Adeptus Ridiculous - DRUKHARI: CULTS COVENS AND KABALS | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: December 15, 2021

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Starting point is 00:00:11 into another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamantis. His name is Bricky. He's got all that sweet, sweet, ridiculous 40K info. But before he gives it to us, if you enjoyed today's episode, head him over to patreon.com slash adeptus ridiculous
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Starting point is 00:00:47 Pray tell, he says. We would go to Orchidate.com. Orchidate.com. Check out the amazing merch. We got hoodies, t-shirts, stickers, etc. Also, I found out that if you actually want to get your order internationally before Christmas, you can by using either D-H-L or UPS shipping. However, I do warn you that the shipping costs.
Starting point is 00:01:10 are astronomical. So that is a, I don't care if I have to spend the extra money, I need it soon type of deal. That's pretty amazing that you can actually get it internationally before Christmas, because Christmas is like, what, two weeks away?
Starting point is 00:01:25 Someone purchased a DHS shipping to Romania, and the shipping for like, I think two hoodies or something, cost them like 40 bucks, which is a lot of money. But it got there in five days. Wow.
Starting point is 00:01:39 So, you know, like, it's an option. Obviously, I don't get to set the shipping prices. But regardless, besides all that, if you're in America, buy it now if you want to get it by Christmas. And also, Kyvis K and Book Club will be this week, we think, probably. Yeah, probably. Sure. Pretty soon.
Starting point is 00:01:57 Soon, T.M. It'll be early, middle, mid-January, I guess now. God, it doesn't feel like it's almost the middle of January. It's literally December, Dufus. I know. Or, yeah, December, sorry. It doesn't feel like it's the middle of December It doesn't feel like Christmas is literally right around the corner
Starting point is 00:02:13 I can't believe you've sabotaged this podcast already, DK Already I've said January instead of December Podcast ruined I'll hand in my retirement papers Crushed Bricky is my name DK is what I meant to say Would you like a quote Yeah
Starting point is 00:02:30 I'm gonna fuck this up so bad dude But go ahead hit me with the quote Hit me with the quote All right. It says, quote, These are not soldiers nor warriors. This enemy is an act of murder-given flesh, and they will not stop until terror is the only thing that lives.
Starting point is 00:02:52 Captain Jephta Kohl executed for cowardice. The end of that really makes that quote. They're not so. It sounds like it's some kind of Zenos to me. Like it sounds like, because he said they're not soldiers. Nor warriors. It's just like, what was it? Murder made flesh.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Murder given flesh. And they just want to make terror. Like immediately, I was like, oh, hey, night lords. Hmm. I'm going to, we're really nice to the Nids fans. So I'm going to say, it's got to be like some very specific hive fleet that comes in and does some shit. No.
Starting point is 00:03:40 I'm gonna go, I guess it would be too soon to do another Nid's episode. It's literally like the episode after. Yes, it would be a little too soon for Nids. I was just, I mean, some Xenos thing that I don't know
Starting point is 00:03:54 about. Or maybe, it can't be Necron's. Yeah, some Zeno shit. I am shocked that you don't get this. Think about terror and murder. Terror and murder.
Starting point is 00:04:08 Something chaos? Oh my God. What? What is it? Shire, are you also upset about this one right now? I never get them. I've gotten one out of like five. Oh, she posted Travis Scott rubbing his head.
Starting point is 00:04:23 You've done fucked up. Whatever. He can go have a Travis. It's the Drew Kari. Oh. Yeah. Murder given flesh. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:36 I'm going to bull. I'm gonna bully you. I'm real. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go push you over and take your lunch money, DK. I can't believe. I cannot believe.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Oh, no. That is a Travis Scott forehead moment. Oh, that's almost a bricky forehead moment, but it's not quite that big. My forehead's not that big. Not that big. Oh, my,
Starting point is 00:04:58 okay, but we're doing, we've talked about Jukari before. We've talked about Jukari before. So today we're doing similar to what we did with the Ork episode. So we talked about the clan cultures, we're talking about the various Drucari clans, which are known as obsessions. So we're going to go a little bit deeper into the Jukari. We're going to talk a little bit about the specific groups that inherit the, or not inherit, but are in the dark city of Kamara.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Or Kamarag, I don't really know. I don't like to pronounce the GH because if Wa isn't pronounced that way, then Kamaraa. Don't worry, the Drukari aren't sponsoring this episode. You can say it wrong. That's true. That's true. But no, so actually, I did a lot of research. I have three full pages of notes taken for this one. Because last night I was doing some extra stuff and I was like, wait a minute, this kind of makes you want to start a Jakari army.
Starting point is 00:05:54 And I'm not going to because I have enough armies. You say that. I know. But now everybody is going to bully you into getting a Dracari army. It's really kind of cool. I'm impressed with the. I mean, I'm obviously our signature elf hater And you are our signature ultramarine bullier
Starting point is 00:06:15 Yes indeed And I don't know what shy hates, but she probably hates something Everything that's not orcs is what she hates Most things that aren't orcs If it ain't green, she ain't hanging around it She hates us Yeah, there we go You know, that's fair, that's fair, that's fair
Starting point is 00:06:33 But I was like I really like it when they have a lot of Culture is one thing But also a lot of intrigue in how they develop the the different characters and cults And there's a lot more in here than I thought particularly in the the witch cults are really neat So I want to talk about them So a reminder for both you and our audience the Jukari are the dark Eldar They are the ones that were the most hedonistic and Tate and tainted by, well, they had their horrible, horrible ways of murder and dance and art and all that
Starting point is 00:07:12 stuff. And they centralized that in the large port city of Kamara in the webway, which is why when Slaneh was birthed, they only got a pinky finger on that damn webway. And the only way they stave off Slanesh is to do horrible, horrible, horrible Slanesh things. And that keeps her satiated. And so they do not lose their soul to the one who, to she who thirsts. Yep. So these, the Drukarya are the ones that did not leave on like the Craft World ships. Because Craft World Eldar were like, yo, you guys, too extreme, this is, we've really gone away too far. Let's, I'm fucked this shit, I'm out.
Starting point is 00:07:54 Yes. And the Dracari is sort of what's left over. They still like doing all the hedonistic, lusty torture. crazy nonsense. Imagine you had New York City and it was really going to shit so a lot of people left New York City those are the craft world Eldar
Starting point is 00:08:12 but then they someone bombed New York City to the Stone Age but they completely forgot to bomb the jail and now and the jail has broken free and is taking over New York City. That's the Jukari. Ah, okay. So they are indeed the worst of the worst. They are the worst. They are
Starting point is 00:08:31 they are the most sadistic. Now, one would say, oh, they do these horrible things to save their lives, which is true, but to state that they don't like it is also incorrect. They do very much like it. Yeah. So the Dracari operate almost entirely out of Kamara,
Starting point is 00:08:53 a place in the webway that includes insane three-dimensional spires, complete lack of gravity not all of areas but in some areas it's completely like upside down left right top down it is in multiple dimensions it is a labyrinth of a city it is nearly impossible to navigate
Starting point is 00:09:16 unless you are a dark like you need to be an Eldar for one so that you have the mind to navigate it and then you need to know the city you know it's like trying to navigate it's like trying to navigate like a major city in the U.S., like Boston, without knowing where you're going without a map, and you're just like, I'm so lost. You're like from a foreign country that doesn't have like a major metropolitan area.
