Adeptus Ridiculous - BLOOD ANGELS: For the Emperor and Sanguinius! | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: October 19, 2022

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamanty's. His name is Bricky. And we've got some stuff. We've got some 40K stuff to talk about today that I'm sure Bricky is just so excited about. But before we do, if you enjoy today's episode, head over to patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to our Discord, bloopers if they happen, HD versions of the post are the $15 tier. Bricky tell them about, uh, I get the merch in the book club.

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it is what it is so you know yeah how's it how's it going Berkey do you have a quote for me today I mean I've got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve tabs

currently open. Actually, one of them was, uh, it was, we're too old to sheesh. Yeah, you're probably right. We're too old to sheesh. Yeah. All right. So like there's, it's the blood angels. We know it's the blood angels.

Of course. We know. We know that. It's the blood angels. It's the blankles. And this is going to be my favorite episode because it's going to be, Bricky, why didn't you talk more about the seven fucking blood angels main characters that I love, specific?

in your one hour long episode because there are so many Blood Angels characters and they're all decently important. There are definitely plenty that will have, there's at least two of them that definitely will deserve their own episode, that being Dante and Mephistan.

Okay. But there's also Astorat the Grimm, the Sanguador, S. Kellyan, Tycho the Lost, brother, something or another, both a D's, you know, everything in between. I am both of these nuts Hey dude listen man Blood angels are stored in the balls

The balls The ball secundus So you said Dante and Mephistan are worthy Of their own episode Are we gonna talk about them today Like briefly and then do Separate episodes on them? Most likely

But when those episodes will arrive Who knows it could be years It could be decades You might be dead Blood Angels So Let's go ahead and hit some blood angels up Let's start off with a quote by by Dante himself

The man from Devil May Cry Tax evasion is a crime virtual All right For 1100 years I have fought and I have seen the darkness In our galaxy I have seen the vileness of the alien and the heresy of the mutant I have witnessed the sin of possession I have seen all the evil that the galaxy harbors, and I have slain all those presents.

Shit. And I have slain all whose presence defiles the emperor. I have seen what you will see. I have thought what you must fight. And I have slain what you must slay. So fear not and be proud. For we are the sons of Sanguinius, the protectors of mankind. I, we are indeed the angels of death.

Commander Dante addressing a new group of blood angels neophytes He sounds like a cool guy Yeah he's pretty depressed I won't lie Well I mean aren't all blood angels kind of depressed after Sanguinius dies This guy in particular is Dante has got a higher level of depresso Compared to a few others

I think he just wants to die Because he's so damn old but he has a purpose to fulfill So, anywho. The 40K where everyone wants to die. It is a pity that we can die only once in the Emperor's service. But anyway, the Blood Angels. So the Ninth Legion themselves are a Legion that, of course, started off over in Terra as all Blood Angels, or all chapters began.

The Blangles. The Blangles. The Blangles. The Blangles are stories. on the balls. They have a shockingly high amount of successor chapters, including the angels and Carmine, angels exelcius,

angels glorious, angels neominious, angels penitent, angels resplendent, angels sanguine, angels of light, and that is about a sixth. The more notable ones are the flesh eaters and flesh terrors, the lamenters, and also a couple others,

like the blood drinkers, which is a little on the nose. It's a little bit. It's a little on the nose with the red thirst and, you know. But the Blood Angels were way back when they were from Terra and fighting off the old horrors of Old Knight is where they kind of started getting a little bit bizarre. So this kind of contrasts with my initial assumptions

that, all right, the chaos gods could not get to the primarks, but they kind of fucked with them a little bit in their stasis. capsules, which is why Sanguinius has the wings. Yeah. I assumed that perhaps he might, that also might be the reason why the red thirst is a thing. That's a safe assumption, yeah. But it seems that that issue may have been persistent as just a flaw in Sanguinius in general with his creation because it seems that the overall blood angels have had interesting, problematic,

early days, so to speak. Okay. So they were helping out the emperor reclaim the soul system from old knight, which is basically a phrase, oh, we haven't talked much about old knights, but it's basically like, wow, humanity is this mutant, horrible, techno, barbaria, blah, blah, blah,

kind of people, and they went out to go rid the solar system of these people. The problem is that with this, it was called the drags of old night, the unification wars, etc. And part of this was, part of this was all these people were like chem-strained humanoids and rad-saturated humanoids, and they often would recruit from the less vile versions of them into their chapter. This started to make them, it gave them reputation. The Ninth Legion was given reputation of being pretty fucking vile and very violent. Like, more violent than the norm.

I think I mean 40K, that's pretty violent if you're more violent than the norm. Yes. You're kind of a savage. That was the problem was that they were a lot more savage than most other legions. In fact, Malcador the Sigelai even claimed them to be known as the Revenant Legion. early on because of their just high volume of slaughter they would bring out. As time went on, they actually were sent on out over to fix up a area in Neptune and Neptune's moons from the dredges of old night. And the emperor was kind of seeing how they were acting and how they were just the way they were fighting.

