Adeptus Ridiculous - ARKS OF OMEN & ANGRON REBORN | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: February 22, 2023

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamanties. My co-host is Bricky. And today, I think, we're going to learn about some arcs of omen, and I'm super hype. And it's just love the last episode. But before we get too far into that, if you enjoy today's episode of the podcast and you feel like maybe let's support these guys, head over to p. Patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to our Discord, bloopers if they happen. at the $15 tier, you can get all of our posters in HD digital form.

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Yes, sir, yes, sir. I don't much have a quote for you, but I have the opening of this book if you'd like me to just kind of give this small paragraph a read. It's kind of set you up. Hit me with it, set me up. Someone set us up the bomb.

Bricky set us up the quote. So the, hmm, you know, you wouldn't call the world eater's subtle, would you? No, no. With a name like, World Eaters? No. All right, good.

Because the first sentence here is, the eaters of worlds. Oh, okay. The blood god's sacred slaughtermen, chosen Legion of Corn. None there are who offer greater tribute to the Lord of Skulls, none more committed to battle in his name.

Many are those who brand the world eater's shatter, fragmented sons of a broken father. Those same fools soon fall beneath the churning teeth of bloody blades, their skulls cast flensed upon the offering pile. Yet for all their sacred butchery, there are none amongst this blood-blessed brotherhood to compare to their sire.

He is the bladed hurricane, he is the unstoppable beast's fury-given form, the gore-spattered demigod of carnage. He is the red angel, and demons and mortals have slamed and striven for the honor of fighting in his charnel shadow. He is Angron, the eater of Worlds, and his onset Harold's death. Wow. We're starting off strong. Wow, we, blood-blessed brothers.

There's some alliteration for your daily life. Holy moly. Okay, I like it. I mean, let's go. I mean, that is so on-the-nose world eaters. Like, if you had just told me that I was like, oh, yeah, this is obviously a world-eaters episode. We're going to be talking about some anger on shenanigans. Let's go.

Also, again, with the flensing, they just, they love, they love that word. No flaying. We got to flensing. We got to flens. We got to make that skull, you know, got to make that skull clean. Nice and clean and smooth, just like my brain. Got to stack it on the pile. On the pile.

Got to make a throne out of it. You don't want to have dirty skin flaps on your skull throne, right? You got to polish that skull. Truly an offering. Worthy. So, as for those of you viewers who don't know where we're at right now, this is not the episode on Angram. That's what you were hoping for. We have an episode on Angron himself and his backstory in the world eaters that we've already done.

And this is technically the second part of the Arks of Omen Book series. If you are not caught up, I would go back and watch the Vash Store. I don't know it's Abidon one, but the images of Vash Store. Yeah. It's sick, too. That's another sick thumbnail by Ted. Yeah, good job, Ted. I hope he maintains the Arks of Omen style for this one, too,

to make consistent. Oh, it's so cool. It's really great work. Anyway, go ahead. But, yeah, so that kind of gives you a little bit of heads up. So, starting off, we have Angram. And Angram is aboard a fleet of heretics and world eaters. These are all currently translating through different warp jumps and the like.

and he is rent a gigantic hole out of the conqueror ship that has had a bit of a change since the last days. Okay, so we're on the Conqueror. We're on the Conqueror. The Conqueror, no ab. Well, it's a little fleshier. It's bored a bunch of demonic spires coming out of it. Whoa. So Engron does not abide the laws of physics.

he rips a hole out of the conqueror in rage and he rides it in the vacuum of space he bellows and screams and can fly in the void so to the nature of him being a demon that ignores the laws of physics oh I suppose that's true like warped demons probably would be able to fly

in the void of space without like a helmet or any special thing and he's got you know muscles on his wings, he's got biceps for wings, so sure he can fly. Also, just the idea of a fleet that at the lead just has like Angron going, that the head of it is freaky. I don't like that at all. That's about what it is. So he is leading one of the largest world eaters fleet since the horace heresy. About half of all the remaining world eaters, along with various other war bands, stolen alien ships, even repurposed for the use of world eaters.

Just the whole thing. Conquer at the head. Even some ships still bearing the old white and blue color from the heresy itself. There's pre-heresy ships in there. Well, the remains of pre-heresy ships anyway. So in this tippity top, Angron is, he's exactly. what you'd expect him to be. He is still a prime arc. So he still is got, like, he's still a tactician to an extent. He's still smart. But the nails in his head are, and throughout this

entire book, it's always said the nails are pounding, pounding, pounding into his head. Specifically, the word pounding three times is constantly used. Yeah. So he is just, yeah, a whirlwind of rage. And he's particularly heading towards this bright, psychic light. that is bugging him to death. A bright psychic light that's bugging him to death, huh? A bright psychic light that is, that bears the source of witchcraft, that he is just, I mean, he's mad, but this is like mad, mad, you know, corn disdains sorcery.

Oh, so this is like extra angry angron, because this is like, corn doesn't like it. I really don't like it. So it's just like, oh yeah, go, go kill that post-haste. It's like having someone shine a light directly into your eyes is already bad, but then they're also going, e-e. You want to hear the most annoying sound ever? So Angron is, because last time we saw Angron was at the end of that book, and when he went

demon, he just like, he's just crazy. and he's just like chained down and he's just like you can't talk to him unless you're what Karn? Pretty much. Is he better than that now? Because like he's or is he just still just like I'm going to kill everything

in my sight unless you're Karn? So you're forgetting that that was not even before the hereses ended. Oh! Oh, okay. Yeah, you're right. I guess for some reason I thought that was post-heresy. No, no. Demon Primark

I'm pretty positive demon Angron. Yeah, Demon Angron happened prior to Cedatara. Oh, okay. Remember, my timeline is all screwed up. Yeah, okay. They threw him into the surface. Remember, they like jettisoned him and let him murder everybody. Oh, yeah, that's right.

