fantasy book. They don't know what a chainsaw
or a bolt gun is at this point. They have just
spear. They do hunting. They're roaming around
Fenris. Ragnar, like, he kind of starts to almost
feel like he is dead in a way because, like,
his whole new life here is, like, so consuming.
And he looks out, like, on Fenris in the mountains.
He's like, wow, Fenris is actually, like, kind
of beautiful in a way, even though, see, it's
incredibly deadly. They start, you know, other
aspirants are, they don't really interact with
many of the other groups. um even there are some
who are worth mentioning later but um they also
some of the other groups like talk as well like
something mentioned that you know although i
heard there's wolfen out there and they don't
none of them really know what wolfen are at this
point but it's like like with most of venris
like deadly creatures have a kind of you know
a rumor mill about them as much as like you know
ragnar would have seen sea dragons or as the
other ones hadn't you know so they they even
trace stories where like they kind of tell each
other about different creatures because you know
if people live in different areas you know the
sheep herder probably doesn't see a sea dragon
that much um and they told like i think even
they thought like some of um uh hanks people
were like cannibals he just laughed it like no
no we're not cannibal yeah are you idiot what
are you talking about we're not cannibals we're
just like like sheep yeah it's just you get they're
all tribesmen in fenris so the rumor mill is
pretty aggressive um this gets the point where
The group starts a fire. They've been doing this
for months at this point. They've been training
and then survival expeditions by Rannik as well
as obviously Hakon. They start a group and Ragnar's
kind of been plagued with dreams as of late about
his family, about golden eyes hunting him in
some way. He wakes up. He's not the one who's
supposed to be on guard. That was Kjell. He fell
asleep. and ragnar notices there's a creepy like
a massive creature like just walking like eyes
open towards them and it's a troll and ragnar
like he wants to scream because again he's just
a boy at this point he wants to literally scream
his legs are shaking um but he like he knows
to do that would he even thinks like if i run
now i might better get away but then he realizes
now the troll probably just hunters all down
one by one so he gets his spear up very slowly,
and then he shouts for the group to attack. There's
a troll coming in. He throws his spear in it.
The group rallies together, so as much as they
all probably don't get along, they get along
now. They get along now, and they are doing pretty
good, but the troll, every time they stab the
troll, his skin and his wing are re -knitting
almost instantly. And this is when Henk shouts,
I need to use fire because he's the one who's
killed a troll. That's the only way to stop the
troll's healing. They actually do pretty good
coordination and then Henk goes in for a final
kill stroke. The troll grabs him, puts his head
in his mouth, bites his head off and then uses
his corpse as a club. Henk, the sheepherder,
is now a weapon. He is my favourite. Goodbye.
ragnar has seen like people die he's never seen
a troll eat someone's head so the rest of them
just like they just start staring at each other
like oh like you know they are terrified at this
point but ragnar is like kind of pseudo the leader
of the group they all kind of look to him in
some way and he actually managed like to break
out of the like them the fear first and he like
screamed for them just to you know they they
run to their fire they throw the fire sticks
so they burn the troll they don't kill the troll
this isn't a hero story they don't they are just
boys with a few steel like the troll is unkillable
to them essentially but the troll gets scared
away it just holds the body of hank and it runs
into a lake and they don't see it again and that's
because apparently the trolls just that's like
they live underwater so they literally like Do
we go get the body? And they're like, what do
you mean? So that one went pretty bad. Ragnar
kind of feels very responsible. He gets like
a, he thinks he's going to get like a talking
to by Hakon, but Hakon is kind of nice to him.
And he's like, you know, it's difficult losing,
you know, men and stuff like that. And Ragnar's
young. He doesn't, you know, he's never really
led men in battle before. So he doesn't deal
with it well, but. Eventually the group kind
of does move past this. Months are passing again.
Again, it's like another life. There's a funny
scene where, you know, nice, he's like, nice
Kiel, the friendliest recruit in the entire village.
He's still alive. And they get into an altercation
in the mess hall. You know that meme of like
the guy jumping up and immediately like slamming
down to punch someone? Yeah, like as soon as
someone messes with Kiel. the like ragnar's like
i'm in like i'm in uh he's talking about the
people where he jumps and he goes punches the
camera yeah the dude has a razor kick out he
literally like jumps two guys in the head um
so like another like another one of the claws
like start attacking him uh spen and strybjorn
hearing that there's a fight immediately burst
through the door and they're like yeah i'm into
this the whole mess hall erupts like everyone's
fighting everyone and then hack on like stun
was in the door they all like do that funny scene
where they pause and they look at him and they're
like shit so you know so it's pretty bad but
in a way like they jointly take they have like
um i was like you know it's the scene of like
the film like you know my captain my captain
sort of thing or um it's like you know i'm they
have like an i'm spartacus moment where they
all take responsibility for like the the mess
essentially and you can tell like the hack on
the space wolf is impressed but he tells the
rest of them to do laps and you know for ragnar
and kel to clean up the mess and then go do laps
i think the other character is called nils who
started the fight but is like kind of with them
and he will appear later as well but essentially
they all bonded like they're actually friends
at this point obviously apart from ragnar and
strive on who he is desperate to kill he thinks
about killing him every night uh ragnar almost
dies at one point They're doing more cliff facing
and he's like, I'm going to die because this
point his fingers like almost like bloody stumps,
you know, that you're like things are frozen.
He falls off a cliff. It's like falling down.
He thinks he grabs a ledge, falls again. Kiel
saves his life. The dude like legitimately like
reached out and grabbed him and they like slammed
into the cliff together. So Ragnar like kind
of owes him his life and. uh right now it's like
that's like that's the closest i've come to death
at this point um so you're like you know he's
despite how strong they are he was like that's
a pretty close call and at this point it's i
don't know if it's i would say it's like a year
or maybe almost a year at this point ragnar and
the claw at this point they meet with hack on
and like they are told you know they've basically
said like this at this point you've done a lot
But this is nothing compared to what happens
next. And this is the annoying theme in this
book because this keeps coming up. They are told
several times, like, this is nothing. You haven't
seen anything yet. And you can tell they're like,
oh, my God. They are told that they have been
chosen. It's funny because they see, like, new
recruits come in and they're like, oh, you guys
think you're so cool. You know, the new guys.
We're the old guys now. So we're the cool kids
on the block. But they're told that they are
being chosen for the next stage, for the elevation
into what will be. men like these wizards and
ragnar's pretty nervous at this point um he doesn't
like the idea of what's next is pretty daunting
again he's not a superhuman he's just a guy um
even despite all they've done he feels like he
feels stronger and more knowledgeable and you
know basically more powerful he's ever felt before
but even saying like you know what's coming next
i mean even more challenging is pretty incredibly
daunting And then there's something, Hakob makes
an offhanded comment about, you know, there's
this gate of Morkai. And basically at this point,
the claws are disbanded and they will go as one
big group of the recruits. And then Ragnar's
like, I can kill Strybjorn now because I'm no
longer part of the group. I'm going to kill this
MF. And the group go into another Stormbird.