And it was kind of like a suicide mission. Like go deal with these people while I. I go get the Mechanicus back while I start working with all these people in our closer system. Go to Neptune, deal with the problem there. And he kind of just expected them to all fucking die. Okay, send them on a suicide mission because they're mindless savages. Also, are these pictures of what they used to look like that tries posting? Because they are indeed just like tribal savages.

No, those are the techno-barbarians of old knights, the old unification. Those are the people they were trying to, like, get rid of. Yeah, they often utilize the, what is it called? The Thunder Warriors to get rid of them, but they did recruit from them. I mean, if you see the second guy, he has an Imperial Aquila on his arm. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, it's a little bit here and there. Yeah, they're gnarly.

But, like, they're still Marines and all that, but they're just a lot more violent than normal, you know? Yeah, yeah. And so they sent them to Neptune. and they basically never heard back. Like, okay, that's about right. So they just assumed that they died on the suicide mission as expected, no big loss, that's what he expected. Okay.

But they went there and, well, found them there. And the place was just a massacre. And everyone that was still available to be recruited into the Blood Angels or the Revenant Legion was recruited into them. And they were just these like gore spattered warriors, Like, not very practical and very inglorious, but hey, you know, they were the murderers that they did their job. Yeah, they got the job done on what should have been a suicide mission they succeeded. So, I mean, good job.

Like, you get a gold star. How do you greet them after that? That's the problem. And in particular, there was a fight during the early years of the Great Crusade, known as the Charle Feast. Oh. Which is not great. And I'm not going to go through too much of this, but this is before Sanguinius was found.

And they were going and getting kind of lost stuff here. But the long story short is that they were going to an area that had a bunch of like, what was the Great Crusade? They said they'd liberate a world, right? From Kai Beeren's is the name of the place. And they would constantly sustain themselves. an economy of acts of, like ritual acts of bloodshed and cannibalism.

The thing is, is they kind of had this sort of siege issue here of like kind of holding the supplies from their stores and the heavenly little stalemate of their fortresses and all that. So, in order to, as they were kind of cut off from wider resources, the long story short is that the blood angels started cannibalizing the enemy and just started encouraging them to join their enemy in cannibalization of the war dead to deny the enemy of their own food. Oh, boy.

I mean, I guess when you hear about how, like, terrible and savage and brutal they are, I guess in 40K, the natural endpoint is cannibalism, but I would imagine this, also translates sort of into like red thirst and eating blood before, you know, otherwise you go kind of crazy. Well, the, it was like a twofold thing because they would help sustain themselves by eating the enemy's dead and they would also starve the enemy of their food since they were cannibals. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, like you just kind of roll up into an ex-battlefield and they're all like

drained of blood and they're all just being ripped apart. And so slowly and slowly they were able to gain ground and defeat this area. As they attempt, as the enemy, El Eklobia, was trying to flee from a, with a spacecraft, he just ran into Dorn and all of his legion in orbit. It was like, hey, dude,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You've got nowhere to go. And so Dorn looked down there and was like, what the fuck? Yeah, I bet Dorn loved seeing that. I bet that just made his day of all the people to see that. He was not happy,

but he actually had a, bit of a bro moment where he's like, this is disgusting. You're all disgusting, but good job, I guess. And then he burned their seat to the ground so that nobody could record what happened there. That's fair. I mean, it's like, well, I mean, you got rid of them. You did your job, but, yeah. So this is kind of where the blood, the red thirst of the blood angels was really starting to make its way.

and they were getting more and more debilitated from it. Because it started as them being really good, fighting, and then becoming debilitative, and now they're eating corpses and... And sucking the blood dry, yeah. It's bad. And the legend of the 9th Legion grew as a frightening concept. They were not just like the Emperor's forces.

They were hidden murderers with a hunger for blood and death. They sounded like fucking modern-day night lords. They were just this, this like creature in the night, this absolute like in Carmine Savage. Yeah, I can see how they would get that reputation after their track record. Yeah, that makes sense. It was said that if it was not for the arrival of the angel right after this, there is a good chance this Legion, this Legion's head was on the chopping block. They were going to be removed and expunged like the second and 11 legions.

Well, yeah. Yeah. The sword was up. The head was there. The sword was up. It was like, you guys need to knock it off. This is a problem. We've already gotten rid of two other legions for heinous crimes and watch it.

The pendulum was swinging. So did they have any form of like leadership at this point? Like, was anybody, did anyone have them under control? Or were they all just, like, savage? And just, like, they were all just merciless killers that wanted to drink blood and human flesh. Like, what was there, the hierarchy, like? There's always a leader. I mean, it's a military force.

There's always a captain. Sure, sure. And stuff like that. But, like, they just sound like a pack of, like, bloodthirsty thugs. No, no, there's still warriors, but they just commit war in a very bizarre. way. Yeah. They still have a hierarchy.

They still have captains. They still have all that kind of stuff. But luckily for them, before that sword could come down, Sanguidius was found. Hooray. And that kind of kept them under bay for a bit. That was like, okay, the angel is here, and the angel is great, and he's so beautiful, and oh, my God.

