Adeptus Ridiculous - Guilliman Finally Crashes Out (Plague Wars) | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousRoboute Guilliman has officially had enough, and the Avenging Son is about to deliver the ultimate crashout. In this episode, we dive deep into the absolute madness of Dark Imperium: Plague Wars. Nurgle’s forces are making a mess of Parmenio, with Ku'Gath stressing over his favour with Nurgle, and Mortarion dropping in from the toxic fog to challenge his brother.Meanwhile, things on the Imperial side are getting weird. A mysterious girl named Kaylia is manifesting Living Saint powers, Sister Iolanth is going rogue and bodying Sisters of Silence, and Frater Mathieu is pushing Guilliman to his absolute breaking point.Support the show

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I'm waiting for the noise. Wait, noise? Noise? I really thought you were going to hit the soundbolt there. Oh, oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Sorry, hold on. Anyone smell something?

No, you know. That's called the subversion. Yep. That's called a subversion of expectations, my friend. The Ryan Johnson, the last Jedi, baby. The way my head rattled when it wasn't the fart reberb, I cannot explain to you because that seemed louder than usual. The pipes.

I don't know if you like upped it on your soundboard or whatever. Like my skull is echoing still from that. I think my mic might have picked it up. It may have been a slight issue with my audio sensitivity, so I've turned that down a little bit. Would you like to see something really cool? Because how about I was messing with this recently? I can actually do a pretty okay B1 battle droid now. Really?

Okay, go for it. Roger, Roger. Hello, D.K. How are you? That's all right. That's acceptable. That's acceptable. It's all right.

It could have been better. It could have. But, you know, I see the vision. It's there. You just need to fine-tune it a little. Yeah. Would you say it's an acceptable lot?

No, we're not going to do that. Stop it. Hey, how you doing, Kierreos? What are you here for today? I can't even imagine. We're going to carry on, carry on our journey through the Dark Imperium trilogy. And I'm genuinely slightly concerned about this recording. because you joke shy, but it is raining quite heavily, and that could mean that I get wet doing this. So if there's a pause, it's because I've turned the light off so we can continue recording whilst the fitting leaks water all over my studio. So, you know, just if you hear swearing, that's what happened.

But it should be fine. It could be worse. It could be awful like pus or something, something Nurgle-related, some sort of disease water. I said it in a moment. raining and you're like, oh, the roof has got a few leaks in it. It's like, oh, man, getting a little wet. What is it? Oh, it's,

oh, it's, it's pus. Me opening my mouth to catch a few raindrops and being horrified very quickly about what it actually is. Oh, no. Well, good morning, everyone. Hope you have coffee and ate already.

Well, on that note, on the note of getting Puss in your mouth. No, I don't like that. Great segue, Kyriath. We are firing on all cylinders today. Oh, that's worrying, isn't it? That's not a good side for the rest of this record.

I have a quote for you, which is in some ways superfluous, but it is quite a fun quote. So, more slops, more gall, more rot, more bellowed Septicus 7, the 7th Lord of the 7th Mance, great unclean one of

Nergel and the most fortunate servant of Kugath Plague Father, first in Nurgle's favor. Or so Scepterus styled himself. Today was not, in fact, a fortunate day. Kugath, glorious, flatulent, exalted Kugath, although never cheerful, was especially disappointed, and his mood was turning ugly. I'm sorry, did I hear ever flatulent? Yeah, he's... It is a nerd.

He's... He's just ripping ass all. day long. Clearly. No, I just, it's just like, I mean, it's expected, but sometimes when you actually state that obviousness, you know, it catches you off guard a little bit. It's fair. I did, I did make a mental note of, huh, ever a flatulent, huh? Look, he's got a bad diet, and it shows, but that's, you know, that's fine. He's already disappointed. When a great, when a great unclean one, that's like, because they're, I always, I always, was underestimate just how big they are. They're like the size of a fucking mountain or something,

right? When something like that just starts ripping ass, that's like, that's like tornado. Thunderous. Yeah, literally. Also, yeah, isn't Kugath, I remember this because Kugath is, he's the guy you like play as in the Nurgle campaign of Total War. He's like kind of a bit of, he's got, he kind of crotchety, isn't he? Woke him on the wrong side of Nurgle's garden? Yeah. He's unhappy because he was a little nergling, and he fell into Nurgle's cauldron, as Nurgle was creating the greatest and most perfect of his diseases ever, and, you know, he became a great unclean one. And Nogle loves him, because he thought it was hilarious, but Kugat thinks that he's just robbed Nurgle of something perfect and brilliant, and that he's not worthy of being in the position he's in. so he essentially just has huge self-esteem issues, which is such a weird thing to attach to a great, unclean one.

But it means that he's sort of constantly a bit miserable and a bit stroppy about everything, because, well, you know, it could have been Nurgle's greatest work. He's got an imposter syndrome. He does. He's got massive imposter syndrome. Oh, that's crazy. Well, you know. But he can fart up.

a storm. So that's something, you know. It's not all right, apparently. Actually, literally, he could fart up a storm. I have disappointed you, father, with that picture. He's great. And all the while, Nurgel's like, no, you're great, son. We're wonderful. Yeah.

Pretty much, yeah. No, no, no, no. I love you. You're brilliant. Keep going. And Kugas, like, no, I'm not good enough. It's, I mean, it's the classic parent-child. Self-imposed, though, apparently.

Pretty much, yeah. Every middle child ever. What a baby. So we've got a lot to talk about with this second book, because Plague War is a dense piece of work that covers a lot of bases. Much like the first book, this one had changes too. This time the change has a more direct impact.

Due to the 112-year time skip of the original two books, the devastation of Baal had already happened. So this was retconned to the point where Gilliman has yet to meet Dante. But just because Baal hasn't been devastated yet, doesn't mean that Balls haven't been devastated for the sake of purity in this series. Speaking of which, the, oh, we're going to get there. Don't worry. I've got a spike up here. I just, every time I see it, I'm like, I know that was a possum. That was a possumism right there. You know it hit. Yep.

Now, I know Karioth wouldn't make a joke about destroying balls after the devastation of ball. That is as clear apostasism as you can get. Well, here's the thing. The name of this chapter, if you will, is the devastation of balls, which is good. By, that's a good, that's a good one. That's a good one. That's a plus two right there. Yeah.

The thing is, the original. title for this chapter was going to be the Stations of the Croch, which I much preferred. That's also pretty good, though. I'm not going to lie. That's a win-win situation. Both of them would have hit equally well, so, you know, all right. Yeah, it'll always be the stations of the crotch to me. So, thanks, bottom. So we begin with Freight of Matthew walking through the Mortis Ad Monumentum aboard McCrague's honour, observing the statues that pay tribute to long-dead space marines. He views these monuments with a combination of wonder and sadness, enamoured by the heroes of old, but also distressed because of the truth that he believes they denied. By now, Matthew is kind

of moulded into his role as militant apostolic, but he still strives to stay as modest as possible, at least outwardly. Instead of wearing the flashy garb, Matthew opts to dress more subtly, focusing on the image of a humble servant instead of a bombastic religious figurehead. But it was bombastic religious figureheads that convinced Matthew of the path that he was to take. See, in his studies, scholar-mistress Valeria was a stern teacher

and despite the large number of students, they all obeyed her without any question. All throughout his young life, he was taught by her, and with each year he became more and more certain of his beliefs. His path only became more assured when it was scorched with fire. The skullan would be attacked by Heritagestartes clad in blue and green

with a many-headed serpent on their armor. Who knew who these guys are? I mean, could be anyone, genuinely. Unless they announce who they are perchance, then we just won't really know. To be fair, if you're just this dude, you wouldn't know who they are because it's like traitors, oh my God, what? The Oldsmiths himself. So from his POV, you know.

