Adeptus Ridiculous - EMPEROR'S CHILDREN: I MUST HAVE MORE! | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: January 4, 2023

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamante's. My co-host is Bricky, and we're going to be learning a lot of fun stuff about Warhammer 40K today. But before we do, if you enjoy today's podcast, heading over to the Patreon. Patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to our Discord, bloopers if they happen. The HD poster tier is $15. So if you want that, maybe consider patreon.com slash adeptus Ridiculous. And Bricky, how about book club and other merchandise-related stuff?

Well, first things first, happy new year. Oh, yeah, it's 2023. How can I forget? Yeah, the new year is here, and I've already ruined it. So, 2024 will be my year. How have you already ruined this year? What happened? I woke up. Oh, got him. That's a shame.

Yeah, you play Destiny 2. the year's already ruined, right? Yeah, basically. So I wanted to extend a giant thank you to all of our fans who support us during our gigantic end-of-the-year merch sale. There were many posters being purchased. They have all the Black Friday ones have ceased production now. However, if you do go to the site at Orchidate.com, you might still see a couple of them up,

And those are any of the extras that we had to produce in order to meet the demand. You know, we would like put in like 10 or something. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, so we maybe have like two, three left of certain ones. And if you don't see it, then we are out, out. So if you missed it and you're like, oh, crap, I want to see if they maybe have one or two left, you can go ahead and check. But if it's not there, then that means it is out. Oh, we did restock the dice, though.

The dice are back. If you want to check out the dice, there is more. dice. So, uh, if you want to see, if you missed one and there's like a little us spare, go ahead. And if not, well, it was a wonderful time. It was a wonderful year. And thank you very, very much for your excellent, excellent support. All right, D.K. Luckily for you, you will not be, oh yeah, book club. Uh, Bellisari is called a great work. Uh, all right, DK, DK You will not be made fun of today

Well that's not true You will not be made fun of in this next 25 seconds because I do not have a quote That you will forget Emperor's Children He did it He did it Let's go

Here we go Now dog Yes I mean would you Would you like a quote anyway Absolutely I would still like a quote Shy you son of a bitch That was the quote I had

That was the one I had. Fuck you. Put your giga shed ogren down. Luckily for me, I have two. You came prepared. I came prepared. Wow. There is a tragedy in perfection,

as the ancient philosophers were wont to say, it is doomed to fail to become imperfect. The more tightly it is, grasp, the more imperfect it becomes. The fall of all those who turned against us are all bitter tragedies in their own right, but the fall of the emperor's children is a tragedy in the greatest and oldest sense. Their tragedies, not that they fell from perfection, but that it was never in their power to attain it, for they were always flawed, broken things. They reached for a distant light that would forever be out of their grasp, and in reaching they fell so far that the flawed magnificence

they had so painfully achieved would rot in our memories. The flaws were there, my lords. They were always there. We were blind to them. Now we must see both the glory that was and the ruin it became. We have that duty. Malkador the Sigelite. That is a quote and a half.

It's a long one, but it's an interesting statement. Malcador once again being the smarty pants Yep, he is indeed the smarty pants They tried to be perfect But they were never perfect They were always flawed They never truly could be So for those of you who are watching

And missed it our last episode was on Full Grim The Fonition The Fancy Pancy Boy The man who was We are now discussing The Legion itself The Emperor's Chilinel

and we will talk only a little bit about some of their champions, mainly about bile, a little bit of Lucius, but bile will most, well, not most likely, will get an episode to himself in the future. Oh, yeah. Because when you literally take this Chaos Space Marine Codex, it's like, who do you want to play as? Black Legion, Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion, etc.

And then one of them is literally creations of bile. Oh, wow. own faction. Can you actually play as the... That's not actually like a playable... Like you just play as the creations of bile, really? He is an entire faction along with like night lords and et cetera. Creations of bile.

Now he has a few fewer rules than the other of them do, but basically the units are like faster and hits stronger and stuff because he's tinkering with them. Ah, yes, he's trying to make them genetically, perfect. Yeah. Bile has a whole lot going on to him and he actually plays a pretty integral role in the Emperor's

Children's Fall. It's interesting. If I'm also not mistaken, he also like doesn't believe demons exist. I'm pretty sure he looked at a demon and was like yeah, you're not real. You're just like warp energy. I don't believe in you.

Gods are stupid. And I'm like, damn. I was going to say how can you be in the emperor's children a chaos space marine faction and not believe in demons

like what how is that possible he thinks they're just warp energy and they don't actually like exist like God's he's like atheist I'm paraphrasing heavily I'm paraphrasing heavily

but all I'm saying is that the B and Bile stands for base Emperor's children, they are the third legion we discussed. They are from the homeworld of Kimos, the Primarchus Fulgrim. Their war cry is children of the emperor or death to his foes or in more particular recent terms for the emperor in a mocking fashion to trick the populace of the worlds they attack, which is still fucking hilarious. That's one of my favorite things about Empress children is that they still say for the emperor because just that little extra salt in the wound.