They did. Yeah, so not like that. But no, Angron is not tied up to anyone. He is at full rain. He is going around and a world eater's ship looks like what you think it is. It is raining blood in the sanctums. everyone is screaming and yelling demons and stuff

and regular people alike are keeping it functioning people are just dying there's full of gladiator pits and people murder the slaves down on the it's a world eater ship and along with his massive tide of ships comes his arc of Omin which is known as the Clarian Dyer and the Clary and Dyer arc is led by

some other World Ears captain not too important gifted by Abadon and told to send over here to go get the artifact that Abidon is getting which you remember Abadon and Vash Tor are trying to gather MacGuffins to make a key and this key will have a weapon that will destroy the Imperium basically. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So what's the rest of chaos up to at this point? Because not every chaos faction follows Abadon the Black Legion, right? Murdering loyalists. But anywho. So, Abidon has sent him this Ark of Omen and a good portion of his fleet, or just

extra stuff to help him go to this place. And this is known as a planet known as Malik Bail. M-A-K, Malik, B-A-E-L, Malik Bail. Malik-Bail. All right. On Malik-Bail is where this psychic light is stinging

Angron's mind and making the nail in his head pound harder and harder. Now, obviously, Angron does not care one bit about Abidon's prize. He could give a shit. He is a primark. Abidon is a little baby boy compared to demon primark Angron. But Abidon kind of knows this. And is just like, listen, there's a thing there we got to get.

Here's an arc. Just go. You know, like murder everything. like whatever. Like, Abidon's not dumb. He knows what Angron's about. Oh, sure. He sends Angron on a task that he's like, yeah, Angron's going to take care of this. Also, so you're telling me if Angron and Abadon squared off, Abadon will get wrecked? Oh, God, yeah. Look at him. Look at how big he is. True. He is a big boy. And I guess he is a demon primark. Honestly, like, yeah, like, Shai says, yeah, he controls him by saying, hey, dude, those guys over there called you a pussy. No, it's genuinely just, hey, look at this place. See how many loyalists are there?

And look, they're sorcerers. You want to kill all of them, right? It's like, well, yeah. Here's a fancy tool, giant ship. Go kill them. So during this, they are all heading towards this beacon of sorcery that they despise. And the camera, I'll say it like a show, right? The camera pans out.

And as it moves its way, there is a orb. and this orb is being pondered by a war band of Zich. I don't think it's technically thousand sons. I think it's just chaos marines that serve Zich. Oh, okay. This war band is multiple sorcerers looking at their orb, seeing Angron flying around and all that. Oh, boy, they've got to be very nervous.

Well, so, no, they're not the people that he's going towards. Oh. They are currently in possession of an arc known as the Stygian heart. And they've already got their artifact. Oh, okay. They got what they needed, gave it over to the Warmaster. But this piece of sorcery, this high level of sorcery thing there, they're very interested in. They're very curious.

And so they're looking at it and they're thinking it might be smart to, before Angron arrives, to get them. and try to snag what we can before the Red Angel arrives and kills everything. This sounds like a really bad idea. I got to be honest with me, this sounds like an awful idea. So they make for Malik Bail an attempt to go to war for Zich and try to... Because, I mean, come on, sneaking in and grabbing stuff and being all sneaky and lie. It's such a Zinch thing, you know? That's true.

God of change. Sneaky, sneaky, yeah, yeah. Okay. So, quote, the blood god hates sorcery and these weaklings who cover in its paltry light. Such curs are good for not but slaughter. I shall be their executioner and I will pile their heads high. Says Angron, the Red Angel. I was going to say, could you get a more Angron-esque quote than that?

So now we go back in time a little bit. Inquisitor glory, G-L-O-R-I, a magna, E-M-A-A-G-N-A. Glory a Magna. We're going to call her Inquisitor a Magna. Inquisitor Magna is a Puritan inquisitor of the Ordo Malius. That's the demon one. She actually had many people telling her that, yo, holy shit, Angeron is coming. And then she set them aflame because that's heretical talk.

How do they know that? Oh, really? This is a Puritan inquisitor, man This is the Puritans and the radicals And this is a Puritan inquisitor So just because they tried to warn her That Angron was coming She executed them with holy fire

Because you shouldn't know what chaos is up to Yes Wow This is the Imperium member Yeah I mean I realized Puritan But I didn't realize Just how the book starts with a person like,

no, you don't understand, he's coming, and then he puts him on a fire and sits him a flame. Yeah, no, no, it's full on. So, so this is our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our, and quixen our, has gotten down to this world of malic bile. It has found a piece of technology. Now, behind this comes the endominious crusade fleet quartus.

Now, Fleet Quartis is led by a actually pretty great character. I kind of liked him. A Fleetmaster of Condus. A fleetmaster of Condus is your strong admiral kind of guy. You know, he is stern. He's a naval general admiral, whatever, for many a years, and was handpicked by Gilliman himself to lead this endomitous crusade to assist in helping reclaim this part of the galaxy post-Great Rift.

Oh, so he's legit. If a Primark specifically handpicks your normal, I guess I shouldn't say normal, but that's a big deal. He's legit. He's legit. However, things just got worse and worse for Fleet Quartis. One of the groups got amassed by a massive Ork Waugh

that started keeping them back for a long time. There was some that were constantly berated by Alpha Legion and night lord forces. Oh, constantly in the back. And night lords? Yep. Keeping their,

keeping their group far behind and having their strengths diminished. There was a xenocult infestation that they had to purify and got slowed down by consistent Jukari raids. Everything happened to them.

His fleet was just like, oh my God, he was just in the front like, God, damn. Everyone is being held up. We're making no time. Things are, oh. I mean, it sounds like the only thing that they didn't get sidetracked by was, you know, oh, there's a Gene Steeler cult that's been secretly on your ship,

and now the tyranids are swarming you. They got hit with everything. Everything. So, of Condus is not feeling great. Ocondi's nuts. Of Condis dick in your mouth. He's like, he's like rubbing his temples. He's like,

God damn it. This is the worst. How am I still alive? And so he got a call from a inquisitor of Magna. And at first he's like, oh, my God, it's an inquisitor. Good Lord, I'm going to be shot for my insolence. But she instead says that he is there to help make his day. Oh, yeah, I bet.

She has found a old dark age technology machine on the planet. of Malik Bail. We're talking dark age technology, aka the good age. Yeah, when the Imperium of Man was just peak, they were unstoppable. They were just steamrolling everyone.

This is a gigantic machine that has fed its way and its tendrils throughout, well, yeah, it wasn't the Imperium of Man. It was just humanity, but you get with it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was no Imperium yet.

