Adeptus Ridiculous - Nemesor Zahndrekh - Friendly & Lovable Killer Robot | Warhammer 40k lore

Episode Date: December 29, 2020

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Welcome everybody to another episode of The Adeptus Ridiculous. This is going to be our bonus episode, our sort of Merry Christmas, Happy New Year episode. I'm not sure what's going on. This was kind of just dumped on me. Thanks, shy. I love doing it. So we're going to get into it.

And as usual, I know a little bit about Warhammer now. Bricky has been doing a fantastic job of educating me, we'll say, on some of the finer points on Warhammer 40K lore. So Bricky, what's on the, what's on the docket today? Well, I would like to say thank you very much for your compliment, because it seems that you are the only person here capable of doing so as the most recent message sent by Quiet Shy as go fuck yourselves in the recording studio chat. So I can see that at least I got a 50% approval rate so far.

That's the nicest thing she's ever said to me. It truly probably is. The holiday spirit is alive. Oh, right, we need... And then she comes up with Don't forget to shill, assholes. You know, I'll make sure to do that. Yes, thank you so much to all of our fantastic patrons

currently over at the Patreon of Adeptus Ridiculous. Not only just that, but we have hit a bunch of awesome milestones. 10,000 downloads in the last 30 days, which is absolutely incredible. That's bonkers. Way surpassing our expected numbers. Well, we have it $200 on Patreon so far. We get $200.

That's pretty damn great. Obviously, the main goal is once we hit 1,000 we get weekly episodes, which will be super fun. 1,500 subs on YouTube. We got 500 Twitter followers. And it's only going up. No end in sight. They like us. It's so nice.

Someone has to. Yeah, that's like 9,99 more downloads in 30 days than I was expecting. Good work, everyone. Who was the one? Me. Oh, just you? Not even me. Yeah, I was like,

Bricky and Shire are too busy doing important videos that people want to, you know? It's just me. Oh, yes, I'm sure discovering every bug in cyberpunk is a solid three-hour video that I will be seeing quite soon. But yes, today we have a short episode

is mainly to welcome us to the new year. year. And, you know, I think we can speak for everyone where we say piss off 2020. Fuck you 2020. It was easily one of the worst years ever. And I'm very happy that is getting behind us. Obviously, 2021 isn't going to instantly fix all of our problems, but the hope is that at around summertime, things will start to get a little bit more returned to normal. I would love to see that. Jesus. Absolutely. So with that, we are starting a very small topic and I remember in episode two since this I guess would be considered episode four episode two we had the war in heaven the necrons and the silent king which was obviously a very big loud and angry

episode um so in that spirit I thought that and it's also fun because I have him sitting right next to me we will discuss a certain necron named character technically two of them but mainly about one of them by a man known as Nemesore Zandrek Nemezor Zandrax did you say? Nemesore Z-A-H-N-D-R-E-K-H Nemesor Zandrech. Wow, that sounds like a medicine commercial

on TV. Without a doubt. It does. Sounds like a cough medicine. Nemesor Zandrek is actually a playable model on the tabletop. I have him and his buddy currently to my right. They've been around for a bit, though they're not a very, like,

over-the-top Necron character. They're not like Emotech the Storm Lord or the Silent King, where they have a whole bunch of lore. They have very little lore, but their lore is fun, and it's funny, and it's ironic because necrons are pretty evil, but this guy might actually

be kind of cool. It's fun. It's kind of neat. It's a little bit more of a happy episode, in comparison, you know, it's like, I have the flu today, not syphilis. You know, it's a little different. I was going to say, in Warhammer, nothing's ever happy, but by comparison, it's pretty fun. This would be a lot of good times.