It's very funny. So the original Terran-born Emperor's children way back when were actually brought by the children of lords on Europa. Europa, the moon of Jupiter? There were large noble families over in Europa, and they originally had a prior defiance against the emperor that is Thunder Warriors put down. And in a kind of like, in a little bit of a creague way,

in a penance for this defiance, they would give a large amount of their offspring to the Legion. And so eventually the Terran aristocrats followed suit with the Europa aristocrats, and these like firstborn children and stuff were there to build up the Third Legion's main ranking youth. If you remember, most space marines are made it around the was it youngest ages like eight or nine and oldest is like 16, give or take?

Yeah, very young. Yeah, so this, basically you have to imagine the idea that what's like the British noble kid, like, papa, I have more porridge. Yeah. Papa. Yes. So it was all around that age that they were taken.

And so creating this level of like this foundation of this artful warfare group. The foundation of the emperor's children was always steeped in some kind of fancy fancy level of artistry. But in its own way because they were yanking the papas from the world. Poor children. Poor kiddos. Poor kid, yeah, well, considering how high the death rate of a Astardis is, then, yeah, it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I suppose so. So they were initially, the emperor's children, were sent to aid the Imperial Army, which at the time was the combination of the Imperial Navy and the Astromilitarum.

They melded with them quite well, apparently, because they were very used to, or. ordering people under them? Because they're aristocrats. Because they're aristocrats? I, hey, I mean, they've been trained since birth for this job, man. Let's go. These are the Will Smiths of the world, and the Imperial Army were the butlers from... What's his name from Fresh Prince of Bel Air? I didn't watch Fresh Prince of Bel Air as a kid, to be honest with you.

You didn't watch Fresh Prince of Bel Air? I did not watch the Fresh Prince of Bel Air as a kid. watching cartoons, man. I was watching tailspin and dark wing duck and shit like that. Like, mm-mm. All right, it was, it was Jeffrey or Joffrey, I forget how it's pronounced, but him,

him. I don't know how, I don't know how you pronounce that. How do you say, G-E-O-F-R-E-Y? Is it Joffrey? I'd say Geoffrey. Okay, I'd say, him. I think they say, yeah, they say, I think they say Jeffrey. Jeffrey.

Wow, that's a long way to go just to let us know that the, they are very underneath the emperor's children. This is a long bit, my friend. D.K., let me tell you something about women. Something about women. Okay. All right. So, they originally were the only legion to ever,

that is a very deep reference. Please keep that in shy. I didn't get it. All right. Maybe it's because they don't understand whammon. Yeah, it's chicken and winnagish. I have no idea what you're talking about. Oh, it's okay.

That's perfectly fine. Now, they were the only Legion at the time able to bear the Palatine Aquila. The Palatine Aquila is different than the regular Imperial Aquila, because this is the Emperor's personal standard Aquila. This is actually because way back in the beginning, the Emperor was wounded in a battle by this fancy vortex grenade, and the Emperor's children fought and died pretty heavily in this big noble sacrifice to save him and his custodians.

So in order to appreciate that, they were allowed to bear the palatine aquila. In fact, often the third legion was picked by the emperor to serve as a diplomatic advisor or an emissary. Often they were used as a tool in politics specifically because, well, you know, aristocrats. Yeah. So they're the only ones that can wear this. That's because in the last episode, you were saying something like they were the only ones that were allowed to wear the aquila.

And I was like, I'm pretty sure I've seen the aquila on other space marines, but this is like the fancy emperor's aquila, and that's like the difference. But did you see the fancy aquila in the Horacee days? Ah, okay, gotcha. If we remember correctly, Talos in the Night Lord's book had a leftover Salamander's chest plate that had an Imperial Aquila that they scratched out on it. But that is post-heresy.

Okay. Okay. That's fair. I haven't seen a ton. Or I guess I don't remember what a lot of the pre-heresy armor looks like. But, okay. It looks all kind of samey. It's just kind of like swapping colors.

but they had the big emperors palatine aquila on it. Fancy boys. Basically, the idea was that while the other Space Marine legions, they kind of bore the words of the emperor, the Third Legion was the voice of the emperor. And it makes sense that they eventually had the name the Emperor's children. Children, yep, of course. That makes sense now.

It kind of like there was already the foundation for them being, that way in the beginning. Yeah, definitely. So the Legion's Gene Seed, if you remember, had a big failure. It was trying to make its way over to Luna, and the ship had a catastrophic failure. They don't really know what happened. Some say it crashed and was obliterated.

Some say it just simply disappeared. I have a theory that maybe it tried to do warp travel, and then Zient or someone was like, ooh, cool. Because it was a way to set Fulgrim upon his path. The great game of Zinch, you know, it's like, oh, we take away all the gene seed, and then Bullgrim will, like, try to live up to expectations, because these are the future. You know, Zinch bullshit.