Starting point is 00:09:41 It's just like this really suburban place. And then you try and navigate like New York and the subway system. Yeah, you just won't get it. And you don't, and then you don't even speak English. And you just like, oh, God. It's like, oh, this is terrible. That's also why Comerog hasn't really been like invaded or anything. anything because it's like it's impossible how the fuck are you going to invade that you can't tell up
Starting point is 00:10:00 from down like you can invade it to an extent but since the majority of the dark elder are all like even though the dark elders are a very small race compared their entire group is basically situated in this one city so you are attacking this like an entire race and so while let's say the imperium probably could if they dedicated enough resources wipe them out they would then get murdered from every other section. Tyrannids would invade, orcs would kill them, who knows. It's too costly to wipe them out. It's way too costly.
Starting point is 00:10:37 And also... That's every faction, right? The Imperium, if they really wanted to, could wipe out any one faction they wanted, but if they did, it would leave them vulnerable to literally everything else because of the catastrophic amount of casualties they'd take and trying to wipe out that one race. Not quite. I would say they couldn't do it to or...
Starting point is 00:10:55 or tyrannids, not chaos either. But like small races, like craft worlds, which would probably get away from just trickery alone. Or like Tao, definitely Tao. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, so Kamara as a city, also known as the Dark City. Now, these are basically akin to,
Starting point is 00:11:17 or they have three separate organizations that take up the entirety of the city. and they kind of flow with each other and together because remember, Dukar, you're pirates. That's the concept. They have a port city and they, and their coin, like there is money, but money is also weapons and slaves, especially slaves.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Oh, slaves are a currency. Yep, that sucks. And it does suck. And there are three major things. there are the cabals, the cults, and the covens, all with a C. Or, well, Cabal's a K, but... I was going to say, I know Cabal's K, so you're wrong. I am wrong.
Starting point is 00:12:02 Actually, pretty... I'm so sorry, they all have a K in the beginning, whatever. The cabals are a autonomous military group, and they kind of exist in three separate worlds. They're kind of like a household of nobles, like a knight house. and then they're also a pirate group and simultaneously a criminal like cartel. They're all three kind of combined into one. It's one of those things I was actually curious about
Starting point is 00:12:31 when I was doing the research. Like, how do I distinguish Drucari from Nightlords? Because they have a very similar vibe, you know, murder and torture. And the difference really is that the Dracari do it, one for necessity, because they need slaves and they deal in slaves. but they also do it as like an art form. Like they're pirates, but they're also like they trade, they have noble houses of like family and importance.
Starting point is 00:13:01 And the idea of murder and slave-taking and raiding is just as much of a artistic vibe as it is a necessity. Nightlords are scum. Yeah. They are gangers and prisoners and, and they murder for the fun of it. Which, don't get me wrong, Dukari do too,
Starting point is 00:13:22 but it's a different kind of vibe. So it's kind of like if a criminal syndicate ran a town or a city, that's kind of what the cabal are. Because, you know, criminal syndicate has your sort of hierarchy that has like this sort of, I don't want to say noble feel to it, but they've got like, you know, echelons.
Starting point is 00:13:41 Oh, no, they have a noble feel to it. The cabal definitely have a noble feel to it. They dress, up, they have rank and status. They're also your military organization. They're your main source of military. Okay. So, for example, like a lot of the, they're the main highest upper tier of the
Starting point is 00:14:01 Kamara power structure and they're the primary military strength. They are the main responsibility for the flow of slaves. And most Drukhari want to join a cabal. For the same reason that if you're in a prison, you want to join a gang as a safety in numbers kind of concept. Oh, okay. Now, getting into these cabals is very, very, very, like, painful and difficult and requires a lot of testing and all that. But even so, it's better, because if you're alone, you're dead meat in Kamara.
Starting point is 00:14:30 Oh, really? So even if you're a dark, uh, Eldar or a Dracari and you're not in a cabal, chances are somebody's going to find you and shank you and just kill the shit out of you and torture you or turn you into a slave? Oh, yeah. You might get turned into a slave. They like, they like Eldar's slaves as much as they like human slaves. There's just more humans. Oh, so they're actually like Dracari slaves. Like, they don't, like, the Dracari don't really care if they have a Drucari slave.
Starting point is 00:14:55 Like, they'll absolutely enslave their own people. Drucari believe in slave equality. Oh. Dracari believe in equal rights and also equal shackles. Oh, boy. Vote Chukari now. Yeah. Vote Dracari or else.
Starting point is 00:15:14 Vote Jukari or, or, or, you know, wind up in the skinning pits. Yeah. I mean, I guess, well, when you said that they were, it's literally like if only the jail was left, yeah. I mean, that's, that's that jail mentality of like you got to join a gang or you're dead. Equal opportunity murder. But for example, like, shy posted a picture. That is a cabalite warrior, cabalite.
Starting point is 00:15:40 Now, as you can see on him, he's got all the spikes and stuff, but you can see the icon of his cabal. both on his like loincloth thing and on his helmet. Oh yeah. So that's got, they have their very like, they have their ornate things. He's got like a skull attached to him, I think. I can see on his left side. Oh, yeah, it looks like an orc skull, actually. I think someone, I think there's an or an orc being shanked in the background.
Starting point is 00:16:02 And there's also an orconeathes. Oh, shit, you're right. I see the, uh, the checkerboard. No, you're right, yeah. Um, so the first cabal we'll be talking about is the cabal of the black heart. And I'm not sure if you remember this well, but you remember a certain gentleman known as Azdrabay. vect?
Starting point is 00:16:19 Um, vaguely. He was the guy who kind of took over the city. He was like the head-hawn cell. And he's a big bad douchebag? He's a big bad douchebag. Quote, quote, quote, I am the master. I am the one who controls this place and much of the city around it. I am the one to whom all bow.
Starting point is 00:16:41 I am the vanquisher of worlds, the destroyer of dreams, the creator of nightmares. I am the pirate king, the renegade prince, I am all these things and more, for I am Asdrabele Vect, and all the warriors of the black heart are mine to command. Whoa. So he is the... Whole boy knows how to make an intro. This is him introducing himself to his prisoners. Whoa, what?
Starting point is 00:17:09 This is him introducing himself to his slaves. He's like, you're going to know who I am. You're going to know. You're going to learn. And people think I'm an edge lord. And this guy exists. Whoa. Dude, his most popular quote is,
Starting point is 00:17:22 we are the Lords of Despair, masters of terror, dread and agony are our meat and wine, and they are plentiful indeed. He's such an asshole. He shops at Hot Topic, 100%. He doesn't shop at Hot Topic. He owns Hot Topic.
Starting point is 00:17:39 He's CEO of the hottest topics. He looks very cool, though. That picture shows. shy posted of him is dope. Is that a, oh, that is a skeleton on his throne. Okay. Shai, do you have the image of him with his, like, Princess Leia looking slaves?
Starting point is 00:17:56 Oh, my God, of course he does. Of course he. That's a very cool, I'm assuming that's the Blackheart logo. Yeah, hence the heart is black, you know, black heart. The Black Heart. Cabal, the Black Heart is actually not a particularly exciting Cabal. It's mainly just like the Big Bad.