So Nemesor Zandrek, if you're curious what a Nemesore is, it is the necron variation of, like, a general or an admiral or like a very high-ranking person. So Nemesor Zandrek is part of the Sautek Dynasty, which is kind of like the main glowing translucent green. silver color that we all know and love. It's like the standard Necron color scheme. And he is a... Oh God, how do I put this? Well, he is one of the greatest generals in the entire Necron

army. He is a super intelligent necron. He just has a slight problem. During the great sleep, his mind got a little screwed up and has a little bit of problems. Now, this happens to a lot of necron. Some necrons thought

I'm just gonna wear the skin of my enemies for the hell of it Some necrons were like Yeah the flayed ones Or some necrons are like the destroyer cult Which just want to see all life in the galaxy Die also like It's like when you leave a computer

Alone for like 10,000 years It's not gonna work right Good old Zandrek He's got necrone dementia So he thinks He's still a flannel flesh and blood necron. Oh.

Oh. He does not know that he has been gone into the biotransference, and he does not realize that he is a robot. He still believes that he is part of the Necron Tier Empire, way, way back whim, and he still thinks he is flesh and bone, and he believes that all the enemies he fights, chaos, orcs, humans,

they are all simply separatists and rebels back in the old like inter-dynasty wars before the war in heaven that they used to fight each other against. He just thinks they're all like that. Example, quote, he has a buddy named Oberon. We'll talk about him in a moment. But he says, see Oberon, the separatists come attempting to outflank me just as they did the fourth battle of Vendal. How they calculate that daubing themselves green and roaring like savages, produce a different outcome, I cannot fathom, but it is of no account. Rating my legions, another glorious victory shall soon be ours.

I like this guy. He's the best. So he's fighting off orcs, and he's like, why are they painting themselves green? What a bunch of idiots. This is a tack that won't work. Come on. I can see right through your ruse. Your ruse. Your ruse. You ruse, they got that lipstick on, dude. Oh, God. Actually, it's coral blue number 13. Ah, sorry. You can put lipstick on.

an orc, but it's still an ork. It's still an ork. So, even with this Necron dementia he has, he's still one of the best generals ever. He's laughably intelligent. He's constantly, like, just with a word leaving his mouth

or whatever his mouth is now, like the necrons will immediately go from the defensive to the offensive. They'll immediately find ambushes and stop flanks. And he's literally Mr. 20 steps ahead. He's such in esteemed general, which is why he's generally kept in his high-ranking position,

despite his mental failings. But sometimes he will have some problems, and that's where we get our buddy, Vargard Oberyn, which I gotta be honest, bugs the shit out of me. His name is Vargard, V-A-R-G-A-R-D, not Vanguard, Obrin. Var-G-G-R-G-R-G-R-G-T. It triggers me so much. You know in Dead by Daylight, they have ghost face, but his name is not Ghostface, and his name is not The Ghost. He is the Ghostface.

It's like that. It's just, it's unsettling. I don't like it. They couldn't get the copyright for Vanguard, so Vergaard. Vargard, Obring. We copyrighted it. That's our thing. Virgil, in his white lawn share, was a buddy of Zandrek,

even back when they were still flesh and blood. He was his closest companion and bodyguard. And they both went into violence transference together. However, Oberyn did not lose his mind. He kept himself nice and solid. And he has tried and tried to get Zandrik to realize what's going on with him. And he just refuses. Yeah, he just doesn't get it.

So he's kind of given up. But in that sense, because Zandrick is so weird, often some like upstart necrone lords will try to remove him from his position and they tend to go missing or have a war scythe in their chest and as always the duty of Oberon to protect his grandpa and closest friend. He's a very interesting character. He doesn't really do much Oberon that is, but on the tabletop he also does have a model and whenever you want you can basically just teleport him directly. to Zandrek whenever he needs him. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool.

Very handy in the in the tabletop. It certainly can be. Just being able to pop himself over is really fun. Yeah, he's really interesting. And as a bodyguard, he's just, he's quiet, but he's very loyal. And especially when it comes to Nemesor Zandrek with his mental frailty, many people don't want him in his position, right? They want him to retire because he's not suited.

In 40K retirement is death Like you can't ever stop in this world No and especially not when you're an immortal robot Who doesn't think who doesn't realize he's not flesh and blood He had he like he eats food Or he like tries He has he has tasters to make sure none of his food are poisoned Does he really?