And then they started to really calm themselves. And that really kind of kept the red thirst and check a little bit more than before. I don't know if we've talked about this before, but how did they decide that sanguineus was going to lead that specific group of like savages that were about to get killed because of how brutal they are? Was it just like, oh, yeah, he's always been the leader of the ninth. He was always going like, because you would think if they had any choice of who to put sanguinius best boy in charge of, it wouldn't be them. Oh, I mean the Well, Sanguinus is going to be put in charge Because they're his sons

From his gene seed, obviously Oh, okay Gotcha Like, yeah, because like these are his sons Born from his gene seeds So they're gonna be his Legion Matter what I guess that didn't register

With me for a second, okay They're only like, I want that one Yeah, yeah Because I was like if they could pick in shoes, man San Guineas ain't going to lead these fuckers Now, and the person who decides that whether or not they're going to be exposed It's like Malcador and the emperor

Like that's why no one talks about Yeah, yeah Yeah Also yeah Don't forget about like Lorgar and stuff Where as soon as they went to go see Lorgar They're like oh His zeal

His piety And they just start Fucking violently coming Like violently Like violently like they They blow up their armor And they all fall over

It's very important It wasn't It wasn't the emperor forcing them to kneel. It was the weakness in their legs from violently orgasming from his sight. The violent orgasm forced them to kneel before the prime marking. So Sanguinius returns that whole thing. Oh, damn, that is a huge wall attack.

What the fuck? Yeah, go ahead, dude. What does that say? For current character, Sanguinius did much to establish the culture and beliefs of the chapter. He transformed the blood angels from an army of killers into a legion of noble warriors that were also well versed in art and poetry. There is a mystical streak in many of the blood angels and a strong belief that things can be changed for the better. Basically, they kind of need to strive a lot for perfection and take interest in fine things like art and music to stop

themselves from falling into their insane old selves, especially under constant pressure of red thirst and black rage. They're also kind of ruled by somewhat democracy. Two organizations, Red Council, and the Council of Blood, are in charge of them because they need to work together spiritually and physically to keep everyone in check. And they outranked chapter masters because as Blood Angels, you're kind of expected to die or go insane at any point.

Makes sense. Yeah, makes sense that you would, you know, You need to put your mind on something else other than, wow, I'm actually insane. Oh, wow, red thirst. So, yeah, that makes sense as to why you would want them to be, you know, fine art, music, poetry, and get them into the finer things, something to distract them from the insanity and bloodshed. Well, you know, it's always good to have a different hobby than eating the dead. Yeah, well said.

It tends to help a decent amount of what with. with the overall problems. Well said. Well put, well put. Thank you. Truly. Truly, you are a philosopher.

I've been known for my, for my high levels of intelligence. Oh, oh yes, that is what Bricky is known for, just high IQ. All right. Many, many brain cells

just bouncing off of each other. Now, all right. Now listen here, young man. But let's talk a little bit about the red thirst because I have a,

I have a very hard time nailing this down. It's like calculus, okay? It just doesn't compute properly in my my head. So the difference between the red thirst and the black rage, figuring those two things out. So I think I finally got in a handle on it. Got it. Okay. I think I finally got it. This was a point of contention in the last episode. It was. Well, they're always, they're always a little mift, but that's because that's because that I'm bad at my job. So, Red Thirst. Hey, Entertainment for accuracy. Red Thirst, all right. It is, it is the overall vampiric craving for blood and the slow, slow descent into more and more wanton violence.

Okay. It is the craving for blood and the tick of like anger and the tick of like this feral kind of murder. Right. That is the idea of the red thirst. Yeah. And the red thirst has always existed with them, right? Or it's existed for a while. Like before sanguinea showed up, they still had the red thirst.

Yeah, I was to believe that they have like an early version of the red thirst. did not have the black rage yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the actual red thirst is something that is basically uncurable. It continues and it continues and it continues and it continues and it gets worse and worse. And they keep trying to hold it in check. But it's like a dementia patient in the sense where like you can do your very best to bring it down, but it's only going to get worse. Yeah, there's no cure for it.

It's only going to get worse. You can only hope to slow it. Yes. And if they ever end up falling fully to the red thirst, they tend to go into this, they get locked away, basically, in this thing called the Tower of the Lost, where they succumb to a complete, roiling, uncontrollable insanity. That's an appropriate name for the tower.

Which I must admit, a bit bizarre that they put them in the tower, because, like, just a little bit weird, I thought that they are executed originally by Adda-da-da-da-da-Astorath the Grim, High Chaplain of the Blood Angels. But I believe he actually executes those with the black rage, not the red thirst. Huh.