Yeah, yeah, Zinch, future change, bullshit. Yeah, sure, I got it. Which wouldn't have been so bad if the remaining major amount of gene seed on the vaults of Terra had not been hit by a massive blight. The virus was artificial. and could not be treated, and some think it was Zenos-related, but theory again, blight, chaos gods, Zines takes the ship, Nurgle takes the gene stock. Really screws them over?

It's a theory. It could just be a Zenos blight. I don't know. They some believe it would be a Zenos, but whatever the reason, this basically destroyed all of the Emperor's Children's Gene seed. Ooh, that's no good. That is not a good thing to have happened to your Legion. No, and with that, the entire Legion slowly began to die. Oh, yep. Because there was no, there's no more restocking. Yeah, you can't replace, yeah.

And then luckily they found Folgram after that. Oh, well, good, good for them. That's good. Yeah, perfect. And life is, they find a full grim that can start making more dudes from Gene Seed. all the good stuff happens. So we pass all that part because I was on the Fulgren episode.

But to think a little bit more about the Emperor's children in warfare-wise, we mentioned that they were much more artistic in how they conducted their battles. I kind of always think a little bit like a, almost like maybe a

harlequin level of artistic because they're like this weird defty dance, but these are still space marines. But are they kind of like the, Oh, well, what was her name in Bloodbourne? The sword dancer that spins around and everybody has a really hard time with her

and you really have to like remember how she moves about. In Bloodborn? Yeah, I thought it was in Bloodborn. Maybe it was in Bloodborn. That's Lady Maria, but that doesn't sound right. Do you mean- Oh, that was Dark Souls 3? Sorry, I get my Zolnsborg games mixed up. The dancer.

The dancer of the Burial Valley. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was Dark Souls 3? Yes, it was. Oh my God. Yeah, it's been the time. Yeah, I'm getting my soul's born off. Mixed up.

But yeah, yeah, yeah, I kind of think like that when I'm thinking like Harlequins or like artistic sword dancer warrior type people. That's what I think of. That's not a bad way to put that. I mean, obviously this is being done by eight foot tall dudes,

or seven foot tall, whatever, in giant bricks of power armor. So it's a tad different. But they're more artful with their warfare, right? The Emperor's Children Legion believed that measuring themselves against their peers, against their others, was the way to know they were on the right path.

Like, if their brothers, not as in the Emperor's Children, but like a different legion got a bunch of accolades, it would be twofold. It would be a wound to their pride, and it would also light a fire under their ass to do better. You know, the ultramarines end up there with 500 worlds conquered. They're like, God, fucking, damn it. Then they try to do it even more.

We need to get a thousand worlds. So they're like this sort of upstart little brother that's always kind of, I don't want to say living in the shadow, but, you know, every time Big Brother does something fancy, it's like, oh. Papa, why can't I be like Charlemagne in football? Yeah, I mean, a little bit, and this is exacerbated even more by the fact that their Legion was tiny and dying at the time. Oh, yeah, because no gene seeds, so they're, yeah, they're really up against the wall. They couldn't do nearly as much as everyone else could, and that made just really difficult to handle. Being the Emperor's children and being that small and trying to hold yourself up to the standards of the Ultramarines, that are getting just an influx of constant troops from Ultramar's gotta be a just a nightmare.

There's no way you can live up to that. I mean, Gillen was found decently after Fulgrim, but even then, like the time it took to regain his ranks and really get, I mean, yeah, it's like, hey, you're trying to be the greatest basketball player and beat out LeBron James after somebody shot you in the knees. Yeah, good luck. Like, that's a nigh impossible task. It's really goddamn hard. And it created a ton of jealousy whenever, you know, and it made a lot of contempt for other legions. Because the Emperor's children were, you know, the more I think about the idea of the Emperor's children being taken from young, preteen, rich kids, the more I start to understand.

Fair? Yep. I mean, they were, they were doomed from the start. Like, once that gene seed got messed up by chaos, they were doomed. Like, there is... And then they had to go fuck up the snakes. So... They had to go fuck up the snakes. So they also had this other weird vision where, like, the accomplishments and the achievements

would, like, keep rising, and they would keep doing more and more great stuff. Like, Shai mentions there, there's a book about Fulgram Conquering a place. planet with seven Marines. Holy seven? Yeah, which like, I guess depending on what you're fighting makes sense, because, you know, Marines are insane, but, and Folgram, of course, because it's Fulgram. Well, true. I guess they do have a prime mark, so that's going to make things a little easier, but

seven Marines. It's the fact that the whole ability to do so is, is like, that's him trying to show off, right? Yeah, trying to do all the great stuff. But for the Emperor's children, accomplishments of the past mean, nothing. Like once they do something crazy, it's like they will be rewarded for it and they're happy, but after that, like, all right, it's over. Like, we need new accomplishments now. Like, the future accomplishments will be always more important than the past. Right. So they don't

rest on their laurels. So that's a good thing. Well, it also means they can't be proud of themselves, which is not a good thing. Oh, yeah, I guess that, yeah, okay. Yeah, it's, yeah. So next comes up the Lear and I always forget how pronounce it we'll call it the Lear The War with the Lear, the Snakey people The Snaky people, the Serpins, yeah During this whole war fighting stuff We are introduced to Fabulous Bile

Now his real name is Fabius Bile F-A-B-I-U-S but you know fabulous Bill Fabulous Billy the Billster Basically the Warhammer's version of Dr. Frankenstein but not at the time.