They fly again, which blows their mind. and then
they see the fang uh would someone here like
to explain briefly kind of what the the fang
is just for the the uninitiated monastery monastery
in a mountain with pretty much tears maybe explain
like what is their fortress monastery for because
at this point even ragnar doesn't have any clue
what that is though It's the home of a Space
Marine chapter. All their gene seed and their
prayers are done and they've got all their weapons
and relics and all that nonsense and all the
Space Marine finery, which in this case means
feasting halls and whatnot. The thing is probably
the most detailed one that we have of all the
fortress monasteries. If you just look it up,
it'll tell you what all the floors have. it's
literally like a fortress mountain at this point
it's pretty again like remember to ragnar and
the group they think like the little wooden village
was the most impressive thing they'd ever seen
so then they see the fang and they're like and
then they see this like 80 foot statue either
side of just the entrance with like a big shield
and a sword and they're like oh yeah this is
like this is about differing levels of like i
just can't comprehend the scale uh it's pretty
incredible to them and you know like they're
pretty at this point they're gassed like ragnar's
pretty excited he's like yeah we're gonna be
we're gonna be joining with like the people who
would like fight with russ and stuff this is
amazing um just obviously for even the fenris
and tribesmen they know of lehman ross but again
it's like told who they're like skilled through
like myth and things that they think it's they
don't really know much about him or like anything
else beyond that and bear in mind they have an
oral tradition wink wink but no like they they
talk they talk about stories they don't have
anything written down it's like stories are told
from generation to generation through a skilled
with the people like uh do you want to hear about
that time we dunked on magnus like do i i want
to hear that every day before i go to bed i'm
seven years old i'm about to go fighting the
wars with the tribes great i need to get a good
story in me um and yeah like fenris is harsh
enough as it is but just like yes scalds are
more detailed in in the horus heresy series but
they're quite interesting they're pretty yeah
it's pretty considered quite uh like scalds you
anyone who like they have like gray hair in like
normal like the only ones who like don't fight
they're they're usually spared and that they're
allowed to get old because obviously they're
pretty impressive you know killing them is probably
a big taboo um they enter into the fang they
see other men like ranic and hakon and they're
like wow this is like incredible uh they see
like proper tech priests now that they think
is similar to the ones on the uh island that
ragnar saw many years ago uh he sees rannik again
and ragnar's kind of happy to see him because
he does him and rannik slightly have a bond where
rannik is very sympathetic to ragnar because
obviously you can tell rannik has been through
exactly where he's been before and he's he likes
the curiosity of ragnar ragnar always asks questions
you know he's a bit smarter than the rest of
the group in some way like they're not dumb but
um ragnar's obviously you know he's a bit more
of a strategist compared to the brawler that
the rest of them are and they will go they start
descending deep into the fang again again it
blows their mind that you can go this far into
a mountain let alone it's like 80 stories high
or something um how many pickaxes did this take
and it's like no we have like this and it's just
like a gigantic boring machine they're seeing
they're seeing a lot of things they don't like
they're hearing things like obviously we understand
what it is in 40k but they have no clue like
what like they think like what does the server
tell they have no idea what those things are
they just kind of they they understand it in
their way in which is like oh it's magic and
the the funniest i think it's like one of the
funniest scenes in the book is ranic takes the
aspirants who are about i guess i think 20 strong
at this point and they go up to this little like
hole in the wall and then they think it's like
oh this is where i'm like am i gonna die here
uh it's an elevator like it's one of those it's
like a grab it's like a grab elevator and they
all are like shitting themselves because they're
like oh my god like the guy went in he just disappeared
like and they're like i'm hearing a rustling
noise and it's just like a generator like there's
a beast down there that's lurking in the darkness
it's like no it's just the pulley system calm
down yeah it's just a bunch of tribesmen getting
scared by an elevator um but it's one of those
ones like you have to drop down and then like
at the bottom is like an anti -grav thing and
they flow at the end uh ragnar falls down and
then he starts going like we towards the end
because he's enjoying it yeah yeah yeah uh he
lands on it and then uh i think it kills something
or sven makes it kills like That was so much
fun. And then he hears Sven coming down. He's
like, move! Move it! Sven would literally crush
him if he landed on him. They all potentially
roll out and they're all giggling at the end.
And then it's serious time again. For God forbid.
Because now it's time for the Gate of Morkai.
The Gate of Morkai is a challenge. The whole
group, Ragnar particularly, feel like there's
something strange about this literal, like, almost
gateway that's deep inside the Fang. And essentially,
Rannik says, who wants to go first? And surprisingly,
Ragnar, out of his own mouth, said, I'll do it.
And he's like, why did I volunteer first? This
is a pretty crazy scene, because I don't think
every chapter will ever do this, but the Gate
of Morkai is a... They check them for taint and
chaos. This is a test of the spirit. So Ragnar
takes a step through this etched gate and he
falls unconscious. He sees three old men distantly
who look like space wolves slightly in the distance
watching him and then he gets put through these
trials. He sees each of the chaos gods in a myriad
of different versions of himself. Each of them
offers a temptation of joining him. You'll be
given the strength of a warrior to cleave and
spill blood and collect skulls. You'll be given
resilience beyond that of Yordwada's dreams.
You'll be given sensual pleasures. Obviously,
he's still a man. He's not a spaceman. You want
another girlfriend? He's still a normal dude
at this point. The dude gets horny, literally.
He's like, this is crazy. Gets given power of
his own destiny. He gets given... pretty vivid
dreams about like each of his friends are all
dead but each of the chaos apparitions are offering
him a thing and each time he's kind of almost
tempted but he's put off until the final one
he is offered on a ritual table with a dagger
a tied up Strybjorn and it's a chaos marine who
says we will you know, will give you your vengeance.
This guy killed your father. Your ancestors are
begging for, you know, to be honored. You know,
they they cannot rest without your vengeance.
Kill him and we'll give everything you ever wanted.
And Ragnar is like he lifts the dagger up immediately.
He's like, Yeah, I'll kill him. But then in a
part of his brain, he like he knows that to do
this. Also, he he knows if he does this, though,
he will. in a way like be damned or something
like something will tear him apart after and
he gets pretty close like descending the dagger
because obviously he hates this guy um eventually
he rejects and he stabs himself in the gut in
this like dreamscape um which does wake him up
and when ragnar awakens he's on like he's basically
on his own table next to all the other aspirants
and some of them did not wake up Because this
is literally like, if you fail this, you die.
So some of them would have been corrupted by
chaos, and therefore, despite all they've been
through for a year or months, they just die on
the table. Get rid of them. Yeah. Ragnarok gets
pretty upset about some of this. He finds it
pretty distasteful. He gets chastised. He didn't
like the fact that the three old men he saw at
the beginning were the rune priests of the Space
Wars. They were watching him, and he felt like...
It was weirdly invasive. They're literally there
with the hand on the plug. Just like, I'm going
to pull it. I'm going to pull it if you fall.
And they do say to him, of all the aspirants
we've ever seen, you are by far the closest to
falling who didn't fall. It's like, yeesh. Like,
I'm going to pull the plug out. I'm going to
do it. That is not a compliment. He was told,
like, his ultimate weakness is his hatred. It
tells his hatred for Strybion and his need for
vengeance. And it says it's not weak. It's not
weak to have, like, hate in his heart. Obviously,
you hate the enemy. You hate the alien. But it's
a weakness that will be exploited by chaos eventually
if he does not allow himself to. move past his
hatred of Stryvion. Any more hate and you be
a blood angel, dude. That's basically what they
say. What's going on? Yeah. It's pretty like,
yeah, the recruits are being whittled down quite
a lot, though. Before we do the next round of
donations, there is a small lore drop, which
is Rustvig is not the only village. There's three
other villages, they say, on the Fang. So the
amount of recruits that come in is a lot. I think
there's actually millions of Fenrisians out there,
because The amount of recruits you whittle down
in each part of the process is obviously pretty
crazy. Before we go any further though, obviously
we don't have any more donations up between that
though. One from Bunny Cop for 10 bucks. Me,
I'm not going to listen to any Wolf books. Al,
William King wrote this. Me, I will listen to
one book. Good to hear you again. You make my
work in the past better. Thank you. Appreciate
it. You shall listen to this baseball floor.