Way back before, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right. But it had its tendrils so deep in this Earth's planet to the point where it nearly touched its core. And what this was was called the Coral Engine, C-H-O-R-A-L, the Coral Engine. I was kind of hoping it was an engine that ran off of C-C-Coral. See, I would make a SpongeBob joke, but you're too cringe. You're right, I'm too based. I don't watch baby cartoons. I watch Amonay.

You just made an enemy for life. Anywho. So the coral engine. The coral engine is a enormous dark age technology piece that is much like the Astronomicon of the Emperor. It is a psycher-using machine that can project itself with a massive psychic beacon to help many things to help everyone find it. Because there are warp storms also going on right now, making travel harder for. for poor up Condus. So this whole thing was like the brand new,

like a mini emperor's light. People can come in from different areas. They could regroup, they can fix it all. And it had been hard checked by this Inquisar to not have any signs of heretical machine intelligences, you know, AI. Right, no AI, no chaos taints. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nothing. And so, obviously, of Conradicts, was like, I don't know how I feel about this. Really? I would think he would be just like, oh, hey, this is, this is amazing. Like, we got to, we got to go secure this thing post-taste, because this is going to make everything for humanity so much better. Like having a little mini-emps, well, that's not a mini-emperor,

but a mini-emperor's light, like, that's great. That's based, one might say. Let's say you're in a world that has actual, like, sorcery and stuff, right? if I went to you and I was a strong wizard and I gave you a necronomicon and said hey I know it's necronomicon but like there's no

bad parts of this like you could totally use this no problem would you immediately use the necronomicon well I guess you're right like it's still a necronomicon even if someone assures you that nothing bad is going to happen

it's still the book of the dead this is this is dark age tech This is a gigantic mini Astronomicon, which is the holiest of things, let's not forget. That's, yeah, yeah. Like, he's not jumping at that, he's not biting at that bit. And he probably wouldn't have bit at that bit

if it wasn't for two things. One, everything's sucking. And two, the hard-faced inquisitor staring him down. So eventually he decided, fine, okay. We will gather around this area. And as Shai mentioned,

this is in the Imperium Nihilus, so they can't see the Astronomicon. warp travel is really tough. Oh, so they need this even more. Exactly. So the coral engine is put into use. And this is something important to know about Inquisitor Magna is that she doesn't, she doesn't just dislike Cycars.

She doesn't think that they're people. Oh, she just thinks that they're like tools that you're supposed to feed to the emperor to keep him alive type of thing. They are gifts from the emperor to serve as message conduits, weapons of war, and navigational devices. They are not people. Oh, no. She sees them as objects to be used in his name. She is an extremist.

So in this place, in the course street pits of the coral engine, lay tons of sarcophagi, in which you may place a cyker in there. and depending on how strong they are within three to ten days, they will have all of their energy siphoned from them burnt out and turned into a husk. And then they place a new one in it. Oh, wow, this really is just like, this is basically what the emperor does, isn't it? You feed him some cykers and hooray, look at my lights. A little bit, yeah. However, this thing proves to be immensely good.

good. Extremely powerful. Not only is the light helpful, but the power of this psychic being pushes away the warp storms, allowing travel in the, the closer you get to the coral engine, the smoother the tides of the warp become. Oh, this is, this is super, this is, this sounds like everybody needs this. Well, if you're in the Imperium anyway. What's even more interesting is it has this special part called the focusing vein.

which allows you to basically like an aperture shine its light in directions. Oh. And so there was an entire world of heretical word bearers there attempting to create dark rituals to summon packs of demons. And when the demon would arrive, it would immediately screech and fizzle out because all of the, because the light was being shown in their direction. Whoa. Loyalists were fighting against Iron War. and their demon engines would break down and decompose when the light was shown their way. And loyalist psychers would become like supercharged and just start going on tears.

So this coral engine is just like we need, we have to have this station, tons of people surrounding it because we can't lose this. That's, that'll turn the tide of any battle with chaos. That's a huge deal. It is a psychic super weapon. Like the emperor doesn't even do that, does he? Like you can't just like, hey emperor, point your beamy light thing at that chaos thing and make it all. Like, even he can't do that. Nope, because this is dark age technology.

This is what humanity was like, not quite necron level, but quite high. I'm sure they don't say this, but is this one of those things that, like, you would need an STC to replicate? or could they study it long enough and be like, oh, hey, we can make more of these. Because if you could replicate this thing, chaos is proper fucked. That's unsure. The point being, more so than anything, is that, and also Dark Age Tech, you know, Adam Beck don't much like that, but also do, but like don't. You get the point.

Yeah, yeah. Remember when I said the loyalist psychers got really powerful. Well, they also had their heads pop after they were done. they kind of burnt out by being too powerful, you know? They're like overcharged. Oh, yeah, I'm sure the Imperium is like, oh, no, what a shame. The Cycars are dead after really helping us win a battle. Ooh, I'm so, I'm sure.

That's probably a plus for most people in the Imperium. It's a plus for the goddamn Inquisitor. Especially for the Inquisitor that thinks they're just tools. So Malik Bile from here becomes this major point of power. It is just the getting there is easier. People can see it. It's all lovely. Of course, this attracts the eyes of other people.

Oh, is this the light that Angron sees that you like... You know it. Oh, boy. The light that stings his eyes, the foul sorcery. But it's also not just Angram. The eyes of Titan are also, Titan, the moon of Saturn. The gray knights have been looking into their... their refractive, uh, um, scrying mirrors of the prognosticator brotherhood and have gone and seen what's going on over here and say, oh shit, this is weird.

So the gray knights, of course, are like the psycher anti-demon KGB CIA that like, yeah, yeah, are super secret. And the main brother captain, brother captains are like their captains, um, named Crom, teleported aboard with his paladin, which are like Terminator bodyguards, directly onto the board of Ombuds' station. Ooh, no must. To ask him like, what is going on? What are you doing? And of Condus, despite being quite pleased with the results,

is naturally horrified at these gray knights arriving because there's a bunch of silver secretive that even he hasn't heard of. Space Marines there. But even so, stiff back, firm chest, and he says everything that's going on. He talks exactly about what he's doing under the orders of the Inquisition. He discusses what's been occurring for the Coral Engine and everything and so on. And the Grey Knights say, okay, we believe you, because they're all psychers.

