i'm not like the other traitor primarchs i know
what i'm doing i'm not gonna fall to chaos but
when the first iron warriors from orbit to land
when they attack the lion's gate spaceport he's
he immediately like lands on the um spaceport
and just goes like yeah it's like the one guy
he's like he gets me he has iron i have iron
we're iron bros we're the iron brothers and all
of a sudden it's like we are not the same Hello,
ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Welcome
back to Law Crimes 2026. Let's go. First proper
episode of season five. We're on season five,
fellas. We are getting old. I didn't know we
had seasons. I mean, technically, it's just usually
a year I consider a season, but because we started
midway through the first year, we did this. it's
like broken up a bit but yeah season five yay
after season three yeah yeah what happened we
had the difficult first season and then it was
like oh season two was better than season one
and then the writers changed for season three
it's a bit yeah it was a little yeah we really
lost the plot The ending was trash as well. Thank
you all for joining us for another year of law
crimes. And we're going to be doing something
a bit different this episode, which we will explain
later on. But with that all said, we've got a
brand new season full of hope, full of prosperity,
hopefully. And so why don't we start off the
year with arguably one of the most depressing
factions in Warhammer. Hal, what are we talking
about today? I've specifically chosen to talk
about Iron Warriors to make Colin suffer through
his most disliked... Indeed, indeed. He... Colin...
Go ahead, man. Go ahead. I don't dislike the
Iron Warriors. I hate Perturabo. That's good.
I think the Iron Warriors are... I mean, this
isn't going to, you know, like top 50 % of the
legions, I'd say, which, you know, it's, you
know, there's 18 of them. That's a few different
legions. The dogs disagree. The dog disagrees.
It's not like Iron Warriors. But, you know, I
like the Iron Warrior. Damn. She does not like
the Iron Warriors. did somebody say putterabo
i hate that guy yeah activation word their their
dad is just the most annoying piece of shit that
is that is fair that is fair it's i have never
seen someone dig themselves a hole of their own
making deeper than he we shout out the guy who's
earlier just I can't remember his name. Sorry,
I've lost you. But every episode he just says,
I'm gay. And he did once again say it this episode.
So thank you very much, brother. Thank you. True.
And then someone said, hi, gay. I'm dad, I think,
underneath. Thanks, guys, for showing our ages.
No, but today is an episode which I want to talk
about things that not everybody knows about the
Iron Warriors because, yeah, we get it. Perturabo
is a douche nozzle. He probably does go to the
gas station and drink straight from the hose.
He's weird. All right, well, hang on now. Okay.
Yeah, it's getting weird. Okay, I'll stop that.
He can make a fire hydrant disappear. We all
know. But this guy - Call him a Beyblade because
he's letting it rip. Jesus. But pretending to
be a mature adult that I am, I am here to talk
about cool stuff about the Iron Warriors. It
is a great legion. uh great if i say chapter
then great war bands good law all that cool stuff
and i'm gonna start off with the basics because
how could you not but uh because i'm sure uh
not everybody knows everything about the iron
warriors but i've got some cool interesting facts
later that i'm hoping even uh mr colin i don't
have you done a do or don't iron warriors yet
colin no i uh they they're not really an army
at the moment Hopefully I've done some stuff
before you had to do your research. They'd get
lumped in with chaos space Marines, you know,
alongside the rest of the least favorite children
that don't get to have their own unique guys.
There's the theme of this episode. It is probably
most likely the word abuse, but that's not saying
that too much for YouTube reasons for people,
but we're basically going to learn about the
most bullied, the most resentful. the most unhappy
yet competent people in the Legion of Astartes.
No, it is not my uncle, but this is... Massive
shout out, by the way, to that Night Lord who
just got right in front of the gunner on screen
and was like, no, you don't get to kill that
guy. I'm blocking your entire field of view.
Yeah. I'm glad you're doing this action, though,
because Iron Warriors... can be cringe sometimes.
And I relate to that because that's just my vibe.
So we're going to start off with, uh, again,
just some of the bare, the bare necessities,
the basics here before I get into all the cool
stuff, because they do have some interesting
lore and some fun stuff, which I wish Eli was
here to hear about because I think he would,
uh, Eli has started to read more horrors, heresy
books. And he's like, which he says, what the
heck? The thousand sons are actually interesting.
Proven right. Once again, Big brain, see a thousand
suns, big, big energy. But we're starting off
with the Iron Warriors. It is, of course, the
Fourth Legion of the Startes. And if we're going
back to sort of Great Crusade era, even before
Perturabo, they'd like one or two big things.
It is heavy, the heaviest artillery. I'm talking
your mother, the size, like the size of your
mother bullets. I'm talking big tanks, big guns.
and they also don't care for civilians. Think
of any family member you don't like, it's probably
them inside, you know, because they are utterly
evil. And of course, their Primarch is Perturabo,
who basically, is this fair to say, Colin, is
basically he grew up in ancient Greece. Yeah,
it's, you know, like, Macrog is Greco -Roman
leading towards the Roman. I'd say, you know,
Olympia was... greco -roman leaning towards the
greco it's uh it's yeah we'll get more into that
a little bit later but uh it is basically ancient
greece because once again gw decided that they
just could not help themselves but copy someone
else's homework um although i will say i get
the vibe of like they're a bit more athenian
if that makes any sense to people which is they
are a bit more backstabby we're talking politics
yeah Politics on politics. That was my capstone
to get my degree. Ancient Athens kind of sucked.
I don't know if it's quite Spartan. I don't know
if Perturabo engaged in some of the Spartan traditions
of old, but who knows what stays between brothers.
But Perturabo would, of course, eventually conquer
his home world. Sorry, we're going too far. Perturabo
does not have any interest in men or women, by
the way. We should say that for the record. He
likes machines. He would, of course, like many
Primarchs, conquer his homeworld in the name
of, at this time, his adopted father. And boom,
the Imperium would arrive when he was done. This
is where it gets bad because Perturabo grew up
hateful. He is a hateful being. He is spite and
he is a bad person because he was displeased
with his Legion's record immediately the first
time he met them. He was not impressed. And he
forced decimation upon his sons. Would anyone
care to explain what decimation is in the truest
sense? So this is a comment that's haunted me
a few times where there's the verbatim meaning
of the term used, I think, back in ancient Greece.
And then there's the generic term decimation.
And it frustrates me. It's like nowadays decimation
is like, you know, the army was decimated that
like people kind of use it to be like they got
brutalized. They got wiped out. Flavorful language.
Took down to flavor town. What it really means
is one in 10 of you are going to die. Oh, it
gets worse, doesn't it? We should say for the
record, one in 10 beaten to death by his friends.
Yeah. Yeah. It's like Perturabo was like, I'm
going to put you into squads of 10. And I was
like, oh, great. We're going to do like a bonding
exercise. And it's like, each of you draw straws.
Bonding is one word for it. And then the other
nine, it's like, kill him with your fists. I'm
not going to defend Perturabo, but I will say
when I was writing my World Eaters video, I learned
that Engron did that on the regular. You know,
Perturabo had the one and done. Engron was...
It took you 24 hours for that planet, not 23.
I'm afraid, uh, start drawing straws, bozos.
Shout to the extra medium who has said a comment,
one versus nine fist fight to the death. Appreciate
that, brother. Um, yeah, uh, it does bring a
new meaning to catch these hands because unfortunately
one in every 10 legionary was beaten to death
by his friends. Uh, and then Porto Rabo would
go on to reforge this new legion, which is. under
the brilliant, to be fair, I would say the hardest
Legion call -out, maybe, I'm going to have to
argue about this, but they have the Credence,
Iron Within, Iron Without. And, to be fair, I
don't know, is there one you guys like more than
that for the Legions? I think Ave Domnus Nox
kind of gets close, but I still think Iron Within.
I like combining the Ultramarines, too. Like,
I think on their own... with courage and honor,
and we march for Macrag. I think on their own,
those are each another, all right. But, you know,
with courage and honor, we march for Macrag.
If you put them into one, it's a little wordy,
but, you know, I like that. I'm not a big fan
of salamanders, but I do like into the fires
of battle, onto the anvil of war. I'm like, oh,
that goes pretty hard. I like it. That's pretty
good. Is it the, hang on, I need to look up the.
I think Vulcan lives is like. you'll fight four
beers in and that does go that might be the hardest
yeah that's not the whole quote is it hal it's
there's there's more to it isn't there um no
i i can't i think of the iron hands one which
is the flesh is weak vulcan lives stomp stomp
you have to say oh of course i i've been tricked
there's some reason stomp stop that's why four
beers is necessary for the vulcan chance at one
beer it's not it doesn't hit as hard um but yeah
would embody this saying into his legion they
are iron within and they are iron without and
they would go someone decided these guys need
to have the strongest opponent i send these boys
into my toughest battles so over the great crusade
they would go to fight the most brutal conflicts
in the entire um great crusade there's even like
a a small bit later i'll explain but They essentially,
uh, someone has once seen like a, a VR, not joking,
a VR like playthrough of one of their battles.
And they were like, they were going to be sick
at like the level of conflict they were involved
in. Eventually over the decades, Perturabo and
his legion would build this really, really deep
resentment towards the emperor because they were
like heavy casualties, the toughest battles.
And then unlike they were all, they were always
overlooked. by like people like Horus or Gilliman
and especially Rogaldorn who, you know, people
say like, oh, he's the greatest builder ever.
And then Perturabra's like, I'm here. I'm really
good at building. Where's my participation trophy?
Always complaining. Eventually they would be
corrupted to the Warmaster Horus's side and they
would be convinced to betray the Imperium because
they essentially didn't think the Imperium valued
them. So why not, you know? take a swing at your
dad because fuck him that's why yeah he did no
one said good job and therefore they immediately
went to genocide so it went pretty a bit of an
escalation um the iron warriors would again go
on to participate in the isfahan 5 massacre uh
the siege of hydra called dartus the first one
because there's two of them uh angel the events
of angel exterminatus involving weird Slaaneshi
shenanigans, and famously the Battle of Talon,
which is the largest mechanized battle, I think,
kind of ever, at least to that point. And then
Perserabo would basically be in charge of the
Siege of Terror because at some point Horus was
just sitting on his chair drooling. I'm not joking.
Horus was sitting on a chair drooling, like playing
Yu -Gi -Oh against the Emperor and the Warp.
And Perserabo was actually running the best...
attack he could because the iron warriors are
known for their siege craft they are you know
heavy guns heavy artillery they got it all and
up to the point they were participating in this
participating in the siege and then horus would
say hey you know your legion and persia went
yeah you know like yeah i kind of hate them but
it's fine like they are my sons still like i
love hate them but yeah what about them he says
yeah go sacrifice them Go, just go do it. Perturabo,
funny enough, just says, no, the mass doesn't
add up. That just doesn't make sense. So they
abandon the siege of terror. And as we see most
recently in the scouring, the Legion would eventually
then go to fight, eventually, their most hated
rivals, the Imperial Fists at the infamous Iron
Cage. We all love that one. Hopefully we'll get
like a proper book about that soon. And eventually
we would see Perturabo ascend to demonhood. Leaving
his, you know, again, going for the milk and
cigarettes and leaving the entire Legion to do
whatever they need to do after that. After this,
Arthur basically, you know, dad is effed off.