Certainly. Thank you for the 750 isk. I know
this is off topic, and I apologize, but the new
official Night Rain trailer is literally an Evanescence
Bring Me to Life AMV, and I had to share. That
sounds awesome. How many AMVs are there of that
song? Unlimited. There's millions. Back when
YouTube... Was verdant and you I did a within
temptation am the fun bit a little huge, which
is like a dandy amv. This is huge Yeah Yeah,
and metal gear solid twin snakes. Oh Yeah, I
named this trailer wasn't even I mean, that's
awesome Is there any more should I continue nope,
that's the that's all we got appreciate it. Thank
you very much brothers. I appreciate it hoping
everyone's locked into the story at this point
because i i i wish i could get across how good
like a lot of the normal interactions are with
characters it's very hard to summarize again
this book is quite long but um there's a lot
of really good moments and again ragnar himself
as a character is um again he's still young but
obviously you can tell like he genuinely cares
about other Space Wolf aspirants as much as other
ones probably don't. And he is consumed by his
need to kill the guy who literally murdered his
dad in front of him. Understandable. That's crazy,
yeah. This is where the recruits now, they essentially
get a massive law drop. They are told by Rannik,
who is like, everything you know of Lehman Russ,
it is so much more than that. This is officially
where the Warhammer 40K begins. They are told
that Leman Russ is a son of the Allfather, the
Emperor who sits on the Golden Throne of Earth.
Russ was a Primarch, and he united Fenris in
ancient times. And they are told that those who
are worthy will battle humanity's enemies across
not just Fenris, but across the stars. The fact
there are other planets is crazy to them. They
also learn that those who will be worthy will
undergo this process. And they learn about things
that are the Wolfen, which obviously for them
is just a rumor. But they learn that that's a
real thing. And they are told that they will
next drink from the cup of Wolfen. Now, this
part really annoys me. Andy, would you like to
explain why the Wolfen pie is so dumb? well i
i don't know i mean that seems pretty easy to
me you got it you got a canis helix gene you
got a gene seed implantation you drink from the
cup you become a wolf boy what's what's not to
like i don't know what you're talking about it's
so annoying because if they drink from this uh
cup which is of which has the canis helix in
it which is like the special ingredient to help
help them transform into space wolves It's like
the catalyst to activate their gene seed, basically.
Yeah, it's not the full stuff, but they are told
these creatures that are like hybrid men and
wolf. They are not called wolfen because they
look like wolves. They are called wolfen because
long ago when Leman Russ was... They are called
wolfen because they are named after a dude. This
dude who was beaten by Leman Russ and he joined
him as one of his guard. And when Lehman Ross
was found by the emperor and he was like, I'm
going to unite all of you, we're going to battle
and we're going to wage war across the stars.
And everyone was like, yeah, that sounds amazing.
He was the one dude who's like, I'm going to
kill Lehman Ross. I've hated him the entire time.
So when he drunk from the cup, when he drunk
from this cup, you know, 10 ,000 years ago. his
hatred of lehman russ betrayed him and he turned
into like you know basically he said it brought
it reflected the heart within and he transformed
into a wolfen and the guy's name was y 'all wolfen
but that's why they're called wolfen because
they're called like betrayers of russ essentially
not because the gw strikes yet again i know it
is so stupid but uh it's because i love ark and
land They cannot control the beast within, essentially,
that comes from drinking the Canis Helix. Ragnar,
they get, like, little sticks, and they basically
have to, you know, from one to, like, 16 at this
point. Ragnar's the last one to drink from the
cup. So he sees every single one of them, even
Strybjorn, like, and Sven, and another one called
Nils, and Kjell. They all drink from the cup.
Fine. They all expect it to happen straight away
if you're evil or something. And then obviously
Ragnar's last. He's like, oh god. Why me last?
Why me? He drinks from the cup. He says he doesn't
taste of anything. And then he's like, nothing's
happening. This is okay. Nothing happens. All
the aspirants literally go like, you good? Yeah?
You good? You good? Yeah, I'm good. You good?
You good? Yeah? oh that wasn't so bad but then
yeah then they start to feel a bit hot under
the collar they get locked within cells uh they
realize like right like ragnar's initial thought
going into this area like it's kind of looks
like a prison when you first went to the gate
of more kind of prison like uh it is a prison
low -key little bit little prison as they say
um they're all locked in their cells and they
over the coming like week really start to feel
it uh Their vision gets better. Their nails grow
and they harden. His hearing gets to the point
where... They go through space wolf puberty,
basically. They get more hair. Ragnar hates it.
He's like, my skin is so sensitive. I can smell
way too much. There's this inner demon beast.
There's an inner wolf, literally. i know um but
like is essentially bashing for control over
them their primal instinct is way too high uh
there's a funny scene where like the space falls
to drop a dead deer in there for them to eat
uh ragnar woke up first um he's doing all right
basically he goes out first He sees Strybjorn,
who literally is like, you know, proper, I mean
like general Grievous level running towards him.
Like this dude is like, he's obviously like lost
a bit of control. Ragnar just knocks him out
in one punch and immediately is like, the beast
within him is like, kill him, kill him, kill
him. You know, and Ragnar's like, if I kill him,
I will lose to the beast, which annoys him. It's
like, oh, I really wish to kill this guy. But
if I do, then I'll literally become a wolfen.
So this is terrible. It takes every ounce of
him not to do it, but he eventually, he just
eats some of the dead deer and then runs back
into his cell. Meanwhile, the other ones wake
up. So dude just, he managed to get through it
though. But at some point after a week, he feels
pretty good. He feels strong, powerful. His body
is transformed. He's broader. His every sense
is enhanced. Some again, some of the aspirants,
like they just died. Some of them pretty much
were dragged away by the Space Wolves and obviously
taken out back and shot because they just didn't
make, obviously they lost. Man just literally
got Bambi'd to the game. And then we have a part
where essentially they're all lined up again.
Ragnar's looking across the group. Sven, loving
it. He's loving the transformation. Strybjorn's
a bit, he's even more of like a pissed off. Aggie
teenager. He's grimmer than ever. Grim skulls,
grim... Unfortunately, Ragnar sees that Kjell
is not looking so hot. He's not... He looks like
he's scratching his wrists to the point of, like,
they're bleeding, and he looks like a little
bit feral. But he's still there. So Ragnar's
a bit worried for him, because that's, like,
his best mate at this point. The whole aspirant
group are then told, like, once again, this has
been nothing yet so far. The real tests are yet
to come. For goodness sake. But they're told,
like, this will be the last proper test, though.
Ragnar and all the survivors are taken to a Thunderhawk,
and they are thrown outside. One by one, they
are thrown into the wilderness of Fenris, and
they are told, make it back to the Fang. If you
don't, you're dead. RIP Bozo. Yeah, RIP Bozo.
The... Ragnar like they're given some pretty
good gear though isn't like they're given like
some um clothing that's like pretty damn warm
but nothing else only clothing and and yeah I
think it gives like a piece and a little I think
he finds a piece of Flint pretty early on but
they do have little um they all have a unique
necklace with like a rune on it and like each
of them has like a unique carving rune on their
necklaces and they essentially at this point
um just told make it back to the fang and ragnar
you know using all this you know he's not the
boy he was at the beginning he has all these
survival skills he's grown throughout the book
and he's obviously he's smarter now he knows
exactly what to do he finds but i like what william
king does in the book he like he finds a way
to make it so like he actually explains like
you know he um you know he immediately finds
him flint calls up trees to find eggs and things.