Yeah. They attack with one goal in mind, sending a message toward believers in the corpse emperor. Matthew only survives because he's hidden by the poor for the duration of the attack. And once he's free, he rushed to the Scholar and found ruins. The younger students were spared and left traumatized, nice, but all of his classmates that he grew up with were massacred. And at the center of his old classroom, he seized the body of Scholarlymistress Valeria. She is nailed to a chair that is painted yellow. Her organs are removed, her body torn apart, and the words Deus Imperator are carved on her forehead

in a cruel mockery of the golden throne and the emperor himself. I mean, that is hard core. That's some night lord shit. God. I do. Bricky. Could be better. Week.

Weak. I've seen better. She still has her skin. In her mind. Amateur shit, brother. I like the detail of painting the chair yellow because to me that suggests that they do have a can of yellow paint with them. I'm assuming they found that on route. I'm just, I'm thinking about like a kitchen nightmares.

But Gordon Ramsey is like a like a night lord. And he, you walk instead of food. just like a different skin surf. And he's like, the knife work here. Bollocks. Absolute shit. You fucking donkey.

You clearly miss. You got rid of the nerve. You're supposed to keep that. You keep poking it. You fucking donut. You're supposed to keep the nerve. Where is he? Where is you all Gordon Rosey from, D.K.?

I'm not entirely sure. Man, my accents have never been known to be accurate. They just, I needed a funny voice, and that's the funny voice I chose. You're in a strange like Danny Dyer territory, which is funny, but... Oh, okay. Yeah, I got nothing on that one, too. Sorry, buddy. We don't have time for this.

I'll send you a compilation later. Oh, great. Lucky me. Regardless of all dodgy accent work. The horrors of what happened to Matthew's sort of mentor would only cement his desire to spread the word of the emperor. So mission failure there for the Alvolution, it turns out. This had also been invigorated further.

The return of one of the god emperor's sons gave him purpose that was furthered because of the role given to him by that son. But Gilemon was not what he'd expected, and he keeps denying the divinity that has driven him for so long. the divinity that stood beside Gilliman once in life and now exists at the centre of the Imperium. After speaking to him in the previous book, Matthew would be faced with temptation. Temptation that it was up to him to convince the avenging son of the importance of his own father. But this temptation needed to be curbed because it was selfish, and he would stress to himself that it was not his job to do this,

and he would take efforts to really reinforce this in a very particular way. So here you go, D.K. I cannot tell him. He must see. He resolved to shrive himself by confession or by whip for his presumption. Still, he could not extinguish his hope nor his ambition. If I am the one to open his eyes, he thought. If it is me who convinces him openly, that was enough. He squeezed the button hidden in the flesh of his palm,

sparking pain bursts within his groin and behind his eye. He gritted his teeth and swayed close to collapse. But the implanted electroflail was not enough to break his immodest ambition. He would have to punish himself harder later. Only in agony was their atonement. Electroflails for flagellation. God. Yeah, the archoflagellants actually have electroflails on their arms.

and then they go like, they beat that crap out of you. They do what now? I'm pretty sure that is the right noise, to be fair. I think it is. Oh, wow. There you go. Hey, wool, yeah, your classic little,

well, la la. That's, yeah, nailed it. I feel like we're being too mean. Okay, another way that he has curbed this is by working on the history of the events of right now. He wished to pen the heroics of Gullerman down in a historical document that he would call the Great Plague War. This written history would be a way to bolster the morale of those who hear of the triumphs of the avenging sun, but also a way to emphasize the divinity of his victories. He struggles with a desire to emphasize his own efforts during this process, but he

aims to focus more on the glory itself, as opposed to his work with assisting Gelleman during these dark times. He goes off to continue working, but it looks as though someone has been snooping around and has messed with his sacred work. And this is where he finds that someone has absolutely been messing with his sacred work. A rogue trader by the name of Yasili Suleimania. Sure. It's fine. You don't even got to post it. I believe you. All I heard was you silly man, you silly man. Close enough. She is part of Gelleman's newly established department known as the Logos Historica Verissa, which was crafted to explore and solve the issue of cataloguing

the incoherent and unreliable history of the Imperium, and all the members have been hand-selected by Gilliman himself. She tells him that she got there a few minutes before him and read his book. She is a historian, and she prefers actual history instead of his cringe fan fiction. What follows is a... Not a fan. it turns out. What follows is a theological back and forth, but in a more aggressive manner, because she is far from afraid of calling out religion, going so far as to say that if the

emperor is a god, then he shares a lot of similarities with the darker aspects of the galaxy, which are things that aren't supposed to be worshipped. If you give the emperor divinity, then you have to give those things divinity too, and then we'd all be bending the knee to the ruinous powers. That is a brave statement to be making. Osba, say, does she die immediately after this? Like, that is, I mean, the warrant of trade might be heavy, but I don't know if it's going to hold her up that much. Yeah. I mean, she's not wrong in the sense that, like, boy, we sure do treat Biggie like he's a chaos god of faith that needs to be worshipped.

But uttering that near anyone in the Imperium, yeah, I'm surprised she hasn't gotten some, you know, bolt her aspirin. Yeah, no, I mean, I was about to say, like, she clearly is right, duh, but... Yeah. This isn't the time for tolerance. Yeah, sometimes you got to keep those thoughts inside. That's an inside thought that shouldn't be coming out. I don't know why, but I immediately thought, like, why are you shooting me?

I'm right. It's just it feels like that sort of situation. But, hey, she's a Tuesday for the Imperium, dude. What are you talking about? This obviously freaks Matthew out and he accuses her of being a heretic and questions her motives. And she says she likes him and wants to understand him better but is disappointed by his methods. Absolutely, absolutely smacking him around debate-wise. She says that she was to be executed for her views religiously,

that it was Gilliman himself that saved her from certain death. Very much like, yeah, no, whatever, I'm right. and I can get away with it. So there, he gets frustrated and rushes to leave, calling down his servo skull, which is named V, which is interesting, an interesting name for Servo skull for Matthew there. Yeah, like, yeah, like, you know, the lady that got golden-chaired. Yeah, she picks up on this and basically takes the piss out of him for it,

and Matthew says that, you know, there's nothing wrong with it. It honors the servants of the emperor. It honors all she gave up to me. So nice to confirm that that's exactly what he was going for there, which is also really horrific. Very fun, but, you know, gross. Oh yeah, we're getting there, shy. It's pretty good.

So, Suleimaniya wishes to meet with Gilemon directly because she has something for him, and he has something for her as well. When they meet, he's eager to hear how her search for the truth is going. She gives him something that we will get to much later, and he gives her her next goal. Run the Nachman Gortlet to give a message to Dante. While talking about the run to Nachmand, she expresses her concerns, and in the midst of all of it, calls Gilliman by his first name, which catches him wildly off guard. She then says, that's your name, right? And he says it's gotten

to the point where he started to believe his name was my lord or blessed Primark, which he hates. he says that he finds the use of his name impertinent, but not disapproved of. And he finds her familiarity kind of refreshing and assures her that he has a sense of humor. He then remarks that she very obviously has no fear of him. And she says, I suppose I should be frightened, but no, I'm not. She's great. I love her. She's great.