The Legion would then go split into war bands
as the millennia would then begin to pass. Many
of them would enter the Eye of Terror and they
would go to carve out territories. Many of them
have basically taken over Forge Worlds. Other
ones have... carved out demon realms some again
this is a contentious part here where like the
legion would in part embrace chaos but mostly
as a weapon and they are at some points known
for utilizing demon engines and using like chaos
cults at times not like the alpha legion or the
wereberries in a way but more just like oh that's
good cannon fodder they love a good cannon fodder
It's mentioned in the, as of time of recording,
newish book of Ashes of the Imperium, where Paterabo's
like, ah, I'm not like the other Traitor Primarchs.
I know what I'm doing. I'm not going to fall
to chaos, but I'm going to use these demons and
make demons engines. And they're like, oh no,
he is like all the other Primarchs. Oh no, you
can't, you can't. It's like the equivalent of
like, you can't stick your in crazy. He's like,
no, buddy, no. What are you doing? Don't do it.
Yeah. crazy my reddit thread my reddit thread
my reddit moderator uh primark has really been
you know he's been leaving us alone too much
i'm not like the other primarks no but eventually
so you would see like some uh iron warriors have
ascended to demonhood some of them have not but
by the time we get to the 41st millennium the
iron warriors are essentially divided but many
of them fight in quite large war bands and they
essentially keep fighting over for the favor
of perterabo so which is i've surely there are
better people to fight for the favor for andy
i'm very sorry but i just watched you throw that
engagement oh my god Look, you had a couple banger
moments in this so far, but that one was not
one of them. I'm just saying, I played five games
in a row. I won every game, and four out of five,
I was the MVP. Only one was I second. Like I
said, I saw you put a good amount of people up
before, but that one, his shield was dropped
first. What happened there? I got a triple kill.
That one, I was distracted. I don't know. I make
mistakes. I'm not perfect. Believe me, it happens.
But, you know, that one was rough. I've got no
letters to hand on. I do still remember the quadruple
backstep into getting slashed by a Terminator.
Yeah. I have been rusty at this game. And then,
weirdly enough, every time I've had to re -record
some footage every once in a while, I then play
the game a lot and I get really good. And then
I immediately forget any hand -eye coordination,
like just immediately ever since. But basically
that is the intro for Iron Warriors. So again,
that's the stuff we know. That's the stuff that
most people know about the Iron Warriors. But
now to talk about the things that maybe people
don't know about the Iron Warriors, and we're
going to begin. Again, it's kind of timeline
related, kind of a bit not, but we're going to
jump in and out. We obviously have to start with
the big guy himself. So we're going to begin
at Ancient Greece, excuse me, Olympia. And we
begin with Perturabo's gestation pod crashing
into the largest mountain on the world. Cool
thing about Perturabo, I'm sure the guys know
this here, which is he's the, I think one of
the only few Primarchs who basically woke up
and he knew what his own name was. Like he had
his name, like almost, he said like, I think
it was the words like emblazoned on his soul.
He felt like it was like, it was inside of himself
that he knew his name was the name. The emperor
gifted to him was Perturabo. Although I don't
remember. Do you guys know where the name Perturabo
came from? Not at all. I don't remember that.
I'm sure it's a mythology thing. I mean, he woke
up with everything in his brain already. I don't
know. Why wouldn't his name be there? His name
does obviously sound like perturbed. Yeah. Well,
that does embody him quite well. And a cool fact
about Perturabo is he can see the eye of terror
just always. He left his gestation pod and was
like, like, he's like, what the hell is that?
You know, it's like some ugly cat or something
you can't ignore. He saw the eye of terror and...
Even as he's getting older and he grows up and
he meets the Emperor and he speaks at the Primarchs,
he doesn't really want to tell anybody that he
can see the Eye of Terror all the time because
he thinks it's embarrassing and it makes him
look weak. And there's no way this guy is looking
weak in front of others. I think he only told
one person, Andy. Was it Ferris Manus he told?
Maybe. I think he told Ferris Manus and then...
Which makes me laugh every time about this because
apparently Ferris Manners was not quite the most
comforting person to talk to about some confession.
And therefore he immediately, like a grown man,
suppressed his emotions, buried it deep down,
smashed it down and decided to never talk about
it. It's like the one guy, he's like, he gets
me. He has iron. I have iron. We're iron bros.
We're the iron brothers. And all of a sudden
it's like, we are not the same. Like, oh, oh
no. Oh, I thought we were friends. As Colin has
alluded to, Percerabo doesn't really have an
imagination. He describes his brain as a library
of blueprints that he just essentially draws
out for the right task. Which I don't know if...
like does he do you guys think the emperor did
that or is that like a warp thing like i don't
i generally don't know if that's like the emperor
knew he could do that beforehand he was like
oh gosh a bit weird i assume it's just like i
know all the primarchs are like an element taken
from the warp made manifest and maybe his was
just like he was just like He was just AI prompts.
He was just like chat GPTs. Like he can't create,
he can just replicate. And it's like, that's
his struggle. He has no imagination. He can't
innovate. He can't improve to an extent. He can
just, oh, I can make this design. I can make
this better. I can do the perfect answer to this
using preexisting knowledge. I'm just efficiency
copycat man, I guess. A fun fact about Perturabo,
he didn't understand what friendship was. Now
for some of the people in the chat, friendship,
no, I'm joking. But like when he asked Ferris
Manus, he asked why him and Fulgrim are so close.
And I think, quote, Ferris Manus just laughed.
He just laughed because he realized like. that
in fact like um pleasure i just couldn't understand
what it was like to genuinely be someone's friend
and not to be like some kind of rival an enemy
or like a military ally uh so he couldn't understand
what friendship was uh and also cool thing is
like for his origin story he was essentially
a large feral child who would go around like
fighting monsters on the uh olympia's mountains
until he was adopted by a what they call their
tyrant of the city -states, a man named Damnikos,
who was the tyrant of Locos, which sounds like
locust, which is interesting. Paterabo had siblings,
which again, hopefully maybe not everyone knew.
There's a few, like there's one sibling people
may have known from his book, which is his, well,
I guess his adopted slash sister called Caliphone.
Um, she's the only one like he ever got along
with because she actually was smart and he had
two brothers. One was called, uh, Heracon and,
uh, Andos, which is kind of like Andy, I guess
the Greek version of Andy. Uh, he had a brother
named Andy. Um, he didn't like them. Uh, he thought
Hecaron was an idiot and Andros was too kind.
Uh, he, Perserabo, when he's adopted by, uh,
Damikos. He hates it. He doesn't like it because
Perserabo knows he's like, he's like, he's like,
I know he's like, I don't look like the other
kids. He knows he's not from Olympia. He has
a gut feeling. He's not from there. He hates
it. Yeah. He doesn't fit in. He's a bit, he doesn't
fit into the clothes like everyone else. He hates
Damnikos because even, even Damnikos is like
quite nice to him, but. danicos also uses him
because he just shows him off all the time as
like look at my big creature that is a genius
i do like the idea of him just like sitting in
like the equivalent of like a like a primary
school he's just like i'm not like the other
kids it's like why do you think that it's like
i have a beard and i'm six years old like oh
and i'm seven yeah i'm like 10 feet tall i got
big muscles and i don't even work out bro they
just happen like oh That is concerning, I guess.
The real question is, I think someone said, does
Primarts go to the toilet? I honestly don't know.
I want to like say that they probably don't often
because their bodies are optimized to use every
resource. So it just kind of like, I imagine
it's like, imagine if your metabolism was so
great, you'd have like food. And before it even
got to your lower bowel, it was just like, I
have extracted all the nutrients from this thing.
You don't need to worry about any wasted resources.
There's nothing. There's nothing. It just doesn't...
I don't want to put too much thought into this,
but like... Do they? Who knows? You do want to
think about this. Don't lie to us. You brought
it up. It's funny because Perturabo does not
have Primarch -sized furniture, which is hilarious.
But he does have a workshop in the capital of
Locos. And to be fair, sorry to distract, if
he was the size, you know Andre the Giant? That
guy had a sad life. Oh, yeah. Because he was
like, he was Primark size, but he couldn't use
normal toilets. So he had to do a number two
in the bath, which was sad. He has to go to the
teachers. And I can't imagine the emperor being
like, I'm going to make these guys and I'm going
to have to make them go in the bath. So like,
I, my head is they don't go in anything. It's
just gone. But Rob had to use the bathtub. Yeah,
but he was in like ancient Greece, so it'd be
like, hey, do you need the stick with the vinegar
sponge? Like, no, I'm all right, thanks. Do you
want the tree? Do you want the full branch? Oh,
tree stuff. Find the Christmas tree, bring it
in. Wildly off topic. Okay. Yeah, he did not
like Damocos, even though he was nice to him.
He obviously gave him everything he ever wanted.
He did not like him at all because Damocos was
a snake. He's smart, like Caliphon was also smart,
but Damocos was a politician and he just played
games all the time with Perturabo in some sense.
Another fun fact, Perturabo was perhaps the most
hated man by the priests of Olympia because in
a very famous scene where... Damokos invited
priests across the realm and, you know, from
all the greatest temples, and they bring them
to speak with Perturabo. It was sort of like
a fun little game. And the priests said that
their gods, which are the Olympian gods, they
resided upon the mountain. Basically, once again,
Mount Olympus has been copied on Olympia. Funny
that. And they said, basically, well persia would
say the gods aren't real because i've been there
i didn't see any gods and he said the reason
like people keep believing in gods was because
they just didn't understand things and therefore
they didn't understand something he just said
they just chalked it up to the gods and he said
they just he said like i just don't believe in
gods because i don't see any evidence of them
and the priests were like like they did not like
this uh because the priests were pretty powerful
on olympia And the priest, one of the grand priests
would say, the gods, they threatened him. He
said, the gods are going to kill you for your
blasphemy. You know, and then this is like after
like hours of argument. And Perturabo countered
with, the gods are not going to harm me. Only
people would harm me on behalf of them. Therefore,
there are no gods. And he would say he just thought
the priesthood liked the power, like the authority
these so -called gods gave them. And that's why
they believed so inherently. They didn't really
think that much of it. They are basically frauds.
That did not go along well. Which brings me to
my next point, which is somehow in a universe
where there's only Olympia, they don't really
have like spacefaring, travel and that stuff.
Plenty of people decided, you know what, we'll
take a crack at it. And there were multiple assassination
attempts upon Perturabo's life throughout his,
you know, I guess, brief childhood slash growing
up. It was pretty common to the point in which
he was bored because someone would try and poison
him. He's immune to poison. Someone would like,
you know, he just basically sip a glass. He was
like, that's poisoned. Whoops. They try and fight
him. That didn't, you know, that went as well
as you'd expect. Some people would be good enough
to like. you know, draw, like, you know, get
a cut on him, but obviously then he'd heal within
a second, but he would immediately like pulp
someone, you know, it's Perturabo. He's a Primark.