Oh, yeah, so they can tell if he's just bullshitting them. Which smart thing for him to do is to not try and, you know, bullshit. a gray night because that would be just oh no so smart smart you just you know hey hey hey that's the truth so smart man with that the gray nights go ahead and

basically say all right okay you're I believe you you are just in everything you're saying he believes in the in the path the righteous etc you have people coming uh here's what you're about to face this is what's going to enter the warp and it's going to be the old

heretic space marines from legend this is what you're going to have to deal with prep and then the guy teleports out and goes to talk to the Inquisitor oh boy I'm sure he must have just loved that it's like oh great I have dealt with everything else today hey why not

some old heretical chaos space marines also what would happen if you focus the coral engine and you just beamed it right on to Angron. Would it do anything to him or would just piss him off? Once again, D.K., constantly jumping the gun. Sorry, it just seemed like a smart thing to do. You said

it's got a focusing thing that screws up chaos. This is called setting up the crumbs and the beginning of the story. I'm sorry. It just seemed like such an obvious avenue to go down. Shut up. This is how storytelling goes.

Check off out here with his gun, but to point them at you. Chekhov's got his gun. I'm like, what are you going to fire that at me yet? Chekhov's got six barrels and he's very upset about this.

Anywho. So, good old, good old Abcondus begins to prep. He begins to prepare and get everything set up and ready.

And as he brings in so many fleets, like an ungodly amount of reinforcements, battle fleets upon battle fleets upon battle fleets. They start building up massive man-made defenses and orbital platforms. Like this place was

already heavily defended prior. It had orbital stations, anti-aircraft batteries, they have a giant fortress around the coral engine called the fortress of light. And they are just full stop making this one of the most powerful bastions they can.

And it is, Imperial defenders are ludicrous, just numerous. like untold amounts of ships. Yeah. I get that. Because this is such an important spot.

Like, even if you didn't know that Angron was coming, like, you should still fortify this area as heavily as you possibly can. Because that coral engine is just like, it can't fall. You cannot let chaos get that and or destroy it.

So with all of that, they waited. And they waited for longer than they would like. It almost kind of got them a little bit stir crazy. And on the eighth day and the seventh hour, finally the war broke. And ship started spilling out along with a chunky, chunky arc of omen. Oh, boy. And as it started spilling up, the heretics were moving full speed, going quick, making their way to the Malik planet, ignoring all the other ones, which was smart, because the entire, it's four planets, by the way, in this system. The big coral engines on Malakbile, but there's other, like, that's like Malac and Malakale or

something. Yeah, but they beeline right for the most important spot, which, like you said, smart. Right, which has quite a few defenders, of course, but the imperial defenders are spread out among all the planets, which makes sense because they want to protect all of it, of course. Yeah, sure. They beeline the way through there, but they, like, we're, these, this Imperium, they are entrenched. There are so many ships and they start, oh, they start blasting. It said that on the, um, the scrying auspex and the, the, the picked feed, the little red triangle of like torpedoes got so big that it was just a mass of red ink across it as all the Imperial defenders fired.

Oh, shit. That's a lot of the torpedoes. annoyingly these ships were so cunning though. They were able to dodge a lot. This bore high-level long war veterans in there. And they took out far more imperial craft than Connus would have liked to the point where he started to like furrow his brow like, God damn it.

But they... Way harder than I thought. But they pushed back this fleet quite well. Okay. And in fact, they actually were able to take out basically every single ship outside of the ark. And the arc, and the arc,

as it was mildly damaged and stuff, he was about to send out the final go order to destroy this arc, the arc of the Stygian heart of the war band of Zich. Oh, no, does it show up just in time?

And then, before that can occur, his Vox master runs up to him and says there are new translations coming from the warp on the eighth day of the eighth hour. Oh, yeah? Yep. And as it happens, it says, my lord, I have priority missives for you. The master of Vox had broken protocol by hastening to the fleet master's side in person. But one look at her expression told of Condus now is not the time for reproach.

who he asked Lady of Magna and separately Brother Captain Cromed she said A comdus blink He drew breath to inquire further But was distracted by the ripple of alarm Spreading across the bridge of his ship Officers rose from their stations

Uttered oaths shouted to one another While gestulating on screens Gestuling whatever Gestrelin, yeah yeah gesturing sure Yeah Yeah Abcondus confusion deepened into alarm

At the sight of his hand-picked veterans apparently lurching towards panic. And then it came. A deafening roar erupted with bone-shaking force from the very air around him. Blood for the blood god. Oh, boy. And then...

Oh, boy. The conqueror, Clarion Dyer, and Angron himself emerged from the war. The actual fleet of the whirl-eaters arrive. Oh, no. Oh no. That first group was just those damn Zincians trying to get their prize. Oh, no.

It's bad. It's all bad. Oh, no. So I'm going to be going through this next part a little quick, only because it is a ton of void warfare. Oh, okay. A lot of ship battles, a lot of anger. Just tearing stuff up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All that stuff. Angron's main. group was a trident strike. Two, like one down in the center, two are on the sides. One on the right was like the conquer and the group and then there was the other major group of like a what's called the Exanguinator, I think was the name of the ship. Of course. But the big one making for the center was going to actually fly by real quick past the

Imperial Defenders and actually use the ground. of one of the planets to slingshot themselves towards Malik Bile to outpace the Imperial Defenders. Ooh, smart. So, okay. This begins, and like this is full stop,

like the most insanity level of void battle going on. Like we're in full, everything is dying mode. Oh, yeah, sure. The Imperials are really good, though, because the word, world eaters are still world eaters. They are aggressive,

frothing madmen at times. So often they will like run forward at high speeds all the time and the Imperials will almost kind of like lure them into long range kill zones and break apart their ships. Right, because they're not really using any strategy. They're just kind of and going after the big shiny light. Well, they're using strategy, but they're using strategy like gladiators. So often sometimes they will move their ships almost like hunting packs and surround and

conquer various imperial vessels that can't quite make it through or ram things with their prows. Like they're still using strategies. They're just not like they're using, like, I'm going to murder as much as I can, which is good for some things and not for others. Okay. The conqueror and, or sorry, a side group of them go fight this other admiral, like, I think Pell was his name.

