Adeptus Ridiculous - Eisenhorn Hereticus: Losing Everything for the Imperium | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: October 7, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousGregor Eisenhorn has officially crossed the line. Welcome back to Adeptus Ridiculous! Today, Bricky and DK are joined by special guest TheAmberKing to dive deep into the tragic and chaotic conclusion of the Eisenhorn trilogy: Hereticus.Things go from bad to absolutely disastrous for our favorite Inquisitor. His radical views finally catch up with him, his inner circle fractures, and a certain Daemonhost gets way too comfortable. It’s a downward spiral of heresy, tragedy, and some of the greatest Warhammer 40k lore ever written.Support the show

Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptist Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamante is accompanied as always by Bricky, but this time, oh, we've got a special guest. It's Hal the Amber King. Hello, Hal. Hey, we're back, baby. Back baby. Hey, wait, you sound like you're smiling, Hal. Knock that smile.

I'm in the depths of absolute delirium. The Inquisition is at my door. No, no, no, no. We're talking about the dude who can't smile. You've got to put that away. Okay. Okay. Let's lock in.

Wait, he's the dude who can't smile? A bit too serious. How dare you smile? I like Warham. I'm always having a good time. We get paid to. It's a grim, dark setting. Hal, no smiling.

It's great. I love Warhammer. It's great. Are you getting any custodies? I am not. I'm a filthy Thousand Sun's player still, but now I've decided to. Let's go, Hal. We love to hear it

Thousands of us let's go Yeah we got destroyed in the last slate Thanks GW Thank you That's okay I don't play the tabletop I just think they look neat You kind of deserved it a little bit Oh

True True But it still hurts It does hurt Yeah Dude the news stodies I feel so I feel so vindicated

I'm like I'm gonna buy these custodies For our painting project Because they look amazing and awesome And then and then I get them and I'm like oh they're like really good

and their rules are awesome I'm such a winner Hey it man Yeah it feels like Wait sisters of battle Got leaked for Dark Tide DLC Did it?

Ooh Wait hold on That's more than just a sister of battle That's a sister novitiate That makes sense Yeah People are definitely guessed at this though People are definitely

Guessed at this Because it makes sense I mean Where else are you gonna go As far as like Dark Tide is concerned Right like you got your Skittari which I was happily surprised that we got that.

So yeah, sisters, yeah, you know. I wasn't sure we were going to get sisters because we're getting awful close to like, oh, hey, look, we put in a minor space marine. But I guess not really. Like, sisters is fine, right? For Dark Tide. That will be awesome to play, I think.

Yeah. That's so cool because they are awesome, so. Looking forward to it. Yeah. If the Skittari are not off bounds, then surely sisters are fine. I mean, I guess my only thing is like, we kind of had a sister already.

It was the zealot, you know? Oh, yeah, kind of. And so it was like, it was almost a little bit of like, well, we sort of already had like there, you know, because obviously a zealots different than a sister, but like they clearly were like, hey, we don't have a sister, so the zealots as close as you're going to get, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which, but like, I don't know. I'm okay with a sister being shy. I know you're talking about like the boots on, a ground trooper type thing. But that looks like a novitiate. And a sister novitiate is like a sister in training. And so I'm kind of okay with that because they don't have normal power armor.

And also if you have a Scatari, that's already kind of like above the level of. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm all right with this. Once this Katari became available, it was like, well, then yeah, like a sister in training is not completely unheard of. Right. Or even just like a sister period is kind of. It is power.

creeping, you're not wrong. It is power creeping. I just still like it. If we get a space marine, yes, if we get a space marine, yes, if we get a space marine scout, then I'll agree with you. If we get a space marine scout, then I'll agree with you. I mean, it's like four people versus like a thousand guys. It's already like a delusional power fantasy anyway, surely. It is a little goofy.

That these rejects are actually able to do what they're doing is kind of crazy. Yeah, but yeah, but whatever. Abelard and the Thunderhammer kills God in Rogue Traders. So fucking whatever. Yeah, true. True enough, yeah. My husband. Abelard, cut off their air.

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Consumed. Loved it. Big, big reveals there. Huh? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. I'm waiting for the episode. Yeah, I think you guys are doing a, maybe you'll talk about it at some point but we're doing an episode yeah we're going to do it episode okay which will be uh I would argue better than the first one I enjoyed the first one a lot

I enjoyed the second one just a little bit more really good I'm I'm on the opposite I think I enjoyed it a little less how I think it's not quite as tight the ending I also don't think is as good as Infinite Divining because the Infinite Divide ending is absolute well yeah it's hard to talk but it is still very good

We're talking like 8.5 out of like instead of a nine type thing. Like we're right there. So great stuff, great stuff. Uh, Robert Rath continues to be one of the best modern GW novelists. Marry into my bloodline, Robert. Please. This is this talent cannot be wasted. Oh, man.

Did you say marry into my bloodline brother? That's a wild statement. I marriage. All right. Well, speaking of boners, let's talk about Eisenhorn. Hmm. What the hell was that? That was a hell of a segue, brother.

Sorry, I've been having a lot of zinc lately, my bad. Let's continue. Yes. Today is episode three. We're talking of, well, we're finishing up the trilogy, the main trilogy. We're talking about Hereticus. This is the end, well, I guess, kind of like, the main arc of Eisenhorn's

story and then he doesn't really like because all the Eisenhorn novels are like in his head they're like first person like kind of POV whereas from this point he is a typical character in a novel which is like you don't you're not necessarily in their mind but they're in

the story and it's good I will say for this episode it is titled Prepare to Cry shout out to me oh no Barty I love you VATI. Yeah. He's actually inspired me to make my, uh, my law channel. He's so, I won't be as good as you, brother, but, uh, thank you for just existing. Actually, no, no, you should, you should attempt to surpass your, your masters, sir. You don't know that.

You could be better eventually. Okay, go in your own, go in your own way is fine, but, you know, just saying, it's worth it. Before we get any further, though, because for you, beautiful listeners, of course, we have done two episodes on this, and don't worry, I'm not going to leave you hanging. We're going to do like a brief catch-up. I can explain the events of the previous two episodes slash novels, but would either one of you two just want to give a very brief rundown of who Gregor Eisenhorn is? Like, what is he? Who are we talking about? Yeah, Ricky. Why don't you do that? No, no, no, no. Sorry, my voice was louder. My voice was louder. You have to do it. And you're the expert. So, you know. hmm he's an ordo zenos inquisitor and he's kind of a he's he's normally a good looking guy but he's grumpy because he can't smile anymore because he was tortured and and now he's he's having this

big problem with this weird demon host guy who's being all churabale or however you say him and he's being all grumpy and he's got a blank bond girl type thing named beckwin and and and he's got his gun cutter and yeah If a The grumpy voice really sold it Like I'm very grumpy He's real mad Because he got tortured and stuff

He can't smile And he's got a demon host And his grovels blank What's up? What's up with his male pattern baldness In this cover? Why is he looks so different? Mail pattern baldness

brother, he is just bald I see well it's Yeah it's it's baldness Yeah true I guess I guess Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. For some reason, I was like, male pattern baldness, he's not balding, brother. He is bald.

It is a passive, though. Is that Beckwin on the right? I can't, I can't give me any spoilers away, unfortunately, because there'll be stuff in the story. Because it doesn't look like Beckwin, but he doesn't look like Eisenhorn, so I don't know what's happening here. Yeah. I'm just saying for the audio listeners, the way we're describing this is like, it's kind of a hunched, like, older version of Eisenhorn in his gear. he's got like socket plugs into the back of his head. He's bald.

He looks older, a bit more disheveled. And he's kind of, I'll say he's got a limp, a bit of a limp. That's a bit of a clue there. I'll say, whoever's doing the thumbnail for this one, make the demon host big and absolutely like, terrifying. This is, this is a, this is a, this is a good one. Ted, can you draw the thumbnail and it's Cherubail? But he looks like one of those bodybuilders sitting on the couch with the laptop. And he's like typing something and he's just like, I think we should kill the Imperium.

I don't know. He's always grinning, by the way. He's always grinning. He has a horrific smile, it says. Hell yeah. Just a brief recap for the previous two episodes we've done, we follow Inquisitor Eisenhorn, Ordos Zenos. and in the first events on the novel, or Zenos,

he basically was involved something called the Necrotuk affair, which led him to encounter a Zenos race called the Sir Ruthi, which like the weird kind of multi-limbed on like strange kind of, I don't know what's the word, like long sticks and their dimensions were strange. And it was all to do with this chaos corrupted tone called the Necrotuk. He encountered a enemies who are working alongside the Empress Children, members of house claw, Pontius Klau, being the infamous dead figure who was inside that sort of crystalline object and we didn't re-see him since.

And eventually he led to a massive conflict on 56 Ezar with the planet and they were betrayed by other members of the Imperium like Conrad Molitor, if you remember him. iconic members of the crew of course we had Midas Bettencourt Beckwin Fisig you know Mr. Arbite's man We had Amos

Most Pertibatari I was always of course You know like the original gang They're all there Book two Eisenhorn begun that book Poisoned And then it essentially

ended with him Following the massive devastation attack on the Helicon a subject Helicon subsector's capital world, like a massive horrific disaster, like the planes, like crashing into the crowds and stuff. Alpha level cycles were released and it ended up with Eisenhorn going rogue and on the run. He found an old friend Magos Bure who helped him craft weapons to kill basically a dark mirror to what Eisenhorn's fate could be, which is Inquisitor Quixos.

and eventually led to a confrontation. Many of the Inquisitors who fought alongside him died, but hey, Eisenhorn lives other than, I guess, he's like pupil Ravana. Unfortunately, he was badly burnt and was forever just kind of a burnt husk of a creature who kind of, you know, iconically is known to have his little speaking chair throne. And after this, so now, that is like the very brief recap. of course those episodes are available to go watch. They were pretty good ones, if I say so myself, because I was there.

Thank you. That's my humble brag. I'm never going to be sick. The British in me is now rebelling at saying something nice about myself. So that is as far as we go. This event, this is Hereticus. This is the ending of the trilogy. And the date is 386M41.

So this one is only a few short. decades after the second novel. And we're going to begin this one in part one, which is under the title, EGis Sturred, The Flower of Blood. That is Glossier, if you guys remember, like the informal language that we have. So this one opens, like, kind of like a classic sense of like, like, the gang is all together. And Eisenhorn, you know, he's a renowned inquisitor at this point. he's kind of

he's not really gone behind the scenes he's wanted to stay in the front lines out there he's kind of known as a not like a I guess like a lot of people see him as like a gunslinger-esque figure he's like kind of not like a rogue but like he goes his own way

and he's arrived on a planet called Adura because there's currently what happens rarely in O'Hammer but every few decades is inquisitorial trials so many of the different inquisitors come together and they basically had like a selection of many different people in the Imperium who have to go through an actual trial rather than just, you know, immediate Emperor's Mercy shot the face on point.

That's no fun. Yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of fun, though, because Eisenhorn goes to sit next to an older inquisitor called Rassie, who's a bit of a, a bit of a fun uncle kind of guy. He's like an iconic cane, and him and Eisenhorn are just like, you know, like, they're just chuckling, growing it up a bit, like talking about, you know, old victories and stuff. And they're watching a bit of a Puritan inquisitor in this massive like arena trial area who is attempting to interrogate this noble who is shitting himself.

