Adeptus Ridiculous - MONTHS OF SHAME: DON'T MESS WITH WOLVES | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: February 7, 2024

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousThe Months of Shame is a term to refer to the immediate aftermath of the First War for Armageddon. Beginning as a purge by the Ordo Malleus against survivors of the conflict for fear of the lingering taint of Chaos, it escalated into skirmishes and eventual full battle with the Space Wolves. The term itself is not an official one, and indeed few in the Imperium are aware of the incident's existence. Rather, the name was coined by some within the Grey Knights, who saw the deaths of their Grand Master and Battle Brothers as a mark of shame and regret.Support the show

of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamante's. His name is Bricky. And are you telling me a war hammered this 4,000 times? 40,000 times? Sheesh! But anyway, before we get into that, if you enjoy today's episode of the podcast

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wait until you see this little gem. Oh, it's also Bricky Forward? Oh yeah. I don't know if that's Bricky Forward. Look at that Bricky Forward watchers poster. I don't know if that's Bricky Forward. forward at all. Oh, yeah, that's totally your thing. I think you lied to me out of your, out of your teeth, D.K. I don't, I don't know what, if that's not a very bricky, I just don't know what is.

Is it because of the hips? It's the, it's the everything. Or are you just, you just, you just doing that to screw with me? Well, because I, I am, I have been known to be, to be a gentleman who is a fan of the, of the six lane freeway hips. Um, as, as they say, we got the, uh, we got the, uh, we got the, uh, five wide bottom half, etc. Fair, fair. Um, may have been a little sarcasm. A little bit. Just a little, just smidge. Got, got hips that make me not able to pull out of a driveway, let alone, let alone this.

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or the poster section to get your Watchers poster. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm okay go ahead

get your thoughts together get your thoughts together and you know let me tell me how you're feeling what are you thinking what are you thinking I'm thinking I ran through all of my like decent jokes

about like liking liking women with wide hips is you know like it's you know that's pretty up there on my list of personal attractions and so I ran I ran through all of them right now

and now I'm just like I'm kind of spent, so I'm just kind of like, what the hell, D.K. Oh, well, you know, it's a gets good poster. I mean, they're all good posters. It's not the point. It's the bricky forward part that bugs me. Well, with all of the Hips Don't Lie references that you made, am I wrong?

Am I? Am I? I thought it was rather interesting. What? We never figured out what the question was. What do you mean? We never figured out what the question was. In Lion's Son of the Forest, it says,

you did not ask the proper question. We never actually figured out what the proper question was. Oh, yeah, I guess not. I kind of forgot about that. Yeah, it's kind of like a one-off thing in the beginning and middle of the book, but we never actually figured it out. So it kind of leaves a little bit of mystery for the future. Yeah, the watcher post to bring that out of you, that query.

Oh, the watcher said it. It's true. That's true. There was a watcher that said it. That's right. true. Think the watcher in the book look like that? No. I don't think it did. I don't know, dude.

I'm gonna have an aneurysm. The first of many. What was today's video about? Oh, right. Okay, I have the links. I would assume some form of space wolf thing. I was, I was assuming, what is it, the months of shame was going to be what we were doing today? Or like, you were going to do named Space Wolves because that's what we were doing before the Karioth episode. Oh, yeah.

Crap. You got it. Oh, let's go, baby. Who got the quote without even needing a quote? This guy. Let's go. Let's go. Actually, in a sense, I gave you a couple quotes about the months of shame in the

Space Wars episode. The part where the Finrisian inquisitor bows to Bjorn and he's like, oh, God damn it. That's from the months of shame. Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, I mean, so, so months of shame is interesting. This topic is a purely shy recommendation topic.

Oh. Because she read about this and was instantly became a space wolf's enjoyer. Oh, wow. So it's got to be depraved and awful and and just, whoof, it's, mm, all right. Well, parts of it are, but also how dare. It's called the months of shame for God's sake. But also very mean. how dare you apologize immediately?

For what? I was going to say being mean to shy, but it's surreal here. But it's true. I mean, Shai's favorite faction of the orcs. There's nothing wrong with liking depraved fiction like that, you know, whatever. Oh, I know, I know. Tons of people that love the burning of Prospero, and that's literal genocide. Okay, saying literal genocide in.

40K narrows nothing down. That's true. You know how little that helps. That's true. That's fair. You're right. You're right. You're right. But the months of shame is actually a bit of a shorter story than I thought when I did my usual research, which mainly consists of

wiki, lexicon, book excerpts, and the like. I was kind of surprised at how short it was. But it's not really about, you know what they say. It's not really about the length. It's about how hard you cry afterwards.

Oh boy, if I had a dollar for every time that was appropriate. Then you'd be broke. Well, yeah, that applies getting with a woman first. That's true. Hey, you got my joke. Hey, nice job. You caught it quick. Hey, let's go.

Hey, anyway. Regardless, so the months of shame take place after a very important war that we have actually not yet covered. This is following the First War of Armageddon. And this is a pretty... This is one of those wars.