And then he, at one point, she's a giant wolf,
a Fenrisian wolf, not just like a normal wolf
though. It's on the, like the, those big MFs
that like Liam Ross sometimes used to go around
hurting Magnus with on Prospero. He sees one,
but this one's an old wolf. It's like a gray
hair and it's injured. Ragnar manages to kill
it. To be fair, he thinks he's like, I'm totally
him now. I'm the new guy. So he thinks he could
take it pretty easy. He finds out the wolf was
a lot stronger than he thought, despite how powerful
Ragnar is now. But he does manage to eventually
kill it. He skins the wolf and wears its black
mane as its fur. And bear in mind, killing a
Blackmane is like a really big deal. Like the
only character who's done it since is this guy,
Ionoth, Kyarg Ionoth. And he's a Primaris. And
he was a Primaris when he killed it. And even
then he did it by the skin of his teeth. So he
doesn't really think he earned it. That's how
rare it is to kill a Blackmane. That's how, and
again, that's why eventually his company would
become the Blackmanes because it's like, you
killed a what? Yeesh, that's like the biggest
game in town. Holy heck. That's a pretty big
deal. But to be fair, he even says like, you
know, it was like an old injured one. It was
a geriatric wolf. Yeah, he said he thought it
was one who like he'd lost like a rival fight.
And then he's pretty terrified of it. Again,
he's still a man at this point. He's not, you
know, he's not absent of, you know, he's not
like a start. He's definitely, he's enhanced.
You know, he's juiced up. um he's been you know
buying the major kill stuff but um but he's definitely
not crazy but he's definitely not um he does
he almost gets killed doing it like he almost
burns out doing it but he does eventually kill
the wolf and he skins it he uses like its sinew
as like to make like a makeshift sling he makes
like a homemade spear with the flint um and he
obviously dons like the wolf fur for warmth um
At this point, Ragnar is, he's making his way
back towards the Fang, and the Fang is obviously,
like, in mountains. It's pretty high up. And
he just, like, looks out, and he says, like,
man, I, like, there's a stream down there. I
can hear birds chirping. He's like, life would
be pretty good here. Like, I could just stay
here my entire life. And, you know, I'm strong
enough to live here now. And here's a thought,
like, I could just not go back to the Fang. I
could just be a man. But at this point, he's
just... he's too he's he's too invested in a
way in which he's like i actually want to like
know more about these men of rust like i actually
kind of wish to serve in that way like my life
is more than just survival uh you know i he's
emotionally like he would kill stride on in his
sleep he hasn't done it because he has a sense
of honor and ragnar is he's he still hates stride
onto his very guts but he's willing to be like
i'm kind of more into this thing at this point
so he's He said, I will go back to the fang.
He's getting close to the fang. He can see it.
And then he realizes he's being hunted. Something
has been following him for a little while. He
gets pretty close. He thinks he can make it to
the fang without a confrontation. But he's like,
no, I have to face this. So he finds himself
in a little enclosed area, somewhere that can
cover his back, like a big boulder. Gets his
spear and... He's like, I'm going to fail. And
he starts a fire, puts it to his back so he doesn't
lose his night vision. And he's like, I'm going
to face whatever is hunting me. And then he sees
a wolfen. And that's when he realized that before
this, they'd realized the area around the fang
is just filled with wolfen of like failed aspirants.
Like the whole area is like just a danger zone.
And he sees this wolfen and it's, you know, this
point again, he's still a. you know, half boy
man. So he like it literally makes his like skin
prickle and he's like she was like, holy crap.
This thing he in a way like there's like a moment
between the two when they have eye contact and
he's like, do I want to kill this thing? And
he thinks he can see like some humanity in the
wolf and left. But then the wolf and just charges
him right now, takes a spear, rams it through
his heart. and it like kind of dies on his as
it's dying on his spear he realizes he recognizes
the rune along its neck and it was his best friend
who says ragnar with his dying breath so the
only the only guy who like who'd made him like
laugh or smile since his like his whole family
died he killed him well that's depressing yeah
and he literally like spends better he he he
howls in like grief at this point because he's
like you know i can't believe i killed my own
friend by my own hand um he's pretty gutted about
that but the next we see like ragnar arise back
at the fang he did it and now it is time to warhammer
40k ragnar sven nils who's like kind of ragnar's
known ish but Now that the group is so small,
there's only 10 of them. Maybe 12 of them left.
Some of the recruits, some of them didn't make
it back. They either got killed or decided to
not come. And I remind sometimes Hakon would
just execute recruits who were not up to snuff.
He'd just be a bit like, ah, useless. Oh, hate
this guy. Some of them just worked. There was
one funny bit in the book, which is like... one
night in when you're back in rustic before the
um transformation stuff uh one of the recruits
who was on um century he just went missing in
the night and all the space walls grabbed their
weapons and went looking for him because they're
like he got kidnapped by something and they couldn't
find him yeah so you mean you lost him you were
nicked by a troll or something yeah at that point
um at this point yeah ragnar arise back at the
group So they're back at the Fang, Ragnar, Sven,
Nils, and Strybjorn. He made it. They're about
to have something even greater happen to them
that they've done so far. Is there any more donuts
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another Colin whose parents got the spelling
correct. Huge. Huge. Wow. One L for the win.
Your parents weren't savages. Crazy. Well, thank
you very much. It's Colin. Two L's because we
got an U. Idiot. I got told off by AlphaBones
recently. He was like, it's Connor with an E,
not an O. I was like, oh. I've just been calling
you Connor for like a year. Should be with an
O, but that's less egregious. That's, you know,
I get that. We have another one. Oh, one more.
Yep. Main event merger. Five euros. I'm taking
a break from Expedition 33 to tell all of you
to go play Expedition 33. I'll check it out.
Really good. I've heard. Rob, the honest wargamer,
has been raving about it. Interesting. I do want
to give it a proper go. Where am I? So at this
point Ragnar and the group they start to undergo
they're told after a month they are told by the
tech priest that their transformation is settled
so they're ready for the next stage which is
they undergo the Astartes surgery. Re -education
as well. This is the fun part here. They're cut
open, lovingly presented with Astarte's organs
and stuff and their place within them. Ragnar
describes it in the book as quite, their body
is really uncomfortable because there's basically
an extra organ shoved in their guts at this point,
but eventually it settles down and they start
getting even larger. He says it's quite trippy
because when he's transforming he's obviously
getting taller so he says like he feels like
weirdly like out of sync because he's like oh
my god i come at a new height now um they also
get okay does anyone know the meme of like you
inject like 10 000 years of knowledge into your
friend's brain or 40 40k stuff oh with the cat
yeah it's just like yes well that turns out someone
took like a song like a bit too literally um
they have something called the crown of knowledge
uh they're obviously all been tribesmen at this
point you don't have enough time to educate them
all so they space wolves have a literal crown
that if they wear it it literally injects like
10 000 years of space world history i assume
like what is it from i was considering from x
-men cerebro i was thinking like that bit where
uh what is it vision grabs ultron just oh yeah
yeah yeah He sees one second of the internet
and he's like, destroy humanity. Destroy humanity.
At this point, the Ragnar experiences the crown
and he's like, he literally, he's like, he sees
the heresy. He understands. It's funny because
earlier he was like, someone said like the word
chemistry when the tech breeze and he literally
went, what the fuck is the word chemistry? He
doesn't like it again. That's like, that's how
ignorant they are. What am I looking at? Yeah.