Perturabo would came, he would hate the politics
of Olympia. He didn't want to play the game.
And this is basically what turned him into his
own version of a tyrant, which is, he said, I've
had enough of people, you know, playing games,
liars, schemers and stuff. I'm just going to.
Like, no one can stop me if I do something. You'll
talk about it, but you're not going to stop me.
So he just decided, I'm just going to conquer
Olympia. And he did with his own, with the armies
of his, you know, adoptive father. And eventually
he would rule over Olympia. His father kind of
basically a puppet, but, you know, he doesn't
mind. My favorite second cool fact about Perturabo
and Iron Warrior stuff is Dan Ruckus' Damnikos'
oldest son, Hecaron, was stupid to Perturabo.
He thought he was such an idiot. And in fact,
he was so stupid that he got caught in an attempt
to revolt against Damnikos. And therefore he
was killed because he was drowned in wine. And
basically it would end up going to, the rulership
would go to Caliphon after Damnikos because basically,
again, as I said earlier, Perturabo... And definitely
Damnikos thought the other brother, Andros, was
too nice. He was just too nice to be someone
who would actually rule. And this all becomes
from one story that we learn, which I think is
a really good Primarch story, but it shows his
character. Because one time, Perserabo challenged
Andros to a sculpture competition. Andros was
allowed to be an artist. Again, he's too nice.
So Damnikos was like, oh, whatever, you know.
as long as he gets into art school and doesn't
go crazy, you know, but he allowed him to basically
do whatever he wanted. And Perserabo is obviously
like the genius shown off son. He kind of sometimes,
he says he hates it, but he also revels in it
a little bit. And the competition was set where
they would both create two pieces of sculpture
and Perserabo made his piece. He obviously had
a design in his mind and he went straight for
it. Andros was taking... A bit longer. Perturabo
said, like, give him extra time. I don't care.
You know, I'm a bloody Primarch, whatever. Eventually,
there's this grand, like, conclave, like, for
this big event. And Perturabo brings in his piece.
It is revealed. It is pretty stunning. Everyone's
like, wow. Like, that's, you know, that's from
a Primarch's mind. That's amazing. And Perturabo
is like, you know, shut up. You know, keep going,
whatever. You're all stupid, but keep the praise
coming. Come on. Yeah. Andros wheels in his piece
and it brings people to tears. It is a design
in which it reflects something different from
every angle you perceive it at. And this, he
clearly wins. A little human beat, Primark. Perturabo
storms out. And later he comes back in, grabs
Andross's piece and smashes it. And he wrecks
it with like in a petulant rage. Because again,
Perturabo doesn't like, eventually the story
kind of reveals like he doesn't have imagination
like a regular person. He couldn't create something
new. in which Andros could. Andros could create
something from his own experience in life where
Perturabo just essentially was a computer who
recalled something. And that was the day a human
beat a Primarch, which is a very cool little
story in Perturabo's backstory history. We next
get to where Perturabo would meet the emperor
atop the highest peak on the mountain. He was
the moment when it came, he literally sprinted
up the mountain. He was swearing at loyalty.
He was like crying. He was like, this is the
best day of my life. So I find like an equal,
like someone to work towards. And this is where
I have a question for you two here, which is
when Perturabo is the only scene where, when
the Emperor meets a Primarch, we've seen a few
of them in the books. When he meets the Emperor,
he senses for a split second, a hint of sadness
in the Emperor's eyes. And I'm wondering, do
you have a theory of why the Emperor is like,
he hides it for a moment and Perturabo almost
doubts he saw it. But do you know why the Emperor
was sad when he met Perturabo? Even though it
went well, technically. Because he realized his
son was Perturabo. I don't know. Damn, this guy
sucks. I have a theory. I think the Emperor was
sad that he had no ambition. Because if you think
about it, like you said he can always replicate
these designs in his brain but he can't really
innovate too much he has to use physics and stuff
but also even on the world he was growing up
in like contrast with fulgrim fulgrim was like
oh i grew up on this planet it's a mining planet
i reinvigorated the economy i made everyone have
purpose and i brought it to have even greater
grandeur than before. Gilliman's got an empire.
Rogaldorn's got an empire. Even Kurz, lowly,
pathetic Kurz is like, I saw this planet was
rife with crime and I tried my best to do something
about it. Whereas Paderabo was like, nah, I'm
just going to keep to myself and my workshop
and kind of do as I'm told and keep my head down.
Like, you're a Primarch. You should be changing
things. Instead, you're like, you're just hoping
that things blow over and you don't have to like...
be too in i i think that's the crux of bad robber
where like even during the seat of terror even
during the traitor rebellion it's like he will
serve horus he will be like oh my legion's always
been used as the dog's bodies of the the great
crusade what happens during the horus heresy
dog's bodies of the horus heresy like he has
no ambition he has no drive he's skilled he has
talent but he wastes it and i think that's what
the was that's what the emperor saw in my eyes
and This is where we get to see the, of course,
as we mentioned in the earlier section, Perturabo
meets with his legion and he is ashamed of their
record. And the deeper reason behind this is
a one particular campaign, which happened recently
before they met their Primarch, which was called
the, I think the Battle of Incaladian. I don't
remember. I don't know how to say this properly.
Essentially, they were battling on a fort. In
color, I'm going to flub it. But on this thing,
it was a forge world. The Legion lost nearly
30 ,000 Astartes in one conflict, which for most
Legions, that's like half their Legion. no wonder
he was like oh my god you know i mean like i
get to have like my own sons yeah those guys
the guys who just like almost flubbed an entire
like battle recently um so he was not impressed
with them like people understand like this is
why the destination happened uh and an interesting
cool fact about maybe iron warriors not everyone
knew like when the news of decimation was announced.
So most of the legion was in orbit of Olympia.
The people who said something about it, because
a lot of the guys said, we're veterans of the
Great Crusade. We don't deserve this. They were
the first to be beaten to death by their brothers.
Anyone who said anything being like, oh, this
feels immoral. Obviously, you know, they're Astartes,
they are weapons. They were beaten first. They
were chosen and they were told by their brothers,
like, we chose you because you don't have what
it takes, bro. And of course, Perserabo would
then, from this new group, would remake his entire
legion, sort of bending them to his own new design,
and they would go on to fight a... old myth of
Olympia, which was these, the enemy was called
the Black Judges, which essentially they were
humans who were like in a fortress moon, I think
it was. And then... um they basically went around
planets like just gathering up civilians and
then using their life force to live a bit longer
kind of like billionaires but um they essentially
would use the use the the energy of the youth
to keep living longer and now on olympia we have
bezosius who is sacrificing the young to sustain
himself oh musket man um but from Like Perserabo's
life growing up and from his complete rejection
of basically no nonsense, there's only strength,
purpose, will, he would create the unbreakable
litany, which is not just iron within, iron without.
The true litany is from iron cometh strength,
from strength cometh will, from will cometh faith,
from faith cometh honour, from honour cometh
iron. So much come. Yeah. There's a lot of cum.
This is the unbreakable litany and may it forever
be so. Iron within, iron without. Again, I think
it goes pretty hard. I'm hard just even saying
it. Some cool things about some Iron Warriors
is, I believe, I think I may have learned this
from Colin initially, but I double checked it,
which was, I think the Iron Warriors, I know
this, right? The Iron Warriors. are masters of
siegecraft and much from like their primark and
they would learn of tactics and strategy through
tabletop games and apparently in the legion they
take it pretty seriously like it's not like for
fun like they actually are doing it as a exercise
from their primark and i have one which will
colin will help me out on this one which was
We're going to talk about, because the Iron Warriors
have a unique rank only in their legion, which
they call Warsmiths. Do you want to explain what
Warsmiths are, Colin? Indeed. So at least as
of the Horus Heresy, it was a very fluid rank.
I feel like that's a good word for it. So they
would oftentimes command Grand Battalions, which
was roughly equivalent. to like a chapter in
another company uh it you know in theory it's
also supposed to be like it's a thousand marines
but uh and god godspeed andy uh he's the snake
in in spirit one of those grand battalions is
a is a thousand marines with you know maybe it's
the iron warriors so they probably got a lot
more like you know siege equipment and artillery
in it but roughly chapter equivalent uh But,
you know, sometimes it's just a couple hundred
guys, especially if Perturabo was in a mood.
Sometimes they had thousands and thousands in
these battalions. As you know, what they did,
they, pardon me, I skipped ahead a little. They
could also like do more specialized things like,
you know, maybe a warsmith is in charge of a
whole ass fleet. Maybe he's in charge of just
like this little specialized group of a couple,
you know, specifically trained Marines for one
purpose or other. Part of this fluidity, I'm
sure, was just because, you know, it's good to
have commanders. You can slot in and out of different
roles. That seems like a very Perturabo thing
to do. What also seems like a Perturabo thing
to do is keep the different warsmiths all at
different levels of functional power and everything
because you get some nice rivalries going. So
they will strive to go above and beyond their
fellows to look better for their father. I think
a lot of them as well. When we look in the 40K
context, a lot of them are the equivalent of
like what would be tech marines in some capacity.
Yeah, especially by come heresy. And I was going
to say, usually post heresy, they lead a grand
companies, which is just post heresy. That's
basically it. Oh, yeah, it's a war band. It's
like, you know, it's the chaos of a chapter.
And a lot of them, they have some. Yeah. you
put it in a definitely nicer way. I'll say they
had hobbies. Uh, one of them was a good old Hansu,
uh, who needs a little introduction, funny. Uh,
but, uh, fun fact though, uh, Warsmiths keep
their rank, uh, essentially regardless. I mean,
until they die. Cause you know, you could get
promoted a little higher, at least during the
Legion days, but. There was one guy. Hang on.
I need to find his name again really quick. Bob
and Falk? No. Barossus. Barossus, yes. Barossus.
He was interred into a dreadnought, but he was
still a warsmith. And yeah, like usually when
that happens to a Marine, like say you have a
chapter master, he gets put in a dreadnought.
Most times he's no longer the chapter master.
It's happened a couple of times, usually not.
But warsmiths, you keep your position. yeah not
not not a surprise for like a kind of technophile
legion like iron hands revere dreadnoughts practically
all the leadership is dreadnoughts to an extent
yeah and iron warriors are also like hey we like
we're like machines he's cool make him make him
a warsmith and then like i think you said how
come the come the traitor legion days they definitely
uh they uh they work with tech a lot they're
called warsmiths and then once they turn fully
to chaos Warpsmith, you know, is another, it's
not their name, but, you know, that P, if you
add it to Warsmith, is not inaccurate. They definitely
have a lot of demonic, you know, technological
expertise. Reminded me, Barossus was a cool fact
about him, which is the, in the Siege of Terror,
I think he's one of the first ones from, one
of the first Iron Warriors, one of the first
Iron Warriors from orbit to land. when they attack
the Lion's Gate spaceport. He immediately like
lands on the spaceport and just goes like, yeah.