And they blow through a large amount of his resistance and they're able to snap. that gravity well and fling themselves towards the planet. Some being injured in the fight and not quite making it and falling into the planet. And so you get some just these enormous world leaderships just landing on the imperial defenses on those planets. Like good old Pell, this guy who trying to deal with this group of people moving past him, had the exanguinatorship, which was, I do believe, led by a certain man, a certain someone with a buff ass arm Oh yeah

I was really kind of hoping you were gonna say it was led by Latara Latara is apparently still on the conquer apparently she's melded with the bridge somehow Oh So she like her upper half Is still like as long as it's from abs down

That's fine As long as she still got As long as she's still ripped and the rest of her is just integrated in, she might not have those nice thighs, but as long as those abs are still intact, we're good. We're good.

Conquer his abs, we're still good. Yep. Yeah, apparently she's like, what's shy said, like a vampire monster melded with the controls on the bridge. She's like basically become the ship. She's a vampire now? I don't know.

It's not in this book. She's not mentioned in this book besides a slight, a slight, um, uh, what's the word, like reference? Listen, you're telling me she could be a buff vampire chaos mom poster no poster

no poster no poster it doesn't work anymore the fun is gone she's all bad okay okay anyway not important point being yeah um as as the the war kind of continued uh the fleet battle got pretty heavy good old um congenus giant ship i think it was called like might of terror, of course it was.

Of course, yeah, sure. Gets boarded by some world leaders, which is a real issue. Yep, it sure is. Which we'll get more into in a bit. But the Conqueror does have its fun as it's making its way towards Malik Bile, murdering all in its path. And it does, indeed, as is the most fun, fire its Ursa Clause. Yes!

It absolutely does. and it entails another imperial ship. And Angron is like, all right. And he becomes a bullet. What? He just jumps off the conqueror, folds his wings behind him,

and plows directly into the ship that gets trapped by the ursar claws from one end of the deck to the other, like a goddamn torpedo. Wow. Angron is like, is like Deadpool. As long as, like, he gets half of his body

ripped in half by an orbital defense battery and within seconds just grows it right back. Oh, no. He is pure murderous warp energy. Oh, but jeez. Well, you thought Angron was bad before. Now we've got regenerative Angron. So even if you slice and dice him, it's just, poof, he's back.

Oh. Angron was tough before, but this is Angron with now the warp being opened halfway across the galaxy. Oh, my God. He's taking, like, blowing his arms off, his wings are being ripped into two, and he's just like, it's back to normal. I don't care. Jesus Christ. Yeah, Angron was scary before. Now it's a whole new level of war.

Now I totally get why you're like, oh, yeah, Abidon's stance. No chance. So he gets to Malik Bile And how do you think How do you think he starts the battle on Malik Bile? How do you think that happens? How do I think what, like how does he get there? Or just what does he do when he lands?

No, no, no, no, like how do you think he makes landfall? I imagine he just goes screaming through the atmosphere Like a bat out of hell yelling at the top of his lungs and wanting to kill everything. You're goddamn right. does. He just jumps off the conqueror into atmosphere and he lands like

a comet on the ground and just starts ripping and that is the photo they provide. Wow! Oh my God, Angron. What an ultra-chat. Wow! Please tell me he did the

superhero land. Also just, you know, the very one hand on the ground the other in the air and just Oh, wow. I think he went face first into like multiple defenses. All right. Oh my God.

Angron's so cool. Holy piss. So naturally, oh, I forgot, totally had to mention this. When he arrived like in system and that blood for the blood god screen happened, I would always forget that like, corn is still like a demon, you know, and so it has effects on people. it's not like just zinghi and stuff so when he arrived like a lot of the imperial crew and defenders were somewhat crippled for a little bit because like the gangs that put the the bullets and the guns in the bottom decks of the ship went crazy and started attacking each other

and they needed to get whipped back into shape or they got like so fright and they were paralyzed with fear and they couldn't do stuff like it crippled their some of their things for a short period of time until all the the foremen's and people cracking the whips got them gone. Got them got them back in their right state of mind sounds a little crazy

to say about, you know, cracking the whip at slaves, but for the Imperium, that's the right state of mind. And Angren just like has that effect to him, you know? As he lands on the ground, they go like crazy, like mad.

Oh yes, shy, thank you. The world The World Deer's surf warp on things called blood waves, which caused people to go murderously mad. Even the... Even their transportation is chaotic chaos murder energy. There's a leader of the world ears, a guy named Lord Invocatus, which is on a flying, like, corn dog demon engine mount, and he flies in the air, like, on a wave of flame. Oh, my God. Tell me there's a picture of this. He's a model, actually.

I don't know if there's a picture, but he is a model. Ingame he is fly, which is just so funny, because it's like he's like flying a unicorn. It's hilarious. Yeah, there he is. Oh, my God. That's so fucking badass.

What the hell? Lord Invocatus. How is this the first time I'm seeing him? The World Leaders book came out kind of recently, so. And he rides that thing on a wave of flame. He's he flies. That character is fly. God, that's so cool.

It's very fun. So this is also how large quantities of demon engines and tanks and stuff made its way onto the atmosphere, riding flame until they finally hit the ground and they start blasting. It's like that scene in the A-T movie with Liam Neeson with like flying the tank with the parachute. I never saw the A-Team movie with Liam Neeson. Have you not seen that scene at least? No. Oh, that movie looks so cringe.

It is kind of cringe, but there's a part where they're in like an AC 130 and they have to bail. And so they get out in a tank and they have like parachutes and they're shooting shit with the tank while falling. It's hilarious. Oh, man. Can you imagine being an imperial soldier watching that? Just watching these chaos, corn world eaters riding in all. fire. This guy has a unicorn horse that has a chainsaw for a horn. Yes. No, I would go crazy. I dropped my book. World leaders are not subtle. No, not naming, good lord. I love it.

So, our, uh, with now with all of Angron and the like making planet fall, a good portion of the Imperial defenders are wounded because the world leaders like ran into it, but are trying to turn around and trying to get to the actual Malak bail. Stop them. Yeah. Unfortunately, Mr. Uncondis, our fleet master, is not quite able to pull it off himself as the ultramarines stationed as well as the high-level scions and the like on his ship, box him and strangely hear worry.

in the voice of the Ultramarines Lieutenant as Karin the Betrayer has boarded his ship. Oh no. Oh, no. It just, it doesn't, it doesn't ever get good, does it? When the world leaders are involved, for, if you're on the Imperium, it just never gets good. Oh, God. Yeah.