Absolutely like, like just just terrified. Members of the ecclesiarchy are there. There's like there's some fat bloke in the corner who falls asleep and he wakes up and slams his gavel being like, It's just some bad bloke in the corner. And he goes, a shade of red apparently not seen before. So that's fun. A shade of red not seen before?

Yep. Wow. What a phrase. This guy, so Eisenhower at this point, he has a new interrogator who's been asked to basically join him by Lord Rorkan, who if you remember from the previous episodes,

Lord Rorkin who's one of the main inquisitors, he's a lord inquisitor of the Heatherkin subsector and he's got a bit of a soft spot for Eisenhorn. He's like the guy who in episode one he has like the silver zvihander and, um, was it like the silver flamer? And he was like bellowing chance to banish the chaos spawn. And then in episode two, he was the guy who like secretly helped give Eisenhorn some help in the final fight.

So he's, he's asked Eisenhorn to take him. this new pupil who's, he looks very bright, has got a very, very bright future. This pupil's name is, I think it's Sebastian Vavuk. And to say things about Sebastian Vavuk is to say, this is the most keen motherfucker

who has ever existed. This guy, the opening of the novel, is him sending, like, a letter to Eisenhorn saying, geez, I can't wait to be alongside Inquisitor Eisenhorn. I'll do whatever you need. I'm so ready. All right. All right.

Mark off your bingo cards. So we got Conrad Werner in the house now. The thing is, though, Vibouk is like, Eisenhol's not happy about it, but he's doing a favor. And to say, like, when the gavel joke scene happens with the, so basically, when this like gavel joke scene thing is happening, at one point, the inquisitor in the center who's doing interrogation and Eisenhorn is like admiring the work. Vavuk is next to him and Rassy.

The thing is though, this inquisitor in the centre makes a joke and DK, I have a just to give a vibe a bit more about Vavuk, this is what happens when the inquisitor makes that joke and I have a small excerpt if you'd please read that. Ooh, I absolutely will.

My fellow inquisitors chuckled, except Vavuk who barked out an over-loud winnie as if I had just made the finest jest this side of the golden throne. By the throne, he was a sycophantic weasel. If ever a windpipe cried out for a brisk half-hitch, his was it. Wow. He's so annoying. Eisenhorn wants someone to throat punch this guy.

God. Really funny. It is really funny. And you can tell even Rassie is getting a bit annoyed at him. But something interesting happens during the middle of this trial. Fisheg arrives. Our boy, Fisig, he's tall, he's blonde, he's got a few bits of grey in that hair, but he is Mr. I do what is right all the time,

and he is probably one of Eisenhorn's closest friends. They work together for over a century at this point, and he's like interrupted them because he's brought news. An individual, a heretic, has been spotted on this. world of Dura. And his name is Fade Thuring. And Eisenhorn steps up immediately because he knows Fade Thuring, because Fade Thuring killed Midas Bettencourt.

Oh, okay. Okay. So are we doing like the wrong sulfuric acid type treatment on this one? Let's play along. You'll see what this is. Okay, okay. Okay. But, yeah, Faith Thuring was a bit of a nothing cultist a while ago, but he ended up killing Midas Betancourt. If you guys remember from episode one, he is our dual needle pistol equipped kind of, he's a glavian.

So he had like the metal inlay in his hands. He is, he was pretty cool. And his daughter, Medea, is part of the crew since the second book. And apparently he's been spotted on the world. So Eisenhower. Horn is like, fuck it, I'm out of here. I won't, I wouldn't let this opportunity go, because this guy's been hiding for decades. I don't know what kind of player he is now. He assembles all of his group together. And in fact, Inquisitor Rassie says, I'm willing to join you. This sounds like fun. They go outside. There's fishing. You've got extra members of the crew, because obviously Eisenhorn's got a massive collection now of different staff. There's a fish egg, Harlan Nail, who's like the, um, the kind of ex-bounty hunter who always says this in the book.

He's like, sure thing, boss. He always gives that accent. He's pretty cool. Uh, he does look like a Neanderthal. I won't lie. Not blessed in the visual department. So, so he's not a solid snake ass despite the fact that you're hit with the, you're pretty good. Yeah.

Yeah, it sounds like that, though. It literally is that accent, which is hilarious. But he's a, coming out of Fred Flintstone. Yeah. There's a lovely image, uh, shy. in the chat of what he looks like. He literally looks like terrifyingly like, oh,

like a big, oh, you say, you say Neanderthal as in like, he looks like some roided up junkie. Yeah. Oh, okay.

Neanderthal, I was just thinking some hunched over like big brow like, you know, I kind of was getting, um, I kind of was getting a more of like a, um, what's,

what's, uh, Dr. Frankenstein's helper's name. Okay, that's the name. Oh, oh,

E-Cor. Igor. I was kind of thinking Igor. I didn't realize you meant like your local muscle. Your local bodybuilder dude is telling you to eat more way. Yeah. His jaw shape is pretty crazy, I'm assuming. His jaw shape is square. He's not quite dragging his knuckles on the floor, but, you know, he's. Right. So he's so big muscle-bound gorilla. This is just a silver back of a man. Yes. There is other members. There's new members of the group. There's a member called Caraswe.

who's an ex kind of, I think is it, gymnast or a member of like a circus. And there's also outside Elizabeth Beckwin, who, despite her age obviously being, you know, north of probably 150 at this point, Eisenhorn says she still looks pretty good and she hasn't really been in the front lines for a long time because she runs the distaff, which is like their secret organisation of blanks, which he lends out to other inquisitors. they all get together and Vavuk, and they get in the gun cutter, because Medea is raring to go. She even goes up to Eisenhorn and says, like, he's here, the man who killed my father before I was even born. She's ready for vengeance, but he makes a promise not to act too rashly.

This is where they make their way to this kind of remote island on the planet. And it used to be like a station, like Garcation, but it's kind of been abandoned. and they're trading through these kind of, what's the best way described this? I guess like it's kind of almost like a post-apocalyptic look to it. It's like really run down. Everything's like kind of half broken, abandoned. Everything, something seems out of place here. You know, they can't seem to work out where, you know, fade thuring is.

This does actually lead to the event. Like there's some investigations they do here. They find like an old, like weird priest on the island. who's been there for 20 years by himself, eventually they kind of work out why Faith Thuring is here because the ground begins to rumble. A sound emanates from the island that is so haunting and disgusting,

it puts the fear of the God Emperor in all of them, the whole crew, because not like an enemy force has arrived, an enemy like weapon is here. Bursting from some central location on the island, a chaos titan emerges. Oh, that's not good. Yeah.

That is super nice. His name is, his name is Cruel vault. And Faith Thuring is inside this corrupted machine, like spitting mess. and the crew realized they are fucked. So they just run. They start fighting between buildings.

Because they're obviously like an very intelligent group, but they've been outplayed. At some point at the island, there are explosions in the distance, and it's Harlan Nail, who he is set off booby traps to like distract the Titan. But like this is a cat and mouse game, except the cats are building.

Like, it's not happening. This is where they run. into, and like, lasering fire is like, like, evaporating, like, buildings next to them. It is terrifying. And Eisenhorn's like, I don't know how to win here. Eventually. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm sorry, but like, I'm not quite sure if looking at a chaos titan, but like, I don't

sure how I beat that is like, I, God bless him for, for having the gift of confidence, truly. Mm-hmm. Except they come up with a plan. they run into one of the abandoned churches because they think it's the strongest like building around and they realize like they can come up with some kind of plan which is because in Eisenhorn and Rassy they are both psychers they will try to enter into the mind of the machine spirit itself and they grab Eisenhorn's run staff which is the one which has his like his um

recreation of his own skull it was made by Megalong Biel from the previous episode, the Magos who used to serve alongside his old master, and they will enter into the mind of the Titan, and then at the last moment, they'll have Bekwin grab the Roonstaff to kind of deliver like a psychic blank aura into it with them to hopefully either damage it or basically give by them time. It's the only thing they can think of. So the two of the inquisitors stand within the church, they combine their minds and their might together and they proceed to enter into the mind of the machine spirit. And immediately Eisenhorn wakes up in like, he's like surrounded and drowning in these things.

Like he is actually swamped. He almost loses control. Flashes of Trubail enter his mind. And Rassie, who is linked to him, screams being like, you know, hold on. Rassie saves him from drowning in the own, like, psychic kind of waters. And Bricky, I have a small excerpt here for what Eisenhorn sees when he enters in and he sees the vision of what cruel fault has witnessed. Yeah, a small excerpt, literally a paragraph. I saw such things.

May the God Emperor spare me. I saw such things then. I stood on the brink and peered into the other. abyss of the Titans' memories. I saw cities die in flames. I saw legions of the Imperial Guard incinerate him. I saw space marines die in the hundreds scurring around my feet like ants. I saw planets catch fire and burn to ashes. I saw Imperial Titans, proud warlords burst apart and die under the onslaught of my hands. I saw the gates of the Imperial Palace on Terra through a blizzard of fire. I saw down through many thousands of years. I saw Horace vile and screaming out his wrath. I saw the whole heresy

played out in front of my eyes. I saw the age of strife and witnessed firsthand the dark age of technology that preceded it. It goes hard this. Of course. Yeah. It's intense beyond imagining. Rassie and Eisenhorn are screaming in pain as they asked Beckwin to grab the run stuff. Bekwin does. It delivers a psychic blank kind of spark towards the Titan which sends it spiraling

for a moment. Except this sends a backlash. Rassie implies fall to the floor. They fall to the floor like holding their heads. Elizabeth Beckwin goes flying back

and her body crunches against the wall. And she does not move or get up. Fishing and nail rush over to her and they look at Eisenhorn and they just there's nothing to say. She's basically...

Oh, well, Jesus. Like, there's the barest etchings of life within her, but no one recovers from something like this. Also, I didn't realize that was something that was possible that a psycher could just be like, oh yeah, I'm just going to enter the mind of this

machine. Spirit, Chaos Titan, and we're just going to dinky doodle around. And I didn't, I didn't realize you could enter. It's not really possible because it kills you. It basically. Well, true. Yeah. It does, doesn't it?

Yeah. Yeah. But I didn't realize that was a plan that you could enact, but it's kind of dope. This is why this is called, called Prepare to Cry, because Eisenhorn just gets up and he runs outside waving his, uh, his like katana barbarous satyr in the air like, like a madman,

screaming at the titan. He's almost lost his mind. The Titan itself is reeling from it, but it's back around. They're going to die. Rassie and some of the other agents of Eisenhorn get eviscerated in one shot. Rassie dies in an instant. Fischig is down, Karaswals down, Harlan Nail is basically like they're holding Beckwin's like broken body.

Eisenhorn has nothing to do. There's no way. He's finally found an enemy he cannot beat conventionally. Eisenhorn remembers something. He remembers a certain book he picked up from a certain foreign inquisitor.