Starting point is 00:18:15 Oh, yeah. I guess you can see him here. This is the old mini, I think. He's got like his slaves on this pimp chair. That is some return of the Jedi shit right there. I kind of hate that mini so much. Is it because the Princess Leia's? There it is.
Starting point is 00:18:33 There's the picture. Oh my God. Oh my God. What an absolute pimp lord. That's such an old picture, too. You can just tell by the art style that was done in like this. fucking, I don't know, the 90s, 80s, early, in late 80s? It's very old.
Starting point is 00:18:51 It's really dumb, too, but it's, it makes me laugh. But the Black Heart, they're your very basic cabal. And there is a lot to them, but the main idea is that they're the largest cabal. They're the biggest, they run the most stuff, they have the most trade. And Vect is such a bad man that they, no one will really touch him. And everyone's too scared to touch him. In fact, there are multiple, so the archon is the leader of a cabal. But there are multiple archons in this cabal.
Starting point is 00:19:22 The thing is that a lot of these archons work together because they all flow into Vect and the cabal, the black heart. They hate each other, but none of them will ever murder each other because if they do, Vect might get angry. When you think of the nids, you think of the Swarm Lord, when you think of the Orcs, you think of Gascol, when you think of the Drukari, you think of Vect. Gotcha, okay.
Starting point is 00:19:42 Now the next cabal I want to talk about. is the cabal of the poisoned tongue. There's actually a lot of cabals and colts, but I'm mainly going to be rolling off the ones that you can play in game, because I feel like I really like this episode. I really enjoyed this topic, and I feel like we might get some Dukari fans out of it.
Starting point is 00:20:00 So I might as well pick the ones that they can do. The poison tongue, now this is a dual effect on a concept. They are poison tongue because, one, they're very good with poison weapons. Now, the Jukari use poisoned weapons as a major source of their actual weaponry. In game, it's actually interesting because no matter what you're shooting at, you'll always wound them on a certain number because you're poisoning them.
Starting point is 00:20:30 So, you know, you might have a really bad strength, but because you're poisoning, you're able to do, like, wound a big target on a certain number. Oh, that sounds very helpful. That sounds like it would make the, uh, the poison tongue a popular choice among the Dracari. It is. Kamala, the black heart is probably the most ran. But the poison tongue is pretty good.
Starting point is 00:20:53 And the affinity for poison weapons is a big part of it. However, the other part of the poison tongue is an actual state on their speaking. They are, they are insidious. They, they, if, you know, if a jerkari tells you something, you should assume it's a lie. Of course. If a poison tongue person tells you something, you don't know what the fuck it is. It could be the truth,
Starting point is 00:21:19 but they could be saying the truth to fuck with you. Like, you have no idea. They are the most sharp-witted in terms of their, like they have spies everywhere. There is a poison-tong agent in every bar, in every arena. There is someone everywhere. And they are by far the most insidious and whisperers of rumors and subterfuge and all.
Starting point is 00:21:43 that kind of stuff. And they are actually ran by a Archom, a female Archon, someone known as Lady Arelia Malice. Malice as an M-A-L-Y-S. Of course, because you couldn't spell it like malice. Because you couldn't spell it like malice. Yeah, you can't do that. That's two on the nose spelling it like that. You got to add the Y to make sure, you know, hey, we, you know, it's not, See, we switched it up. She's known as the intellectual she devil, which is a strange thing. But they get a,
Starting point is 00:22:16 the poison tongue enjoys like a very high position in the Comorog society, or Comorite society, I guess is the term. They have a ton of Trueborn. If you remember, there's like true birthed Drucari and like the rebirthed ones. If you are trueborn, you're like much higher. You're like a cut above, like a purebred.
Starting point is 00:22:35 And so you're a lot more fancy and important. is also assumed that the only person, that her ex-lover was Vect himself. Oh, that's awkward. It's a little awkward, but the weird thing about her is that very often when she's in her quarters alone, people, like, they'll hear a second voice,
Starting point is 00:22:59 but she's always in there alone, but she converses with a second person at all, like, very often, which is assume that she is kind of dealing with the the supernatural a little bit Oh, she's a ghost whisper A little bit People don't really know what the hell is up with her
Starting point is 00:23:21 She enters her room alone And then she talks to a mysterious patron And they can register only one sign of life They can tell only one person is in that room but she is talking with somebody else and there is someone talking to her. And we don't know why or how or where. So it's not possible that she's like convening with like chaos or anything
Starting point is 00:23:48 because they'd be able to see that or figure that out. She's just talking with the spirits? We have no idea because psychic power while sometimes dabbled with is a big no-no with the Jukari because it invites Slanesh to get them. Oh, that's fair. Yeah, they probably would hate psychers and psychic stuff because, yeah, that, that would. Also, that logo is so, that'd make a great tattoo.
Starting point is 00:24:13 The poison tongue. Yeah, the snake with a little drip, that'd make a killer tattoo. If you were like a big, like, you know, you're really into 40K, you're really into, like, rolling the poison tongue is your faction on the tabletop. That'd be a sick tattoo to put on, like, your shoulder or something. I would highly recommend we do not get a. tattoo of the Drukari. That's fair. Or if you got like two of them facing each other,
Starting point is 00:24:42 like on your collarbone. So like that, oh, that'd be, that'd be dope. Shai posted that big thing and I just can't get over M-A-L-Y-S for malice. Like, just spell it. Just spell it the fucking way you want to spell it. M-A-L-C-E. Just spell it like malice. We all get it.
Starting point is 00:25:00 You're not as clever as you think you are, 40K. Jesus. Were you, did you, were you just, getting ready for our Jesus up there. Jesus! There it is. Popping the bingo cards. Yep, yeah, got to help the people out.
Starting point is 00:25:14 Next up is actually my favorite of all of the cabals. This is the cabal of the obsidian rose. Now, the obsidian rose is actually the, they control the largest amount of weapons shops in the city of Comerog. And they have a iron grip on the entire arms, trade. Not only is their logo super dope. Oh, that is slick.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Also, another one that would be a great tattoo. That would actually be a better. And it's kind of minimalist too. Because it probably wouldn't hurt as much because the spider tongue or the poison tongue, depending on where you got it, would hurt like a bitch. That's true. But the Obsidian Rose, they have a total, like, death grip. Like, I'm talking responsibilities cool, D.K.
Starting point is 00:26:04 but there's more things in life like getting slaves all fucking night yeah yeah I gotta get that I get that death currancy I got I gotta be honest DK ever since I
Starting point is 00:26:18 ever since I lost my virginity I couldn't be a death grips fan anymore so you're still a death grips fan is what you're saying very good I'm proud of you my son You've done well. Thank you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:26:37 Taking a bow, you can't see it, but I'm taking a bow. You know, I've learned well from the meme masters here. So the Obsidian Rose, these are like the major weapon smiths of Kamarag. And anything with the Obsidian Rose logo on it, like that means quality. That means like this is the best equipment that you could buy with either money or slaves. They are immaculate. Weapon crafting is a skill. where perfection is not what they're strived for.