He doesn't know what that word meant at all.
At this point, now he does. He understands what
space wolves are. He understands the transformation
happening in his body. He learns of the entire
chapter's history. There's this thing called
puberty, young man. Not every part of it sinks
in properly, but it does over time. like knowledge
like you know gifts of how like how their weapons
operate what is science what is technology what
is you know the history of mankind what is terror
what is the emperor of mankind not just the all
-father so they get to learn so much about the
entire obviously they literally they learn about
this is the actual point where warmer 40k is
relevant in the entire book and it's basically
near the end um at this point as well he starts
to put on his first set of armor which is a pretty
big deal for him he actually has an experience
where they ask him to like have a rock in his
hand and he can kind of like he can explain like
in a style of his armor uh he can like feel like
the sensitivity of touch on it but there's like
fake in the armor but and then like he feels
like he can actually cross like ball you know
stones in his hands like easily his uh he's in
his obviously force of armor now he's actually
a space wolf kind of the tech marine is like
he puts the pebble in his hand and he's like
crush it and he's like what is it no no bro trust
me trust me give it like a he goes oh wow he's
like yeah this is gonna take a bit of getting
used to like go easy it's gonna take a while
yeah there's a the blades of grass armor and
it's weird it's strange there's a part here which
is um it explains like you know the whole thing
of ultramarines was like theoretical and practical
uh All of their knowledge right now is basically
theoretical. So they start training with actually
Astarte's weapons, which is hilarious because
they go to a gun range and Ragnar can't hit anything.
He is terrible. Because obviously he's like,
he knows how the gun works and stuff. And to
be fair, to rub it in, the instructors are just
like, doesn't even look. It's like, you get used
to it. We all live. he's pretty frustrated because
he's like he's been basically good at everything
else everything so far because it's all been
like an offshoot of like tribal life now he's
actually learning you know you know ugly hand
grenade you know guns and stuff like that he's
actually learning about chainsaws and things
and there's another cool part here which i don't
think is in many other stories below the fang
they have training areas and they have different
training areas which have different like flora
and fauna so there's one part where they're training
in like a sweaty jungle in on Fenris but like
in a cave and they do other like one they're
like deserts and they do other things so there's
the different areas which again you imagine to
them they're like they they know now on what
a desert is or what a forest is like you know
tropical forest but this is the first time they've
ever seen them like that in their entire lives
so it's pretty uh incredible to them um but also
uh despite so many like like probably 12 of them
getting to this stage here. It's still pretty
dangerous. One of the recruits manages to shoot
his own head off with the gun because he forgets
about gun safety. And he's already gone through
the transformation of being a space horse. The
resident apothecary just there going, Great.
That's just great. It gets better. No, wait,
hang on, hang on. He remembered gun safety. The
first rule of gun safety is to have fun. Have
fun, baby. And the guy does like a proper, like
he cleans it wrong. And then he's like, and then
Ragnar and Sven are like, yeah. And they're like,
damn, he forgot that the chamber was, you know.
Still had a bullet. That's the second rule. Look
right down the barrel and make sure it's empty.
I feel like with a bolt around, you would just
do that. You go, oh yeah, I can feel there's
some weight in this. You take that out, there'd
be a noticeable difference. But no, guess not.
Silly wolves. Yeah, that one didn't go so hot.
It gets worse. It gets worse. Turns out there
was more than one death. uh one of the recruits
blew himself up with his own grenade god bless
god bless uh yeah so he just because they've
been training with a lot with um like literally
like paintball guns or paintball rounds at this
point and they start training with the real stuff
and then one of them acts on himself like he
just blows himself up pretty bad and this is
my favorite one by far they're sitting at dinner
like in the feast hall and one of the recruits
just goes And just dies. Because it turns out
sometimes the gene seed just doesn't work. You
know, it's rare. He just shit out a little bit,
our bad fellow. At the table, he just goes, and
he just dies at the table. He's just sitting
there, head lulled. And everyone's like, what
the hell just happened? No, he's dead. What?
Oh, okay. What do you mean? He died. Just died
at the table. Could you imagine getting that
far though? Could you imagine? Dante like, I
wish. Yeah, that was pretty rough. At this point
though, they've been training again for the months.
I guess probably only 18 in some way, but he
feels very different now. He's literally a space
wolf. His knowledge is far beyond what he knew
before. they have to explain like a lot of the
knowledge sometimes is like they have to almost
like sort through their brain because like so
much was uploaded at once that they sometimes
have to remember things in a different way to
like yes i do know about that stuff give me a
second because you know it's not like normal
memory or like instinct they actually have to
you know it was like it was basically imprinted
in their brain so they have to it's a bit different
for them like remembering how certain things
work outside of like their normal lives before
this Ragnar at this point then has his next like
happiest day of his life when he is taken to
Deep in the Fang and he's asked to make his pledges
to the chapter and at this point he's in he's
like I'm so in like you know he can't wait to
see more about the stars the galaxy he He feels
like a sense of massive pride being, you know,
I'm a Fenrisian and we're tied to this incredible,
you know, chapter of honor and, you know, immense
sort of, you know, grandiose, like, you know,
we're saving humanity. Essentially, we fight
for the, you know, the greatest, greatest boys
ever. He feels incredible about doing this big
moment in his life. They get drunk. There's a
huge feast in the hall. They get, you know, Space
Wolves. Usually Astartes are immune to alcohol
and all kinds of toxins. But the Space Wolves
are special, special boys. And they managed to
brew a beer so strong that even Space Wolves
can get drunk. And they're like, I mean. My mouth
watered when they described this meal. They said,
like, there's, like, a full -on, like, you know,
like, slow -roasting section in there. They had,
like, full -on chunks of, like, you know, pork,
venison, and beef. And I was like, bro. And beer.
Just, like, constant beer. Real talk. Bit of
a sidebar. If you guys, if you fellas had the
opportunity to have, like, Kata -chan roasted
tyranid, like, bits, would you give it a try?
Just be like, screw it. As long as it won't kill
me. I want to give it a try. Let me take a nibble.
I'm a big food fan. I mean, will I die? Well,
let's just assume no. We'll find out. But if
you live, you'll become ripped. And that's the
beauty of it. I wish that every day of my life.
I'm always six weeks away. from my perfect form
okay always six weeks away um at this point though
ragnar is very much and then he catches sight
of um strybjorn and like he loses like all of
his joy because again he just thinks that i just
need to kill this mf i need to kill this guy
um he still can see like as much as hatred is
like again they've warned him about it you know
he's not he's not at the end of one book, you
know, finish his character arc, he's still got
a lot of work to do. The next part is, like,
I feel it's weirdly, like, tacked on at the end
of this book, surprisingly, but just finishing
up, because obviously it's just summarizing it
briefly. They go, essentially, the Blood Claws
and all their mission, like, all their group,
they are assigned their first mission, which
is to go find, like, a scouting party on Fenris
who just basically didn't answer the call back.
They are with one of their older space wolves
who I can't remember the name of off the top
of my head, but this guy is a long fang. Obviously,
as space wolves live longer, their fangs get
longer, their hair gets grey. This guy is an
old space wolf and to the point in which he knows
every member of his... Oh, is it Sergeant Hengist?
Hengist, that's it. Every member of his group
is... Essentially, they all died at this point,
and so he's sent back to Fenris to work on recruitment.