It says the fleet master's last transmission was a hurried string of orders against a backdrop of screams, gunfire, and the revving of chain teeth through bone. It ended with three words roared by a monstrous voice, caught by a Condice's Vox relay, and broadcast to his horrified shipmasters, kill, maim, burn. Oh, no. Oh, no.

What a final transmission to get. Good God. Poor guy. There he goes. World eaters at their peak. God. So, Angron has made Planet Fall and as has the group and is making his way to the coral engine. And during this time, good old Inquisitor, I keep calling her anigma, but I know it's not Enigma.

It's, um, Igny, Igna, igna. Enagma, yeah, yeah. Sorry at that, yeah. Okay, now I'm losing my mind. Amagna. Emagna. Glory a magna. Magnificent glory, I assume.

She has been there and is currently saying prayers to the God Emperor and yelling through the Vox and being like the power of the Emperor is with you, et cetera, et cetera. As her local tempestus Sion personal honor guard holds all of the tech priests at gunpoint as she goes to every single limiter on the Coral Engine and starts. It's flicking them off. Oh, so she's setting the Coral Engine into overdrive. I mean, to maximum overdrive, as the tech priests are pleading and pleading that this tech heresy of what she's doing to stop. To stop doing what she's doing.

I can't believe even tech priests at this point. It's like, dude, look around. Just take a look. It's in a book. Like, it's, you're about to get comfortable. completely overrun by world eaters. If there was a time to just be like, you know what, fuck it, this might be heresy. Limiters off.

Now's the time. You've been reading too much about call, man. You've got to understand these people, all right? In the glory of the Omnisiah. That's true. Yeah, I'm too used to call just being like, ah, it might be a little heretical, but that's okay. So Angron decided during this battle to summon, not one, not two, but eight bloodthesters of corn. Holy shit.

And began marching down. And by marching, I mean, batting his wings and flying and murdering everything in sight at Mach 5. Which speaking of, as we're talking about this, no, it's not in this book. Shai, can you please write in the chat how Angron got his weapons? Because I know D.K. would get a kick out of this. And I'll read it in a bit. Eight, eight bloodthasters and Angron. And if we remember right, the bloodthirsters.

Firsters are the things that gave what's his face trouble. Sanguineous. Tinguineous. And he's got eight of them. He's got eight of them and they're marching down the coral engine. But the final limiter is turned off and the psychers start screaming in this endless decophony of agony

as the coral engines blasts start flying out at a ludicrous strength. The light that burns Angron's eyes are so, and is so intense, and I believe it actually rips and sends two of his bloodthusters back into the warp. Oh, so now he's only got six bloodthirsty. Oh, thank goodness. What's he going to do? So he's like, it's basically a gigantic gust of wind of psychic energy. Like he's putting swords in the ground to pull himself forward and up.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Get closer and closer to this abominable sorcery. The Imperials don't much like this feeling either in their head, but it's not as disdained as it is for, you know, the sorceress hating corn. Yeah. As he finally makes his way to the main section of the coral engine, explosives from the Inquisitor detonate,

and he falls into this giant pit set for him. And from there, the full contingent of gray knights, their dread knights, their paladins, and all their weapons, along with rights of banishment being spoken from the gray knights, just unleashed. on the Angram. Sion blasts from their hot shots, everything.

Just this, everyone is looking around this pit. Angron's at the bottom, currently wounded by the thing, and they are just gunning him to a pulp. Oh, yeah, I would imagine. And you just don't stop firing until everything is spent and you have nothing left because it's Angron. Unleash all of it. Fire everything.

And in the. The book makes it pretty clear that this would have killed him. Now, Angron as a character, can't really die because he's a demon. In fact, with the breaking of the rift, he will always come back in eight days, eight hours, and eight minutes. Oh, man, that's actually a rather quick respawn timer for someone as crazy as Angron. Yes, eight days is not long, but it would keep him out from right here. That's true, yeah. But before they could, his retinue of bloodthusters make their way up.

Oh, no. And they have to adjust their fire at the bloodthesters coming through. They take out a couple. I think the four swords and hammers of the various gray knights start cutting apart. Some of the bloodthusters, one or two of them. One of them gets its whip of flame and brass and wraps it around Inquisitor, a magna. and she's still shouting rights of banishment, still yelling at the God Emperor's prayers,

firing a bolt pistol at this bloodthirster as she is yanked towards him through the sky and has her head cut clean off by the axe. Oh, man. I mean, she went out as hard as she possibly could, you know, chanting those rights, shooting that pistol. like there are worse ways to go, I suppose. That's, that's, oh boy.

Brother Captain wild. This, of course, let Angron get up a little bit because the fire has been moved. Brother Captain, Crom actually throws his demon hammer and cracks Angron on the chin. Oh. And sends him actually flying backwards, not flying backwards, but knocked back for a second, hits him again in one of his horns. And the third strike was coming down right to. his forehead before he got wrapped into the chains of one of his weapons. And then, unfortunately,

his special axe known as spine grinder lived up to his name and absolutely turned him into two. Oh, yikes. Man, Angron is going to town. Angron and his bloodthesters are doing work. they are crunching. Yeah, they must love this. This is like, oh man, nothing better, baby. So they finally make their way to the center of this coral engine. Oh, no. To the major consuls of part.

And to hear, there's this really weird part of the book where like time kind of slows. And Angron feels behind him this mass, this like ungodly large. force behind him, unsheathing a sword the size of a planet. Whoa. And it's, the idea is that behind him is like corn himself. Oh, all right? Right behind him hand on his shoulder in a weird way.

Like he, like, Angron is too paralyzed to turn around and look at what it is. But it's kind of like the guiding, it's almost like, the hand of God. Yeah, so it's not necessarily that like it feels like a bad thing behind him. Like it might paralyze him because it's so strong, but it's someone that wants to push him forward and like guide him. It's not someone that's necessarily trying to like stop him. No.

In fact, in a weird way, Angron is practically the sacrifice here. As Angron takes his weapons and jams them directly into the coral engine. and for a split second, the nails no longer rang. And he finally felt a moment of peace, a moment of no more pain and suffering to his mind and body. And then his entire body was just reduced to ash as the thing exploded. Oh. He became nothing.