One of the ones that are like astronomically large. Okay. I mean, maybe it wasn't like insane, insane. But basically it was a whole bunch of chaos cults and coronate demons,

including Angeron himself, as well as a mass contingency of like bloodthirsters and Karn of course fighting off good old imperial defenders the Armageddon and Steel Legion of course

Space Wolves and the Grey Knights Jeez that is quite a chaos force bloodthusters Angron that's that's a that's a Enkarn that's a hefty that's a hefty force It is and the Armageddon war

really solidified the Armageddon Steel Legion as one of the major Imperial Guard factions that get a bit more love. The Steel Legion are your World War II Germans more than the, like in visuals, more than like the Kriegsmen are the World War I Germans. Yeah. So do they, do they fend them off? Oh, they do. So the, I mean, spoilers, obviously. The Armageddon War is won by the Imperials. And yeah, like the Armageddon Steel Legion, they're very much like Blitzkrieg, lots of mobile infantry.

You know, you can see in their outfits. They're very much the old school. I'm getting the hell out of here. Ooh, that was good. That was quick. I'm pretty proud of you. Thank you. Thank you.

Wait, wait, wait, what, what shy? Why do I have to stop? What am I doing? You need to mention how they killed Angron? Whoa, they killed Angron? Well, of course they do. Angron comes back to life all the time. Sure, but I kind of figured it was just like, oh, shoot, I guess I have to, well, I guess

Angron wouldn't run away from a fight. No, he wouldn't. And like, no matter how outnumbered, he probably would not stop until someone didn't eat kill him. Like, yeah, I knew he was on a respawn timer, but still, killing Angron is like, oh, kind of a big deal. Well, yeah, no, I mean, absolutely. It's coming a demon Primeark, but, um, well, actually,

Shai, I mean, I didn't look too deep into the War of Armageddon. I know a Grey Knight broke his blade, like with his mind or something. But other than that, no, please, please share because I mainly researched the months of shame for this. I assume we would save the war. Shouldn't we say this for like an Armageddon episode? I mean, maybe, but shy, if you want to, I mean, we're already too deep into this. So let's find out. I mean, you are putting an awful lot of faith in my memory, my guy.

The amount of stuff I've forgotten that you've told me is. just I mean no one who knows lots of 40K knows it all on hand it's just like true true what's this they sent a hundred and nine great knights who surrounded him and he

proceeded to kill 98.9% of them 13 survived I mean that's that's pretty anger on yeah yep yep yep that's if anyone can Angron can and that probably would happen

in the in the tabletop too because gray nights are dog right now. Fair enough. Anyway, the, the tail end of the of the War of Armageddon is the start of the months of shame. Okay. So after the months of shame, no, God damn it. After the War of Armageddon. I was like, wow, the episode's over already? We were very quick with this one.

Damn. afterwards, obviously, the imperial defenders, despite their great victory against Angron and his, all of his bloodthusters and the like, was a very damaged force. The defenders were, you know, decently spent. They lost a lot of space wolves. The Grey Knights, in particular, suffered pretty monstrous casualties. Yeah, it sounds like it. Not just from Angron himself, but because. In general.

In general. And gray knights are not a very, they're not a very, like, extremely prominent force. Oh, so they already didn't have a lot of numbers to begin with, and then they lost almost a hundred. I think there's only a thousand gray knights, because it's a chapter.

And because it's a chapter of gray knights, therefore it's, you know, that Angron at that point killed a tenth of their number. I was going to say, Angron killed a tenth of a chapter. Gee! Let's see here. Approximately 11, 1883 Astardis in the chapter,

with 32 neophytes and 1,0005 extra recruits. So, yeah, they're not huge. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's a pretty big loss at Armageddon for the Grey Nights. So, after the entire chaos cults issue and coronate problems on Armageddon were wide clear, naturally, especially with the Grey Knights,

an Inquisition force arrived. A large one of about 30 inquisitors made their way to Armageddon under the command of Lord Inquisitor Ghesmi, Gesmi, Kastner, oh my God, Kaisneros? Kisarnos. Kisunheit.

It's like, it's K-Y-S-N-A-R-O-S. Kis. Kis. Kisneros? Yeah, right? I would almost say that the KYS should be silent and it's just like a Nauros. Like a snaros, like a snaros. Kis Neros. Sure.

Lord Inquisitor Kise. That's what we're calling him now. His name is Kis. All right. Kese, Kee-Kee-S-Kee-Ki. Kai Isakail. Issa Kyle and Kai Kiske. Kai Kiske, the Christian Crusader. Actually, this is mildly fitting. So he was a very mysterious Inquisitor-Lord that was unaligned with the other Ordos,

which is a little weird because normally you're part of the Ordo Xenos, the Ordo Hereticus, the Ordo Hereticus, but he was not aligned with any of them. You can be an unaligned, whatever. Like, you could just not be in any Ordos as an Inquisitor? I didn't think you could, but apparently he was, so here we are. Okay. So, obviously, after defeating the forces of chaos, there was a sensitive information of the universe and the Grey Knights especially that needed to be stopped. Obviously, the existence of chaos in its own right is something that is not relatively known to the wider public and the great.

and the Grey Knights even more so not great Yeah for sure So naturally with not one not two but 30 inquisitors Coming over to contain the situation You know they weren't thinking Really about the people

Yeah sure They're inquisitors When do they ever think about the people really So this is important to talk about the space wolves. So Logan Grimnar, also known as Santa Slay, Wolfman. Such a cool model, actually.