So he's kind of all alone. Imagine if... For
this guy, it's a sad fate for Longfangs, where
all their friends basically are dead at this
point, and they've been waging war for centuries,
and they're like, yeah, I'm ready to go, because
I'm literally the last one left. So he's not...
This guy's like gigantic walruses, which is pretty
cool. That's where they go a long time. They
eventually find this cave entrance. Something's
quite off with it. But a long story short is
they descend deeper and deeper in. And eventually
they find that there is a literal Thousand Suns
Chaos Sorcerer on Fenris. uh yeah with an all
-on shrine like how did that get there that should
be yeah some of the group was here some of the
group was split earlier took like before they
went in to call for reinforcements uh ragnar
and stride on um went in with it and this is
a chaos sorcerer they don't have a chance they're
just dudes with bolters at this point though
uh hengist tells like ragnar like and some of
the others to like you know you go we'll hold
him off they start retreating back they find
like cultists and other crazy things like start
attacking them um they start they're space wars
now so they do munch them pretty easily but eventually
gets the point where strybjorn gets injured and
now ragnar's in a dilemma because he's like you
know he's like since you're injured he's like
yes yes but now he's also like that's his space
walk brother so it's like yeah cool literally
being like do it do it yes uh before we finish
off the tale of right now there's any more last
few donors maybe just for uh a couple more edging
us with with hal here thank you space wolves
get 10 000 years of chapter law beamed into their
brain in the form of a little dark age edits
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Another woo -woo? One thing later? Crazy. It's
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I hate the hypno -indoctrination? Seems like
an excuse to write bad Marine characters, you
know? I read the word hypno -indoctrination.
Yeah, you thought something else. I went to better
places than I thought. Fair enough, fair enough.
I mean, they do that with every Space Marine
captain, one way or another. Every Space Marine
gets like, hey, this is why you should hate Chaos.
It goes straight in the brain. You can just also,
I mean... default imperium like there's there's
a little bit of indoctrination at every level
of society and and let's and let's be honest
right i've seen the recent news about kids with
like ipads at school not like learning using
ai to write their like essays if we had that
tech right now every school in the world would
be like right beam the info directly into their
brain we need more accountants we need more builders
we need just give them the info get them on the
workforce go on we'd be in this novel though
this is 20 years old this novel so i imagine
this is one of the first ones that actually mentioned
that was a thing yeah so they i think they get
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i have a favorite vtuber i guess it would be
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that's a name isn't it yeah that's a that's an
actor i believe oh i see is it i think it's a
anime i mean like a like a singer avatar yeah
yeah she is Avatar, but it's like an artist.
I don't know if it's the same thing as a VTuber.
I don't know, bro. I don't know. I'm just saying.
I bet Colin knows the answer. He's just not saying
anything. I didn't actually hear the name, so
I'm kind of just lost. Oh, no. That's just a
computer voice. She's a friend to everyone, but
there's no person behind that. It's a lie. It
uses a voice bank. That's how all those singing
anime women thing work. Damn. We need Bricky
here for you to unite on your love of YouTuber
personalities. Listen. Fuck him for getting them
into the wrong Warhammer. That is a degenerate.
Mike, Eli did not say the N word. What are you
talking about? Anyway, so Temple of Chaos on
Fenris. What's going on? Ragnar at this point
is pretty tempted to let Strybjorn die. I don't
do it justice. He is warring within him, but
eventually he helps lift up Strybjorn. They start
carrying him out. in like the indian man himself
eventually they realize like this you know their
group who held off the sorcerer is definitely
dead and they get confronted by the guy again
uh the two of them actually team up together
to go take on this sorcerer and through their
teamwork together like they actually put their
full trust into each other as like brothers should
and eventually they do manage to like take him
down he is someone who we will They actually
kill him, but this is crazy, this person. We'll
be hearing from this character again. I don't
ever want to bring it up in this episode because
he has more of a part to play later, kind of.
It's Nagash. It's a Thousand Sons Marine who,
like, he actually can't die, which is interesting.
He also has an offhanded comment where he mentions,
like, you know, when you guys attacked Fenris,
you know, or you guys, you know, he meant he,
he, he lures with like the Prospero in the space
world history that Ragnar has in his mind. It's
obviously the space wars are like completely
just in doing it, obviously. And in some way
there's a weird mix match where he's like, you
know, the thousand sons attacked the Imperium
and therefore we, you know, the, you know, the
space wars and ancient space, or, you know, they.
Prospero was an act of self -defense, said Ragnar.
You attacked us first. And Ragnar's like, that's
not true. Duh. So it's an interesting... What
we say, a little propaganda in the space of,
you know, stimulation crown thing. And they manage
to take down this sorcerer. They're pretty beaten
up and near death. This is when the others...
the whole basically because there was an alert
like chaos is on fenris the entire space force
chapter everyone is like what and they get like
the entire they leave the cave and they're like
the entire like chapter who is on fenris that
well but the way they explain it is like each
term of the great companies of space or like
basically their own chapters trying strong companies
yeah they periodically come back and forth to
fenris to like you know, re -crew and, you know,
re -arm and things like that. That hasn't happened
yet for Ragnar's group, but the group who are
on Fenris anyway, all of them show up. And they're
like, everything okay, boys? It's basically that
Super Smash Bros. trailer where it's like, everyone's
here! And it's like Solid Snake, like, I'm here
too! Oh my god, look at all these guys! These
guys are cool! right now even like i think sven
as it shows up and says like you know they called
everyone they even had this guy called bjorn
turn up and obviously that means you know bjorn
the fell -handed dreadnought daddy from horus
heresy himself literally don't call him that
you know you know the dude literally is awakened
he literally is awakened at this point um so
it's a pretty big deal that again in the saga
of ragnar blackmane you know he's getting pretty
up there because he managed to kill a chaos sorcerer
and you can tell like a lot of the older space
over the sensing like there's something maybe
about this guy you know you know he's not he's
not a chosen one but he's clearly um he's finding
himself in a lot of dangerous situations and
he's winning so they're taking notice of him
though that's kind of i don't remember any more
to the first book um Again, there's six books
and a novella for Ragnar Blackmane. There's quite
a lot of stories to go through. I would say the
first one, this one is pretty good because it's,
again, like I said before, it's mostly a fantasy
book, this one. There's no guns really or anything
for most of the entire book. I don't always do
it justice, but again, really good character
dialogue and inner monologues of Ragnar throughout
the... yeah it was interesting and fenders itself
is a character so and the overarching thing of
this story particularly is just like him and
um grim skull it's their whole striped yawn and
ragnar trying to get over their differences because
after this book they're kind of thick as thieves
they put their differences aside and they realize
oh no we're brothers now you killing my dad wasn't
a big deal don't worry about it uh yeah chaos
is the real enemy later on they become they're
not friends but they are comrades they become
like normal space marine brothers Ragnar is not
looming over him at the dead of night with a
pillow anymore they're just like no we get on
well enough that I'm not going to try to snuff
out the life of you we can be chill because chaos
is cringe and we're united in how chaos is really
cringe and that's how they work because the robot
machine teacher taught me that yeah it's pretty
again ragnar's still not perfect at this at the
end of this book he doesn't hate striving anymore
but he doesn't like him um but he's willing to
again like he's willing to put aside what was
the vengeance of like the mortal ragnar or something
for the fact of you know there's a great danger
and evil for the enemies of mankind and um yeah
that's kind of the end of book one there though
i don't know if anyone had any previous thought
i know uh in terms like space wolfy character
i know there's a lot of wolf stuff within the
book but um it's pretty it's not egregious this
book luckily other than like the wolfen part
it's interesting though because like william
king did four of the six books for ragnar he
retired yeah but the only other book he did is
a for 40k at least is an obscure rogue trader
book where he sides with a farcier of ufway and
also chats with eldrad and i've not read it yet
but it's a one -off and it's like huh and like
that's the only other book he's done for 40k
and it's an old book um but it does a lot of
good job of like world building i would say i
know i think also the lord solar mccarius thing
is that like It's basically irrelevant to the
setting now. They're like the Alexander the Great
copy. William King, though, does deliver a pretty
good book. Again, it's almost like the perfect
intro to 40K in a way, I think. I honestly think
this would be a good one for the TV series if
they did it, because you wouldn't have to have
proper big space marines. You could have them
in it briefly during the... I love the idea,
for example, the bit where there's the fight
going on between... The Grimmskull's on the Thunderfists.