So everybody that's too far gone in the red thirst, they just put in the tower and what, they just kill each other? Or do they literally lock them in like prison cells So that they can't harm themselves or others My mind would be they would lock them inside coffins Because that's pretty blood angelsy But it's very vampiric sure I actually don't know

They are locked away in the Tower of the Lost On Ball where they succumb to uncontrollable insanity I don't know why they don't just kill them Yeah you would think that you would either want to execute them Or Or like if you could like cryo sleep them or put them in suspended animation and then just drop them on a planet like in a torpedo or something and then just wake up and just go on a rampage on on enemy front lines or something

after you air drop them in well that second thing you're explaining is the death company and that's true that's true that is a part of the the black rage which so completely to it right yes so the black rage is the psychic feedback of Senguinius' death. They had a little proto version, a little version of the black rage when Senguinius knocked out by Calbonda, the corn demon on that one planet. But it wasn't the full level. And so his death was the psychic backlash from Horace. And that's when they sent them all into the black rage.

And the black rage is the mental instability of them seeing themselves on Horace's flagship and fighting. Or, yeah, and fighting the traitor himself. And that is, but it's also actually just give them a few interesting things. One, they're so coming to the black rage, they're actually fight a bit harder. They're also a bit tougher. That makes sense. They're like half mad with fury. but they're actually a little bit stronger, like genuinely stronger.

So, I mean, it makes sense that it would make them stronger because they just go into a frenzy, right? Because they think they're fighting horace, and of course you're going to fight a little bit harder, a little bit stronger and all that. But very often when you succumb to the Black Rage, it's like the E before a fight or something. And when you've either, I think it's,

this is the hard part, is figuring out the difference between the Red Thirst and the Death, and the Black, rage when it comes to death company. But I do believe that the death company is black rage based, where when they are in that permanent psychosis of the black rage, then that's when it goes ahead and they get sent into the death company. Shai tells me that the red thirst and black rage are 100% separate and do not influence each other, which is surprising because they are very similar in concept.

The one to drink blood and being a murderous crazed person and hallucinating yourself in a different area as a murderous person. Yeah, and just going into a frenzy of rage

trying to kill Horace, they do seem to kind of parallel themselves a little bit. They do. I'm kind of surprised by they're different, but I guess they're different. This is one of those things

I had a hard time figuring out. Let's see. Shai says, generally if a space marine goes in a red thirst overdrive, they become savage vampire monster, murder a civilian or two, drink their blood,

and then they come back to normal. Whereas the black rage is like the permanent end. Yeah, you never come back from the black rage, but if you fall to the red thirst, you can drink some blood, come back and be like, oh, I'm okay. But it gets, but like you're okay for a bit, and then it comes back again.

It gets worse, and then it gets worse and worse. You got your more blood and more blood. Then you get locked up in the tower. So when you succumb to the black rage, you become a death company Where you are deemed for your final glorious fights of your death Because if you don't die in this battle Then Astorath the grim high chaplain of the blood angels Will execute you for your

Well, he'll execute you Well, that's a no-win situation No, it is not. Well, there is no win. pretty much dead. Once you follow the black rage, that's it. Except for somebody. Mr. Mephiston.

Hey, Mephiston Red. Is it Mephiston Red? Yep, you're right. Yes. Blood Angel Red, that makes sense. He is also known as the Lord of Death, and he is the master of the librarians, Siker, of the Blood Angels.

The thing interesting about Mephistin is, that he has defeated the psychosis of the black rage, not just once, but twice. Twice he has fallen to the black rage and he has pulled out of it. How exactly does that work? How do you pull out of the black rage? I wonder if anything with him being a psycher has to do with it. Maybe he just has that level of mental stability with the warp that he's able to pull himself out. But this is mainly a concept of, wow, Mephistan is so incredibly strong of will and power. He was able to pull himself out.

But yes, Mephistan actually recently got a brand new model. Oh. Yeah, he's got like a primaris model now. It looks really good, in my opinion. But he as the chief librarian is the, I think he's the only person to have, in all the blood. angels to have been able to pull out the black rage not just once but twice. He's

also considered to be one of the strongest psychers in the entire Imperium of MAM along with well he probably can't beat out like Caldor Drago and some of them but along with like chief librarian Tigarius for example. Okay. Okay.

Which is blueberry. Blueberries. Yeah. Gross. We'll have a whole episode on Mephistan one day. I mean, he sounds dope. I mean, also, shy posted a wall of text.

Would you like to read it? Sure. During the second War for Armagedon campaign, Calistarius became a victim of the black rage. After being inducted into the death company, he took part in the assault on the Ecclesiarchy building and was one of many trapped inside when the building collapsed during battle.

For seven days, Calistarius lay trapped in the rebel, teetering on the edge of death and madness. Somehow, rather than succumbing to the red thirst, he managed to conquer it. By sheer strength of will, he was able to suppress and hold in check the feelings of rage and the desire for blood. And in so doing, he became something more. On the seventh night, he burst free of his rocky tomb, reborn as Mephistan, the Lord of Tum. Death. Wow. Not bad. So he just got super hella trapped under some rubble,

succumbed to the red thirst, and just through sheer strength of will, was able to hold it all in check. How is it coming to the red, how is succumbing to the red thirst even real? Just like don't. Like just close the laptop, you know? How is cyrable?