At the time, he is a chief apothecary. So, you know, highest medical man. Yeah, so he's like a doctor. He's literally a doctor. Well, I was going to compare him to Vario, but actually...

Vario. That might be okay in this day and age, but way back when, yeah, he's an apothecary. You know, he's just an apothecary. Post-herency, he can be like Vario, but right now, not so much. Not so much. No, he was actually, shy's photo of him there is okay. There's some actually better pictures of him that make him actually look pretty regal and like surprisingly like normal looking.

It's all right there. Oh boy, that one's not, that is very not normal than that one. As opposed to that one. Is that a flesh coat? Actually, it is, which is very unsterile. Oh, very. He might disinfect it every day. Maybe. But anyway, he discovered that the Laer Zenos species had actually done extensive genetic engineering to make their species like perfect. Basically just perfect.

Oh. They created even a caste system, much like the Tao, designed for specific functions, but the caste system was on a genetic level. Like how they tampered with the genetics. And so Fabius kind of believed that they were not so dissimilar in their approach. approach in perfection, he thought, like, okay, what the emperor has made here, the Astardis, is amazing. But this is simply like the first step, like the first step into the longer road of perfection, much like the thunder warriors before them. And in order to achieve perfection, they must look upon themselves, look upon their own flesh, much like how they're horrifyingly redone and adjusted when they're created as a Star-Eas.

They must look upon themselves again to push that further. Oh, okay. All right. Also, a genetic cast system sounds kind of awful. Like, imagine, like, I mean, you're just born a peasant because genetics. Why not? And it's like, oh, no, I never had a chance. This is just how I was made.

This is in my genes. And it's like, oh, no. No, it doesn't, but you know, it's fine because you're perfect, you're perfect for your role, I guess. True, you're genetically suited for it. So it's not like you're miserable, you're, yeah, I guess. A shy ass, isn't it just like bees and ants? I don't know. I mean, it might be like bees and ants, but like, but like these are like self-aware beings that aren't like just bees and ants, you know?

Yeah. These are like, these are people. These are people. People. Anyway, good old fabulous bill is a pretty classic case of Road to Hell, paved with good intentions. Because, you know, he wanted to enhance the gene seed of the emperor's children. He didn't know for certain, but he thought he needed to try. He said, imperfection would be how they fail the emperor.

And so, Fulgram said, yeah, go. ahead, do what you want, basically. And then it all just went south from there because he was trying to do a good thing. He was trying to fix tainted gene seed, and then it all just falls apart, and it just kind of unravels and leads him down a very dark path, I assume. Well, it starts off with, yeah, the good stuff of us to create perfection, fix the tainted gene seed, as said, and all that jazz. but then it became, well, what if we try doing this?

What if we tried doing this? What if we tried doing this? And then there was the corruption of the Learblade that Folgram had that was kind of wreaking its havoc on the populace of the ship. Like, for example, when the Lear and war ended, Bile had more time to experiment. He was given a facility aboard a strike cruiser

called the Andronius under the command of Lord Commander Idalom, which to help like maintain Bile's secrecy from the other people. Now Idleon was not a big fan of Bile's methods, but he believed in the cause. And he said that he wanted to be first and foremost to be experimented on. He wanted the enhancements that was done to him to make him indispensable to Fulgroom, to make him like the right hand man, Mr. Idleon. Okay, okay. So Bile, as promised, did his,

special augmentative surgery to Iolon giving him a tracheal implant, which during the surgery, he wanted to, it shit to stop. But Bile was like, yes, for this dude. And Fulgar was like, yes, for this dude. So what this was, mainly because it was this fancy-pancy laertec. And Ilon was furious that he was putting fucking Zeno shit in his body. But, you know. That's fair, yeah. I could see how one might be mad. It's like, what do you mean? It's just Zeno. no shit. Yeah, okay. But he still put it in any way.

And this allowed him to have this like nerve paralyzing shriek he could admit from his mouth. Oh. Which one would argue was the first ever like proto-noise Marine? Oh, yeah, I guess it would be. And it makes sense that they eventually fall to, uh, um, Slanesh, because the silence offends Slanesh. And this guy's just like, ah, and paralyzes you. And this guy is like,

Yeah, you know, Ah! Yeah, excellent, excellent, wonderful. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, he's a bit of a, he's a bit of a wacky guy, that Idlem. It's okay, though. He doesn't last very long. Aw.

Yeah, just so you know, he dies. Yeah. Ooh. All right, well, what are you going to do? You know, you got to break a few eggs and make an omel. You know, what are you going to do? Oh, there's a head being broken, all right. Oh, no.