It is, but it's also super derpy. Yeah. He was the one who led this whole rebellion, or not rebellion, but the fight to take back all the chaos and the corn, all that stuff. He was the main space wolf guy, and he's kind of a baller. Okay.

Space, so it's important to understand space wolves more than what we've already discussed. Um, space wolves are not the defenders of the Imperium. They, they are the defenders of humanity. They are the defenders of the human race. And they answer, and to them, they answer to no one outside of Big E himself. Oh, so if an inquisitor showed up and was like, hey, spacewolves, you'll listen to us because we damn well said so. the spacewoles would like spit in their face and maybe try to kill them.

I mean, maybe not kill them, but there would definitely be spinning in their face and maybe taking like a shit on their on their throne. Or something along those lines. Typical wolf. I mean, the Inquisition have often viewed the space walls with a large amount of distrust, not just because of their weird gene seed, but also because they just don't like authority. they don't want anyone telling them what to do and they believe that the only person that can tell them what to do is Big E himself. Yeah, I can see why the Inquisition would not be big fans.

Sure. And so naturally, they are not big fans of the Inquisition. And they do not necessarily think that they serve the Imperium and the Inquisition Secret Police. They are defenders of humanity. They are old, like, Great Crusade. we are the dominant race of the galaxy. Humans are the important part.

Right. Although really what Space Marine gets along with the Inquisition, right? Well, the Grey Knights, I suppose. Well, yeah, that's true. The Grey Knights, that's true. I guess they would kind of have to, wouldn't they? Death Watcher also, I guess, part of it. But you are correct, though.

It is, there's various levels. Space Marines not huge, by and large, Space Marines usually don't get along with the Inquisition that try to bully them into doing stuff. For the most part. For the most part, Space Marines very much dislike being given orders, as they are themselves the top dogs. Yeah, they're basically demigods. So, during this time, you know, Logan Grimnar was told the post-war containment plans that the Inquisition wanted to put into play. the usual suppression campaign, right?

Now, Grimnar basically said, hey, can you not? Can you just like, can you just like not do that? Because to him, he saw all the defenders on the, oh, don't worry, I'll explain the plan shy. He sees all the defenders on Armageddon. And for the most part, like, like none of them that were still there were. chaos tainted in any way. Few of them had actually even been in the front lines whatsoever. There was no fear of chaos taint, everything, like they seem perfectly fine.

And, you know, think of it like a space wolf. You just defended this planet against the demon primark of Angram. Like, regular humans, like that is a deed worthy of story. And space wolves. They're probably, anyone involved in that is probably getting song sung about them and they're getting a new name and oh man they're ready to march in deval holla heads held high they're stoked and like they respect the shit out of the armageddon's steel legion for what they did sure they they respect them excessively and because you know they really

like showed up put their their metal to to anger on and won and that's just awesome hell yeah um so the inquisition however uh took Grimnar's complaints and basically told him to shove it. Ooh. So that can't be good. Um, what their, their, I decision was, was that they aboard, uh, their, their flagship, Lord, Lord Kyle. He's Lord Kyle now. Screw it.

So Kyle, Kai Kiske, and now we've got Lord Kyle. Hey. So Lord Kyle, uh, upon his ship, the Coral's hope. a battle cruiser. His concept was, well, better to sterilize or kill millions on suspicions of chaotic taint to eventually

then have to, or so that you don't have to eventually kill billions in the future. The idea is that if you are to stop the chaos taint here on Armageddon, then if anyone leaves Armageddon still chaos taint him, they will not infect another planet and they will be forced to destroy that planet

instead. That's their mindset. That's what they're thinking. Right. Even though there is no evidence of any chaos taint, no weird sightings, nobody's acting funky, nobody's, you know, drooling, screaming, and drawing ruins in the sand or clawing out their eyes. It's just, they just assumed chaos was here, so we got to shut this shit down. Pretty much. And so they took about 100,000 inquisitorial stormtroopers, landed on the ground, and began to evacuate to the hide. cities to put them into work camps

for their vaccinations Oh boy which in reality is actually a sterilization injection so that they could never possibly birth tainted chaos children. Okay all right, yeah this is

yeah that that definitely sounds like a inquisition deal. Yep. So the human defenders roughly about a million guards who arrived to deal with mop-up operations after Angron had been killed were also ordered into their barracks pending their own processing. All right.

Yeah, sure, sure. And so, yeah, it was basically just like, round everyone up, put them in sterilization camps, kill the ones that were suspicious, and, yeah. Profit. Yeah, profit. Yeah, those are the question mark, question mark, profit. I guess. Jeez.