So is it is this isn't like angri is angri, is angri fully fully completely dead? No, he responds. Okay, so he's going to respond in eight days. Okay. Yeah. I was going to be like, holy moly, did they, did they just sacrifice anger? But I mean, if you're going to die and you're going to need to go on the respawn timer, good reason to do it, though, to get rid of this giant coral engine, make it explode,

this thing that is just going to be a blight to chaos. that is a good reason to take an L. I mean, it's not really an L. That's kind of a big dub, but you get the idea. No, he responds, and it says in the book that once he does, he's like, one day I'll know the piece of my actual final death, and him not actually being dead makes him very angry when he starts murdering people. So, you know, classic.

Yeah, classic Angron. This basically destroys the planet. This engine was like in the core of its planet. Yeah, it was wrapped up to the entire planet. That thing blows up the whole planet goes, yeah. This thing just starts heaving. Technonic plates get ruined and adjusted lava starts flowing. And with this thing gone, this leads to the greatest ritual and the greatest sacrifice for corn.

Angron being the final like wet blade to make the final incision of the ritual. And then all the screens on all the loyalists ships turn blood red. And all the people have their veins bulging out of their bodies. And they go insane. And almost every mortal in the Imperium in this area gets afflicted by the murder curse. And they all turn on each other. We're talking, we're talking space marines. We're talking sisters.

We're talking fleets and guardsmen that Admiral before Admiral Pell is eaten alive by his bridge crew. Oh. Everyone. Like there's talk, there's like a little excerpt of a sister's cannon nest, like having to stop her fellow sisters from, you know, murdering everyone and trying to get things back together. and then she's just obliterated by a, um, a titan that has turned, uh, mad. Oh my God. So the corn just went super crazy after this thing got destroyed. This is, this was half of the world eater's ships and ungodly amounts of Imperials and the,

the blood tithe of a planet, not just the amount of dead, but also the, the destruction of sorcery. That's his thing, man. So after So once that thing got destroyed Corny was like, ooh! Finger-licking good. And he just was just like, oh, this is

it. This is all. I am supercharged. Oh, baby, let's go. He's like, this is an all you can eat buffet for him. Yep. It truly is like disdain and hatred for sorcery and ungodly amounts of blood.

The entire, the entire system is now basically, yeah, infected by a murder virus, so to speak. Wow. That's, oh, man. So, can corn, like, when, so shy said, like, this is a newly created murder curse. Is this something corn can just do now? He can just inflict a murder curse on people. the conditions are right and just force everyone to go stir crazy and just murderize everything in a fit of rage no matter what they believe in? So I think you're looking a little too into it.

Oh. You gotta think like this was just, it's a ritual to the dark gods. This was a gigantic carnal slaughter that empowers corn. And so corn threw this whole thing out, this powerful curse because this giant psychic device, he had detonation. Like it's just, this is the result of what happened here. The result, your results may vary, you know? Yeah, because I mean, it was, you're not going to get a catastrophe of this level every day, right? This is planetary destruction, massive war.

So, yeah, I guess this should kind of just be seen as a one-off. This isn't like a new, this isn't like, oh, man, corn leveled up and now he can just murder curse. It's, you know, the conditions have to be right, and the aftermath of such a catastrophic loss of life resulted in this, right? So, with that, way at the edge of the system is the arcs of omen, stingy and heart of the, of the zingch worshippers. Yeah. And in this arc, coils of brass and silver start to maneuver their way through the arc, repairing its damage. and fixing things up. And on the bridge comes out

the metal clockwork hiss of Vashdor, the archiphaean. Oh, let's go Vashdor. And he begins to pilot this arc towards the surface of Malik Bile. And in fact, the Zinche worshippers, very upset at who the hell this is, he is able to keep them away

from the bridge for a while by closing doors, closing bulkheads, and stuff, but he's actually kind of pleased with how they're getting through his defenses. It's very smart and cunning as of Zinch. And so with one wrap of his hammer on the ground, he teleports all of the Zinch worshippers to the warp, to his soul forges, in which he will provide to them a suitable contract for their extreme cunning and services. Oh, well, good for them. They're about to get there.

Yeah, hey, cool. Good for them. Nice work. And so he slowly brings in the arc into Malik Bail system. And down there he finds, after deep within the core cracked away, now revealed with a destruction of the psyche device, a piece of a weird sweltering black rock that he with a delicate, like, touch of reverence almost, is able to take. it and put it into a ship and he sails right back off. Oh, okay.

Like a part of me thought you were about to say, like, oh, yeah, since it's Vashdor and he's all about like the forge and making stuff and he can fix ships and stuff. I thought you were going to say he was about to fix that coral engine and make it like a chaos version of it that just empowers chaos and just turn it against the humeys and all more chaos. But, ooh, it's much more. foreboding and foreshadowing than that. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it.

The artifact was only revealed once the Coral engine was destroyed. So by using Angeron as the perfect tool to destroy a psychic witch beacon, it really was the right decision. Yep. And as Shai has mentioned, the remaining of that fleet will be either given to corn or be considered traitor

because of what's going on, even if it wears off. Oh, yeah, they would be because they, oh, they Because the murder curse. Yep. There's actually a hilarious part where a sister Repentia goes crazy and kills one of her sisters

because of this. And then the, the unaffected sister shoots the, uh, shoots the Repentia and then says, unforgiven.

And I dub the unforgiven. I, you are unforgiven. Oh, yes. Okay. All right. Angron weapons are spine grinder and somniaris.

The former is a titan, Titanic Chain Axe far beyond most mortal craft. It is also known as Perseac's Folly, named for the traitor-forge world that labored for decades to construct it, only to become the Axe's first victim when Angeron's score and their supplication. The latter is a demon blade of prodigious size

containing the essence of a powerful Slaneshi demon whose gladiatorial posturing offended the primark enough for him to administer the beating of a lifetime using nothing more than an unworked iron bar, forging the blade in the process. Oh my God. I'm going to beat you into a sword,

and I'm going to use that sword. That's amazing. Those are the most Angron weapons you could ask for. I'm just going to take this iron bar, and I'm going to beat you so fucking bad, It's going to grind into a sword, and I'm going to just keep using it because, you, Slenish demon. Wow.