He thinks of the being that he had trapped within his own house, his own Gudron estate, and he begins to summon true. Bael. In his desperation, a soaring comet blazes out into the arena and just starts to gouge the chaos titan and fade thuring apart. And it is, it gets worse because at this point also Medea at this point, just before this has happened, she rushed forward and tried to use the gun cutter to

distract the Titan she has inside it is Vavuk and Amos they're inside the cutter and the cutter gets shot and it falls to the ground and explodes. Dude this is like

why is this a Metroid Prime opening where you just lose all of your powers and everything instantaneously in the beginning everything's going to shit. This sucks. The problem is the Titan is destroyed except in summoning Cherubail

he now He summoned Cherubail he lost his power over it and the blazing comet starts heading towards him Eisenhorn rushes forward towards to get away from the others onto this like beach area

and he sees from the gun cutter Vovuk survived and he is like walking out stunned but he's been very he's like on the edge of Like, he's really injured. He's not on the end of death, sorry, he's like very, very injured.

And Eisenhorn sees, funny enough, there's a weird part of, like, the priest earlier, like, who'd been on the island for 20 years. Like, he's delusional and starts thinking it's like an angel. And I start saying stuff for the God Emperor and it, like, hurts true by hell temporarily. He's like, ah, it buys Eisenhorn a few seconds. And he asks for Vuk, are you loyal? He says, yes, like, of course I am. You know, Eisenhorn's his hero, of course he's loyal.

He asks Vuvuk, are you pure of soul? He says, yes, but in a different kind of unsure tone. He tells Vavuk that he is going to do the emperor's work. And he begins to take some of his blood, and it begins to bind Churubail into Vovuk as he screams dying as his soul is extinguished. Oh! Oh! ...contained.

Oh, brother. Oh, that sucks. Oh, my God. Fisig arrives, and he is disgusted with what he sees, because he sees Chirubail floating, which should not be there. Churubail should have been defeated long ago when they fought Quixots. How is this possible? Eisenhorn tells him he's got it under control.

Which Fisig asks, was Vavuk even dead when you did it? to which Eisenhorn does not respond. Eisenhorn proceeds to then... Jesus! Yes, he also finds, luckily, emerging from the crash on the side, Medea and Amos are still alive. They're very injured, but they did survive the crash, and they also see what happens to Vovuk. Eisenhorn guards Chirubail as they make their journey away, as Bekwin is rushed towards immediate medical care, and Fisig is asked to stay behind and sort of deal with the aftermath

and Eisenhorn gives him his rosette, which Fisig almost takes a double meaning from this. They arrived back at the estate on Gudrin, which Gudron was the world where they actually had initially fought house glory, and because Eisenhorn likes the world so much, it's kind of like a weird mimicry of Earth, that one, so there are lots of variety on that planet. So it's a bit of a nobles planet, you know,

It's basically a holiday resort. So he's also got a Gudran estate, although he has many different assets and places around the Helican subsector. He arrives in the estate, and he is obviously, of course, dismayed at what he has done to Vovuk, but he also feels like part of it was necessary. Like, he needed to do this to win. He has a regicide game with Amos,

and it's interesting, here because he's speaking to Amos about, obviously Amos or Turubail. And it kind of leads the conclusion of like Amos is maybe not as Puritan as Fischig. And even though like all these people are good friends, he really does trust Amos. And even though he's obviously again like, it is most perturbatory. It says it quite a few times. But Amos is like, again, he's older than Eisenhorn. He once served alongside the previous inquisitor Eisenhorn's teacher.

He trusts Eisenhorn that he's done the right thing. And he says you have to stick by your convictions. Like, you know, maybe it's a horrible thing you've done, but this work requires, you know, people who have the stomach for it. In the Goodron Estate, the crew are kind of resting, healing up. Nail is with Nail and Karaswal, with Bekwin, who's getting medical treatment. and Eisenhorn is just kind of feels a bit lost for a moment.

Yeah, I would too, honestly. Like, I'm not going to lie, a bit lost feels a little, I don't know, not the statement of the century. Not selling it, yeah. He goes into a training session and his trainer, like, Jubal Kircher, he ends up losing like five out of five rounds or something, to which Kircher, who's kind of too old to be in, you know, ground serviced, but he's like old enough to teach the household guard.

He even mentions to him like, you're distracted. Medea, who's recovered from the downed cutter, she ends up wanting to have a sparring session with Eisenhorn. I got like a buckler shield combo. And it's obviously very clear, like the sparring session is not about the actual, like, they need training because they're both well trained. It's been in a sad way, like Medea actually lived longer than her father. ever did because obviously he was kind of cut down by fade thuring probably in his like 40s or 50s or

something obviously they're for juvenile treatments and she's like nearly a hundred years old at this point obviously doesn't look that though and she's you know she's been with eyes long time she and tells him at some point like the the sparring is meant to kind of show like there's something she really wants to talk about but it can't be said with words yeah he ends up winning the second bout between them and she says like you were right before like before they left he mentioned her like to not go overboard like this is not about revenge it's about capturing fade thuring or like you know taking him out it's not about revenge and she she didn't listen because she swung in with the gun cutter to try and attack the titan yeah and he's something a fucking demon yeah she's

she comes to realization like she was because she was angry at fade throughing for so long and she was like, you were right, like, revenge is trash, like, is the comment they, like, joke to each other. Revenge is trash, because what she really wanted was not fade-thuring dead, but she wanted to have her father, Midas, you know. Basically, as Eisenhorn state, his only, his probably best friend who's ever lived, to which Eisenhorn says he could probably give her that, which she, like, questions. I ironically, sorry, Midas has like a kind of, like a red leather jacket that's often like seen in some of his artworks. And he asked her to bring it to one of his like psychers.

And this is because once again they want to enact a seance. But this time they're not like interrogating a dead person. They want to do it for Midas. And this is where he sits down with her in his like, the Goodron estate by the way is like enormous. like a proper like, you know, cathedral isk area, like, because obviously Quistas are given unlimited budget. And she's holding her the jacket and they begin their seance.

And this is where, like, this is my favorite parts in the novel and probably in the series is because you start to see the kind of highlight reel of their lives together. So you see Midas as like a young guy and they're having like dinner parties and Bekwin and Eisenhorn and Amos and Fisig and even. Maxilla are there, like Tobias Maxilla from, you know, the rogue trader from before. They're all there and he's telling jokes, he makes all of them laugh. His like silver inlay fingers are playing the harp incredibly beautifully. They see Midas on the day of his wedding. And as they say, Eisenhorn says, he has immaculate taste in women because his bride is very, very beautiful. And again, everyone's

there. Like, I, like, you know, other than Eisenhorn, everyone is like smiling and super happy because it's like the wedding day, they're all celebrating. You see Midas find out that he's going to be a father. Like his wife tells him he's going to be a dad and he's like hugging her and he's overjoyed. And Medea starts to like cry at this point because obviously it's, you know, it's what she really wanted. And obviously he's rod from it because he's killed before she's ever born. And it seems like I have a good question for you guys here, which is what do you think you're, like seance item would be like if someone was to like bring the iconic thing that belonged to you

I wonder what your seance item would be so so what kind of like ritualistic item would they need to use in order to bring me back to life or like summon my spirit or at least look back into your past right yeah yeah yeah i literally don't have an answer for you i people listening put in the comments below your uh your seance item so i would love to know what people's thing is. I don't have anything like that, to be honest. I don't have anything that I feel like is directly like, oh, that's that thing he always wore or that thing he always carried with him, you know? I don't have that. You know, crazy, and this might seem weird because no one would probably know this. Um, there's actually a black letterman or, uh, sorry, not letterman,

leatherman that I have around me all the goddamn time. Um, and I don't know if you know what a is how it's like a like a Swiss Army knife kind of thing. But the ones that contain pliers and stuff. And it's got like a saw, it's got a knife, it's got scissors, it's got a Phillips and a flathead screwdriver. And it's got like a little leather handle on it. And it's really smooth.

And it's got some snippers and like, it's one of those items that like I don't think, I never think about, but I need it like every day. And so I don't know. Probably probably this, It probably be this is a good choice. Honestly, it probably would be this little letterman.

I keep saying leatherman, motherfucker. I have a letterman jacket. I don't wear it all the time, but I have one. Shire has a plushy, which is very, very key. Like, at this point, it would probably be like my fucking phone. And that's probably what most people's answer would be. That sucks, right? Yeah, that sucks.

That sucks. I wish I had, like, a cool, like, oh, yeah, I have a Swiss Army knife that has fucking everything in it. That's a cool answer. I'm just like, er, my phone. That's such a lame answer. I hate it. I need to find a trinket. I need to buy a trinket now.

I need something that is like distinctly me. Damn it. Shai says what a sad existence. Damn. I know. That's such a sad thing to say. I hate it here. I thought it was a good question.

It is a good question. It's an existential crisis question now. I got like a silver ring I bought as like a teenager from a, like a, like, what's it called, like an antique shop. I've had that for ages. I've probably that, because I've been on my body,

on my person for, like, the longest amount of time. But yeah, I wish I had a pocket watch. Touching scene. You don't need a pocket watch, man. You're fine.

I just for making you interesting. They're cool, though. I wouldn't even show it off. They're just cool to have and click open, you know? Anyway, go ahead. Tell us more about Eisenhower. So it's a,

it's a beautiful scene. And it suddenly gets interrupted. Eisenhorn leaves the room because something is quite wrong. He starts to smell smoke. Then he sees two or three men enter in, like the room in front of him, and they're carrying weapons. They have sye blockers on their equipment, so he can't use his psychic powers.

They are mercenaries, and they have donned iconic carnival masks at the time of like Goodron's great carnival and they just start blasting Eisen's one has to dive to the side he grabs like I mean like they just do No I'm sorry I'm just I'm just You say that and my first thought is Danny DeVito It's just I'm looking at the

They start blasting because I don't see so good It's good thing I have my pieces like I don't know It's just tickled me I'm sorry Also not not to not to interrupt a backtrack I have a good answer It's it's listen I I know the trinket that you would use to summon me. I got it.

It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a bottle of cologne. That's what it is. It's a bottle of fucking cologne. You know, you know, as someone who has been around, D.K. in person, he is the best smelling Warhammer adjacent person, I know. It's not a high bar, brother. It is not. But you, but even to regular people, I mean, and fuck you, man, take the goddamn hell.

Is it the subtitle of this episode, uh, like Warhammer, D. D. cake doesn't smell like ass? Yes, yes. Hey, I'll give them credit. It's true. Yeah, I'm literally holding a bottle of my favorite fragrance right now. It's from Mind Games.

It's called Ruiz Lopez. It is not cheap. Don't look up how much it is. I did not pay retail, but that doesn't matter. I have a good answer now, damn it. It's not just my phone. Anyway, sorry, I just need to clear the air that I'm not that pathetic. Eisenhorn whips up Midas's.

iconic twin needle pistols that they took outside the room because it was not good to do a seance with weapons apparently because you'd space you see murder he manages to shoot these initial mercenaries and he like the

comms the ors the orspects everything is down he asked Medea to stay as he goes to investigate further he eventually sees members of his own staff have been put up against the wall and shot like there is fire in other parts of the estate is clear they are under attack.