So, anywho. Anywho, spoiler, I guess. Spoiler, I guess. So this is all now post the Leiair war. This is all now post the sword. Folgramat is the sword. Shit's getting free. They go ahead and do the Isvan 3 virus bombing.

Remember the two Isvons, three and five. Three is the, hey, guys, all of you who are loyal to the emperor, go down on this planet to fight this war. And they virus bomb the shit out of them. Yep. And then Angron is like, there are still people alive down there, and he runs down there to kill him all. No one can survive. The horse is like, God damn it, Angron.

So at this point, this is just setting up a little bit of Captain Lucius, or Lucius, of the 13th company. He was actually sitting down there with everyone. This is Lucius, the Eternal, the guy with the faces and stuff and the pride. I like him. He's cool. he was sent down there but he survived the virus bombing killed a traitor guy and then took his

headpiece and was talking to the people above and basically was like oh shit and then turned on the fellow loyalist and murdered a shitload of them and they decided to accept him back into the ship oh wow yeah he turned he turned coat twice wow that is that's a lot of turning So he somehow survived the virus bombing. Yeah, the people did.

And then he was killing traitors, picked up one of their helmets, and was like, oh shit, they traitors. I guess I better too. And he just kind of decides to turn traitor because it was the only way to survive, I guess. No, he was fiercely jealous of a fellow captain taking up all the defenses for the loyalists instead of himself. So he killed him in his retinue. Oh, wow, that is... So he just got jealous and... Oh, okay.

A little bit. That's unfortunate. That's very 40K, that's very emper's children, to get jealous of someone else's deeds and accomplishments. So, yeah, that unfortunately tracks. There is more to this overall, but yes, that is kind of the Lucius thing. Lucius is kind of a fucker, if I'm not mistaken.

He's a real bastard. I don't remember like him being a particularly... nice guy, even pre-heresy. Yeah, just from this little excerpt or this little story, he seems like a bit of a prick. Bit of a prick. He seems like a bit of a prick. Why does that man get to lead the defenses instead of me? You want to read the shy's little excerpt there?

Sure. He displayed perhaps sadistic tendencies early on, killing individuals he claimed were beggars and brigands that had attacked him first. He proved to be a poor teacher, often scarring his pupils or cutting off an eye or finger in an accident. Oh, yeah, he's a, he's, he's not a nice guy. Rich, super ridiculously wealthy kids taken to become demigods. Oh, yep, that is, mm-hmm. Does he look all, uh, is that because he survived the virus,

bombing that he looks that way and he looks all like his skin's all like charred and leathery looking and stuff? Is it because of the virus bombing or is that just like a chaos thing? It might be him fucking with his own head for because of Slanesh chaos things. Okay. Because both both answers are possible. I don't know at what point in time that picture was made. Yeah. I just figured the side effects of surviving a virus bombing would make your skin look a little funky. A little funky. A little Okay, DK Yes, sir It's time

It's time When I made this When I was researching this episode There was one thing that I knew I needed to get right the most There was one thing that I knew I needed to do proper Okay In the book, Fulgroom There is something no

as the Maraviglia or Moraviglia. Oh, alright, I didn't realize we were doing word bears stuff, you know, with the Italiano sounding stuff. Aye,

the maviglia, eh. Shy, I will do our best not to get to monetize, but let's be real, if I'm going to do this justice, it'll be a bit rough. Oh, no. I don't, I already don't.

like where this is going. So, this is in the book Bullgrim, written by our good friend, Graham McNeil. Hey. Graham McNeil, if I'm not mistaken, was the one who made the Ultramarine Demon Kilbossa series. Oh, boy. This is already going down a steep hill. He is also the one who then left to go help write arcane with Riot Games. Well, I mean, hey, there's, there's, you know, so this could still pan out to be good.

It sounds like it's going to be another demon kibasa, but, you know, open-minded. I'm open-minded. Let's, let's hear it. No, no, this is, this is better than the demon kubasa in the sense that it's still pretty fenced, but it's like, it's tastefully. So, on the beautiful ship, pride of the emperor, Fulgrim's flagship, there is a stage. And this stage is La F-F-A-N-E-E-E-L-F-N-I-C-E. This is a or La-F-N-I-C-E, you know, La-F-N-I-E-E. This is a ornate, gorgeous, enormous concert hall, a gigantic, whatever you'd call that kind of thing, a concert hall, basically. Auditorium, sure. Auditorium, thank you. Auditorium.

be a word way to put it. And this place is just fucking gorgeous. Like it is the most beautiful concert hall, probably in the solar system, probably in the entire humanity side of the galaxy. It is mosaic floors and with concentric arts. There are six mighty columns of solid marble in a dress circle with a balcony decorated with plaster applique.

Whatever. Sure. There were brass cages hung with Xenos songbirds, brightly colored songbirds, adding their music to the orchestra. There is a scent of mus coming from incense burners to the entire area, making it as humid as it could possibly be. There were colored lights and prisms and rainbows of millions of hues and giant stage curtains, illuminating with this red velvet and decadence across the entire place with the ceiling carved with a combination of serpents and naked humans alike. Wow. It is...