Even real? Just turn off the computer. Just don't. Hello? Just don't. Just don't. So. What a badass.

So that there would be the, the, I think I finally, I think I finally figured out the red thirst and black rage difference. It just, it was not, it was not computing in my, well, I'll ask Dorn for a hand. He's, I know he, he doesn't have one. Low blow. He's too tall. I can't low blow him. I'll hit his ankle.

Can't low blow him and he can't read. Yeah. Anyway. Let's talk Moving right along. Let's talk recruitment a little bit. So recruiting people for the Blood Angels, well, this is how they used to recruit them.

I don't know if they do that anymore because of a certain tyrannid fleet. But basically, in order to join the Blood Angels, they would take people from the feral tribes of Ball Secundus, the radiation-stricken moon, and they would take part in some violent games and tournaments,

battling in the landscape, all that fun stuff. However, the time of challenge is heralded by their visit with their flying chariots, aka their Thunderhawks. And the first trial is to reach the place of challenge by any means necessary. And the place of challenge is where the contestants will make their way across the radiations through deserts, leaping from these giant cliffs with these crude hang gliders to cross the gap. They have to get away from giant scorpions and other mutated predators, that whole thing. So you weed out the week and the hazards of the desert and all that.

So once they arrive, they do some gladiatorial contests, all that fun. And then they get 50 or so places available total. Those who are able to make it are taken. And those who fail are left behind to guard the testing place or return back to their tribe. Oh, okay. So you either succeed or you get left behind as a guard. Basically, if you want to. Okay.

Or you just leave back to the tribe. Okay. The successful aspirants are then taken to the fortress monastery on Ball itself and are paraded around by all the members of the chapter before they are escorted to the Great Chapel. And it's an interesting way they do their recruitment, because it seems like it's a hell of a lot less painful, but a hell of a lot more mentally painful.

Like mentally taxing and psychologically damaging as opposed to physically painful. What, how is it more mentally taxing? So what happens is that they are brought forth and they are given the sanguinary chalice from the sanguinary priests, which contains the catalyst they'll begin the process

of transformation into an Astardis. Once they drink this from the chapel, they will eventually fall asleep. And they are born by servitors to the apothecarium in which the gene Cetus is implanted into their bodies. And they are placed

into a mighty golden sarcophagus. Then they are fed, by an IV for the next year with a mixture of nutrients and the blood of sanguineas while the gene seed does its work. Okay, that's... Okay, that is crazy. You fall asleep, you're put into a coffin

and you are fed by IV with the blood of sanguineas and other nutrients. And this will allow them to, well, most of them die, naturally. Sure. They can't take the sheer strain of the changes that they're taking them,

but those that don't are growing, like this will make them grow into a strong astardis, the new organs and everything. They put on muscle mass, they acquire their extra internal organs,

the whole thing. Unfortunately, at this time, they also have strange dreams. Because the gene seed... Yeah, I bet. Yeah. The gene seed carries

memories of sanguineas. Probably a nightmare hellscape. Whose death echo rattle across the time and space. Yeah. On rare occasions, the aspirant will awaken well before the year is up,

trapped in a claustrophobic, pitch, dark coffin. Every, like, that's everybody's worst nightmare, right? Basically being very alive. So if you wake up three months early, you still have to stay in the coffin for another three months, even though you've woken up. And you're now awake. And so those physical changes to your body are probably felt more.

Oh, no. Yeah, that's not great. That's, that's, that's, no fun. No months. So despite being changed into superhuman soldier, as some wake up and escape the coffin, not the most. mentally happy? Yeah, that's probably the understatement of the century. Yes, it is really rough.

Yeah, it's just, it's very, very rough. But now they're neophytes, yay! Hooray! Also, so all of them are intravenously fed sanguineas' blood? Is that? A little, I mean, not a lot of his blood, but mainly nutrients and some of the blood to coalesce with the gene seed. I was going to say, like, sanguineas only has.

had so much blood in his body. Like, they've only got so much of it. There's a finite amount of sanguineous blood to give to these people, right? So it's got to be like, what? They put, like, a drop in, like, with their fluids or something? I don't know the specific amount of blood. So, continuing the concept of sanguinary shit, you also have the sanguinary guard. The sanguinary guard are the super elite veteran Astardis that are the main

well, were the main bodyguard for Sanguinius himself. And these are, they're also known as the Ikasat, I think is how it's pronounced, or the burning ones as well for their like unwavering devotion. These dudes look baller as hell. Oh, nice. Of course they have to have gold abs. Oh, of course. Of course. If you're going to have armor, you have to have the gold ripped abs.

I mean, they're probably cloned, and they probably have those abs under there anyway, but, you know, it's cool. Well, I mean, like, yeah, but look at the wings, though. The wings are very cool. I love, I love jump, I love big jump packs, and yeah, I'm in it. That's some endless waltz, you know.

So, do you singling? I don't know what that is, but it's not. worry about it. Dundum stuff. But the classic sanguinary guard are a pretty common, but they're a very popular unit for Blood Angels.