Starting point is 00:27:07 Perfection is the bare minimum. Sometimes if a Kabbalite warrior is in battle and dares of the obsidian rose dares to get their weapon hit by a blood splatter, they are then hung on the racks where the slaves are placed due to their insolence. Oh. On the way back home, they are chained back to the front of their of their stuff because how dare they sully a weapon of this magnitude? Oh, boy.
Starting point is 00:27:42 These are artisans. These are like sculptors of weaponry. Damn. So how many of their own have they killed for sullying one of these weapons? Because like in combat, it's going to happen. Right? Like, there's no choice. So, well, no.
Starting point is 00:28:00 No, Jukari. These are Eldar. They're as swift as the wind. They are blurs of motion and hyper-intelligent. I bet that if they are good enough, they could be dodging and keeping their weapons safe from blood in time. Well, I suppose that's true. The only time I can remember Eldar kind of getting body well that I've experienced so far. It was in the Nightlord's book at the very end when they're fighting off all the Eldar.
Starting point is 00:28:29 And even then, the Eldar were dipping and dodging and weaving and, um, They were not having an easy time killing the Draccar. Those were the craft worlds. Those were craft worlds too. So, oh boy. They were fighting howling, like howling banshees and stuff. And also they didn't get bodied. I mean, some of the guardians did, but those are guardians.
Starting point is 00:28:47 Their Archon is a total boss. Her name is Astra Chromas. And was she, so Archon Chromis, she originally refused to bend her knee at the prior Arkhamis. A guy named Archon Vloric. And so what happened is that she was taken and thrown into these slave shops of their weapon shops to suffer something called death by Enu. EnuI. Oh.
Starting point is 00:29:21 Man, I wish. Right? But, no, the idea is that they put her to work doing monotonous tasks, assembling weapons. day in and day out over and over again of just pure monotony doing the most boring task which to an Eldar
Starting point is 00:29:43 especially a hedonistic Dracari is worse than death like it becomes the idea of putting one's like putting a rod into a barrel rod into a barrel for 10 hours a day is worse than death in the sense of like it's
Starting point is 00:29:59 pure monotony and complete what's it called? Like, it's a waking nightmare for an Eldar. Yeah. But anyway, so eventually, she hatched a scheme. And as she kept on building these weapons, she started to kind of perfect her craft a little bit.
Starting point is 00:30:21 And what she would do is she would work tirelessly to make better and better perfect weapons until eventually she started rising in the ranks of, and being promoted. And soon eventually anything that had the seal of Chromus became this major like importance. It was like, oh, this is a sign of quality. This logo. And as they kept on going up and up and up, she was eventually invited by the Archon, who totally forgot she even existed, to provide a tribute of her work.
Starting point is 00:30:56 And when she arrived, they all pulled out these fancy-pancy hidden weapons. that they had stored and stashed, these master-crafted, like, hidden weaponry. And just at this time, all of the Archon's guards' weaponrys malfunctioned because she made the bastards. Oh, boy.
Starting point is 00:31:21 And so she had this long scheme where all of the major weapons of the Archon were hers. And so she, like, had them all break at the same time while she pulled out the hidden new weapons, killed the bastard, and then took over as the main archon. Good for her.
Starting point is 00:31:41 Good for her. That's a dope way to do it. And now, as the perfectionist archon with the hard arms trade, obsidian rose mark is a true full sign of quality, whether it's a firearm or a blame. And anyone who doesn't have any kind of imperfect workmanship gets dealt with by her own personal pain engine, which she calls the overseer.
Starting point is 00:32:07 Now, if you don't know what a Talos pain engine is, I was about to ask what that was, yeah. It's this fucker. Oh, whoa, what is that? I mean, obviously it's a pain engine, but holy shit. Oh, here's something even cooler. Bada Bing. That is known as a Talos.
Starting point is 00:32:29 It is a homunculus. I know it's the same name. It's a homunculus pain engine of contorted flesh toxins and machinery used as like a slave. Oh, did we vaguely talk about this in the Dracari episode? It seems familiar now. We did. This is her own personal one called the overseer. And if you didn't like Chromis enough, most of the time, whenever she oversees slave raids against
Starting point is 00:32:58 real space, she mainly goes for Eldar slaves because they have the dexterity and the intrigue to put her weapons to good use. Ah, so she's looking for a worthy opponent to use her very finely crafted weapons for.
Starting point is 00:33:16 She doesn't want to just kill any little maggot or any little bug. She wants her weapons to be used for a greater purpose. So what's this? Ricky's favorite cabal has an has an archon whose main purpose is slaving other Eldar. On brand.
Starting point is 00:33:35 On brand. What's that you say? Your favorite cabal also has an overseer named Talos after your favorite Nightlord trilogy. Hmm. No, no. It's all adding up. The paint engine is called the overseer.
Starting point is 00:33:50 It's just the Jukari pain engines. They can be called chronos or talos. Oh, you're backpedaling. Whatever. Fuck you. It all adds up. It's all there. You don't know nothing.
Starting point is 00:34:03 The numbers, Mason. What do they mean? The numbers, Mason. Why can't you remember? Let's talk about the cults, the witch cults. Oh, boy. Now, the witch cults are fun. They are the, they're also known as the Hecatari.
Starting point is 00:34:18 In fact, in the tabletop, you can actually run the troops for each obsession, Cabals, Colts, and Covens. And you can actually have an upgraded version. So you can run Cabal Trueborn or you can run something called the Hecatari Blood Brides. Oh, what a cool name. They're super dope. So the witch cults are second at command underneath the cabals. And the cabals normally sponsor them. And they serve as the main entertainment slash nourishment of Kamara.
Starting point is 00:34:56 Oh. When you say nourishment, what exactly do you mean? They're not like... No, so the witch cults are gladiators. They are sports. They create shows and performances. And the idea is that... The concept is that the hedonistic, sadistic nature of the Dukari,
Starting point is 00:35:22 while killing in the streets is a thing that happens. Too much killing in the streets for that lust of pain and murder would cause total collapse of society. Sure. So the idea is that these witch cults put on a show. They are dancers and performers. They are gladiators, but they do it as an art form. And by doing so, they create like a coliseum. and they invite the the cabals and the Dukari populace to go watch
Starting point is 00:35:58 and by them watching and seeing this agony and pain and murder they leave like like with a full belly almost they leave like with a glow like newly refreshed okay so they get their fill of bloodlust and hedonism and all that terrible stuff but they also don't completely collapse the you know their infrastructure. So instead of cheering for a sports team,
Starting point is 00:36:28 they cheer for a blood bride? For a witch cult. Yeah, or the witches, which are led by a succubis, which is the head, like an archon for a cabal, a succubis for a witch cult. There's a little bit of like a, like kind of a female
Starting point is 00:36:45 gossip girl kind of thing going to it where, you know, like you might say, see in a TV show where they have like the back room where all the exotic dancers go to put on their makeup and they kind of are a little conniving with each other. They have like that kind of stereotype. Right, right, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:04 There's a little bit of that here because as Shai has shown you already, the witches don't wear much. Yeah, sure, yeah, it looks like the bare minimum. But hey, man, their arms and legs are well protected. Well, the idea is that the, because obviously the Dukari are very into.