Yeah, this is awesome. Good for her. I mean, she really doesn't have any reason to be, like, scared of him. Like, he's the reason she's not dead. Yeah. 100%. I feel like also though, given what she was previously in trouble for, it's just another day of like, I am correct. You can shoot me, but I'm still right. And you are still just a bloke, just a really big bloke. Sorry. She is, in all fairness here, she is playing with a lot of fire right now, though. Oh, yeah. She is maybe being a bit of a bit flippant with the stuff she's saying. But like, You know. Worked out for her so far, so.

It's true. She's in a decent position right now, although he then stands up and says his full name and his history in a rather boisterous manner and ends it with, Now tell me again, do you not fear me? And I've got a quote for you here, Bricky, bit of a longer one, but it's good. She stared up at him.

Her smile was a little less cocky, but she was still wearing it. as a badge. When you put it like that, maybe I do a little bit. Giliman returned her smile tenfold. Some faces are transformed by smiles. Gilamins was not one of those faces. Warm, though, his expression was, he retains the look of an image carved from marble to grace a cenotaph. How it's pronounced, Sinotaph? Sinotaph is what I would go for, but yeah. I don't know. Oh, more impudence, he said, though his tone was kind.

He resumed his walking. You may call me Rabutei, if you wish. I miss such signs of common feeling. I thank you, Roboo, she said. Now you overstep the limit, he said. I am sorry, my lord. Somehow I doubt your sincerity, he said, still smiling. Okay, that's a little bit of humanity for once around here.

Yeah, that was good. Robo. Fully taking the pace right at the end. She's like, okay, let's see how far we can push this one then. Me when James Vega calls me loco. Poor Kierreuth is out in the dark. I was about to say, I feel like that's shy. Can you back me up on that one?

I think that one was okay. That's solid. That's solid. I'll back you up on that. All right. I'm afraid I have no. I have no frame of reference. I'm sorry.

That's okay. That's a Mass Effect reference. Yeah, that's okay. Oh, fair enough. It only came on in 2012. Don't worry about it. Oh, man. Don't say words like that.

No, I don't like it. That's too long ago. I started my YouTube content creation career on Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. And that's based as fuck, D.K. And eventually you and I are going to have a red letter media mass effect trivia off and it's going to be fantastic. Let's go. I'm going to lose, but it's going to be so much fun.

Hey, go go, go, go re-learn it. And also, Kira, I'll teach you about James Vega Mass Effect 3 when you teach me about Jonathan Chippendidly or whatever the hell that guy's name was. You mentioned earlier. I was, I was saying to see him. Jonathan Shippendid. As soon as the poll started, I was like, he's got no idea what I got nothing. I got nothing.

Oh god. Another part of the conversation that they have deals with Gileman's physique, particularly his armour. See, Yassili remarks that he is wearing his power armour, but notes that she's seen him without it. Suggested, but okay. Gilliman talks about how he took off the armour that kept him alive, and I'm glad that's in all caps from possible, because I remember having that same reaction reading, I think it was the the non-retcon version of this book, because he did not want to be told how to live,

and he did not want to be beholden to someone else. Because a big deal was made of that. It was like, this armour is what's keeping you, you know, you take this off. You're dead. And then he was like, no, I'm taking it off anyway. Yeah, it's called the armor of fate, if I'm not mistaken. It's pretty important, but he didn't want to deal with it. So, you know, someone said you can't take this off, and he went, I can.

and apparently that's fine. So, yeah, it's all good. He also literally said that it was to spite you've reign. So again, very sort of, you know, he does what he likes. He's Gillerman. And if he wants to take off the armour that's preventing him from, you know, literally dying, he'll do that. So there.

Typical man refusing to listen to his wife. Man refuses to go to the doctor, but now in the far future. when he first took it off he described it as some absolutely horrific pain akin to sponge bob taking off his water helmet in sandy's tree dome very good very good thank you thank you everyone thank you i'd like to thank the academy for giving best supporting actress to the lady from weapons thank you yeah i'm in karyas spot with that this is this is what you felt like karyath from the the loco I'm sure you've seen that gif. I'm sure you've seen that gif. Taking his helmet off?

I don't... No, the I needed a gift. Oh, I've seen the gif. I just didn't know that's... Okay. That's him dried out from taking his helmet off in the tree dome.

Oh, okay. Okay, yep. Yep, we're on the same page now. All right, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I didn't realize that's what all that shit was called. All... I was like, all you had to say it was the SpongeBob give for he's dried out.

That's all you had to say. Just think of a dry sponge, you need that, it's fine. It's all you need for the reference. Apparently now Gilliman taking off his armour, it hurts him less and less as he takes it off more and more. So presumably, just, you know, fully healing through the pain there, or becoming more and more stubborn, or all his nerve endings are dying, and one day he's going to collapse. Imagine that being the end of that story. The outrage would be unreal.

I almost want to see him do it just for... Yeah, it sounds really funny, though. Mm-hmm. He kept taking his armour off, and then he died. I mean, that's what they said would happen. Oh, the division would be insane. Pan stops taking medication and says he feels fine. So before she leaves, Gilliman asks him what she thinks of Matthew.

And she says that she's read his work, and as best as she can tell, his only motivation is serving the emperor and the Imperium itself. She says that he clearly wants to convert him into believing that his father is a god, but he's pretty harmless other than that. Gilliman acknowledges that they're all trying to convert him in this imperium, and it's kind of par for the course.

And it's just something that he'll have to adjust to, which I think is fair at this point. The poor guy, like this series really made me feel sorry for Gilliman, which is something I never thought I'd say before. Isn't this the series for that? Like, isn't this like the series? series that really like humanized Gilliman in the modern day and it kind of made us be like oh yeah no he's having a real annoying time right now and everyone everyone sucks i'm trying to remember

the order in which books were released because the horace heresy did a pretty good job of it as well but i can't remember what came out when like it's him sort of coming back into 40k and being in that time period but also there being books involving him in the Horus Heresy. There's like a bit of crossover publication date stuff going on where he, there's points in the Horace Heresy where he just, you know, he just wants to be a good brother and a good son and he's trying his best and sort of, maybe not from his perspective necessarily, but there's a lot of fuck-ups. You know, there's a lot of people doing silly things and it feels like he's just like, you know, this could have worked if people weren't so, weren't so like egotistical

and daft, which he also is occasionally as well. But yeah, it kind of takes, depending on publication order, it either took some of that and made it more relevant to 40K or maybe did a bit of backwards inspiration for what he was like in those books. It's confusing. It's almost like having a million books with a bunch of different things all crossing over can sometimes get hard to pass or something. Nah, I'd win.

So adjustment may come a bit easier for Gileman, but for the grey shields, it's been a bit of a nightmare. Our most sort of in-your-face example is Justinian, who is formerly a grey shield, but was selected to join the Ultramarine successor chapter, the Nova Marines, who are aboard the Star Fortress Galatan. Like most of the other chapters that have gotten some Primaris Marines, they've put them into hypnomats

so that they can learn the history and memories of their new chapter, which is fine, except it's not working on Justinian. He wants to serve the Ultramarines. That's what he really desires as he was of Ultramar. And the Nova Marines are not that. They're strange. They feel like a crude we have Ultramarines at Home parody in his eyes. And the whole thing felt so ridiculous to him.

And he's constantly reminded of the sadness of his Grayshield brothers. like they faced that sadness when they were disbanded. He stresses that this is not working, and the captain and the chaplain just keep saying, hey, let's just, you know, keep trying, and please stop talking shit about the chapter. The chapter master would be real upset if you did that in front of him. Fair.