No kidding. Yeah, yeah, they're also very good. So like in game right now. Originally founded by the, and I quote, exalted herald of sanguinius Eczalon as Kellian. Is Kalin?

Whatever. He is the venerated hero of the sanguinary guard and the main bodyguard of Sanguinius. In fact, so much so that Sanguinius bid him not to join him in the battle against Horace to stay back in case of he would fall and die

so the sanguinary guard themselves would not go extinct and he could continue to help lead. Aw, he was accounting for worst case scenario. Mm-hmm. He's quite the chad. Yes, he is. Poor Sanguin's.

blonde hair. Yep. But the interesting thing that a lot of fun stuff when it comes to Sanguinary Guard, besides the fact that they have an awesome giant winged jump pack and a huge-ass sword and bolt her

is their death mask. It says... Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're doing on their face. It says, death mask worn by members of the Sanguinary Guard are highly ornate masks modeled on the fear-inspiring features

of Sanguania himself that crackles with terrifying halos of golden light to create a terrifying and fearsome aura projected upon their enemy. The machine spirit of the mask is bonds

closely with its wearer and when a guard falls in battle the death mask is removed with as much ceremony and is placed in a dark tomb for seven days and seven nights in which its stylized features will

look like its original barrier. Oh, that's cool. So it's literally a death mask And it becomes a death mask for whoever wore it and died in it It's a very cool looking it's a very cool looking death mask It even has in-game properties where it makes people hard You like you harder to hit because it's terrifying them with its ornate crackling lightning And the horrifying visage kind of thing

It's very fun reminds me a lot of the um howling banshees mask from the Eldar So Dante is one of these things, right? Because he's got the death mask. Well, he doesn't have the wings, but he's got the gold armory. He's got the big jump pack. He's one of these. So Dante is the chapter master of the blood angels. And he was originally the Lord Commander of the Imperium before Gilemon's resurrection,

in which Gilemon has taken the roll up from him. Okay. Cool. Dante does have the crazy death mask. I believe he actually has a fancy one. I think he has something called the death mask. Isn't it of sanguineous? I think it's like, yeah, the death mask of sanguineas is what it's called.

Oh, yeah. We must have talked about this in the last episode because I do remember something about the death mask of sanguineas and Dante or something like that. Yeah, it's called the death mask of sanguine. Well, yeah, it's very similar-looking armor. but you know if you're a high-ranking blood angel you're going to have that fancy fancy bullshit fair enough fair enough um dante is currently the lord regent of the imperial nilus which is there's two parts of the imperial cut off by the giant rift and i believe gilliman is

the leader of the other one oh okay okay which you know that makes sense so gillman's leading one and dante's leading the other one basically yeah gotcha okay um dante himself is over 1,500 years old and is the current oldest space marine in existence, 1,447 years currently, approximately, with deception of dreadnoughts, of course. Oh, yeah, of course, of course. There is the caveat that chaos space marines are far older, but that's because the warp has extended their life. Yeah, sure. And they're crazy. Yeah, you got, like, typhus. Sure. Like, like, typhus is. He's over 10,000 years old, but like, he's a giant beehive. Man, I want to live for 1,500 years.

Yeah, well, Dante wants to fucking die, so... Dante must die mode. Yeah, Dante, Dante must die mode. The idea for Dante is that... So there was a thing that we'll obviously have to have an episode on called The Devastation of Ball, which I believe is a book series that are apparently extremely good. I've been told that they're just excellent books. And it's about Hive Fleet Leviathan rolling up and just murdering Ball.

Of course, I mean it's a Hive Fleet. Like, what are you going to do? I think ball is dead. I don't know if there's any more ball or ball secundus. Because the only reason they survive is because Gilman showed up after his resurrection was like, I am here. Do your taxes. and everybody gets scared and ran away because nobody likes taxes.

Taxes are bullshit. But Dante himself is tired. He is very tired, basically. The idea is that the burdens of his, the weight of his responsibility is weighed heavy on his shoulders for so many hundreds and hundreds of years. And he saw that there is, is recorded in the scrolls of Sanguineas, that there is, that there is, is a in the primarx visions that there would be a lone golden warrior that would

stand between the emperor and his destruction. Many believe this to be Sanguania's himself aboard vengeful spirit. But Dante believes otherwise that one day, the currently defenseless, helpless, well, not defenseless, but helpless

emperor will, the fate of him will rest in Dante's hands. And so he's kind of just here, like, seeing his chapter as like final days, so to speak. Mm-hmm. He didn't expect to see Gilliman come back. He didn't expect to see his entire planet get fucked up by Nids.

Tids, yeah, yeah. Who does? Who expects that? He's just hoping that the day will come when he can finally do what he deems as his duty and he can finally fucking die. Damn. That's true. Like, he, because he's been alive for 1,500 years of not paradise and peace.

And, you know, just sipping, you know, martinias or whatever. He's been alive for 1,500 years of, like, war and horrible bloodshed and battles and just the most awful timeline you could ever exist in. So I guess, you know, yeah, he'd feel a little burden. Yeah, I guess, yeah, you know, I get it. I get it. He's got the burden of his massive golden angelic balls. He's got the wheelbarrow for him.