He manages to meet up with Amos, who is actually holding his bolt pistol and manages to save him because he always gets shot himself. They run to Eisenhorn's personal office. They kill three guys in there, and they quickly grab us as much they can take. He takes, obviously, the iconic Barbaris Sater, the weapon, he takes his runstaff. he also grabs from his safe the malice codician and they just start to make a run for it because the estate is under attack and what's even weirder is no one on the planet so none of the Arbitees or guard or anything are coming to help

it's complete silence they start to run and they meet through like the massive like forest estate area slash the there's like apples trees and like fields around them he meets up with one of the staff who's like really new and in training called Alina and there's another member of the staff

who he's already like on death store so he gives him his gun and they just like buys time for them. They kind of realised that they've probably been betrayed from within and it's maybe one of the newest staff last week who he's basically only been there a week

and is a nobody essentially it was always planned to be this Kircher the training guy is definitely like I think one of the other characters say like he's probably killed at least like 10 guys coming off of them but he's definitely dead so that everyone is running they they go into the backup backup plan because all of like the gun cutter everything like the whole place is being hit and it looks like they've got the planned and everything like they know everything so Eisenhorn Alino and Amos they finally run into the back of the forest to the backup backup plan which is like a small ship that they had placed there as an emergency, which actually is only there because they were worried like all the young people were going to like practice flying with it. They didn't want them to use it that much.

So it's kind of like a stroke of luck. Eisenhorn, really like he has to, like there's no radio anymore. So, or like a Vox. So he uses mine to try and find Medea. She is with the other member who was like the psych who was doing the seance with. He gets killed. and he realized, like, Medea's going to die. He's like, oh, my God, Midas's daughter is going to die as for me on my watch.

So they get in the ship, and he just, like, they fly really low back towards the estate. Medea is surrounded by these mercenaries. And eventually, like, because they have, like, a bit of, like, the mercenary ships are all, like, they're bought on world. They're, like, they're kitted out with amazing gear. but it's obviously like is it a hastier job it's like elite enough to do this thing but it's not like this is like their own stuff and eventually eisenhorn like lands the ship within this like massive gathering of um like trees they're meant to shoot some of the mercenaries around them medea was running towards eisenhorn and she gets shot she goes down Eisenhorn just again has to distract as elina and amos like

wrencher into the ship Eisenhorn gets into the pilot controls and they start flying but they start flying below tree level because they're being chased by four other ships. So Eisenhorn is yeah and it's like it's turned to night

now the estate is just one big fire and Eisenhorn is like almost like pissing himself being like the warning signs the warning on the ships of like incoming damage like it's just going off the entire a time that being chased. You played, you played, you played Ace Combat, uh, Hal?

No familiar. Oh, man. Damn it. Love Ace Combat ain't around here. I just need a little bit of a rail gun warning. Rail gun warning. Oh, no, no. Nope.

I can't. I can't, man. No, you're going to have to, D.K., you're going to have to. No, I've, I've experienced it. I've already experienced that. I know. Exactly. Real gun warning, motherfuckers.

You're ready for it. Oh, my God. The whole time. Damn you, land tank. Well, land battleship, sir. Right, sorry, land battleship. The scene here is like incredibly intense. And they eventually like,

the scene with the land battleship was also incredibly intense. The fight with the ship, anyway, this is not an ace comment. A few of the ships flash into trees, like one of them, they manage to like shoot out. They get tagged and they're going down to which they basically crash the ship into the trees in the forest. As no one gets the others out and he literally jumps up into a tree as they're the ones like hovering down to like try and shoot for survivors. He jumps into that ship, kills one of the guys and then holds a pistol to the pilot and says, you know, like take your sigh shielding off, which he does. And then he's like out and he knocks the guy out with his mind.

They steal that shit and they make a run for it. They've been hit. And Eisenhorn doesn't know who has done this, but clearly they have Intel. They have a lot of funding and it's clearly targeted to kill every part of his like assets. So it's a big mystery as to who's behind this. And obviously it's happened on Goodron, but none of the local forces have come to investigate slash help. So they clearly maybe have inside like, you know, corruption helping them. So he basically says they're on their own. And it may, so they can't get, they don't have any, like,

tell Astropath to get a message out. But Eisenhorn has a plan. He takes the stolen ship with their, like, Medea's like dying. She's obviously, she's been hit pretty bad. This Elina, who's obviously a psychic blank is with him and Amos. There's no one else. he goes into the mountains and he goes to this very like small village it's like quite late he rocks up he wears like his best uniform and he knocks on the door

that of a certain woman named Kretia Bertchard or Bechilde and this person Kretzia is a kind of very beautiful woman's blonde hair and she is really really pissed to see Eisenhorn. I'm sorry, I prefer

blondes, and then I shot her. And then I shot her. Eisenhorn, he says, Kresia says you've got a lot of nerve coming here after 20 years of nothing. They enter in, and Kretzia

is a widely regarded doctor slash, you know, Medicaid, and he asks her to keep it on the down low and to save Medea, which she reluctantly does. Medea undergoes surgery and she's put into one of the rooms in this woman's house and she's okay. Cretzia comes back and she again is just pissed to see Eisenhorn. He's a long nerve showing up here and he asked to basically keep them on the down low, you know, for a friend.

Remember that comment. And, you know, they need to hide and he's asking, can I, have access to a private astropath and we need some funds and I just need to like lay low for a moment. Also, in my ship, I've got a prisoner, oops, which she immediately is even more pissed about because obviously she's a doctor. With her present, Eisenhorn begins an interrogation slash kind of psychic torture. With the help of Kretia, she gives him some like drugs, to make him woozy. And this is where Eisenhorn realizes, like, who, with Amos's help,

they start to discern who the mercenaries are. They're a group called the Veserine Janissaries. They come from a kind of, like, primitive-ish world, and they have like a clan system, and they just are used for mercenaries. It said in the novel, like, you know, they'll say for the God Emperor, for money. Like, they'll do, they'll serve you one.

And they clearly got like... For the God Emperor for Money is a very enjoyable phrase. I like that one. Yeah. I kind of hope that that's their whole thing. Not really, but like that's like, that's what Amos essentially. They have, um, they have false, uh, identities implanted in their head by clearly someone who's quite a powerful psycho, to which Eisenhorn, much too cretsy is, um, dismay really, really

pushes this guy. The interrogation seems quite interesting because he asks him like, what colours the sky? Blue. Well, you know, what, um, what, what's my name? Gregor. And then he's like, you know, who'd you work for? He keeps repeating the pattern of the interrogation to make him keep continuously answer

questions. Pushing this guy to the brink, like he's almost about like kind of going to spasm. He gets the names Marla Taree and then the boss of Marla Torei, Kanjar, the Sharp. Now, this means nothing to us at the moment. This means absolutely nothing. In the next scene, there's a few scenes that happen in this like cottage house. They get access to some kind of communiquez. This is where they kind of figure out and they learn from reports from other worlds and other stations that Eisenhorn has.

Every single organization slash part he touches has been hit. There has been a massive bombing on Thracian Primaris. There has been attacks on other sites on Goodron. Everything throughout the Helicon subsector that Eisenhorn touches has been hit. The distaff were killed. They were attacked by a group pretending to be like a liberation group. They've all been killed. Inquisitor Inchabelle, the guy from the last episode,

the guy who like kind of tagged along with Eisenhorn throughout that story, he has also been blown up in his own home. Jesus. Dude, everyone is just getting fucking slammed in this book. Yes. This is, Eisenhorn is in, like, he's already in, like, questioning devastation. This is, like, pure agony at this point. This is where we're going to get to part two.

Aegis repose by thrice ignited as a statue to the end of earth. that is the Colossia. And it is a very early morning. Eisenhorn is kind of dealing with the aftermath of what he has learned. Like everything he's built over a century is kind of gone. And this is interesting because he's speaking to Cretzia very early in the morning together. And DECO, have an excerpt if you would please read out for me. This is kind of what they discussed together.

Sure. How's Elizabeth? She asked suddenly. I had been sort of waiting for that. I'd broken my long relationship with Kretia Bearchild in the end because of Beckwin. Even though I knew Elizabeth and I could never be together in any way except friends, I knew I would never get past my love for her. It was too much in the way and that could never be fair in Kretia.

25 years before, in that very house, I had told her as much. and walked away. She's dying, I said, or already dead. I told her what happened on Durrier. He used to be. Yeah. Durrier. Durrier.

Durr? Yeah, that's what I said. Eisenhorn met Kretzia quite a long time ago. In one of the short stories, that's in between, I think, book one and two, he actually, like, lost his hand. and instead of getting like a metal augmentation, he had a vac groan replacement. And one of the doctors who was in charge of his recovery was Krexia. They end up talking and they kind of, he says he was affectionate for her.

They almost got married and nobody knew about him and Kretzia. And as it says, 25 years ago, he realized he couldn't marry her because he loved Elizabeth. And that was the last time he saw Krexia. So Eisenhorn, canonically, was almost married, which is interesting. Yeah,

so this is like, there's a bit of an extra dynamic to their relationship, which is why Kretzia was not too pleased to see, you know, your ex-boyfriend show up being like, I've got a half-dead person and a prisoner. Can I commit? Yes.

There's a bit of a complication here. The Kresia is a good person, though. And at this point, Islewan figures we're going to make a plan. So he sends out codes to those he thinks are still alive. He realizes in a secret communique that Harlan Nail is still alive. He was supposed to be guarding Beckwin, so he's not sure what happened there.

But the fact that Nails a lie, because he nails the kind of guy who's like ex-Bounty Antony's got good instincts. So he figured of all the people who would survive, Nails always a survivor. fishing is of course to the life so he sends news to fishing and he says like we need to like get off world and we need to like meet up he stays and communicate with Harlan Nail throughout this

entire time this is with their private astropath slash communicates there's not the slight problem which is courtesy as such a nice person she slightly loosened the restraints on their prisoner and the merciless killer kills her

like house like A servant slits as a throat in the front room and he's escaped and he's obviously going to tell them where they are So Krexia's just kind of fucked them a bit So they have to leave And she is like kicking and screaming and saying I don't know this is my home To which Eisenol has to like he

He says it regretfully has to be manipulated and say We've got to leave and Medea if we move her too much She'll die But if you stay she'll die So you have to come and help us keep her like stable. She's like, you know, you bastard, but fine. It should be mentioned that she's at some points flirting with Eisenhorn, despite, you know, all of this. She does still like him. She says regretfully, she's just still like him. They make, they, regretfully. Yeah, yeah, regretfully.

Truly, truly, you can't help. When you regretfully still have feelings for your ex. Yeah, that's a bad one. The inquister who's like, told you you couldn't leave your house. You're going about he murdered. Thanks, bro. they make their way out and they basically in a long story short they grab like different modes of transport and they slowly have to like kind of run

and they're trying to make their way towards one of the largest cities on Goodrens they can hopefully get off this planet they at some point they arrive and there's like a luxury train service that goes through some of the mountains and actually arriving at one of the main cities so they say we can't use

gun cutter, we can't use any modes of transport that are easy to track. Being a nameless person on a train is probably the best we can do. They arrive on this train. They pack Medea in, who's obviously like still kind of in a coma, like out of it. And there's a few interesting scenes where like they actually have like a moment of respite. Cretzia is kind of a bit over her anger. And she asks Eisenhorn to dinner. They have a lovely dinner. He spends them night. I'll say that. He spends the night. She knows he's in love with another woman, but she still likes him. This is all, this is all fucked. It's all fucking weird. This is all strange. Welcome to Warhammer, everyone. Oh, no, no. I want them to, like, murder each other. This is,

we're getting into awkward exes. This is awful. Well, it's about grim dark, man, grim dark. they're on the train and the landscapes are on this like journey are like it's very beautiful in this area and like it feels like quite a nice respite from all the craziness that just happened he goes to speak to amos because amos has been doing his research of course he's he's like i'm isnheon's top guy i'm most perturbatory about this and this is where i was like amos has been doing his research like a lot and uh bricky i have an excerpt here to kind of surmise what Amos is able to gather, if you would be so kind. It starts with a Marlott...