Also, I'm assuming Hypnomat is like your clockwork orange style. We've pinned your eyes open, now watch the feed as we beam it into your brain type of thing. specifically that exact technology. Hey, to be fair, would you be surprised if part of becoming like an ultramarine or any space marine was, oh yeah, we're just going to like pin your eyes open and force feed indoctrination material into you? That sounds pretty imperial coded to me, right? Yeah, yep.

Maybe a few more things poking you so it hurts at the same time. I could easily see that. Yeah, yuck Justinian asks if he can leave to train And they grant him permission to do so And his training is an angry affair Knowing that even though he wore the colours of a Nova Marine He would never truly be one of them

A lot of existential angst going on With various Space Marines and Primarcs in this series We will catch up with Justinian later though The Nova Marine Well, it's not the best colour scheme is it? I think if it was whatever. Yeah.

It's bland. Also, that mini that has the red helmet as well is just a mess. Like you've got half white, half blue, red helmet, red wire. Like, brother, pick a color. You know, I'm not going to I'm not going to give you that one, DK,

because you're like, brother, pick a color. It's only three. I guess that's true. That's true. It is only three. I don't know. about it looks weirdly clustered and like too much is going on with that. So you're right. It's only three colors. I agree with you on that. The red helmets, yeah, I think the red helmet's the sergeant helmet.

But like, I do agree with you on that one, though. And like, I don't enjoy the checkered crisscross pattern. You know, that I would have preferred if like all blue, one side, all white the other side. But like, I also just don't think blue and white is a particularly exciting color combo. So it ain't no blue and brown. bronze, dark blue, red gauntlets. Yeah, we get it. Maybe some lightning patterns as well.

No? No, no, no, no, I'm just, he gets it. He gets it. I'm good to move on. Yeah, he gets it. Yeah, we get it. We understand where you're going with this. We know what you're about. Oh, original November Marines.

Oh, dear. Well. Now, honestly, that color scheme I'd be more about. The red trim though? The red trim is... At least it's like... It's just... I don't know.

The half white, half blue is just not it for me. It's more interesting. At the very least, it's more interesting, which is, you know, that says a lot. Well, the best thing you can say about a colour scheme is, well, it's more interesting than the one they've got now because that really speaks to how bland the other one is. Okay.

We're going to go on to the miracle of Parmenio, because a good majority of the action in this book involves the doomed city of Tyros on the planet of Parmenio that is under siege by the deathguard, while Major Devereous from the 99th Calth is holding the line. For months the line has been held, and the heels have been dug in, but something has to give. In the middle of this, the city is blessed,

with the presence of the Sisters of Battle, led by Sister Superior Aeerlanth, Their holy presence helps reinvigorate the forces, but the siege continues almost more aggressively, as if Eilandth is being targeted directly. She stresses to Devereous that there's something he needs to see. A miracle! And she dragged him along to find it. And in the rubble of a building that was attacked by a demon engine,

they find a girl who was somehow unharmed, standing fearlessly before the horrors of Nurgle. Her skin was clean and her dress was white, and as the demons unloaded their weapons on her, she held out her hand. Filth left the nozzles of their weapons, but what hit the people was water. In the eyes of Aylanth and Devereous, this girl was a manifestation of divinity and purity. She was a living saint.

Highly suspect. All every time. Every time it's like, there's some kind of name before that too. Elsewhere, on the opposite side of purity, we have rot and Septicus 7 is having a ball on Iax, crafting up fun new plagues and disgusting stuff. A great old time for everyone, except for Cougath, because he is not happy, and he's having a bit of trouble making something new. Sure, he's got access to Nurgle's big old Pots, and he has a whole endless supply of horrible things on this exceptionally corrupted planet,

but he's worried about his standing within the hierarchy of Nurgle. So as we mentioned at the start, Kugath was once a nurgling that sat on Nurgle's shoulder, Now he's a great unclean one. He became one because he drank the contents of Nurgle's cauldron, which he was using at the time to brew his greatest disease. Nurgle thought this was great. He thought it was amusing that Kugath kind of became the living embodiment of his greatest work, but Kugathe feels as though his antics robbed Nurgle of something incredible.

He's Nurgle's most favored, but he doesn't feel like he's earned it, and he's not having fun. He doesn't like noise, he doesn't like the music, because it reminds him of the antics that messed up the greatest disease ever, and he just wants to work in peace and quiet. So, essentially, he's the introvert at every party. Yeah, that sounds like it. Damn.

His anxiety is keeping him from making something truly successful, and he fears losing favor. He's also very much afraid of the presence of the emperor, stating that it's one thing that his sword is around, but it's another thing entirely when you consider the fluctuation of energy emanating around the emperor both in ideology and in physical manifestations. I've got another quote for you, D.K.

Cougas andlers quivered bashfully. Oh, I don't love the way that. Anyway, I tend to pessimism. I agree, but this is too much. A primark walks the stars for a century, and saints of the anathema and his unliving legion are abroad. These are all signs that he of terror is gathering strength again. I think that's a legitimate concern, you know?

Yeah. Like I said, I don't love when antlers quiver bashfully. Yeah, that's not a great sentence. I'm really not a huge fan of that one. Yeah, I'm really not feeling that one, brother. That's got some visual novel energy to it, that I'm just, not comfortable with. I just don't feel like

you can't have bashful. You're not allowed, you can't use the word bashful for great unclean ones and not with antlers. The combination of both, I just don't I just don't approve. It just feels so weird. Yeah, don't like it. Uncomfortable. Fortunately, Mortarian

gives him a ring and says that he needs his help when it comes to his brother. Gilliman is moving a lot faster than expected, they need to act a bit quicker. Mortarian talks to him about an idea that he has, something that he believes would earn him eternal favour from Nurgle, while also fully redeeming Kugath in the eyes of the grandpa. He was sold, and Mortarian was glad he could rely on him, unlike his really unreliable son. See, Typhus is out just doing his own thing. He's tearing through members of the Ultramar Auxilia and just spreading as much destruction as possible. He's

hoping that his show of gruesome force will convince the mortals that they should join him and embrace old grandpa Nurgle. He confronts a soldier who holds the line and offers him a chance to join the deathguard. The soldier responds by shooting him in the face. What a legend. Hell yes. Which Typhus responds to by holding out his hand and crushing the man's head with psychic force. No one likes a sore loser. Come on. In the midst of all this carnage, he encountered as a portmaster who spits at typhus feet and stands defiant to him. I would tell you what, Ultramar, they just, they breed them different. Who are all these like nutcase humans shooting typhus of all people in the face?

No, no, no, no, no, you're saying, you're saying nutcase. I'm saying bravery, courageous. They're looking at the giant demigod who sold out in the entire league. and spitting like giant wasp out of his back, and he said, a las pistol will do the trick. I mean, that does take an otherworldly level of bravery to know that you're going to probably die and still do that instead of, you know, heresy. Also, I'm surprised that that guy only got his head crushed instead of, you know,

covered in disease and rotten made to suffer and melt. Maybe it is having a bit of a time frame issue. Yeah, yeah, maybe. I'm in a hurry. But it's funny you should mention that, D.K., because the portmaster, you know, he spits at Typhus's feet and stands defiant, Typhus laughs, and then the portmaster starts to change. He asks for Typhus what he did, and Typhus responds essentially by saying that, it wasn't me, and that someone else is turning him into something. This something happens to be the worst video call device ever made. It's kind of difficult to sum this bit up. So instead, Bricky, I've got the first half, half of the description of this for you here. Gotcha.