The wheelbarrow of Senguinius. Mm-hmm, yep, the wheelbarrow. their own sanguinius. He's got the death mask. Yep. So there's also another character that I want to touch on real quick. Someone known as the sanguador. The sanguador. The sanguador. It is known

as the exemplar of the host. And it's basically the blood angel Celesteen. Ah. Okay. So the sanguador is a entity of mysterious

unknown origin that is named after sanguinius and no one really understands what in god's name it is but it arrives in the middle of battle out of nowhere and immediately starts to body shit wow it just shows up kills a lot of shit and then just leaves and nobody really understands who what where when why how i guess it's more so like the legion of the damned as opposed to celesteem But it's a Blood Angels Legion of the Damned. It rolls up, it looks like a giant manifestation of Sanguinnius, not quite his size or anything, but, you know, it looks like him, as you can tell. Yeah, definitely.

And he rolls up and beats the shit out of people. Huh. Well, whoever it is looks very cool. Very dope. I like the look a lot in this one artwork. In game, it actually is a little fun because the sanguine order just arrives. like in the middle of the battle you can just place him there in combat

you're like here he is oh does he have a mini oh yeah it's not very good looking though it's like one of those old ones that just looks really unless you are super hardcore into painting and really glitz it up

yeah it's him and the sanguinary guard are pretty old looking if you could tell he doesn't not look great oh yeah Ooh. Yeah, that's not great. You're right, that's not great at all.

At least the artwork looks pretty good. Oh, yeah. The artwork of him, the two pieces that I've seen look great, but man, that mini is a disaster. Yeah, the old sanguinaler mini is not good. The sanguinary guard minis are not much better, but, ah, here is Shai's text which I'd like to read. Oh yeah, sure

So Shia says Well, it's a wall of text But TLDR It's possible A bodyguard of Sanguinius Who sacrificed himself To protect him

And got consumed by the warp But he's such a badass He turned into a warp entity That comes back once in a mile To protect blood angels Interesting So he's just a bodyguard of sanguinius That was just so goddamn cool

That He turned into a warp being that just kind of shows up and helps out the... I mean... The warp is fucky-wucky and the bodyguard was really dope. That sounds like it's certainly a possibility, but everything is a possibility in this damn game. So it's like, really, what is the true choice of the matter?

Yeah. They also, like, their apothecaries are often known as sanguinary priests in the blood angels, which is kind of fun. That's just the name of them as sanguinary priest. There's also much of other guys, Tyco the Lost and Lamartis and... Too many!

Everything in the Blaine Engels is a sangua something. It's the sanguinary bodyguards, the sanguinary priest, the sanguinary chemist, the sanguinary soldier, the sanguinary bodyguards. Man, they love that sanguine blood stuff, don't they? They're just like, we really want... It's like the wolf. It's like the space wolves where everything has to be named Wolf. They just make sure they really show you... We really want you to know that we're all.

all about the sanguine, we're all about the blood. I don't know if you notice this from our name or not, but yeah. Shai's like, I see no issues with that. It says Ultramareran from Ultramar. Same. Yep. Yep. But at least it's not like

all, it's not like an ultramaric bodyguard, right? Well, I guess they're just ultramarine body. I don't know. Yeah, whatever. Ultramarines from Ultramar. Whatever. It's not important. Yeah.

Um, anyway, uh, the, that's all a lot of that stuff in terms of the blood angels, blood angely, angely angels. Uh, blangels. The blangels. In game, they do have a lot of really fun names for the rules. Their chapter trait is called Savage Echoes, um, which it gives them, uh, plus one, four, this is when they're like turned three on, which gives them extra attack, which is a lot, which is pretty good, make them super murdery. Um, then,

their actual chapter tactic gives them an increased ability to wound which is quite fun because it's a really common strat to like take death company with two chainswords and then it's like oh the chainshors aren't very good against tough targets but you get plus one to wounds so who cares

and you run up and you just start shoving teeth shoving teeth shoving teeth yep I get it there's a there are rules if you want to use the black rage on certain characters. They can't fall back from combat. They can't perform any actions, but they get

extra attacks and they're tankier. You can actually use the black range in game. Well, it's a part of the death company units that it's like a statistic they have. Oh, okay. I was going to say as a blood angel, you can just have them fall to the black rage. That'd be cool. Yeah. You can actually create a special character captain death company version if you wanted to um you can give them a special ability called death visions which is as the deeply ingrained memories of sanguinius's final battle flood the mind of the warrior loss of the black rage they believe they are the primark himself confronting the arch traitor and so there are three special abilities you can get called the grace of the angel on the bridge

of the vengeful spirits and to slay the war master oh though that's dope I like that a lot. The Slay the Warmaster one is pretty fun. It says you can only use this if both you are fighting an enemy character. Like it's character on character. It's you. It's Horace. It's Horace.