He's like, yes, it's time to kill. Titanfall's
pretty cool. I can't blame him. Yeah, he's a
big boy. But with a cool thing about... not just
what is Warsmiths, but again, what I'll tell
you about Warpsmiths is that in the 41st millennium,
because the Iron Warriors would then go on to
essentially work alongside Chaos in some sense,
Warpsmiths or Warsmiths can ascend to the rank
of Demonsmiths. And these are the ones who mostly
work alongside, like they create demon engines,
which is pretty cool because... But they have
their own rank and they kind of, again, it shows
a specialty. When we're talking about Warsmiths
or Warpsmiths in the 40k context, they very much
like, previously they were just Commanders, whereas
like they are more on the line of like, they
can often be Tech Marines as well. Like they
often have like pictures of them with like Mecha
Dendrites and other things, because sometimes,
again, like Colin said, once you attain the rank,
some of them just go off on their own, do their
own thing, whereas other ones do lead Warbands.
But some more cool stuff people didn't know about
the Iron Warriors is that lots of these Warsmiths,
they would go on to essentially form what is
called the Trident. The Trident itself is essentially,
well, it was during the Heresy when Perjura would
pick three Warsmiths and they would essentially
be his advisory council. The problem is this
is Perturabo. So he doesn't really, what's it
called? He doesn't do what's like emotional regulation
is not really his thing. I think, you know, I
think the best way to put it is if I, if I read
correctly, the reason that Barasas fella was
became a dreadnought was because Perturabo kind
of beat the shit out of him. Yeah. A few of these
guys do not meet good fates. I mean, or he sometimes
picks one he he picks the warsmith kroger to
spite other warsmiths like he picked kroger once
this character who's basically he's not known
for being very like people smart but he's very
direct and just says that he calls them like
a naysmith or something as a like link to what
horace mentioned although fun fact one of the
kill teams on uh siege of terror was naysmith
I can't remember who led it. Was it Loken? It
might have been Loken. It was Loken, yeah. Loken
led Naismith. Yay, one of the kill teams. Yeah.
Which is very cool. And Perthrival would sometimes
pick Warsmith to spite other... Pick members
of the three Trident as they formed the three
spears of the Trident. Literally just out of
spite or... And to be honest, they weren't really
his advisors in the way like other... Primarchs
took advice from other space marines, like their
own sons. It was more like they were kind of
like prize students in a way. So the warsmith
of Forex was often one who he was like Perturabo's
best quote -unquote student or whatever. Kroger
would then be one. They were more like they basically
had special access to Perturabo in terms of learning.
But in terms of actually giving him advice, he
didn't really take it that much. And in the 30k,
this is something exclusively generally to Horus
Heresy, which was they had a elite company called
the Dominators. And they were mostly filled with
people who were Terminators. And obviously they're
elite, much like a first company would be in
a chapter. And during most of the Great Crusade,
they would have the honor of guarding the Primarch.
I can't remember what the name of the World Eater
ones are, but this is going to remind you of
that. The world leader ones, they just run after
Angron all the time. They never catch up. Yeah,
the Dominators were not... They had a follow
from grace moment, which was when the Battle
of Farl happened, when they attacked the Imperial
Fists in a naval battle. And essentially, the
Imperial Fists managed to have a spear tip that
almost got to Perturabo's door. I think it got
to Perturabo's chamber, if I remember correctly.
And Perturabo was basically... embarrassed by
like this pathetic display and so therefore he
would i'll go i think it's worth mentioning that
the the contingent that perturbo fought at fall
was intended to be during istvan five so they
sent the iron hands salamanders and raven guard
but dawn also sent a third of his legion to get
involved and they were basically diverted through
warp trickery so it's like a good 80 to a hundred
thousand space Marines. I think it's like, it's
a lot of space Marines. I think it was 30 ,000.
I think the specific, it wasn't, it wasn't, it
wasn't, it wasn't a huge, what I mean, like,
I don't think it was, I don't remember. Was it,
was it, was it 30 ,000 that. because I know it
was a third. Was it 30 ,000 that endured the
warp storms? And then when they got to far, there
was only 30 ,000 left because I am sure it was
a third of the Imperial Fist Legion, which they're
not Ultramarines, but they had an empire. So
I think they had like a ton of space marines.
They had like maybe 100 ,000, maybe a bit shy.
They got diverted by warp storms. Two thirds
of the force sent died. So like if you had 100
,000, it goes down to 30. and then that's what
remained during Fal, because they weren't expecting
that. I think that's what the thing is. We'll
have to double check, because I'm not 100 % sure,
but it's been a while since I've read that novel.
But I know, like, particularly in this engagement,
the Dominators did not do well. They let a Spearship
almost get to basically attack Perseraba, I think.
They might have got in the chamber, and I think
he killed, like, one of them who made it. And
then this is where... Perturbo was like, man,
you guys suck. So he replaced them with elite
battle automata he would call the Iron Circle,
which are like hulking great automata that literally
circle around him. They form like a protective
sort of ring and he commands them with like a
little sensor in his brain. That's where the
Iron Circle essentially came from because the
Dominators didn't do. well enough and per drabo
is like you can't trust people you know you can
only trust iron oh you know so you're not cringe
oh you said it an interesting parallel is like
as as much as ferris manis was like the flesh
is weak he never replaced his men with automatons
who was the lesser of the iron per drabo oh the
flesh is so weak i'm gonna get the flesh out
entirely i'm just gonna do robots and say oh
not a good idea not not a great plan Speaking
of great strength, Perturabo is actually one
of the few Primarchs who we've actually seen
cry multiple times. One time was when he met
the Emperor of Mankind and he did a little weep,
as they say, because it was like the best day
of his life. And the second time is when he decimated
Olympia, which had risen in rebellion because
they were saying, oh my God, you're basically
starving. Like all of our sons are all dead and
they're being, you know, hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of them have died for this Legion.
You know, give us a break. He was like, I didn't
hear no bell. So he wrote, came back and decided
I need to punish Olympia for embarrassing me.
He then would strangle his adopted sister, who,
by the way, I think was in a wheelchair or in
like a little. She'd been for a few centuries
of rejuvenate for sure. She was very old. She
might have been like a little like spider wheelchair.
She was a bit old. So he grabbed his elderly
adoptive sister and he strangled her to death.
And then he like threw her corpse on the floor.
And then he basically cried because he looked
over at Olympia and he was like, oh, what have
I done? This is where Perturabo would say, the
emperor is never going to forgive me for the
utter crime I have committed. Nothing. Not a
single comment from the emperor. Nobody said
anything. Everyone was like, in fact, I think
the message he got may have been job well done
for another compliance. And this is where Perturabo's
bitterness basically went, oh my, they don't
care at all. I just burned my own people. And
they just like, they gave me a bloody gold medal.
Even a gold medal. Nice job, man. All right,
get back to it. Yeah. That essentially, this
is the event that cemented in, or at least I
would say, in my opinion, primed the Legion and
Perturabo for rebellion to the point in which
like, Other legions had to do a legion purge.
I don't think the Iron Warriors really did do
one. I'm not 100 % sure if they did. I don't
think they did. I don't think they had to. The
thing is, Iron Warriors are very submissive to
their Primarch, other than Barabas and a few
others, like the Shatterblade. Yo, yo, yo, we're
not going past that. What do you say? What do
you say to that? Do you want to own that? iron
within me is that what colin said i'm within
me i won't have it without is that what you said
i'm about to iron i'm ironing i'm galvanizing
the elements to make a strong composite oh um
but no it's like i'm without there is cure cure
of arlen cure of arlen was a an iron warriors
loyalist but there weren't many because not not
to be a dick but like the iron warriors were
the dog's bodies of of the heresy and the great
crusade so when their primarch said jump they
said how high even though they didn't like it
they didn't like they had a spine but they didn't
have a spine and it was very very few iron warriors
who were like i'm going to betray patraba because
fundamentally they were like oh we sympathize
with his plight of being misunderstood and taken
for granted. Therefore, we'll do anything he
says. And even, and again, plugging Chris Wright
with the Ashes of the Imperium, where one of
the characters says, every fiber of my being
wants to tell my Primarch he's an idiot for trying
to trust chaos, but I fundamentally cannot betray
him because I'm gene -coded not to. They have
no choice to an extent. They are bound to the
hilt of doing everything their master says. And
that's kind of where they're a bit of a tragic
legion of like, they're always misunderstood.
They're always taken advantage of. And yet, fundamentally,
they never fight for themselves. They always
fight for ideals beyond their ken. And they'll
never be appreciated because they are, they are
to their core, brilliant, efficient. and yet
manipulated. And they let it happen. Yeah, they,
you know, maybe not that much iron in the end,
not enough iron to resist his will. But I, yeah,
so I also should say as well, maybe quite a few
of the legionaries who would have turned against
Percival Rabo against the emperor, for turning
against the emperor, a lot of them were killed
on this uprising on Olympia. The ones who refused
to do the decimation of Olympia themselves, they
were killed in turn. So a lot of them who had
a conscience, again, were killed. We'd next see
a cool fact here, which hopefully people, I don't
know if everyone will know this one, which is
during the events of Angel Exterminatus, which
was the funny go into the eye of terror book,
Perjurabo in this book is, of course, portrayed
by Fulgrim, who would use... part of his brother's
life essence to ascend to demonhood. But then
this is just the setup, which is that it was
a little bit of time later that a Sons of Horus
chapter, or at least like a small company of
Sons of Horus, they emerged near the Fourth Legion
vessels and they would board their flagship.
And these were Sons of Horus, fully corrupted
by Nurgle. And they basically beseech to Perturabo
that he should join Chaos because they consent
that he's dying. And that Perturabo, as Andy
alluded to earlier, he's been augmenting his,
is it armor of Locos, I think it's called? His
suit of Terminator -ish armor. Could you mention
what the planet was called that Fulgrim and Perturabo
invaded because it's pertinent to later? Oh,
is it Yidris? Hydra Cordartus? Oh, the one at
the beginning earlier, yeah. At the beginning
of that, they both met on Hydra Kordartus for
the first siege that we mentioned earlier. But
when they, the crone world I'm thinking of, which
they attacked together, and the one that Fulgrim
betrayed them on was called Yidris, I think,
or is it Idris? Yeah, Idris, yeah, yeah. That's
one where... The full Maiden world thing. Eldar
world. Once again, Eldar having some really cool
lore and some, like, you know, places in Warhammer
to later never be used again. Yeah, weird that
one where Fulgrim's being cut open and then Eidolon's
inserting Eldar. Gilliman might have found his
body. He's doing what? Oh, in Fulgrim's Transformation,
Fulgrim is being... Gross. Oh, okay, never mind.
Well, if I might, Colin, Gilliman might have
founded Imperium Secundus, but the Eldar founded
Sloppy Secundus entire. love it thanks for that
thanks for that no worries getting getting back
to the actual point i think i might have been
almost making which was that basically perserabo
supposedly is dying his soul is like leeching
or his life essence is ebbing away slowly and
so he keeps augmenting his armor with more bionics
more strength and uh perserabo perserabo just
basically goes huh So Nurgle will offer, like
Chaos will offer me, you know, like, you know,
they'll save me, right? And he goes, the Sons
of Horus guy goes, yeah, yeah. He just goes,
cool. Yo, guys, kill them. And so they immediately
gunned down these Sons of Horus. Kill them, please.