Yeah, I was going to say, this sounds an awful lot like, you know, some really bad stuff that happened in World War II. I mean... It's very icky, and I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't much like it. No, I don't think you too much like, I think likes when we say the word either. But, um, I mean, I mean, 40K is, it's a satirical medium. Yeah, it is. It's, it's, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, brutal. It is brutal. It is grim dark.

So, Space wolves were not really able to stop this in the beginning. Space wolves are strong, but 100,000 stormtroopers are stronger. Yeah, that's numbers. So at this point, Logan was trying to kind of consider a plan. They didn't have an advantage

on the ground, but they had one in space. They had 16 ships compared to the Inquisitions 12, and these are space marine ships, So they're generally stronger in every way. Armor. More suited for combat. More suited for void battle, sure. All that stuff.

Yeah. So as there were transports attempting to escape the Inquisition, Grimmar was creating, like, what's the word, like, escape transports to attempt to get away from the Inquisition sterilization attempts. Okay. So 20 transports were then loaded with their human car. and attempted to escape from this awful crap that the Inquisition is doing. Yeah, dastardly shit with no just cause. There is, so I want to mention this just because I know that some people will probably bring this up. One of the interesting things about...

Go ahead. You good? I clicked on a different tab, but it went back in. the Discord and I see the podcast news announcement in the Discord for our patrons and it's the new poster. The poster. But notice what the highest emot used to react to it is. I haven't even looked at it yet.

What is it? It's just the Dark Angel green sus guy. Fair. That's good on you. Good on you. Adric patron. Good on you. We've taught you well.

Very proud. Very proud. But anyway, so, so, actually, one thing I want to talk about, a lot of people, I think, sometimes have the wrong idea about Warhammer. Well, maybe it's not a wrong idea. That kind of makes me sound like I'm gatekeeping. I don't want to do that. Like, okay, let's, so the Inquisition is doing, basically, they're doing sterilization games and doing all of these terrible stuff, despite, having very little method to the contrary because mainly they just want to keep the Grey Knights and stuff secret. Sure. And they want to keep Chaos secret. They want to keep the Grey Knight secret.

They don't want any of that stuff coming out. But still. But still. The important thing to know is that some people, like, there are situations where the Inquisition has the right idea. And I think that's what makes the setting relatively engaging and engrossing. and it throws into this interesting kind of gray area because there is a story once of like the end of a major Nergel battle or something

where seven sick people just happened to be survived, just seven of them. And they ended up... And they were tainted by Nergel and they caused this big massive problem and... They flew to a new planet and infected billions and turned the entire planet into like a garden of Nurgel planet.

Oh, okay. So the Inquisition is scared. of that happening again and also their big, big secrets getting out. There's that major important note of like the Imperium is not doing well because of their awful actions. They're doing well in spite of their awful actions.

But sometimes shit like this does happen. And if it happens enough, you're going to get old cranky asshole inquisitors like Lord Kyle here who think the only method to deal with this is a needle and a virus bombing. Yeah. I mean, like they needed any additional help with that.

That's what I just want to say is that. Like, I clearly am team spacewolf here. I think what the Inquisition is doing is. Oh, I think we all are, right? I think we're all team Space Wolf on this one. For sure. Like, please help the transport of the innocent people that, you know, uh, uh, we're thinned out protecting you.

You know, definitely help them, please. But yeah. But it's important to understand why an inquisitor might end up going down this route if they've seen this enough times, you know? Yeah, yeah. To play devil's advocate, as it were. Speaking of that transport, its drive was disabled and the Inquisition shot it to shit and killed 400,000 passengers. Ay, Jesus Christ. So, bad start.

So Lord Kyle is looking more. More like Lord Vader. All right. These were the first shots fired. Jesus. I'm sure the space wolves loved that. So they were pretty pissed, but Grimnar decided to make a different choice. He ordered the space wolf vessels to put themselves in the line of fire of the Inquisition ships and not to fire back under any circumstance.

Okay. Okay. And so as the Inquisitor ships Throughout threats and insults and the like And especially as Grimnar talked to Kyle And the two of them just started yelling at each other The inquisitorial ships opened fired on the space wolves Yet

Oh wow they did huh They actually open fire on space marine ships huh They did and luckily space marine void shields are very strong And so once the first shots were four fired a huge contingent of space wolf reinforcements, including a giant battle barged, translocated into the system and was like, you want to keep doing, you know, they called dead. They were like, dad, dad, my brother hit me. You look what your inquisition is doing. Stop them.

So basically just they arrived and were like, hey, knock it off. Stop hitting your, stop hitting your older brother. But this puts the space wolves on the moral high ground, as they have never fired back on the Inquisition. Sure. Inquisition are doing all of this on their own. And, you know, Lord Kyle is a, he's pretty pissed, but he can't really do anything when this battle bar just arrived.

And he's fighting down Space Marines with his very damaged Grey Knight force. Mm-hmm. Screw Lord Kyle anyway, forget him. Well, Lord Kyle didn't really want to stop. Oh, no, don't tell me he keeps firing. He's like, oh, the battle barges here? Ah, take my chances. There's no way.