That's one immaculate ass auditorium. It is the most extra fucking thing I have ever seen or heard written about. And these guys fall to Slanesh? No. This auditorium starred someone known as Bekwa Kinska. Bekwikinska is a mortal. She is a regular human.

She is a fancy musician and composer who was attached to the 28th Expedition Fleet as a remembrancer. If you remember that from the first heretic book, I think, of the people who, the historians of this day, Yeah, they remember stuff. She was... She was a patron of the arts and had many fans.

One of the features of her to note is she had long blue hair. She was incredibly attractive for her quote-unquote advanced age. I'm going to assume she was quite old but had lots of rejuvenate theory. Nice, she's an anime girl. Nice. Yeah, but she's like an anime. anime milf girl a little bit, like, you know, like a little bit old. Oh, man, now, see. Oh, now we're talking, right?

I was on board before, but now you had my attention, but now, what's the damn quote from? You had my curiosity of now you have my attention. There you go. That's, that's what I was going for, and I screwed that up. But whatever, continue. Post-funny image of Leonardo DiCaprio laughing. Anyway, she was someone who liked seducing the young and the old. she was a beautiful high-class artist. And she was one of many,

remembrance serves, allowed to visit the Leere Temple, down, deep, deep down, dedicated to Slanesh. Okay. And of course, the slow grasp of this Slaneshi temple took hold of her. Of course,

and she, and there was a beautiful music play, from said temple. And she was inspired to create the grandest of symphony. She called the Maraviglia. Or Moraviglia. Okay. And this was the unveiling

of said symphony. She was upon on stage herself with this, the blue hair all done up. Like, you know, she's like performing. This auditorium is filled with thousands upon

thousands upon thousands of regular people aboard the ship including tons most of the Emperor's Children Legion it's not most up but like on the ship Emperor Emperor's Children Legion not in their armor but instead in their training robes

all present to watch this play oh boy she uh her she had this extremely like scandalous dress of gold and crimson red with this thin material of

stones glittering on her hair and her ears. Her shirt was basically, I'm pretty sure, basically, see-through. Of course, I was sure. The whole thing, you know, it's very artsy. And way up in the top was something they called the Phoenicians Nest,

which of course was the box seat for Fulgrim himself. Of course. Along with two of his favorite captains, a man named Julius and, oh, shit. Marius, Marius, Julius and Marius. Of course, when she, when the curtain parted and she walked out,

Ulgrim stood up and was like, magnificent and was just clapping like furiously with fucking tears in his eyes. Hadn't even done anything yet and he's brought to tears by her beauty. By her, by her fucking perfection. Extremely perfection, gorgeous body and everything, whatever, the whole deal. even his captain was like damn she hot which is impressive because space marines don't have sex oh that's true

on the stage were these enormous instruments that each of the as all the people were tuning their instruments and stuff they were string instruments and guitars and things like that with speakers

coming out of them and amplifiers up and across the entire stage just ludicrous instruments. And as the noise erupted from this orchestra from Maraviglia, it was definitely loud.

Yeah, I mean, if it's a tune that was inspired by basically Slanesh, I imagine it was just the most chaotically loud thing ever. And the and as Kinska, the Remembrance Sir, was conducting

it herself there with her little little baton and all that kind of stuff. It was the first notes of the Mara Viglio were played out for everybody. It started with this weird journey of the sense. It's like romantic beauty, hints of other themes, the senses of emotion rise and fell, rise and fell. The captain of the emperor's children wanted to laugh and then he wanted to cry and then he was fucking furious.

And then it was bled away within moments, each of, every single note and tone. And the remembrance serve, Bekwa Kinska thrashed and thrashed like a fucking lunatic on the podium, just jabbing and slashing in her hair, whipping around her head like this comet of blue. And the captain took his eyes off the stage

to look into the crowd. And upon the crowd were faces in just stunned disbelief. completely a gape and a gasp except for this one douchebag guy named Avander Tobias who was like him and some group had their ears clapped over their

or hands clapped over their ears as the music swelled and so they decided to leave because they were just like these annoying ass people basically leaving in the middle of a movie What a jerk. In the middle of the movie, they started leaving, and then scuffles began to break out as him and his fellows were attacked by the audience.

And fists started pummeling them to the ground when they were kicked and beaten by various people. And then a heavy, large boot crunched down on his skull. Oh. And curb stomped him into a paste. And then the entire audience turned right back to the musician. Wow, that is cool, boy. So as it kept... Don't get up in the middle of a movie in 40K, guys.