Starting point is 00:37:22 sex. That's like part of it. Everyone, a lot of people think that's the only thing. It's obviously not. But it's part of it. So the witches dress like they're going to meet a lover. And they utilize things like different kinds of blades. They'll put like barb coils in their hair. Or they'll have poisoned blades or sometimes just their fists. They'll use spears and whips and razor nets. They have flails and like knives in their in their boots.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Or sometimes they'll just dress very lightly and just use their hands. And that's its own technique. And so each cult, each witch cult, has their own dedicated Coliseum and arena. Oh, well, good for them. And each arena is like decorated and shows off their own level of prestige and value. you. That's cool. So it's literally like a sports stadium.
Starting point is 00:38:28 It is literally a sports stadium, but they have their own way of decorating it and creating their own concept. So whenever witch cults are hired as to help with a raid, they really are there to help increase the stock of slaves, but also to impress their succubis and to test their dancing and murder skills to, therefore, improve it in the Coliseum to help the witch cult make more money. Damn.
Starting point is 00:38:59 It's really cool, man. It's super awesome. That's it. Yeah, they're dope. Shai, do you have that image of that witch cult lady who's like holding a guy's head with her feet? Oh.
Starting point is 00:39:14 She's like a contortionist. I know of all things for me to say. But it's a really, in the concept of like them being a, oh, I found it. Oh. It's not holding it with... Deli Fendire would be so proud of you
Starting point is 00:39:27 for finding a picture. There it is. It's not holding it with its feet. It's actually like, there we go. Whoa. That's actually ironically, a very, I'd say accurate
Starting point is 00:39:38 representation of a witchcult because they're their contortionists, they're dancers. That is such a wild picture. Like, because her leg is completely backwards. Mm-hmm. That's wild.
Starting point is 00:39:56 Also, someone needs to Photoshop a picture of Doge Van Dyer just smiling happily where that guy's head is, because you know. Nothing to see here, Imperial, move along. Yeah, I assure you, this is necessary for the greater good. But so each witch cult, obviously, getting, oh, I have a quote. Hey. I've never seen anything move like. that. Sergeant Hakemi is the fastest knife in the regiment. I've seen her hack open an
Starting point is 00:40:25 orc before it could blink, let alone raise a weapon. But even she said she couldn't track that thing when it hit those Mortians down there, just flashes and blood, then screaming. I've never seen her surprise before. Normally I'd stand toe to toe with my enemy and let my knife do the talking. But right now, maybe I'm not so unhappy to be stuck up on this wall doing Century Duty. a long knives, 22nd company. Damn. So even the best
Starting point is 00:40:56 human guard knife fighter could not possibly compare with an Eldar. I mean, generally yes. You could always argue for a super hardcore
Starting point is 00:41:10 catachin, 400 or 40 years of the service, you know, iron hand straking, you know, with this big iron claw. But when it comes to speed, no way. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:22 Now, Strachan might be like, Stryker might be like, I bet this bitch is gonna be over here. Well, boom! And then just fucking Decker in the face because he got lucky. And then just cave her skull in. But naturally,
Starting point is 00:41:34 she's gonna just be like a blur. You might not even see. She's probably worse than a blur because at least a blur you can kind of see. Sounds like the Eldar just like, you're not even gonna, you're not even gonna see the blur. Yeah, it's hard.
Starting point is 00:41:47 So these are like, these are kind of this idea of a bunch of like, well, it's like, I think it's female and male, but I think it's mostly female performers that are there to impress their succubes, and that kind of shit on each other every so often. But they want to, they are a performance art. They take slaves or stock and they fight them in the gladiatorial arena, and the looks of agony and pain and suffering feed the camaraderopopopulous, and the more enjoyable the sport, the more they pay,
Starting point is 00:42:22 and the more this cult grows in strength. Okay. So it's pretty important to Comerog that these arenas do well. Yes, it is an increase in wealth. It is entertainment. For example, the first cult we'll talk about is called the cult of strife.
Starting point is 00:42:43 This is the, like the cabal, the black heart, it's the most influential cult in the city, mainly due to the talents of a famous succubus known as Lelith Hesperax. Now, Lilith Hesperax actually just recently got a new model in a new kit. She was actually in a Sisters and Droucari combo box. But one thing I didn't mention is that the witch cults actually use combat drugs very often. Of course they do.
Starting point is 00:43:16 They use a ton of performance enhancing drugs, things to increase their speed and strength and all that kind of stuff. So it's, you know, it's like, it's literally like American sports. Yeah. A little bit. I'd say the drugs are a lot more painful and strong, but you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, Leelith has been known to change the idea of a blood sport to a fine art. she's gone from strength to sheer speed
Starting point is 00:43:47 and in the same time she doesn't use any combat drugs and so because of that seeing her fight brings in hundreds of thousands of spectators that all pay premium high price for this thing and makes her very rich and they work a lot with the cabal of the black heart and Lilith is admired by Vect himself who is like, I can't wait to see her fight.
Starting point is 00:44:17 Let's go, boys, let's go lads. He's got his big old booth and he's chilling, looking down and he's like, Vect, as much of a douchebag as he is, he takes in the sports. He enjoys his time. He's like, it's like when you got that special booth in a football game that Drake is chilling at, right?
Starting point is 00:44:37 Yeah, yeah, he's got the VIP suite or like when the president shows up to a football game or something, right? Exactly And so Vect him So their arena is known as the crucible And it is a A big
Starting point is 00:44:52 Crucible Crucible I know Spell it the way you want Man It's the crucible Also yeah In that picture She has posted
Starting point is 00:45:01 Lilith is the one currently putting hands on With that sister Which as you can see She's quite large Yeah she actually is She's like tall and slender She doesn't seem like
Starting point is 00:45:12 super well I guess she is she does she's got some her arm look at her arm bro yeah she's got some guns actually I mean damn also okay as much as I like my sisters knowing Lilith that sister holding her hand is so fucking dead
Starting point is 00:45:28 she is she is gonna be meat and like it is not even a challenge but it's funny there actually is a strategy and they have I think called the crucible of malediction is a very Drukari name But in the cult of strife, like, Vect himself says that Leleth Hesprachs is one of the greatest treasures of the dark city.
Starting point is 00:45:51 Which is a pretty good statement. Yeah, yeah, I'd be honest, I'd be surprised if they didn't fuck. I mean, if you're Lelith, you're probably not going to turn down Vect. I think she'd be like, yeah, bro, all right, give us some money, though. Now, the next one we're going to talk about is a fun one. This is of the cults. This is my person, the one I like the most. This is known as the cult of the cursed blade.
Starting point is 00:46:17 Now, in... Oh, edgy name. I like it. Now, in Kamaraa, a cursed blade is not actually referring to a cursed blade. It is a slang. The cursed blade is an individual or a group that will rebel against their masters. Now, it is assumed that any archon that invites the witches from the cult of the curse blade into his group
Starting point is 00:46:46 is basically akin to suicide. Oh, okay. It's like those idiots who go out and they're like, I'm going to make friends with bears. Okay, because you're going to get mauled. You're going to get mauled. You're going to get mauled.