Sir, your finest bullets, please. They immediately
gunned them down. So, you know, Chaos didn't
say those guys. Hilarious. But he, yeah, so like
the ideas. at some point been planted in his
head that he is dying and chaos might have power
that would save his life supposedly uh following
the horus heresy another cool one here which
is kind of again sticking with like the chaos
stuff they have a weird relationship with chaos
uh it's a not quite the same as something like
the word bearers or the sons of horus and maybe
similar to what were the black legion at some
point but they have a love -hate relationship
with chaos where they do believe chaos is a is
a is a power it is incredibly strong obviously
they can't deny like when the siege of terror
happened they fought alongside demons perserabo
factored demons into his plans and they was fascinated
when he saw uh on the planet he saw layak or
the word the Warberry Apostle, Layak, used the
power... Zardu Layak? The Crimson... Yeah. Crimson
Apostle? Yeah. Yes, he used power to... He took
the Destroyer Hive virus from Typhus and he combined
it with the power and the suffering of terror
and he turned it into this weird Ouroboros -like
Nurgle Worm that would then go with... dig into
the earth and like infect the minds of people.
And it was said in this part in the book that
Perturabo was like disgusted and fascinated at
the same time. Cause he was like, I'm pretty
sure he was going, I'm running a siege and you
can do that. You can like get behind enemy lines.
It's a strange conglomeration of units as well.
Cause it's like that, that, that section of the
siege of terror is like, you've got Abaddon,
the future inheritor of Warmaster. You've got
Perturabo, the only Primarch in this group. You've
got, zardu layak who is like the most um this
guy made like an edifice of his face made of
skulls and bones float above terror to just taunt
the loyalists going surrender bitches we've won
and um and typhus the traveler who stanks so
it's like wow that's a weird group isn't it i
don't know that's a musk there yeah but at some
point As we're seeing in the scouring books that
are coming out, the Legion's attitude towards
chaos is change from a, we can't go near that,
but we'll work alongside it, to we should master
it. Not like, no, well, this is the interesting
part, isn't it? They do believe chaos taint is
madness, it's weakness, and they will straight
off cut off their whole arm if they see signs
of corruption. they will just straight up remove
it. So they don't believe it should be in their
body, but it should be used because power is
strength. And if you're not going to use it,
someone else will. This is interesting because
despite their objections in the heresy to Chaos
Taint, they would have the very first obliterator
ever. It was a legionary called Volk. I believe
it's in Slaves to Darkness, the book. Might be
that one. One of the last books of the Horus
Heresy. And he would become basically possessed
by a demon. And Perseverance was like, yeah,
we'll keep him around, whatever. And then his
body would begin to bloat and basically become
the first obliterator who would then carry the
obliterator virus within himself, which would
then be used during the Seize of Terror. Just
to show you like my love of Iron Warriors, this
is when they're attacking the Lionsgate spaceport
because I need to give this scene context. They
are using millions of like Lost in the Damned,
like Traitor Guard and stuff and like mutants.
And the Iron Warriors are like, if we get anywhere
close to this massive spaceport, the guns just
shoot us. So they decide we need to get close.
So they send a massive wave of like mutants and
cultists. And they hide, like, a small amount
of warrior cataphract -y, like, Terminators inside
them by just basically pushing them inside, like,
this huge horde. And they cover themselves, like,
blood and gore. And they use them as a meat shield
to get to the walls. And basically most of the
cultists are, like, Ogryn. They have, like, traitor
Ogryns with them, which are, like, weirdly corrupted
and stuff. And they essentially say, like, we
are using this as the meat puppet. And it's so
strong, they just, they will just step over,
they literally will kill cultists, like, stepping
on them. But because there's such a huge tide
of them, they manage to hide themselves from
the main guns to get, even at this point as well,
like, in tandem, they work with the Dark Mechanicum
to bring Volk, the first obliterator, who would
then infect the entire spaceport with the obliterator
virus, which begins to, like, attack it. So the
Iron Warriors have no, I mean, to be fair, as
a not so cool fact. they are known as the corpse
grinders as a nickname because they will straight
up use civilians and like guard and other things
as shields. Can I mention something very briefly
as well? Sure. They're also known as the betrayers
of Istvan V because during Istvan V, obviously
there was iron warriors, night lords, alpha legion
and word bearers involved in the second assault.
but the Iron Warriors did such a good job of
purging Loyalists. They're the ones who get the
moniker of the betrayers because they were like,
oh, Horus, you're doing a betrayal, right? Okay,
we're going to nuke their position. And then
once we've nuked them, we're coming in with the
heavy bolters. They did such a purge for Loyalists.
Can we correct that to they nuked Vulcan specifically?
They nuked Vulcan specifically, and there were
a lot of Alamanders involved in the fallout.
But they are so merciless in that regard that
they are known canonically as the betrayers of
Istvan V. I just wanted to throw that out there.
Yeah, they are very, because again, like they
were very good at conventional warfare. Like
even as a legion who necessarily at this, during
the lot of the heresy who weren't using chaos
on their side, they managed to defeat Angron
and the World Eaters. They defeated. Again, a
cool fact is Perturbo was one of the few Primarchs
to actually almost kill, or sorry, basically
beat to a pulp multiple Primarchs. He beat Fulgrim
nearly to death on his ship. I believe the scene
was he was showing a piece that Vulcan had forged
for Perturbo. He just says, look at this, look
at this. See that? Proceeds to grab the back
of his head and smash it on the table until Fulgrim
can't really speak and just whispers in his ear
saying, I'm in command now. You got it, chief?
Fulgrim is throwing his, because in the Siege
of Hydrocrodotus, the first one, he's all like,
oh, my legion's doing all the proactive work.
I am Fulgrim. And then eventually, that annoying
younger brother energy. And like Perturabo basically
grabs him by the throat. He's like, listen here,
you piece of shit. I'm in command now. Any one
of your men who disobeys my commands, I'm going
to kill them. You do as I say, or I will crush
their necks. And he's like, oh, is that how you
feel? He's like, yeah. Little does Perti know
that he's playing into Fulgrim's hands, but it's
still a pretty good moment. And then there's
the whole Angron debacle. Yes, he beat Demon
Primarch Angron himself as a normal Primarch.
With planning. Yeah, the lion has done it. The
lion has done it, to be fair. But yeah, so there's,
particularly as much as we're mentioning in this
section, there's a lot of, they have a, they
have a growing attitude towards chaos. And to
be fair, even to the modern 41st millennium,
42nd millennium, they are obsessed with acquiring
the seed. But what I mean is they are obsessed
with acquiring untainted gene seeds more than
any of the other legions. Other legions are happy
to recruit from other modern chapters or people
who are renegades or whatever. The Iron Warriors
want to keep manufacturing space marines and
soldiers to the point where they... literally
the second siege of Hydra Cordatus happens because
they want to acquire the Imperial Fist gene seed
vaults. And even then it shows to this point,
they're not that concerned about other iron warriors
being like sons of Perturabo. Because again,
it's not about necessarily being a son of Perturabo,
it's about the unbreakable litany. It's about,
do you have iron within, iron without? I think
even the animation. with the iron warriors one
it shows you like they respect it if you actually
have you know you've got grit and determination
they don't respect you if you're weak but if
you're you know again strength you know respect
strength uh but essentially for the we have a
few as in like a last sort of section of characters
i think we'll probably finish up on we do have
a few cool characters that we're going to discover
not do because it's not a character episode but
we would it's worth noting a few notables uh
just to mention i think andy you've got uh two
offerings don't you yeah not to be not to be
a silly billy but like iron warriors as the legion
that's known for attritional warfare and any
losses at any cost no surprise they have very
few notable characters like hal and colin other
than perterabo can you mention any named iron
warrior character colin Honsu, okay. Okay, that's
two. Barbarin, Falk, Kroger. What's the other
one called? Forex. But these are all seasons.
They're the ones who are members of the Trident.
If they're not in the Trident, they don't really
get a mention. Well, there are some other characters.
And if you want obscure lore, check out my channel.
I have a bunch of iron words. But I will cover
the two main ones, which Colin mentioned, which
is Barabas Dantioch and Honsu. So to start with
Barabas Dantioch. Barabas Dantioch was the warsmith
of the 51st Expedition Fleet. He was known as
a peerless tactician and builder and among Paterabo's
most revered warsmiths. And bear in mind, warsmith
is analogous to a captain. He's the 51st. Imagine
the way that we have chapters in the current
law. There's a thousand space Marines. Let's
say that there's a thousand space Marines per
chapter in the legions. There's probably at least
150 expedition fleets for the iron warriors.
Cause like the smallest legions were 80 to a
hundred thousand space Marines. That's like salamanders.
salamanders etc iron warriors are no slouches
they probably have somewhere in that like a hundred
thousand plus space marine legions so let's say
there's minimum like 120 maybe 150 chapters a
thousand per chapter so barabas is in charge
is one of them um he led the fleet during the
hrud incursion of the gugan system and he defended
the fortress world of golgis or golgis And during
that time, if you don't know anything about the
Hrudd, they're a weird Xenos race, they manipulate
time. So when he was fighting the Hrudd on the
world of Golgis, their entropic fields aged him
in the span of a few days to about 3 ,000 years.
So for those who don't know, a space marine is
like immortal, but that don't mean that they
don't crack. They crack. So like... He started
to get like gray hairs in. He's getting some
wrinkle lines. He'll still beat you in an arm
wrestling competition. And when I say he'll beat
you, he'll break your wrist, then your arm without
trying. He's a superhuman. But he's going to
be older. Like look at Dante. Dante has lived
in the 41st millennium for about a thousand years,
give or take. Dante York in the span of a week,
aged three times that very suddenly. So this
man aged. So many of his men, while they were
doing this campaign, were also slain by a native
species of Xenos called the Rakidians. And from
this campaign, Dantioch was very resentful for
how his particular expedition was treated by
Perturabo. He said, Perturabo, you're mistreating
us, which is our thing. But still, even for you,
this is low. You've sent us into a fool's errand.
My men have aged. Some of them have aged so much
they've died from old age as Astartes. That's
messed up. I feel like you just use us as cannon
fodder. You're a shitty Primarch. I hate you.
As a result of this, Perderabo relieved him of
command, stripped him of his Warsmith rank, took
his Terminator armor away, which for those who
don't know, is like Terminator armor is a bit
of a prestige thing. It's like, if you're a good
boy, Oh, Eli's in the chat. Hey, Eli. He said...
Hello, Eli. Yo. Missing law crimes right now.
I love the Iron Warriors. I love Poderaba and
my beautiful Chad. Oh, no. We love you, Eli.
I can't wait to see you. Here you go. Eli, ready?
That's for you. Wow. Sensitive. Very sensitive.
Tender. Tender. But basically, Dantioch was stripped
of his armor. They redacted all records of his...
service. They were like, this guy is a fool.