Oh, God. The portmaster's teeth locked as he grunted in agony. He fell to the floor, convulsing. His arms moved in uncontrollable spasms, throwing themselves into angular poses. The typhus found amusing. His feet jiggled, his knees knocked. He threw back his head, shaking and moaning piteously, until a great seizure had him arching his back. so hard, his spine snapped with a loud, wet crack.

His thighs shattered. Shards of pink wet bone pushed themselves out of his garments. Pearls of yellow fat dribbled to the floor. Bloody pus pouring from his choking throat, the portmaster twitched. He was still alive and moaning as his body folded itself almost perfectly in half. Under normal circumstances, he would have died. grandfather Nergel is kind and wishes all those who are afflicted by his gifts to fully enjoy the experience. And so the man's soul remained confined within his body.

Yomers. Oh, shy. Yeah. The same brain cell. Same brain cell. Woo! For our audio listeners, she posted the yummers gift the same time I said that. Me slapping my belly three times and rubbing it.

That's horrifying. God damn. God damn night lords fans. The timing on that was absolutely pristine. That was incredible. And I got to read Lords of Silence. I hear it's like the Death Guard book. Yeah.

So Lord Mollicus, Plague Bearer of Nurgle comes with a message through the brand new portmaster phone, and it's a message from Nurgle. Stop fighting your dad and get your ass to the star fort of Galatan. Typhus doesn't really want to, but decides to do so anyway, thinking that he can prove himself to be stronger that way. His ambitious dreams are going to be a nightmare for everyone else. In the world of nightmares, Matthew is having one currently,

and he is reliving the death of his teacher slash his flying room. but this time it's different. This time as he looks at her desecrated corpse, he hears a voice behind him, a divine voice of a girl telling him to find her on Parmenio. If he finds her, victory will be assured. He waits to leave, and while maneuvering through the ship, he encounters someone else who is having a vision. Cato Cicarius is haunted by the visions of things that happened before he was lost in the war. The screams of his men and their deaths troubled him deeply, and his dower demeanor catches the attention of Matthew. He remarks about how Sikarius was lost in the warp

and asks what it was like. Sikarius is not a fan of this line of questioning, fair, and states that he's back now and that's all that matters, saying that he prized too much. Matthew continues walking, but gets one last word in. Here you go, D.K.

Matthew called softly after him, his voice shush to one end of the gallery and back again. Be not afraid, Captain, be joyful. The Emperor protects. Sikari strove from the gallery. The Emperor had not protected his brother, and no priest's words would ever silence their screams. Yay! Yippee! Yippee! Little autism creature with the confetti.

Yippee! Yippie! I do like how much Emperor slash Imperial Faith bashing there is in this trilogy. It's very kind of like Everyone worships the emperor And then there's a surprising number of people going Yeah, fuck that guy Absolutely not

This is the one where like Gilman's like Nah, this is stupid This isn't what we wanted This isn't what he wanted This is dumb He's not even that great Gosh Yeah

So the forces of Gilman make their way To the Parmenio system fully reinforced Knowing that this is where Mortarian Is likely hiding The disgusting corruption of the system is cutting the crew to the core, and it fans the flames of vengeance in everyone involved. Best boy Felix prepares to plan it for, and a small enemy fleet is identified. Gilliman is able to clock right away that this right here is some bait, but figures he can probably use it to his advantage.

If he's to attack it while focusing on the planets in the system, maybe he can find a source of concentrated warp energy so that he can plan a more dedicated strike. and he does just that. There's a hell of lot of energy coming from the continent of Hecatone on the planet of Parmenio, and that's where Cato and Felix need to focus their troops. They need to make land fall quick when the shields drop, and in order to do this, they can't use drop pods. They instead need to land with boarding torpedoes. The goal was to get in, blow up the warp fields reactor permanently on the inside with psychout missiles,

and allow for a full invasion. It's a bumpy landing, to say the least, and the most obvious problem here is the sheer amount of warp energy, meaning that it's going to be a horrific place to be. And, of course, slamming in with boarding torpedoes means there's going to be a lot of attention on them. Fortunately, they have some help. Joining them is a Sisters of Silence Oblivion Knight by the name of Ashira Voie. She was anathema to such a place, and her presence would cloak them as they made their way toward the reactor. Eventually, they obviously face resistance from the Death Guard,

who seemed to be coming in endlessly, laughing at them with rusted blades and replenishing their numbers as they fell. The weapon would be thrown into the reactor, which was a living, like, fleshy reactor, thanks to the warp. No, huge fan of that one. No problem is there. No, sure, no.

All right, continue. And after a short amount of time, the heart in the reactor shrieked with a human voice and died. Lovely. Sick. Love that. Yeah, really. Love the imagery.

Also, I love that 40K is such a universe that you can just throw around the word boarding torpedo and nobody bats an eye. And it's like, yeah, of course that's a thing to just load him up into torpedo and board up. No big deal. Yeah, no, that's totally chill, man. Yeah. Like, come on now. What do you mean? That's a normal thing.

That's what space screens do. They're built different. Load them into the torpedo, take out the explosives. Boom, you got a single serving boarding torpedo. I love it. I think it's that thing of repetition makes you sort of forget sometimes, just how mad. Ridiculous that word is. Yeah.

So the psychic feedback of the reactor being destroyed would cause catastrophic damage while allowing for a full ground invasion. Gilliman has returned to Parmenia and the folks who witnessed a living saint are about to meet the Imperial Regent himself. Now, this would normally be a time of rejoicing, but that sort of comes with a heavy implication. Victory is an act of defiance.

Hecaton would be taken back, but it was ultimately too late. Whole regions of Parmenia would have to be scoured for the death card's positions, poisons, and presents to be fully removed, and even a victory would mean that the soul of the planet would have to be purged. He's joined by Aylant who informs her that the girl who saved them is awake. He asks for a name, and he's told that she did not offer one.

The girl has scattered memories of what happened, and her biggest concern is what's going to happen to her. Her actions could have been divine, but it could have also been something more sinister. By now, they believe that word may have reached Gilliman about this whole thing too, and the uncertainty of her future is of great concern. Ielanth vows then to watch over her. She is needed to remain safe,

because the nightmares of the Death Guard are still at the gate. Poxwalkers are everywhere, and they're starting to be reinforced. The defences Devereous has set up under siege, and they need to retreat. The tide of battle changes when, surprise, the space marines triumphantly show up and push back the horrors,

almost too easily. The clean and brinked, brilliant armour of the space marines shining brightly amidst the rot of the deathguard. As the forces are pushed back, Cato Cicarius introduces himself to Devereous, and basically says, How the hell did the magic of the enemy stop so easily? What did you do? Now, out of...

It's fair. Out of stress and confusion, Devereux blurts out that there's a child that must have done that. Sikarius asked if she was sanctioned, and DeVaris says, she's not a psycher, she's a miracle. No. No. I don't like that. Also, yeah, as Shai said, I got to know, when Kato Sikarius introduces himself, does he come up and say, Mm, he does I, Kato Sikarius? What have you done?

No, no, we're past that. We're past that. He's sad now. Yeah, he's depressed now. He can't do me. Cursed with knowledge. You can't have that in a dower, in a dower tone of voice, can you? He's got to have a bit of regency. to it. If he said it all depressed, it just... I don't know. It's not. Kato's the Carriers. You know, you do.