Starting point is 00:47:05 If you invite the cursed blade witches into your group, you are going to get stabbed in the back. Treachery in its own right is a form of prestige in the cursed blade cult. Everything. The ornaments on their body, the harmless jewelry, all hold weapons.
Starting point is 00:47:26 Oh. Okay. If you have a bracelet, it might have poison in it. If you have a ring, it might have poison in it. If you have a braid, it might be bombs.
Starting point is 00:47:39 Really? They have bombs in their braids? They have, they have bombs. They have shoe bombs that they're bringing on. They've got the things they put in their hair. Their makeup might induce hallucinations. Who fucking knows.
Starting point is 00:47:55 They might be like poison ivy and they blow the little compact and it's just poison? Probably. Treachery is their most important idea. And so whenever everything on them is a death trap. Everything around them is a death trap. Having them around is in its own right Not a good idea Yeah, that that does not
Starting point is 00:48:18 Sound like a great So like Oh here it is Real quick This is a Kurtz of the Coles blade Succibus only It's called Traders Embrace It's a pair of metal rods
Starting point is 00:48:30 They're sewn into the skin At the moment of death These rods cause there's bearers bones To explode outwards Rapidly growing into a jagged cage Oh Oh, Jesus. Holy shit.
Starting point is 00:48:46 Oh, so when their succubus dies on a two-up, they take a D-6 mortal wounds after making their attacks. Oh. Yeah, it's... Oh, boy, that's a, that's a lot. In, actually, in the actual game, the cult of the cursed blade is the one I want to run the most because I think it's really, really dope. Yeah. But the cult of the cursed blade is actually, their main shtick is that, well, they get extra strength,
Starting point is 00:49:17 but the main thing is that if you make a saving throw, like I'm going to save, and it's from an attack, on like a six, it actually just damage back to them. Oh, that's, that's pretty nice. So, um, are they just like the assassin cold? Like, is that like, uh, yeah, I'm going to contact you because I really need someone dead, but, uh, you're not, you're not joining my group.
Starting point is 00:49:41 I'm just paying you to go fuck up somebody else. Is that like kind of what their schick is? Probably keep them in an arm's distance. Probably more than an arm's distance. Probably keep them in the other city. Yeah, 10 foot pole. Yes. It is pretty nuts.
Starting point is 00:49:58 They're really cool though. Also, they're basically like assassins that you hire when you really need somebody killed? Is that like kind of their stick? Oh, no. They're gladiators. They're a witchcule. In fact, they have a arena.
Starting point is 00:50:11 and it's called the Nexus Arena. It's both an N-H for some reason. And it's actually one of the most ornate. It is one of the prettiest, the most gorgeous, the most gildedom. The difference, though, is that is a living death trap.
Starting point is 00:50:26 I was about to say, if you go and visit this place, are you, like, in mortal danger because everything is booby-trapped? Oh, actually, yes. The Coliseeam will often shift and adjust and if you're sitting in the stands, you might be sitting on like a spike pit.
Starting point is 00:50:41 Oh, God. Why? So do a lot of people go, like, you said theirs was the most ornate. Oh, is it because of like all of the potential added chaos and like, um, potential extra death that you weren't expecting that it's like so much more exhilarating? Think of it, think of it from a Drukari point of view. The, the being so close to death. Being sitting in the audience of the cult of the cursed blade at any point in time, you might be
Starting point is 00:51:11 slaughtered by the actual stage itself. So for them, that's... That's... That's the premiere. That's like, you pay extra for that. That's like the pay per view. You can't... The real world danger is something
Starting point is 00:51:26 that the Jukari, they can't help but love it. That's like the WrestleMania for them, right? That's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the premier of the premiere. It says, uh, since the opening of the great rift, the cult has launched, launched many raids into Imperium Nihilis, both individually and alongside the Cabal the Black Heart. They have not only preyed upon Imperial Worlds, but also defended them from chaos forces to raise their spirits in order to make their final demise all the sweeter.
Starting point is 00:51:56 Wow. They are, they're fuckers. They are treacherous little bastards. They are. They are. Can you imagine the gossip? Oh. No.
Starting point is 00:52:10 I cannot Let's talk about the last cult The cult of the red grief So Now what is the best defense DK? Think about defense The best defense is a good offense Wrong, think again
Starting point is 00:52:29 The best defense is to literally not even be there The best defense is to not be in the fight Good call, that's fair That is, yeah sure Now imagine a flotilla A flotilla of Drukari raid ships Giant like Jabba the Hut Raider skiffs
Starting point is 00:52:51 Venom skimmercraft Imagine them moving at top speed And them never getting off But instead Fighting you and jumping between these skiffs like Mad Max style Oh Moving at top speed
Starting point is 00:53:10 that that sounds hardcore that sounds dope um damn so wait they're just jumping between skiffs the idea is that they never like they are constantly moving at high speeds and then hopping between transports and murdering like like literally the floor is lava if you touch the ground that is either because you are going for a hard fancy fancy kill or you're being left behind oh okay oh that's
Starting point is 00:53:40 a cool looking skiff that Shai just posted. Look at that thing. We had the name of that, but that thing is really cool, yeah. That's so edgy too. Like, good God. Bunch of edge love the aesthetic. So they are just a constant
Starting point is 00:53:54 moving flotilla. And they are jumping between and stabbing in the midair and all that stuff. Their Coliseum is literally just called the pit. The pit. There is no floor.
Starting point is 00:54:10 It is a towering spire of transparent crystals, anti-graft platforms, skimmers. So all the witches have, there's no floor, and they are just jumping and perilueting and doing acrobatics across this entire spire of light and glass and crystal. Whoa, that sounds like a show. Do you remember a part in like Enders game where they have like that anti-grave Like It's been a while since I've seen it's been a bit
Starting point is 00:54:48 Yeah it's been a while since I read the book It's been a while since I seen the movie I vaguely Imagine that but Droucari Okay It sounds super cool Like if out of all of these Again I'm not a Drucari
Starting point is 00:55:03 I'm just a dorky human that sits in his little You know internet case this is the one I'd want to go watch like that's the one that's like just everybody's bouncing all over the place on these crystal whatever's and that sounds like a hell of a show I think it's gonna be super
Starting point is 00:55:21 it's super different and super and really fun there's a lot of cool stuff to the rain even if there's no killing that would be cool that's like a fucking Cirque de Soleil show there's actually a there's an ability they have where they can they jump out of their transport
Starting point is 00:55:37 and then they murder something and then you can use a strategy to put them right back in their transport so it's that entire concept where they fly in, murder, and fly back. It's pretty cool. It's pretty dope. I like them.
Starting point is 00:55:51 They're cool. So those are the witch cults. Now let's talk about the homunculi covens. Oh boy, hemunculi. That's never good. The covens are strictly involved at being master torturers. This is the deep, dark bowels of the Drukari.
Starting point is 00:56:14 These are the most awful. The homunculus is sometimes homunculi are so old. No one really knows how you become one because they've actually sucked away the life force of so many Drucari to keep them alive for so long. But sometimes they're so old where even that won't work anymore.