No, he has something significantly worse. Oh, no. What, is he like, try and ram them or something? No, no. He follows the transports that leave Armageddon to their new planets, and then he exterminatuses them. Wow. Yeah, he's a shit lord, man

Wow, so he's So they all make it The transports make it out They find a new home, they settle, they caught And he just exterminatuses it So Lord Kyle is weird The dude is a non-Ordo Specific Inquisitor

But he holds like shocking amounts of power Yeah, that he can exterminate as a planet He can order that like that's What a dick It's not even just the fact that, I mean, Inquisitors can do exterminatus, that's normal, but he had, like, cross-sector, like, freedom. He was in other solar systems and other sectors, and he was able to tell other inquisitors to virus bomb the plants the Armageddon people were arriving at, and they would do it. He has, like, insane power. Like, this is, like, high Lord's Terra level power, and it's really weird.

And there's no real explain. He's just, well, that's just, that's just who he is. He's just one of the almighty inquisitors that isn't part of an ordos, and he just has this massive sway? Well, I mean, you know, when you learn about a story, things come, things get revealed to you in the future. Okay, okay, okay, foreshadowing. I like it, I like it, I like it. So, he's a massive douche turd, and he has exterminatist, a planet because the Armageddon people were on it.

D.K., I believe a douche turd is a bit of a contradiction. One comes from one area, the other comes from the other. No, no, no, no, no. He is a douche turd. Okay. You know what, he defies logic. Yes, yes, he does. So, with this, you know, this is starting to get out of hand. Starting to get out of hand. Only now is it getting out of hand.

This is not great. Yeah, this is 40K out of hand. Before it was like, okay, this is 40K norm. We're still kind of, now we're out of control. So after the about five months of this whole containment campaign, it was getting a little bit ridiculous. This was getting insane and problematic. Yeah, sure.

So the grandmaster of the Grey Knights at the time there, Grandmaster Joros, made a proposition that they capture Logan Grimnar to stop these problems. This would cause the chapter to, you know, surrender, basically. Yeah, sure. And Lord Kyle already pissed off was like, hell yeah, let's do it. So he offers a parlay. He's like, all right, meet in a system, weapons and shields down, neutral star system,

and then go ahead and we'll talk. Okay. Every time someone says parlay, I can't help but think of Pirates of the Caribbean. It's just... I think the same thing too. Yeah. Okay. Good. Good. I'm glad I'm not alone with the brain rot. So they arrive. And then, you know, Space Wolf and his four, or Space Wolf, Logan Grimnard and his four escort cruisers. And the Inquisition and the Grey Knights immediately fire upon him and blow up his four escort cruisers. Oh, great. That's all right. So four full escort vessels destroyed with all hands dead. Sheesh.

And so, I'm sure that made Logan super stoked. So Lord Kyle was like, hey, buddy, I'll invite you onto my ship so we can discuss your surrender. And the reintegration of the space wolves into the hierarchy. God, I hope he transports over and just obliterates Kyle. So he transports over. along with some of his remaining Wolfguard members. And he arrived relatively calm, surprisingly. I bet he didn't leave that way.

Well, he might have left calm after a few. Anyway, go ahead, sorry. He was then there to ask who was responsible in violating the sacred oath of armistice? And so at the time, Grandmaster Joros, the Grey Knights said with a heavy heart, he had given the order to do so. And in like a flash, a genuine heartbeat speed, Grimnar charged the Grandmaster and cut him from throat to hip in half with his, um, with his frost axe. Let's go.

Oh man, I am so on the space wolf side. This whole thing makes me happy to hear that he did that with some. speed and precision. M'A. Chef's kiss. It should be really noted how insane this was because, like, this is a grandmaster of the Grey Knights. Yeah, he's no slouch. This isn't like some, it's not like he's just a human with human reflexes against the space marine, right? I genuinely think the only reason that he was able to kill him like this is because Logan had no,

he just, like, it just caught him so insanely off guard. Because, like, why would he do that? Like, I, you know, oh, your ship is there alone and you're on the ship for surrender. He's just like, I'm just going to kill you. Yeah. It's crazy. Like, I always wonder, like, okay, this major psycher guy, like, we already know psychers can read your minds, do all that kind of stuff. But the stronger, the will of the person, the harder it is to read.

Yeah. Grimnar is a hardcore veteran. But also, you know, he's a space wolf. he had it's what he was built for well he wasn't quite sure what he was probably going to do for a bit or who he was going to cleave in half until they spoke and then he spoke and he was like there you are there he is got him that's that's a target lock

giant drunkard just cleaves your ass I am shocked that they weren't more on guard because like you gotta believe that any space will that comes aboard no matter how much you have them cornered is going to be super pissed and is going to be looking for blood.

Like, well, what is it? A cornered animal is the deadliest, right? And they got nothing left to lose? I think it's maybe more of a, more of a, like, this speaks more to Grimnar and how insane he is than it is like, because a grandmaster of the Grey Knights

is like, holy shit, levels of powerful. I think this more just speaks to not expecting the giant drunk space wolf to immediately chop you in half. And also Grimnar being a massive veteran of the space wolves. Okay. Okay. I don't know.