Mim, me, mim, mim. I'm sad. I'm catos to curries and I'm sad. What is the name of the cartoon dog that talks like that? Because that's going to bug me. There's a specific dog. Droopy, maybe? That's the one. Yeah, you go.

Yeah, yeah. Let's go. So this whole, like, she's not a psychie. She's a miracle. This is a shore fire away. to fail the field sobriety test of any space marine investigation, and it doesn't help that this is happening at the time when a parade is starting to form, celebrating the victory with a child on a throne at the front of it.

Woof. All right, I'm sure. Nothing bad can happen here. All right. This annoys, Kato, you'll be surprised to learn, and he demands that Devereus follow him so that they can get to the bottom of what's going. on. Now at this point, moving through the crowds and hearing the amazing stories of this girl is, of course, Matthew. He sees the joy in the crowd and hears the citizens chanting,

the emperor protects, until finally he sees the grand procession of being led by sisters of battle and the girl being carried on a golden throne. I mean, really pushing their look here. I was about to say, that's a little, that seems a little blasphemous. Yeah, that doesn't seem like what you should be doing. Absolutely not. He makes his way closer, hearing tales of her miracles and how she's a saint from the emperor himself. At the front, Sister Superior Ailandth loudly proclaims to the crowd that she is a divine vehicle of the God Emperor, and within her is their salvation.

Before she can finish, the girl points directly at Matthew and beckons him to come closer, saying that he is one from the stars who brings hope to the people. He introduces himself and points at the girl and says that he has witnessed a miracle and that the emperor is here, to which in the crowd, Zocarius laughs and says quite literally, the prime arc is going to love this. Yeah. Oh yeah, Gilliman is going to be thrilled to see this shit. Gilliman is making his way closer to town and as he does, he receives word that McCrague is under attack. He remains composed and says that Calgar, will need to handle it as help is something he can't provide quite yet.

There is a bigger worry, though, is the attacks that Mortarian is unleashing are highly unpredictable, and there's a concern that this war might be a bit more drawn out than they expected. Another big dilemma right now has to do specifically with this goal. Work needed to be done, and the planet needed to be fully secured, but she is a big distraction whether they like it or not. Tribune Actarius of the Stratagis, of the Adeptus, of the adeptus, custodies Moldova Colquan. Jesus Christ. I've read that sentence about four times trying to get my head around it.

And I don't think I've succeeded. But, you know, that's a lot, all right? Tribune actuaries of the stratacus of the Adeptus Custodies Moldova Colquan. That's such a stupid name. That's right. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. But that's what it spells, yeah.

Yep, that is some dumb shit right there. Yep. Close enough. I'll take a close enough on that one. We will get into him more next episode and perhaps in a more in-depth Dawn of Fire series of episodes because he's a big deal in that. He flat out just says they should kill her.

She's a distraction. Any distraction is a threat. Let's just, you know, old yell at it and have it over and done with. Gilliman, though, has a huge brain theory. He's concerned that killing a child that everyone loves might do a number on morale. The intellect of a primark. That's exactly what I was going to say.

I mean, he is the logistics guy. He clearly knows what he's about. Kato also. points out that Matthew's presence and his words have made things even worse to which Golkan says, I'll drag him out myself if you want. I mean this custodian, I like his, I like his work here.

He's got a plan, he's willing to enact it, no problem. Kill the kid, drag the priest out, chuck him, all good. Jesus. In the end, they opt to keep her secure and not kill her. A Shira Voie will stay with her,

and if the Sisters of Silence get any sense that she's a psycher, they will do the killing themselves. Very cool. Now they're going to wait for the Star Fortress Galatan to show up so it can provide reinforcements so that they can attack the death guard

a bit harder. Hopefully, the Star Fortress Galatan is not being attacked at the moment, which leads us on to the title of the next section, which is, The Star Fortress Galatan is being attacked at this moment, which you're surprised about, I can tell. Well, it's that had a hell of a segue.

Well done, but. The shadow of terminus est and a fleet composed of rotted ships from all points in Terran history, lurched towards the star base and unleash hell. On board is Justinian, who is still a bit cross about the Nova Marines thing, but fortunately there's bigger fish to fry, and a nuclear bombardment of the oncoming fleet is a good start. Unfortunately, this only stalls the fight on the outside as the boarding crew of Typhus are inbound.

And sadly, Justinian just gets knocked out. Like, he misses a good chunk of this fight because he gets a bit of the old concussion treatment, and he emerges from debris and finds that the fort has taken heavy damage and the losses were extremely severe. Justinian and the remaining space marines and Astromilitarum are able to round, and successfully begin pushing back against the deathguard, but thanks to the actions of Mortarian, things are about to get even worse.

So on the surface of Parmenio, we witness Princeps Caleb Dunkel in a Reaver Titan of the Ligio Oberon, known as God's wrath. It's a particularly pissy machine spirit, and they are currently engaged with Titans from Lidio Mortis. There's as much carnage as you can imagine, but they have to do what they have to do, to do is they are leading the charge for a bunch of other vehicles, including a leviathan

with Gilliman inside of it. Outside of the mortise encounter, the loyalist titans encounter something else in the fog. Gigantic towers. Now before you guess the number of towers, you remember what the leviathan is, right? Are you referring to like the big ship thing? The massive citadel on track that looks goofy as hell. Oh, God, the guard thing? Oh, my Lord. God, it's been a while. Well, gosh, that looks great.

I don't know about you, but I think that looks phenomenal. It's not the most elegant of Imperium designs, let's be honest. Okay, that elegant is not the word I would use for the Citadel tank. No, but it's cool looking. I like it. There's so many variants of it, or like sort of scratch-made models and 3D-printed ones that you can get, and all of them, all of them, it's literally just, hey, you know how the old Warlord Titan, or Imperial Titan has got the cathedral on its back thing?

Well, for this one, we just took the cathedral and put it on tracks and stuck a massive, gigantic comedy gun right out the front. There is no version of it where it looks like it can fire more than two shots because of the size of the gun and where would you even store the ammunition? It's 40K, that doesn't matter. Well, manages it looks cool. Rule of cool, baby. Rule of cool.

Now, can you guess how many gigantic towers are on Parmenio? Seven. Eight. Fuck. You're only one off. It's not that bad of guess. I should have gone for the, oh, I'm so dumb. I don't know what the number is, and I should have said six.

and then be like, oh no, it's seven. I thought it when you said it, and I just didn't want to do it, because I'm, I was thinking far enough ahead for the means. Fuck. Well, you are correct in that there are seven of them. Horrific towers, by the way, that are twice as high as a reaver,

and are essentially like extensions of Nurgle's garden itself. Attacks on these towers seem to cause damage, but then they have a bit of a surprise. Acrid slop that gets launched from carved mouths on the towers that are capable of melting through entire Titans. Some were taken down, but the damage was too great for others, including God's wrath. Whatever it was, Mortarian was doing, it was working, and he did not want to let this planet go. These plague towers would continue moving forwards in hopes of covering the planet in bile, and all the while demons began celebrating and moving forward chanting for,

Gileman to come out. They would be joined by Mortarian, demanding that his brother come to him. The towers and the remaining Titans would finally meet, and Gilliman would answer Mortarians' challenge. The leviathan he was in would stop, the ramp would open, and Gilliman would step out while Mortarion soared up into the clouds. Damn. Such a, like, troll dickhead maneuver from Mortarian. Shout for Gilleman to come out and face him. Gilliman comes out and Mortarion's just like, I can fly mate and then just leaves.