Most perturbatory. Most perubatory. Mm, yes. Marlateres reported claims to have been born on Goodrim have been discounted by Amos, who had checked the census and found no sign of the name. He hadn't gone back far enough. He hadn't gone back three and a half hundred years. I did.

And found that terror. had been a peasant name on Goodrin until that time. The family tree ended right there. I knew who it was. I knew who my enemy was. Pontius Glaw. That's son of a bitch is back. Most middatory.

Canjar that's sharp is Pontius Glaw. They put it together and Eisenhorn just reels from the fact that the person who's probably organized the death of everything he's created is. is someone who should be locked in a basement with Magos Bure on a lost like asteroid. So Magos Bure is definitely being killed as well. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

He's out. Yeah. And Pontius Gleur, who he's hidden from the Inquisition, he is alive. And well, clearly, this is mad. Womp, womp. Yeah, that's a real bad. This is again when Eisenhorn's having like a bit of a menty bee, I won't lie. Amos again

A mentee B did you say? Yeah Yeah Ah yes He's like his father figure throughout a lot of the book And he reassures him

And he's like comforting him here In a like a bright spot Medea wakes up She's obviously like still injured But she's alive They've been a few weeks on the train Until eventually In the middle of the night

The train stops The emergency stop has been halt and it's like it's a blizzard snow outside. They go to investigate what's happening and someone, one of the staff has been killed.

This is where Eisenhorn, who's away from the group, starts to see three Veserine Janissaries in the hallway. They found them. So he's already got Barbaric Sater in hand. And I had to write down some of these names because Eisenhorn buffs will be very

on me about this. He, if you remember from the last episode, that there's a, the Carthian way of fighting, like the base of the Catana, the Catana, that was his, like, iconic thing he does. So it pulls out a few moves here

to cut down these three guys. He does the Uwiswa, an Ulsaah, and an Ul, oh, God, it's a mouthful, an aura, Wilga, Bay. I don't know what that really,

like, it does translate them in the novel, but he basically pulls out these moves and he kills the guys in front of him. He then has to follow another group. At one point he actually kicks the guy out of the window, which is really funny because it just falls to his death. He then makes his way towards the train roof and sees more of the Janus area's arriving,

which he goes to kill. He ends up fighting a duel with, I think it might have been the guy who, either he kicks off, the guy he kicks off into like the snow, such to fall to his death, was the guy who they had as a prisoner. or this is the guy who was their prisoner, he fights him in like a duel.

And these guys are like, you know, these guys are cutthroat, you know, primitive killers. You know, it's like initially a primitive man been given like gun training. He's got no qualms about killing people. They engage in this duel and Eisenhorn's doing pretty well, but like they're on a slippery, like, blizzard roof. He almost falls off the top himself, to which the other guy is like laughing, just slowly walks out to like enjoy the kill, to which Eisenhorn says, Oh, fuck, honor. And just takes out his gun and shoots him.

So I don't know why he didn't do that immediately. A little, a little Indiana Jones moment. We love those. I think it would be fair. He makes his way back into the train. And again, luckily,

everyone is still okay. He says, formerly, I am an inquisitor. I'm taking over the train. You know, don't you dare fucking question me. And let's get this shit moving.

Uh, Medea is, fully awake now. And he has a conversation with her. He's like, he's glad. Like he literally says to himself, like, Midas will have never forgiven me, rest his soul if I let his daughter die. And Medea is obviously his close friend. And she's a bit of a hot head at times. But, you know, she's a good member of the crew. She does say at one point, you're feeling better recently? He's like, yeah. And she looks over at Kretzia. And I believe it says she does some hand signals and some pretty graphic gestures.

So she's doing the finger in the whole thing. It says, quote, she made a surprisingly coarse and graphic gesture. Ah, the wanker hand sign, eh? Yeah, so she's quite funny. I like her sense of humor. But he's like, yeah, yeah, all right. Yeah, so they, at this point, he's talking more to nail. And they're going to say they're going to arrive in the city of New

New Jeep It sounds like Geneva but there's no N in it It's like Javier Javier I think New Javea and he's been sending more message to Nail

and he starts like Hey remember that time we did that thing to which Nail responds Oh yeah I remember it This is all in Glossier And then he kind of clocks on being like

Because he's like That's interesting That's really interesting Eisenhorn wearing Amos's like Long robes They arrive in the city and he goes to the meeting place he arranged.

He goes into this special lounge, which I think it describes it as, it's trying to look like a kind of, you know, like, you know, crazy bar, but it's actually just full of like rich kids

who are pretending, you know, they're like putting on a show. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we call that,

we call that Joey's Newport Beach. Two people, but I believe. Two, no, no, no, I don't need you to. Two people will know what I'm talking about. And only two people, and that's fine.

Fucking poser-ass restaurant. That's all. That's it. That's it. Joey's in Newport Beach or Joey's and Newport Beach? It is a restaurant called Joey's in Fashion Island in Newport Beach. And it showed up recently, and it's one of those places where, like, oh, it's the hit place for all the financial people on the scene to go.

meat. And all the waitresses are like, like the waitresses outfits are kind of like a little skimpier than they probably should be. And it's like, oh, and then like people get served too many drinks. And it's like no for having a lot of people like drive home drunk around there. Like it's a whole fucking mess. Yuck. Probably like that. Well, this is one's called Entipaw's Lounge.

That sounds better than showies. Yeah. He's in these robes. And then guess who appears to sit right on his. booth is good old Marla Teray, surrounded by the Janissaries. She's pretty braggie saying, you know, it implies it they broke Glossier code. So Eisenhorn, his code, you know, which is not that hard to understand. Eisen, you know, it's Eisenhorn, Thorne, you know, like it's not too difficult, I'll be honest, but they've broken Glossier and they're like,

you fucked up, you know, too bad it ends like this. Eisenhorn pulls back his hood. It's not Eisenhorn. It's one of the dead Janissaries. He begins to convulse as he's been shot up. And his body erupts in a warp vortex. In the instant, the body explodes and kills everybody in the room. Molotorov, the echo of her death,

her mind, Eisenhorn sees and thinks of the word gul, as in G-H-U with a umlaut on the top and an L, not like, as in like, gul-gul. Yeah, yeah. And he also realizes something as she's dying as well. Marla Torei is Pontius Claus' daughter, his bastard daughter, who's had rejuvimat treatment slash, you know, heretic stuff to keep her alive, and he just killed her. Just so I'm clear, when you say bastard, daughter, you mean the technical term of out of wednesday. Yeah, of like not a noble.

Sure, sure. Not like that bitch. Like you mean like a bastard. Like an actual bastard. And in another room inside a new Jivey, Eisenhorn is like convulsing on the floor. Amos knows break down the door as Eisenhorn stands there with the Malas codicium. so he did something fucking foul to get that. I got to be honest with you.

So far this episode, you know, last couple episodes I was like, oh yeah, I would absolutely be a radical inquisitor and use all that chaos warp stuff to my benefit. Surely, surely. This, this book and episode have made me be like, you know, maybe Pyrrion is the way to go because nothing good is. happening to this man after using all that stuff. Like Shai said, it's like how much, how much of this shit is coming back to bite him in the ass? Like the demon,

the body, I'm like, maybe you know what? I, I think I just want to be Puritan and not fuck with this stuff and just destroy it on site. That's because you're too weak will, decay. That's because you're too weak-willed. You just need to overpower the chaos

items. You need to overpower the chaos items. And you them for the power of humanity. You don't understand. If Eisenhorn can't do it, my ass ain't doing it. That's for sure. Eisenhorn can't smile. He doesn't have any whimsy.

He lacks the whimsy for chaos. As the, yeah, it's a pretty great, like, even the other, like, the others are disgusted with what he's kind of like, how far he was willing to go. He didn't let the others know he was going to do this. at this point it makes the point that he worked out that he wasn't actually

speaking to Harland Nail because when he was saying earlier like remember all those times we did that thing he made them up so he was like that wasn't Nail I'm only even speaking

to Fisig and some Rando who's obviously when they broke Glossier at this point the group they with obviously the only pilot they could ever trust

Tobias Macsilla Mr. you know Mr. Bourbon you know, fancy wig and white makeup and like a thousand rings and proper like, you know, 1800s gilded wear. He shows up with his iconic ship, the SN. He's introduced to Kretzia, who he's like, oh, darling, who are, you know, he's just over the top.

We love, we love Maxilla. And they board the ship and they're going to make their way towards hubris, which is where Fisig says they should meet up. On the journey there, Eisenhorn sits down to talk to Max Siller, who he's known for like a hundred years at this point. And he's like informally part of the crew. And at this point he kind of treats Max Siller as like a confessional. He tells him everything he's done. Like everything, like even Pontius Glor, like explain like Pontius glory is like, it's my fault.

Like the reason, like, I needed his knowledge to defeat one's like, um, quick. sauce, but yet I've kept him alive and like, I'm kind of skirted the line of being, you know, a proper, you know, radical. To which Maxilla, like, is really nice to him. And he, uh, he does specifically say this. I got an excerpt, uh, D.K. If he would, uh, be so kind. He's gives him a little bit more.

Man, there really are a lot of people enabling, uh, Eisenberg here. I don't know. There's a lot of people that are enabling his warp terrorism. Oh, it's okay that you puppeteered a corpse to cause a terroristic warp explosion. The ends justify the means, right? Anyway, let me tell you something, Gregor. I love you like a brother, but we're nothing alike. I'm a rogue, a gambler, a liar, a reprobate.