We don't want him involved. He's an idiot. Let's
just erase him from our history. But Podrabo
knew, as much as I don't like this guy right
now, he's one of my best men. I'm going to reassign
him to Barban Falk, who is a very important character
in the Iron Warriors lexicon. And Dan Tjok didn't
take this particularly well. He was garrisoned
permanently to the world of Lesser Damantine
by Barban Falk. Because Barban Falk is an ambitious
warsmith. He's equivalent of a captain. He's
like, I'm going to do my own thing. Barabas Dantioch
is going to weigh me down. Barabas is so influential,
even during the Honsu books, which is a lot longer.
One of the commanders is like, oh, I revere.
Barabas' teachings as what is an iron warrior,
his teachings I still hold true to. And that's
like 10 ,000 years later. And bear in mind, this
guy lived during the Great Crusade, but like
this guy, even though he was like, he was a loyalist,
I'm a traitor, he still respected him. That's
how much of a pedigree this guy has. But as a
result of him being stripped of his honors, Barabas
said, hey, I hate my Primarch. He's an idiot.
but I respect the legion. I'm not going to abandon
everything I've known as a legionary of this
legion. I will conduct an act of penance, but
I will not dishonor my teachings and my ways
and the men I fought with. So what Barabas did,
and this is a bit of a flex, he went, all right,
I will never show my face to the Primarch again.
All right, how would you do this? Maybe you...
Maybe have a little... I have a DVD copy of Metalocalypse
here. Maybe I just hide my face like this every
time I see... A tasteful shroud, maybe. A tasteful
shroud of every time I see... That seems impractical.
I can't carry this DVD everywhere I go. Where's
a DVD? That's crazy, man. I'm an old head. But
yeah, so he's like, I can't do that. That doesn't
make sense. I have an idea. I'm going to make
a mask of our Legion symbol. as a perpetual sign
of my devotion to the Legion, if not the Primarch.
So this mad lad was like, okay, I'm garrisoned
on this shitty planet. I'll never show my face
to the Primarch because I don't respect him.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to forge a
mask of like the Iron Warrior's sigil. And I'm
not just going to wear it as like a mask. I'm
going to forge this. And while I'm forging it,
hammer it and like craft it. To perfectly fix
my face while it's still molten hot. And I'm
going to do it and it's going to hurt and I'm
going to graft it to my face so I can never take
it off. That's how crazy this guy was. I said,
okay, I respect the Legion, but I don't respect
my Primark. I'm going to graft this to my face
so I can never take it off. I'm going to bolt
it into my skull. I'm going to graft it onto
my flesh. I'm going to be an iron warrior eternal.
So that's the kind of defiance and stubbornness
this guy has. Flash forward a little bit. Traitor
rebellion happens. Horus heresy happens. Barabas
says, being a traitor is cringe. I'm not going
to be a traitor. I've been assigned to Lesser
Damantine. I have been reinforcing this fortress
called Shardenhold. I'm going to keep it. A warsmith
goes, hey, you're now part of the Warmasters'
Rebellion. He says, nah, bro. I don't think I
am, actually. No, I don't think I will. And here
begins the 366 -day siege of Shardenhold. Now,
during the basically year -long -plus siege of
Shardenhold, an ultramarine by the name of Toro
Nicodemus goes, hey, I'm one of, like, Gilliman's
Tetrarchs, I think it is, or at least one of
the Honor Guard. He goes, things are going bad
for the Loyalists. Gilliman is now not able to
intervene with the wider conflict. This guy's
really good. Gilliman has sent me to try and
enlist him to help the Loyalist cause. He's like,
we know you're a Loyalist to the Emperor. We
know you're a Loyalist to the Imbirium. Help
us out. He says, okay, me and my sons of Dantioch,
as they are known, say, We'll fight the loyalists.
We've never betrayed the Imperium because we
are chads. Cool. So the Sons of Dantioch hold
the fortress for 366 days. Eventually, the traitors
under the command of Warsmith Krendel send an
Imperator Titan to destroy the fortress. And
this is a big Titan. This isn't a Warhound. This
isn't a warlord, but it's still pretty big. And
they go, oh, we can't stop a warlord Titan. Sorry,
an Imperator Titan. So Dante goes, okay, rig
the fortress to explode. Resources and all. They're
not taking anything from us. They lure the Titan
in. They blow it up. They kill the Titan. They
kill Lord Smith Grendel. And they deny the traitors
all their advantage. Cool. They then teleport
onto the enemy flagship under Sons of Horus armor,
kill all the bridge crew with Toro in tow. They
secure the flagship and escape. They go to McCragg.
Gilliman says, hey, bro, I heard you're the best
builder there is. And he goes, Bob the Builder,
Barabas, Dante York. Yes, I can. And so like
Barabas is the best builder there is. And so.
Gelamin's like, hey, Imperium Secundus, bruh.
I don't know if the Imperium is going to survive,
but if I'm going to survive, I'm going to need
an Iron Warrior because you guys know your stuff.
I don't like your Primarch. I don't like your
Legion, but you have gained my respect. Everyone
knows you. You're the best. Barabastantiok, can
I fix it? I hate party. Exactly. And so it's
like, okay, I'll fortify Imperium Secundus. And
he goes, job well done. I've done it, mate. Completed
it. Okay, Barabas, I'm going to send you to this
weird planet called Sofa. There's a weird Necron
device there called the Pharos device. It allows
us to teleport. Because bear in mind, at this
point in the Horus Heresy, there's a big ruin
storm cutting the Imperium in twain. And Gilliman
is like, we kind of have a logistics problem.
this allows us to teleport not just like a box
of like amazon parcels but like entire fleets
full of amazon boxes of parcels so like we need
to get this working it also has a warp beacon
we should say that's like main benefit for what
they think yeah mini mini astronomicon yeah so
it's like it's not just a navigational thing
but it's also we can teleport shit like Sounds
like a good idea. So he teams up in a very unlikely
thing with Alexis Pollux, who would go on to
become the first chapter master of the Crimson
Fists. He's an Imperial Fist now, but he will
be the chapter master of the Imperial Fists when
the Horus Heresy is over. The duo form an unlikely
bond of camaraderie where what I like about their
relationship is like, if Perturabo and Dawn put
their differences aside, they would be like an
unstoppable duo. Like these two would be like...
We can do anything. You siege, I fortify. You
build, I galvanize. It's like, if you guys weren't
cutting at each other's throats, you could have
made like an impenetrable fortress, the galaxy
thereover, if you put your egos aside. And this
is what these two did. And this will never be
replicated again. And they defended McCragg for
a while. Conrad Kurz got involved. That's a long
story. Cut short, they endured. They saved the
Lion and Gilliman from dying at the hands of
Kurs, which is kind of peak. But then eventually
the Night Lords, with a fragment of their legion,
not commanded by Kurs, but a different guy, they
invaded Sofa. With an Ultramarines detachment,
they basically tried to prevent them from taking
this immensely powerful device, because they're
pirates. They're going to use this to pillage
and raid the entire galaxy. And in a desperate
last act, Dan Teot goes, I'm going to blow up
the Pharos device. I'm going to die in the process.
But at least we deny the Night Lords what they
want. This is very heroic. He dies in Alexis's
arms. He takes his mask off. Unfortunately, this
is the incident that invites the Tyranids into
the Farore 10 ,000 years later because the explosion
of this thing is like a beacon to draw all the
Tyranids. They go... The Tyranids are technically
an Iron Warrior's fault. Yeah, but, you know,
we could also say, like, it's the Night Lord's
fault. Yeah. Because, you know, they were attacking,
right? It made them blow it up. Yeah. And it's
not ideal. He didn't know he was going to do
that. He didn't know about Tyranids. No one knew
about Tyranids. And for his efforts... Posthumously?
Posthumously? How do you pronounce it? Posthumously?
I don't know, man. Don't ask me. I always said
it was posthumously, but I was wrong. Posthumously,
he's awarded the title, which is to say, after
death, the hero of the Imperium. As far as I'm
aware, he's like one of the first to ever be
called a hero of the Imperium entire by Gilliman.
They do a big funeral pyre. Alexis Paulus is
beside himself where... There's like Ultraman's
like, he won't move, dude. I don't know what
to tell you. He's like, he's sad. Give him a
minute. And he's like the last loyal Iron Warrior.
And his mask for a long time is used as a symbol
of defiance and the charge of the Scythes of
the Emperor who are like the 11th company of
the... the the ultra marines chapter for a long
time every chapter master uses his mask as like
a badge of office and for a thousand years that's
used as as such until eventually the tyranids
turn up and destroy so far but we won't talk
about that because it's sad um and that's barabas
dantiox do you have anything else to add before
i go into honsu i just like the fact of when
he's best friends with alexis polos um I don't
think Dantok is that tall for a Space Marine,
but I think Alexis Pollux is enormous, isn't
he? Yeah, he's like a barrel. Do you remember,
is it in that book where he, Gilliman just goes,
what the, like, what does this guy eat? Because
he says Alexis Pollux is the only Space Marine
where he was almost eye level with Gilliman.
Yeah, he's like the size of Malfarius, right?
What do you mean? What are you eating, bro? Bro's
eating his oats. He is enormous, that guy. And
he is powerful. He is Chonk. He is the epitome
of Chonk. And I think we have one more character
which we mentioned just as a nice... Because
again, other characters will get their own video,
but we want to talk about ones which are pretty
exciting. One thing I'd like to mention about
Honsu is he is one of the most fleshed out characters
in the lore because... He has a lot of coverage,
but bear in mind, he has his own book. He has
a few short stories, but also he is involved
in the Uriel Ventress bunch of books. So he's
one of those weird characters who has his own
focus books. He is a antagonist on other books
and he's involved. So like... To get coverage
of Honsu, you have to go through Horus Heresy,
Modern 40K, Uriel Ventress books, his own books,
and short stories. He's all over the place, which
is one of the reasons why he's a weird character,
but he's also one of the most beloved. He'll
probably get his own episode one day, but we
can't not mention him because he's interesting
compared to a lot of the other characters. They're
shadows of what Perturabo is. They're not him,
but they're trying to be. Whereas Honsu is his
own thing. Honsu is the premier Iron Warrior's
character. So let's not forget that you got Perturabo.
Name any other living Iron Warrior character.
It's Honsu. He's the only one. Like, honestly.
You got me there. I'm not joking. Like, Iron
Warriors are expendable in their nature, and
that's why they don't have many characters. But
let's start from the Horus Heresy. So Honsu is
a weird name, right? What the hell does Honsu
mean? So to go back to the Horus Heresy, Fabius
Bile has done experiments, because of course
he has. He attempted to blend two gene seeds,
Imperial Fists... and iron warriors into one
because he understood these guys are very similar
if they could stop bitching about each other
they could become perfect if they actually got
their differences aside and worked on it cool
idea so there was one guy called honorable sulaka
who is from the dodecafeon of the iron warriors
which is like a very prestigious rank of iron
warriors and he also took gene seed from the
imperial fist captain of the 42nd company Felix
Cassander. And he said, here's Cassander. Here
is Sulaka. Murder them into one. Let's see what
happens. Wasn't Cassander, he was a prisoner
from the first siege. He was. He was. And he
was being kind of driven mad. But basically,
as a wild card, Fabius was like, let's see what
shenanigans can happen from this. So he took
the two Genes. I combined the seed. combine the
speed. And he went, okay, cool. This is amazing.