Like, come on. It's a power move. Yeah. In the midst of all of this back in the city, Matthew cannot let go of the fact that Gilliman is hiding the girl. He believes that if she were to show off her true divinity in battle, then maybe it would result in the primark understanding the truth about his father. He's with Sister Aylanth and she's conflicted about the child being locked away too. he says he would die for the prime mark and asks if... Sorry, just the use of the word conflicted.

It tickles me. Now, he says that he'd die for the prime mark and asks if she would die to bring the son of the emperor fully into the light of his father as he would. She says that she would. He says he cannot command her and says if she's to act, then it's her own decision, which goes about as well as you'd expect.

So she seeks out the child and demands to see her, even if it's just a private audience. Currently, the girl is being protected by Voi, there's a space marine as well, and deverous. But the girl, despite sitting next to a null and wearing a black stone necklace, is still radiating a golden aura with bright golden eyes. The girl actually tells the sister of battle

that her name is Kalia. And she can sense the fear that I've, Aylantth has, and says that she also believes she can help Gilliman and must see him. It all sounds so incredibly suspect. That's awful. Yeah, the sister sitting next to her or whatever, and it's just like, yeah, I'm not affected by you. Like, I, that's a good, good lord. Yeah, that's not who you want to let go see the prime mark unattended.

Well, Ayalandth steps outside and tells Deverex that she's going to take Kahlia, saying that the emperor, his will cannot be obstructed by any man, especially one as inconsequential as him, before killing him on the spot, as well as the space marine present. Oh, wow.

As you do, I guess. Oh, crap. Would you say it was, like, a Knight Centura or something? So, she is just a sister of battle. Oh, it's just her battle, not silence. Oh, I thought this is her silence. No, this is just a sister of battle.

Oh, I thought she was seen next to a sister of silence and therefore... Oh, so the girl, the psych or not psycha, golden-eyed girl, is sitting next to a sister of silence, but the sister of Battle has gone to see the girl and has now decided that the girl shall be free, no matter what the others think, and blows a space marina away, which is quite the choice. That's madness, but all right, I mean, I can see a sister be like, even next to an oblivion knight, the emperor's radiance is this strong,

as much as I can also see her be like, holy shit, she's next to a sister of silence, this is happening. Kill her now. Both are very, like, acceptable answers. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. The murder of a space marine is such a big,

it's such a big step. They really are glossing over that too, aren't they? Yeah. That is real commitment right there. Sisters aren't big fans of space marines anyway. It's fine to knock a couple of them off, right? That's awesome. I believe that's written in the Codex somewhere.

Now, Possum regretfully, is stated that they cannot include the full passage where Sister Island faces off 1v1 against the Obsidian Knight Sister of Silence Voie, but really wishes that they could. A battle sister is of course strong, but she is very outmatched against a brutal warrior such as Voi, and the sister of battle essentially gets aggressively humbled. The sororitus tries to catch Voi off guard, but her null aura keeps messing with her focus,

and each time she makes eye contact, she can read the hatred in the sister of silence eyes. Which, again, sort justified at this point. Yeah, no, that's okay. I'm cool with that one. Also, I'm adding the terminology aggressively humbled into my lexicon. I like that. You have been aggressively humbled. God damn, all right. Being a sister of silence meant that she had a closer bond to the emperor directly than anyone else,

except, well, maybe the emperor, which makes this a hell of a lot worse when his voice emanates from Kalia and demands Voie to stop. terrified, the girl proceeds to rise upward, causing the combatants to briefly stop before the girl yells, no. The sister of silence is jettisoned across the room and bent at the middle as if caught hard by the swipe of a giant's lash. Oh boy. The sister superior receives word that the other sisters know where Gilliman's Leviathan is, and they're off to find it. She disables her tracking system and flees to the third. field of battle. Meanwhile, in space, the battle aboard the Galatan is only getting worse. Justinian's suit is damaged, meaning he's more and more susceptible to deathguard bullshit,

and the appearance of Typhus at the front lines does not help this situation in any way. He cuts through the lines of soldiers with ease, and even kills the chapter master of the Nova Marines in doing so. Typhus makes his way to Justinian, who is out of ammo. But, before the final blow can be struck, and this is a dive, direct quote here. Literally out of fucking nowhere, a Grey Knight

Librarian beats the ever-loving fuck out of Typhus and runs him through with his spear. Sure, dude. All right. It's great.

Gray nights. Sure, dude. Honestly, that's fine. Great Night librarians go insane anyways. That's cool. The thing is,

the dejected tone of voice with Bricky just being like, yeah, I guess that works. I, when I was 17 years old, my first army,

was grey nights because I thought that shit was was hype and now that I'm an adult I think that shit is boring so I'm just like yeah whatever dude a fun thing if you were Google that particular part of the book is a significant number of the conversations about it are essentially what the hell is this about where did this guy come from and then you know a few more like yeah it's just a great night in he so okay cool there we go just gray nights in it Aston answered, what the hell was this? Grey ice. Ah, I see.

Carry on. So at this point, Gilliman steps off the ramp of the Leviathan onto the battlefield, and he does not see his brother. He and the rest of his guard are enveloped in a dense fog, making it impossibly difficult to see. Gilliman finds the void unsettling, but he also believes that this is an example of Mortarian's cowardice, hiding in the fog instead of facing him head on.

A carnival of Neverborn emerged from the middle, and Gilliman swings at them with a now ignited Emperor's sword. He calls for Mortarian to face him, and is then faced by Septicus 7, who calls Giliman Anathema's most tedious son. What a burn. Unseen during this is Cougat, who is unleashing disease left and right. He's content doing this, but he is again frustrated.

He hates the resilience of mortals, and he feels like he should be back on Iax, making better curses. This conflict could have been an email in his eyes. He's not having fun, but he needs something. A single drop of blood. That's all that he wants. But he also doesn't want to get it himself because he's afraid that he might be killed in doing so.

After all, there's a whole Emperor's Sword situation going on with Gilliman over there. Yeah, that is a demon perma death sword. Yeah. Then, though, it happens. Septicus 7 leaves a mark on the prelude. Primark and a single drop of blood slides out. And for the first time in this entire book, Kugath is happy. He manages to get the drop of blood and says,

I have you now. And with a call to the heavens, Mortarian descends from the sky, simply saying, hello, brother. What an entrance, though. That's a good entrance. Why hello there? Mortarian and Gilliman fight, obviously. Gilliman calls him weak and Mortarian says that he brings things life and joy and saves them from the hell their father created. To him, Gilliman is a slave to the bidding of a loveless monster, and Gilliman simply says that he pities him.

Gilliman stands his ground and says that he does not fight for the emperor, he fights for what he believes in, before being bound by his brother with bonds from the warp. Now, as this family reunion is happening, Ayalandth is making her way through the fog and the burning golden radiance of Kalia is, parting the sea of demons and destroying the terrors around her. Colkin the custodian is fighting a demon when the creature makes eye contact with the girl who is rapidly approaching. The demon stops dead in its tracks and says anathema and when Colkin turns to see the girl, his mouth falls open and sheepishly says, my lord, I mean, at this point to be fair, she's getting the job done, or potentially he's getting the job done. They're getting the job done.