Like I feel like if like Dante of the blood angels, like he could like probably pull off the same thing if he was quick enough. Oh, okay. But you know, I don't think the gray nights expected the giant drunkard to eat. just do that. I'm glad he did though. Good for him. So at this point, it just descended into all out like curses and yelling. And the Grey Knights tried to psychically block their teleportation, him and his Wolfguard from leaving the ship.

But then the Wolfguard just shot them dead with Stormbolters and then teleported away. Hey, good for them. Good for them. They just killed everybody on board and left? No, they killed the Grey Knights. that were on the back. Sorry, Lord Kyle's still alive. Oh.

Damn it. Clearly, Lord Kyle's parley didn't work. I'd say that's one way to put it. Sure, sure. And at the moment, you know, granted, he would have just blown them to shit if he could, but he was in charge of a very wounded gray knight force.

And this level of escalation was just getting really difficult, know, certain, because there were people who really didn't like Lord Kyle, and they were starting to kind of consider a coup to try to assassinate him. And so he was getting really paranoid and installing like cameras in every single section of his ship. Wow. Good for them for wanting to uprise against him, because F that guy. Yeah, he's, you know, I mean, a douche turd, as we refer to him. So he's a douche turd, yep. there's a bit more of like talking back and forth between them.

This is also you get a little bit of Bjorn, of course, because, well, no, actually Bjorn's not there yet. Sorry, I'll get to point Bjorn in a moment. Okay, okay. But there were the Inquisition, you know, obviously upset with Kyle, but Kyle just wielded so much power. It was everyone did what he said. God, where did he get all this power from?

I don't know. but he also he also called upon a help from the Red Hunter's chapter which is an unknown successor chapter and to help them out against these spacewolves and they answered him which is also crazy to think about yeah that I mean once you said Red Hunters I was like what is that a blood angels thing like because that's you know

the red and all that but they're just unknown they're just they're just a Sounds like Someone was making this story And they were like Hmm We know that Lord Kyle Is a devious bastard

And no one loves him And we don't really want to alienate Anyone's favorite chapter Da, let's make one up We'll say they don't know What chapter they come from They're the Red Hunter That

Red Hunter's first recorded action Is second Abonian Genocide Wow Okay I remember what we said earlier about Shetyside being... That's true.

You know how little that narrows it down. Yeah, yeah, that's okay. All right. Okay, okay. They were part of the siege of racks for a little bit. Were they? They were very unimportant. Oh, okay.

Just throw it in there. Anywho, things were getting problematic. The space wolves still... More problematic. Like, even after all of this, space wolves didn't fire at them. after all the space wolves still never shot them still took the high road okay and so at this point it wasn't it wasn't working space wolf reinforcements were

coming in more and more uh Kyle was this this containment was not working they kept on getting more and more like transports leaving the place to all kinds of different areas they can't they can't keep extormonauticing these planets because people are gonna know. It's like, why are there so many planets going dark over there? They just keep plipping out. What's going on? So at this point, it's like, okay, Kyle has had enough. He's pissed. So he decides that there's only one thing left and that is to limit the autonomy and independence of the space wolves chapter. This is no longer about Armageddon. This is

about the space wolves. I'm sure this goes over just exactly as he planned. Also, did he actually just go for a little while? Was he just like, oh, yeah, follow the transport. Exterminatus, exterminatist. Exterminatis. And someone was just like, dude, you got to stop. You can't keep. Like, you can't.

I mean, I have it here. They said to exterminatist, like a couple. So a couple, I'm assuming being like two to five. Two to five. And then someone was like, dude, we can't keep doing this. This is just crazy. Even for this, this is crazy. I think it's also just because there became so many transports that he was like,

God, I can't follow all these. Yeah, I can't, like, at this point, it was two to five. Now it's like 40. I don't have the resources to exterminate out as 40 planets. I got things to do, people to see, space wolves to tame. Jeez. I'm just thinking right now of, like, principal Skinner. We're like, am I out of touch?

No, it's the space wolves. It's the space wolves who are wrong. Someone's going to Photoshop that. That's gonna... That's a good one. That's a good one. Yep, yep, yep. Okay.

So he thinks that the best idea next is to, um, uh, siege Fenris. Oh. Okay. All right. Yeah, real. Wow, we got a real winner here with Kyle. A real big time thinker. Real, man, the brain trust.

Wow. All right. What happens next, Ricky? Well, he goes to Fenris, which is, very not, not, defends, it's undefended. Okay. Because most space wolves are outdoing things and you know

they don't really expect an attack from within. Sure. So they go in high orbit around targeting the Fang, the fortress monastery for orbital bombardment. Uh-huh. Along with pretty much the rest of the Grey Knight vessels

and the Inquisition warships. Okay. This, about, around this time, is kind of when the Grey Knights started calling this the months of shame. It's actually a statement from the Grey Knights. Yeah, I was going to say, it became very apparent to me once we started talking about Kyle and what he was doing, that the months of shame is not the months of shame because, like, the Space Wolves lost a battle or because the Space Wolves did something bad.