And then one of the end of one of the Horus Heresy
books, I can't remember which one it is. His
lab is on fire. Lucius intervenes. He's been
reborn. He's, he's, he's been killed by, what's
his name? The Raven guard character. Shuriken.
Shuriken. And he's come back. He's like, oh,
I'm, I'm kind of learning to deal with myself.
And he's like, Lucius, what's up, bro? He's like,
everything's on fire. Grab something. and lucius
picks up this test subject the vial and the side
of the label should say honorable sulaka but
because the place is on fire a bunch of the label
is burned away so all that's readable is hon
su he's like okay i'll grab this and here begins
the story of honsu for a time He grows, he's
trained by the Iron Warriors and he is treated
really badly by everyone in his legion. Like
bear in mind, like he's got Iron Warriors, Imperial
Fist blood in his veins and everybody knows about
this. I don't know how, but they know. So imagine
like your mortal enemy, every single person in
your legion knows that you have your mortal enemy's
DNA in you. That's a bad start. So the fact that
he survived alone is a testament to his cunning
and skill. So eventually, through sheer grit
and determination, which is kind of the Iron
Warrior's thing, he becomes one step below a
Warsmith. He even gets to command an entire Grand
Battalion. And every other Warsmith, for the
most part, hates this guy. It's like, I hate
this guy. He's got Imperial Fist Geneseed in
him. but damn if he doesn't get things done.
I'm not going to give him credit for that because
it's cringe. This guy should die. I hate him.
He should be burned in a fire. I want to piss
on his grave. Like, oh, thanks guys. Very mature
of you. Let him have it. Really let him have
it. Yeah, go for it. But eventually, the Iron
Warriors are tasked by Abaddon the Despoiler
during 999 .m41, that singular year of the time
of ending, to procure a gene bank of Imperial
Fists. And to give you context, Whenever we think
of gene with the genetic heritage of the imperial
fists, yes, they recruit from a bunch of planets,
but Holy Terra is the main planet. Other than
Holy Terra, the only other stockpile of gene
seed for the imperial fists is on Hydrocordatus,
which Hal mentioned earlier as a particularly
important part of the Horus heresy, where Fulgrim
and Perturabo did a joint campaign. Right now,
the Imperial Fists are holding a massive gene
seed storage device of like thousands upon thousands
of Imperial Fists gene seed on this planet. The
cum vault, as Colin would put it. One of two.
Iconic cum vault. Indeed. Bruh. And at this point,
Honsu is under the command of Barbon Falk, who...
as we mentioned earlier, was the guy that Barabas
Dantioch was under the command of. And Barb and
Falco have done a video on him. He's like a weird
character. But this guy, unlike a lot of Iron
Warriors, was all like, I want to be in this
Chaos game. I love Chaos. I love him. So he's
all like, I have a bargain with Chaos. I designed
this fortress of Geneseed back in the Great Crusade.
I know every defense. I know every weakness.
We take this gene seed store. We offer it to
Abaddon. We please the chaos gods. I'll become
a demon prince. And at this point, this guy's
going through a power trip already. He's considering
himself the Warsmith. Not a Warsmith. He is known
only by his subjects as the Warsmith. He's the
Warsmith. And Honsu is one of his best men because
this guy is like, hey. I'm a bit unconventional.
I'm an iron warrior who wants chaos in me. I'll
accept a guy who's competent if he's weird. I
don't care he's a half -breed. I don't care that
he has my enemy's DNA in him. As long as he gets
the job done, fair play. And Honsu leads a great
company alongside Forex and Kroger, both triarchs,
who lead the first and second great companies,
the most prestigious companies of the Legion.
And they siege Hydrocordatus. Honsu is revered
for his cunning and effectiveness in battle.
Give you an idea, Colin. You haven't read this
book, right? No. This is... What's the book called?
Storm of Iron. Storm of Iron. That's the one.
Honsu captures a Tyranid bio -ship, infects it
with the Flayer virus, and then uses it to retrofit
it as a Titan... drop ship to deploy the legio
mortis okay what the hell that's what this guy's
been going up to when he's like uh like like
a mid -level sergeant kind of guy like that that's
what this guy's been like torturing a bio ship
in the eye in the eye of terror that's what this
guy's been up to right that's weird that's this
nice middle ground guy i see yeah So basically,
the planet at the time is being defended by third
company Captain Ishara. It's 40 ,000 Iron Warriors
against a few hundred Imperial Fists and a bunch
of mortals. It's not going to go well. That's
a lot of Iron Warriors. But fair play to the
mortals. Honsu duels a guy called the Castellan
of Jorah, who is the Prestre de Roche de Barne
VI. Mortal guy, really good duelist. Cuts Honsu's
arm off, but dies in the process. Fair play.
Fair play to that one guy for cutting off the
arm. That's pretty big. Pretty big. That's not
bad. You're never going to kill him, but you
can dismember him a bit. That's pretty good.
So Honsu's like, ow, my arm, ow. And then Falk
goes, okay, you can take the cybernetic replacement
from my champion, Kortrish. Eventually the Iron
Warriors, they do conquer Hydrocordatus. And
Falk. for his service to Abaddon, ascends to
the form of a demon prince. He becomes the true
warsmith. And Falk is like, I'm amazing. And
he says, Honsu, I know Forex died. Forex died
and Kroger died. That's two thirds of the Trident
in this battle. Don't worry about it. You're
like a true wine warrior. Don't let them grind
you down. I love you. Okay, mate, calm down.
And he ascends to go to the wall. I'm going to
the immaterium. I'm going to do so many war crimes.
I'm warping. I'm warping. I'm warped. And this
leaves Khonsu uncontested as the de facto inheritor
of the Iron Warriors Legion. He has 40 ,000 men,
a stockpile of gene seed from the Imperial Force.
He gives most of it to Abaddon, but he keeps
a substantial proportion to himself. And I think
Abaddon knows, but he doesn't care. He's like,
okay, let's do some weird shit. Goes back to
Medringard. Medringard is a demon world in, and
it's the domains of Perturabo. Perturabo is basically
in his own little castle on Medringard on like
the highest peak. The sun is dead. It's like,
it's called the Black Sun. It's a terrible place.
It's full of like - Oh, Black Sun, Dead Sky is
the book, isn't it? Black Sun, Dead Sky, yeah.
It's a terrible place, but it's where the Iron
Warriors call home. So Honsu goes back. And he's
like, I've got all this gene seed. Let's do some
weird shit. He leaves one man alive on Hydrocordatus
to tell what's happened. And then he basically
departs. So this is where the most infamous part
of lore in the Warhammer setting comes into play.
Let's talk about the Demunculaba. The icky. Oh,
no. From the Fortress of Kalangol, which is what?
Why am I there? Is that right? Well... Honsu
inherits this... Honsu inherits this fortress
from Barb and Fogg, and he develops the Demonculaba.
I won't go into the details. If you want that,
go into my video on Honsu. Or wait till we do
a Honsu -specific video. He's in the column,
Ball Files. Oh! And basically, all I will say
is that it creates a bunch of, like, abomination
Astartes using the Gene Seed of the Imperial
Fists. And the failed attempts are called unfleshed.
And they're called unfleshed because they don't
have skin. They're just like muscle. And they're
basically like yeeted into like the bowels of
Medrongard, where they're just kind of like,
I have no skin, but I must praise the emperor.
And most of them like, I still believe in the
emperor. I haven't been corrupted, but I don't
have no skin. And that sucks. With Honsu's return,
he don't share. He don't play nice. So the other
warsmiths, Toramino and Barossus, lay siege to
Karl and Gaul. And Karl and Gaul is a great fortress,
but Iron Warriors are known for their siege craft.
So Honsu's not too worried. He's like, I'm going
to make a bajillion space marine abominations
and I'm going to become the greatest Iron Warrior
there ever was. Meanwhile, Uriel Ventress has
had two books to his name on his six book series.
He is tasked as penitents by Varro Tigurius,
the chief librarian of the Ultramanes, to seek
out a place of dark iron. Wonder where that is.
And with his friend, Sergeant Pasanius Lysane,
is transported by the demon engine, the Omphimus
Daemonium, to Medringard. He allies with a former
Ravengard shadow captain and Red Corsair, Ardric
Varnes. and a bunch of renegades who are just
living on like Medringar trying to get by to
destroy the Demunculata. They try, they fail.
Ventress is captured and forced into the fleshcraft
of the savage morticians. Honsu removes Lysane's
arm, which is a different story where they had
a previous adventure where Lysanias gained a
necrodermis metal arm. And basically, Hansa goes,
I'm having that. So he cuts off his arm, puts
it on his own body. Yoink. And now he has a necrodermis
silver arm. And Ventress and Pisanis do escape
eventually. The Unfleshed, who are in the bowels
of Medrongard, allied to their cause, because
they're still loyal to the Emperor, even though
they are monsters. And... While this is all going
on, Barossa sees a chance. He goes, I'm going
to try and destroy Kalangol, but he's killed
by Barossa. But Toramino goes, oh, well, Barossa
may have died, but at least I know that there's
like a chink in the armor. There's like, there's
a weakness. I'm going to take advantage. So Toramino
is now distracting Honsu, Uriel and his band
of miscreants. infiltrate again they release
the the kind of like power source of the fortress
which is a demon called the heart of blood the
heart of blood then exercises the infamous demonium
which is like the infamous demonium is like a
choo -choo choo -choo train from hell it's like
thomas the tank agent from like satan's bowels
it's a really weird thing it's like it's like
it's like a train and it's all like i'm good
kind of now because the cornet demon released
the evil i guess okay cool Long story short,
Carlin Gaul is destroyed with the release of
the Cornate Demon. The Omphimus Dunmarnium takes
Ventress and Bassanius and the Unfleshed away
from Medringard. Honsu is wounded by a bolt shell
from Uriel Ventress's bolt gun. But fun fact,
if you shoot a bolt gun of any sort in too short
of a range, it doesn't have enough time to detonate.
So it basically cracks his skull open, but it
doesn't kill him because it doesn't explode.
And then he goes, oh, that was really annoying.
Let's go get that guy. I hate that guy. So then
he recruits not just Varnes, who is the renegade
Raven Guard slash Red Corsair. He also takes
one of Barossus' men called Caterus Grendel and
a clone of Uriel Ventress called the Newborn,
I believe it is. The newborn has all the memories
of Ventress, but doesn't have the lived experience.
So he's kind of fractured. Varnes promises to
train him and make him a good fighter. And bear
in mind, you could stab this guy with a sword.
You pull the sword out, he's regenerated because
he's like warped flesh. He's like, he doesn't
care. He's not very good at it, but he's like,
I can get through anything. So like, they're
like cutting his arms off and stabbing him in
the gut. It's like, it doesn't matter. Then Honsu
goes, okay, newborn, what about those memory
users? He says, oh, Ventress was sent here because
he failed at Tarsus Ultra. Long story short,
Tarsus Ultra was invaded by Tyranids. Ventress
sided with his Death Watch mate of old to destroy
the planet, but he abandoned the Ultramarines.