Yeah he has a bunch of Necron guys to taste his food But Does he try to jam like food into his food? phase? I honestly don't know. He obviously hasn't eaten anything. Um, but like he, he, like, it's weird, because he's a super honorable necron character. He hates death marks, which are like, um, snipers. He hates the use of conoptic units, which are like, um, like slave robots. Oh, right. He, he particularly really prefers the codes of conduct. Whenever possible, he will always make sure that enemy commanders are captured.

instead of killed and treated as honorable prisoners. Which his royal court does not like at all. I'm sure they don't. But he likes to take, he takes POWs. He feeds them, the food. He's so, he's such a bizarre guy. If I recall, I think he tries to sleep as well sometimes. He sounds like he'd have a great Warhammer 40K like,

sitcom. Oh, that'd be fan. That would be good. It'd be all of his like royal court life. We've got to get rid of him and he's just constantly there. He's like, ha-ha. What is wrong? Spoiling their plot. Yeah. But it's wrong. Fellow organics? How do you do? How do you do

fellow organics? Catback, skateboard, right? Old man dimension Zandrick is the best. That's the most idea for this week is the hatback, skateboard, Zandrex. That's the next arts.

Mm-hmm. Can I get, can I get Oberyn? But like, can I get him like the Tyler 1 meme where he's really short? Right in the background where he's like, he's like really scrunched. He's looking up at the head, Zandrek. That's two listeners. We need to see it on Twitter. Please do.

Because we've been getting fan art of almost every episode. And they've been ranging from really good and fucking hilarious. Yeah. They're absolutely great. Another great quote is after he just beat a tyranid fleet. And he says, I'm going to talk like he's, I'm going to talk like he's some pompous guy because it sounds funny to me. But he's like, another fine victory over the crude and disorderly, Oberyn.

It seems strange to me that the enemy general sought fit to lose so many wild beasts upon the field of battle. Their so-called tactics become more desperate and barbaric by the day. So long as we stand tall, old friend, it shall avail them not onward. When you talk about him like that and use that voice, all I can imagine is a Necron with a monocle and a stash that's just glued on, like a white hunter stash that's all twirled up, and he's got like the Hunter hat and everything, the big brown one.

He's like, he's just, he's just so old and silly sounding. And ironically, he actually has some of the strongest abilities on the tabletop for the Necron army. He's got this one ability. I know you don't play the tabletop, but for our listeners, he has this one ability where if the enemy tries to use a stratagem,

you can just cancel it, and then they can't use it for the rest of the battle round, which is basically two turns, which can be particularly effective. It's only once per game, but it's really good. And then he can, like, buff his units with, like, old school shouts. He's like, aha, flanking maneuver. Though I will say he does,

there is a slight hint that maybe he's not actually as crazy as he is and he might just be doing it for the sake of it. Oh, really? Yes, he has a quote and I quote says, even if we all cease to be flesh

in blood millions of years ago, which of course I don't believe for a moment, Zandre winked. Wouldn't it have suited us better to live in denial of that as some fools say I had done? Wouldn't it be better, Oberon, just to accept our fate and enjoy immortality for everlasting life of Mary campaigning it has proved to be.

Wow. So he might, might not actually believe it. That quote, even with the wink, there's no way he doesn't know what he's doing, right? Possibly. He's very eccentric. No kidding. He's very, very eccentric and a little weird. I think the writer of the book or whatever it was for him, he said it was

loosely based off of his uncle who had Parkinson's so he's like he's kind of like there sometimes and then not there other times and he's very much backing and backing and forth kind of just going between him so that might be just one of his moments of like

lucidity because that that happens with like you know Alzheimer's Parkinson's some days are worse and then some days you have like a little bit of lucidity and you kind of you kind of get like the bigger picture a little bit better yeah I'm assuming it might have something do with that.