My vices are many and unmentionable. I never bend the rules. I break them, snap them, shatter them, however, and whenever I may. In that regard alone, I am a kindred spirit. You are bending the rules of the Imperium of the Inquisition. You are undoubtedly what they call a radical. But that's where the similarities end. I break the rules from my own gain to get what I want, to amplify my wealth and status, to make things better for me, me, just me, but you're not doing it for yourself. You're doing it for the system you believe in

and the God Emperor you worship and by damn that means your conscious can be clean by damn do you guys agree with this sentiment do you get the impression that Eisenhorn does this for the Imperium

or is there some kind of sense of this may be a bit more within this comes more from his own his own mind rather than his actual sanctified just justifiement to do it. I don't know who are doing this for the

Imperium. I'm not going to No. This is, this is for himself. This is, this is to get payback. This is, yeah, no, this is, this is, yeah. He needs, he needs, he needs, he needs a stern calling out from one of his friends so that he can, you know, not fall to chaos. Speaking of that, Eisenhorn even says to Max Seller and like Amos and Medea,

others. Like, he's, he's worried about Fisig's reaction because he's always said, even the previous novel, like, Godwin Fisich was always like his conscience. Throughout the stories, he's been, you know, like, Godwin broke him out of prison in the last one because he believed, like, he was a good man, and he's not broken the rules. And so he's kind of worried about how he's going to take a lot of the events that have happened. Eisenhorn at this point, like, it almost been, like, at many points of the story. He almost forgets to bring it with him, but he in some way interprets like, maybe this is like, is it the book doing this or is this my own brain? He shows Max Silla the malice codicium. The, of course, the toome, which is how he used earlier to summon

and even bind to Rubio, who again, throughout this whole episode, is just smiling and rubbing his hands in doing this. And it was also one he got from Quixos, when he defeated Quixos in the end of the last episode. interesting like maxilla like kind of picks it up and maxilla's like known for collecting trinket so he's a rogue trader which we uh lovingly lovingly explained in our first episode you know he's a trader he again like max ill is kind of does what he wants always he's he always has the last laugh he's got servitors made of gold and his own ship he's he's his own master but even he says i would destroy it which eyes and horn thinks is interesting like even maxillers

says I would probably destroy this, which Eisenhower doesn't, but you know. I was going to say, and yet, what does he not do? The group arrive at hubris. If you remember, hubris is where this whole story began. This is where he was chasing Murdon Eichlone, who awakened all of the civilians and nobles too early and loads of them died. And there's the massive sun dome. It's the massive sun dome area, because most of hubris is like frozen for like,

most of the year. And Eisenhorn goes to meet with Fisig. And they kind of like meets a few times. They meet at one point like in a bar. And he begins to tell Fisig everything. So obviously he does trust him. He tells him about Pontius Glaw, who it already like makes him uncomfortable with like Troubaal.

This just pushes it over the edge. He is like pleading with Isamon. He's like, don't do this. you're becoming a radical. And they're like having Becoming. Okay. Because he says like, you know, you'll damn your soul if you do this.

Like this is not the way. That's the like, it's also one of the reasons what I just don't want to say it's in the previous novels like what held him back from ever becoming like an inquisitor, which is why fishing like respected Ravenna so much. It was because I think he's too much of a play by the rules kind of guy. And he, you know, he was, I would say. like he's fishing is the kind of guy who he just has a internal wall he can't go past it where others don't have that at this point uh i think one of the last few excerpts of the um episode here

i think we've got a few more to go but uh brokie this is like the last words they exchange in their confrontation if he'd be so kind to read this out sure renounce it all all of it Give over the malice codicium to me, the demon host, your rune staff. Let me take you back to the Ordo's headquarters on Thracium. You can do penance there. I'll plead for you. Plead for leniency. They wouldn't be too hard on you.

You'd be active again before long. You actually believe that you could take me back to the Ordo's. Tell them what I've done and they'd let me practice again? They'd understand. Fishing. You don't understand. He looked at me, disappointed. You won't then?

I think this is where I say goodbye. I admire your efforts, but I can't be saved, Godwin. Do you, well, you know, he needs saving. I mean, he might need saving is a weird phrase, though. It's how Godwin feels about it. Do you think he's, like, is that perspective of, is Eisenhorn technically like should he be

you know is he using the demon book as Shai says because he has to is he doing all he can to fight the enemies of the Imperium or is he gone too far like he's a radical but is he like can he almost not see the bigger picture of being a radical like does he not understand

where in his youth he was like a thought not Thorian he was like an amalathian puritan like has he lost his perspective and do you think he yeah you think he i think not maybe that can be saved but do you think Eisenhorn needs to be brought back from like a brink yeah he definitely does because like i i i kind of agree with shy on this that like he really fucked up uh how many people close to him died how many countless people died because oh i no i i i can stop using the demon book anytime i want oh yeah i I summoned demons for fun to torture them.

He was way off the deep end, right? Like, this is he, oh yeah, boy, there needs to be a huge save Eisenhorn intervention, right? It's a toughie because it's like if someone is more like you were saying earlier, D.K. in the other episodes, if you're more sympathetic towards a radical, someone would argue, well, it's not his fault. It's the fault of the enemies or the Imperium. You know, he's just doing what needs to be done. That's the thing. Like, if you're in that mindset, someone will say, like, he doesn't need saving.

He's just in some way, like, he has to be the one to take all of this pain and damage. As Max Seller kind of points out, to, for the good of the Imperium, it not isn't like this is justified, but because that's the way the grim, dark universe is, like, almost forcing someone to be. Like, that's, like, it's the downfall is tragic because they're like, they have to fight such evil with evil and something. way and it's like do us as the reader do we agree with that in our own like weird you know like oh you know because we we judge it from the

safety of our own kind of our own existence would you you are certain circumstances make the same choices I mean all I'm saying is that he could put the book down whenever you want yeah shy said don't blame the universe for his dumb ass choices that's the thing he could always do it

he could always give, like, he could always let it go. But maybe there's part of him, which is, like, he actually, like, he really can't. He doesn't see his own corruption in some way. Mm-hmm. This is, uh, this is where we see, like, Eisenhorn, he's pretty gutted about fishing because of, again, everyone, like, they've been to so many, like, through, so many things together. I haven't, you know, you've been at his side for a hundred years. They've had so many like friendships, weddings, dinner parties. No, Fishig was there at Midas's, you know, wedding as well.

Like they've been together for such a long time. And Medea and Amos, they're like gutted. They tried to speak to him as well, but he kind of seems like he's made up his mind. And Eisenhorn won't have someone in his party who doesn't want to be there. Eisenhorn then receives a communique and it just says simply, Kanyar must be stopped, which is very interesting. because obviously he's not sure who this is coming from. But then he sees like in the kind of coding of it that it's from a figure such a name he hasn't heard from for quite a while.

And he gets back aboard the SN on Max Seder's ship and they make their way to this jungle world called Promody. They descend from their ramp and they see a figure in this floating chair. It is Inquisitor Gideon Ravanaugh, if you remember from the previous episode. He has been a full rank inquisitor for a few decades now. He's obviously incredibly burned

up as a figure. He can't really do much movement. He's stuck on his chair. But Ravanaugh is an incredibly powerful Psycho, and he has his own series of novels, which maybe we could do one day on Deaths Ridiculous again. I don't know if anyone else's got a particular affinity for Ravana.

but Raveners... I'll be honest, I don't. I think his books are actually quite good, though. Are they? Are they? It's a proper, like, inquisitor book. Like, it's a full-on investigation and mystery. I mean, I have no interest in originally reading them, but I didn't realize the books were, like, really good.

I would say they're as good as the Eisenhardt ones. Maybe a little better in terms of their... villains and there's like some interesting things. You know, like there's the whole like one of the members is actually a unique psycho who becomes one of the Grey Knights. So he becomes Hyperion. So there's actually like some cool stuff from there. There's the recurring characters.

Kara Swole and Harlan Nail are also in the Ravenel books. And in fact, Kara Swall and Harlan Nail stand beside Ravenna. Because Ravanaugh got wind of something because he was speaking to some individuals who were helping him, and they scry that they would be in danger. So he saved Harlan Nail, Karaswal, and on board his ship in the medical station is Bekwin, still basically in a coma. This is where Eisenhorn, he's incredibly grateful. He's obviously very proud of Ravanaugh, because he's his own inquisitor.

And he's come back from, obviously, like a crazy injury on, underneath the Spacian Gate. I think it was like 99% burn on his whole body. Yeah. So he's a, he, yeah, like, he has to like talk with his chair or his mind because he's even, he's even more powerful with psycher than, um, uh, Eisenhorn. And if we eventually get to the Beckwin books, there's a part where some people, he, like, he shows off how powerful he is. And the others go like, holy fuck. Like, this guy is strong. He speaks to Rabina.

And they have a very, like, I don't, you can't. do it justice because obviously it's like a podcast but in like the um the book there's such a good conversation about there's almost in the universe of 40k ravenor like isleyn like is wrong confesses some of the things obviously like there is fault and he speaks back to Eisenhorn saying there's almost an inevitability of radicalism in the war like in the inquisition like in some way you can't like fend against like eventually someone has to use something thing to win or hold back the tide and that's what slowly like you know i mean like the puritan belief can only get you so far and slash you know it doesn't defend against everything and like you can't

in some way everyone like not necessarily falls but becomes more aware of the truth of what they have to do in order to survive it's a very interesting uh conversation this is where we're going to get to uh the shortest section but this will be part three and This is where we make our way towards the end of this series. This episode is Thorne requires Aegis, the shades of eternity, multifarious changelings below. Thorne requires Aegis all the goddamn time. Can he, at some point not require. It's actually the most common, like, phrase set up in, uh, he says it.

He says it all the goddamn time. He's always acquiring each. Thorne not require eages. Can he not? I believe I think multifarious changelings below means there are enemies

such as chaos is around because multi-ferrous changelings I think refers to chaos Also, changeling is a very, you know, classic,

very, yeah, yeah, yeah. On this, like, it's a cool scene where there's like, what they call it, is it fire, not fire bugs? Fireflies.

They're like fireflies and it's like jungle setting. Eisenhorn is speaking again to Ravenna and he sees the help that Ravanna Ravenna has been receiving. Because from the kind of like corner, like slightly hidden, he's a slightly slender figure.

It is an elder and he's like a false here. And he sees Eisenhorn and he like whispers and hate because he senses the malacodysium in his pocket. To which Eisenhorn states, you know, he understands like again in some way, Ravenna's his own radical because he's allying with, you know, Xenos. they come to a conclusion which Ravinor and the Eldar have collaborated on because they've both come to the same thing, which is they can't scry the future anymore

because there seems to be no future. Something's about to wipe out the future. And it's related to the word that Pontius Gaw's daughter had imprinted on Eisenhorn's mind earlier. there's going to be some kind of weapon and it's related to the word gul. This is where they,

the reason they're on Promody here is because they understand like Pontius Glor has been here before. They begin to enact their own seance where they have their own psychers like Raveners and some of Eisenhorn's group who are psychers, they gathered together and with the Eldar's help

who they have like a whole bunch of humans and just one Eldar because he's something that powerful. And they enact their own seance, but not like as in in the mind. They enact it physically within the space. They create this bubble which shows what happened in history. And some weeks before,

they see this creature. It is slightly larger than a human, quite like a very tall human, tall than Eldar. It is a like sculpted body of metal. And it looks almost like, like, you know, kind of like that Greek statue personified.

This is Pontius Glor's new form, which Shias put a lovely image in. Whoa. I actually will have it on the screen as well. I mean, that fucking rocks actually, though. Yeah, that is really, really sick as hell. Yeah, obviously Magos Bure's work added upon, you know, because he was given a body as a reward for helping Eisenhower last episode. and interestingly, he's surrounded by like, you know, the genoceros and the other figures

and his own psychas Pontius and they see him staring at something and they realize Pontius is enacting his own seance and they start to see glimpses or like representations of this large like kind of what's described like a glossy black city and it looks like he's obviously in search of some massive weapon that's going to destroy all future possibilities. And they managed to get some information and some inscriptions on this special tome and like this star chart. And it's leading them to what is clearly the location that Pontius has been looking for. But it's an interesting, like, weird sort of hang up, which is this obviously happened

probably weeks or months ago. Why is Pontius taking his time? in what's happening. So something to think about, because obviously he could have, why he's not gone there? Immediately, why is he tried to kill Eisenhorn?