Yeah, she's doing well for some random kid found under some debris. The might of the girl's presence blew the fog away around Gileman and broke the bonds around him. Gillerman sort of was like, well, this is weird before turning to face his brother again. Mortarian would stagger back to his feet before saying that he would face him, but not here and not now. he would fight him one last time on Iax. That is where they were to finish it. He said this and vanished as Gilliman screamed, You treacherous bastard.

That's not very primark of you. Fortunately, Gilliman did get a second-place trophy and was able to banish Septicus 7. So, you know, consolation prize. It's not all bad. Then he asked the obvious question of How the hell did that girl get here? The girl asks if he is the emperor made flesh again,

and Gilliman says that he is not. She says he looks like him, and he says, Who are you? Magnus, and then, quote, unquote, voiced the hated word, Father, the girl could no longer answer, because either by her own volition or through a spirit leaving her body, she was lying there dead. Oh! Now, if that was the emperor, what a...

What an asshole? Jesus Christ. Yeah, I mean, Shise right, that'd be very emperor-coded, though. That's something he would totally do. You know, just, oh, yeah, all it cost me was one child. I eat a thousand psychers a day. What do I care of one kid bites the dust? And I got to really piss off.

my son in the process who we've established does not like me very much. Jesus Christ, all right. So later on, in a closed conclave on McCrag's honour,

Gilliman holds a very cut and dry trial of Ireland. She did literally kill an ultramarine and a high-ranking auxilium member and presumably turned a sister of silence

into a pretzel while kidnapping a girl who was an unsanctioned psycher. You can't really argue with those facts. They all happened. So, Gilliman asked if she acted alone, and she said yes, she had nothing to repent. She did not ask for forgiveness. The sister superior says she'd do it all again without a moment's thought. Gilliman then sentences her to death and asks everyone to leave except the militant apostolic. He asks him to stand where Sister Eylanth stood

and tells Felix to stand guard outside and not let him be disturbed except for the custodie Colcan. He's vibing in the chamber as well. Gilemon proceeds to yell at Matthew unrelentingly saying that he knows what he did and that he was never to lie to him again. Matthew would look into his eyes

and see a fury that would consume him. He tells Matthew to confess to what he did and Matthew says, did you not see? Your father was working through the child, before being cut off by Gilliman, who says that he was not there. Gilliman saw unbound psychic energy. He did not see visions. He saw lies. He was the only living thing to have spoken with the Emperor for 10,000 years and said that his priesthood

was the darkness in the Imperium. This point, even Colkins looking shocked, Matthew tried to say he didn't order Aylance to do anything, and Gilliman yells, do not interrupt me. before saying that he disgusted him and that choosing him was a miscalculation. He will live only by Gilliman's indulgence alone, and he will never accomplish his goal of convincing Gilliman of his own father's divinity. He does tell Matthew to leave, and as he leaves, Carl Kahn says, watch your step-priest, Gilliman might not move against you, but there is nothing stopping me.

Oof, what a baller. I think I remember this part. was the part where basically Gilliman is like, I've had enough of you freaks. Yeah. Which is, which is lovely. It's just lovely to see, honestly.

It's, it's something that I think a lot of 40K people have been waiting for of just like Gilliman or anyone to crash out and just say, oh my God, you people. So I guess it's quite nice to see. Justifiable crash out, yeah. Yeah, 100%. So, Gilliman tells him to stop, and Colkin says softly, I'm watching you.

I'm loving this custodies guy. He said, I'm loving him. He's great. As Matthew leaves, he yells, saying that Gilliman will soon see the truth. He's sure of it. Matthew really wants to get shot. Like, at this point, that's the only conclusion you can come to.

He actively wants to get shot by somebody. You've just had, You just had a custodian guard be like, he might not kill you, but I absolutely will. And he still mouths off at the end? Come on, dude. Crazy, yeah. Maybe, I mean, I guess when you're this type of person and you're so obviously like, well, I'm going to be vindicated because I'm going to ascend to the emperors. Because I've served him correctly.

And this has been drilled into you forever. It's kind of makes sense. Yeah. Proper full-on zealotry, just like Gilliman hates. Now, we're going to go back to something we talked about at the very beginning. The rogue trader that we mentioned brought Gilliman something and kept it sealed in a stasis container, something that she had risked her life for, something incredibly dangerous, something that was in fact at one point truly heretical. It was a book, a book that, unbeknownst to the...

Imperial cult served as its foundation, a book written 10,000 years ago by one Lorgar Oralian, the Lecticio de Vinitatis. Gilemon opened it for the first time and read the first two lines. Rejoice, for I bring you glorious news. God walks among us. then he closes the book and puts a combi-bolter in his mouth oh no Gelleman no there's still so much to live for Gelleman please it really is there

well are things to live for things stuff there's yeah you know Go ahead, Kereo. That's it. That's the end. Oh, boy. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, D.K. Denied, there are not things to live for.

Apparently, there are no things to live for. Consume the combi boulder, I guess. Holy shit. All right, well, fuck me. Poor, poor, poor Gilliman. Right. Right. He's been struggling with so much. And then it turns out all along,

Lorca is still, Lord Car still sort of, in a way, right, in that he's managed to convince everyone. And now the emperor, and everyone's got to go along with it. Oh, dear. I don't know why, but for some reason, I'm imagining, like,

I'm imagining some of the priesthood that Gilliman is dealing with. It's like this guy, I love the emperor. This morning, my daughter, called Decline Smoking Honey. I mean, you're probably not far off with how they are. So goofy.

Great if a little note fell out of the book and it's just like, this is for, why did I just draw blank on the name of the, this is for monarchy, asshole. So a note falls out his feet. It's called the one post-lized coffee. It's just really mad about it, you know? Yeah. Yeah, so like anyway, that sucks, man. So anyway, that sucks, bro.

Yeah, so anyway, this is, this really sucks, man. This is a bad time. Yeah, this is not a good timeline to be Gilliman in, so. But hey, like we said, it does humanize him. It makes him seem very not perfect blueberry. You know, like we said, this is, this. This is what makes him and the Ultramarines interesting, right? That's true.

Instead of just a Boy Scout that just does his taxes. This is literally what makes him interesting. Yeah. Well, I guess, I guess like some of the Calth stuff and the Imperium Secunda stuff makes him kind of interesting. But this, I do feel like it's nice to have the raging against type thing. That is so true. That is so true, though, Shai.

If Dorn had returned, all of these characters would be dead. Yeah. Matthew tries the whole, you know, you know, the emperor is actually a god, right? Wouldn't even get halfway through the sentence. He wouldn't even, like, he would get to the word God, and then his head would be gone. Like, someone fetch me another priest who isn't an idiot, and we'll try this again. The word would spread so quickly. Okay, whatever you do.

Sir, don't tell him what you actually believe. Sir, sir, sir, we don't have any more priests left. Like, you killed them all. You've gone through 13 of them in the last hour. Just gives him to Nathaniel Garrow slab. Freaking Dorn being like, why do they keep thinking this is a test? Why do they keep thinking this is a test of their allegiance? Oh man, all the priests keep saying because they think Dorn's testing their faith and he just keeps knocking them out.

That is such, that is, hell yeah. I was going to say, there's got to be some way to make that animation happen because that's something that I just, yeah. Poor Gileman. Are you still got a book to go? There's still,

the ride never ends. Hooray. All right. Well, until then, I suppose, best of luck to everyone, particularly Gileman. Yeah. I'm sure it'll only.

get better from here. Indications point to, it can't get much worse. All right. All right, everybody. Good episode. Craig, take us home. You got it, Bricky. Even though the sun is setting on today's episode,

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