And also, but it seems like even when he does have that, like moment of clarity or such, he does seem like he's totally fine with it. Or it's like, oh, you know, that may be the case,

but like, we have immortality and we can just keep on campaigning and, and, you know, leading our troops. And he really likes it. And so in the sense, it's kind of cool.

It's kind of sweet in a, in a silly way. It is. And really, there isn't a whole lot else about Zandrek. There's only one thing that I'd want to mention, which is a really interesting battle that I think would be particularly cool to discuss. So in the year 813 in Melania 41, it was the escape from a Kenavar.

And so basically what happens is that Nemesor Zandrek and his two world armies invaded a Tal world, circumvented their planetary defenses in like two weeks. and honestly just like just fucking demolish the towel because Zandrek is such an intelligent man. He just slaughtered them. However, it turns out that a white scar company, now if you don't know the white scars, they're a space marine chapter. And they are, they're very like Mongolian based. They have the skulls and the big fur coats and they're very big into bikes. They move like Mach 5.

They're born in the saddle. Jesus. Super fast. They roll up, like, the entire army moves insane speeds. The joke is that if a white scar person stands still for five seconds, they start having a fit. I like the sound of white scar, though. They're, like, real cool, like, fur jackets and bikers and I, I, sculling shit everywhere. White scars sound cool.

They are. They're, all their main leaders are called cons, because, you know, Mongolians and such. And it's super neat They have like a bunch of like Ravens and shit It's badass But so the white scars Came out there also to murder the Tao

Because of course But unfortunately Look at that There's a bunch of necrons And just a huge amount of gunfire Knocked down all of the white scars transports from the necrons And basically killed

Every single white scar But I know right and these are Marines these are not to be fucked with yeah they're not just these little nobody soldiers that are just dinking around like they're serious business yeah and they all got wiped

out not the whole chapter but like they're invading force obviously yeah yeah um now but zandrek being the the brok year old man that he is he commanded that uh corsero con which is the chapter master I believe uh wait no is he a captain

um I think he's the current chapter master or he's master of the hunt Okay, I'm not quite sure with that Basically, he's a high-ranking white scar And like a named character He was actually captured Instead, because, you know, Zandrek is the way he be

He takes prisoners, he feeds them Yeah, and that's what happened He treated all of his prisoners of war To a breakfast feast Along with his... I know, along with his royal courts It was like a bunch of people It was some Tao commanders, it was

Coursero Khan. It was an Eldar Ranger that's a pretty famous one. There's a bunch of these dudes and they're all POWs and he's like, you have to eat. Come, eat with my royal court. It's funny, out of all of the ridiculous things you've told me about Warhammer

with like the torture and the Eldar, I'm like, the most ridiculous Warhammer thing I ever heard is this fools treating them to a breakfast? They're eating breakfast. I'm like, that's ridiculous. Is it a Breakfast of eyeballs and the bones and flesh of his comrades or something.

Like, there's got to be something crazy. It's like, nah, it's bagels and cream cheese. That certainly is a good question, though. I do wonder what they actually would be feeding them. What did they eat? I don't know. He doesn't eat. He's a necrone.

What did he feed him? I don't know, scarabs? Ew. I know. Well, can the necrons have scarves as like a unit. Ah. They have these little, like, little. bugs that like affect like mandibles and shit.

I don't know. Doesn't matter. But apparently during this, this, this breakfast, I, you know, all these P.O.Ws were there and they all attempted to, you know, escape because why the hell wouldn't they? Right. But our good buddy Vargard, Obrin, is an, is a goddamn king. And with this giant like Necron Warcyth just killed every single. POW in the entire room. Because Nevisor Zandrick went out to, I don't fucking know, have a smoke or something.