This is the months of shame for the Inquisition and the Grey Knights. And so far, this has been just like, oh my God, look at how baller the space wolves are. Like, this is like, if you want to become a fan of the space wolves or you are a fan of the space wolves, this is like your holy text. I mean, it's, it's nice to see like salamander level care from space marines. But, but Grey Knight specifically, like, because they're meant to kill demons. Their whole life is killing demons. Yeah. This whole, this whole, like, year and a half long suppression campaign against their allies is just so gross to them.

It's just like, God, this is not what I'm here for. This is a bunch. This is petty as shit. What is this? Super petty. Super petty. So this is, though, the name months of shame was given by the Grey Knights, not the space wolves, nine ones. They, they looked at this with discontent.

Yeah, because they're killing their own brother. others and this is this isn't what I signed up for. Um, yes, uh, yes, that's true for, for our viewers, um, the emperor's gift, uh, is the, the book about this and that is, uh, written by, by our good friend Aaron Dembsky Bowden. Okay. Okay. I say, I say our good friend. We've, we've never met or spoke to him, but I, I, I suck his work.

I suck his dick so hard with the night lord trilogy. So, like, you know, he's my favorite guy ever. I mean, it did. convert you into the biggest night lord simp that has ever existed and you have proceeded to raise their popularity quite a bit so i mean i genuinely hope that the night lord fans have increased a percentage thanks to my my influence at least a little at least a little at least a little yeah um so at this point uh lord kyle is like all right uh i understand people are trying to kill me there's assassination. There's problems going on. We need to start making delegation with the space wolves.

So the space wolves woke up Bjorn because it's time to wake up Bjorn. Yeah. And they brought him aboard the ship and they talked. And this is that part where the Fenrisian Inquisitor was like, oh my God, this man walked next to the emperor and bowed in real. And was like, oh, God damn you. Not again. Get out of that. Kicks him in the shin. Bjorn is, I love Bjorn, dude. He's such a fun character. Like, whatever you, I think of Bjorn, I think of, I don't have a lot of military family, but I've been to, like,

I went to a lot of stuff with, like, the Boy Scouts when I was a kid. And a lot of it was like, veteran appreciation, that kind of stuff. Yeah, sure. Bjorn is like, you get this big old group of men,

and they're all like ex-desert storm, you know, some Afghanistan, that kind of stuff. But then you get like the one or like the one guy that's from World War II. And the moment he speaks,

everyone just shuts up. Like no one dares speak over him. Because there's just that level of respect to him. This is just, that's just Bjorn. Bjorn fought with the emperor. He's a venerable dreadnought. He tells stories in saga and song.

And I'm just imagining him with like a flat cap. And like a like a poca dotted blanket whenever he's asleep? That was that was my my granddad. He was in World War II as a pilot. And the first time I realized how much of a badass he was, I was in Hawaii. I played roller hockey. They had a roller hockey rink on Pearl Harbor.

And he was driving us like to the gate and you needed like permission to get in. And they were like, oh, what are you guys here for? Are you on the list? and he shows his military ID and this guy suddenly like went completely rigid and said sir at least 20,000 times before escorting us through

and it was like, whoa, whoa. Grandpa's a badass. It's a big deal. Yeah. It's a piece of history in a sense, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when Bjorn is woken up, not only did the space world respect him a ton

And, you know, once they clean up They clean his flat cap off and, you know, make sure they put his, his blankie in the wash. But then he shows up and even the other space marines and stuff treat him with excessive respect. Oh, yeah. For sure. You know?

And then, of course, Lord Kyle was like, all right, time for you guys to express obedience to imperial authority. That's what he said to Bjorn. He was like, this is what I copied from the wiki. Lord Kyle asked for the space wolves express obedience to imperial authority in the chain of command and a penitent crusade to be undertaken to expiate or XP8, yeah, whatever. The chapter is guilt for attacking the servants of the Inquisition. In exchange, the Inquisition and the Imperium at large will no longer take action to censure the chapter. Bjorn was not impressed, was the next line.

To say the least. Bjorn was not impressed. I like that. Yeah, that's probably the most mild way to put it, but sure, all right. You are asking a proud story chapter that have served mankind for millennia to kowtow to faceless bureaucrats.

I'm imagining him using like old, just old man slang. Yeah, definitely. Old time he slang. Yep, yep. You whippersnappers expect me to bend the knee to you. Bah humbug Baha humbug

Yep At this point after Bjorn basically saying Loll piss off Grimnar and the rest of the fleet broke into orbit and were none too happy Yeah

I'm sure they weren't So Grimnar and his Wolfguard teleported onto the bridge and started to just wreak havoc. It was like, all right. Yeah. All right. Fuck you.