Starting point is 00:56:38 So they don't have the beautiful appearance of Jukari anymore. They are in fact, like old and gross. How old are we talking here? 10,000s. Wow. Like maybe, like, oh, maybe some of even 10,000. Thousands upon thousands. So these could be like original Eldar.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Possibly. They're incredibly old. Wow. And they believe that pain and torment is in its own right and art form. I'm sure they do. Whoa. The pictures of them are really cool, though. All their little spinny bits and poisons and needles.
Starting point is 00:57:20 Yeah, all these different arms that have like tools on them and syringes and they've got like those kind of long, flowy capes. Oh, they're, they're hideously amazing. They're very dope. They're really cool and really bad boys. It sounds like they're very bad boys, yeah. The whole concept of them is body modifications, a lot of flesh sculpting. These are the people who turn you into a couch.
Starting point is 00:57:50 If you want to be living, breathing furniture, they will do that to you. They specialize in the concept that a canoe canvas of flesh. It is a canvas. It is an art form. If you go down to the, how monkey like covens. That's like going down
Starting point is 00:58:06 into the voodoo idea of like a pirate cave where they can do things for you but it's kind of sketchy and out of price. They can give you barbed quills on your shoulders.
Starting point is 00:58:18 They can give you scales. Poison spit. They can give you a fourth eye, a third eye. They can give you an extra arm. Like, pay the price and they will give you
Starting point is 00:58:32 whatever you want. Now, It's going to hurt. Oh, yeah. Of course. But they can modify your body if you want to become different. So the homunculi in like Dr. Khari society are probably pretty popular. And they're probably pretty like, because everybody probably wants a new modification that's going to make them more apt at killing and or torturing or whatever. So they're probably pretty popular for Drukari. Like if you're a P-O-W, I'm sure the last thing. you want to see as a homunculi, but if you're just like a trooper or a general, you probably
Starting point is 00:59:11 want to go visit them. Like it might cost a lot and it might hurt, but in the long run, they're going to make you a savage. That is absolutely the point. They are often very rich. I bet. They're very wealthy for all that they can do. In fact, they get so strange that they've been around for some. so long that their obsessions are starting to get really bizarre.
Starting point is 00:59:38 Like some of them will only eat the left hands of victims. And one of them, and I kid you not, this is literally verbatim in the wiki, will only enjoy dining on the tears of children. Oh, that's awful. They will literally drink the tears of children because they find it sweeter. They get very weird. Oh, that's bad. Oh, that's bad.
Starting point is 01:00:05 That's, I don't, that makes me feel uncomfortable. Oh, I was going to ask, do the cursed blade frequent the homunculine maybe more than the other witch cults? Because they seem like they have a lot of hidden gadgets and hidden doodads and poisonous this and poisonous that stuff. So, like, did they visit the homunculi more than the other populace of Chakari? I don't really know I mean I would So that's a A theory that is generally
Starting point is 01:00:38 Is possible but I'm not quite sure myself It's just because it sounded like the curse blade Had a lot of hidden Uh weapons and you know A lot of different poisons and a lot of different places So I kind of thought that maybe they had like a special arrangement with the homunculey or something Possibly I mean normally every cult and cabal has an arrangement with a homunculi
Starting point is 01:00:58 That's like their scientist kind of guy Oh But it all depends So the first coming we want to talk about is the prophets of flesh. This is ran by a man known as Urien Rackhartth. Talked about Uri in a little bit before. He might be one of the most sadistic fuchs in all of 40K. That's a tall order.
Starting point is 01:01:20 I think he might be number one. I think he might be the worst. He's really up there. Quote from himself, I have long taken an interest in humans and their crew dabbling in fleshcraft. The adeptus Astardis are powerful warriors, but their creators have always been too restricted in their vision.
Starting point is 01:01:39 This primark, Rabute Gilamim, accludes his mind to so many possibilities, and as such will never achieve the perfection he seeks. The perfection that I defy him through the practice of my craft. If he wishes to learn from the master, let him come to me. I will gladly make room for him in my grandest obliette. Hmm Well, sounds well Or
Starting point is 01:02:04 Pain is the only universal constant Pain is all It is the key to creation And destruction both Thus, does he who masters pain become a god
Starting point is 01:02:17 Urien Rackarth An excerpt from his address To his audience Prior to the Melendrock Massacre I was going to say if your goal is to master pain, then yeah, you're probably a pretty sadistic fucker in 40K.
Starting point is 01:02:36 If your goal's like, yeah, I need to become the master of pain. It's like, oh boy, you definitely don't want to end up on his table. He is a bad man. So the Provets of Flesh are mainly, now there's a group of people in the Covens known as Racks. Racks are like your basic troop.
Starting point is 01:02:55 These racks are branded, tattooed, or altered, depending on their homunculus's whim. Now, if a rack will impress their master, they may have a said marked appendage cut off and replaced with a bare brand new one from their flesh libraries. And that's kind of the concept is that the more powerful they are, the better they do, the fewer of their marked flesh is placed. Hence the term prophets of flesh.
Starting point is 01:03:19 That is a rack that Shai just posted. Whoa! Holy shit! Those things are crazy! Racks are really nuts. Yup! I don't know the best way to describe them. Just look at the picture if you're watching.
Starting point is 01:03:40 Yeah, those are hard to describe. I don't know how to... They're definitely like their basic troops, but they're really tanky. That's the idea for their look. I don't really know exactly how to describe them. But yeah, that's... Racks.
Starting point is 01:03:54 They are edgy boys for sure. That's... Oh, my God. But definitely more Frankenstein-y-looking, motherfuckers. Oh, definitely. You can see so many like stitches all over their body and it's just whoa. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:04:08 they're individuals that are dissected and refashioned into instruments of torture. They are bodyguards or even assistance and they have all those weaponry. Like they look like a mini homunculus, you know? That is the, if I was going into a battle that is the last thing I'd want to see on
Starting point is 01:04:24 the opposite end of me. It's like, yeah, just go, go fight it. It's like, nope. Fuck this shit, I'm I disagree. Wholeheartedly. I am outy. They're pretty cool looking though. The other coven is the dark creed.
Starting point is 01:04:43 Now these are probably the closest to night lords I can think of. They're terror specialists. However, they prefer the, they really like a different kind of higher level terror. They love to watch their victims like freak the fuck out and will drive captives to madness or suicide just to show their superiority over them. Oof.
Starting point is 01:05:07 So they're the jump scare coven. They believe that the finest victory, the victory that tastes the sweetest is because murder is boring to them. Oh. They believe that the finest victory is when
Starting point is 01:05:22 the opponent's heart stops and they die immediately in pure fear. That is the finest victory. Jeez. That is very night lordsy. It is. Great to the night lords like their...
Starting point is 01:05:36 I was going to say the nightlords want to keep them alive for as long as possible, so the suffering really endures. Not quite. The nightlies just want to cause the most fear, and they just want to enjoy the murder. That's true. I guess Talos was doing that because he wanted to make the super scream. Yeah, that was his own schick.
Starting point is 01:05:54 Yeah, yeah. But the Dark Creed likes to perform their kills from a distance, so they can see the death throws of their enemies from a distance and everyone can see it. They also carry a ton of those pain engines that I told you earlier and they cover them in like trophies and people. That's their main thing. But one of my more fun ones I want to talk about. The last one is the Coven. I know.