Some Ultramarines died in order to basically
virus bomb the Tyranids. Therefore, he betrayed
the Ultramarines. There he's penitent, blah,
blah, blah, blah. So then Honsu goes, okay, let's
go to Tarsus Ultras and send a message. He takes
his men. He captures the old flagship of Barb
and Falk called the Warbreed, which was present
during Istvan V. So it's an old ship. And he
goes to Tarsus Ultra. He then destroys the entire
defense force. He finds all of the, fun fact,
his demonic axe that you see in all the photos,
right? It's a demon weapon. It goes anywhere
near his metal arm. It does not like it. Like
there's a passage where it says about like the
tendrils of chaos go through his body. It gets
to like here and it retreats because it's like,
I don't like this. This is anathema. Necron shit.
So Honsu's like, that's interesting. Chop, chop,
carve, carve. And essentially, the Iron Warriors
secure 16 missile payloads. They arm 15 of them
with the Heratoclus virus, which kills all...
It ensures the eco -death of Tarsus Ultra. It
kills everything. And then the last missile,
he puts Uriel Ventress's helmet from Medringard
that he took in the, like, arming chamber. So
when the Ultramen's open it, they just find this
helmet with, like, an Ultramen sigil on the brow.
And so the Ultramen's like, this isn't good.
Flash forward to another book. So basically,
the Ultramarines vow to bring Honsu to justice,
but he's now gone to the Maelstrom. He's going
to talk to Huron Blackheart. Huron does these
annual or every so often blood harvest, or skull
harvest, I should say, where he goes, if you
can impress me, I'll give you a fleet. I'm a
pirate king. You win the blood harvest, you kill
your rivals, I'll give you like 100 ships. With
crew and men and everything. So Honsu and his
men are like, we're going to win the competition.
We're going to do our thing. Between bouts, he's
reading books he's taken from Karl and Gol about
how he can get more allies for his ambition to
destroy Ultramar and thus Uriel Ventress. And
eventually he wins the blood harvest. He gets
a fleet of his own with the sanction of... With
the sanction of... of Huron Blackheart. And then
he goes, okay, cool. That's nice. But I've also
been reading up on my history. There's a guy
called the Friseborn who's a word bearer's apostle.
He seems like a good ally to have. There's a
prophecy that he was sealed in a warp drive by
Marnius Kalgar about 60 years ago. If I can like
release him, he can be my friend and we can kill
every ultramarine that ever lived. Cool. So he
goes to meet Moriana, who is the Seer of Abaddon.
And she says, okay, I know where to find the
Freyspawn. It's on this station. And it's called
the Indomitable. If you want to summon the Bane
of Zalenfra, you have to do it now during the
time of ending. So he goes to the station. He
releases Macar the Reborn. And he says, hey,
my warband called the Bloodborne. Nice, good
game. My blood -borne warband, we're going to
destroy Ultramar. You want in? He's like, I want
to kill that Marius guy. I hate that guy. I'm
so gagging, brother. Beat his ass. I'm going
to kick that guy's fucking eye. He's like, okay,
fair enough. And so while Makar and his men go
to the agri -world of Tarentus with a bunch of
demons, another group of corsairs go to Talasar,
which is the homeworld of Cato Sicarius. And
then a bunch go to Esbandor. And then Honsu goes
to Kalf. Ventress, as a Kalf native, he was born
on Kalf. He defends his homeworld from the invasion
force. They fight, fight and fight and fight
and fight. They fight in the tomb of Uriel Ventress,
sorry, of Remus Ventanus, who was the original
fourth captain of the fourth company for the
Ultraman's Legion. He's known as the hero of
Kalf. and there's something that Makara's tasked
Honsu with, which is the Shard of Erebus. Howes,
you know what the Shard of Erebus is? Is that
the blade, isn't it? Is that one of the... Not
Fulgurite. What's the other one called? Oh, my
God, I'm blanking. Anathema? Anathemes. Anathemes.
Yeah. It's the Anatheme dagger. The super poop
knife. And originally it was like, oh, it's a
holy place with a ultra means hero. That's why
I can't go. And then Hanzo's like, oh no, that's
why you really want me to do this myself. It's
because if you get stabbed by this thing, you're
banished forever. No more reborn. No more respawn.
Like you're done. I was like, okay, fair enough,
mate. I'll help you. But then long story short,
Ventress defends the tomb. They fight each other.
Varnes dies. Cadarus Grendel dies. The newborn
dies because he's struck by the... He regenerates
any wound, but then Ventress stabs him with the
Anaphane and that kills him forever. And Honsu
escapes. And for about six months, Honsu runs
rampant on Kalf as the beast of Kalf. And even...
Just the fact that like a named Ultramarine character
and the Legion of the Damned and a Legion of
the Damned named Ultramarine character from the
Horus Era as he couldn't stop the sky shows you
how wily and conniving and tricky he is to deal
with. He escapes, he lives. He manages to basically
board a corpse hauler called the Shendal. He
seizes the craft on route to the cemetery world
of N 'Kila. And Han soon manages to reunite with
the crew of the Warbreed and goes, okay, that
was a bit of fun. I don't care about vengeance
anymore. That was good enough. I'm going to meet
with Padrabo. So he goes back to Medrongard.
He has a game of, what's it called? He has a
game of regicide with Padrabo. And they discuss
the fate of the Legion because bear in mind,
Forex is dead. Bob and Falk is now doing his
own thing. Kroger is dead and now his armor is
inhabited by a lady. Iron Warriors aren't quids
in as far as like named characters. So they just
have a chat. They have a game. It's annoying
that this short story is only available to people
who can either procure the very rare collector's
edition of Storm of Iron or find a particular
like video PDF file of like... The original transcript,
I don't know where you'd get one of those. But
it's like, yeah, ominous way to end his story.
And Honsu and Perturabo are like, let's discuss
the fate of the Legion. And I wish I could say
that the half -breed will return. I have my doubts.
And that's Honsu. Thank you. Damn. Damn, brought
the... There was a lot to cover. Well, Iron Warriors,
eh? That was a mistake. They sure were. um we
do have a we have another segment uh but the
first one we have the usual which was uh actually
we do at the end don't we which was so we do
the new one which was very much pushed by eli
we've been meaning to do this for a while which
is the mini of the week we're actually going
to be doing it guys so we've all chosen a few
of you guys so again in the discord Everybody
who amazing in the hashtag tabletop section.
Some of you guys, I've been checking that out
a lot. Some of you guys are really talented.
It's really annoying. This is Eli's option because
he wasn't here. So this is from Carl. Amazing.
Non -metallic metal on full grim. That's pretty
good. That is nice. A slightly grim dark color
choice as well. Like keeping the palette quite
dark is really nice. Damn good. Gems as well.
Damn, man, it's really good. Yeah, this shit
looks nice. It's really good. This one is from
Joe the Ogre, which is Colin's pick. Indeed.
You know, I like the ogre. He's pretty nicely
painted. And, you know, I got to respect an ogre
player, especially that's on a square base. Hell
yeah, man. That's some good stuff. I do like
an ogre mini. As a fat, dumb, glutted myself,
I can appreciate a nice ogre army. He needs to
grow out his beard, though, so he can once again
join the ranks, though. They don't respect beardless.
They don't need to have beards. That's the dwarves.
Come on. I do like what he's done with particularly
the gun as well. Yeah, that's very cool. And
the nipples stand out. Well done, brother. This
one is from Hal. This is Nasty Hombre. Yes, he's
working on a Zeach -themed soul grinder. And
I'd say the addition of what is the magic orb
of the Musleth Vortex beast is like squiddy bits.
What can I say? Is that the metal Zeach symbol
on the bottom there? Maybe. Pretty old school.
He's working on this. I've seen his progress
pictures. So there's a pretty big kitbash and
it's... So like, you know, salute to you brother
for willing to do a soul grinder. That's a crazy
model to choose in the, the 10, the year of the
10th edition. As a pretty cool kit bash. I do
like kit bashing a lot. And the one I was speaking
of kit bashing, I'd like to share this one of
a red formerly of AA. This is a red, red pulling
out the stops with this one, man. Whoosh. That's
also, that's the Perturabo model as well. It
is. I thought it would be fitting with like a
custodian hybrid mask and Gilliman sword. Is
that the Emperor's Children one or is that custodian?
I don't know. But it's cool. Might be. It's got,
I think the gauntlets from the Saturnine kit.
And I think that's the Emperor's sword from the
Gilliman model. Yeah. Damn, man. It's impressive.
It's good. I love the kitbash on the... I don't
know what... Is that the Legionary gun? The Chaos
Legionary minigun? I can't tell. That is pretty
damn cool. Damn, bro. People are getting... When
it comes to kitbashing stuff, I've been watching
a lot of Mish Mash recently, and I've been like,
damn, the desire to kitbash is in my blood constantly.
uh and then we had again guys if you want to
be in miniature of the week we'll literally it'll
be out there for everyone to see go join the
discord and we also i want to get our finishing
off with our question of the week i think well
the question of the week this week that we're
going to be doing what was it andy if you remember
uh so so last week was theoretical or last time
i should say theoretical and practical because
we covered ultramarines and to start us off The
first comment from Andy BK Hound. Theoretical.
Lorgar has betrayed me. Practical. It's time
to bring out the ancient relic blastial throne
of Saint Undertakir. Damn. I don't know. I don't
know the reference either. It was very highly
upvoted. Our viewers are much smarter than we
are. Can I see the word spelled out? Can you
put it in the chat? So it's U -N -D -E -H -R.
So under here, Takir. So it's T -A -K -R. Under
here, Takir. Jack, what's the reference? Please
help. Please help these old unks. We are still
here. Until then, Viper Blitz 1 -1. Theoretical.
Artillery fire from over there. Practical. Remove
over there. USS Wisconsin. Wow. Hell yeah. Damn.
Hell yeah. If you're saying The Undertaker, is
that the other reference? Is that The Undertaker?
Maybe. We got one here from German. We got one
here from Swift Paints. Hashtag code. It's just
thin your paints and remember to use two thin
coats. There's a dunk bit of Duncan Rhodes. And
last one, I'm adding a bonus one here because
I thought it was funny. From SkyGuy41. Theoretical.
My tummy hurt. Practically. Remove it. Amazing.
I was thinking he was like, practical, explosive
diarrhea. But I would like to say, we do have
a question of the week for the next time, and
that is hashtag Iron Within. Sorry, iron without.
Sorry, redact that. It's iron without. And the
idea is for this hashtag, if there is one thing
you could remove from Warhammer, whether that's
40k or fantasy, what would it be? So hashtag
iron without. We already kind of know my answer.
Yeah, I know. I would, to be fair, I would cut
off. I'd have more Primarchs die during the heresy.
I think that would make it more interesting.
More impactful, I think, as well. I think Lorgar
should have died. I wouldn't mind if Korax died
as well. Maybe one of the... I was going to say,
I'd say hashtag Iron Without. Remove Corvus Korax.
See if anyone notices. Got him there. Thank you
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