And Necrow and Oberyn just went to town because they were like trying to escape. And often Oberon kills them anyway and says they were trying to escape because it's not a good idea to take POWs. Yeah, to the Necran hierarchy. Yeah, yeah, sure. But right after sinking his war site, like dead in the Eldar Rangers like fucking like side. which actually he survived this that's the whole story he eventually

left and returned to his craft world I think his name is Lilik Nightspear kind of a cool L-Dar Yeah it's a really cool name But after that He was basically about to probably kill the Khan As well But after that time frame

Nemesor Zandrik actually had been watching The whole thing from afar And being so impressed with the Khan's bravery in trying to escape and all he told Oberyn to leave and he let the Khan leave he let the White Scar Captain go

he just let him go he's like you can go bye bye I get the feeling that eventually comes back to bite him in the butt well unfortunately the humans are xenophobic assholes so it has not come back to bite him in the butt but it might because after the con returned to his planet he put his name in slang called the Scrolls of

Vengeance, which the white the white scars like to, like to do like hunts because they're they're, you know, it's Mongolian style. They go out and they find something, they have the great hunt, you know? So his name is on the great hunt list. So eventually they will go back to kill him.

I was going to say, scroll of vengeance is very on the nose for what that thing is for. Yeah. It's very on the nose. I mean, they did kill like all the white scars there, so. Yeah. Yeah. He deserves. Fair enough. But at the same time, it's pretty cool. It might be an honorable hunt, but they're still going to try to kill him. I was really hoping that Oberon just killed all of the people at breakfast. And then there's this really great scene of the guy comes back in. He's like, oh, we haven't even had pancakes yet. And then just roll credits.

The good old sitcom Zandrick. Yeah, exactly. I can imagine I can imagine Zandrick trying to have like a cigar and he keeps something accidentally just pushing it into his metal face and he just can't smoke it it's like it's like Bender from Futurama

it's it's quite it's quite enjoyable he's uh he's great he's wonderful he's a fun guy to talk about I like him

he I really I really wish there are more stories about him because it's a particular interesting concept to roll around with, especially because he kind of has a more joyous like feeling. He's not just unfeeling, unthinking Necron murder. He's very kind of like, come on, let us fight. It is time to kill the separatists.

They're a fantastic duo. I hope I get to see them more often in maybe a game or something because I can imagine, I can imagine, you know, you know it'll be fun. I can, uh, give me some kind of like, uh, like army of two shit with, with Zandrek and Oberyn, where you can have Obron be like this close quarters guy, and you can have Zandrick in the back command and shit.

That'd be a great co-op game. That would, but there's not enough, they're not of humans in that game. I don't think Warhammer's going to do it. There's not enough space marines. Well, you can always be killing the space marines. Oh, that's true. There you go.

You had that, uh, had that Tao game where you fought humans the whole time. Is there really a Tao game? Yeah, it's called Fire Warrior. It was like the PlayStation World. or two. I think it's PlayStation 2. It's really bad.

I would not recommend playing it. But the game is, you do fight the Imperium as Tao, and it's a nice change of pace. Even if the game sucks ass. Well, that was Nemisor Zandrek and Vargard-Oprin. They're great.

They're a fun, fun duo. I'm actually really excited because I have both the models. They're kind of bad models. They're very old. They're made of resin. which is

generally means their roles but they are cool and I'm excited to to use them in like a game at some point because they're pretty neato I think I think Shai has some comments for us to read or for me to read

for you to read for me to read specifically oh all of my fan mail well I guess I guess I guess I guess I guess I guess if I got us Okay, so the first one she sent me is from PS Tone And they say, dudes, this is my new favorite podcast

I wish it was weekly The dogs get extra long walks when it drops Oh, well, that sounds like we gotta, we gotta hit some Some $1,000 Patreon goal to make this shit weekly Yeah, I would love for this to be weekly by the way I'd be so down We have so much we could talk about I was going to say there's so many different

Warhammer topics that it would be so easy to make this weekly too. There are so many other Necron, like just Necrons alone. We've got like Anurakir the Traveler, Traism in the Infinite, Imotech the Storm Lord. We have so many other major named characters

that we can discuss just in the Necron's alone. And we haven't even begun Marines yet. We haven't even begun. That's true. We haven't even delved into them. Like, that's so much. So, yeah, I would adore this to be weekly. Mm-hmm.

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