Also, I love Shai's commentary on, on Eisenhorn so far. She is no fan of Eisenhower. What a load of shit on Eisenhorn side. I use chaos, artifacts, and demon. He's friend with Eldar.

Wow, we're both such heretics. Suck my ass, Gregory. Never changed, Shai. This is where, like, they sort of split into groups, and they decide, we need to gather materials, equipment, people to help, and we are going, you know, without the main inquisitions, like, sort of help.

And they're going to go follow this star chart to probably find whatever this weapon is that Pontius has been looking for. They're about to leave, and Eisenhower, like, speaks to the few of, like, you know, He speaks some of the crew, like nail and some of the other ones, Medea, of course. But he finally goes to speak to Kretzia, who actually has gone into the ship of Ravner to go check in as a doctor on a very, very special patient. And I'm not going to lie, this is like a thing where I read this initially. And I wasn't that sad about it. But the more I come back to these novels, the more I get like sadder about this sort of next scene, D.K. would you be so kind to read this next excerpt for what is currently going on?

Sure. Cretzia appeared at my side. What are you going to do, Gregor? She asked. I won't turn the machines off. Not yet. My mind's too full of that bastard glaw. I'll make a decision afterwards.

I turned to go. She can probably hear you, Krechia said suddenly. Do you think so? Kretia shrugged and smiled. I don't know. There's every chance she can. and if she can't, does it matter? Does what matter? Tell her, Gregor, now before you go, tell her for goodness sakes. Do the right thing by one of us at least. She left me alone and I sat down beside Elizabeth Scott. And then, though I don't know to this day if she ever heard or understood, I told her all the things I should have told her years before.

Eisenhorn tells her that he loved her and he confesses all his feelings and obviously they could never really be together because it's never going to happen anymore. I don't get like, it's not like everyone finds this moment super sad, but I kind of find it sadder if you like, because I've read all the books together in one go and it's that thing of like they never got a chance. and obviously he can't really be with the woman that he loves and he never will be anymore because it's understood that she'll never recover it's not going to happen so he kind of says goodbye to her and that's what again

another friend another ally is basically dead this is where they so they've done this and they're getting geared up and they're ready to go take on Pontius Glaw they separate for a little bit so some of them like the elder interestingly like they agree to like fight alongside ravenor goes to get his own like extra like men and gear it's interesting like because they and also isan does the same thing they're going to gather some more people to help them assault whatever world this pontius glor is

looking for his weapon on in the seance they were trying to work out like more about the mystery And this is where Amos asks Eisenhorn to, like, there's no choice. There's writings and tome and like language written on the Pontius Glor's seance that they viewed that they can't understand. So Amos asks Eisenhorn to use the malice codicium, to which Eisenhorn warns him about being safe with it. You know, they've seen prohibitive materials before, but Amos says he's going to be careful. Using the malice codicium, Amos decifers the language and discovers this kind of mythology about this. On Gaul, there is a dead demon king and his mausoleum, a demon king called Yassiril, who you'll never see in Warhammer. Like, it's a, it's a weird, it's written in a language that's not really understood by anyone, obviously, other than using the war.

It describes it as a war That was billions of years in the making An unending war And buried in this tomb Alongside the dead demon king Ysirial Is his bark A weapon which is best described as his ship His chariot

And with this weapon If Pontius Glor gets his hands upon it All futures will end Ah so his bark is worse than his plate eh Shut off As in B.A.R. Q you. I'm sorry, that was a little strong. That is the reaction I was absolutely looking for.

Okay, you're doing your own slot. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Hey, hey, wait a minute, that's stolen valor. You have to make a joke from the British office. I'd like the American one more, actually. Yeah, because it's actually better in people who say otherwise are wrong. I haven't seen either one. Side note, Americans don't like it if someone's like a full on loser.

Whereas in the British one, the guy who's Michael Scott's character, like everyone thinks he's a loser, whereas like Michael Scott's character has some kind of thing where they feel sorry for him, they'll join in at the end or like, you know, they kind of love, you know, they love Michael Scott. But the British one does not have that. We really like it if someone's a fucking loser. We just love it. Is it Michael Scott, like, isn't it Rich, isn't it Ricky Jervase in that movie or in that show? Yeah, is Ricky Jaze's character, yeah. Well, that's easy then, because they already cast a loser. Oh!

I liked so many of Ricky's projects before. I don't know what. Do idiot abroad. I don't want to see an idiot abroad. Do more idiot abroad. I love Carl Pilkington. No one knows what I'm talking about, but it's fine. That's all right.

That's all right. More people know what you're talking about than what I said earlier, so it's okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So at this point, Eisenhorn's like, good work, Amos. where's the Mars codicium? To which Amos kind of like

pretends he doesn't have it and he's like Amos like it's here it's like oh my bad Eisenhorn kind of like he looks at Amos and he looks like a bit dishevelled like something's clearly wrong with him

he gets Amos to speak and he realizes Amos got all this information about the demon king and his chariot weapon because he's been speaking to someone who's been on answering him, he's been speaking to Cherubaya. Oh, shit. Oh, great.

Oh, Christ. Amos is a bit, like, feverish, but he's okay. But Eisenhorn says, you're going to stay in the Medicaid for a while now, because you need to recover. Like, you're, you've gone a bit too far. And he's, he's like, okay, okay. But, like, he's still, like, slightly rocking back and forward. He's an old man as well. Poor old guy.

but you know he's not saying most perturbatory at this point he's a bit he needs help and I think it's um not carraswall it's Alina Koi who was the blank earlier who was in the Goodwin Estate when they fleed she was like

help and look after him as the group is divided one of the stations they're getting resources at Eisenhorn enters and Medea confesses and like and also Amos and the other they say we gave you a location to Fishig

because Fishig sent a message saying he wanted to join in. He said he wanted to talk and he's like he's had a think on things. So they, which Eisenon doesn't like, but they, he agrees to like meet. What's like, he's ambushed in some way. Fishing is there and he's like, I just want to talk and I just want to talk.

I'm sorry how it ended before. And they notice they're like they're kind of being surrounded. what appears to burst into the room with full-on inquisitorial guards is good old Heldane, who used to be common as Vokes guy, in a very strict Puritan, and a certain inquisitor who maybe took Eisenhorn prisoner and almost killed him on Cadia, who is now his own master had died,

and now the grand master, Osmer, is here, and he tells Eisenhorn he's once again under her he's got in and he's like I've got you heretic osmar and Heldane storm the asen with Eisenhorn Medea and the others and they get them in chains they begin their interrogations this is where fishig realizes he may be fucked up because Is Heldane and Osma say something a bit strange? They ask, where is the malas codicium? Where is the demon host? Which obviously, Fisich's told them everything.

And they don't mean, like, where is it so we can destroy it? They mean, where is it we want it for us. Fisig is like realizing maybe these Puritans aren't as Puritan as I thought. And they tell him he's done, leave. and then they start to drag out people. They grab poor Maxilla and they start to like hurt him. Maxilla plays along like in some way. He like he renounces Eisenhorn says then he's nothing to them.

They're nothing. Maxilla gets like injured. Eisenhower gets like they're begging. He, Eisenhower is saying like if he don't release me something terrible, you know, we're trying to stop Pontius Glaw and you know of him. Like if you don't release me,

something terrible is going to happen. They don't care. They want the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the demon host for themselves. Except they start to hear a ticking noise. It gets a bit louder. Suddenly the chamber's doors, like, crunch in, and cherubail has clearly been summoned. Ha!

So, Terubail once again rockets in, and pandemonium explodes. I love the idea that he's doing like the Black Adam thing where it's the rock and he's just like, like Adam Warlock and he's just like flying in there, you know, in a sea of heat wave. Essentially, yeah. This is one of the things where Heldane and Osma, they had talked a lot of game about demon hosts. Not many people, not many inquisters have actually seen demon hosts. And this is where they realize they are like, oh, fuck. Like, we are really outclass.

here. It debilitates into a fight between, it's like a three-way fight. Maxilla, at one point, he uses his, he on the floor, he uses his digital ring,

and he just blast Osmer's, like, head off. Like, he did blast him apart. Oh, shit. Yeah. Okay.

He said, fuck you. In a, like, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm summarizing this quite quickly, but, like, Tribal starts,

like, killing loads of the inquisitorial age. Heldane, I think at one point, catches fire, so he starts burning, he runs away. Troy Bale starts to taunt Eisenhorn saying, which he often does in the novel as being like, I've missed you, Gregor.

Like, he's always whispering to him delicately, being like, you know, almost like lovers in some way that are like whispered creepy tones. And he says, like, you know, fight with we have such fun together, Eisenhorn. He's like, and it's getting closer. He gets,

he gets distracted against engage in other fights at this point maxilla who's been injured he gets taken out and as he's dying poor maxilla he gets killed and it's his last words

he says to isnhorn I didn't mean what I said before when he like disown like disown them he said he didn't mean that he like he truly loved all of the group and he dies poor maxilla once again is caught up in

Eisenhorn's stuff I get gutted about Maxill's one because he's, it's hard to do it justice in these episodes, but he's such like a fun thing in the novels. And it's just like, he goes out in such an undignified, like, way. Yeah. Eisenhorn grabs his group and they try to flee as the SN is, like, burning up.

Following them outside the room, a man holds a gun to Eisenhorn is Fisheg. He tells him, like, Oh, fischig. He tells him, don't do this Eisenhorn. renounce what you've done. I can save you, to which Eisenhorn says he doesn't need saving. He's not going to do it. Fisich proceeds to shoot Eisenhorn in both of his legs and Eisenhorn like in the thighs and crumples him to the floor.

He has his pistol over him and he says, I'm sorry, like I'm so sorry. Fishing goes to pull the trigger, except he falls to the ground dead because Medea with her father's pistols crying tears like streaming down her face killed fishing. Oh man. This sucks. This sucks. Yeah. Do we have anyone left?

I mean, we got Medea, but like, yippee, we have like, oh yeah, what? Speaking of that.

No, no, no, no, don't. Alina's still alive. And then another one of the group, Kara Swole,

he was like the kind of person who was at the beginning of episode, and then she was at Ravanaugh earlier. she arrives with Amos, she's grabbed him from the Mediqay. We learned that Amos looks really ill because it was Amos who summoned Chirubail to save them. And then Churubail bursts into the corridor and is like, starts rocketing towards them.

And Eisenhorn's on the floor, he can't move. His legs are like, his legs are dead. He can't move them. Yeah. He's bleeding out. Amos takes Eisenhorn staff. he steps forward and uses this like his knowledge gained from the malice codician like sort of discombobulates the demon host temporarily

like it sends it into spasm as he's shaking violently he tells eisenhorn use the malice codicium Eisenhorn using his own blood i think starts to draw out the binding ritual to the only fresh body in the vicinity to Godwin Fiscik's body. Oh no. The group bind Chubail as a haunting, smiling face. It's looking at them in one of their small cutters,

a horn growing on its temple now. Eisenhorn is stabilized. They are running away, and this is where he turns to his closest friend. Brickie, would you be so kind to read his closest friend, Bricky. He doesn't say his closest friend. Bricky, of course.