Don't get up. Don't get up. Sit your ass down until it's done. Eventually, when the music reached its climax, the windows or the, um, curtain opened up for a nearly one-to-one recreation of the center of the Laer temple in painstaking detail. And as lights and,

and tones and sound flashed up and down and left and right. The audience was immediately hit by this level of like dizzying colors and dizzying mental state. A main singer, Coraline Assenac, Nica, the main prima donna began singing and reaching this harmony of ludicrous proportions. Like we're at the full top level climax So you think the climax is happening But the climax keeps on going And keeps on going He took his eyes off of the stage for a second

Wanting to basically cry And he looked down into the audience And he saw Idalon and Marius One of the other captains And Idalon, the man with the throat thing And they were entertained in the idea Of joining her in song

As their eyes had this wide panic and their mouths stretched wide in this silent scream in an attempt to mimic what she was doing and then in their panicked eyes their mouths stretched wider and wider and the bones cracked in their face and their mouths distended like a snake oh boy that doesn't sound good And as he looked around All of the other patrons Began this like Carnal fucking orgy

Oh Okay All right All right Basically Yeah This Hell yeah

Yeah Shai you got the best part Yeah Shai said TLB We're leaving We're leaving We must That is one of the better parts in Event Horizon, sure.

He looked to Fulgrim, and Fulgram's eyes were a wheeling depth of the darkest age of a galaxy. And Fulgram was weeping with his voice barely above a whisper, and he says, it's beautiful, as it shot Julius down to his fucking knees on the edge of the box. All the people down below started beginning this primal sense of their deep-seated desires. tons of the mortals just started having excessive amounts of sex with each other and then the space Marines just started pummeling

and ripping people apart it went from from boning to murder and then back to boning again over and over the Marines would rip apart they would rip apart the bones

of the mortals and scar their own skin with them they would rip the skin off the people and then hang it like a flayed one on their bodies like a shawl. All right. It was just... This is sounding more

Night Lord than Emperor's children now, but okay. Holy geez. It was just like like there was rivers of blood

and people fucking in the blood. It was the weirdest most ridiculous thing ever. Sounds like that episode of Salver. Blood orgy.

Blood orgy. Blood orgy. Blood orgy. God damn it. That's an old one. The, uh, on the

stage was that beautiful picture, that painting of Fulgroom that was beginning to move and rithe and adjust in the canvas itself. Oh. And it fires blazing in its eyes and a shriek. And the light began, it began to like a rainbow color of light like a liquid mixing with the blood. And eventually the main singer reached this crescendo of her voice in which

she would begin to float above the sky, or into the sky, and her bones would crack and twist in a manner that's not supposed to happen. Oh, all right. Every single bone in her body turned to powder, and as she landed down on the ground, she had a lilac skin color, only one boob and snapping claws for fingers. Oh, well, that's,

Oh Oh boy She became a demonette basically Oh boy I don't know what a demonette looks like But that does not sound like a pleasant experience You You never seen a demonette before

Oh It's a demonet The lesser demon of Slanesh Yeah Oh okay gotcha Um Basically She was basically possessed by a demonet

It basically turned into a Sla-Nesh summoning ritual at that point. Hooray. Hurray! And then the rest of the singing group all turned into demonettes. And they went up to Bekewakinska, the composer,

and shoved the claw dead through her fucking chest from her back. And lifted her aloft as she had this giant shit-eating grin on her face behind her blue hair. Yeah.

Yeah, that sure does sound about right. Jesus. And then all the demonettes were jumped off the stage and began shredding their way through the crowd. Oh, boy. Yeah. Oh, that's unfortunate for everybody in the building. Oh, it gets so much worse. Oh, how?

The Space Marines were very angry that the music had stopped, and they were trying their best to maintain the best they could, So they jumped onto the stage and grabbed the makeshift musical instruments and tried to strum them. And as they did so, the music was so powerful. It would destroy some of the boots and boxes in the audience. Once they realized that the emperor's children turned it on the audience themselves and the sound of the instruments would blow the skin and body off

and turn bones into powder and shred them into dust. Wow. Yeah, that's worse. These were the first ever noise marines and the creation of the noise marines weapons.

Those rock guitars you see that's where they came from. Oh boy, that is quite the origin story for the noise marines. That, oh boy. That's a spicy meatball. It ended with Fulgrim saying, My Emperor's children,

what sweet music they make, as explosions of flesh and stone bloomed throughout Lefinis, as Marius and the rest of these stories filled it with the music of the apocalypse. Wow. That's, uh... That is the Maraviglia.

Oh, boy, that is... Ha'i. Although the idea of this just amazing chorus ending and the music stopping and like, oh my God, we have to keep it going. A bunch of amateurs just jump on the stage and just start plucking instruments and then they start aiming it purposely at the crowd. Yeah, that's, oh boy, and just pl-h-uh. That is what the emperor's children use as their main weapons now. their mouths are distended to screech through their vocal boxes much like Idleon

and they carry around things called like blastmasters and doom sirens and various other weapons that are instruments that were originally created and crafted by this remembrance sir

Bequakinska can you believe it so I got as crazy as it is A blue-haired E-girl was able to basically bring the final downfall of an entire Space Marine Legion. And you know what? I say based. Baste. Capital B based.