Guns are up. Naval battle begins blasting away. Here comes Grimnar. He's out here murdering gray knights and inquisition alike. I'm sure. It was probably like a hot knife through butter. Uh, well, uh, once he arrived, he ran up fast as can be, took his axe, looked at Lord Kyle and it was like,

Say goodbye to your head Oh, does he decapitate him? He slices his head right clean off. Oh, that calls her Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, Yes, let's go. Does he use it as a trophy? Does he put it on his backpack or something?

No, he doesn't. Oh, man, I would. He's not a night lord. That's true, but still, of that of that douched her, Use that as a sit-in pot You use that as a latrine Eventually after enough murder Bjorn teleports upon the bridge

And he's just like, hey Knock it off That's enough killing We got to Knock this Stop this madness Come on Just walking among all the blood

And my hey hey come on Hey hey I mean I mean Grimnar was a about to kill everyone on that ship. He was going to murder every single person. I mean, I can't say I blame him.

Yeah, he, he's done. He is absolutely done. But Bjorn's like, hey, stop. We're supposed to be friends. We're the good guys here. Yeah, relax. We're the good guys, chill. You got him.

And plus, like, the fang was getting busted, Lord Kyle had had them fire orbital shots down at the fang A couple inquisitorial ships crashed into Feneres Blowing crap up Yeah, that's gonna cause a bit of a crater So Bjorn's like, I stop So eventually that's That's kind of where it's stopped

Months of shame The months of shame The space wolves know of the gray knights and they're fully aware of their existence and they're extremely pissed off and they treat them with distrust. The Grey Knights... I was going to say,

the Space Wolves know of the Grey Knights' existence and they are not impressed. The Grey Knights took a crap load of losses here, especially because they're Grey Knights, which are just basically irreplaceable. I was going to say, what is it? What was it, 13? Grey Knights survived?

From the Angron fight? from the Angron fight and now there's like what now there's three left after Grimnar got done with them so Gray Knights

just are massively hurt but they also really distrust the space wolves also the Inquisition Inquisition still hates the space wolves too it's not not surprising

not surprising not surprising there's a bit of a feud still broiling Yeah, I, man, I, I, I am all on board with the spacefuls with the months of shame. All on board. Complete, completely. And, uh, and I mean, yeah, that's, that's kind of where it ends. Uh, they go back to their own stuff.

Bjorn puts his, is, uh, blanket back on and goes back to bed. And, uh, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, yeah, that's, that's, that's kind of where it goes. It's a total, uh, what is it? It's a, it's a, it's a total. waste of everyone's time led by a douchebag inquisitor. And you know what? There's nothing special about him.

What do you mean? There's nothing. Well, wasn't he, there must have been something special about him. The inquisitor? I mean, there was, but he was a good psycher. He was a powerful Lord inquisitor. That's it. Because you were probably expecting him to like be like a hidden chaos cultus or something, right?

or like... Something like that. Something like that. Because he's so awful. But no. He's just awful. He's just awful. He's just a hugely asshole, uh, inquisitor.

One of many. Yeah. An all too common, uh, occurrence in Warhammer 40K. Yeah. I don't know. Like maybe you could say he was a Puritan, I guess, maybe. But overall, he's just, he's just, he's, Just a douche.

Do even Puritans go that hard that they're just like, oh, you were fighting chaos, so I have to, like, contain you? Because maybe. Like Cripman did, I guess. Well, yeah, but he's another one of those, like, extremist douche-turred examples. He's not the rule. He's like the exception, right? He's like the exception to the rule. Yeah, I guess.

But, you know, there's no shortage of. of asshole inquisitors. True, true, true. True, true. Wow. Like, yeah, I don't know. Nobody really wins. Everyone loses.

Space wills take a crap lot of casualties. Gras take a crap load of casualties. Inquisition takes a bunch of casualties. Everyone sucks at the end of it, but to me, this is a massive Space Wolf moral W. Oh, absolutely. Like, this is all Space Wolves. This is like, if you want to get someone to really,

like the space wolves, tell them about the months of shame. Yeah, this is, this is their, they're like, the one, you can argue that space wolves kind of have that same salamanders type feeling where they're just, oh, definitely, they're really, really, they are painted as really, really great heroes. Yeah. Heroes of the people. They gave a shit. Oh, yes, they definitely gave a shit.

And they lost a lot of stuff because of it. They did. They lost a serious. amount of troops, and it kind of sucks. They didn't. Yeah. Good for them, though. Good for the space wolves.

I have done a complete 180 on them since we started talking about them. Good for the space wolves. Well, all you needed to hear was Lehman Russ out drinking and eating the anchor, and then you were like, oh, never mind. I'm on board. These party animals rock. But then also months of shame, they're all just like, wow, they know how to party and they're good guys?

Okay. Fine. Fine. I guess you guys are pretty cool. You guys, and you write sleighs? Mm. Mm. Mm.

Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Got anything else for us, Bricky? No, I think I'm all good. I'm trying to figure out how I'm supposed to tell my, my merch team about this new poster. Just send them the file, dude.

Just send them to file. See, just send it and be like, shut up. Send. and the file's just called Bricky's Dream Comes True. Dot JPEG. No. It's okay for you. I'm gonna go take a nap like Bjorn.

Yes.