And there's a bit where a Grimmskull tries to
shoot one of the, well, attack one of the Thunderfists
while he's not got his weapon. And you just see
like the chaplain nod to one of the guys and
kind of like, like the Astartes animation, just
zoom. And then it's just like, you just hear
tread, tread, tread, tread, tread. And he just
goes like, backhand, turns him into red mist.
And then he walks away because it's like, no,
that's not a fair fight. And you'd be able to
have like a little bit of CGI budget to do that
scene. And you'd see how powerful a space Marine
is compared to a mortal person. And then they
fight. And it's like, it's like a show of Vikings,
the TV show. Like, yeah, you could get away with
it, but how much of the story you could do is
questionable. At least in a TV setting. Yeah.
Cause like for, I would say like maybe 60 to
70 % of it is like, there's no space Marines
in the scene. So like, it's, it's very light
on space Marines throughout most of this stuff.
No wonder it's so good. it's a pretty good story
yeah most of the characters are all like human
ones but uh and that even carries like the only
downside about this book like the characters
that you get close to all eventually die kind
of and then some of the side characters are more
they they become like the main characters later
so without the greater context of the later books
like you don't enjoy them as much in this book
they're just like who the fuck is that you know
and then later on you're like oh he was there
the entire time that's cool man you know I think
it's crazy that Sven is in so many of the books
and he's such a fun character, but he doesn't
have like... After these books, he never turns
up again and he's really cool. And there's another
space wolf who's a wolf lord called Sven. And
it's not the same Sven. I'm like, ah! It's annoying.
And he's the wolf lord of the character you're
playing as in this footage. I'm like, ah! That's
not the right Sven. It's the wrong one. Then
in the books does grow a mustache, a nice walrus
mustache. I was like, I'm trying this out. I'm
trying out my look essentially. My space wolf
look though. That being said, that is the opening
saga for Ragnar Blackmane. He is now a space
Marine and he's killed his first chaos trooper.
He's still not left Fenris yet at all. But the,
I guess we'll do another episode. The preview
for that episode will be. Orcs. Xenos, baby.
It's a lot of Xenos for the upcoming stuff. Xenos
stuff. We love Orcs. That one is a really good,
but I literally have to say it now. There's a
scene where literally one of the Orcs says, we
didn't put any fuel in the truck. And then one
of them goes, no, I did it earlier. So they believe
that they did do it and therefore the truck keeps
going. So God bless William King. God bless you,
man. God bless the boys. God bless William King.
I want to ask, obviously, Colin, you were a nay
at the beginning. What are the current thoughts
on the opening saga? I probably would like the
Ragnar books. The problem is I'm not going to
like them because they're fun Space Wolves books.
I'm going to like them because William King's
a good author. It's going to remind me of Godric
and Felix. It's not as buddy cop, though. I wouldn't
even say they feel the same. I'm not saying it's
identical. I'm sure his writing style bleeds
over a bit. I would read them and like them in
spite of them being Space Wolf books. Fair enough.
To be fair, they are really... I think of all
the ones I've read, and I've read a lot of Warhammer
books, the characters are really good. like even
my little quote here order of the gravy stain
is a reference to uh the only fat space marine
in canada hager the mountain and i just love
their little like conversations like oh this
is a glorious hager i was like oh is that the
order of the gravy state on your arm and he's
like what oh no that's just that's just actual
gravy like yeah they have like really nice william
king is very good at doing like character interactions
and the little details but also the world building
and that's really cool uh you like because obviously
you've i don't know if you've read uh any of
the previous stuff before any thoughts feelings
about ragnar's opening uh transformation say
his opening saga yeah he's a g i have not read
the ragnar books i wish i have but right now
as a g i don't have much more to say it's everything
i expected it to be it's pretty uh i say he's
pretty it's almost like things where he's like
he's overpoweringly strong or like he gets loads
more kills than the other guys uh but he is pretty
he's pretty good in combat because he's he like
if a lot of other people are like kind of a bit
scared or frozen in place he will just yeet into
it not like stupidly but he'll he'll be the first
one to like get his nerve under control um and
he's not dumb so he's actually he actually uses
his head and then but then when he doesn't use
his head he gets chastised for it though i guess
the only the only thing i have like being critical
is uh letting space marine aspirants blow their
head off and kill themselves with grenades is
like a massive waste of resources and all that
time and resources for nothing seems kind of
hard to believe even for the space wolves i think
what is a is one of those training scene where
like is like post a training scene and then like
they're putting their equipment away and one
of the other recruits is being an idiot and then
he does that to himself these guys are like i
i would say though that the space walls specifically
are kind of one of the hardiest ones where there's
so much death like you like caliban oh we don't
have a caliban anymore but the when there was
Dark Angel's like, we're surrounded by chaos
beasts. Yeah, we got that. And we got krakens
and wolves. And we technically have a volcano
area where it's summer all the time. We have
every worst case scenario on Fenris. And also,
no one gives a damn about our safety. And we're
so mental. We're just like, we're just going
to make the strongest alcohol that would kill
a mortal if they sipped it. But we want to get
wasted. Screw it. Why not? Space wolves are built
different. I just always think to the bloody
guy on the bench going, oh! here's a deep cut
it's a deep cut from um the first fire emblem
game that came to the west they had a fire emblem
7 trailer where it's like game of thrones style
nothing to do with the game no gameplay and this
is a bit where they're all in like a big cancer's
like and then one of them falls over dead it's
like what happened to darkest put put poison
in his mutton And it's the stupidest thing ever,
and I love it. It's that vibe of just, oh, someone
died? Lol. I just can't imagine making it. The
dude made it that far in just to die at the dinner
table. Yeah, it's crazy. Very unfortunate. We
did previously have a... It's been a few weeks
now, boys, hasn't it? But the question of the
week we did... Was that for Godric and Felix,
that episode? Or was that for... No, that one
was from the Dark Eldar. Oh, God. Oh, God. Don't
worry. It was tame for the Dark Eldar. It was
hashtag home alone. How do you get out of Kamara?
One from Wotan, home alone. I'd be so annoying
with my hyper fixations, even as furniture, the
Dark Eldar would throw me out. Respectable. Annoy
your kidnappers. You can always try your best.
The next one from random sub 7381. Deuce X Machina,
the spirit of Grungni to save me because end
times were fuckery. You know what? You pray for
a Gatriga Felix character to show up. He's not
one of the ones that he sticks around, so that's
a good one to ask for. And then where was the
last one? I'm not entirely sure how to say this.
Sagace Falyuto. Hashtag home alone. I wouldn't.
Make of that what you will. The most realistic.