Not to mention, the damn chain axe is called Sp-I-It's literally like, wow, thanks, Trader Forgerald for making me this axe. I'm going to kill you all with this axe. It's like, hmm, yes, this is finally crafted. Now, if only I could test it out. Brr! Jeez. Angron is just another level.

of Psycho. Like, oh my God. It's so hilarious. The sheer level. Angron is so far beyond Savage that it becomes comical. Like, it is, he is 40K in a nutshell. Wow. I love it. It's, it's pretty great. It is fantastic. I love it. Oh my God, these books are amazing. I am very happy. with the arcs of omen. This Angron one also heralds the release of the World Leaders Codex 2, which I would love to get so we could have an episode on that.

But yeah, it's also, normally whenever there's like these kinds of stories, there's a little bit of like winsome, lose some for both sides. This was a pure chaos win. Oh, yeah. They got what they wanted. Imperials are screwed. Tons more corn worshippers now.

their fancy fancy psychic device is gone. Yep, there is nothing good came out of this for the Imperium. Nothing. All of their generals and their special people and their inquisitor, dead. Fancy psychic device that could have absolutely been such, oh, such a vital tool for them and something that would help them so much. and ang oh and man get fucked imperium get also yes shab makes a good point

first time it's confirmed as far as she knows that primaris marines can be corrupted by chaos as well um also are we gonna get chaos primarus marines is that a thing no currently not but um it's the fact that they got affected by it and i mean sisters also got affected by it too which is equally as surprising um I know there's some sister stuff back then, but they're like known for being mostly pretty damn hard to corrupt. Yeah. How would you feel if they released Chaos Primaris Marines and Chaos Sisters

if something like this was like, oh, hey, guess what we're planning to do for corn? I mean, I don't know. Chaos Sisters feels a bit against their thing as models. Like, I'm okay with them having it in the lore every so often, but like, I don't know, as models, it feels a little bizarre. In the game. I mean, Chaos, I mean, Primaris Chaos Marines are basically just, like, there's already Marines that have been juiced up by chaos.

Like, they're basically a Primaris Marine at that point. It's just a various type. The only things that weren't really affected by the situation that happened here were like the Grey Knights, like, custodians wouldn't be affected, you know? Yeah, it's really, sure, sure. But for the most part, yeah, pretty much there was no safety. pretty much no one outside of the Grey Knights in this major battle were safe from Corrin's effects. And it could just be because he needed this big of a sacrifice, this level of psychic machine.

Yeah, I was going to say, I guess you couldn't really turn that into a squad because to even have enough chaos craziness to affect a sister or a Primaris Marine. you needed this almost apocalyptic event and loss of life to make it happen. So it's not like, again, that's not something that's going to happen every day. That's not something you can just keep churning out. Like, sure, they might exist in the ruins of Malik Bile, but there's no way chaos can keep making that shit happen. There's also, real quick, before we wrap it up,

there is a world eaters thing. in the book called Blood Tithe. Rule eaters in game are basically a stat check. They're like, we don't actually are, we're not super tanky and we can't really do a whole lot in shooting, but if we get to you, like, goodbye. The moment we touch you, you are gone. They have this awesome, awesome rule called blood tithe,

which is a point system. And you get a point for doing certain things like killing worthy opponents and stuff, but the main thing is you get a point for every single unit that is destroyed. Friend or foe. Because corn does not care

from which the blood flows. As long as the blood flows, be it friend or foe. Oh man, no wonder. Corn just loves Angron. My boy, my baby boy. So you can spend these points on various things to make you better in the game.

But the big one is at eight, or at six points, if you have Angron, you can resurrect him if he has died. And bring him back on the battlefield. So his coming back to life thing is an in-game mechanic. He's really actually quite squishy. I think he dies by far the fastest out of any of the primarks. But then you just set him back up. And you can do it.

So long as you have the points, you can do it as many times as you want. Oh man, that's, that's, that's pretty poggers. And of course, for the, for the tabletop, you've got to have some sort of setback where it's like, yeah, he's kind of squishy. But as long as you have six points, you bring him right back, yeah. Yeah, and when he comes back alive, he only has like half of his wounds. So it's like, it works that way, but it's still like. He gets progressively easier to kill with more, the more resurrections that happen. Yeah, and it's still just, oh, well, no, it's just eight.

I think he has like 17, but then. he has eight when he comes back up. Right. It doesn't go like, oh, yeah, eight and then four and then two or something. It's just always. It's always eight. Of course it's always eight, DK. Of course, of course.

Of course. It's corn. It's number. Anyway. Who. Good old arcs of omen are continually excellent, excellent lore reads. Oh, yeah. Love them.

Great stuff. huge chaos W enormous probably one of the biggest chaos wins I've seen in a bit Yeah That was a big one

And I'm really Really really hype for the next one Because you know who's next Um Is the next one is the VashTor book It's the VashTor book And then people are thinking Maybe the fourth one is Farsight

Have they confirmed or said anything about that or is it still a quote unquote mystery? It is a mystery. I believe it's supposed to be Far Sight and I think the fifth one is supposed to be the lion. Oh, I thought they're only going to be. How many Arks of Omen books are there going to be? I thought there was only four. There might be a fifth. I thought there was a, I'm not sure people are telling me that it might be the lion. I might be wrong. I don't know. I'm scared. They're going to come from me. They're going to be in my house. They're going to be like

blood for the blood gun. In your walls. In your walls. You're going to get murder cursed. But yes, farsight is what they're teasing quite a bit. and then I think it's supposed to be the lion after that because I'm pretty sure the lion is supposed to come alive with a new mini intent edition. That's what it sounds like. Oh, okay, okay. I mean, hey, if they want to make like six, eight, ten, 50 more of these,

these books have, I didn't think it was going to get better than that first book because the first book was bogging. So I was like, oh, next one's going to be probably pretty good, you know? It's probably not going to be that same level. but oh man, it just keeps getting better. I love it. This arcs of omen shit is great. I'm very excited for Vashdor.

I really hope his both is good. And that cover looks. Oh, that artwork of Vashdor is phenomenal. Just, oh, my, this is... Vashdor really hits with, like, a genuine creepy feel about him. Yeah, it's creepy, but it's so cool, too. Oh, I love it. I love it.

I'm glad this happened. All right. Take us home, Angron. Blood for the blood god!