So that's why they look all like. Of Bechua, it's B. B for based. So that's why the Empress children look that way and they look all mutated and stuff is because of listening to the song. and like having their mouths distended trying to replicate what the singer was doing? It's kind of the origin of it. A lot of it goes to bile in his experiments as well. Oh, sure.

But if you like see that image that shy posted, his mouth is a giant speaker girl that's far too large. Yeah, yeah. You know, and so, yeah, that kind of stuff. That must have been horrible to witness. It all kind of began with this play. Oof. Every Legion has its It's like turning point

Deathguard had typhus Sacrificing the death guards And having them all mutated and horrible things happen The Thousand Suns had like the burning of Prospero I don't actually know what the world leaders one was Can you think of a specific event that made the world leaders the way they were shy? I guess the world leader's turning point could be when Karn betrayed them And murdered a shitload of them

Yeah, sure. Go card, let's go. Anyway, this to me, I mean, Slash was also very gradual, but this was like, to me, like the final turning point. This was the big, there is no going back now, the demonic summoning ritual play that they had. Anyway, that was really the big event that I wanted to give the most attention to

because everything after that was just insane emperor's children's shit. They began the drop site massacre, fired all of their insane weaponry upon their friends. And then the Horace Heresy, Siegaterra came. They didn't even help. They just went around and- Killing civilians, yeah. Did horrible, horrible things to the civilians. Yeah.

And took them and turned them into soup and then injected them. into their bodies and there is there is a common there is a common thing that noise marines like to do where when they kill a human with one of their sonic weapons and they turn into a f***ing powder on the spot they walk up to them and inhale the fucking ash so that they could really experience their essence truly absorb the essence of the ones they've murdered for a second as soon as you're like oh yeah once they turn them into a powder i'm like you're like you're like you're Yeah, they do a line of a human, right? And they kind of do.

They actually, like, oh, let's do it. What do you think, what do you think like an emperor's children credit card looks like? Would they make the line in the fucking club? They do, they do a line of human. Yeah, they're right. Crack cocaine is for pushies. Let's do men. Oh, my God, this is great human.

That imperial guard hits so much harder when you. vaporized the power pack of his last gun. Oh man. God damn it. You go to a new war zone, right? And then you've got this, you got these Imperial Guardsman. And then this one emperor's children,

he comes out and he's like, you're going to have a bad time. And he cranks on Megalovania to the highest possible fucking degree, strumms his guitar, and fucking paste some goddamn guardsman into nothing when you're hearing. Do do do.

Imagine that's the last thing you hear. Imagine being that poor soul that's like, the last thing you hear is one tune of Megalovania. And the next thing you know, you're getting snorted by a space marine. You literally, you turn around and you're like, what is that? And then you just fucking, that's the last thing you remember.

All you hear, all you hear is dude. That's all you heard is dude. No, you hear the sound. Him tuning the instrument is like sans talking. Like the, do-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. It's the tuning of it. Oh, no, I know those dudes. Run!

Then he just turned to a fucking powder, and then Sands comes. And then Sands walks up to you, and then his other emperor's children-noise-marine with him, named Papyrus is like, oh. That's the good shit. That's the good shit. Let's go. Let's go back and do another line, a human. Oh, um, shy is a.

thing, you want to read it? Sure. Funny story about Idon. He really underestimated how crazy Fulgram was and mocked him for shitty planning. So Fulgrim cut his head off, I'm assuming, and had a nice dinner with Idon's severed head on the table spewing blood. Holy shit. But then he was like, wait a minute, Idon was kind of cool. I changed my mind.

Hey, Bile, fix him. So Bial went, uh, I guess and attached his head back and Idleon now has a weird shambling zombie lunatic is that really? That sounds extremely accurate and that is so

on base for Bile I just found that so I mean Oh how dare you mock me and a slink Has a conversation with his severed head and he's like you know what? I was a little hasty, put him back together.

It wasn't just a conversation with it. He took the severed hem and used the blood dripping from it to mix with all of the wine they had on the table and then they all drank it. Of course he did. Of course, they drank his blood with the wine, sure. Why not? And then the door opened and then they heard. Did it do, do. I don't think I can top

this final statement I don't think I can top the sands noise marine I don't know I mean everything past this is pretty standard they leave after the siege doesn't work and Percharabo fucks off they go and have a demon world called Harmony and if you remember we talk about this before bio

try to create a clone of Horace and then the Black Legion arrive and then Abidon kills him in like a 1 v1 and all that kind of stuff and and yeah and now they kind of are all going off and doing their own thing fabulous bill has a whole trilogy about him and a faction lucius the eternal is a insane like demon captain champion of slanesh now and uh and i was a zombie and fulgrim is out and about doing snake stuff he stabbed gilliman and really that's where we're at you know this episode is going great and then once sans under the tail got brought up it all went to it all

went downhill. Now it's, now just like most traitor legions, it's going to end with a wimper because the ending of it is just, yeah, they're around somewhere, I guess. See us next time for Rylonore episode. The Chad of Rights, shy, end with Megalovania, please. Please.