Starting point is 01:06:19 Is the Coven of the 12. Now, the Coven of them? There are actually only 11. but there are 12 seats. The 12 seat is in case Yuri and Rackhart himself would ever want to join from an invitation. Oh, okay. But this coven considers themselves the most important practitioner of the dark arts. And whenever a council member is to be replaced,
Starting point is 01:06:48 is it only if they've been removed so incredibly that there is no way they can be revived. For example, one of the homunclei was actually pushed and contorted into a mirror dimension the size of a coffin that is too small for his body and left there. Oh, no, that's, oh, that's, that's, that's, that's pretty awful. Uh, so he could never get back so that someone replaced him. One was posed a curse and an impossible riddle. and with each wrong answer more of his body turned a stone
Starting point is 01:07:25 until he was nothing but a statue Oh Jesus How did that happen? I don't know who gives a shit, it's cool Oh, just some bullshit, okay One of them was tricked into In the banquet Trinked into drinking a tyrannid bioassum
Starting point is 01:07:42 And was turned into a living Sentient Liquid Soup Oh And was then replaced from there. That's the worst one. Living sentient liquid soup because he drank at biomass acid? That's a thing. He drank tyranid acid. And that, and so he, he, he, he, he, he, he technically survived that now he's just sentient soup. Yep. Oh. He can't come back. I think I, I'd, I think I'd rather be a sofa. Jesus Christ. Oh, man. Slurp, slurp. Slurp.
Starting point is 01:08:22 I'm, oh no, nope. I don't, I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. For, in the Covenant of the 12, a lot of their racks are actually flayed of all their skin so that their raw nerves can experience the sensation of the world more. Oh, boy. By having their raw nervous system exposed to the world. They can experience the, the wonders of the world more.
Starting point is 01:08:48 Oh, God, hell, that's so fun. Holy shit. All right. Cool. You want to see my favorite piece of artwork for the Dukari Covens? Yes, I do, I guess. Here's a rack. Look at this, dude. Look at that.
Starting point is 01:09:05 Let's see. Those poor guardsmen. Whoa. Wait, those are the 12 racks? Those are just racks. No, these are coming up to 12 because they still have their skin. I was going to say, man, skin grew back. but yeah, they're
Starting point is 01:09:21 Yeah, they're pretty nuts I think I remember seeing a mini of these racks and thinking they looked super dope and I might want to paint them Except I think the mini had a lot more like tubes and shit going in their back and they were painted up like all green and it was very cool looking minis
Starting point is 01:09:41 That sounds almost like a paint engine Maybe it was a paint engine I don't know Shai said this red one is from the Coven of because he's red because he's skinned. Because he has no skin. No skin. Like this is like a talus for example.
Starting point is 01:09:58 Those are the ones. Those are the ones that I saw Shai that I thought looked really cool. And I was like, oh, maybe I want to get into the Jukari because look at how cool those minis are. Oh, those racks. Racks right now on the tabletop are really good. Are they? Yeah, they decided to nirf the Jukari
Starting point is 01:10:13 because cabals and witches were way too good. But by doing so, they decided to buff the covens to make up for it. but the covens were already kind of good, and now the covens are fucking annihilating people. They are crushing people. So people are just running like all coven Dracari tabletop armies? There is a thing where they are running like nine of the Kronos paint engines. And they are just, they are just crushing people.
Starting point is 01:10:42 It is, they're just slaughtering people. How soon till the covens and all that gets nerfed too? Dude, Dukari have been like top level since they've come out. I feel bad for the Drukari fans because they have been so good for so long, people are sick of them, including myself.
Starting point is 01:11:02 Didn't you get bodied by a Drucari at like a tournament or something? Like you started 3 and O and then, uh-oh, Jukari. Oh, no, actually that was the orcs, but I did get bodied by Jukari before. I have been bodied by Jukari. It sounds like it's a pretty common thing with how strong they are to get bodied by Jukari. Like it's a right of,
Starting point is 01:11:18 passage if you're playing 40K is at some point at some point you got to get bodied by the jukari um but yeah that's overall these are some of the covens cabals and cults that make up the jukari like i can i can imagine just a really really cool person who has their own little oc group they have their own witch cults they have their own gladiatorial arena that they can they have their own like uh uh custom oc please do not steal. Oh yeah. Idea for that.
Starting point is 01:11:51 I could see some really smart and interesting players making some cool stuff. This is definitely just ripe for making like your own like custom creations and your own custom covens and cults and witch cults. And yeah. And I mean, the ones that already exist are super cool. Repulsive and disgusting, certainly. But man. That, the aesthetic of these guys is dope. Oh, I do want to mention real quick, there is another group called the Incubi.
Starting point is 01:12:27 Oh, like male succubuses. Yes, they are actually blades for hire. They look fucking cool, too. I was going to say, Shai's just posted a picture one. That's fucking sick. That sword is the coolest thing I've ever seen. Yes, the Incubi are awesome. They are generally, they are known as Blades for.
Starting point is 01:12:48 higher. Often people run the cabal, the black heart because it's the only one that gives rules to them because they are under vect. But it's also run by this guy known as Drizhar. Oh, that's, I remember Drusar, he's got the Drizhar. You remember Zip?
Starting point is 01:13:03 Zip. For example, this is a clavex is the name of a leader of Incubide. Quote, the blade that I wield is an extension of myself as I am an extension of my blade. We both thirst for blood. We both seek only murder
Starting point is 01:13:22 and only in death do we find purpose in life. Oh, what? They are kind of, they are kind of I studied the blade. They are kind of while you were having premarital sex. I studied the blade.
Starting point is 01:13:38 I, I, I, the incubi are cool. They might be my favorites from this whole thing. They're so cool. Which is good because Dracari Incubi on the tabletop not only look amazing oh fuck they do look
Starting point is 01:13:56 amazing but they also fuck. Jazar is really really good I love that the sort of great sword that they use where they have to like hold it in the middle too those look so fucking cool
Starting point is 01:14:13 their swords are so cool Ooh, Trezard definitely got that Drazip. He's got some serious Drazip. He do, though. He do. Damn, they're so, yeah. Incubi are the big winners of this episode for me. For me, I was learning about the cults. I like the cults a lot.
Starting point is 01:14:36 The cults are very cool, yeah. Anywho, that appears to be it, my friend, any questions. because we went through a long episode today. We did. It didn't feel long. Like this was like an entertaining episode that it's like, whoa, shit. It's been an hour and 20 minutes.
Starting point is 01:14:56 Like, it just went by like a flash because each one is super interesting. Dracari are all kinds of fucked up, but it's really cool. Yeah, it's going to feel long for shy because she has to edit our ramblings, but who cares. We're shy.
Starting point is 01:15:13 Where's that meme where it's like D.K. and Bricky, die and shy has to drink fungus beer because her life has gone to shit. That's right. Yeah, put that meme up on the screen. Yeah, good. I thoroughly enjoyed this. I want to get some, although the ink, I was about to say I would like to get some incubi, but they kind of look like a pain in the ass to paint. Especially the swords look kind of like a pain in the ass to paint a little bit.
Starting point is 01:15:43 Look a little hard. But even so, I might get myself like a pack of witches and just paint them up, see what they, see how they go. It's really fun. It's really fun. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And with that, thank you everyone for watching.
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