I see you, Horace. It says instead of making any attacks against them, you both roll a dice. And if you win, you do like D3 plus three mortal wounds, which is an insanely high number. So it's like, all right. right. I'm not even going to roll my attacks. This is it. Woo! Hi, you've killed Horace. Well done. It's the grace of an angel, which gives you a lot of tankiness. The Bridge the Vengeful Spirit gives you a...

It says plus one to your attack characteristic for every five enemy models that are next to you. So it's like just a bloody mess. It's pretty fun. Yeah, that's cool. As for their psychic powers, there is the one. where they can literally sprout psychic wings and fly, which is fucking awesome. Oh, that's so cool. Spreading psychic wings?

Hell yeah. There's blood boil. It says drives his enemy's lifeblood into a seething frenzy, causing it to boil in the victim's veins a split second before bursting from every pore in an explosive finality. Ew. That's so gross. Boil your blood and your skin and just,

oh, it just erupts from all your, Oh, yeah, that doesn't sound like a happy dev. There's a blood lance. Conjure a mighty lance infused with innermost rage, and you throw this lance of blood at people. Blood magic, okay, cool, cool. It's a lot of fun, like, you know, blood magic, pretty awesome. Yeah, blood magic, always super dope.

Hell yeah. A little heretical, but, yeah, that's okay. There's a couple other, like, special relics they can have. I like the visage of death. This exquisitely crafted mask Is a thing of dark beauty to the blood angels And a sign of impending doom to the others The unchanging expression of the mask inspires fear

And uncertainty and confident enemies They see no anger, pain, or elation in the wearer's face Clues to the warrior's state of mind in a duel It's just like this blank stare Damn, all right That's fine I mean that's that's cool I really like that

what is the black company or whatever ones where you know the death company the death company ones geez the black company geez um yeah where uh they they fall into the black range yeah um i like those a lot those are really cool the rules anyway those are a lot of um you can oh here it is there's the rules for called the lost which is giving uh death company to captains and lieutenants which is like your higher level things you can you can make death company like dreadnoughts. You can make psycher dreadnots, which is kind of nuts,

which is always... It was always so fucking funny the psychor dreadnought stuff because you could basically just cast like wings of sanguineus on it and this dreadnoughts fucking wings and flies across the battlefield. That's a sight.

That is a sight to see. Why is that box flying? This is literally just this big ass box flying across the battlefield with like angry yelling. That is, that would, I would love to see that. I would love to see an artist's rendition

of something like that. The flying box. Yeah, the flying box. I don't got a whole lot of other blood angels stuff left to talk about. I was trying to keep the episode to about an hour like per usual. And naturally we have a gigantic amount of shit

because blood angels are enormous. There's a lot of blood angels. One of the most popular factions out there. I covered a decent amount. the devastation of Ball, Dante, Mephistan, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There's so many other things that we could do episode on later. But for the time being, that's what you got, everybody. The Plangles.

You did it. I did it. I talked about the Blood Angels. I really like the Blood Angels. I'm a big fan of Sanguineas. I'm a big fan of them. You know, I think they might overtake the Thousand Suns in my hierarchy of St.gueroyneous. stuff I like in 40k.

I like the blangles. Ooh. The blangles a lot. They are a very popular faction and for many a good reason. They are liked for all the types of craziness and sad feeling that you get from playing them. And we also have another Thousand Suns episode yet, so you never really know. True.

But I mean, I know the basic background of the Thousand Suns. And I don't know. I think the Blangles are just cooler. Sanguineanian. is super dope. Their units are cool. Dante seems like a Chad. I mean, red thirst,

black rage. I really like the Blood Angels, man. I like them a lot. I like him a lot. All right. You're feeling it. I'm really feeling it. Feeling it. That's what I got. That's what I got for the episode. Shai, do you have anything to say before we rounded all out?

Yeah, did we miss anything? Is there something we need to cover? I mean, I mean, I'm sure I missed plenty, but... Well, yeah, but any stifling need? Ooh, shy. Oh, Shai says, she, Shai has a hot take. She doesn't feel them because they're kind of overcomplicated, too much shit going on with them.

It's a fair take, I think. There's a lot going on with the red, the red thirst, the black rage, sanguineas, there's Dante, there's, you know, the sanguador, and that's a fair take. I don't think that's a hot take. It's an unsurprising take. Local orc fan thinks space marines too complicated. I didn't think about it that way, but that's also very on brand for Shai.

Sure, sure. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Shy, aren't you building Alpha Legion? Oh, that's true. She is building Alpha Legion. Speaking of overcomplicated. Too complicated. Speaking of overcomplicated.

Damn, Bricky is just lighting poor Shy up. I'm I was on shy side for this. Let it be known. This is what she gets for shooting me in the... She was the one who shot that barrel in the game and she blamed it on you. Well, no, you thought it was me, but I was like, no, I saw that barrel light up

and I was like, I'm out. I am out of here. I know how shy is in multiplayer games. Remember when we started playing back for blood and within five seconds, we all just started murdering each other? Back for blood. back for blood

blood angels blood angels it all goes full circle let's go all right end the stream yeah ended it