Would you be so close to the last X? I know. I know. Uber, as if I had disturbed him in his sleep. He opened his eyes. They were his eyes again. Bloodshot, old, blinking to focus without his eyeglasses. His breath sounds were getting worse.

You hold on, I said. He surprised me by suddenly taking my bloodstained hand and gripping it. tightly. He turned his head slowly and squinted at the demon host we had made together. It sat, strapped into its seat on the other side of the aisle, head bowed and dormant. Most, he whispered, most perturbatory. I was going to reply, but his grip had slackened. His breathing had stopped. My oldest friend had gone. I sat back, gazing at the cabin roof. The sensations that I had been blocking swept in and over.

overwhelmed me. I felt frail as if I was made of paper. I knew I had lost a huge quantity of blood. The pain in my legs was like fire, but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart. You know, it's really sad that Amos dies, but like that,

that last line is such like a 14-year-old edgy moment. I almost think, every time I reread it, I always think, could he said something else? But I guess, like, it is his, like,

he does say it a lot. in the novels. I think he was, it's, I don't know, but I, I'm sure it's fine. It's,

it is, but like, like, what is this? This is the red wedding, the book? Jesus Christ. Yeah,

everybody's dead, man. Fishing is a demon host. Amos is dead. Like, there's no, like, I am,

I am not, I, look, I don't know how this ends, but I am not expecting good things for Eisenhorn at the end of this book. I'm going to say,

guys, what, um, A question to bounce of this is what character deaths do you, like, still think about? I mean, I mean, you know, you know me. I think about, I think about Zara all the time. That one always gets to me. Oh, yeah.

That one always gets me. But, like, you know, I mean, that's such as one thing. I find this series particularly gutting because most of them kind of survive, like most of the books until this one. Yeah, I was about to say, this series, you mean this book, they all fucking dead, man. Yeah, everybody's gone. In a short grouping, we lose Beckwin, we lose Fisig, we lose Maxilla, we lose Amos. Like, we lose so many people. It's so horrible.

Also, Shai says, oh, look, once again, we are doing something for the good of mankind, while loyalists dying left and right, summoning warporers, losing friends, possessing loyal servants of the emperor with demons, all to fix the problem Eisenhorn caused to begin with. No way to prevent this, says the Inquisitor to whom. this regularly happens. Yeah, this one like, yeah.

It always hurts to come to come back to this, though, but like, we're going to round out towards the end right here because surprisingly in this novel, like, the ending is almost feels quite abrupt because it, like, most, this is like most of the novel now. So we next, like, kind of like this weird fast forward a few weeks. We see Eisenhorn. It's like, it's kind of like a back and forward scene. we see that he is like slowly walking but like limping. Like hydraulic sounds are emerging from his legs.

In his attempt to not have a long recovery time and be out of the action, Eisenhorn with the help of Kretzia has crude biometrics placed onto his body. You know the image where he's bald? They have to shave his head to make sure the implants can go into the back of his neck and spine. which attach to these leg braces that allow him to walk again. So that way, that is forever now with like the image of Eisenhorn. He kind of like almost like slowly trudges and limps everywhere. He is forever basically wounded.

The different teams have arrived on the world of ghoul. And there are several different kill teams. Some of them are comprised entirely of the ALDA. And they're working in tandem to. attack the forces of Pontius Glor. As should be said, the world of ghoul gives off a sort of strange feeling very, very similar, if you remember to the first time Eisenhorn saw the Sir Ruthie how the angles of the world don't make sense.

And there's almost like a fog of like green, like smog everywhere. There are different kilts that we see like Harlan Nail, Medea and other characters. They're in one of the kill teams and they, start killing several groups of Viserian Janissaries who are obviously part of Pontius's different groups. They start to walking through

what is described as a cyclopean city of glassy black rock. They enter into this like a smaller, underverse chamber area where there is more civilization built to a scale way beyond the human size that stretches far beyond the horizon.

It is truly like that thing of where you go, the scale is like unfathomal to the human mind. Eisenhorn, with some of the members around him, so he started to chase and follow the trail of glor towards the tomb that is within the center, the tomb of the demon king, Yiddris, or so Yisis or something. And within the like smaller chambered area, not only chamber, but like, it's weird because there's like a ceiling,

but it's like a civilization under a ceiling, which had another sing above it is a bit of a mind fuck. They, finally, Eisenhorn, in his like crude biometrics, like he's in pain at every moment, that embittered look upon his faces, you know, a face that cannot smile looks even more sour. He is heartbroken and angry. And in the middle, he sees what is described

as an almost literally undescribable black geometric shape that repulses him just to look at. And he's seen some pretty hefty, like, crazy stuff. He, again, like, skipping some things out, he makes it to where he gets to the weapons kind of anti-chamber or, like, entrance. And he sees the metallic, kind of sculpted form of Pontius Glor. And it's at this point when he, like, there's a small conversation between the two, because they, like, Glor is not.

really like, you know, oh, my nemesis, Gloria is more of a consequence of Eisenhorn's decisions. He's not someone who's like, he's always been there in the background batting against me. That is, Glor is a mistake for Eisenhorn. And he makes a realization that in some way, this wasn't really about Eisenhorn. The weapon, like the only way to access it, the reason Pontius was hunting and killing Eisenhorn's group,

was because he actually needed the malice codician. And guess who's brought that with him? Oh, Eisenhower. Except. It's just... Behind him, Eisenhorn is not alone, because the enslaved, fissig body of Trubail floats up. Except Pontius Glor has his own demon host,

which declares it's even stronger than Trubail. The two demon hosts slammed together in like a kind of, scratching homelessman brawl and they tumble off the edge Eisenhorn draws his staff and Barbaris Sater and moves to fight Glor

they actually engage in what I describe as a relatively short duel because Eisenhorn again he can't beat this guy physically so he uses his best weapon his mind he takes out the malad's codicium and does the thing that he should have done

from the very beginning when he first saw it. He proceeds to rip the pages of the malice codicium and toss the pages into the air. Pontius Glor screams and tries to desperately grab the pages for the weapon he needs to activate, to which Eisenhorn takes advantage and he stabs and just basically kills him. That is kind of, at this point then, it just sort of derails into almost like a historical recounting, which says Gregor Eisenhorn was at these events at this time and has not really been seen since. All we know is there is this like man who has this cane who walks in like with a kind of strange gate in his step, shaved head, and there was a floating figure beside him.

And he is basically rogue. And that is the end of Eisenhorn Hereticus. How did you guys feel about that? That one's a... That sucks. man everyone's yeah that was awful what do you mean how do i feel that that feels very much also like well you kind of reap what you sew buddy like oh man i sure do hate the sewing can we go back to the reaping part or i like to the sewing part yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i like the sewing part a lot

more yeah the reaping part not so much i don't like that i don't know it's strange like what i enjoy about it is um a little people who kind of maybe reap read the first and the second one, they get the impression of like, oh, they're just trying to make this guy look super cool. You need the third book to understand, like, they brought you in. Yeah. Then you can see the consequence of being the hash, you know, the quote, cool guy. This is what happens to the cool guy who's like, you know, I know, I'm the, you know, I can handle it. I'm doing it for that. This is not a cool guy story. No. The story of Eisenhorn is a tragedy. It is a, what the war has.

a universe will do to you. It is a story of brutality and lost love and just that you will lose everybody, everybody that you care about. It is, in the weird sense, though, like, it's that thing of, you know, like, some media is, like, quite sad or, like, it's like the, I think in the movie, like, saving private Ryan, like, spoilers for people listening, uh, lost people, most of the guys die in saving private Ryan. And it's, like, kind of sad the movie, but in some way, it was like, it was like,

was so good the journey along the way. You kind of have to respect it. Oh, well, I mean, like, I'm, I'm more than, like, I don't actually think it actually sucks. Like, I'm sure it's very properly with the deaths and all that kind of stuff. But, like, man, but like, also simultaneously, like, damn, maybe, you know what? Maybe Shai was right. Maybe he should have put a book down. Yeah.

No, you definitely. It is making the point that all of the deaths are his fault. As in like, I don't think maybe people would disagree in that. Obviously, that's up to interpretation. Because technically it's, you know, it's not, it is the enemy's fault. But in some way, the enemy is allowed to exist because of his mistakes. Yeah. A lot of it is the consequences of your actions.

But that's, guys, that is, that is book three of the Eisenhorn. That's the last book of the trilogy. And then there is another book called, well, I think it's a novella actually. It's mercifully shorter. And that is called Magos. And that is a multi-character P.O.V.1 rather than just an Eisenhorn one. Which I really like that one as well. That one's even more like it's equally depressing, but in a different way.

But this, that is Eisenhorn, guys. Has Eisenhorn? Yeah, it doesn't sound like a bad book. It's just like, like, shy said, it's just like, boy, this is, this is a very consequences of your action kind of book for old Eisenhorn. because the first two books I was like, oh, yeah, I'd be a radical. Like, look at all this cool stuff that Eisenhorn's do. Oh, yeah, nothing could possibly go wrong. And then everything proceeds to go wrong.

And it's like, oh, yeah, okay. You know, I will admit, like, the everything goes wrong thing I wasn't so sure about. But, like, wow, everything, like, went wrong. Yeah. Everything that could go wrong because of his actions in the first two books does go wrong. Like, wow. Yikes. Like, like, everything went wrong.

Like, holy hell. We really 180ed this thing. Holy shit. I think this is why a lot of people do enjoy this. Like, a lot of people do recommend to what, to read the Eisenhorn. Because it's just very Warhammer. Like, it's very Warhammer. Oh, yeah.

It just makes you feel kind of weirdly sound about it. Yeah, yeah. Love, now I'd love to see a series on like a Netflix adaptation or something of Eisenhorn. And, yeah, because next time. there'll be another episode we start to get into the king and yellow stuff that's literally

what the next book is about so oh yes and then that next book leads directly into the Beckwin series so it's all and it's all tied together

they're like they all you don't have to read all the Eisenhorn ones to read Beckwin but it makes it so much more enjoyable because he is like featuring it parts in that

so I feel like I remember there being rumored is that Netflix was working on an Eisenhorn TV show or something. Like a mini series, like a special or something, right? Didn't they joke about Kubrick directing it originally back when he was still alive? Oh, man, that would be a trip. There was an Eisenhorn series, like, not with Amazon in the works for a while, but that went away.

Because I think then it turned into this Amazon deal. So that was going to be with another. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think it's a pretty good choice for a start. series. Mm-hmm. Like, as far as that introduced you to what the 40K series will do to you.

Like what that universe does? Yeah. Very quickly. I mean, even just the first book, it has everything you need. So it's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Dan, I'm gonna, you son of a bitch.

Yeah. Yes. Thank you guys for listening to that episode. I hope everyone enjoyed it. Yeah. Hell yeah. We did. Good times, fun times.

Two hours in. Good things right there. No, it's all good. Um, Hal, I'll arrive at your house soon and I'll shoot you in both of your legs and then. And then we know what'll happen then. Prepare your kneecaps. Repair your kneecaps and die and become a demon. Yeah, exactly. Perfect.

All right. Thanks for watching everyone. Hal, thanks for coming by. And, um, I appreciate it. I'm excited for the next episode. Yeah. That's the three hour long finale. H-p-phing.