I'm not. I'm not getting out. It was also not
the question. Just a shout out to Harold of Nurgle
7. When my blood sugar glucose alarm went off,
he thought it was his. Oh, wow. Huge. We do have
a new question of the week, though, for the boys.
Andy, do you remember what the new one was? I
don't remember the hashtag, but the idea is,
because it's a Space Wolf episode, because there's
Mjolnir involved, who would be your Warhammer
40k or fantasy drinking buddy? It was hashtag
bottoms up. Bottoms up, that's the one. Who are
the boys? I was thinking about it. I would pick
Lucas because he's just a laugh. I love Lucas
the Trickster. He's so much fun. Respectable
choice. I guess that would be unfortunate, but
I'm assuming my drinking buddy isn't going to
drop dead, but next to me. I thought I had a
good one for a second, like Malkador, and I realized
that is the worst punishment of all, because
he's just going to tell me the most, like, I'm
going to want to end myself. Receive the forbidden
knowledge. Yeah. And then he's going to kill
you for learning the forbidden knowledge. Do
you want to see the abomination, like, chained
in my basement? Oh, no, Malky. What's going on?
It used to be a Primark. Yeah. Let me tell you,
it was genocide I did. I'm going. I'm going,
I think I answered this for another one, but
I'm going to Hamilcar bear reader. Yeah. Pretty
good. I think I would do is a toss up between
a serious answer is Garvey or Loken. Cause he
seemed like a chill dude or Luther Harkon. Oh
yeah. Garvey will be a bit of a bummer though.
be like oh there's so much death like oh can't
we just have a nice fun night i was like oh i
hate my dad like oh god yo i get it but please
where's the guy who really likes luther harkon
where are you at explore we need you strongest
soldier i think uh great though because it'll
be like we're having a chill time and then he
would just change personality just the worry
would be he changes to the personality that just
shoots me Although, you know, it'd still probably
be funny. So, you know. I'd probably want someone
real chill because I don't drink very much. So
I wouldn't want a space wolf because I would
never. They would be disappointed in me all the
time. Probably someone like Aunchie. You just
get like sip some sake on a mountainside in a
very beautiful place. Well, he just gives me
words of wisdom. That sounds nice. Who's Farsight's
teacher and mentor? Your type. That might be
a cool one. He's not a very nice guy. He's kind
of grumpy. He's just really good at his job.
He knows a lot. He'll be fun. Because he's not
teaching at that point. I mean, knowing a lot
doesn't mean you're going to be a good drinking
fella. I don't think he'd drink that much either.
I think he... He'd give you some weird, stupid
advice. He'd be, like, talking about, like, the
right way to hang toilet paper, and he'd be like,
beards are cool, but mullets are not. He's a
cool guy. He's, like, would you want a frickin'
drink with, what, Sun Tzu? Better to shit in
the sink than sink in the shit. Look, look, top
three. Top three in descending order. Hamilcar,
Snorri Nosebiter, As long as you can step up
to the headbutting contest, that's his favorite
drinking game, and you're probably going to lose
that one. And number three, Janet Sola, call
me a Bretonian, I'm getting up in the horse.
That's crazy. Trotting his way to that one. Anyway,
we have a couple of donations before we call
it a day. First one from Caleb Collins, $1 .99.
Could Snorri outdrink a Space Wolf? He's a dwarf.
He's a dwarf. Of course he can. I don't know.
I don't know. Do you reckon the Space Wolves
look at the Leagues of Wotan and they go, that
looks kind of similar. Kind of similar. I'd wager
they respect the alcoholism. If a Leagues of
Wotan or whatever he's called, a squat was born
in Fenris, it's basically... is basically the
fantasy dwarf. There are no squats on Fenris.
Oh my god. Raw, triple six, thing worth ten dollars.
Sad you did not do my answer. Fourth one was
funny, and the third one I think Colin would
like. Well, you donated ten bucks, maybe we can
find it for you. If someone's real quick with
it. Oh boy, you gave an essay. Oh my. The first
one is just lie about being psychers. And then
if you are psychers, just cause a disjunction.
I don't know if jumping into the realm of chaos
is where I want to leave, but I guess it's probably
better than Kamara, honestly. The second is just
hope you can find an unattended webway gate.
my word i mean there might be one at the bottom
where they like who knows well there's one in
shardot that leads from like shardom and it's
still got like a band of black heart um cabal
just standing there to protect he's like there
ain't no undefended webway portals vect is too
careful he's got like 10 blokes standing there
with guns now Number three, Colin, I feel like
needs to be read out, because that one is...
I hate saying his first name. Duke Sliscus, or
someone like him, like Vec, you are shooting
for the goddamn moon with that one, but I respect
it. To gain the freedom and escape. I feel like,
again, he does have a lot of stuff under his
belt that if you get access to, you'd be set,
but I feel like... You are not him. You are not
them. They have much better options. This is
not a qualm against you. This is a qualm against
the Dark Eldar. A whole galaxy of people to steal.
I'm just saying, Sliskus changes clothes every
day because he never wears the same thing twice.
He'll get bored of you very quickly. And then
Vect. Vect has possibly had a relationship with
both Lady Malice and Lelith Hesperax. We're both
witch cult sadists. You're not going to have
a good time. I'm saying it. Assuming he says
yes, you're not coming out of that in one piece.
That's how you get turned into the furnace. He'll
say yes. What did that mean? You'll find out.
And then the fourth one is out Drukhari the Drukhari.
No, I'm sorry. You're not doing that. Nah. Not
on this Christian channel. They told Father Spile,
he's like, oh, he's like, you're a bright young
kid. You've got potential, young man. Damn. I
think, though, with that being said, unless we
miss any other dinos, I think... That was all
of the good good law Hopefully we do another
Ragnar one because his books are pretty decent
Yeah, and lots of space for stuff is you know
important for the year next year Especially to
come you know wink wink Year of the wolf literally
not year of chaos. All right step aside chaos
bros The the wolf chads are here. It's time for
wolves and Cathay police One more from Caleb
Collins. Sorry, right before we go. For $2, thank
you. Could Skaven out evil Drukhari? Maybe. Does
Drukhari have a reason to do it, even though
it's a dumb reason? I think they could. I think
they could. Drukhari... Sorry. No, you first,
Andy. I want to hear what you... All I was going
to say is that Drukhari are driven solely out
of self -preservation. But Skaven are the same,
but they will eat each other. I feel like they
would go further. They would be like, oh, I don't
care about other people. They'd be worse. Skaven
don't have the motivation to cause as much suffering.
And they don't have to worry about Slaanesh.
I think Skaven are more evil, but I think the
Drukhari do more evil stuff. See, what I think
would happen was they wouldn't out -evil each
other. The Skaven would fail, but a chain reaction
of something would just blow up half of Kameron.
Oops. Skaven aren't intentionally evil. They're
accidental. No, I think they're pretty intentionally
evil. They don't do it because they want to be
evil. They do it because they don't know any
better. This is what we are. Drukari are like,
no, we have to be evil to stop that thing eating
us. Skaven are like, ah, never mind, I ate my
mum. Like, wow. I ate my mum. I was being born,
it was a pain. Please. They don't eat their mum.
Feel free to look up how Skaven reproduction
works. We don't need to talk about that right
now. It's horrid. Exactly my point. With that
being said, though, I hope everyone enjoyed this
first episode of Ragnar Blackman. Again, more
cool stuff coming in the future. Maybe an interesting
episode next week, particularly. No spoilers,
though. Hopefully. We'll show you something cool.
Possibly a cool guest. We'll see. Possibly. Possibly.
We love you all. That's not usually how I say
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